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I don't think so - in some societies we actually kill our children for bringing shame on the family by dating a person from the wrong background or colour... that and many many more atrocities that we are capable of - there is no unconditional love there. I think it is a choice. You choose to be nice - some religious practices, I think, can help you be nicer but I only say that because that was how I learned about not judging people, helping people even if you dislike them, unconditional love. I think you can learn to forgive - it doesn't always come naturally and in some cases, as you pointed out, it can be hard.

There are health benefits to Yoga - it keeps you stretchy and fit. I wouldn't cut her out - that seems a bit mean, but isn't my business. It is up to you. You could try ridicule? If she starts spouting her tripe you could refer to it as backward rubbish or something and laugh at her - I doubt she'll change and if it makes her happy then why should she? Or just educate her as to the actual facts of the things she is into... doubt she'll listen though. I dunno - I feel for you - good luck what ever you do. Stay happy.

When you make a decision based purely on instinct you still use use your brain. It is your brain that makes all of the decisions even if it seems like your gut.

Yamas!.... sorry - but that's all I know. Again - apologies for stating the obvious that you must have tried already, but have you just tried writing it down for them? (of course you have - duh). Anyway - hope you get your wallet back. GL.

ooh! Ricky Jay!? Is he that amazing card guy? Deals like a wizard and throws cards into melons and stuff - he's good.. I also like Jay Sankey - he does ace you-tube tutorials for some simple but really cleaver and powerful little tricks.

QUOTE: "Duh! it is a pioneering concept which might not be easy to understand for any self proclaimed science expert on this site.. Since our Earth is spherical...." Yea - I think the physics of spherical magnets are understood too - it has been a long time since I sat in lectures about it but I seem to remember there being some maths and stuff which kinda explained it all. As for the self proclaimed experts - I believe that all the 'experts' on this site have been chosen by the moderators and site owners and admin... and I am sure they wouldn't proclaim someone an expert unless they knew a little about what they were talking about. As for me? I am not listed as a site expert and I would not want to be - my field isn't really straight physics and it seems that nearly everyone here who actually knows about physics are more knowledgeable than me. My PhD is more in the area where chemistry and physics over lap - bucket chemistry, materials, polymers and industrial problem solving.

See - you are just misunderstanding basic physics here - with your ant analogy for example, we know exactly why an ant can fall and not be harmed while a person would die - it has to do with air resistance, surface area to weight ratio's and the like. It is not a mystery. QUOTE: "Why is it so hard to accept the laws of physics are not constant everywhere." ANS: Because we have not seen them to be different anywhere else, so why should we think they are at all let alone accept it as fact. QUOTE"You are a nuisance/nonsense" Are you just flirting with me now..? ;-) Why would it bug you to receive questions about this? I am being honest with you - if you want to publish that in your book then I would have thought you would have welcomed criticism.. The English in your excerpts is terrible and barely coherent.. I was being polite in suggesting that it had translated poorly. PS - Don't shoot the messenger! ;-) You'd prefer honesty surely? That's why you posted here, no? To get an honest opinion of what actual scientists thought of your suggestions. PPS - Could you adjust your post so that your answers do not come under my quote please? It makes it look like I called you a nuisance and I did not - I wouldn't have been so rude so early in a thread and I reckon I might have been more subtle about it too. ;-)

What do you mean by 'absolute' magnet? What is the difference between this and a normal magnet? Maybe most of the flow of it has been lost in the translation from the Indian - seriously, in English it reads as pretty much word soup and seems very wrong in many places. Maybe try to do a better translation to English from the native language it was written in because it just reads as nonscience/nonsense. PS - and where do you see an experiment where the laws of physics are not constant? I have never seen one - please elaborate with an example.

OK - I joined the bandwagon - lol. PS - I only resurrected it because their was a question directed to me which I had missed - did not want to appear rude.

recently Dynamo - because he's a pretty normal as a fella and is super cool and does close up tricks. I really like Penn and Teller as they push the boundaries and include comedy. I also love Derren Brown for his style and superb distractions. But my favourite?.... would have to be ME!!! As I like whipping out the odd trick in bars and at parties and stuff and sometimes for fun I even do a David Blain/Dynamo stunt on total strangers in the street - because it is awesome fun.;

My Grandparents had a small dog that was very cleaver. You could say "get your ball" and it would go and get it. You could also change ball for bone or rope or doll or rag and he would go and get the correct object every time indicating that it could differentiate between the words spoken. Even so, I don't think you could teach a dog morse code as it would need to be able to have an understanding of letters and language and be able to spell, which I think is asking a bit much. OK - we used to spell out the word W. A. L .K. and L. E. A. D. when discussing dog walking times other wise the dog would go crazy when it heard the word walk or lead.... but that doesn't mean it can spell... it just associated the sounds of the letters as a word which meant the same thing. IMO - Animals are a lot more cleaver than most people think... but they aren't as cleaver as some people think they actually are.

Sorry MigL - I didn't see your question before (1 year ago!) - he was talking about Sepp Blatter - David Lineker suggested he should retire to his secret base and stroke his cat - I thought it was very funny.

that video is pretty good and outlines the Bell experiment. The one I was on about was pretty much the same - but that was it - the Bell experiment.

Do you have time to track the vid down Strange? I said I'd look for it for DrmDoc but forgot last night when I got home. I was quite good at explaining why it is not just like a pair of gloves, which it is easy to confuse with. (PS-I think the vid I am on about had a very small bit of math - but it was just simple probability) I think that the confusion (for me anyway) lies with the thinking that just because we haven't measured them yet they must still be one spin up one down (left or right gloves)... when we measure them we know what state they are in, but how do we know they aren't just in that state anyway before we measure them... like the gloves - before we open the package to see if we have a right or left one - if we have the right hand one then, with the gloves, we would have always had the right one........ with the photons though they are constantly changing and only when you pin it down to a measurement do they commit to being up or down - at that moment the other commits to being the opposite. Is that right?

DrmDoc - I'm sure there was a good you tube vid that clearly describes the experiment that proves it - I'll try to find it when I get the time as I need to re-watch it as I have gotten myself confused again - good job I do not need to know anything about it for my line of work. lol.

OK - Thanks - I am going to have to re-read over that spin experiment later - I thought I understood it.... :-/ There was a good you-tube vid that (I thought) cleared it for me. If what you say is true - then how do we know there is superstition and entanglement? Why not just if one is up then the other is down - why the entangled connection? (I guess the answer is in the experiment). I think Einstein suggested that they might not be connected once separated and that they were just like a pair of gloves where one is in one box and one in another. You open one box and find a left one then you know the right one is in the other. I thought this seemed logical too but the experiment showed otherwise.... I'll look it up when I am not at work. Thanks.

oh man - now I'm confused again - from what you said SJ it sounds like the left shoe right shoe argument.... which I thought was proven wrong experimentally. If one is spin up when you test it does this mean the other is ALWAYS going to measure spin down? If so then how is this not just the pair of gloves argument?

Let me be the third to say that Hydrogen storage is very difficult to achieve safely - It will find EVERY possible leak in a system that is sound for any other gas - it is the smallest molecule there is so it works its way through things far too easily. Also - if you aren't storing hydrogen then how to split it from water? Fuel cells?

Sorry for not reading the entire thread... I have drifted in and out occasionally, but then I thought - hold on, I must be stupid or something.. why not just slice it in half. Slice those halves into 3 segments each. Then slice each in half again to get 12 exactly equal slices of the sphere - like orange segments. You could slice the last 6 segments in half either vertically or into 2 half segments each to get 2 different solutions. What am I missing here? PS - apologies for my ignorance here, but what am I missing?

QUOTE: "An election that was too close to call".. I'm sorry - but there is no 'too close to call' about it - there are a definite number of slips with votes on them... they get counted and the one with the most wins... how can there be any 'calling' it either way? It is a count of votes... (I'm not interested in hanging chads etc... there are rules in place for counting votes and not counting votes that are spoiled or spazzed up, so there should be no calling, just counting). I'm sure he's a great guy to have a laugh with on the golf course... if you can overlook his racism and bigotry, but as POTUS? As an outside observer I seriously hope not.

Hi - interesting read.... I would like to comment on the insanity of smelting iron in bare feet - lol. It is probably fine and I am just ignorant of the proper safety procedures... but I would no way do what that bloke is doing in those pics without boots on.

I read a New Scientist article a few years back that suggested SOME cases of forgetfulness in old age and mistakes were not dementia at all but just normal. People forget things all the time.... when you are younger you shrug it off and don't care and just get on with it. You forgot something? So what.... when we are older and we forget something we can actually over think the situation (as we tend to be more thorough with our thinking as we age) and think we are losing our marbles, but what we are actually guilty off is forgetting that we can be quite forgetful. I am not saying that this is happening in your case with your writing - but if you think back, did this ever happen to you in the past when you were young? Did you just shrug it off in those days or even notice it? Are you actually better now at thinking so you spot your own mistakes better? I am only suggesting this as a possibility because of the article I read - it said that most cases of peoples forgetfulness in old age was just that they forgot how forgetful all humans can be. I presume/think that it could be the case with spelling/writing and doing things also. I hope you are well - and of course - I am not a medical doctor, so the usual disclaimer about getting yourself checked out professionally if you feel the need to applies here and you should take what I say with a pinch of salt. But I guess you could be just having a bad day. Good luck!

Your education will benefit you in the long run and stop you being an ignorant moron when you are older. There is nothing wrong with obtaining an awareness about things that don't really interest you. Things on your curriculum are there for a reason. You might not see their relevance now but the information you learn now may be seriously helpful in the future. If you are THAT disinterested in it then maybe you are on the wrong course?

My 2 cents: Testing them seems like a fine idea... but it's too late now, the election is too close. I would say they would have to pass a competence/IQ test prior to applying for the position of candidate (although they both submitted CVs and had interviews for the positions of party leaders I would assume so maybe this is superfluous). You can't test them now or a failure would just give it to the other one. If they were vetted out BEFORE they were even allowed to run then this would be much better.

I am fine at home - but here at work I can't even cut and paste into our reply window let alone quote people. The lack of quoting is fine by me, but not being able to cut and paste is a pain. I just assumed it was something to do with our network securities settings or something.