I do not put the blame on you or the parent poster, I am not personalising this. I strongly believe, however, that it is the USA goverment who has forced the EU parliament to introduce and vote this law and similar others to come. There are many things going on behind the scenes and it is really sad to see that the EU can't show character.
Well yeah, but it was the USA who started it all.
It took Europe hundreds of years to establish a rather liberal political system focused on the civilians where civil rights actually existed and respected, where you had the right to education, medical treatment and to vote plus the tolerance to diversity. Some of these ideas where exported to other countries and heavily influenced them, like the USA for example, and then it was their turn to contribute even more. Of course not everything was perfect, for example the Europeans where not that liberal in their colonies, but at least when they withdrew they left something back worth having. The above are oversimplified but I think you get the idea.
After 9/11 , it was the USA who declared the war on terrorism, passed all these laws that where limiting civil rights and not only that but it is furiously trying to force Europe to do the same thing. They mess with Europe too much anyway and these terrorist laws are part of the agenda. And here we are, watching hundreds of years of social evolution being brought down because of YOU! Europe had problems with terrorism before 9/11 as well, more lethal if you would like to know, in Britain for example with IRA. But it is now that we see these laws getting passed. Coincidence?
Anyway, to cut the long story short ( it is 04:25 here already ) if I where you, I would have STFU and try to figure out who to vote to the next elections and why.
PS. These fundamentalist Muslims say that they want to enforce the Muslim way of living to the Europeans. Unfortunatelly, it is the USA who is trying to do exactly the same thing for their own causes.
What do you mean? Why do you post Intel news then? I am fed up with the bunch of Google articles that pop up at slashdot ten times a day about the same subject. That's an advertisement. And what really bothered you is that this is proprietery software? Of course it is, as it is the 95% of decent software out there. This doesn't mean that the software is crap. You open source nazis...
Gotta go and roll a smoke, I really got pissed off with this comment.
Well, it seems that it depends who you ask. Particle physicists will say that matter can be split into elementary particles. These particles can be divided into two categories, fermions and bosons. Fermions are all the elementary particles that are building blocks of nature e.g electrons are fermions, quarks are fermions etc... They have a half integral spin. Bosons are all the carriers of forces. Photon is the carrier of the electromagnetic force and has integral spin. Hence it is a boson. The idea is that these two different categories of particles have a nice property. Fermions obey the Fermi - Dirac statistics while bosons obey the Bose - Einstein statistics. What this means is that an infinite amount of bosons can coexist in the same quantum state while this does not apply to fermions ( technicallities omitted ). This is known as Pauli's exclusion principle. That is why an infinite amount of bosons can add up and create a macroscopic force and why all matter has not condensed to a drop of infinite density. Neat huh?
Now, particle physicists will say that all these fermions and bosons and their combinations ( you can have baryons and mesons etc etc - doesn't matter what these are ) are "ordinary matter". Electron - Electron pairs ( Coopper pairs ) that are formed in superconductors ( and make the phenomenon possible ) or whatever weird combination of ferminos and bosons you come up with are called "states of matter" or something like that but not a new form of matter. You have ordinary matter there, part of the so called Standard Model. It is just elecrtrons and atoms and so on but combined in a different way and with different external conditions ( like pressure and temperature ). So they are just different states of matter.
There are some cosmology related problems these days. One of these is that the ordinary matter that experts can see with their
telescopes amounts to a tiny fraction of the matter that they calculate there is out there. Let's say 5% ( I do not really remember the exact number, but it is quite small ). What is the nature of the rest 95%? There are some speculations but what experts say is that "it is a new form of matter". No protons, no electrons, no neutrinos. Nothing that can emit radiation ( that's why the name dark matter ). Fascinating... No need to say more about this, interesting stuff however, you can google it or have a look at wikipedia for dark matter, cosmological constant and each page will bring another and so on.
The conclusion: Not a new form of matter but a new state of it.
And by the way, superfluidity is a phenomenon discovered around the '30s. Certainly there are many interesting things about it and is not a "job done" however keep in mind that laboratories are also very aware of public relations. If this is a breakthrough or an important discovery, experts will decide and time will tell.
I was under the impression that Google was planning to scan books that where quite old already ( thus no copyright issues here ) and quite hard to find, something like Newton's Principia or so. I believe that this is a very interesting move, although i hate to read long texts from my computer and i hate printing them as well so i would definitely go for the printed version. Anyway...
What most of the people are saying is that who needs publishing houses etc etc but the truth is that these books wouldn't be available in the first place if the publishing houses were not there. As far as technical textbooks are concerned the cost of the god damn book isn't only the paper, have you ever tried to typeset a mathematical text with LaTeX? It takes AGES, really... And not to mention that these books aren't really Da Vinci's Code. As a postgraduate student myself, I have paid around $2,000 for books up to now and i don't think that a single penny was wasted. You have to see your books as an investment, a cab driver pays for the cab's license and the car, a musician for the instrument and a scientist for his books.
As far as new editions are concerned, you probably haven't studied your books at all. All books have typos or getting outdated or need a little bit of "lifting" here and there, remove a few pages that were not very well written, add a new chapter for this new cool trend in science and so on. There is a reason for a publisher to print a new edition otherwise they would just do reprints. Someone mentioned that there is no reason to have the 7th edition of a calculus book since calculus hasn't changed much during the last century... Maybe the idea is the same but the approach might have changed, or the way to teach things or even the notation. Many people are experts in quantum mechanics nowadays but Dirac's first paper seems incomprehensible, even to professors.
Anyway, Google is nice, their idea about scanning rare books and making available online is cool etc and i like computers yes but please do not oversimplify things.
However, the communists took a country that was in poverty i.e Russia in the beginning of the 20th century, and managed to make it a world power under very difficult circumstances and provide a standard of living at the same time. Public health system for everybody, education, jobs... How much do you have to pay for these in the USA? What happens if you can't pay? The same applies to China. Everybody in China was wearing the same clothes but at least they had something to wear which at the time wasn't trivial. Dostoevsky is a good source of information about how the Russian society was before the communists went into power. And please, by comparing Hitler to Stalin and thus equating the two political systems just shows that you are yet another victim of the west propaganda. ( What was the name again of this IBM machine that Nazis used and had something to do with the Jewish... i don't remember... )
The Dutch have a capitalist system, do you think their research would even exist without it?
Not to mention this is one of the most silly comments i have seen recently about research. You imply that Soviets didn't have science? What the hell?
PS. Yes, i want my Fender Stratocaster and my Sun Ultra which means that i wouldn't actually like to live in a strict communist country but this doesn't mean that we have the right to degrade everything.
Gravitational Radiation being much weaker, thus harder to detect, does not interact with matter like the electromagnetic radiation does. As a result, gravitational waves produced by spiraling binary star systems, coalescing stars, supermassive black holes etc will be unaltered when detected giving us a completely new perspective in how we look to the universe. It will be like the transition from optical telescopes to x-ray ones.
An excellent, popular book about the topic is Black Holes and Time Wraps by Kip S. Thorne, one of the participants in the LIGO project at Caltech and a well known theorist.
In the case of imaging invisible celestial objects , consider that, for example, Black Holes are by definition invisible, they do not emit electromagnetic radiation ( short of, if we forget the Hawking Radiation ) so astronomers predict that a Black Hole exists by observing the effects ot its existence to the surrounding stars. With gravitational radiation detectors a more direct method will be available. Plus, there exists the dark matter issue ( and others ), an extra tool would be nice to have.
PS. Gravitational waves from the inflationary phase of the universe ( if there is such ) will be too weak to detect.
PS2. From a more theoretical point of view there are some alternative theories ( quite serious ) like the Brans - Dicke theory, they include also a scalar field that propagates in the form of a wave as well. If i recall correctly, in this case the polarisation is different so i think ( but i am not 100% sure ) that if such fields exist a detector like LIGO will able to tell.
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My favourite is ALICE. Straight down to the
rabbit hole.
Cheers!
Nick.
I do not put the blame on you or the parent poster, I am not personalising this. I strongly believe, however, that it is the USA goverment who has forced the EU parliament to introduce and vote this law and similar others to come. There are many things going on behind the scenes and it is really sad to see that the EU can't show character.
Well yeah, but it was the USA who started it all. It took Europe hundreds of years to establish a rather liberal political system focused on the civilians where civil rights actually existed and respected, where you had the right to education, medical treatment and to vote plus the tolerance to diversity. Some of these ideas where exported to other countries and heavily influenced them, like the USA for example, and then it was their turn to contribute even more. Of course not everything was perfect, for example the Europeans where not that liberal in their colonies, but at least when they withdrew they left something back worth having. The above are oversimplified but I think you get the idea.
After 9/11 , it was the USA who declared the war on terrorism, passed all these laws that where limiting civil rights and not only that but it is furiously trying to force Europe to do the same thing. They mess with Europe too much anyway and these terrorist laws are part of the agenda. And here we are, watching hundreds of years of social evolution being brought down because of YOU! Europe had problems with terrorism before 9/11 as well, more lethal if you would like to know, in Britain for example with IRA. But it is now that we see these laws getting passed. Coincidence?
Anyway, to cut the long story short ( it is 04:25 here already ) if I where you, I would have STFU and try to figure out who to vote to the next elections and why.
PS. These fundamentalist Muslims say that they want to enforce the Muslim way of living to the Europeans. Unfortunatelly, it is the USA who is trying to do exactly the same thing for their own causes.
What do you mean? Why do you post Intel news then? I am fed up with the bunch of Google articles that pop up at slashdot ten times a day about the same subject. That's an advertisement. And what really bothered you is that this is proprietery software? Of course it is, as it is the 95% of decent software out there. This doesn't mean that the software is crap. You open source nazis...
Gotta go and roll a smoke, I really got pissed off with this comment.
Well, it seems that it depends who you ask. Particle physicists will say that matter can be split into elementary particles. These particles can be divided into two categories, fermions and bosons. Fermions are all the elementary particles that are building blocks of nature e.g electrons are fermions, quarks are fermions etc... They have a half integral spin. Bosons are all the carriers of forces. Photon is the carrier of the electromagnetic force and has integral spin. Hence it is a boson. The idea is that these two different categories of particles have a nice property. Fermions obey the Fermi - Dirac statistics while bosons obey the Bose - Einstein statistics. What this means is that an infinite amount of bosons can coexist in the same quantum state while this does not apply to fermions ( technicallities omitted ). This is known as Pauli's exclusion principle. That is why an infinite amount of bosons can add up and create a macroscopic force and why all matter has not condensed to a drop of infinite density. Neat huh?
Now, particle physicists will say that all these fermions and bosons and their combinations ( you can have baryons and mesons etc etc - doesn't matter what these are ) are "ordinary matter". Electron - Electron pairs ( Coopper pairs ) that are formed in superconductors ( and make the phenomenon possible ) or whatever weird combination of ferminos and bosons you come up with are called "states of matter" or something like that but not a new form of matter. You have ordinary matter there, part of the so called Standard Model. It is just elecrtrons and atoms and so on but combined in a different way and with different external conditions ( like pressure and temperature ). So they are just different states of matter.
There are some cosmology related problems these days. One of these is that the ordinary matter that experts can see with their telescopes amounts to a tiny fraction of the matter that they calculate there is out there. Let's say 5% ( I do not really remember the exact number, but it is quite small ). What is the nature of the rest 95%? There are some speculations but what experts say is that "it is a new form of matter". No protons, no electrons, no neutrinos. Nothing that can emit radiation ( that's why the name dark matter ). Fascinating... No need to say more about this, interesting stuff however, you can google it or have a look at wikipedia for dark matter, cosmological constant and each page will bring another and so on.
The conclusion: Not a new form of matter but a new state of it. And by the way, superfluidity is a phenomenon discovered around the '30s. Certainly there are many interesting things about it and is not a "job done" however keep in mind that laboratories are also very aware of public relations. If this is a breakthrough or an important discovery, experts will decide and time will tell.
Cheers!
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it wasn't Slackenerny graduating... it was Apple switching!
Oh god!
I was under the impression that Google was planning to scan books that where quite old already ( thus no copyright issues here ) and quite hard to find, something like Newton's Principia or so. I believe that this is a very interesting move, although i hate to read long texts from my computer and i hate printing them as well so i would definitely go for the printed version. Anyway...
What most of the people are saying is that who needs publishing houses etc etc but the truth is that these books wouldn't be available in the first place if the publishing houses were not there. As far as technical textbooks are concerned the cost of the god damn book isn't only the paper, have you ever tried to typeset a mathematical text with LaTeX? It takes AGES, really... And not to mention that these books aren't really Da Vinci's Code. As a postgraduate student myself, I have paid around $2,000 for books up to now and i don't think that a single penny was wasted. You have to see your books as an investment, a cab driver pays for the cab's license and the car, a musician for the instrument and a scientist for his books.
As far as new editions are concerned, you probably haven't studied your books at all. All books have typos or getting outdated or need a little bit of "lifting" here and there, remove a few pages that were not very well written, add a new chapter for this new cool trend in science and so on. There is a reason for a publisher to print a new edition otherwise they would just do reprints. Someone mentioned that there is no reason to have the 7th edition of a calculus book since calculus hasn't changed much during the last century... Maybe the idea is the same but the approach might have changed, or the way to teach things or even the notation. Many people are experts in quantum mechanics nowadays but Dirac's first paper seems incomprehensible, even to professors.
Anyway, Google is nice, their idea about scanning rare books and making available online is cool etc and i like computers yes but please do not oversimplify things.
Best.
However, the communists took a country that was in poverty i.e Russia in the beginning of the 20th century, and managed to make it a world power under very difficult circumstances and provide a standard of living at the same time. Public health system for everybody, education, jobs... How much do you have to pay for these in the USA? What happens if you can't pay? The same applies to China. Everybody in China was wearing the same clothes but at least they had something to wear which at the time wasn't trivial. Dostoevsky is a good source of information about how the Russian society was before the communists went into power. And please, by comparing Hitler to Stalin and thus equating the two political systems just shows that you are yet another victim of the west propaganda. ( What was the name again of this IBM machine that Nazis used and had something to do with the Jewish... i don't remember... )
The Dutch have a capitalist system, do you think their research would even exist without it?
Not to mention this is one of the most silly comments i have seen recently about research. You imply that Soviets didn't have science? What the hell? PS. Yes, i want my Fender Stratocaster and my Sun Ultra which means that i wouldn't actually like to live in a strict communist country but this doesn't mean that we have the right to degrade everything.
Gravitational Radiation being much weaker, thus harder to detect, does not interact with matter like the electromagnetic radiation does. As a result, gravitational waves produced by spiraling binary star systems, coalescing stars, supermassive black holes etc will be unaltered when detected giving us a completely new perspective in how we look to the universe. It will be like the transition from optical telescopes to x-ray ones.
An excellent, popular book about the topic is Black Holes and Time Wraps by Kip S. Thorne, one of the participants in the LIGO project at Caltech and a well known theorist.
In the case of imaging invisible celestial objects , consider that, for example, Black Holes are by definition invisible, they do not emit electromagnetic radiation ( short of, if we forget the Hawking Radiation ) so astronomers predict that a Black Hole exists by observing the effects ot its existence to the surrounding stars. With gravitational radiation detectors a more direct method will be available. Plus, there exists the dark matter issue ( and others ), an extra tool would be nice to have.
PS. Gravitational waves from the inflationary phase of the universe ( if there is such ) will be too weak to detect.
PS2. From a more theoretical point of view there are some alternative theories ( quite serious ) like the Brans - Dicke theory, they include also a scalar field that propagates in the form of a wave as well. If i recall correctly, in this case the polarisation is different so i think ( but i am not 100% sure ) that if such fields exist a detector like LIGO will able to tell.