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how does an object actually achieve motion?
insane_alien replied to paul's topic in Classical Physics
lol inow a troll? that is indeed a funny proposition. iNow actually contributes a lot to this forum, he also engages in proper discussion and has accepted defeat a few times. not the mark of a troll, you on the other hand... -
czimborbryan's thoughts on gravity and time
insane_alien replied to czimborbryan's topic in Trash Can
yet again, czimborbryan show a complete failure on understanding basic concepts of what he is trying to debunk. -
Does temperature depend on the number of particles?
insane_alien replied to seriously disabled's topic in Physics
simply because it is useless, there is no such thing as a defined solid/liquid/gas when you only have a few thousand atoms or so. and the changes in temperature due to interaction with the container walls can be huge(thousands of kelvin) and over incredibly short time scales(pico seconds) so any measurement you make may or may not accurately reflect the actual properties. it is far easier to switch to eV as a measure of energy in the system. -
judging from the title, he meant the magnets in earphones like the ones you listen to music through. people with those are generally not ridiculed but considered to be listening to music and in extreme cases, rocking out on the air guitar.
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Does temperature depend on the number of particles?
insane_alien replied to seriously disabled's topic in Physics
as temperature is an average of the kinetic energy per particle, yes, they will have the same temperature. it is independant of the number of them, although as you get down below a few thousand particles it all becomes rather meaningless. ajb, i think your wording about thermodynamics not applying is a bit misleading, thermodynamics still applies, but manifests much differently than at macroscopic scales. -
czimborbryan's thoughts on gravity and time
insane_alien replied to czimborbryan's topic in Trash Can
and although those are predicted by general relativity, to very precise levels, yet you say relativity is completely wrong. oh, and its just a difference in reference frame. things tend not to translate between reference frames very easily without some of that funky maths you hate so much. -
Why is it colder at higher elevations?
insane_alien replied to seriously disabled's topic in Physics
sort of, there's nothing much to absorb thermal radiation but plenty of places to radiate it to(space pretty much). the heat in the upper atmosphere mainly comes from convection mixing with the lower atmosphere although some of it will come from direct absorbtion from the sun and earth. its not really anything to do with solid mass though, its to do with how much of the radiation passing through it the mass absorbs, the mass can be solid, liquid, gas, plasma or any of the more exotic states of matter that have been observed. -
not that i'm aware of. the mgnetic fields produced are absolutely tiny.
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unless they're strong enough to pull themselves through your skull, no.
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I will win a nobel for this...ive disproved zero!!!!!!!!!!!!
insane_alien replied to I-AM-A-GENIUS's topic in Trash Can
zer.. wait, its uncountable! how could anyone concieve of a way to count this many prizes! it is impossible! if only there were a symbol that represented this number. -
i can believe that the viscosity is lowered but the gains are still going to be quite low from practical stand point. i suspect the 20% number came from the difference between the maximum thermodynamic efficiency of an IC engine and the actual thermodynamic efficiency being reduced by 20%. this would probably net you around 0.0x miles per gallon extra. IC engines are pretty good these days.
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yes, it will radiate photons into the vacuum, the enthalpy of the object will lower exponentially but will only reach absolute zero after an infinite amount of time.
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i suspect your lemons are incapable of producing the required current, try adding some in parallel. EDIT: interesting thought on this, perhaps your lemons are lemons at being lemons? EDIT2: dear god i think excessive studying has finally driven me insane
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HS Chemistry - Writing heat in an equation/decomposition
insane_alien replied to Toadie's topic in Homework Help
you first equations is fine although you should probably write calcium carbonate as 2CaCO3 then realise that you have a 2 infront of everything and then ditch it. to get CaCO3 + heat > CaO + CO2 the decomposition is just represented by the arrow. its just treated as any other reaction. -
there is, its just not this site. and you're still wrong about gravity at the poles, if you go 150miles up at the poles and 150 miles up at the equator the gravity will be less at the equator.
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and do you have any experiments capable of proving this?
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and the maximum temperature is still not absolute zero, its a long long way above it. but anyway, the fastest a particle could go is about a gnats testicle per fortnight slower than c, this isn't really going to cause it to disintigrate, infact, there is not velocity that would cause a particle to disintegrate. 1/ the particles aren't made up of anything else so they have nothing to disintegrate into. 2/ why would speed make something disintigrate?
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An object at rest "tends" to stay at rest?
insane_alien replied to Baby Astronaut's topic in Classical Physics
what newton actually wrote and its translation. the tends slipped in there when someone tried to put it into modern english and failed. the one i always seen was 'an object remains at rest or in uniform motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced external force' -
that will pose a problem for food stocks, we will need to have an internal area of our fortress devoted to livestock. how about plantlife? do zombies function as a herbicide or a fertilizer?
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that may be because what you want is not discussion but to be allowed to preach and have people take what you say as fact. the poles have higher gravity than the equator. might want to check that. and we have measured the speed of light from areas of different gravity and as it passes through areas of different gravity, it travels at c in all reference frames. this is an observation. gravity is again, higher, so using your logic the poles should be warmer than the rest of the earth with a chilly ice belt. the poles are colder because there is less light striking the surface per unit are, this is due to the spherical(roughly) nature of the earth. i don't think you fully understand what the higgs field actually is. and it must be made up of particles as that is what the higgs hypothesis says, if it is not made up of particles then it is not the higgs field thats not how it works, the maths is there, its called special relativity, one of the most tested theories in all of science and it also says light will always travel at c. that wasn't very clear, not only did it contain factual errors and logical fallacies, you failed to explain how you arrived at the conclusions, what evidence you have and observations of where current theories fail. provide these and we weill believe you.
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the 'liquid oxygen' used for liquid breathing isn't actually liquid oxygen. its a fluid that can cary a high concentration of oxygen and carbon dioxide. where the oxygen and carbon dioxide are dissolved in the fluid. breathing true liquid oxygen would be fatal. EDIT: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing seems they use perfluorocarbons as a medium for oxygen transportation.
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another example is skydiving or bungee jumping, for a short while after you jump out you are weightless as there isn't much air resistance acting on you but once you reach terminal velocity (or the bungee rope starts stretching) you feel your weight again.
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thats why you get an alarm clock that sync's with atomic clocks via radio. that way you don't need to worry about it.
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This man speaks the truth, they probably hit the sheds with machetes as well.