insane_alien

!!!! you think transfering a gene is going to be comparable with nitric acid? are you on planet earth?

well, what does the rate of reaction depend upon? in this case there are two things.

hotcommodity, i can take a beaker full of kerosene(jet fuel) light it and pour it over a concrete floor and it'll sit and burn happily for about a minute. this isn't a short time. and when you have a LOT more of the fuel, it'll burn longer as it won't all vapourise at once. you seem to think that the jet fuel would only provide a quick flash of heat and then be gone. if it had all went up in a minute then there would be enough pressure to rip the buildings apart and they would have fell much earlier. also, the fireball would have been more impressive.

but we're not talking about 260*C we're talking about ~1000*C and probably up to around 1400*C in places. and its not a tiny fire like you describe. its a raging inferno of jetfuel and anything else flammable. an enormous amount of energy.

IF you discount any conditions which can lead to hot spots. its not as if they were the first steel buildings to collapse due to fire anyway. and the others didn't have thousands of litres of burning jet fuel in them.

you shut the reactor down and pull out the used rods then send them off for processing. while its empty maintenance is done on the reactor before new fuel is put in. the waste can be processed to get unused fuel back and make it into new fuel rods.

ahh. now it gets difficult. let me sleep on it.

yup. SR is the special case of general relativity where there is no acceleration. you can use either in that case and you will get the same answers.

should have asked this before, but did you do other experiments along side of this? like with different quantities or different chemicals? specifically you should be comparing the concentrations of H+ and Na+ and

yeah. i can think of one. i'll help you figure it out. first, write down the balanced reaction equation. then look at the ratios again.

i'm afraid i don't know what you mean. really what is this 'dark energy'. explain it. if you can't explain it then how can i decide if it is real or not. at the moment i am thinking that your talking a lot of nonsense.

where is this so called dark energy documented? i'm going to assume its not the dark energy reffered to by astronomers as this has a definition that makes physical sense.

why the hell would you look at DNA through a microscope? it would be invisible. btw, i'm not technically a scientist, i study chemical engineering which comes under engineering. but i still have a very solid knowledge of chemistry. now, if you are right and the day affects the bonding of glue then it can only hold that it somehow affects the reaction process. and if it affects the polymerisation reaction then it should affect nearly all polymerisation reactions. yet plants that deal with polymerisation reactions do not need to change parameters depending on the day to maintain the same product. or is this picking and choosing again.

so your saying that the models i built are not valid evidence that the day influences the type of bond i'll get? thats called ignoring evidence. not good scientific practice.

well, see. the thing is. i've been making model airplanes. i've been doing this for about 5 days now. the bonds seem to all be exactly the same. so i think its valid. also what is 'positive' and 'negative' energy? and why do you keep referencing the bible as a technical resource. its not.

okay, for the glue experiment, i have a negative reading. its sticking damn well. additional, the alpha and omega thingy, they are not energy. this is a science forum. look up what energy actually is rather than some mystical poorly understood thing.

yeah, this is so old its cliched. not once has it happened though

there was nothing incorrect about his posts. the only way he is going to squirm is if he squirms at correctness.

but it would still be accelerating. anything travelling in a circle is under going an acceleration.

because it still needs to accelerate. because if you let it out then the rotation is going to slow due to conservation of angular momentum, a lot of things cause that to fail.

oh right that existed before the big bang. sorry. wasn't wuite awake then. we have no idea what came before or even if there was a before.

the very first matter that condensed out of the gamma rays was likely to be basic elementary particles. electrons, quarks, gluons, neutrinos etc. nothing else would have been able to exist in such a high energy enviroment.

time, and the fact that SFN's server seems to be as stable as a wino during an earthquake.

its in an alloy along with the boron. can't remember what the other stuff in the control rods are made of though.

sorry, i should have said slightly super critical when the control rods are removed. sorry bout that. swansont is right in that under normal operating conditions the reactor is only critical.