Or at least offer it alongside, for example, Einstein's Cosmological Constant theories--an example of when something other than experimental evidence clouds a scientific mind.
I disagree with that. A non-zero cosmological constant is physically plausable and is being seriously investigated.
"There are a number of other observations that are suggestive of the need for a cosmological constant. For example, if the cosmological constant today comprises most of the energy density of the universe, then the extrapolated age of the universe is much larger than it would be without such a term, which helps avoid the dilemma that the extrapolated age of the universe is younger than some of the oldest stars we observe! A cosmological constant term added to the inflationary model, an extension of the Big Bang theory, leads to a model that appears to be consistent with the observed large-scale distribution of galaxies and clusters, with COBE's measurements of cosmic microwave background fluctuations, and with the observed properties of X-ray clusters."
The case for dark matter is pretty strong. The Virgo Consortium does big simulations of the development of the universe. Check out their introduction page for how much evidence there is of dark matter.
Actually characters from Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy would be great.
John Boone, Frank Chalmers, Ann Clayborne, Hiroko Ai, Saxifrage Russell, etc.
From TFA:
"The thing is acting like a huge rotor in an electric motor," Dr. Richards said. "Except this one is running a billion amps."
Wow, so you can jump start your car from anywhere in the world!
Haha my parents are EXACTLY the same. My mom is just in a different field of science.
I think she almost disowned me when I decided to study physics instead of microbiology.
I live in New Zealand and I'm glad they said no to M$. I'm glad that every so often, the government does *something* sensible.
We seem to have a good history of saying no to things from the US...
Talking to lecturers at your university is a really good idea, regardless of the field. Most of them are keen to take on students that show a genuine interest in the subject, and I find that interest and enthusiasm are more important than grades.
I'm a female and I wouldn't consider revealing anime uniforms degrading. Of course, I am biased since I am an anime fan, and would revel in getting paid to dress up:-D
This sort of thing happened in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (he spent 17 years researching the topic before writing the books, so I like to think most of the science in his books was carefully researched). The part of the cable closest to the ground does not hit very hard. However, the higher parts of the cable have more time to accelerate towards the earth and will hit harder when they do. People should be able to predict where the cable will hit, but I don't know how much time there would be for evacuation of those areas.
Whatever you're smoking, I don't want it.
Or is this actually supposed to be a joke? You sound a lot like a schitzophrenic guy that used to stalk me, and he claimed that the teenage mutant ninja turtles were after him in the university library.
As has been stated previously, the same system is used in New Zealand, and here it looks fantastic. It has isobars, windspeeds, all the information you need, the colours are nice (green land, blue ocean), and you actually see clouds when it is cloudy. It is appealing visually, and has all the functionality one would expect.
I think you fail to understand that the only lives that are worthy in any way are American lives. All those people in Iraq and Afghanistan don't really count, because their lives don't have any real value.
Here in New Zealand, the US tried to get NZ to overturn it's "no nuclear" policy, and as a "reward", we would have a free trade agreement with the US (the US wants to park it's nuclear powered submarines in our waters). The US got a polite "fuck off". Pretty much every economist and politician here seems to agree that a FTA with the states is a very bad idea.
I think it's the case that just because the wavefunctions of the atoms in the BEC become one, that doesn't mean there is some sort of single, minimal allowed wavefunction. I don't see why you couldn't have a BEC where the atoms' wavefunction had angular momentum.
Yes, it's called the ground state. And wavefunctions don't have angular momentum, the atoms do, regardless of how cold they are (AKAIK).
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"Most physicists agreed with Bohr, and they went off to use quantum mechanics to build atomic bombs and reinvent the world."
Why do they always have to use the atomic bomb as an example of the applications of quantum mechanics? It really gives it a bad name.
Or at least offer it alongside, for example, Einstein's Cosmological Constant theories--an example of when something other than experimental evidence clouds a scientific mind.
I disagree with that. A non-zero cosmological constant is physically plausable and is being seriously investigated.
"There are a number of other observations that are suggestive of the need for a cosmological constant. For example, if the cosmological constant today comprises most of the energy density of the universe, then the extrapolated age of the universe is much larger than it would be without such a term, which helps avoid the dilemma that the extrapolated age of the universe is younger than some of the oldest stars we observe! A cosmological constant term added to the inflationary model, an extension of the Big Bang theory, leads to a model that appears to be consistent with the observed large-scale distribution of galaxies and clusters, with COBE's measurements of cosmic microwave background fluctuations, and with the observed properties of X-ray clusters."
from http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/m_uni/uni_101accel.html
The case for dark matter is pretty strong. The Virgo Consortium does big simulations of the development of the universe. Check out their introduction page for how much evidence there is of dark matter.
Actually characters from Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy would be great. John Boone, Frank Chalmers, Ann Clayborne, Hiroko Ai, Saxifrage Russell, etc.
In New Zealand!
It has been dubbed the "Fart Tax".
Read "The Case for Mars" by Robert Zubrin. He explains how we can put people on Mars right now, entirely with technology we have already.
It really isn't as far-fetched an idea as people make it seem.
And wouldn't it just be awesome to go to another planet?
From TFA: "The thing is acting like a huge rotor in an electric motor," Dr. Richards said. "Except this one is running a billion amps." Wow, so you can jump start your car from anywhere in the world!
Haha my parents are EXACTLY the same. My mom is just in a different field of science. I think she almost disowned me when I decided to study physics instead of microbiology.
This is going to come back and haunt you someday.
Presumably this is going to be a pulse laser. I don't see how they are going to get such huge power with a continuous wave laser.
I live in New Zealand and I'm glad they said no to M$. I'm glad that every so often, the government does *something* sensible. We seem to have a good history of saying no to things from the US...
Talking to lecturers at your university is a really good idea, regardless of the field. Most of them are keen to take on students that show a genuine interest in the subject, and I find that interest and enthusiasm are more important than grades.
Running OS X on a PC? Will this make Mac people's heads explode?
That's ok, but if and only if you are a goth.
I'm a female and I wouldn't consider revealing anime uniforms degrading. Of course, I am biased since I am an anime fan, and would revel in getting paid to dress up :-D
"...the hypervisor software will be delivered in 2007, following the debut of Longhorn Server and the release of Duke Nukem Forever."
This sort of thing happened in the Mars Trilogy by Kim Stanley Robinson (he spent 17 years researching the topic before writing the books, so I like to think most of the science in his books was carefully researched). The part of the cable closest to the ground does not hit very hard. However, the higher parts of the cable have more time to accelerate towards the earth and will hit harder when they do. People should be able to predict where the cable will hit, but I don't know how much time there would be for evacuation of those areas.
Okay....I get the joke now :-P
Whatever you're smoking, I don't want it. Or is this actually supposed to be a joke? You sound a lot like a schitzophrenic guy that used to stalk me, and he claimed that the teenage mutant ninja turtles were after him in the university library.
As has been stated previously, the same system is used in New Zealand, and here it looks fantastic. It has isobars, windspeeds, all the information you need, the colours are nice (green land, blue ocean), and you actually see clouds when it is cloudy. It is appealing visually, and has all the functionality one would expect.
Yep.
I think you fail to understand that the only lives that are worthy in any way are American lives. All those people in Iraq and Afghanistan don't really count, because their lives don't have any real value.
Here in New Zealand, the US tried to get NZ to overturn it's "no nuclear" policy, and as a "reward", we would have a free trade agreement with the US (the US wants to park it's nuclear powered submarines in our waters). The US got a polite "fuck off". Pretty much every economist and politician here seems to agree that a FTA with the states is a very bad idea.
ROFL
I think it's the case that just because the wavefunctions of the atoms in the BEC become one, that doesn't mean there is some sort of single, minimal allowed wavefunction. I don't see why you couldn't have a BEC where the atoms' wavefunction had angular momentum. Yes, it's called the ground state. And wavefunctions don't have angular momentum, the atoms do, regardless of how cold they are (AKAIK).