Radical Edward

sounds cool. I would probably be more likely to do optics related stuff with a laser though, but I think I would need a sputtering system to make mirrors too. Shame you didn't patent the beard thing though, you could well have ben onto laser hair treatment there before anyone else (though maybe not, I am not sure how long it has been around) we had some excellent cartoons around our laser labs.. Laser Tag (below a picture of a scientist with a hole through his middle) Peer Pressure (Below a picture of a new scientist, wandering round a lab full of scientists with an eyepatch) and the ever famous note on laser lab doors: "Please do not look into Laser with remaining eye"

did you try any frequency doubling or pulse compression, or mostly just burning stuff? Reminds me of an ace little story. Me and a mate were coating mirrors for our Argon Ion laser experiment, and we needed Liquid Nitrogen for the vacuum pump. Anyway our supervisor just told us where the huge vat of the stuff was, and let us use it as we felt fit. Of course what ensued was us wandering round the lab hurling this stuff at one another, and freezing random things, but anyway once it went a bit wrong, and some of it shot out into the corridor and under someone's door, and seconds later an irate researcher stormed into our lab askin what we were doing. I am stood there frozen to the floor (it went under my shoes and stuck the rubber down a bit), and my mate is stood there with a big grin and an empty Nitrogen flask "Nothing" we reply. Fortunately the irate researcher didn't really mind, and told us that it was a good way to clean the dust up from the floor.

lol cool, what class was it? what did you do with it?

it was callibrated, but it was decallibrates because of large patches of algae which they want to keep hidden as part of the great martian illuminati conspiriacy.

you haven't got a YAG in your lab have you?!?!

basically the thought experiment is to show the strangeness of quantum mechanics, and also show that it is not all what we think it is. The state of the cat has to either (a) be possible or (b) not be possible for a reason we haven't figured out yet.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3432735.stm It looks like Europe is going to fine Microsoft alot of money (no doubt because the European economy needs it, and all that money would be much appreciated by them freeloading french farmers, but hey.. I'm a cynic) The thing I wonder though, is that they comment on competition from people like apple and Real Networks... but hld on, who the hell actually wants RealPlayer? I am no big fan of mocrosoft at the best of times, but RealPlayer is EVIL.

what field?

I would imagine that an excimer laser would be more tricky to run, and you would have to replace the KrF more often than the YAG laser rods. the YAG would just use some harmonic crystal to produce the nonlinear effects, but then you might not get as much power out of this as the susceptibility of most nonlinear materials is not all that high. Either way round, it will be pretty expensive, and I hope you know what you are doing. KrF lasers, are by default class 4 since they produce high levels of invisible radiation and would blast your eyes out without proper protection. This is only a brief explanation, I only really have a theoretical knowledge of most lasers, and have only worked personally with Argon Ion lasers (as well as the usual university ones like HeNe) so I can't help alot. I do have to ask though, do you know what you are doing with lasers and do you have much experience with running them and a good knowledge of all the safety requirements?

hey it's George Bush's speech writer.

probably multiplied by 64. a power thing would be impressive indeed. aah, I should buld myself a computer again. I built one using wires and dip switches and I programmed it in binary. twas cool. failing that, learn about parallel processing and build a monster. anyone seen Serial Experiments Lain? The computer she has towards the end of the series using the HTTP8 protocol (I think), That is the sort of computer I want.

It will be a real mix of genetic and cultural issues I think. Our resident biologists are away I think, but the brain is a pretty complicated thing. There will usually be certain things that you look for in a partner. Men will look for a good healthy child bearing woman, and women will probably look for anything that isn't fafalone

It's not nuclear, it's nukular. I work in a power station so I know.

the magnetic field is just a relativistic side effect of the electric field.

ooh, a panto. Fafalone walks on stage and all the kids go BOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOoooooooooo

the simpsons is fundamental in our education that nucular power is perfectly safe.

thing is though, that stationary fields don't have a frequency, only oscillating fields have a frequency (though I admit that is somewhat a tautology)

then one is wrong

I think that perhaps he is thinking about the electric field between a positively and a negatively charged surface, rather than the electrons themselves, since the former stands a chance of making sense, wheras the last one doesn't, unless of course someone has a homemade quantum number violator (i.e. violation of charge number, lepton number etc etc)

there is no neutral field. you might want to have a look at Maxwell's equations.

I am in a state of not getting it.

wtf? where is this in Maxwell's Equations?

the problem I see is decoupling it from all the other things that cause cancer that have been fluctuating throught the years. statistics isn't that simple.

if you are growing bacteria, don't do it at body temperature, or you could find yourself culturing pathogens, which is the badness.

by intentionally not logging on for an hour.