Recent content by Rocky143

42 or Life, the Universe, and Everything I may be asking for trouble, but I'll take a stab at this. (Just saw House of Wax--which has a thermodynamic climax.) I'm not a physicist, but I play one on the Internet. My answers should be considered skeptically until a real physicist verifys...

Food coloring My "P.S. Brown" posting above is a little screwy. Red and green make yellow. To play around with a computer program, set blue to zero and change values for red and green. Another way to observe brown as being dark yellow is to get a bottle of yellow food coloring. You'll...

Why red to violet? That we can see electromagnetic radiation that ranges from red to violet is not a chance occurrence. The atmosphere is especially transparent to those wavelengths. Some animals, honeybees for example, also use ultraviolet. Some flowers look markedly different to bees...

Thanks and... Thanks, Andrew. Excellent explanation for #2. I didn't understand #1. Uh...on second thought...once the fire is removed from the brick oven, it has a chance to equilibrate it's internal temperature by radiating more from the hotter parts and absorbing more in the cooler...

P.S. Brown Brown is dark yellow. As someone indicated above, you can create brown by mixing red and green in the subtractive color system. Play around with this in a program like MSPaint, or Word, etc. that let's you specify intensities for R G and B. Windows let's you do this...

Arbitrary, 6,000 The division of the visible spectrum into seven colors is purely arbitrary. I have read that a person can distinguish about 6,000 different colors. In fact, color identification systems, like the Munsel system, distinguish thousands of colors. My guess about Roy G. Biv is...

Hello everyone, I have read on the Internet that you can get the "brick oven effect" -- uniform heat distribution and crisp bread crusts -- from a regular gas or electric oven by placing tiles and/or firebricks under the food, and tiles above the food (bricks are too heavy to go above). 1...