Cap'n Refsmmat

It's hard to find evidence either way. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/26/us/26guns.html

I tried to get an alternating rhythm implemented. There's some details to work out, though: Can a single-syllable word be either stressed or unstressed depending on the words around it? Am I allowed to make two-syllable words stressed backwards to fit in? It's kind of complicated. I'm thinking I may have to try a different approach, similar to how this thing works: http://www.elsewhere.org/pomo/

It can, in a sense. I can extract which syllables are stressed and unstressed from my pronouncing dictionary. However, when I'm constrained to the variety of words in my source text, finding a word with good rhythm to go next can be difficult. I am thinking of trying a more flexible approach in my next incarnation of the system.

I'm having difficulty creating meter, possibly because I don't understand everything that goes into it. I'll have to look into that more. Unfortunately my rhyming dictionary doesn't do slant rhyme, but considering that I have a pronouncing dictionary as well, I might just be able to fix that... You can choose the rhyme scheme in the poetry generator. If you make it four letters, make sure the "brains" choice is only four letters too.

The question is how we know light is an EM wave. Conductor behavior has nothing to do with it. Anyway, the other topic will suffice now.

More energy is required to create more mass. That's mass-energy equivalence, as in [imath]E=mc^2[/imath]. http://en.wikipedia....Pair_production http://dx.doi.org/10...hem.2005.10.008 (that's J.H. Hubbell, "Electron-positron pair production by photons: A historical overview", Radiation Physics and Chemistry, Volume 75, Issue 6, Pair Production, June 2006, Pages 614-623, if you can't get electronic access) As it says, photons near a nucleus can collide and produce electrons and positrons.

Moving this, as per speculations rule 1. If you'd like to discuss the subject again, I'd suggest bringing physical evidence and mathematics.

lemur: As per rule 5, you should open a new topic for your questions, rather than hijacking another user's discussion. Otherwise I'll have to split off further discussion here.

Actually, the newest version that I put up today uses a thesaurus now. When choosing words to use, it preferentially chooses words that are synonyms of (but not the same as) words on previous lines. Unfortunately it's not very effective right now, so I'll continue working on that. Song lyrics would probably work, but I'd need a very large amount of them. I'll have a look at what I can get.

The poetry generator has been upgraded significantly to match the version I run on IRC. Test it out! http://www.sciencefo...hyme/poetry.php For those looking for risque poetry, I highly recommend "bbbex" or "bbbew" for "brains." (Also, the source code is available online. The majority of the logic is in "rhyme.py," if you're interested.)

In your admin panel, go to Plugins. Activate FireStats. Now, under Dashboard, you should see a "FireStats" link, and it'll track all hits to your blog.

Which of these terms describe the energy loss of a quanta? As far as I know, they are spacial and temporal coordinates, not energies.

Which function is this, specifically? Are you suggesting that any given propellant uses the excited states of valence electrons as a source of energy? Could you expand on this? This is not what the uncertainty principle says. I'll stop here, since your post is mostly word salad and difficult to make sense out of. Terms in physics have precise meanings; abusing those terms makes it confusing for those of us who do actual physics.

No. Mathematics has a consistent set of rules which does not change on the whim of any particular physicist. You can do the same algebra, calculus, and arithmetic with Einstein's equations as you can do with Newton's. What changed is the equations themselves, not the rules of mathematics. Units, incidentally, are not part of mathematics either. One can assign units to numbers, but a new unit is not changing the rules of mathematics. If I define a "penguin" to be the weight of one average Emperor penguin, I am not creating new mathematics; I am using existing mathematics to give new physical meaning.

Speculations. Further thread hijacks will result in your suspension.

Nope. There's no force to pin them either to the floor or ceiling. They float. (I passed PHY 301 with an A, btw) Levitating with a magnet is not the same as levitating with gravity. To levitate with gravity you have to go and get something as massive as the Earth and put it over you. Kinda tricky.

Right, so you'd have to send your watch up into space to one of the Lagrange points. You can't make gravity balance out inside a box while it sits on Earth, certainly. Whether or not it floats doesn't matter, either. Suppose I put someone in an elevator and cut the cables; as the elevator falls, they will "float" inside of it, despite being pulled down by gravity.

Why should a watch in a vacuum float? Vacuum doesn't protect you from gravity.

It's definitely supported by this software, but I'm not sure how to enable it. I'll go look. (It's also fancier than vB's...) When you mouse over any thread, click this icon to see a preview: There's a way to have it automatically pop up, but I don't know how to get it to work.

I suppose it depends on how it was framed. If if was a student research assignment, in which the student was assigned to learn about the research independently and present it (rather than presenting something relevant to what's taught inc lass), I don't see why the teacher is obligated to do anything besides point the student at available resources.

It would be C:\Python22\Programs. Or C:\Python22\Programs\bananas\raspberries\walrusdroppings\. Or whatever.

So it says: C:\python22> in the command prompt now? If so, type "dir" and hit enter. You'll see a list of files. Now type, without the quotes, "python nameOfYourFile.py", being sure to replace that with the name of your file. It should run.

AFAIK that was announced just over a year ago and no progress has been shown so far. They were bought out by News Corporation in June and nothing has happened since. Plastic Logic's QUE looked similar, but they cancelled that project recently. If someone develops a color e-ink screen with rapid response time (several times faster than current Kindles), then made it available in large form for viewing documents, I would buy it immediately. I have a Kindle 2, but the screen is too small for reading anything other than ordinary books -- textbooks, scientific papers and PDFs are very inconvenient. The Kindle DX has a large screen, but is greyscale only. Of course, at that point you're going into iPad territory.

You're supposed to press Enter before dir; it goes on a separate line, because it is a separate command. First use "cd" to get to the folder, then use "dir" to list its contents, after you have entered the folder.

Some journals only accept very short papers (a few pages or less); others will accept papers ten or fifteen pages long. You should identify some scientific journals in your field and check their guidelines.