insane_alien

a HIGHSCHOOL student knows the necessary mathematics. the mathematics has existed for hundreds of years. calculating them is neither origional nor complicated. we have no evidence that you have done anything at all.

well, the whole thing,. the fact you think you deserve a nobel for calculating inertia doesn't lend credibility either.

mhmm... sure...

you're delusional. anyway, everything here is done on a computer model that does not relate to reality AT ALL. why should we give you a nobel for that? you haven't even presented anything more than an anecdote. no evidence whatsoever.

i doubt you will get a noble prize. calculating inertia is a trivial process that most highschool physics students could do.

so anyway, it all come down to you were messing about with software that does not accurately represent reality under the conditions of the test and you apparently saw god. i think you were sitting at the computer much too long.

inertia is a physical property of the car/plane whatever. it is the rotationa analogue of mass. there is no after it, that doesn't make sense. so planes have inertia ALL THE TIME.

planes move and they are more complicated. the jet engine alone is more complicated. space shuttle is also more complicated an moves. stars are more complicated still. the list goes on. the moment in moment of inertia is not a time. and anyway, the physics behind how a car can move has been around since newton. well before actual cars.

cars are far from the most complicated thing in physics. a CPU is far far far more complex. a nuclear plant is more complex, the atmosphere of earth is more complex. cars are simple compared to an awful lot of stuff.

i doubt the physics engine for a racing game accurately simulates the extremes of reality. for instance, quantum mechanics would not be considered, neither would any form of relativity as the velocities of the cars will not exceed a few hundred miles an hour and it would be extraneous calculations.

fine, virtual reality is not reality if you want to get nitpicky.

you haven't got a proof. you have an anecdote, you said you were playing a game and saw god. it hardly constitutes proof.

its all moot anyway, videogames are not reality.

i'm guessing some sort of hallucination via illegal substances

well, its more just that the kind of people who go into science fields tend to oppose the restriction of knowledge and information.

censorship in all its forms is generally an idea i don't agree with.

its also interesting to note that gold turns purple when made into a really fine powder. damn gold just has to be the odd one out ALL the time.

i think ultrafine aluminium powder is black. things tend to change colour if you have a really really fine powder(like 100 or so atoms per grain)

19th century video game console? on a more serious note, perhaps it is for grinding things. it looks dirty and the handle appears to be going into a drum of some sort. of course better pictures and from different angles would be nice.

something i didn't respond to last night, but this is a woefully bad analogy. hurricanes and elephants really cannot be compared in this way, they are two totally different types of system. elephants involve lots of solid boundaries, hurricanes do not. the vortex is very flexible indeed and diverting the eyewall is only going to result in a deformed eye.

First lesson: caps lock is a bad key, try to use proper capitalisation (to the longterm forum members here, I know that I'm not particularly good at it either, but I just tend to miss them out.) Second. If they are using triple beam scales then why can't he just measure out 50ml and weigh it? Remembering of course to subtract the weight of the container. If that isn't an option then he can use the density of water. 1 litre weighs roughly 1000 grams(This depends on temperature but for the level your son is this will be fine). It is a simple calculation here as we can see that 1 thousandth of a litre(1 ml) weighs 1 gram.

a value taken from some reference book. For instance, i have a well used book(let) of values called 'Thermodynamic and Transport Properites of Fluids' it mainly concerns steam. if you want to know, say, the literature value for the heat capacity of steam at 300*C i can find that on page 10 and its listed as 6.18 kJ/kgK.

printing money just decreases the value of said money. the more money you print, the more money it will take to build the machine.

you still need a significant fraction of the hurricanes power to do so. if i done the analyses for a pure out muscling then i would have done the power requirements for over a petawatt of energy consumption. your still looking at a multitrillion pound operation according to the world bank there is roughly $40trillion of money in the world. so with current exchange rates, 1.75881 $/£, there is £22.74 trillion in the world. using my conservative estimate that means you want to sink 9.89% of the worlds money supply into one machine. we simply can't afford it. a better option would be to look at removing the driving force behind hurricanes. they are heat engines, remove the heat, remove the hurricane.

okay dokey. just went looking for some numbers (used wikipedia as a guide, the numbers look as if they are on the right sort of scale. The average hurricane has a power output of roughly 70 times global energy usage(by humanity). which is roughly a petawatt. in order to significantly disrupt this through active means(like your boat idea is) your going to have to have easy access to a significant fraction of a PW and for an extended period of time, not like the petawatt laser we have developed which is an incredibly tiny pulse. so, being incredibly optimistic and saying we only need a tenth of that power thats 7 times the energy production of the planet. and not only do we have to be capable of generating that much power, but it needs to be able to get to the hurricane. and it needs to become available quick enough so it can actually be used. My first thoughts on this are, can be done, but it will be incredibly difficult. my second thought is EXPENSIVE. price of electricity here is roughly 10p per kWh. lets say we need our hurricane destroyer to run for one single hour to effectively destroy a hurricane. so we need 1PWh of electricity or 1 000 000 000 000 kWh 1 trillion kWh's. multiplied by £0.10 per kWh we get £100 000 000 000. so, 100 BILLION dollars for ONE use. and thats just the energy cost. it does not include construction of the generation infrastucture which would probably be over a trillion or the machine itself which might be another 100billion or even the cost of moving the machine/power generation lets call that50 billion. so, a conservative estimate is £2.25trillion do deal with the first hurricane and £150billion for the rest not counting maintenance man power, redundancy or the machinery to move the damn thing. its cheaper just to rebuild the city every time we have a hurricane. even on an incredibly conservative ideal case scenario.