So maybe we should make our telephone systems encrypted and our phone numbers could be our public keys. Then distribute the phone numbers according to population density and Benford's Law.
You are correct, the Sun will swallow the Earth when it becomes a Red Giant.
The hydrogen won't completely run out. There will still exist a hydrogen/helium shell surrounding a carbon/oxygen core. The carbon/oxygen core of the Sun will be much more compressable then say the iron core of a star going nova. Instead of a complete gravitational collapse (and subsequent shockwave), the compressed core will increase in temperature and ignite the hydrogen/helium shell which will cause it to slowly expand and cool. The electron degenerency pressure of the core will prevent its collapse and transfer energy from gravitional compression back to the surrounding shell as heat. The Sun will lose its outer layers, but very slowly. The core will be all that is left (a white dwarf).
The Sun will not go nova. It does not have enough mass to create the gravitional force required for carbon fusion. Though, it will become a red giant with a radius of about 1 AU in about 5 billion years. It will then shed its outer layers and become a white dwarf.
A supernova requires a star of about 8 times the mass of our Sun. After the supernova explosion (fusion of elements heavier than iron), if the core is still about 3 or more times the mass of out Sun, it will become a black hole, otherwise a neutron star.
There is evidence to support this. Sometimes storms on the Sun release a burst of neutrinos *followed* by an obviously related burst of photons. This leads some scientists to theorize that neutrinos may have imaginary mass, allowing a speed greater than c.
If 50% of the country's garbagemen exploded tommorrow, the vacancies could be filled within a month.
Seriously? If half of the country's garbagemen exploded, not only would the vacancies go unfilled but the rest of the garbagemen would quit.
Looking directly at the Sun with your naked eye is dazzling and maybe a little stupid, but it won't make you go blind...
Not in the sense that it causes complete lack of vision, but it can cause a permanent loss of vision in the center of your field of view.
Unfortunately, to deny these things as false is to deny their very legitimacy as a religion;...
And that would mean there is no afterlife. Death is final. The fear of death is core to our being and the purpose of religion is denial.
JOHN 3:16 "For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life."
Comforting. Until I find out that life arose by chance, instead of God breathing life into dust formed in his own image.
It's not difficult to understand why ID proponents do what they do. It's not difficult to see that they are wrong. They will deny the truth of evolution to protect themselves.
I would love to see my fellow/.ers discuss how we can help our confused brothers, rather than attack them for being "stupid". How did we overcome the view of a flat Earth? It wasn't Columbus. How about a Sol-centered system? Let's try to remember that ID proponents believe. They are not trying to deceive. They are trying to save souls. I am not condoning their perversion of science, just pointing out that attacks on their beliefs will get us knowhere.
What do the students in Kansas Schools think?
I live in Kansas and I interact with a large number of high school kids (friends' kids, fixing computers, etc). Here is their position, as I see it: They are taught by their parents "You were made in God's image, and are not descended from monkeys." (yes, I know). Any other belief would be frowned upon by parents (akin to changing religions or announcing you're gay). Nor can they imagine how life, complex as it is, could arise by chance. I too, was raised to believe this and didn't change my mind until about the age of 10.
In my opinion, this stems from our fear of death. All life arose by chance molecular collision? What about the soul? Even now, I *want* to believe there is a part of my being that will continue beyond my death. A difficult pill to swallow, no matter how obvious it is.
After finishing a database application I got a complaint from the accounts payable office that the new program was telling her "money is not an object"
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So maybe we should make our telephone systems encrypted and our phone numbers could be our public keys. Then distribute the phone numbers according to population density and Benford's Law.
You are correct, the Sun will swallow the Earth when it becomes a Red Giant. The hydrogen won't completely run out. There will still exist a hydrogen/helium shell surrounding a carbon/oxygen core. The carbon/oxygen core of the Sun will be much more compressable then say the iron core of a star going nova. Instead of a complete gravitational collapse (and subsequent shockwave), the compressed core will increase in temperature and ignite the hydrogen/helium shell which will cause it to slowly expand and cool. The electron degenerency pressure of the core will prevent its collapse and transfer energy from gravitional compression back to the surrounding shell as heat. The Sun will lose its outer layers, but very slowly. The core will be all that is left (a white dwarf).
The Sun will not go nova. It does not have enough mass to create the gravitional force required for carbon fusion. Though, it will become a red giant with a radius of about 1 AU in about 5 billion years. It will then shed its outer layers and become a white dwarf. A supernova requires a star of about 8 times the mass of our Sun. After the supernova explosion (fusion of elements heavier than iron), if the core is still about 3 or more times the mass of out Sun, it will become a black hole, otherwise a neutron star.
The Sun will not go Nova. Not enough mass.
I could care less if you're starving unless you're part of my community.
I am from Earth. What community are you from?
A black hole has a very strong gravitational field that bends 3D space. A heavy ball on a trampoline bends the 2D space of the fabric.
A black hole bends 4D spacetime. Perhaps even 11 or more dimensions if M-Theory holds true.
So let's start burning thesauruses, shall we?
Even better:
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There is evidence to support this. Sometimes storms on the Sun release a burst of neutrinos *followed* by an obviously related burst of photons. This leads some scientists to theorize that neutrinos may have imaginary mass, allowing a speed greater than c.
But since they know so little about these particles, I wonder how do they know if these "cell walls" are permeable to EthBr?
They pulverized the "cells" before testing.
Wouldn't they be both alive *and* dead? Schroedinger's Worm?
If 50% of the country's garbagemen exploded tommorrow, the vacancies could be filled within a month.
Seriously? If half of the country's garbagemen exploded, not only would the vacancies go unfilled but the rest of the garbagemen would quit.
Looking directly at the Sun with your naked eye is dazzling and maybe a little stupid, but it won't make you go blind... Not in the sense that it causes complete lack of vision, but it can cause a permanent loss of vision in the center of your field of view.
Unfortunately, to deny these things as false is to deny their very legitimacy as a religion;...
/.ers discuss how we can help our confused brothers, rather than attack them for being "stupid". How did we overcome the view of a flat Earth? It wasn't Columbus. How about a Sol-centered system? Let's try to remember that ID proponents believe. They are not trying to deceive. They are trying to save souls. I am not condoning their perversion of science, just pointing out that attacks on their beliefs will get us knowhere.
And that would mean there is no afterlife. Death is final. The fear of death is core to our being and the purpose of religion is denial.
JOHN 3:16 "For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him, shall not perish but have everlasting life."
Comforting. Until I find out that life arose by chance, instead of God breathing life into dust formed in his own image.
It's not difficult to understand why ID proponents do what they do. It's not difficult to see that they are wrong. They will deny the truth of evolution to protect themselves.
I would love to see my fellow
What do the students in Kansas Schools think? I live in Kansas and I interact with a large number of high school kids (friends' kids, fixing computers, etc). Here is their position, as I see it: They are taught by their parents "You were made in God's image, and are not descended from monkeys." (yes, I know). Any other belief would be frowned upon by parents (akin to changing religions or announcing you're gay). Nor can they imagine how life, complex as it is, could arise by chance. I too, was raised to believe this and didn't change my mind until about the age of 10. In my opinion, this stems from our fear of death. All life arose by chance molecular collision? What about the soul? Even now, I *want* to believe there is a part of my being that will continue beyond my death. A difficult pill to swallow, no matter how obvious it is.
After finishing a database application I got a complaint from the accounts payable office that the new program was telling her "money is not an object"