Apparently, one cannot escape the wrath of Jafo regarding *anything* The infamous chocolate paradox of time travel! If Fuzzy gets your chocolate before you find it, was it ever even there?
feline, eigenvectors MMMM, chocolate!
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A few of mine: Karl Popper - "The open society and it's enemies". Douglas Hofstadter - "Godel, Escher, and Bach". John Gribben - "The search for Schroedinger's kittens". Ludwig von Mises - "The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality". Virginia Postrel - "The future and it's enemies". Lots more, but these are some of my favorites [Message Edited]
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I think he's still scratching out the Grand Canyon.
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The problem with using some sort of resistance is twofold: First, if a cap is the storage medium, adding resistance will increase the time to charge the cap. Second, adding resistance will make the lightning current more likely to take a different path (even if it hits the structure that has the cap, the lightning might just go around the cap, instead of into it). All said, I think it would be quite cool if we could set up some mechanism to store at least some of
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Those are some seriously cool lightning strike images, though
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The current flow and high voltage spike from lightning would fry a capacitor. You'd need one with a very low effective series resistance, a very high dielectric value, and a very high capacitance. Even then, assuming you could reliably get the lightning through the cap (the ESR would likely be higher than the ionized current path through the air, which would make the lightning go through the air instead of the cap), capacitors don't charge as quickly as all that, there's a time/charge c
Yup, when you turn off the default XP behaviour, you get the older icon text behaviour (i.e., ugly). If you have it, WindowFX will let you set the icon text background to transparent.
XP, right? The default appearance setting for XP icon text is that shadowed effect. I can't remember the exact option name to unset that, but it will be in the 'control panel -> system' dialog, in the advanced tab, appearance and visual settings button. Somewhere in there is an option to set the icon text setting. I'm on a 2000 box at work, so I can't look to be sure. Hope this points you in the right direction, at least <img src="http://images.stardock.com/images/smil
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I can tell you that the only ability I was endowed with was the ability to shake on the ground and sh#t my pants...will I use it for good or evil?...I don't know! That sounds evil to me
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There's a place in New Mexico or Arizona (IIRC) that is doing research into lightning. They launch small rockets trailing a wire to ground as a path for the lightning to strike and then make measurements, etc. The problem with harnessing lightning would be the storage of the energy without destroying what it is that you want to store the energy in. You'd need something that could absorb an immense amount of energy in a very short period of time (like a relativistic flashlight <img src="
I like the philosophical stuff also. Especially as it provides an impetus for more concrete improvements in our knowledge. Your original question is kind of interesting in that respect, as it's asserted that Einstein largely came up with his initial ideas about relativity by imagining what the world would look like if he were riding a beam of light.
shopping for flashlights?
Jafo, No offense, but I'm essentially correct on this one. The reason for the 'dissertation' on Einstein (and quantum physics) was to demonstrate: A. That I had done my homework on this (my education includes a minor in physics). B. That according to the current state of our knowledge of physics, the scenarios I described are accurate and supported by direct observation and repeated experiments that verify our current interpretation of relativity and quantum mechan
werewolf, Inside or outside of the plane, the final velocity of the ball would be 660 mph (not accounting for the wind, but if we account for that, you'd have been blown off the plane before the ball could come back for you ). Newton's laws of motion dictate that velocities are simply additive, for an object 'a' being thrown from moving object 'b', the total velocity of object a is (a + b).
I.R. Until relatively recently (last couple of hundred years at most), pane glass was blown, not rolled. As a result, there were substantial variations in the thickness of the pane, even within a single pane. Most likely reason for the apparent flow would be that the glass was deliberately installed with the thicker part on the bottom. That glass can flow is indisputable, but the rate of flow is so slow that even a thousand years won't make a significant difference. <img src="
Jafo, The reason that the motion of the emitter is irrelevant is exactly because of relativity. There is no privileged frame of reference. For the photon to 'care' about the motion of the emitter, you'd first have to specify what the motion of the emitter is relative to, in a frame of reference that would affect the photon. Example: Two observers, a and b, both moving relative to one another at one half c. From the point of view of a, he is standing still while observ
Photon emission doesn't care what velocity the emitting object is travelling at. Even if the object is travelling at the speed of light, photons will still be emitted, exactly as if the emitter were standing still (detailed specifics of photon and particle behaviour is described in QED, quantum electrodynamics). If the emitter *is* moving at the speed of light, from the 'point of view' of the photon (zero time), those photons will just be added to the pool of existing photons. And if on
I still think the flashlight would melt from the build-up of energy incapable of escaping the emitter Nah. Even if, by some chance, there really was some kind of mechanism that would prevent the light energy from escaping the flashlight (and there's not ), th
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Oh, they're boring and they take up too much space on the page Just kidding, I kind of like the heads up on things. Wouldn't even mind seeing more status info from time to time. One question with the above entry. Is the plus version of ObjectDock going to be included in Object desktop, or by itself?
aufisch, That's an awful big move from Oklahoma to Australia The books are probably a better value!
Can anyone tell me why they put nutritional facts on water? That's for people who are allergic to water
Glass is an amorphous solid (i.e. non-aligned crystalline structure). As for ice cream, if you don't think it's a solid, you've never tried to spoon it out right from the freezer
Great work, Tim! As always, truly excellent and beautiful work!
UBoB, You're making the unwarranted assumption that I *have* a mind Or .. I have a mind like a steel trap. There's a dead raccoon stuck in it