About the same - although he might have got an extra question if his helper hadn't been too busy fielding questions himself to notice the cheek mounted sensor wasn't calibrated right.
The man is a survivor, that is for sure. I saw him lecture a few months ago, and is still on form. He will still answer the dumbest questions from any snide creationist or just plain ignorant member of the public - even though it took him considerable effort to compose a response.
Science was wrong about something in the 18th century != science is equally badly wrong about the nature of atoms now.
Machines that require phlogiston theory to be true simply would not work. Machines that require QM to be true do work, and they enable you to spout your ignorance of the subject to a wide audience.
QM isn't a 'subatomic' theory - it works at atomic scales, specifically on electrons in atomic orbitals.
You've obviously got the impression that you understand QM, but you clearly don't understand either it or the nature of semiconductors, because you assert the absurd physical proposition that something can be a theory of electrons and holes without being a quantum theory.
Technically yes, the 'correct' formula is more complex; but you use plain old E=MC^2 when you are working with nuclear reactions (because momentum is negligible in a solid lump of uranium) - and that is the context most people use it in.
You can't say 'it is true' if it hasn't been observed. Just because it falls nicely out of the maths, doesn't mean it corresponds to a physical reality. Hell, string theory has some nice maths to it.
Because it would be incredibly rare even if it did happen, it being forbidden by some currently unknown physics would not have been noticed before now.
I suggest you take up the notion that E=MC^2 is 'wrong' with a survivor of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. If matter/energy equivlance were wrong nothing nuclear would work. Including the Sun, which is essentially a giant, gravitationally bound, thermonuclear explosion.
The notion that light bends is not 'probably' true, it IS true because it was famously measured by Eddington during a solar eclipse. There seems to be some notion amongst the general public that Einstein pulled relativity out of his butt and physicists just accepted it because it was cool. This is not the case at all.
Special relativity was accepted because it explained phenomena that could not be explained by previous theories, and because it has been constantly verified by experiment ever since (time dilation has been measured on aeroplanes using very accurate atomic clocks, and mass dilation is a daily fact of life in any particle accelerator facility you care to name).
General relativity was accepted only because someone went out there, took some measurements, and saw they confirmed Einstein's predictions. Furthermore, we now have everyday technology that depends on GR being, admittedly within certain bounds, correct.
But it is worth mentioning that any new physics at this point, be it MoND, String theory or anything else, is more like a refinement of existing theories than a complete overhaul. If we were very wrong about the laws of physics, then our technology which relies on being tightly fine tuned to them (space probes for Newtonian dynamics, GPS systems for relativity, anything with a semiconductor for quantum mechanics) simply wouldn't work. They do work, and the work with astonishing accuracy.
I never ceased to be tickled by people loudly and ignorantly arguing against the reality of quantum mechanics USING A MACHINE DRIVEN BY FUCKING SEMICONDUCTORS. Its like the flat Earth society getting its message out through satellite television.
Quantum mechanics, like any science, is not a religious doctrine. It doesn't have to be complete and all encompassing to be right; it just has to fit the observations for everything we have tried so far. When it stops fitting the observations, we will give it up (or more likely, refine it in some subtle way) and move on.
You are spouting physics buzzwords with no apparent grasp of what they are or what they mean. Don't try and learn about science from the media - this is the kind of confusion that results.
Dark matter is just matter we can't see. It almost certainly has nothing in particular to do with the Higgs Boson, which is a proposed mechanism by which all matter (dark or otherwise) has mass.
The barrier in question is a potential barrier, and seeing as we live in a three dimensional universe it is a three dimensional barrier; sometimes a potential barrier will be represented in 1 or 2 dimensions for clarity.
The canonical explanation which blames bad risk assessment (banks, rating agencies) seems much more plausible to me.
And it also sounds more plausible to most economists - it just sounds implausible to rabid libertarians and neoliberals who are emotionally invested in the idea of perfect markets. To them, the idea that markets are not the ideal means to communicate economic information (the risk of a loan being defaulted, for example) is quite literally a heresy.
You can't get them to admit they are wrong, but rest assured that most of them will eventually adjust their views to fit reality.
Yeah, because free markets did such a good job with the banking industry.
The rational equilibrium model of the free market fundamentalists has gone tits up. Move on, and wise up. Collusion, misinformation, and group think are quite capable of doing for the IT sector what they have done for the financial sector.
There needs to be citizen participation in both politics and economics. Economies are not worthwhile aims in themselves, they are merely tools we use to coordinate society - whenever they don't work for people, we should seek to change them.
Starship Troopers is a 1997 Academy Award nominated science-fiction-action film directed by Paul Verhoeven, written by Edward Neumeier, and starring Casper Van Dien, Dina Meyer and Denise Richards.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcraft
StarCraft is a military science fiction real-time strategy video game developed by Blizzard Entertainment. The first game of the StarCraft series was released for Microsoft Windows on 31 March 1998
The ability of economists to rationally explain anything has taken a fair beating of late. Frankly, their maths is shoddy and their simulations lacking.
Also, if you wish to attack Haldemans views on the nature of warfare, can I ask about your experience of it?
I think its very, very telling that Heinlein was influenced by the patriotic crap he was pumped with in training, whilst Haldeman actually saw war first hand, and was wounded in action. Its a point Starship Troopers fanboys should spend some time contemplating: one writer was informed by what the state wants you to think war is, and one writer was informed by actually getting shot what war is.
Fans of Heinlein who profess political beliefs other than Fascism (as the majority of them do I reckon) would also do well to read this essay: http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html
I do not feel the need to pay for the right to exchange digital information with other private citizens. Trying to force me to in order to hang on to an outdated business model that supports a parasitic elite requires giving the government the power to snoop on my communications and force me to incriminate myself by handing over encryption keys or face prosecution. The consequences of giving government that power are so obvious as to be not worth stating again.
Sorry, but my fundamental human rights are more important than your narcissistic dream of being a millionaire only doing an hours work a week.
Aside from the fact the website in question is still running. I am making a point of showing this to as many people as possible, to their visible amusement.
I do know musicians. Just because small time bands aren't driving around in gold plated bentleys, doesn't mean they are entitled to. You know nothing about me, asshole.
The rest of us have to struggle for a living. The idea that musicians should be able to live 'comforably' working only a few hours a night is absurd. They essentially work the same hours as barstaff. This means, of course, that if they do require more money they can have a regular job as well as performing.
If making ends meet is a struggle for physicists and sysadmins, why should it be a breeze for guitarists? We don't owe them shit.
You finish off your drooling retard rant with the old chestnut that 'piracy is stealing' - which is true, so long as you are talking about those fellows in Somalia. It isn't true for copying data, and pretend it is makes you look stupid.
We don't owe Hugh Jackman and Tom Clancy a living. Television has an entertainment model that doesn't have to charge at the point of delivery. Musicians can perform and make a very handsome living if they are worth listening to. Shit artists and holywood can suck my free living balls.
It hasn't been shut down. The prosecution were all about how this sent a 'message' - and indeed it did. It sent a message that Swedish legal judgements are apparently toothless against a torrent tracker.
Oh, and the whole media circus made damn sure anybody who didn't know about pirate bay before, does now. Congratulations, asshats.
Comic sans is a very important font in teaching - as you said it is very readable, and even more critically it is one of the only readily available fonts that renders a lower case 'a' in the same way as it is hand written by modern children.
The prosecution did not make their case. They had no clue what they were talking about, made fundamental technical errors, and couldn't quite decide what TPB had done wrong. Learn the fucking facts before you mouth off your twat.
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About the same - although he might have got an extra question if his helper hadn't been too busy fielding questions himself to notice the cheek mounted sensor wasn't calibrated right.
The man is a survivor, that is for sure. I saw him lecture a few months ago, and is still on form. He will still answer the dumbest questions from any snide creationist or just plain ignorant member of the public - even though it took him considerable effort to compose a response.
Science was wrong about something in the 18th century != science is equally badly wrong about the nature of atoms now.
Machines that require phlogiston theory to be true simply would not work. Machines that require QM to be true do work, and they enable you to spout your ignorance of the subject to a wide audience.
QM isn't a 'subatomic' theory - it works at atomic scales, specifically on electrons in atomic orbitals.
You've obviously got the impression that you understand QM, but you clearly don't understand either it or the nature of semiconductors, because you assert the absurd physical proposition that something can be a theory of electrons and holes without being a quantum theory.
Technically yes, the 'correct' formula is more complex; but you use plain old E=MC^2 when you are working with nuclear reactions (because momentum is negligible in a solid lump of uranium) - and that is the context most people use it in.
I used 'see' as a common term for 'detect'. The majority of non-dark matter in the universe is things we can't see with human eyesight.
Tunnelling is just Schroedingers catflap
You can't say 'it is true' if it hasn't been observed. Just because it falls nicely out of the maths, doesn't mean it corresponds to a physical reality. Hell, string theory has some nice maths to it.
Because it would be incredibly rare even if it did happen, it being forbidden by some currently unknown physics would not have been noticed before now.
I suggest you take up the notion that E=MC^2 is 'wrong' with a survivor of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. If matter/energy equivlance were wrong nothing nuclear would work. Including the Sun, which is essentially a giant, gravitationally bound, thermonuclear explosion.
The notion that light bends is not 'probably' true, it IS true because it was famously measured by Eddington during a solar eclipse. There seems to be some notion amongst the general public that Einstein pulled relativity out of his butt and physicists just accepted it because it was cool. This is not the case at all.
Special relativity was accepted because it explained phenomena that could not be explained by previous theories, and because it has been constantly verified by experiment ever since (time dilation has been measured on aeroplanes using very accurate atomic clocks, and mass dilation is a daily fact of life in any particle accelerator facility you care to name).
General relativity was accepted only because someone went out there, took some measurements, and saw they confirmed Einstein's predictions. Furthermore, we now have everyday technology that depends on GR being, admittedly within certain bounds, correct.
But it is worth mentioning that any new physics at this point, be it MoND, String theory or anything else, is more like a refinement of existing theories than a complete overhaul. If we were very wrong about the laws of physics, then our technology which relies on being tightly fine tuned to them (space probes for Newtonian dynamics, GPS systems for relativity, anything with a semiconductor for quantum mechanics) simply wouldn't work. They do work, and the work with astonishing accuracy.
I never ceased to be tickled by people loudly and ignorantly arguing against the reality of quantum mechanics USING A MACHINE DRIVEN BY FUCKING SEMICONDUCTORS. Its like the flat Earth society getting its message out through satellite television.
Quantum mechanics, like any science, is not a religious doctrine. It doesn't have to be complete and all encompassing to be right; it just has to fit the observations for everything we have tried so far. When it stops fitting the observations, we will give it up (or more likely, refine it in some subtle way) and move on.
Um, I am not sure where to start.
You are spouting physics buzzwords with no apparent grasp of what they are or what they mean. Don't try and learn about science from the media - this is the kind of confusion that results.
Dark matter is just matter we can't see. It almost certainly has nothing in particular to do with the Higgs Boson, which is a proposed mechanism by which all matter (dark or otherwise) has mass.
The barrier in question is a potential barrier, and seeing as we live in a three dimensional universe it is a three dimensional barrier; sometimes a potential barrier will be represented in 1 or 2 dimensions for clarity.
And it also sounds more plausible to most economists - it just sounds implausible to rabid libertarians and neoliberals who are emotionally invested in the idea of perfect markets. To them, the idea that markets are not the ideal means to communicate economic information (the risk of a loan being defaulted, for example) is quite literally a heresy.
You can't get them to admit they are wrong, but rest assured that most of them will eventually adjust their views to fit reality.
This is why people need to pay more attention to what he actually says in his books. Libertarian my arse.
Yeah, because free markets did such a good job with the banking industry.
The rational equilibrium model of the free market fundamentalists has gone tits up. Move on, and wise up. Collusion, misinformation, and group think are quite capable of doing for the IT sector what they have done for the financial sector.
There needs to be citizen participation in both politics and economics. Economies are not worthwhile aims in themselves, they are merely tools we use to coordinate society - whenever they don't work for people, we should seek to change them.
Epic fail
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starship_Troopers_(film)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starcraft
Can't copy something from a year in the future
The ability of economists to rationally explain anything has taken a fair beating of late. Frankly, their maths is shoddy and their simulations lacking.
Also, if you wish to attack Haldemans views on the nature of warfare, can I ask about your experience of it?
I think its very, very telling that Heinlein was influenced by the patriotic crap he was pumped with in training, whilst Haldeman actually saw war first hand, and was wounded in action. Its a point Starship Troopers fanboys should spend some time contemplating: one writer was informed by what the state wants you to think war is, and one writer was informed by actually getting shot what war is.
Fans of Heinlein who profess political beliefs other than Fascism (as the majority of them do I reckon) would also do well to read this essay: http://flag.blackened.net/liberty/moorcock.html
I do not feel the need to pay for the right to exchange digital information with other private citizens. Trying to force me to in order to hang on to an outdated business model that supports a parasitic elite requires giving the government the power to snoop on my communications and force me to incriminate myself by handing over encryption keys or face prosecution. The consequences of giving government that power are so obvious as to be not worth stating again.
Sorry, but my fundamental human rights are more important than your narcissistic dream of being a millionaire only doing an hours work a week.
Aside from the fact the website in question is still running. I am making a point of showing this to as many people as possible, to their visible amusement.
I do know musicians. Just because small time bands aren't driving around in gold plated bentleys, doesn't mean they are entitled to. You know nothing about me, asshole.
The rest of us have to struggle for a living. The idea that musicians should be able to live 'comforably' working only a few hours a night is absurd. They essentially work the same hours as barstaff. This means, of course, that if they do require more money they can have a regular job as well as performing.
If making ends meet is a struggle for physicists and sysadmins, why should it be a breeze for guitarists? We don't owe them shit.
You finish off your drooling retard rant with the old chestnut that 'piracy is stealing' - which is true, so long as you are talking about those fellows in Somalia. It isn't true for copying data, and pretend it is makes you look stupid.
Oh, and you file share anyway. So STFU
What is wrong with that?
We don't owe Hugh Jackman and Tom Clancy a living. Television has an entertainment model that doesn't have to charge at the point of delivery. Musicians can perform and make a very handsome living if they are worth listening to. Shit artists and holywood can suck my free living balls.
www.thepiratebay.org
It hasn't been shut down. The prosecution were all about how this sent a 'message' - and indeed it did. It sent a message that Swedish legal judgements are apparently toothless against a torrent tracker.
Oh, and the whole media circus made damn sure anybody who didn't know about pirate bay before, does now. Congratulations, asshats.
Comic sans is a very important font in teaching - as you said it is very readable, and even more critically it is one of the only readily available fonts that renders a lower case 'a' in the same way as it is hand written by modern children.
The prosecution did not make their case. They had no clue what they were talking about, made fundamental technical errors, and couldn't quite decide what TPB had done wrong. Learn the fucking facts before you mouth off your twat.