Recent content by larthen

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    Is a 3d printer a good investment?

    Hi I actually own a 3D printer. It's from a reprap family Prusa i3 - I build it from a DIY kit and it costed me under 500eur. It prints in whatever material you want as long as you have a proper hotend (melting head) in place. My hotend deals with temperatures up to 260C, so it is ok for both...
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    High School Energy is Matter is Energy? - confused layman here

    jcsd: This is a great mathematical explanation, but no offence - it says nothing about physical world. You just explained what comes from equations.
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    High School Energy is Matter is Energy? - confused layman here

    Math is not physics bhobba: Physics use math, to create models which allow to predict behavior of natural phenomena. But math does not carry an explanation itself. There are numerous examples when using a math model we end up in trouble e.g. some solutions to Schroedringer equation lead to...