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Physics Articles For Hackenslash

arg-fallbackName="Dragan Glas"/>
Greetings,

I knew someone like that when I was working in the UK.

He was adamant about everything he said - if you disagreed with him, he'd ask, "Do you want to fight me?"(!)

I once had a disagreement with him on the Greek philosophers - Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle - as to in what order they'd occurred. He claimed his order - Plato, Socrates, Aristotle - was correct because "I've studied philosophy".

Yeah, right...

When I conclusively proved that I was correct - a very easy thing to do - he never apologised. Indeed, he acted as if the conversation had never occurred!

He didn't last long at the company - he was, as far as I knew, one of only two people who were let go in the 11 years I was there.

Kindest regards,

James
 
arg-fallbackName="Deleted member 619"/>
The evil pedant in me wants to say that it's likely he was right, since the cumulative evidence available strongly suggest that Socrates was somebody Plato invented as a didactic device.

But I won't, because that would be cruel. :D
 
arg-fallbackName="Sparhafoc"/>
Not my place to reveal, since @Sparhafoc goes by a different moniker there, but:

No worries there btw. I didn't change my username here for anonymity's sake but to remove one bullet from the bigot's arsenal - how many times over the years was I accused by racists of racism because I had a username that racists use to be racist?
 
arg-fallbackName="Deleted member 619"/>
Indeed.

Part one (as it quickly became evident that this was going to be) here:


Cladistic paradox challenge accepted and met.
 
arg-fallbackName="Dragan Glas"/>
Greetings,

Interesting read.

Just one typo, from what I can see:

"Car 1 is only travelling along the s axis, meaning it isn't travelling at all along the t axis. Car 2, on the other hand, is travelling partially along the s axis and partially along the s axis."

The last "s axis" should refer to the "t axis".

Looking forward to the next installments. ;)

Kindest regards,

James
 
arg-fallbackName="Deleted member 619"/>
Thanks. Poifick correction.
 
arg-fallbackName="Deleted member 619"/>
Not a fan of how this has been worded:

"Poincaré had discovered the first instance of chaos, a phenomenon whose outcome can effectively disconnect from how it began."

That's almost the opposite of correct. In a chaotic system, it's precisely how it began that determines the outcome. indeed, that's how chaos is defined; sensitivity to initial conditions.
 
arg-fallbackName="Dragan Glas"/>
Greetings,

I didn't read it - is this the pop-sci article or the actual paper? If the former, well... - if the latter, then it would be poor form to say the least.

Kindest regards,

James
 
arg-fallbackName="Deleted member 619"/>
The article. I haven't read the paper yet.
 
arg-fallbackName="Sparhafoc"/>
The answer is that space itself is not empty; what we think of as a vacuum contains the possibility of the creation of elementary particles, given enough energy. In fact, these potential particles are impatient and are virtually excited, sparking in space for unimaginably short moments in time. And as fleeting as it is, this sparking is “sensed” by a muon, and it subtly affects the muon’s properties. Thus, the muon magnetic anomaly provides a sensitive probe of the subatomic contents of the vacuum.

It's moments like this that make ALL the other crap of being a 21st century ground ape worth putting up with.
 
arg-fallbackName="Dragan Glas"/>
Greetings,

Not sure from where you got the "whacking" quote - or is that your version of events, Spar!?

Kindest regards,

James
 
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