Recent content by ophecleide

That's a really interesting question, the kind that will probably keep me up at night (I'm serious, these things do). I imagine you could write spectral lines in in musical notation, but the only problem I see is in the way that light waves are fundamentally quantized as compared to the way in...

I am tired of this argument, but rather than just disappearing, I would like to say a couple more things. I don't think this is really going anywhere, so I'm done after this (I'll read you're responses though). First of all, I was unclear when I said things about Dr. Kay and Pete Nanos...

Morbius, you talk as if the words of Dr. Kay are the end-all-be-all of the subject. They aren't. Yes, he is probably the best single person to talk about this, but that does not mean he is right about it all. Furthermore, it does not mean that what you quote him as saying means the Iraq war...

It's interesting that you (Morbius) only quote one person and tell me to read a book written by one other person. Whether they could acquire nuclear weapons or not, there still isn't any proof that they were. Moreover, the evidence compiled by the CIA suggests that the weapons program Saddam...

I had some password problems, so I was out for a while, but I'm back now. First, I would like to point out that no WMD's or firm evidence of the production of WMD's have been found in Iraq. Just because Saddam wanted these weapons does not mean he had them or he was trying to get them...

I hate reading really lengthy posts, so I'll try to keep this one brief. 1.No, our greatest strength is that we put ridiculous sums of money into our military and that everybody else is at least a little scared of us. 2.Unlike many of you, I do not feel that people are fundamentally bad...

If you're such a thinker, why didn't you think your way out of having to ask a question on this forum? We already told you the energy you're looking for goes to heat , sound, etc. What's the problem?

The remaining energy turns into heat. When two pieces of playdough collide, they stick together and all the remaining KE is transferred to heat through the internal friction of the playdough when it is deformed. With a perfectly elastic rubber ball, for example, the energy is stored as...

If it's a perpetual motion machine, then by definition, it is capable of going on forever (within human error, I'll give you that). If you are extracting mechanical energy from it, then there is no avoiding it: you must get this energy from somewhere. There is no source of energy which is...

Integral is right, your description of the experiment was very vague. How/where were you measuring the pressure? Do you know the length of your tube? Do you know the frequency of the pitchfork, or is that what the pressure vs. time graph was for? Based on the statement "Or am I missing...

Let's put it this way: The probability of a perpetual motion machine being possible is extremely small because it has not been done yet, so many brilliant people have failed at producing one, and all (or almost all) of our observations about the universe tell us that it is not possible. I...

If a magnet's properties are dependent on the magnetic field of the Earth and the sun, try measuring the field produced by a permanent magnet at different places on the Earth's surface where the magnetic field differs. I can promise you it will have no dependence on the Earth's magnetic field...

Are you trying yo figure out when a high school physics class will become useful for someone who is not a scientist/engineer? It helps you to make better decisions. If your car gets stuck in a ditch, how will you get it out? Where should you go during a lightning storm? How do you fix your...

Everything I know (or think I know) about the universe says that what you are saying is not true, so I have an extremely difficult time believing you. If you were to tell us a little more info about it, I think we'd have a much easier time figuring out why it won't work. For example, does it...

The acceleration on an object is always going to be in the direction of the net force. If you take your foot off the pedal, the only force acting on the car is air resistance, so the car will slow down. In order for the car to accelerate back up to 60MPH, it must accelerate and in order for it...