"Ye cannae change the laws of physics captain"

[Club508]

And I never imagined I would see an intelligent conversation here on SimV .
Guess I was wrong .
But good to see that you can even study here

Define intelligent

[hyperpep111]

And I never imagined I would see an intelligent conversation here on SimV .
Guess I was wrong .
But good to see that you can even study here

Define intelligent

A classic example non Intelligent is where we're going now .
I'm still yet to

[Xpand]

[quote][quote][quote]I've said it before in a thread on this very site. It isn't that hard to understand really...

1) Light has mass.

Gravity can only pull on things that have mass. Gravity can pull and bend light...ergo light must have mass. But here's the problem I have with that. Force equals mass times accelleration, and that SHOULD cause an issue. I'll give you an example...You go home to a dark house late at night, turn on the lights in your living room...and you still have a living room.

[machineman9]

Physics: Lots of it is theoretical, lots of it is assumed, but all it is relevant 


I've studied it at college for 3 years and I'm still amazed at how much they just guess and spoon-feed. If an old equation is in threat of being proved wrong, they usually invent a new subatomic particle (they're often undetectable!) or tell you that you've calculated it incorrectly 

[Club508]

[quote]Physics: Lots of it is theoretical, lots of it is assumed, but all it is relevant

[hyperpep111]

[quote][quote]Physics: Lots of it is theoretical, lots of it is assumed, but all it is relevant

[H]

If an old equation is in threat of being proved wrong, they... ...tell you that you've calculated it incorrectly.

To which you responded, "I know... I used your calculations."  Um, I suppose you did not so respond...

Physics: Lots of it is theoretical, lots of it is assumed, but all is relevant.
I've studied it at college for 3 years and I'm still amazed at how much they just guess and spoon-feed. If an old equation is in threat of being proved wrong, they usually invent a new subatomic particle (they're often undetectable!) or tell you that you've calculated it incorrectly.

Exactly part of what makes it all so confusing, yet understandable at the same time.

Sort of like a cathedral in a Sunday morning earthquake... "mass" confusion.

But we never know how in 1000 years we will change. It's all guesses. 1000 years ago. The earth was flat and was at the center of the universe and everything rotates round it.

In a thousand years, a small planetiod speeds right at Earth...  smacking one side flatter than a pancake (OK, more like convex)... but with a dirty aftertaste... all sorts of debris... rotating all around it... some of it revolving (except the Moon -- not wanting to be left out in the cold, it heads towords the Sun).

8-)

[Webb]

But we never know how in 1000 years we will change. It's all guesses. 1000 years ago. The earth was flat and was at the center of the universe and everything rotates round it.

Pythagoras disproved the flat earth theory 2600 years ago.

The Copernican heliocentric theory was proposed 500 years ago.

There wasn't much scientific discovery going on in 1011.

[Hagar]

[quote]I've studied it at college for 3 years and I'm still amazed at how much they just guess and spoon-feed. If an old equation is in threat of being proved wrong, they usually invent a new subatomic particle (they're often undetectable!) or tell you that you've calculated it incorrectly

[Fozzer]

I discovered one of my missing socks under my bed, yesterday... ....!

Unfortunately, there wasn't anyone around at the time to verify it... ...!

Paul...I'm always discovering lost things... 8-)...!

[H]

I discovered one of my missing socks under my bed, yesterday!
Unfortunately, there wasn't anyone around at the time to verify it...

This is usually when you become aware that its mate is now lost  ...
or you're wearing it with another 'closely' matching orphan...

8-)

[ozzy72]

I remember getting into hot water at school when the psycho physics teacher (he actually had to leave after beating a girl unconcious with a lab stool) told us "Nothing is impossible!" and I asked him to demonstrate by nailing a jelly (jello for our American cousins) to a wall and striking a match on it He never really warmed to me after that......

[machineman9]

I remember getting into hot water at school when the psycho physics teacher (he actually had to leave after beating a girl unconcious with a lab stool) told us "Nothing is impossible!" and I asked him to demonstrate by nailing a jelly (jello for our American cousins) to a wall and striking a match on it He never really warmed to me after that......

Our chemistry teachers got in a bit of bother in the Jelly Baby experiment... It is where you put the jelly baby in a test tube alongside a chemical (potassium nitrate comes to mind, although that's probably a bit excessive. Who knows? I am a physicist, not a chemist!) and then put a bunsen burner under it. When it combusts, the jelly baby starts screaming.

Sadly, it flew out of the test tube (boiling at this point) and landed on the head of a student.


Good ol' days

[eno]

Give me a nice hot cup of tea and I'll make something that will pass through every point

[expat]

I remember getting into hot water at school when the psycho physics teacher (he actually had to leave after beating a girl unconcious with a lab stool) told us "Nothing is impossible!" and I asked him to demonstrate by nailing a jelly (jello for our American cousins) to a wall and striking a match on it He never really warmed to me after that......

Now that little anecdote explains a lot about the Ozzy72.......

Matt