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Plasma balls are cool. They seem to come in two main types though. http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=4877514184455579319&ei=1IHySL6rK42siALr3OziDg&q=plasma+balls&hl=en http://www.clipser.com/watch_video/594460 And you can get the plasma onto the outside of the ball with a metal item or foil. But look, something new. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=9NQcKQ-NNWw So lets build a larger spherical one. EDIT: It's just occurred to me that he is not using his finger to touch the outside of the glass.

Thanks. Let me try again with the last part of my post. If n = 1 and r = 1 n!/(r!*((n-r)!)) = (n*(n-1)) / 2 1 = 0 If n = r n!/(r!*((n-r)!)) = (n*(n-1)) / 2 n!/(r!*1) = (n*(n-1)) / 2 if n = 4 and r = 2 n!/(r!*((n-r)!)) = (n*(n-1)) / 2 (4*3*2)/(2*2) = (4*3) / 2 24/4 = 12/2 6 = 6 So possibly n!/(r!*((n-r)!)) = (n*(n-1)) / 2 Is true in some cases.

I find a CRT moneter has the same effect.

http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=35696 Fractal suffers a little from being subjective.

TY Refsmmat :¬) I understand (n!)/(r!(n-r)!) = (n(n-1)) / 2! To mean n!/(r!*((n-r)!)) = (n*(n-1)) / 2 and that I could rearrange it like this n!/(r!*((n-r)!)) - ((n*(n-1)) / 2) = 0 If n = 1 and r = 1 n!/(r!*((n-r)!)) = (n*(n-1)) / 2 1/0 = 0/2 inf = 2 If n = r n!/(r!*((n-r)!)) = (n*(n-1)) / 2 n!/0 = (n*(n-1)) / 2 inf = (n*(n-1)) / 2 if n = 4 and r = 2 n!/(r!*((n-r)!)) = (n*(n-1)) / 2 (4*3*2)/(2*(((4*3*2)-2)!)) = ((4*3*2)*((4*3*2)-1)) / 2 24/(2*(22!)) = (24*23) / 2 <1 = 276 Have I got all my maths correctly and does this prove the equation incorrect?

This is illegal immortal and backwards all at once.

What do the !'s mean?

Fractals One Two Three Four I like fractals. But what are they? Yeah, but no. Doesn't cover strange attractors very well. Doesn't even cover all the stuff you can make using procedures similar to the one that produces the Mandelbrot set. Only covers some fractals. I got one which covers all fractals. Lets take a look One Chaotic Two Nested & Chaotic Three Nested Four Chaotic Nested in fairly straightforward, it means self recurring. like a tree. Chaotic means like a cloud. Not random, but not entirely ordered ether. Mathematical Chaos allows apparently random numbers to come apparently from nowhere, from just a few repetitions of simple rules.

Time and dimensions? On a serious that is a good point. There is no "still" or "center" or other concepts like that in space.

Shooting a projectile seems more sustanable. Good idea.

I am after resonably priced stuff such as ground meeters that convert EM waves directly into Sound waves or devices that shift the frequeny of all sound going in up several octives so you can hear whats going on. Can you imagine trying to dermine the emotional effect of music on people by only studdying the waveform and analysing it mathmatically without being able to hear it yourself and knowing nobody else who has heard it. To add to the complication only 1 in a 1000 people have ever experanced music and even they were not shure. Additionally 1% of people are deudued and think they have heard music even though they hadn't.

Any chance one could make the lightning colector verry tall? Like sandy heath, a most implausable looking building. http://tx.mb21.co.uk/gallery/sandy_heath-mf-01.jpg Some buildings do extend into the clouds. Maybe a table shaped stucture with 4 legs and a grid of metal between them? Or starting high the mountains or in a thunderstorm rich area to start with? I know storing the power is really hard. Maybe you could use it emidatly to do something such as jumping a large amount of gaps or lighting a large LED to create the optimun amount of light and then store the energy from that? Lightning also creates powerfull yet low freqency EM waves.

I prepose a challenge. You must prepose a mechanism for or design or make or both or all 3 for an item of clothing that can be inverted (turned inside out) more than 2 times in sequence before returning to its original state. For example: State 1 Invert State 2 Invert State 3 Invert State 1 etc... Additional cookies will be given for more States up to a maximun of 10. Examples of clothing could be a long or short sleaved t-shirt, a flease, a jumper, a coat or a shirt. The item could outwardly appear to be eather be the same every time or diffrent on each invertion.

My old thread might help http://www.scienceforums.net/forum/showthread.php?t=26989

To answer my own question from my embarrassingly uninformed past self the sponge apology is more accurate.

Is this the same light wave that took a few mins to get from the sun to the earth? Edit: I see. Photon experienced the journey instantly we on earth saw it took some time. Relativity full of 0's and Infinities with the fundamental faster than anything else "light". Yet light has a finite measurable non-fundamental in any obvious way speed?

I repeat the question I asked in the other thread about this topic. Given several viewpoints what would I see. what would the disk with the smaller outside surface that inside surface look like?

4 processes, each one uses 25% CPU. One starts wanting loads of CPU so it gets 90% because no other three processes are using more than 2% CPU each. The hungry process then locks up but it makes not one tiny bit of difference to moving the other windows and tabs around and having them function. You then close the misbehaving tab and it's gone. In a moment, just like that. You released the mouse button from the cross in the corner and it wasn't there anymore and now you can't even remember if it was ever there it was so effortless. It's just melted away in an instant and stress free way. like turning off a light. Apparently such a scenario is really hard as no OS seems to have this right yet. Chrome is claiming to have this sorted though.

I'm a programmer and I like to put lots of brackets in so there can be no confusion.

Thank you. Some interesting and well thought out replies. The things which I was thinking about were mostly progression though musical genre from most popular to most personally appealing and progression into extreme sports. Other influencing factors a living in a city from living in the countryside and being at university from being in a far less interesting college course. No romance, lust or love. Also the pattern of lust in a relationship is high at first and then falls over time. However, another partner of the same level of attraction than your existing partner (or your partner pretending to be another person) can re-light the spark. Fortunately most people would not then need to seek out a more attractive partner to get the same effect. If you did then lust would follow the same pattern as my first post. As for the discovery buzz though ether intellectual discovery or physically finding something new I know it well. Fortunately if this does fade over time it is not nearly so quickly. A small discovery will usually gives me the same level of buzz as it always has. Yes, this seems familiar. Sometimes at first just thinking about the brainwave you just had feels good. Seems like a good natural mechanism for remembering good ideas you came up with as well.

Apes have savant like visual memory and extraordinary strength and agility. Clearly any success would eventually inevitably lead to more crossbreeding and the species gap would be weakened.

An extract from a book I am occasionally working on. It will prob never be finished as I will never have enough material to fill it :¬P The more you do something the less meaningful it becomes. It fades, no longer so enjoyable, no longer vivid. You need something more, that something becomes the new upper limit of your experience and the old thing becomes mundane. The further back you look the harder it is to judge how intense others will find things. While you are uninterested with your old tired experiences you are still afraid to push too hard into new ones. You are though driven by necessity to go a little further. You then enjoy that new intensity of experience for a while and all is well. Eventually it will fade again and you need to go father to get to the same place. Eventually it will be impossible to travel further and everything will be but a grey uniform and endless fog.

Thanks for the story. Although with dog stories it usually seems hard to know whats going on. Instinct, responding to the mood of other nearby people or genuine enjoyment of the of music. I love metal and much unconventional music but I can't say this drone metal does anything for me :¬P It's got no patterns of any kind?

I thought this thread looked interesting and relevant http://www.violinist.com/discussion/response.cfm?ID=10686

Something I wanted to work on but never found any sort of useful progression. 1. Go to bed 2. Wake up tired in the night 3. Look at a preferably large mirror in the dark 4. State at the mirror and relax I got some nice physical jolts and waves of fear. It seems to get less effective if you try it a couple of times and there is a tendency to pull back just as anything starts to happen. I can imagine something like that being frustrating. To all interested certainly try some other things first. Metal music Lucid Dreaming Group nighttime runs in the countryside (haven't tried yet but I should imagine it would be fun in a surreal sort of way) Snowboarding Spinning round does nothing for me. I'm not going to try doing it any more vigorously. It doesn't seem that safe.