JaKiri

The pheasant has no agenda.

Seems likely.

What are these elements then? Like hydrogen, but with one and a half protons? Up to the level we have discovered, we have a complete periodic table; this reminds me of a science fiction story, in which the aliens had a different one. Complete junk. Whilst there are elements we haven't discovered, they all lie higher up the periodic table, and are produced in particle accelerators. They also have shortening lifespans, all of them much less than a second. Whilst there is a conjectured 'Island of Stability', it seems implausable for any reasonable amount of these elements to exist outside the lab. [edit] Or inside the lab, for that matter. Do you know WHY carbon is the basis of life here? Do you know how many possible carbon reactions there are? How many carbon compounds? There are more possible carbon compounds than those involving ALL OTHER ELEMENTS

The trouble is, you'd get extremely minor colours from everything then a BIG BIG BIG COLOUR from the earth.

An incorrect clarification (or the clarification of an invalid position) doesn't help matters.

That is unlikely, given the correleation with results. It is fairly likely that it IS wrong, but only in certain situations on with a certain level of accuracy. For example, GR doesn't make Newtonian gravity inapplicable in all situations.

Great thread, and I love that article!

Surely that depends on how you use the battery. I presume it's a lithium ion one, which just means your friend mischarged it.

Because the difference between instantaneous and c-delayed is negligable?

Never use Freud to be the basis of any argument; he was crazy.

The heat death of the universe does not necessarily mean that 0K will ever be reached.

IQ is a terrible measure. Furthermore, I wouldn't advise people to give their addresses away over the internet.

Go to google.com and look at your google settings; that might explain it.

Google.co.uk! I've never seen google do any redirecting, so it's more likely to be something on your end; I could be wrong, of course.

I aim to please. Well, mostly I aim to please myself, but that's beside the point. Oh, and I forgot to mention that the US constitution was written by follower of the european liberal tradition. Funny how things like the freedom of man come down to liberalism, but there you go.

The iRiver has a remote control :eng101:

Public transport, government owned buildings, that's all very well. However, I was referring to the proposed smoking ban in pubs and restaurants. And that is the justification for murder being outlawed in a state based on the rights of the individual; whilst you are expressing your individual right to murder, you are also removing larger, and more multitudinous, rights from the murdered. As the net change is a loss of liberty, it's outlawed. Because the argument is not based on economics. For instance, by far the cheapest thing for the state to do is to remove all welfare benefits, but that's hardly the right course of action. It's nothing to do with Political Correctness, unless you believe that the European Liberal Tradition was all a load of PC gubbins. 200 years ago. Read John Stuart Mill.

Entropy will play a role in that, in the sense that it is due to there being no perpetual motion device, if you see what I mean.

Fixed. Except the spelling, I left that as it was. Although this is becoming less of an issue nowadays (the 'fitting onto a cd'), as hard drives and dvd drives become larger and more plentiful respectively.

Why does something have to have volume to have an impact on the universe? More to the point, how can it be impossible to split something which has volume? The latter isn't that great of a problem, but that's not the point; there are areas of uncertainty for both assumptions.

It was the 'apparantly antientropic' that threw me, because it's quite clearly not.

They aren't antientropic. They obey the 2nd law, and aren't very efficient either.

Ah, that old chestnut.

That's not applicable, Gilded. TSATF is entirely narrated. Sometimes, the narrater is one who is incapable of correct language. That is the point of the sections with poor grammar. Of course, there is a difference between studying English Languange and English Literature.