John Cuthber

My best guess is that the coal rods are for fuel rather than anything else. Perhaps as a way of using coal dust which is otherwise a messy nuisance. According to this http://info.ngwa.org/gwol/pdf/722500216.PDF (P39) The resistivity of coal varies a lot.

"Should they seek psychiatrict help or go to a churh where they will hear words like "Love" "Truth" "Honesty." " I can hear the same words from politicians, but that doesn't mean I should believe them. "Solving the problem might take a LOT of prayer. " Indeed. It seems the prayers a good fraction of the population of Haiti http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion_in_Haiti couldn't steer a earthquake out of the way http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Haiti_earthquake So the likelihood of all the prayers from this site achieving much is nearly nil. Feel free to prove me wrong by praying for me to win the lottery this week. This reminds me of the story told by Emo Philips. "when I was a Kid I used to pray that God would give me a bicycle. Then I realised He didn't work that way. So I stole bike and prayed for forgiveness."

Consider yourself duly censured for saying "but I simply will not tolerate any more mind numbing stupidity". Unless you actually plan to do something about it, you plan to tolerate it. Ignoring it may well be the best thing to do. Also, I personally feel that you are being unfair to kangaroo farts and disadvantaged armadillos.

That's still mainly word salad.

What is the science of improving the brain called? Education.

My best guess is that people who live in developing countries are more used to death and suffering so they are less troubled by sentencing people to it. Also, I'm fairly sure that London (for example) is more crowded now that it was 100 years ago when we still had the death penalty so I don't think overcrowding is a major factor.

Meet my friend B He's a base. He's also quite lipophilic. If there are lots of protons about, he pairs up with one to form BH+ BH+ isn't lipophilic at all. In acid conditions the absorption of basic drugs is slower.

Actually, my point was that, from any given point of view, an electron has only one velocity and, because of that, it has one frequency (I'm presuming we are talking about the fact that if it has a velocity it has a momentum, so it has a wavelength and it therefore has a frequency). It only has one velocity. It only has one frequency. There are no combination tones or overtones. So the answer to the question "what overtones are there?" is none.

" What we see is the reflection of light that is absorbed by our theoretical view of atoms. " What? Was that meant to mean something? My theoretical view of atoms is a very abstract concept. It doesn't absorb light. Any light that was absorbed by it would be destroyed by that absorption- it wouldn't be reflected. Having been absorbed it wouldn't be there to see.

Try it. Get two magnets, some glue, a sheet of paper and some iron filings.

As another remarkable example of Dovada's ignorance "If the use of infra red technology was available 100 years ago do you think we would be having this conversation, I doubt it." It was. IR was discovered more than 100 years ago. So, Dovada doubts that we are having this discussion. "What if it contains all three velocity vectors" Then its velocity is the vector sum of those three. It only have one velocity from any given point of view. "what harmonics are available? " None (generally, but it depends on the field through which the electron is moving)

Yes.

Obviously!

Because you can tell me last week's numbers and the only difference between them is time.

"I tried to explain time throughout this thread in my own way, if it doesn't help, I can't do anything else for you. " Yes you can; you could answer the points that have been put to you. Why can't you tell me next weeks lottery numbers?

I'm fairly open minded, as long as someone is prepared to provide me with evidence and as long as their idea is not at odds with my past experience. I know that buildings made, essentially from rock, fall down. They get old and worn out. Anyone who wants to can verify this: you just need to look at an old building and see that the corners are not as sharply square as they used to be. In particular, I can see it all too well with my garden wall. Your idea is that they (or at least the pyramids) get stronger over time. Since I know that they don't do that, I know that you are wrong. It's not something I can be open minded about because the evidence tells me the truth. As I have said many times on this forum, if your ideas don't agree with reality then it's not reality that is wrong.

As I understand it, he didn't. He had no means of measuring the mass of the earth so he had no way of calculating the value of the constant. However, the relation (i.e. the inverse square law) gives rise to predictions about the orbits of planets. Those predictions agreed with the measured data (in a manner already described mathematically by Kepler). so the law was (perhaps tentatively) accepted. It was rather later that Cavendish actually measured the constant. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_experiment Anyway, you are still not answering the point that your "constants" change. Failing to do that means that you are failing to do science.

Methyl nitrate http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl_nitrate is horrid, but who cares? The reactant here is nitromethane which is fairly well behaved. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitromethane It has been ages since I did any synthetic chem so I won't comment on the rest of the proposed method except that it looks OK at first glance.

Did he still pay her?

To be fair, he can only answer them after you ask them and, since he doesn't believe in time, he doesn't know what "after" means. Perhaps he will answer the questions I asked yesterday at Easter.

I forgot to mention that I hate sweeping generalisations.

"I should have said the only thing that can know that they are greater than God. Humans.." It seems entirely possible to me that there are others in the Universe with the same viewpoint.

I think this "Reflection of light off of copper surfaces? Impossible considering the degradation of UV reflection off of copper. " counts as "not even wrong". Why in the name of all that's holy would you give a damn if your mirror cannot reflect (UV) radiation that nobody knew about till 1801? I mean, seriously, did you think about that or did it just fall out of your brain my mistake? Incidentally, since most glass absorbs UV quite well and the light reflected from a normal mirror has to go through it twice, most modern mirrors don't reflect UV very well. It may have escaped your notice, but they still work. " No residue has been found on the interior ceilings to suggest the use of torches." Did it cross your mind that, since this was, from their point of view, the everlasting house of their God, they might have cleaned up before they left?

I still want to know next week's lottery numbers. Failing that I want to know why you can't tell me them. you can tell me last week's. If the only difference is time, and time doesn't exist then you should be able to help me out here.

I disagree with the initial assertion made in the title. I think many things are greater than God, for example my dinner is greater than God. My dinner exists.