Because you need a physical standard to compare. Mass of an macroscopic object is (mostly) measured by comparing it's gravitational force to the gravitational force of an etalon at a place where the same gravitational field strength is exerted on both objects. When you define a kilogram as the mass of $bignumber silicon-atoms, someone has to make the first etalon. Other etalons, like light of a specific wavelength for measurement of length and time, are easier to produce.
Unless Epiphany supports proper cookie-management (read: whitelist) i won't use it. Only options Epiphany supports are: allow all, deny some, deny all. That's simply not enough. I can live with having little control over javascript/java usage (allow all/deny all, or is there some noscript for Epiphany?) but not with virtually no cookie-management .
Including the weird way it handles right clicks (sometimes, instead of getting a menu, I automatically get asked to name the bookmark, or an e-mail window pops up, or it automatically opens the link in a new window).
Interesting. I experience that, too. Until now i thought this was a hardware issue...
Why not use stacks of thin layers of superconducting material instead of wires? Since B ~ N and B ~ I (B:= generated magnetic field; N:= turns of wire; I:= current) you can compensate less turns with more current (which shouldnt be a problem since the cross-sectional area of your layer should be slightly larger than that of an equal layer of wires). And since you're using superconducting material, you won't lose energy through eddy currents (but this might generate unwanted noise/stray fields). Or coat your favourite ductile wire material with a superconductive layer.
According to wikipedia, solar flares release mostly protons in a so called proton storm. Dunno what "rads" (in only know radians) are, but they seem to be an old unit for absorbed radiation dose, like Gray. 50 rads would be 0.5 Gy, then. Using a quality factor of 5 for protons with energy > 5 MeV this should equate to a dose equivalent of 2.5 Sv -> radiation poisoning exposure level. Well, certainly not good. But also certainly not "everyone would've died".
You clearly haven't worked with Fx3 yet. I tried beta3. And rendering speed of more complex sites like/. + discussion pages has plummeted. It's so bad that scrolling a discussion here on/. is a slideshow with FF3 beta3. FF2 is much faster. Yes, it's a "slow" computer. But then again, I think a 733Mhz CPU + enough ram should be enough to browse the web.
I would dare say this is one of the biggest improvements to the web browsing experience in the last several years. I would dare say this is one of the biggest disapointments to the web browsing experience in the last several years.
mod parent up. It's really more like a fresnel lens and nothing new. This concept for making lenses thinner and lighter is known for ages: Fresnel lens
Also, an Indian discovered Algebra, if I remember my Math History course. No. "Algebra" comes from the arabic "al-jabr". Algebra was invented by the babylonians (Iraq), if Wikipedia is correct.
Statistics in classical mechanics and in quantuum mechanics is not the same. If you have a system of particles, classical you assume that, in principle, you could measure every particles location and speed at a given time which determines the complete state of your system in the future (and which you could compute then, accuracy only limited by the accuracy of your measurement and computing equipment). So, classical, you assume that you have to use statistics because you don't have the right equipment to carry this measurement/computing out and that the variables location and speed of all your system's particles are hidden variables that are there, but aren't accounted for by your theory.
Which isn't the case in quantuum mechanics. Assuming that there are local hidden variables in quantuum theory leads to the so called Bell's inequalities which should be fullfilled by any theory with local hidden variables. Yet there is experimental evidence that there are quantuum systems which do not fullfill these inequalities. You may also look into the more sophisticated GHZ experiment.
Does the term "pillory" mean something to you? This group of people convicted a man and punished him by putting him in the pillory. I would certainly call that "law enforcement".
Hypothesis. That makes it a hypothesis. Not a theory. Theories have been proven as true as you can get by measuring. Which, I might add, makes god a hypothesis.
Frankly, I hate "collectible" games anyway, since it means either buying a ton of crap you don't want (and throw away) to get the good stuff, or paying someone else to do it for you. Or you can't spend that money. I hate collectible games, too. But for a different reason: how good you are a player depends on the money you can spend. Good games only depend on the players skills.
What's imho more important: at this scales, electrostatic forces are far more stronger than gravitation. If a microscopic blackhole produced out of clashing protons (charged blackhole) could grow, protons themselves could grow into blackholes as well and atoms would collapse.
I would even go a step further than LHC and try to catch and stabilize microscopic blackholes. Atoms with charged blackholes as it's center surely have some unique properties. Hell, if we could create uncharged blackholes out of neutrons and combine them with charged blackholes out of protons we could build atoms with fine-tuned absorption spectra.
If you're lucky. If this wormholes do not end up in approximately the shape of a human being with molekules with certain functions at the right place... IMHO you're going to be scattered throughout spacetime.
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Because you need a physical standard to compare. Mass of an macroscopic object is (mostly) measured by comparing it's gravitational force to the gravitational force of an etalon at a place where the same gravitational field strength is exerted on both objects. When you define a kilogram as the mass of $bignumber silicon-atoms, someone has to make the first etalon. Other etalons, like light of a specific wavelength for measurement of length and time, are easier to produce.
Unless Epiphany supports proper cookie-management (read: whitelist) i won't use it. Only options Epiphany supports are: allow all, deny some, deny all. That's simply not enough. I can live with having little control over javascript/java usage (allow all/deny all, or is there some noscript for Epiphany?) but not with virtually no cookie-management .
Including the weird way it handles right clicks (sometimes, instead of getting a menu, I automatically get asked to name the bookmark, or an e-mail window pops up, or it automatically opens the link in a new window).
Interesting. I experience that, too. Until now i thought this was a hardware issue...
An Introduction to Traffic Analysis (see slide nr. 9)
Actually, no. They say, they never recieved a copy for review from atari. (They think it's because of a bad preview they made earlier)
I wish i had mod-points. +5 Funny :)
Why not use stacks of thin layers of superconducting material instead of wires? Since B ~ N and B ~ I (B := generated magnetic field; N := turns of wire; I := current) you can compensate less turns with more current (which shouldnt be a problem since the cross-sectional area of your layer should be slightly larger than that of an equal layer of wires). And since you're using superconducting material, you won't lose energy through eddy currents (but this might generate unwanted noise/stray fields). Or coat your favourite ductile wire material with a superconductive layer.
Does that mean growth \propto time^1?
Wish i had modpoints. Thanks for saving my day :)
And after all this guesswork I found this: Sickening Solar Flares
mod parent up. It's really more like a fresnel lens and nothing new. This concept for making lenses thinner and lighter is known for ages: Fresnel lens
Dunno. I am a science nerd and according to the replies to articles regarding science, the average slashdotter certainly isn't.
Exactly my thought when i read "UV light". Only useful for in-house use (with no windows). When you get out, your paper turns black.
Which isn't the case in quantuum mechanics. Assuming that there are local hidden variables in quantuum theory leads to the so called Bell's inequalities which should be fullfilled by any theory with local hidden variables. Yet there is experimental evidence that there are quantuum systems which do not fullfill these inequalities. You may also look into the more sophisticated GHZ experiment.
Does the term "pillory" mean something to you? This group of people convicted a man and punished him by putting him in the pillory. I would certainly call that "law enforcement".
Hypothesis. That makes it a hypothesis. Not a theory. Theories have been proven as true as you can get by measuring. Which, I might add, makes god a hypothesis.
It's the first thing i turn off when it's on. Fortunately most distributors turn it off nowadays.
mtc - multi touch console/
What's imho more important: at this scales, electrostatic forces are far more stronger than gravitation. If a microscopic blackhole produced out of clashing protons (charged blackhole) could grow, protons themselves could grow into blackholes as well and atoms would collapse. I would even go a step further than LHC and try to catch and stabilize microscopic blackholes. Atoms with charged blackholes as it's center surely have some unique properties. Hell, if we could create uncharged blackholes out of neutrons and combine them with charged blackholes out of protons we could build atoms with fine-tuned absorption spectra.
If you're lucky. If this wormholes do not end up in approximately the shape of a human being with molekules with certain functions at the right place... IMHO you're going to be scattered throughout spacetime.
I like it. It's convenient, IMHO.