Ginger_Chris

Great Thread Katie, I was about to make one too since it was mentioned in that other thread, but i was too busy learning the rules of GO. Should we make this any particular time? A nice regular weekly thing would be fun.

I have no sympathy for you, as your mention of GO in another thread has caused me to go read all those sites about it because I've always wanted to play. Now I haven't done all the work I was suposed to do and am going to have another sleepless night. I blame you :P

Dabookerman got banned? missed that one. oops.

Yea I have been ignoring the homework thread a bit, little bit too much work in real life to do, you guys seems to answer everything too quickly for me to respond anyway :P. Your always welcome to PM anything.

In your A-level report you can get 18/20 in your practical exam thingy through doing exactly that. You'd get 20/20 if you made up results show the right values. (seriously, I'm not joking look a the mark scheme. 7 marks for a good table with correct headings number of d.p etc. Its a joke of an exam)

That awesome drawing online game we played a few months ago. :P EDIT: and helping people with homework

After reading whats gone here i'm fairly shocked at the immaturity thats been shown here. I have no idea why anyone would find those types of images funny or relevant on a forum such as this. On the other hand motion2000 should really be slightly more silent and let this blow over, I don't think I've paid attention to him before, but the amount of ass kissing he seems to be doing in the last few hours is fairly annoying. As someone who only posts occasionally in the forums but visits fairly regularly, I don't think that the moderators can be really blamed for what happened. I like the fact I can swear (in moderation) and arent getting PM's for triffeling things. However people will always push the boundaries, and thats what happened last night. Several very acive members left last night, and it will be a shame to see them leave (especially the 3rd constant praise of my sig), but if what happened did, then they deserved it. There was a really good atmosphere on here just before the launch of the wii, with everyone fairly excited, with a good level of fun and interesting posts. Since the wii's release it seems there are less people around, and people are less on topic, they seem bored and using the forum to shout at others. Theres definiterly less of a community than a few months ago, and its very apparent on these boards. A few arguements (if well written and with points etc) are fine, but there seem to be alot of people just slagging off others. Any sorry for the long post, a large majority of the forum's members will have totally missed last night, and be oblivious to its reprocussions. The sooner this dies down and things return to normal the better.

Chris(topher) Curtis

By the laws of probability life exists in our galaxy. The fact that it hasn't made contact proves its intelligent.

Sod's law: In any given situation the worst possible outcome is happens far to often, even though it has the tiniest possible chance of happening. Eg: Having a full house in poker and getting beaten by a straight flush; The one day you really need to go somewhere, having your tutor change his work handing in day for the first time in 3 years so you cant go. Every time my room door seems to lock itself, I'm wearing just a towel (its a long walk to the porters lodge). etc

Whats your favourite colour? If you were an animal which one would it be? Just anything not related to music, maybe they'll get the hint.

Yea it ruled. Although it went a bit downhill when Richard O'Brian left. He pretty much made the show. Krypton factor also had its fair share of stupid people but is such a great program. (from what i remember i was only knee high at the time)

Unfortunately not me. I disagree with valentines day just because its such a commercial rip. seriously its like every shops saying "you don't love your partner unless you spend 6.4 billion pounds". Plus the copious amounts of pink gets boring very quickly.

When you say billions... There are about hundred billion stars in our galaxy alone (10^11) Current estimates suggest there are about 125 billion galaxies. This gives about 1.25*10^22 stars. Or Twelve Thousand Billion Billion stars. Only about 1 in a hundred are main sequence stars, and only about one in ten have planets. that gives about 10^19 planets. (oh and anyone who thinks Evolution doesn't happen is just deluding themselves. Theres a stupidly large amount of evidence, you may as well not believe in protons and electrons.)

I'm sure someone who knows something is more wise than someone who knows nothing. Admitting your stupid doesn't count as wisdom.

energy (joules) = h * frequency frequency = c / wavelenght energy (eV) = energy (joules)/e (as in 1.602*10^-19) thats the best i can think of at the moment. But it is 5am in the morning and I'm very tired. Stupid work. I can't remember any of the basic stuff. 7.5eV gives me about 165nm. so its not that. 1nm is about 1238eV. but i don't know, I don't do molecules. individual atoms only I'm afraid. Hyperfine energy levels of Hydrogen and Helium especially. sorry I can't help much.

Right does anyone know where I can find the "electronic specific heat parameter" of tin? Its a really random parameter to do the transition to superconductivity. Google, yahoo, msn, and ask have all failed me. I don't necessarily need a value, a place to find it l do. I have access to every book ever printed, so it should be in one of them somewhere. I just need to know which one. Oh and a decent approximation of the persistent currents (current density) in superconducting lead would also be useful. Just so I can compare it to my measured value. Cheers

This thread had the potential to be a place of discussion about religeon, with well made arguments. These arguements would be backed up with facts or some type of substance. You should all know that jokes or witty remarks aren't really appropriate for a thread like this where too many people can get offended, reasonably or not. I wonder how long it will take for Godwin's Law to take effect.

So where did the life force for the first animal come from. Does bacteria or a self replicating strand of protien contain life force? How about an virus? a non-replicating molecule? atom? proton? quark? If life force is recycled, if there are more animals now than before does that mean we have more life force per organise than before (theres is a greater density of life in an organism)? If there are less animals now than before are we deemed more alive than animals before us due to higher density? Are some animals more alive than other, if so what decided this; mass, intelligence, number of cells, proximity to other animals? Can this life force be created or destroyed? How does it pass through a medium (ie from a dead body to living body). Does its effects travel faster than the speed of light? does this mean that life force in different parts of the universe builds up? Can it travel being living animals? Most importantly do you have any proof, derived mathmatical formula or hypothesis that can be tested? (I'm not deliberaterly being annoying, just asking you to explain you views. If you can defend them clearly, then you actually believe in them and have thought about what you believe, rather than just revieting whats written in a book) (oh and I assume your using the word force in a completely non-scientic way. I prefer life quantity, or just life. I wonder if theres a unit measurement of life. or if it obeys heisenberg's uncertainty principle... hmm much to muse on instead of doing productive work)

He was religious but in a completely different way to all the major religions. His ideas of god were very different to anything in the Bible. He believed in a cosmic force, like god and nature were interchangeable. Anyway, you should do some research on it. "I believe in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony in what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings." Albert Einstein As a concept I think its a lot better than the biblical versions, but i still think everything seems to make more sense without the concept at all.

Deterministic is the Idea that we knew the position and momentum and energy state etc of every particle in the universe, we could predict exactly what was going to happen. On a macroscopic level (ie things like people, balls, tables, planets etc) this is fairly true due to the statistical properties of having insane numbers of atoms in a object. Think mechanics, knowing a set of equations you can plot the trajectory of a ball or something. In quantum mechanics this isn't the case, as particles only have a probabiltiy of being somewhere, and you can't know their exact position and momentum at same time etc. You can't know exactly know what will happen. If two neutron and an Uranium-235 nucleus collide, they could scatter from each other, the neutron could be absorbed and a photon emitted, or the neutron could be absorbed and the thing undergoes fission, releasing huge amounts of energy. However you have no idea whats going to happen, and if it undergoes fission what the products will be. You only have the probability of things happening. When you have a large number of interactions happening, they they form distributions, and you can fairly accurately predict what will happen ON AVERAGE. Einstein believed all these probabilities have an underlying set of laws that determined what was going to happen. Spent most of his later life working on this problem. The God part of the quote, was him showing that it was what he believed. Its a quote about Belief, not about God.

Einstein believed the world was deterministic, Quantum Physics says it isn't. Einsteins quote has nothing to do with God, just that he believed the Universe acts in a deterministic manner.

You read the rest of my post and next post right? However your "logic" there is flawed. If you believe there is only one universe your logic has no meaning. If you believe there is an infinite number of universe (as I do), then it makes perfect sense. The flaw is that at the present time neither of those beliefs have proofs. We have no idea what happened before or at the moment of the big bang, only what happened a few femto-seconds after (10^-15). We also have no proof of wether there are an infinite number of universes. When there is no proof either way, Its a matter of belief, which one seems most likely to you as a person. Hence you can't argue about logic in this particular case, as your making an assumption that isn't necessarily true or proved. As someone who is a is strongly atheist, and often has discussion with people who are devout Christians (and also know a fair amount of science), there is no right answer because eventually it does come down to a belief. Many part of Christianity can be disproved but there are many as Scientists we simply don't know, and possibly will never know.

*me, me, me, let me answer pleeeaassseee*

Most badly quoted phrase ever. In quantum everything is based on probabilities, You never know the exact position of any particle, it always has a probability distribution. its influence on other particles cannot be determined based on where it is, but where it is on average. This uncertainty in anything is best summed up by hisenbergs uncertainty principle, to non commuting operators (position and momentum, or energy and time) have an uncertainty product ofat least h(bar)/2. Einstien was a strong supporter of particle theory, and that underlying quantum physics was a strict set of rules. That quote is his disapproval of the direction quantum mechanics was going, not about the existence of God. Einstein worked most of his life trying to find the underlying laws without success, and given the fact that quantum mechanics has had so many successes and proved right countless times, it seems on this fact Einstein was wrong. Einstien was the greatest physics by far, ever. He had so many origional ideas, and should have won 5 noble prizes for works all completed in just 1905. Taking that quote out of context using it for the debate whether God exists or not, is just undermining everything Einstein did that he got right.