StringJunky

Maybe it's because 'curved space' appears more crackpot to the uninitiated than an electromagnetic explanation.

That looks like a good job done.

It makes no difference whether the disk is full of 1's or 0's to its maximum potential service life. The data bit units on a hard drive platter are just segments of magnetizable material that have their containing particles uniformly aligned one way or the other. depending on the read/write head's polarity at that particular moment it passes over. Probably, in the old cassette heads, they were prone to accumulating residual magnetism which has since been alleviated in newer technology. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/hard-drive-magnetic-storage-hdd,3005.html

I just found something to make splitting up a post easier to respond individually to parts. This is a whole quote: If you place the cursor at the end of the sentence and double tap the Enter key the quote box splits: It appears there needs to be a space under the section you want to split from...If you are splitting a paragraph just press the Enter key twice between adjacent sentences to move the following section down with a clear line in between before replacing the cursor at the end of the preceding sentence and double tapping the Enter key to.split them..

Lazarus Maybe looking at a model of the formation of the large scale structure of the universe might help. There's a movie, of which these stills are a part of, you can download at the link below if you wish; http://cosmicweb.uchicago.edu/filaments.html

The human species appears to be genetic continuum stemming from a mother population in Africa so any lines you want to draw are necessarily arbitrary. Apparently there are greater differences within a geographic group than there are between discrete geographic groups. It's not that any given traditionally geographically discrete population is inherently smarter it's just that, historically, local resource availability has allowed some populations to technologically flourish over another so there will be proportionally more "smart" representatives in that technologically superior culture than those nurtured outside of it. With the present and ongoing increase in global mobility and methods of disseminating knowledge the differences will equalise in time. I think this is definitely a case of nurture not nature that is the arbiter of the collective intellectual/technological differences between traditionally distinct geographic groups.

Good.

Put three dots or something at the beginning of the first sentence to act as a placeholder before you delete the first sentence is one way you could do it.

If you backspace exactly to the beginning of the first sentence without overshooting you keep the box. Probably the quickest way I've found is put your cursor in front of the first sentence and press Enter so it pushes it down to the next line then highlight and delete the sentence as normal. Edit: Just noticed if you place the cursor after doing the above back in the top row and press Delete the box will disappear. It would seem the code for the box is embedded invisibly on that line.

You are probably doing it already, but have you set the backups to be done when the member traffic is usually at its lowest point on average?

You've got the idea and obviously very talented in expressing yourself visually...i can clearly see a rampant horse. I was thinking myself more of an abstract flow that draws the viewer into the evolutionary story and leads them on a visual narrative guided by where and how much you colour.

One idea you might like to consider is to have only a partly coloured area, doing most of it but not all of it and make the total coloured area a solid progressive but flowing block running from the front, say possibly, the same sort of shape as your right hand picture above for coloured area and leave the rest as drawing. This might go over one shoulder and spread like it is at the front over the back. The contrast of finished against unfinished might add an interesting visual dimension and create relief. You would need to think about the shape of the coloured area(s) as it moves from front to back and how much area to colour in to create a sense of balance with the unfinished part. Fully colouring it all in might be overkill I'm wondering. Lovely job however you decide to do it.

Yes, I remember reading that blog entry...interesting. I deliberately set the limit at the 20th century because openings for novel stuff would been closing down fast and too advanced for a self-taught person to research outside an academic setting. From your Wiki link only Srinivasa Ramanujan and Oliver Heaviside fall this side of the twentieth century and even they were very much nearer the nineteenth century. Based on that page we haven't seen an autodidactic mathematical/physics genius for about 80 years or so. I think it can be safely said they are as rare as the proverbial rocking-horse droppings.

Are there any notable self-taught physicists that have done good from the 20th or this century?

Click on the number of the required post (right above avatar) and copy/paste the url from the box that appears.

Evidence?

I am open to the fact that I'm missing something which is more than possible.

Did you mean that: On compact manifolds, not all geodesic come back to their starting point and so multiple images are not possible? Have you done a typo?

The ones on the extremes are generally emotionally motivated enough to express their point of view...s/he who shouts the loudest gets heard and counted. The trouble with a balanced sensibility is that it doesn't make political waves hence, probably, the apparent polarisation.

If the universe is 'allowed' by science to have been here forever why can't God and hence not need a creator?

You'll probably spend much time looking for an answer and in time you will reconcile or make a choice between the two different patterns of thought in your own way...this is your personal challenge and journey. Science looks at things from a detached and critical viewpoint whereas religion is based on voluntary faith which is not conducive to objectivity. The process by which one reasons scientifically is at odds with a system based on pure belief and that's why most scientists, but not all, are atheist. Mathematics doesn't govern the universe, it describes it...you are putting the cart before the horse. Newton was a man of his time and religion was the norm...he did alchemy as well.

I think that about nails it. It is down to what is acceptable for everybody without long-term detriment to the group.

No, it doesn't show in Quick Reply. You have go to the fully-featured Input box by clicking More Reply Options. Wouldn't your vessel descend on a diagonal path but ascend on vertical one...you'll have no forward motion on the ascension?

If you want to upload a file from your computer. Click More Reply Options (bottom right of text input box) then look at the steps in the following image.

Whatever age we live in, the man is wooing or trying to court the woman not the other way round. We could possibly still be tied strongly to that behaviour pattern biologically with the consequence that it generally feels instinctively 'wrong' even though logically you are correct for this day and age. Not saying I'm right but just putting it forward for critique.