Recent content by gttjohn

Dublin Ireland 1976 ,and yes I'm sick of rain

A truck with a load will take longer to stop it just happened to me today

Yes the truck without the load will stop sooner I've tried it on bikes with two people and then one I've driven trucks with or without load and the unladen truck will take less distance to stop fact

As the Earth rotates you rotate with it gravity pulls u with it even if your in a plane if u travel 560 mph at 38000 ft then you travel that distance in an hour minus drag and wind resistance ,I thought about this too as a kid it baffled me then it made sense

ok thanks a mill ill do a bit of searching and digging , curiosity is a pain isn't it but it is all worth while when you get the answer

thanks Naty1 that was a very good read ,now i have many more questions but i think i will let them stew in my mind for a while until i can ask them in the best logic i can muster up without sounding a bit thick , so actual matter as a posed to dark matter /dark energy amount is very little...

True gentleman thank you

thank you very much all for the replies and links very helpful indeed it seems i live in the centre of a very light polluted area but if i travel west should help me ,now planning a camping trip !

i have been to the mountains and been to the beach lots of times looking up at the sky away from the city lights ,but i have never seen the milky way .i have seen lots of amazing pictures of it on the net from other places around the world .Then is it only possible to see it at certain times of...

good thanks for the reply it is always nice to get a really good answer i look up all of questions on this forum because of the scientific sense people make

guys i liked the answer i got i did not read the rules regarding what is considered offensive language sorry, but i really did appreciate the first reply ,come on lads don't put meaningless where i did not type it that's just childish , i thought you guys where among the most intelligent people...

good thanks for the reply it is always nice to get a really good answer i look up all of questions on this forum because of the scientific sense people make

can anyone tell me why is the universe expanding faster and faster and not slower and slower or moving at a constant speed ,if a bomb explodes everything close to it accelerates away then slows down as time moves on ,in the void of space i would think things would just carry on expanding not...

if the only way to detect a planet is to observe the dimming of a star(according to the link) that means we have to be in line with the observed star, now just imagine all of the other planets that are not detected my word there could be a lot more to discover .

as my father said if you like what you do you will be good at it ,it seams to me you do not know what you want ,read basic books and see first if it is for you ,i mean if it interests you then take it farther . it would be an awfull shame to come all the way to dublin ,london to the discover o...