Recent content by evanghellidis

Yes, temperature measurement through change in resistance. The electrical measurements are fairly accurate, it just seems to me that there's something wrong about using just one type of experimental data in an experiment which is meant to show the relation between two different physical...

I could use a heating plate, yes. It'll still be imprecise, but at least it gives temperature data points which are experimentally independent of the electrical data points. That's a good idea, thank you!

I'm not sure if I'm posting in the right forum, please excuse if misposting. I have the following situation: pieces of conductive nanostructured material are attached to different substrates and heated resistively. We can only measure voltage and current through the piece of material (and...

That's actually how I arrived at this, although my reasoning wasn't entirely mathematical. The motion of two massive bodies defines a plane and things at really big scales tend to be planar. The natural progression of dimension starts with 0, which would be that really dense initial point. Why...

The idea being that those forces disperse and lose energy in that extra dimension, if I understood that correctly. Hmm...Well, that sort of gives this 2+1 model a driving principle and explains why time "passes". Movement through time would be explained as the result of various forces...

Holographic principle aside, I believe that there is no theoretical basis for a 3rd spatial dimension, only experiential, since we can see and measure depth, as well as height and length. From what I've read, however, all forms of depth perception require movement, or otherwise don't allow...

Could an asymptote be defined as a point, or a circle? I assume it would be in a rather exotic topology, or a very trivial one. Furthermore, can we define each of these as the other's asymptote? The points would probably have to turn into lines(functions) by virtue of an extra dimension in that...

This http://www.physorg.com/news175172691.html" on physorg best illustrates what I'm getting at. Hmm...But if the mass were changed, wouldn't that in turn increase/decrease curvature, which in turn would increase/decrease mass and so on, ad infinitum? That couldn't be right. Unless the...

I did read a pretty good wikibook on SR(I think it's called just that), but I stopped once I reached a chapter pertaining to electromagnetism. I figured it'd be better to first study that separately and then in the context of relativity. Didn't really read the maths thoroughly either. What...

A-ha, I think I get it. So is it correct to say that the non-relativistic one is caused by the rest mass of particles, while the relativistic one is caused by the invariant mass? Maybe caused isn't the right word here. Does it have anything to do with some ratio between the two masses? I.e...

Wouldn't I be seeing just the effect of the distortion? I'm talking about what a "naked" distortion would look like, a GW. Let me reformulate my example. Two oppositely charged, massive particles are situated at a certain distance at which their inertia barely overcomes the electrostatic...

This was the next thing that bugged me after thinking about this idea. Are particles/force fields and spacetime separated? Because I don't see how else would strain, or measurable change, occur in grav wave detectors, like Weber bars. If a region of spacetime is distorted, then aren't any...

At least that one came from scientists. There's worse stuff out there. Stuff like karmions, the karma particle. If you could, you'd probably attain enlightenment spontaneously. We're finite amounts of substance. Nothingness and infinity don't come naturally.

Well, philosophy is considered to be the mother of all sciences. I think that's a bit smug on behalf of modern philosophers, since the ancient ones were scientists just as much as philosophers, if not more. The thing is, science works with maths and numbers, which tend to divide more and more...

Very interesting. That stimoceiver idea is pretty close to what I was thinking of, albeit more sinister in purpose. I just want to see gamma rays and hear x-rays. Maybe smell dark matter. Hmm...I wonder if this experiment was first done in vitro, with cultured neural networks being taught how...