JaKiri

Well, I've never heard of it, and it sounds from that like a perpetual motion device. It should be illegal to break the second law of thermodynamics, then we wouldn't have this problem.

To create some higher level radioactive waste! Good plan there! U238 has a half life in the region of 500 million years, iirc (even if I don't, I do know it's HUGE) and is EXCEPTIONALLY low level waste. I could carry a block of it around with my in my pocket and not worry about it at all. (Ingesting it is another matter though, and not only because if memory serves it's another one of those poisonous heavy metals)

People are scared of the word eugenics. Well, maybe not the word, because they probably won't know what it means. But the concept. Hitler spoilt it for everyone!

Nah, that's just an equivilency with c^2 as the constant. What you want are the lorenz transforms, I think they're described in a sticky on this board.

Klein bottles ahoy! You can 'see' 4D objects by creating them in 3D with perspective.

It's because of the mass (and energy obviously) defecit between the products and the reactants. The curve of nuclear binding energy per nucleon starts at 0 (obviously), quickly increases to it's peak at Iron, then gradually drops away. You get energy released from a reaction which results in an increase of NBE/Nucleon, which is why fusion of light elements releases energy, and so does fission of heavy elements. This would be easier to explain if someone drew me/found a copy of the curve. ps. This curve also explains why the transironic (now there's a silly name, I can't remember if it's actually used or not) elements aren't created in your average star, but by supernovae.

You said that fusion had to be hot because it was a plasma. Plasma != Hot

Well, for a start, plasmas don't have to be hot, afaik.

1. I've seen a hypercube, made in perspective by a 3D glasses whatsit and a computer at Warwick University. 2. As moving is defined as the change in the position of an object relative to time, no it can't. 3. See 2. 4. 'The 4th Dimension'. They're only arbitrarily applied you know, it doesn't really matter what you call them.

And here was me thinking they were going to use methods like 'increasing the pressume' or Muon catalysis to help with the fusion. No, they're just going to get it REALLY HOT.

It's called a 'steam engine'.

EAT MY RECURSIVE

Check PAGD.

Like 'God does not play dice', when any fool knows he likes a bit of Yahtzee on an evening.

That's what you say NOW! BWHAHAHAHHAHAhAHHAHA

He may well be referring to quantum tunneling effects, or has been previously been mentioned 'speed of light in a medium'.

Every one of your posts improves understanding what you mean like adding cadmium improves water purity.

What ARE you talking about?

I would comment, but I won't until I consult a tome of authority, which unfortunately I am lacking at this location.

'Impossible creatures' are impossible by definition, surely?

What kind of question is that? To use the cliché, 'How long is a piece of string'?

Hello? This is http://www.scienceforums.net not http://www.englishliterature.net

Yes, there's people who get it 'right' and people who get it 'wrong'.

No it isn't. It requires infinite energy to remove oneself from a black hole, not infinite velocity. For any singularities to exist by your definition, there would have to be infinite mass at this point, and thus all of the universe would have infinite gravity.

Unlikely as things stand, due to the lack of an atmosphere, and the lack of a large standing magnetic field to keep it.