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What are the approximate coordinates of the cache? That usually helps. The coordinates given on the cache page are usually close to the actual cache, so the degrees of lat and long are typically the same.

The user biljanica has been terminated as a sockpuppet account of bob boben.

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G Anthony has been temporarily suspended for spamming with multiple threads on the same topic, and using a sockpuppet account (Gary Anthony Kent) to perpetuate this. The sockpuppet account has been terminated.

! Moderator Note Religion debates should be made in the religion forum. However, telling people what they must or must not believe is probably not going to fly. Please make sure you are familiar with the board rules. No need to respond to this note. I don't see how it can be viewed as anything but evidence for common ancestry. The debate has to be about whether it is "enough" and genetics is not the only evidence.

If they are part of currently accepted paradigms, post in the appropriate sections. If it contradicts current paradigms, post in speculations.

Since Farsight has returned from his self-imposed exile and immediately resumed posting his pet theories in mainstream threads (rule 10 violation), he has been banned.

If you want to discuss it, it belongs in its own thread.

! Moderator Note Responses moved to new thread http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/58908-herschel-space-telescope/

But then you'd have to be banned, too, for posting those links.

Hal has been suspended for making some unfortunate comments in violation of rule 1 (civility/personal attack) and then blatantly ignoring the staff by continuing along that path.

Didn't Sanborn confirm the solutions to parts 1-3?

All well and good, except that the first three panels have been deciphered. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kryptos So the contention that nothing is encoded can't be true.

So a rigid structure that I can describe with a mathematical function is in fact moving?

Sure it is. He has to show his claim works within the framework of QM. Klaynos and I have objected because his claims were solely based on classical models. Motion and trajectories take on a very different meaning (or are abandoned altogether) in QM systems No it doesn't. Motion implies a variation in time, not position. If there is motion, what is the speed here? what is dx/dt?

y = sin(x) represents motion? How so? Your claim, your burden of proof. It's not my job to teach you QM, nor is math without experimental support sufficient to show anything; your math so far has been describing classical physics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_atom#Wavefunction Where is the motion?

You say it's not a particle, but then you go and treat it like a particle. Go find some experiments where the electron's motion can be measured in these transitions.

The description does not include motion of state vectors, because the concept does not apply. 1. Electrons are not particles — they do not behave like little marbles. They are localized when they interact in certain ways, but they aren't interacting in those ways while an atom or ion is oscillating in a clock. 2. I didn't ask if the air (the medium) was moving, even of the drum was producing a standing wave. I asked if the wave was moving.

Sure we can. In fact, I have already done so. So has Klaynos. So not only can we deny it, it's trivially easy to do so. But whether one can claim or deny it is not the point. What's important is if one can back it up with any physics, and you simply can't. What you have done is declare it to be so and in doing so, ignored quantum mechanics. Example: you have a standing wave, with a wavelength of 1m, located between 0 and 1 in some coordinate system. Is the wave moving? Where is it located?

The dictionary is not a technical resource. QM tells us (via deBroglie and the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle) that the electron is a wave and there is a limit to how well you could determine its location. If you knew it was at rest, its position uncertainty becomes infinite — it exists at all points. The opposite of what you contend. At the subatomic level the notions of motion are not classical. To say that the state change is motion lacks foundation; in the most widely-used kinds of atomic clocks, the state change is a spin flip, not even a change in an orbital. During the oscillation, it's in a superposition of the two spin states, but that's only because we chose a particular basis for the description of the system — you could easily choose that state as a stationary state of the system. Further, these are S-states, with no angular momentum. There is no implied classical orbital motion (which is one example of the failure of classical physics at this level) Short answer is that inferring motion is a naive interpretation of the physics.

You can't say the electrons has a specific location at any point in the measurement, so how do you know there is motion? This is quantum mechanics we're talking about.

mpc755 has been banned for continuing to hijack threads and ignore moderator warnings. mpc7555 banned as a sockpuppet account. And mpc866

I don't think you have to worry about igniting helium

Aluminized mylar, perhaps?

mpc755 has been suspended for two days for repeatedly raising and advertising his speculative ideas in other threads, despite multiple warnings, in violation of rules 2.5 and 2.10