Dave

The sad thing was that I had a 14.4 modem until about 2 years ago :\

Unfortunately, some bugger got there before me. Instead I went for the highly imaginative title 'dave20' instead Don't post there much, used to in the programming forums a bit but they got a bit boring really so I stopped. Infact, the last one I posted was a solution for one of MrL's maths problems.

The pop charts over here really suck. I'm amazed the record companies are complaining that piracy is killing their industry as opposed to massive losses in cd purchases because they keep churning the same repetitive rubbish over and over again. 'Adapt or die' is a phrase that comes to mind.

I used to use it a bit in the 'early days' about 6 yrs ago, but I don't use it at all now. It always seemed too complicated for me tbh.

Don't really think the school would appreciate that too much get a comp at home or something, it'll cost you less in legal fees at the end of the day.

It's probably best we don't know

Until we discover the graviton (and indeed a way to manipulate it) we won't know either way.

I saw this on the PA forums, and just had to post it here for those people that don't visit: http://www.thingsmygirlfriendandihavearguedabout.com/ It's extremely funny and hence it's taken up most of my afternoon. Enjoy

A photon is just a packet of energy. When it hits an atom, its electrons tend to either escape (and hence the atom becomes ionised) or they go to higher energy levels which results in the emission of more photons. Also bear in mind that the frequency of a photon determines whether it is visible or not.

I like star trek. They just invent random words/terms to make it right They asked a production guy once: "How does your Heisenburg Compensator work?"; he replied "Very well, thanks"

maths (obviously ) discovery of electron (=> electricity) splitting the atom penicillin aspirin transistor can't be bothered thinking of anything else.

In fact, a quick google turned this up, which has a heck of a lot of information on it. Have fun.

Anti-matter is used all the time in medicine by a method called positron emission topology. I think it's mainly used for tracing. They're given a small amount of a positron (anti-electron) emitting substance (carbon-11?). When these positrons encounter an electron (it won't be very long) they annihilate, and hence two gamma rays are created of an exact energy travelling in opposite directions. From that, an image can be built of the bloodflow in the body.

As with a lot of stuff in science, we won't know until we do a lot more work and discover a lot more things about the universe. Superstring theory (at the moment) is our best bet on that.

Just look at your average xy-plane and imagine what it would be like to live on it

It depends on the circumstances. If, in a double slit experiment, you fire a single electron through one slit, one at a time, then the electron will somehow interfere with itself and create an interference pattern on a screen. However, if you try to observe this by putting observers on either one or both of the slits, then this effect will not happen. Going back to what you were saying earlier, some of these particles can be useless. A pi0 meson, for instance, is composed of a pair of any quark-anti-quark combination (i.e. up, anti-up; down;anti-down, etc) and hence will annihilate itself after a very short period of time. However, I do think this can be used as an exchange particle in some circumstances.

I'm tempted to move this over to pseudoscience, but I'll let the moderators of this forum decide on that. You also seem to be just quoting formulae at random and putting some words after them. Plus the fact that there's nothing 'new' about the gravitational equation you've quoted. And the fact that the gravitational force has very little (if any effect) between the component parts of an atom, or even atom<->atom interaction.

Quite interesting sites to look at really if you have the time to play around with them.

You say that now, but you know it's never going to happen. I don't think there will ever be a marriage where there are no arguments or conflicts over the smallest thing.

Well, these things have a way of either working out or going horribly wrong: in my case it usually seems to be the latter of the two

It's just that i'm sad and spent a lot of time studying it

That really applies to any media organisations across the world.

Quite. What a lot of people fail to realise is that a lot of these fires are made not by man, but by nature. In the long run they're probably for the best.

read up some more on algebra and it'll become a bit more apparent.

pseudo random number generation algorithms (or at least the more complex ones) use a seed (i.e. someone randomly typing keys on a keyboard/mashing it with their fist). I'll have a look later to see if I can find one for you.