After minimal practice you are able to identify the location of the sun blindfolded.
Some people actually have to practice that? Simply turn around until your face gets warm.
Nevertheless clearly we can detect that radiation.
I dont' think we detect the radiation. We detect the warmth the radiation produces in our skin. So it's not really different from feeling warmth by touching a hot object (both rely on our skin getting warmer). For the rest: i think it's quite possible put maybe this is a differen effect. In pitch-dark rooms you sometimes can "feel" close walls or large solid objects.
It is often referred to as the 0th Law of Thermodynamics that states that thermal energy flows down a gradient. It pretty much defines what temperature means.
Care to explain? The best definition of temperature that i came across is m*v^2_{rms} = f*k_B*T
Then i don't see why they re-examine the 2nd law. Heat-force machines (correct translation from german Wärme-Kraft-Maschine?) operate between two different heat-potentials. Nothing new here.
time on that planet was accelerating at like almost a week for every second on voyager...
Time on that planet wasn't accelerating but was accelerated in comparison with voyager such that one second on Voyager meant almost a week on the planet (so velocity of time on the planet was larger than that on voyager by a constant factor, no accelerating).
It just *CAN'T PHYSICALLY WORK* inside a fuel line were the fuel is both under pressure and liquid (no vaporizing there, it's the injectors which do vaporize) AND where the fuel is neutral (diesel is just fat/oil. No charges thus no electric field could have an effect on it)
What about charge through friction? It's used in oil-drop experiments to charge the oil-drops (you can use ionizing radiation, too).
Taxes are fine as long as they are used to benefit ALL (or nearly-all) the people, and not used as a vehicle to enslave the general population to enrich a few (like slaves were used to enrich one solitary master).
Then what's the problem with:
"I think the government should provide a free car to everyone, since it's a necessity to life in America."
But the same problem is faced by OpenBSD, Linux, X.Org, the GCC developers, and a thousand and one other mega-coding projects. They seem to solve the problem without too much strain, so what do they do that the LHC guys aren't?
Well, maybe we should ask what the LHC guys doing that OpenBSD et.al. developers don't do. I think the answers obvious then.
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(...) the other 50% quote that guy who is afraid of black holes.
The sad thing about that is, that indeed this would be journalistic "best practice". You need to look at the coverage at a large scale to see that it's always the same guy talking about strengelets.
Well, actually this guy has (had?) some real credit in the science community:
And "proved" to me means passign the litmus test of the fellow holding the shovel, not the prestigious doctor with the fancy degree and not a lick of common sense..
IANAD, but i'm either not feeling like explaining eg. quantuum physics to the fellow holding the monkey wrench.
Well, I live in Germany, Bavaria (that's in secularized(?) Europe, but i have to check occasionally) and I have to say: not really. Since Bavaria is a free state, it has it's own constitution (and hymn) which explicitly refers to a god. And this mentioned god is of course christian (preferably catholic) which members of the ruling political party (CSU) are always feel pressed to point out. Prior to the upcoming elections ruling party members of the CSU literally(!) said, they will maintain a crusade against all parties who have secularization on their agenda because Bavaria is clearly a christian country. The state collects curch taxes (only protestant and, of course, catholic churches, afaik). In public(!) schools there's always hanging a crucifix on the wall in every classroom. You can challenge that in court, but every attempt i heard of so far (very few) is followed by a public outrage. If you want to teach in public schools it's an advantage if you're christian (preferably catholic) and you're free to roam the school with a crucifix around you're neck. But if you're eg. muslim and want to teach with a scarf you're in big trouble for wearing that scarf. Christian holidays (catholic) are legal holidays.
At least that part of Europe isn't quite secular. Sometimes i wish i lived in Turkey. Greetings from the catholic madhouse.
80 year old textbooks? Even the books on mathematics must be outdated. No, thanks. And only two books on physics which describe the evolution of physics (so, actually no books on physics)... *yawns*
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it is M$'s fault.
As if the african IT market had Jobs's undivided attention.
After minimal practice you are able to identify the location of the sun blindfolded.
Some people actually have to practice that? Simply turn around until your face gets warm.
Nevertheless clearly we can detect that radiation.
I dont' think we detect the radiation. We detect the warmth the radiation produces in our skin. So it's not really different from feeling warmth by touching a hot object (both rely on our skin getting warmer). For the rest: i think it's quite possible put maybe this is a differen effect. In pitch-dark rooms you sometimes can "feel" close walls or large solid objects.
It is often referred to as the 0th Law of Thermodynamics that states that thermal energy flows down a gradient. It pretty much defines what temperature means.
Care to explain? The best definition of temperature that i came across is m*v^2_{rms} = f*k_B*T
Then i don't see why they re-examine the 2nd law. Heat-force machines (correct translation from german Wärme-Kraft-Maschine?) operate between two different heat-potentials. Nothing new here.
Uhm, well. If this happens we should watch out for some angry aliens. You see, this dark matter has to come from somewhere.
They will only be the same if those three million suns appear close enough.
time on that planet was accelerating at like almost a week for every second on voyager...
Time on that planet wasn't accelerating but was accelerated in comparison with voyager such that one second on Voyager meant almost a week on the planet (so velocity of time on the planet was larger than that on voyager by a constant factor, no accelerating).
It just *CAN'T PHYSICALLY WORK* inside a fuel line were the fuel is both under pressure and liquid (no vaporizing there, it's the injectors which do vaporize) AND where the fuel is neutral (diesel is just fat/oil. No charges thus no electric field could have an effect on it)
What about charge through friction? It's used in oil-drop experiments to charge the oil-drops (you can use ionizing radiation, too).
Taxes are fine as long as they are used to benefit ALL (or nearly-all) the people, and not used as a vehicle to enslave the general population to enrich a few (like slaves were used to enrich one solitary master).
Then what's the problem with:
"I think the government should provide a free car to everyone, since it's a necessity to life in America."
Lets say I hook a nuclear bomb up to a detector that detects whether a single radioactive atom has decayed yet.
In Soviet Russia, quantuum experiments observe YOU!
Simple: 0.9 = 1 is a good first approximiation.
Can one of you physicists tell me how 4.5 Kelvin is different from 2 Kelvin, operationally?
More of it moves faster but still not at all.
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Yay, scientists have facts, but the rest of people will have questions.
Actually it's the other way round.
But the same problem is faced by OpenBSD, Linux, X.Org, the GCC developers, and a thousand and one other mega-coding projects. They seem to solve the problem without too much strain, so what do they do that the LHC guys aren't?
Well, maybe we should ask what the LHC guys doing that OpenBSD et.al. developers don't do. I think the answers obvious then.
(...) the other 50% quote that guy who is afraid of black holes.
The sad thing about that is, that indeed this would be journalistic "best practice". You need to look at the coverage at a large scale to see that it's always the same guy talking about strengelets.
Well, actually this guy has (had?) some real credit in the science community:
Otto Roessler known mostly for his Roessler attractor.
(Since when does /. fuckup Unicode? German umlauts: ÃÃü)
This series of craters really looks strange. What's the probability of this?
Well, it is called Google Earth
Beta.
And "proved" to me means passign the litmus test of the fellow holding the shovel, not the prestigious doctor with the fancy degree and not a lick of common sense..
IANAD, but i'm either not feeling like explaining eg. quantuum physics to the fellow holding the monkey wrench.
to secularize as happened in post WWII Europe.
Well, I live in Germany, Bavaria (that's in secularized(?) Europe, but i have to check occasionally) and I have to say: not really. Since Bavaria is a free state, it has it's own constitution (and hymn) which explicitly refers to a god. And this mentioned god is of course christian (preferably catholic) which members of the ruling political party (CSU) are always feel pressed to point out. Prior to the upcoming elections ruling party members of the CSU literally(!) said, they will maintain a crusade against all parties who have secularization on their agenda because Bavaria is clearly a christian country. The state collects curch taxes (only protestant and, of course, catholic churches, afaik). In public(!) schools there's always hanging a crucifix on the wall in every classroom. You can challenge that in court, but every attempt i heard of so far (very few) is followed by a public outrage. If you want to teach in public schools it's an advantage if you're christian (preferably catholic) and you're free to roam the school with a crucifix around you're neck. But if you're eg. muslim and want to teach with a scarf you're in big trouble for wearing that scarf. Christian holidays (catholic) are legal holidays.
At least that part of Europe isn't quite secular. Sometimes i wish i lived in Turkey. Greetings from the catholic madhouse.
WWW, same thing. Cold-war era spending to connect a big country ...I'm sure the others can be debunked as well, but I'll stop there.
Wrong. Computer scientist at CERN developing a hypertext implementation.
80 year old textbooks? Even the books on mathematics must be outdated. No, thanks. And only two books on physics which describe the evolution of physics (so, actually no books on physics)... *yawns*
Since this is /. how about imagining a multi-dimensional array, with 3 indexes (x, y, & z) and then adding another (4th), Presto.
I'm a science nerd, you insensitive clod!
The sun's fusion reaction just turns one form of energy (matter) into another (radiation). No surplus.
English bikes are male?