Recent content by bd1976

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    Finding t in a Quadratic Equation with Two Variables

    Its a quadratic equation. Look up the quadratic formula in your textbook.
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    Experience Machine: Would You Hook Up?

    Wait for it... Wait for it... What if we are already in such a machine and all of what we think of as reality is but illusion! (someone had to!) :)
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    It's All Relative: Why Perspective is Everything

    I might be wrong but isn't the whole point of religion to answer the questions that can't be answered by science?
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    It's All Relative: Why Perspective is Everything

    Hmm... Well surely the whole concept of God was proposed to answer the question of why we exist. I don't see that there is another viable stance you can take to answer the question. The question of why is unanswerable at the moment thus the proposition of god to answer it. p.s I'm not saying...
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    Graduate Why can't negative energy virtual particles escape black holes?

    Hmm... I seem to remember from a course on the standard model of particle physics that this is indeed possible - however its much more unlikley than the case of just one particle pair being formed. I think (and can only hope that someone wise will read this and correct it) that when you try to...
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    It's All Relative: Why Perspective is Everything

    Where, who are these millions? Throughout history people have used the concept of God to explain why. There is evidence of this in the most primative of cultures. I will accept that there are milions who have died without having enough time to think about "why?" and reach this conculsion. I will...
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    Some Issues with Projectile Motion

    Heres a general formula for these type of questions. First resolve the components of the velocity vertically and horizontally. You know (assuming no air resistance) that the horizontal component of the ball is not subject to any force so it will remain constant. You know the horizontal...
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    It's All Relative: Why Perspective is Everything

    Mate stop thinking go get a girlfriend, make babies, atch them grow up, look after their babies a bit... then you will have loads of time when your old and dying to think about this question. You will finally work out that there is no answer to "why" unless god exists. There will be a priest...
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    Cranial Size and Intelligence Link

    Erm.. Dude your logic is sadly lacking. Even if homosexuality is entirely caused by environmental effects it could be that these effects cause the brain to change as it develops and so the effects are not reversible once the brain has reached maturity. The problem with this is that its a...
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    High School What is the secret code for Dr. Kai's computer system?

    Count the number of letters then think what operation could generate the required answer
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    Undergrad Understanding Constant Velocity and Acceleration in Frictionless Environments

    Well if everything in your picture, the box, car and scale is moving at the same constant velocity initally then nothing would change. Everything would in the same position relative to everything else. However if the box is not moving initally but everything else is then yes, the box would...
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    Graduate What Are the Physical Implications of Complex Numbers in Quantum Mechanics?

    p.s I hope the pure maths department at Bristol never has to read this.. you just wiped out the meaning of their lives!
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    Graduate What Are the Physical Implications of Complex Numbers in Quantum Mechanics?

    Ah but you forget complex number theory is not required reading for a physics degree! (Crackers I think but that's the truth!) Many physicsts I have talked to don't have a firm grounding in these ideas. It just shows how far modern education has fallen! I think possibly the real mystery is...
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    Is Choice an Illusion in Decision Making?

    "The ONLY limitiation to the human choice is lack of imagination." Tell that to someone dying of hunger in the third world!
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    Graduate What Are the Physical Implications of Complex Numbers in Quantum Mechanics?

    Firstly money! integers = how many pennies you have, real numbers = how many bits of pennies you have, negitive numbers = how much debt you have, Complex numbers = ermmm... well maybe the square of the number is the probability that your shares are about to...