Radical Edward

I wish people would stop saying that because the speed of light changes with time, Einstein is Wrong. It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of what Einstein meant by "the speed of light is constant for all observers" Yes the speed of light may change with time, apparently there is evidence (I have not looked into it in detail) But that would be as a result of the properties of the medium (vacuum) changing, rather than a flaw in Einstein's theory, proving him wrong.

yes we would, they would emit Cherenkov radiation, unless there is some physical law forbidding superluminal particles from interacting with subluminal and luminal particles*. If there were some law, then superluminal particles would be empirically non existant to us. Furthermore, that point has nothing to do with anything much that I have seen in the topic so far. *yes yes, wave particle duality is important. I am referring to photons as particles purely for simplicity.

so you agree with mob rule?

children aren't allowed to drive, smoke, drink, get married, have sex and so on. the mentally incapable can't own guns, vote and a bunch of other things.

the ratio of deaths in China is actually smaller than in canada, so it isn't due to the "third world nature" as you put it, This is even more true when one looks at Hong Kong, where the number of deaths is just as high. Hong Kong clearly isn't third world. The main issue in China has been a political one, where there has been a Government coverup of what was going on. Antibiotics will have absolutely no effect, since it is a virus causing SARS, though it could stop secondary infections. I haven't heard of any of these though. producing a vaccine or drug to stop it though will take time. The US has a potentially massive problem if it got into the country, as a result of the huge amount of air travel and higly populated civilian centres like New York. if it got into one of these areas, it would probably spread like wildfire, requiring harsh government intervention. It would be far better, and far easier to just monitor areas where it could get in.

sounds like a cunning plan. china infects toronto with a disease, and then millions of chinese pour through tunnels that they have built underneath their worldwide network of chinese takeaways - does anyone see the chinese who work in takeaways duting the daytime? no - it's because they are underground digging.

however something that has never happened is not nescessarily impossible. impossible means "not possible" as in, can't and won't happen.

there are loads of operators. you can have raising and lowering operators in atoms for example.

be careful when mentioning the uncertainty principle and black holes. As I have said before, General Relativity and Quantum mechanics do not mix, one, or both of them, needs some correction.

I think of photons as excitations of the electromagnetic field mostly, you are right though that the particle issue is a grey one, but then it is for electrons and so on too, which also have a wave nature. From my understanding, Leptons and Quarks make up matter (Quarks only really exist within Mesons and Baryons at low energies) and both consist of three families electron, muon, tau plus neutrinos for the leptons... and for quarks up,down and so on. The force carriers are not lumped into these categories, as they are not in themselves regarded as matter (although they may have mass)

fermions are particles of half integer spin, that may not occupy the same quantum states in a system (such as electrons) the only comparable group os the boson, which has integer spin and may occupy the same quantum state (such as in lasers (photons) or Bose Einstein Condensates (some atoms - although these are bosons in nature, and not strictly bosons as they are not fundamental)) Antimatter describes something with opposite quantum numbers, so foe example an electron will have a charge of -q and a positron will have a charge of q. Antimatter is demonstrated to exist when considering the symmetries of the results of the Dirac Equation (Relativistic QM)

I know of it, but not enough to comment, other than I believe that it is only relevant in high energy scenarios, and not when considering chemical bonds. However if you know enough about electroweak unification to demonstrate that a photon is a lepton, then I would be glad to hear it. all the tables of leptons I ever see look like in here

that is an electromagnetic interaction though, not a weak one.

leptons interact weakly don't they? I don't recall the photon interacting weakly.

is essentially what you should be saying.

massless leptons don't only travel at c. Only force carriers do that, and afaik they are all bosons which is a good job otherwise lasers wouldn't work. Neutrinos are leptons, but they are a grey area, so I will ignore them for the purposes of this answer as I don't know. Although attempts to combine electroweak and strong force often suggest small neutrino masses, and even some experiments are suggesting that neutrinos have a mass too. (edited a bit - I had leptons and fermions mixed up)

both actually. I was being annoyingly vague on purpose.

well be happy that in a parallel universe somewhere, tiddles is perfectly fine and wondering what all the fuss is about

we do for children, and the mentally incapable.

intelligent people solve problems and are creative all the time. Just because I have some 20 years of learning to do before I get to the stage that I am at doesn'T mean I am a machine. Certain rules always have to be followed, and you can be as creative as you like, but you still need foundations such as the ability to spell, and to do maths, and understanding of establised physical rules, in order to get things done. "creativity" was tried in the 60s, to the point where they told children that they didn'T have to learn to spell, just be creative with their writing - to the point that there are now thousands of illiterate adults, because they weren't taught rules.

even if they have, there is no real point, since the result is always a live or dead cat, and you don't learn whether it has been in a superposition for the past few minutes or not.

General relativity and Quantum Mechanics do not mix.

yes. electrons often travel faster than light.

go on then. I won't bother pointing out all the contradictions in your point.

I've seen the moon go red lots of times. he is such a moron... thanks for the laugh