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    Calculate Impact Speed of Car Hitting Sign

    The 4x4 is organic material and not subject to rigorous analysis before you hit it so it is unlikely that you will find a nice formula. There are many sources which you can consult about the average strength of a 4x4 post.
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    Can Conformal Transformations Explain Torsion in Different Spacetimes?

    1. It is a change of geometry not just coordinates. 2. Minkowski space has nothing to do with conformal mapping. 3. I have no idea what you are talking about when you mention torsion.
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    Why does the absorption of EM radiation vary with wavelength?

    For a wavelength of EM radiation to be absorbed it must correspond to an energy level in an atom. Consider the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_atom#Energy_levels". At longer wavelengths, there is no corresponding energy level for the EM radiation, thus the wave passes through the body...
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    Send Signals from a Distance: EM Radiation or Gravity?

    I don't think the neutrino communication is viable or really speaks to the OP.Rephrasing the original question: What about EM radiation makes it the only viable candidate for sending signals significant distances? Is that that EM is a dipole force? Is it because of its range (obviously)? Is...
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    Send Signals from a Distance: EM Radiation or Gravity?

    I am not seeing that thread. This type of communication at best seems like binary unless you are using some sort of pulse-width modulation (distance between pulses and width of pulses encode the data). There are obviously some very significant engineering obstacles to creating, modulating...
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    Send Signals from a Distance: EM Radiation or Gravity?

    Cleonis My question about mediating particles and forces related in a round-about-way to the question original question: Is there any other way to send a signal other than EM? If there was such a force other then EM (or gravity) that could be used to send signals, wouldn't we be able to...
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    Send Signals from a Distance: EM Radiation or Gravity?

    Consider that the forces have mediating particles (gravity is undetected). Is having a mediating particle a requirement for being able to send a signal?
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    Send Signals from a Distance: EM Radiation or Gravity?

    Is there any other way to send signals a significant distance other than with EM radiation or (doubtfully) gravity? By signal I mean the complex information that we are able to send via radio or other EM transmission. I don't think there is any other way other than EM radiation but I cannot...
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