interesting way of wrapping your head around it. I think of vacuum energy and its probably just as wrong (not to say you are wrong conceptually, when it comes to far out physics it gets harder and harder to conceptualize what it is). I can make myself more comfortable with vacuum energy than changing planks constant. Though that's a little bias since that's my favorite of all physics discoveries.
thanks a lot, as a physics fanatic just going into university that's some stuff I will comb over. I had assumed that most of these discoveries were done by Kepler alone, not by follow up surveys but other telescopes. On second thought, that was a bit naive of me.
I'd like a link. because you can predict, to a degree of error masses. hell Pluto was proposed because of how well we can calculate gravity. by just taking the mass of the star and the periodicity we calculate its mass to a relatively small degree of error.
I think part of the problem with testing ESP is that they always want to test the far reaching parts (predicting the future, seeing through walls, etc) rather than starting with the brain as we know it and testing it's extremes. There is a lot we don't know about the brain and it's capabilities, for instance, it was just shown that people with a certain type of blindness can see emotion, that part of vision is processed in a different place of the brain. So, I see a lot of this stuff being lumped in with all ESP and that's just wrong. There are levels that we can disprove and levels that we can't, take it a step at a time. Hell, MRI scans prove that the brain is detectable outside of the skull, so test the range and if it can do anything in a close proximity.
Rather than hiring psychologists to do these things, hire physicists.
I generally love to pick ok millionaires and CEOs too, however the physics geek in me is sad. I'm on my phone atm (not a BB) so I don't have the links, but one of them donated millions of their money to the Perimeter Institute. Many would say there are better places to donate, but I can't help but have a special place in my heart for a supporter of theoretical physics.
Photons can carry different energy amounts, e=frequency*plank's constant. So if you can produce just as many photons at a higher frequency you get more energy AND a shorter wavelength. So a UV laser that has the same efficiency should produce more energy.
On another point, just cause something is in the UV spectrum doesn't mean it's not a laser. It's the process used to excite the electrons and create a process where all the light produced is of a single wavelength that means it's a laser. So a gamma ray laser would be amazingly powerful!
Helium has a lot of weird properties due to it only having 2 electrons. It can become a superfluid and climb over walls to get closer to a source of gravity, by making 3 atom vortexes that propel itself forward. Even at normal temperatures it's nearly impossible to contain, it permeates through plastics and glass. Now I don't know anything about generator technology but it seems to me like there would be a lot of loss, and helium prices are rising rapidly to my knowledge.
Doesn't anyone know what this means?! We've found the cure for all of life's problems! Just send a Tachyon beam at it and bounce it off the deflector dish! Thank you Star Trek for solving all of life's problems for us! Now bring out the green women!.
Most the the dark matter experiments are looking for WIMPs, not Axions, those, no my knowledge have been left behind by low energy detectors. I could very likely be wrong, I extrapolate far too much from documentaries, hehe. However, a yearly rotation will have no effect in comparison to the CMB, which comes from all directions at more or less the same direction; it's VERY uniform. So I highly doubt a 30km/s rotation around our sun will impact our interaction with the CMB when our relative motion to it around the center of the milky way seams to be 390 KM/s.
(pulling the numbers from a book I have by Henning Gentz called Nothingness, which is 12 years old now)
The first stars were gigantic, anything that size supernova's very quickly and becomes a blackhole. So more blackholes would have been produced in the early universe in comparison to now...am I missing something that is new science here?
Zooniverse has recently launched a new project using data from Kepler. You can create a profile at Planet Hunters and look for planet transits. IMO it's the most exciting project they've launched. Sure you're not naming the planets, but you are aiding the search.
The brain has become amazingly adapt at siphoning out irrelevant information. We process incredible amounts of informations without know it, every colour, shape, distance, pitch, hertz, etc, etc, hell the brain processes every time our clothes move as we walk. Association is what the brain is trained to do (hence making robots to identify is incredibly hard), so we discard hordes of information every second; each letter I type I disregard (unless it underlines saying I suck at spelling).
Now we have a new tool; cellphones, IM's, laptops, and ewww....facebook... It is just another tool, I'm sure when early man came up with the idea of a wheel he obsessed with it. Eventually this will all become background as we learn to filter out rubbish. A lot of us have learned to filter that out already, I check my email but if I have a IM pop up, I usually just glance at who it is and finish what I'm doing.
Or it's possible that the over population and lack of natural selection (by that I mean, the less 'fit' humans no longer die easily) selecting those who can focus upon the task handed to them has changed this. Regardless, I think this is a bunch of bunk. We could always be distracted if we wanted to just listening to nature, now it's the technology age and we haven't wrapped our brains around the social impact of it. We will learn to filter out irrelevance like we do the wind.
Sometimes it's just a matter of getting over a single hurdle. I was horrible at art for the longest time, maybe it was cause I didn't get any help from art teachers. Then one year something just seemed to click and it made so much more sense.
I find there seems to be a lot of things like that, you just need to cover a single hurdle, or maybe two or three, and once you learn how to think about things they become infinately easier.
There is an idea that life, and indeed the evolution of it started from a self replicating system of clays. Clay Life in an interesting theory on origins of life research, a lot of biochemicals like to bond to surfaces of clay, so with certain clevages in the clay it may be possible for that to have an evolutionary like progression.
Just one of the many ideas on origins of life research, but one of the more unique idea's I've heard.
Unfortunately most of those Asteroid are too far away. It's a lot easier to practice on one that will come close. We can get a lot more reliable and useful data as well.
Not many have read him, at least of the people I know and most people I know who read are big fans of fantasy and sci-fi. He was a very influential author, a favorite author of Neil Gaiman, David Eddings and H.P. Lovecraft, he had a paticular impact on Lovecraft. I would recommend his book The King of Elfland's Daughter. I would guess that most of the students wouldn't have read it before.
I don't find depression makes me any more analytical, it makes me much more creative. I write better music, lyrics, poetry, hell, even D&D campaigns when I'm depressed. I've learned to use my depression and channel it into useful outlets rather than just mope about something.
So....this amazing charecter customization is a shitty copy of Rappelz where you get to customize your charecter twice to specialize. And 26 faces? In Perfect World International you can manipulate the face almost as well as you can in Fallout 3. Nothing here that hasn't been done before and done to a larger extend.
The astronauts that go up into space teach us LOTS. One of the prime things is how space affects the human body, if we're going to go on long term space flights we need to know these things so people don't die in transit. They're also studying how space affects other plants and animals so we can grow food in space or on other planets. These things are greatly important.
Big? I think you're a confused, the only thing that could save something as large as the dinosaurs is Relativity. Some just went extinct far after other, relativistically speaking.
Honest to the Force, my friend's daughter was taught by her mom to decern the Space Station from the Moon, "that's no moon, thats a space station". So when she went away, her daughter (3 years old) grabbed her dad, pulled him to the bedroom and pointed at the space station, and said "No Moon, Space Station."
Give geek points to the 3 year old, she deserves them!
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interesting way of wrapping your head around it. I think of vacuum energy and its probably just as wrong (not to say you are wrong conceptually, when it comes to far out physics it gets harder and harder to conceptualize what it is). I can make myself more comfortable with vacuum energy than changing planks constant. Though that's a little bias since that's my favorite of all physics discoveries.
thanks a lot, as a physics fanatic just going into university that's some stuff I will comb over. I had assumed that most of these discoveries were done by Kepler alone, not by follow up surveys but other telescopes. On second thought, that was a bit naive of me.
does this mean that consoles may eventually stop undercutting pc's? if they stop taking losses on sales it may even the playing field.
I'd like a link. because you can predict, to a degree of error masses. hell Pluto was proposed because of how well we can calculate gravity. by just taking the mass of the star and the periodicity we calculate its mass to a relatively small degree of error.
I think part of the problem with testing ESP is that they always want to test the far reaching parts (predicting the future, seeing through walls, etc) rather than starting with the brain as we know it and testing it's extremes. There is a lot we don't know about the brain and it's capabilities, for instance, it was just shown that people with a certain type of blindness can see emotion, that part of vision is processed in a different place of the brain. So, I see a lot of this stuff being lumped in with all ESP and that's just wrong. There are levels that we can disprove and levels that we can't, take it a step at a time. Hell, MRI scans prove that the brain is detectable outside of the skull, so test the range and if it can do anything in a close proximity. Rather than hiring psychologists to do these things, hire physicists.
I generally love to pick ok millionaires and CEOs too, however the physics geek in me is sad. I'm on my phone atm (not a BB) so I don't have the links, but one of them donated millions of their money to the Perimeter Institute. Many would say there are better places to donate, but I can't help but have a special place in my heart for a supporter of theoretical physics.
Seriously, what a misleading subject. It made me laugh though.
Photons can carry different energy amounts, e=frequency*plank's constant. So if you can produce just as many photons at a higher frequency you get more energy AND a shorter wavelength. So a UV laser that has the same efficiency should produce more energy. On another point, just cause something is in the UV spectrum doesn't mean it's not a laser. It's the process used to excite the electrons and create a process where all the light produced is of a single wavelength that means it's a laser. So a gamma ray laser would be amazingly powerful!
Helium has a lot of weird properties due to it only having 2 electrons. It can become a superfluid and climb over walls to get closer to a source of gravity, by making 3 atom vortexes that propel itself forward. Even at normal temperatures it's nearly impossible to contain, it permeates through plastics and glass. Now I don't know anything about generator technology but it seems to me like there would be a lot of loss, and helium prices are rising rapidly to my knowledge.
Doesn't anyone know what this means?! We've found the cure for all of life's problems! Just send a Tachyon beam at it and bounce it off the deflector dish! Thank you Star Trek for solving all of life's problems for us! Now bring out the green women!.
Most the the dark matter experiments are looking for WIMPs, not Axions, those, no my knowledge have been left behind by low energy detectors. I could very likely be wrong, I extrapolate far too much from documentaries, hehe. However, a yearly rotation will have no effect in comparison to the CMB, which comes from all directions at more or less the same direction; it's VERY uniform. So I highly doubt a 30km/s rotation around our sun will impact our interaction with the CMB when our relative motion to it around the center of the milky way seams to be 390 KM/s. (pulling the numbers from a book I have by Henning Gentz called Nothingness, which is 12 years old now)
I don't believe it's the scientific term...yet anyways. I think it's just slang at this point.
The first stars were gigantic, anything that size supernova's very quickly and becomes a blackhole. So more blackholes would have been produced in the early universe in comparison to now...am I missing something that is new science here?
Zooniverse has recently launched a new project using data from Kepler. You can create a profile at Planet Hunters and look for planet transits. IMO it's the most exciting project they've launched. Sure you're not naming the planets, but you are aiding the search.
The brain has become amazingly adapt at siphoning out irrelevant information. We process incredible amounts of informations without know it, every colour, shape, distance, pitch, hertz, etc, etc, hell the brain processes every time our clothes move as we walk. Association is what the brain is trained to do (hence making robots to identify is incredibly hard), so we discard hordes of information every second; each letter I type I disregard (unless it underlines saying I suck at spelling).
Now we have a new tool; cellphones, IM's, laptops, and ewww....facebook... It is just another tool, I'm sure when early man came up with the idea of a wheel he obsessed with it. Eventually this will all become background as we learn to filter out rubbish. A lot of us have learned to filter that out already, I check my email but if I have a IM pop up, I usually just glance at who it is and finish what I'm doing.
Or it's possible that the over population and lack of natural selection (by that I mean, the less 'fit' humans no longer die easily) selecting those who can focus upon the task handed to them has changed this. Regardless, I think this is a bunch of bunk. We could always be distracted if we wanted to just listening to nature, now it's the technology age and we haven't wrapped our brains around the social impact of it. We will learn to filter out irrelevance like we do the wind.
Sometimes it's just a matter of getting over a single hurdle. I was horrible at art for the longest time, maybe it was cause I didn't get any help from art teachers. Then one year something just seemed to click and it made so much more sense.
I find there seems to be a lot of things like that, you just need to cover a single hurdle, or maybe two or three, and once you learn how to think about things they become infinately easier.
There is an idea that life, and indeed the evolution of it started from a self replicating system of clays. Clay Life in an interesting theory on origins of life research, a lot of biochemicals like to bond to surfaces of clay, so with certain clevages in the clay it may be possible for that to have an evolutionary like progression. Just one of the many ideas on origins of life research, but one of the more unique idea's I've heard.
Unfortunately most of those Asteroid are too far away. It's a lot easier to practice on one that will come close. We can get a lot more reliable and useful data as well.
Not many have read him, at least of the people I know and most people I know who read are big fans of fantasy and sci-fi. He was a very influential author, a favorite author of Neil Gaiman, David Eddings and H.P. Lovecraft, he had a paticular impact on Lovecraft. I would recommend his book The King of Elfland's Daughter. I would guess that most of the students wouldn't have read it before.
The article isn't specifically talking about clinical depression but about the mood and how it effects the brain while under that influence.
I don't find depression makes me any more analytical, it makes me much more creative. I write better music, lyrics, poetry, hell, even D&D campaigns when I'm depressed. I've learned to use my depression and channel it into useful outlets rather than just mope about something.
So....this amazing charecter customization is a shitty copy of Rappelz where you get to customize your charecter twice to specialize. And 26 faces? In Perfect World International you can manipulate the face almost as well as you can in Fallout 3. Nothing here that hasn't been done before and done to a larger extend.
The astronauts that go up into space teach us LOTS. One of the prime things is how space affects the human body, if we're going to go on long term space flights we need to know these things so people don't die in transit. They're also studying how space affects other plants and animals so we can grow food in space or on other planets. These things are greatly important.
Big? I think you're a confused, the only thing that could save something as large as the dinosaurs is Relativity. Some just went extinct far after other, relativistically speaking.
Honest to the Force, my friend's daughter was taught by her mom to decern the Space Station from the Moon, "that's no moon, thats a space station". So when she went away, her daughter (3 years old) grabbed her dad, pulled him to the bedroom and pointed at the space station, and said "No Moon, Space Station."
Give geek points to the 3 year old, she deserves them!