The post makes it sound as though the professor has resigned "period-end of story". But if you read the article it makes it clear the Prof has just resigned the chair of his department-not his actual "position" at the university.
Perhaps we should be asking ourselves what is wrong with the school system...that has created so many people who reject scientific findings and accept an ID or Creationism point of view.
When other, more important professions have long been underpaid (teachers), somebody's gotta bite the bullet so we can get raises up to the level of where we should be paid. If that means companies have to scale back raises so they can give price breaks to school systems so the systems can pay their teachers more, then I'm in favor of that situation!
This guy's publications list pretty much ends in 1997. http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~pam/publications.html Where is this work published? If it can't stand up to peer review, why is ABC reporting on it?
I'd like to see his methods, and find out how exactly they dated samples, and if they did a check on sample prep in order to verify their results. Until that can be shown, why should we believe the report?
Actually, the Tech teacher at my school and I (physics and chemistry) have been discussing some sort of joint project dealing with optics and LASERs. After reading some of these posts, I have some new ideas I'm going to share with him, one of them being using that book from Scientific American to actually build a LASER. The building and electronic side is great for tech, and the theory and electronic side is awesome for a practical project in physics.
So there are some teachers trying to provide interesting experiences for their students...but the numbers are dwindling. Mostly because of NCLB and other forms of legislation requiring test after test after test. Its like the last month and a half of school are useless because of all the tests. So if you're in favor of having more interesting experiences in school, talk to your local/state/nation rep's to get them to limit the amount of tests required.
Taking that many supplements is dangerous. Perhaps some readers know that Vitamin C is water soluble, so taking more does nothing unless your body needs it right then, because its going to come out again in less than 24 hours. But, for other minerals, and essential elements, there are narrow ranges which are healthy. Take fluoride for instance, just the right amount strengthens your teeth, and allows them to recover from cavities. But too much and ugly brown spots for on the teeth. Others are more serious like iron or copper...while some is necessary for enzymes to function properly, too much overloads your body and will cause other problems Woman dies of iron overdose
Are in spectroscopy...the probing of molecular and atomic electron structure, and bonding and such. Femtosecond lasers are so important because of the time over which they can emit a burst of same frequency photons. That short time allows the laser to be cutoff, and for the detection equipment to measure the response from the molecule/atom, which in most cases is a few hundred femtoseconds long (although longer responses exist...hence fluorescence and phosporescence).
Another big impact for these lasers on science is that there is no heat transfer from laser to a meterial being analyzed. Of course, being a laser, it can also be used in all sorts of machining or surgical procedures, and the low heat dissipation is an added benefit.
The point of the letter isn't so much that your four-legged cow only has 3 legs, but that there is some interesting effect whereby it seems to have 3 legs, at least when relying on time-scales as short as attoseconds, and particles such as neutrons and electrons, as opposed to photons.
The original poster seems to imply the experiments were performed on a femtosecond time-scale (10^-15) as opposed to the attosecond (10^-18). The confusion may come from the fact that the article says something about probing chemical reactions on the 100-500 as scale, which is the same as.1-.5 fs.
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And you've gotta love if when even the news posts have spelling and grammar mistakes.
The post makes it sound as though the professor has resigned "period-end of story". But if you read the article it makes it clear the Prof has just resigned the chair of his department-not his actual "position" at the university. Perhaps we should be asking ourselves what is wrong with the school system...that has created so many people who reject scientific findings and accept an ID or Creationism point of view.
Heh, just the rich getting richer.
When other, more important professions have long been underpaid (teachers), somebody's gotta bite the bullet so we can get raises up to the level of where we should be paid. If that means companies have to scale back raises so they can give price breaks to school systems so the systems can pay their teachers more, then I'm in favor of that situation!
This guy's publications list pretty much ends in 1997. http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~pam/publications.html Where is this work published? If it can't stand up to peer review, why is ABC reporting on it?
I'd like to see his methods, and find out how exactly they dated samples, and if they did a check on sample prep in order to verify their results. Until that can be shown, why should we believe the report?
Actually, the Tech teacher at my school and I (physics and chemistry) have been discussing some sort of joint project dealing with optics and LASERs. After reading some of these posts, I have some new ideas I'm going to share with him, one of them being using that book from Scientific American to actually build a LASER. The building and electronic side is great for tech, and the theory and electronic side is awesome for a practical project in physics.
So there are some teachers trying to provide interesting experiences for their students...but the numbers are dwindling. Mostly because of NCLB and other forms of legislation requiring test after test after test. Its like the last month and a half of school are useless because of all the tests. So if you're in favor of having more interesting experiences in school, talk to your local/state/nation rep's to get them to limit the amount of tests required.
oops link http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/ne ws/2004/09/26/ndose26.xml
Taking that many supplements is dangerous. Perhaps some readers know that Vitamin C is water soluble, so taking more does nothing unless your body needs it right then, because its going to come out again in less than 24 hours. But, for other minerals, and essential elements, there are narrow ranges which are healthy. Take fluoride for instance, just the right amount strengthens your teeth, and allows them to recover from cavities. But too much and ugly brown spots for on the teeth. Others are more serious like iron or copper...while some is necessary for enzymes to function properly, too much overloads your body and will cause other problems Woman dies of iron overdose
Another big impact for these lasers on science is that there is no heat transfer from laser to a meterial being analyzed. Of course, being a laser, it can also be used in all sorts of machining or surgical procedures, and the low heat dissipation is an added benefit.
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The point of the letter isn't so much that your four-legged cow only has 3 legs, but that there is some interesting effect whereby it seems to have 3 legs, at least when relying on time-scales as short as attoseconds, and particles such as neutrons and electrons, as opposed to photons.
.1-.5 fs.
The original poster seems to imply the experiments were performed on a femtosecond time-scale (10^-15) as opposed to the attosecond (10^-18). The confusion may come from the fact that the article says something about probing chemical reactions on the 100-500 as scale, which is the same as