Radical Edward

this sounds like the pole and cloakroom paradox: John Smith, the famous English polevaulter has developed, alongside his Scientific Chums from Imperial College London, a new running technique which can get him up to extremely high speeds, approaching the speed of light. In the olympic games, he tests out his new technique. Unfortunately however it requires a rather long run up which takes him through the changing rooms, which are 20 metres long. His pole is 20m long, but he is running so fast, that according to an outside observer, his pole appears to have contracted to a mere 10m, so he should fit easily.. However, the evil Australian Sports Magnate, Teddy Murdoch, concocts a cunning scheme, whereby the two doors of the changing room will shut instantaneously when Mr Smith is inside the changing rooms. Unable to disarm the device, the Engineers from Imperial College despair, but fortunately they manage to construct a device which will immediately open the doors once again, so Jim Smith Breathes a sigh of relief and begins the run up..... As he approaches the speed of light, Jim Smith looks towards the doors of the changing room, and sees the room which was 20m long contract to a mere 10m.... he realises suddently that his pole will be chopped to a fraction of it's length.... The problem is, that the Audience will see him pass through the changing room unscathed.... what will happen, and what is the solution to this infamous paradox....

In some cultures it was far higher than this.

Just to clarify, it was a virus actually, not bacteria. And it was only a simple one.

what's the point? it would just spit out the same answer I gave. If you're looking for an average on the other hand.....

my friend works for nature, what is the title of the paper, I'll ask him if he has seen it.

okay, well they could all get to the same place, giving the same answer if they're non-interacting. Though the probability would be negligably small, as is the probability of them all decaying, the proability is still finite.

the half life is only a statistical thing though. Every uranium atom on the planet could simultaneously decay tomorrow at 2:55pm. The probability of it happening is vanishingly small, but still finite.

I'd like to meet the person who climbed 211 feet up a 9 inch square shaft to shut the doors. Don't be silly zarkov, I've considered your theory and it's bollocks.

they might have all decayed into energy. leaving absolutely no atoms. you never know.

nope, you can't make monopoles, magnetic monopoles don't (classically) exist, though someone somewhere said there might be magnetic monopoles as a result of some funny Quantum mechanics, though I am sceptical of this. basically all magnetism really is, is a relativistic version of the electrical field.

It's still just conversion of kinetic to potential energy. the system isn't indefinitely self-powering.

the angles of the two big triangles are different, so the 'triangle' that you percieve there is actually a 4 sided shape, and not three. the trick relies on the fact that humans have crap eyesight.

It's just conversion of potential energy to kinetic energy, in much the same way that a normal dam is. a 'perpetual motion' machine is one that literally powers itelf, to the point that it can run indefinitely without any outside help, and possibly have energy left over.

he means that only people who would want to moderte or edit your posts would want to moderate pseudoscience. are you sure you speak English?

well ignoring gravitational storage, you'd still only be able to store antimatter in the form of ions, namely protons and electrons, since the only way you could store neutrons would be to make a proper atom and ionise it. storage would still be a bit of a pest, particularly if you wanted to use it in some application that required long term storage. You would have to be extraordinarily careful when storing a decent amount of the stuff, as if your containment broke, then I doubt you would be abe to say 'Antimatter storage failing' like they do on star trek.

(4/3) x pi x (10^26)^3

the problem with an antimatter warhead, is that there would be no disposal mechanism, and it would be a right pig to maintain.

It looks as if these are not as ludicrous as they seem, with evidence as to what they actually are having been found: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2266740.stm It seems like fascinating research, and I somewimes wonder what opportunities it could offer in the future, for example, will people start having electrodes implanted into their brains to stimulate these centres instead of taking drugs? could it perhaps offer treatment for drug addiction? your thoughts would be interesting

http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/sci_tech/newsid_2266000/2266608.stm okay, first of all, my apologies for this being a link to a children's news website, but the info is the same. It appears like the Ozone layer is beginning the process of repair since CFCs were banned a few years ago. to me this says that the Environment is pretty good at repairing itself once adverse effects have been removed. could a similar thing happen with global warming, and all the pollution we pump into the plant daily?

the problem was really the Egptian Authorities, the Pyramids are one of their biggest moneyspinners, and I think they wanted to make as much cash out of it as possible.

we have...... Another door! I know it's not really science, but it's interesting anyway. shame they didn't find anything else in the pyramids though :/

Ineed I am..

very profound, and philosophers have been arguing over it for thousands of years. the only reply I can give, is that an objective reality is 'that which is', wheras a subjective reality is 'that which we think is'

have they come up with an answer to this yet?

if there are alians making crop circles, then I'm sure a pissed off farmer would have shot one by now.