G'day
As being 8th or so generations from a convict on the second fleet, i take offense to that!
Shuttup before i steal your bread. And it's spelled colour. COLOUR!!!! not to mention mum etc....
Now, excuse me while i tend to my kangaroos and e-moos.
Good stuff, i reckon make ICANN its own country. Perhaps, maybe, controlled by UN, but that may not be that universally democratic either. More successful, i believe, would be an internet run by slashdot.
Re:Proposal: A simple method of focusing the ray
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I have another method. You know when u get a knife or wristwatch and its in the sun and it projects a spot onto the wall? Well, if u got a shield (im not sure they were reflective enough to do this, but if they were) then you could point the spot from the shield onto the ground, slowly bringing it up until you believe it is roughly on a target, such as a particular point on a boat, and you get an army to do the same, there should be a spot on the boat, about as large as the shields, that is very bright and hot, as a whole army worth of people are shining sun on it, so that every point withinthe light spot would be (number of people) times brighter than the sun. Also, as soon as the spot on the boat is bright enough, the rest of the army would find it a little easier to know where to aim.
Sorry to bring in personal opinion/current pet hate but are things really part of an equation? is that what they really are? or is maths just a way to model the world so that some predictions may be made? I think maths is beggining to get in the road of true understanding in phsyics, so many people are deterred by the maths, that would otherwise be perfectly good at understanding the entire universe's workings (not just the models) through imagination/builiding a 3d moving picture in one's mind. I guess what im asking is, is the universe physical or mathematical, in reality?
Re:Wow..it's like...MythBusters is windows?
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True. But i think in this case they are probably right. Mythbusters is a great show, its cool, and they do generally have a more real world situation than a scientist would set up in an experiment. But a (good) scientist is thorough, and at least tries to check every possible variation and discern the exact cause from these. Then they dont (or shouldnt) give a 100% conclusive result. Mythbusters on the other hand, sets up a real live situation, tests that particular situation rarely gives any thought to any variations (well sometimes) and then gives pretty much a 100% conclusive result, as if they are all mighty and all knowing. Anyways, as i said, its a great show, for blowing up cement trucks. Though the actual experiment to go with that i dont think was very conclusive. They didnt try different positions for the explosive, such as on the outside to deform the barrel. Anyway, just my thoughts.
Hey, im no particle physicist, but arent quarks way to small for any of this to really matter anyway? They dont really have a look, taste, smell or sound, because the messengers that carry these signals are much bigger than quarks, and some are even made of quarks. For instance, smell is the nose bits working out what molecule is in the nose, and telling ur brain. Taste is similar, though with the tongue. Sound is a little wierd, in that i suppose you could work out the frequency that the quark is viabrating or something, but its not like when u hit it it dings, let alone the ding being large enough for air particles to create a wave form long enough to reach ur ear, let alone hear it. Looks, well, photons are too big for images of quarks, unless somehow something to do with DeBroglie wavelengths allows them to be small enough for enough of them to be deflected by a quarck so that a detailed image can be obtained.
Anyway, i think, a parallel to these artists impressions would be the infr-red or heat goggles and the colours they display for each heat. They arent really the colours of heat or wed be seeing funny colours everywhere. In fact i dont believe heat is EM as light is, i believe that things that are in our general environment happen to emit EMR in the Infra-red range. Anyways, my point (sorry im not real good with the whole sticking to the subject thing) with the whole IR thing is that the colours are fake, to give information of its frequency, as in hot stuff is blue because hotter stuff emits higher frequency radiation, and the high end of the visible light spectrum is blue. Same for red, low heat emits low frequency, which corresponds to red light. Actually my point is its fake, and just gives some details via pictures, even though it is impossible to get pictures of them. Anyone wanna explain this better feel free, no, feel paid. Except not paid. Just feel paid. Because what would i know, im only a 16 yr old finisheing high school. I would like to know more.
Wouldn't that then not technically be a recording though, since your actually getting the original playing over and over:P? When that technology comes around, we probly wont be in this universe anymore.
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G'day As being 8th or so generations from a convict on the second fleet, i take offense to that! Shuttup before i steal your bread. And it's spelled colour. COLOUR!!!! not to mention mum etc.... Now, excuse me while i tend to my kangaroos and e-moos.
Good stuff, i reckon make ICANN its own country. Perhaps, maybe, controlled by UN, but that may not be that universally democratic either. More successful, i believe, would be an internet run by slashdot.
I have another method. You know when u get a knife or wristwatch and its in the sun and it projects a spot onto the wall? Well, if u got a shield (im not sure they were reflective enough to do this, but if they were) then you could point the spot from the shield onto the ground, slowly bringing it up until you believe it is roughly on a target, such as a particular point on a boat, and you get an army to do the same, there should be a spot on the boat, about as large as the shields, that is very bright and hot, as a whole army worth of people are shining sun on it, so that every point withinthe light spot would be (number of people) times brighter than the sun. Also, as soon as the spot on the boat is bright enough, the rest of the army would find it a little easier to know where to aim.
Sorry to bring in personal opinion/current pet hate but are things really part of an equation? is that what they really are? or is maths just a way to model the world so that some predictions may be made? I think maths is beggining to get in the road of true understanding in phsyics, so many people are deterred by the maths, that would otherwise be perfectly good at understanding the entire universe's workings (not just the models) through imagination/builiding a 3d moving picture in one's mind. I guess what im asking is, is the universe physical or mathematical, in reality?
True. But i think in this case they are probably right. Mythbusters is a great show, its cool, and they do generally have a more real world situation than a scientist would set up in an experiment. But a (good) scientist is thorough, and at least tries to check every possible variation and discern the exact cause from these. Then they dont (or shouldnt) give a 100% conclusive result. Mythbusters on the other hand, sets up a real live situation, tests that particular situation rarely gives any thought to any variations (well sometimes) and then gives pretty much a 100% conclusive result, as if they are all mighty and all knowing. Anyways, as i said, its a great show, for blowing up cement trucks. Though the actual experiment to go with that i dont think was very conclusive. They didnt try different positions for the explosive, such as on the outside to deform the barrel. Anyway, just my thoughts.
Hey, im no particle physicist, but arent quarks way to small for any of this to really matter anyway? They dont really have a look, taste, smell or sound, because the messengers that carry these signals are much bigger than quarks, and some are even made of quarks. For instance, smell is the nose bits working out what molecule is in the nose, and telling ur brain. Taste is similar, though with the tongue. Sound is a little wierd, in that i suppose you could work out the frequency that the quark is viabrating or something, but its not like when u hit it it dings, let alone the ding being large enough for air particles to create a wave form long enough to reach ur ear, let alone hear it. Looks, well, photons are too big for images of quarks, unless somehow something to do with DeBroglie wavelengths allows them to be small enough for enough of them to be deflected by a quarck so that a detailed image can be obtained. Anyway, i think, a parallel to these artists impressions would be the infr-red or heat goggles and the colours they display for each heat. They arent really the colours of heat or wed be seeing funny colours everywhere. In fact i dont believe heat is EM as light is, i believe that things that are in our general environment happen to emit EMR in the Infra-red range. Anyways, my point (sorry im not real good with the whole sticking to the subject thing) with the whole IR thing is that the colours are fake, to give information of its frequency, as in hot stuff is blue because hotter stuff emits higher frequency radiation, and the high end of the visible light spectrum is blue. Same for red, low heat emits low frequency, which corresponds to red light. Actually my point is its fake, and just gives some details via pictures, even though it is impossible to get pictures of them. Anyone wanna explain this better feel free, no, feel paid. Except not paid. Just feel paid. Because what would i know, im only a 16 yr old finisheing high school. I would like to know more.
Wouldn't that then not technically be a recording though, since your actually getting the original playing over and over :P? When that technology comes around, we probly wont be in this universe anymore.