Recent content by backdoorstudent

Apply. I'd bet your great transcript and unusual situation will get you accepted into most of your choices - especially if you take the GRE Physics exam and do well on it.

Welcome to the predicament of the short human lifespan - not enough time to learn all you want. The real talent is choosing what to ignore.

They're conspiring with banks to get you into eternal debt.

Yes. Every quantum event is like that (as far as we can tell <-- edit). We cannot cause them to occur but only determine their probability of occurring. It makes sense that there must be uncaused events otherwise every event/cause would rest upon an infinite regress of preceding causes or there...

I'm sure that reading this thread has lowered my IQ.

500 watts = 7.17 food calories (kilocalories) per minute http://www.google.com/search?hs=Xf7&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=500+watts+to+Calories+per+minute&btnG=Search The average person needs between 1000-2000 food calories per day. 500 watts is about the...

And so you noticed what the orginal poster thought was mind-blowing at first glance.

Oops. I was too late with the post.

And so is this: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%281+foot%29+%2F+%282+*+pi%29%29&btnG=Search

Me too. Good thing you're not as bad as me - I hate doing everything. I could barely stomach making this post.

That was Ghandhi. But I bet Kant had a similar opinion. The guy never left the town he lived in - ever.