breaking the speed of light article on howstuffworks.com

Superbowl's on. I don't understand football, so I'm going to stare at
the TV and think about how it works. :)
 
In article <1107711844.394622.318690@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>,
~~SciGirl~~ <palmtree117@juno.com> wrote:
BUT I AM 14, NOT 41!!!!!!! sheesh no one believes me here
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Again you've responded without including the correct context for the rest
of us. The way the treading runs, it looks like you are resonding to me,
but I don;t see how you could be as my posting did not actually question
your age.


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kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge
 
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:46:17 -0800, ~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

if you dont trust anybody, you don't get anywhere in life. somebody
told me that. SO WILL YOU ALL JUST TRUST ME THAT I AM 14 YEARS OLD
ALREADY?!?!
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If we said *no* would you lose sleep?

is it really that unusual for someone my age to be able to understand
quantum physics?
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No, but it is somewhat unusual for someone your age not to know how to
dump google and get a decent newsreader and server. They're both free.

--
Keith
 
On Sun, 06 Feb 2005 11:34:08 -0800, John Larkin wrote:

On Sat, 05 Feb 2005 21:42:51 -0500, keith <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:


256 KV; see abse.

I guess it's a good thing that TeeVees don't use relativistic voltages so
they work just fine on planet Earth. I hate it when mine has a
blue (state) shift.


I try to be polite to any particle that's not an absolute boson.
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Hmm. Now the qusetion is; Are you being polite now?

Who cares, the Pats won! ...again.

--
Keith
 
Ken Smith wrote:
In article <4205E63D.2B8D4B1D@earthlink.net>,
Robert Baer <robertbaer@earthlink.net> wrote:
[...]
Circuitry and instrumentation do not care if an edge goes positive or
negative, or which edge is making the change, or how much of a change.

It is very common for circuits to have unequal slew rates and other
non-linear characteristics that make matter a great deal which way an edge
is going. Take a look at the specs of a 7400.

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kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge
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But, the delay is always positive...
 
~~SciGirl~~ wrote:
" And guess what? The third law of thermodynamics guarantees that all
electronics will get warmer."

The trouble with that is that they aren't even getting into
thermodynamics yet (I can decode the latin roots of that I think -
temperature change?)
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Crudely stated, the three laws of thermodynamics are:
1) You cannot win.
2) You cannot break even.
3) You always lose.
 
In article <420724DA.EDE0D172@earthlink.net>, robertbaer@earthlink.net
says...
~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

" And guess what? The third law of thermodynamics guarantees that all
electronics will get warmer."

The trouble with that is that they aren't even getting into
thermodynamics yet (I can decode the latin roots of that I think -
temperature change?)

Crudely stated, the three laws of thermodynamics are:
1) You cannot win.
2) You cannot break even.
3) You always lose.

3) You cannot get out of the game.
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--
Keith
 
On 6 Feb 2005 16:46:17 -0800,
SO WILL YOU ALL JUST TRUST ME THAT I AM 14 YEARS OLD
ALREADY?!?!
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Who cares how old you or anybody else on this group is? I don't. But rest
assured: since you don't seem to have figured out yet that in general you
don't gain respect by bragging about your abilities you have proven to be
at least naive enough to pass for a normal, healthy 14-year-old.

--D
 
In article <42072404.D3D29A5@earthlink.net>,
Robert Baer <robertbaer@earthlink.net> wrote:
Ken Smith wrote:
[...]
It is very common for circuits to have unequal slew rates and other
non-linear characteristics that make matter a great deal which way an edge
is going. Take a look at the specs of a 7400.

--
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kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge

But, the delay is always positive...
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I've mever seen a case where it isn't in fact. I have seen cases where
the misuse of measuring equipment can make what looks like negitive
delays.


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kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge
 
Ok, I admit I stink at quoting stuff here.

I volunteered my age so that you guys wouldn't answer my questions with
a bunch of calculus that I wouldn't understand.
I am so sick of coming up with calculus equations whenever I search for
anything that I decided to make it clear right off that I don't
understand it.
 
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 09:25:31 -0500, Keith Williams wrote:

In article <420724DA.EDE0D172@earthlink.net>, robertbaer@earthlink.net
says...
~~SciGirl~~ wrote:

" And guess what? The third law of thermodynamics guarantees that all
electronics will get warmer."

The trouble with that is that they aren't even getting into
thermodynamics yet (I can decode the latin roots of that I think -
temperature change?)

Crudely stated, the three laws of thermodynamics are:
1) You cannot win.
2) You cannot break even.
3) You always lose.

3) You cannot get out of the game.
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Capitalism is based on the belief that you can win,
Socialism is based on the belief that you can break even,
Mysticism is based on the belief that you can get out of the game.

Cheers!
Rich
 
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 16:22:25 +0000, Ken Smith wrote:

In article <42072404.D3D29A5@earthlink.net>,
Robert Baer <robertbaer@earthlink.net> wrote:
Ken Smith wrote:
[...]
It is very common for circuits to have unequal slew rates and other
non-linear characteristics that make matter a great deal which way an edge
is going. Take a look at the specs of a 7400.

--
--
kensmith@rahul.net forging knowledge

But, the delay is always positive...

I've mever seen a case where it isn't in fact. I have seen cases where
the misuse of measuring equipment can make what looks like negitive
delays.
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Or cases where the PHBs tell the engineers how to engineer. After showing
them the negative delays they were smart enough to agree that "threshold
to threshold" made a tad more sense than 50-to-50.

--
Keith
 
~~SciGirl~~ wrote:
"14 = 9th grade? Algebra, sounds about right. You're doing well. Keep
up
the interest."

Actually, 8th grade, but in 9th grade math. Still in 8th grade science,
but will be working on a research project a couple days a week instead
of class because class got too easy for me and I was bored to death.
They're doing convection, conduction, and radiation. It's like sitting
in a chair for an hour listening to a repetitive explanation of why one
plus one equals two.
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Diffusion equations are more fun.

Cheers
Terry
 
John Larkin wrote:
On 5 Feb 2005 13:47:07 -0800, "~~SciGirl~~" <palmtree117@juno.com
wrote:


"If you aim right, most of the angular momentum of the asteroid gets
transferred..."

And if you don't aim right, we all die.



Well, that's not a very cheerful attitude. Just keep the engineering
units right.

John
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What, dont get Northrop Grumman to do half the calcs, NASA the other half?

Cheers
Terry
 
On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 15:14:47 +1300, Terry Given <my_name@ieee.org>
wrote:

John Larkin wrote:
On 5 Feb 2005 13:47:07 -0800, "~~SciGirl~~" <palmtree117@juno.com
wrote:


"If you aim right, most of the angular momentum of the asteroid gets
transferred..."

And if you don't aim right, we all die.



Well, that's not a very cheerful attitude. Just keep the engineering
units right.

John


What, dont get Northrop Grumman to do half the calcs, NASA the other half?
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Yes, if you want an asteroid in your bathtub.

John
 
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 21:10:08 -0800, Geodanah wrote:

It's been two years since I took that quantum course. Am I wrong?
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You are now.
--
The Pig Bladder From Uranus, Still Waiting for
Some Hot Babe to Ask What My Favorite Planet Is.
 
"Spehro Pefhany" <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> wrote in message
news:vdeg01trb5d7i78s9b56jvlr0t41bov25r@4ax.com...
Yup. Without delta-epsilon proofs, calculus is just a bunch of
fooling around. ;-)
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Newton and Leibniz made do without delta-epsilon techniques to invent the
calculus. Newton's "infinitesimal" has apparently been put on a rigorous
footing. See the many links to Abraham Robinson's Non-standard analysis.
Most mathematicians don't seem to see any advantage to leaving the limit
techniques.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/NonstandardAnalysis.html

Robert
 
On 5 Feb 2005 15:00:03 -0800, "~~SciGirl~~" <palmtree117@juno.com>
wrote:

"At some point you should receive the lecture about how, in beginning
classes, there are plenty of simplifications and outright mis-truths
told in
order to make understanding easier. The supposed "law" of conversatoin
of
energy only applies under certain specific scenarios and -- while those

scenarios are quite common in everyday life -- once you start playing
with
quantum mechanics you've violated the assumptions upon which the "laws"
were founded."


"the ideal gas" comes to mind.
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I think you're really 41 ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.
 
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