Recent content by Daminc

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    Undergrad What is the point of studying maths at a very high level?

    I only learned advanced Math to help me think in a certain way (I like physics and I program applications on a computer). Training your brain to think in a logical manner is very useful application in my opinion and is a highly transferable skill.
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    Graduate Can a 4-Sphere Have a Circumference?

    Is it just coincedence that 2∏r × ∏r2 =2∏2r3
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    News The Ultimate Loss of Civil Liberties: Innocent Man Shot Dead in UK

    Cheers for the heads up arildno :smile: It'll be interesting to see what conclusions they arrive at.
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    High School VB Project: 20 Greatest Mathematicians

    Pascal & Pythagoras?
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    Should The Galaxy Have Been Colonized By Now?

    There is another possibility for a great silence and that is the 'Alien lifeforms' may communicate via lightwaves or scent like some of the lifeforms on Earth do.
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    Planning a Math Fun Day for 200 Kids: Ideas Needed!

    How about something along the lines of an old Bagatelle type game? It would be easy to make. A piece of plywood with small nails hammered partly the way through it. A number of small balls Numbered slots at the bottom for the ball to drop into. You could have theme games like playing...
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    Can Everything be Reduced to Pure Physics?

    Why would you think this? Is it just your gut feeling? A twist of percerption based on a personal philosophy? Or something else?
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    New Orleans: pestilent vs chemical plagues

    What are the possiblilities of a pandemic occurring throughout the USA from what is happening in New Orleans?
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    High School Identification of an object in the sky

    Also, how regular was the flashing (this might help to find out if the observation was of artificial origin)
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    Why do people misunderstand each other sometimes?

    Chocolate does that and I bet you like chocolate.
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    Why do people misunderstand each other sometimes?

    Lisa! how can you NOT like bananas ? Is it the taste? The texture?
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    Graduate Can You See the Entire Universe Before Entering a Black Hole?

    This isn't just from your statement. I've heard similar claims and I've wondered about it for years. I suspected it was because the explanation of matter falling into a BH was oversimplified to a high degree. I wasn't suggesting that matter doesn't enter the BH just that if the matter appeared...
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    Graduate Can You See the Entire Universe Before Entering a Black Hole?

    This has always seemed flawed to me. If any matter that enters a BH would appear stationary at the horizon then surely, with the amount of matter that has previously fallen in, the BH would seize to be 'black' as it would appear to have a 'coating'/'shell' surrounding it.
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    Why do people misunderstand each other sometimes?

    It's targetted at your feet. Your sole shall be displaced and you shall fall on your butt. That's the plan anyway
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    Why do people misunderstand each other sometimes?

    Beware arildno, I've just ordered a stealth banana to be launched. Funnily enough I had one of those about three weeks ago.