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Does that mean watermelon now has to come with the warning about effects lasting longer than 4 hours?

How so? How do you explain the speed of light just falling out of Maxwell equations?

Why does RADAR work? Why can we tell the distance of the moon by pointing lasers at the retro-reflector? Such as? No, it's a matter of evidence. If light speed were infinite, relativity would be wrong and means GPS wouldn't work. If light speed were infinite, Maxwell's equations would be wrong-our very understanding of electronics invalid. The computer you used to type your post wouldn't work. Provide ANY evidence. Rebut ANY of the objections raised above. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts merged Indeed, it CAN be googled. And the result is this forum!(with 0 results from Google Scholar)

You're right. While we're at it, let's get rid of our socialized fire departments, police departments, road maintenance, libraries, and schools.

That's not a one-liner.

It depends on what kind of meat. Chickens, for example, lack a neocortex and are thus unable to suffer in any appreciable way.

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I'm surprised this isn't a MAJOR political issue in the elections. FFS, less than half of Americans "believe in"(I hate that phrasing, btw, as it implies faith) evolutionary theory. /drunken rant

That's a great idea, imo. I recently read Thank You For Arguing and I think he might be right about teaching rhetoric leading to politics(and society in general) being more civil eventually.

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What's wrong with it? How can we make it better? [acr=In My Opinion]IMO[/acr], it needs some radical overhaul. We aren't teaching the kids the right things and we aren't teaching them effectively. We're teaching them general "facts"(some of which, like in the History department, are untrue) when we should be teaching them how to think and how to effectively communicate that thought. I remember sitting through my math classes and physics classes bored stiff. Is the subject matter inherently boring? No. I think it is the way that the subjects are taught. Take physics, for example, we were spoon fed equations for specific problems. We memorized dozens of equations per subject rather than just 2 or 3. Each situation required its own equation when we could have just been taught the general equations(and how they were derived) AND problem solving skills! The "dumb" kids were so used to being spoonfed the equations and memorizing specific scenarios, that they were completely unprepared for novel situations. IMO, there should be a few different examples during the lecture, and the homework should be where the novel situations are introduced, not the exams. The same with calculus, it was stretched out WAY too much. We had separate lectures on how to find the area under a curve and how to find the area between two curves. That is a logical leap that should be able to be made during homework. We need to be teaching critical thinking, problem solving, and rhetoric, imo. It's become too much about test grades and not enough about preparing children for the real world. Often times the whine of "when are we ever going to use this" is now deserved. /rant

In a perfect vacuum.

Just as distance is the separation between objects, duration is the separation between states of a system. Time and space are more similar than most people think. They are both relative and their magnitude is dependent on the energy in a reference frame. In [acr=Special Relativity]SR[/acr], certain vectors are now four dimensional(called 4-vectors). It's easy to see the above by showing the position 4-vector. X=(ct, x, y, z) Now, we use ct, rather than t for the time part due to units. In this vector, t is the time for your chosen reference frame. Velocity is also a 4-vector. [math]V=(c \frac{dt}{d \tau}, \frac{dx}{d \tau}, \frac{dy}{d \tau}, \frac{dz}{d \tau})[/math] We take the derivative with respect to Tau(time as experienced by the particle under examination) because it is invariant(everyone will agree on it). Since [math]\tau=t\gamma[/math], we can say that [math]V=(\frac{c}{\gamma}, \frac{dx}{d\tau}, \frac{dy}{d\tau}, \frac{dz}{d\tau})[/math] Another invariant quantity is the dot products of 4-vectors. These are a bit different from normal dot products, however. [math]X \cdot X=(ct)^2-(x^2+y^2+z^2)[/math] That will be the same for all observers. This is very useful, because you can set the dot product of your 4-vectors equal to the dot product of another frame's 4-vectors in order to solve for an unknown.

If a modern reactor had a meltdown, it would shut itself off(they tend to have negative temperature co-efficient of reactivity for inherent stability). The real danger in the meltdown would be twofold: 1)release of fuel and fission products into the moderator/coolant(which really just means a REALLY BIG cleanup and more waste[even though fuel and fission products are hardly radioactive since they have half-lives of billions of years]) 2)Steam explosion. Now, 2 combined with one would be pretty bad(that's what happened at Chernobyl. They had a positive void co-efficient, so when the reactor got hotter, it's power went up making it hotter, etc. The relief valves, IA's mention of "dumbassery" were made inoperable for testing that shouldn't have been done on the operating reactor, didn't lift. That means steam pressure kept rising until the pressure vessel failed and launched the closure head through the ceiling of the building. There WAS a meltdown, so the steam took fuel and fission products with it. That's why there's low level radiation due to contamination in the area. Now, modern reactors use a pressurized water design(at least all of the ones I've worked on). This lets us design the geometry of the core such that we have a negative reactivity addition due to temperature(when temperature goes up, power goes down and vice versa). And there are several redundant safety features with minimal requirements for operation. There are also VERY strict operational procedures(even if you've done something hundreds of times, you have to read out the steps out of the book while you're doing it). It's virtually impossible to have a meltdown.

Assuming the walls of the box are perfect reflectors.

Let's ask Mr Dawkins how Evolution works:

Why is that? Seriously, though. Socialism is terrible. We need to get rid of the fire departments, police, government maintained roadways, public libraries, and public school. Horrible thing, that socialism.

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Why would you be trying to multiply vectors in different co-ordinate systems?

print('Hello World') THAT is real programming! /me runs away and hides.

Doesn't [math]\vec{B} = (2, 4)[/math] imply [math]\vec{B} = (2, 4, 0)[/math]?

English, please.

Try again with LaTeX. It's incomprehensible as is.

Actually, it doesn't (as MANY swansont posts explain) since no information is transferred in the entanglement itself. You don't know what the detected properties are until a luminal or subluminal signal tells you.

The isotopes in the island of stability still decay in FAR less than a second.