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Why do you say that radio waves can go further than lasers?

No, saying that ghosts exist is not being open-minded, it's being uncritical. The default position is that ghosts don't exist. If you want someone to accept that they do you must present evidence.

Where might one find one of these "particle physicians" ?

Hostile? I encouraged you to flesh it out. Cynical? Yes. Hostile? No. But' date=' so much for No, it doesn't. "I don't get physics so it must be wrong and I've got a better way" explanations are a dime-a-dozen and invariably wrong. I think what you'll find, if you ever tried to develop an actual theory, is that you don't really predict all that much - there would be lots of things you don't explain.

What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?

The first law certainly describes the concept or principle of inertia, but it's in the second law that the term is quantified as being mass. edit to add: the first law also tells you when you can apply Newton's laws. If and object at rest does not remain at rest, etc., you are not in an inertial frame of reference.

No. You always need a classical channel of communication, which is limited by c. There have been other threads on this; I suggest you go read them.

You can't really answer the question if you don't actually know what Newton's laws are. The first law doesn't mention mass at all: An object at rest remains at rest, and an object in (uniform) motion remains in (uniform) motion unless acted upon by a net external force.

You cannot draw a valid conclusion from an invalid premise.

I would estimate that bending the knees alone adds at least an order of magnitude to the impulse time. Also not landing flat-footed.

They work for a man jumping up, too. What it doesn't do is tell you about vector information if he jumps forward as well as falling or jumping up - you'll get the impact speed, not the vertical speed. And it ignores air resistance.

Another example is the anomalous dispersion of light, where the pulse peak exits a material before it "should" and faster than c. The light is coherent, so all the information is located in the leading edge - reshaping the pulse to have the peak toward the front does not violate relativity.

The radiation is of ionizing energy? I thought it was microwave and RF.

Actually "nothing moves faster than c" is not a valid interpretation of relativity, and it often causes confusion. There are things that happen at a rate faster than c, but they are either not causally connected, or no information is transmitted by them. Invariably, anything that is purported to be faster-than-light (and isn't fiction) is one of those two.

A woman was invited out for a night with the girls. She promised her husband that she would be home by midnight. Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easy. Around 3 A.M., a bit loaded, she headed for home. Just as she got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hall started up and cuckooed 3 times. Quickly, realizing her husband would probably wake up, she cuckooed another 9 times. She was really proud of herself for coming up with such a quick-witted solution (even totally smashed), in order to escape a possible conflict with him. The next morning her husband asked her what time she got in and she told him "midnight." He didn't seem pissed off at all. "Whew!! Got away with that one!" she thought. Then he said, "We need a new cuckoo clock." When she asked him why, he said, "Well, last night our clock cuckooed 3 times, then said, "Oh shit," cuckooed 4 more times, cleared its throat, cuckooed another 3 times, giggled, cuckooed twice more, and then tripped over the coffee table and farted."

Yes. It's a common physics lab concept.

That really sums it up pretty well. You want a simple answer, and you have one ("God did it"), which is accepted because you're very religious. You get to avoid that whole messy (i.e. unpure and unsimple) critical analysis of everything.

As long as the windows are covered, the light bulbs should contribute the same as the rest of the electrical heating, as you say.

How is this not technobabble?

Quantum teleportation transports information. Not matter, not energy. It's like "burning" a CD to transport energy. It's a non-sequitur. That's not what a CD does.

No. Momentum and position (and energy and time) are conjugate variables, and their wave functions are Fourier transforms of each other. The uncertainty relationship is inherent in that. The best you can do is make one of the two uncertainties involved very large and in a circumstance where that doesn't matter. Then the other variable's uncertainty will be small. This is known as a squeezed state. You can also be oscillating between the two conditions, and do your experiment when the uncertainty of the desired uncertainty is small.

It's probably best to just give the link rather than quoting the whole article, since it's copyrighted material.

Not if you find the iridium in non-volcanic deposits.