Recent content by small_bang

Galileo, I agree a 100% with what you said. It also certainly is a function of animal behaviour that putting out the right "vibe" to others will garner favor from them. Physically working hard towards a purpose can give positive results. However, there is a small amount of oppurtunities...

Anything you say Einstein! :)

It is a bit weird that the times in my life I had a very positive goal specific attitude, the outcomes I wanted came about. Conversely, when I'm negative (the current state of affairs) everything goes down the sh*tter. While I have deep respect for science, I also have a deep respect for the...

Remember, if I am not mistaken, that the cat analogy was Shrodingers way of pointing out the absurdity of the whole observer/wave function thing. I'm kinda thinking that a race of highly advanced beings, probably OURSELVES at some point thousands or millions of years in the future, having the...

Thanks ZapperZ, I understand what you're saying. I would have liked to go into physics if I wasn't so grossly math challenged!

Ok, thanks guys. I realize, of course that we aren't dealing with light. One of the pages this pic came from had a bit about STM. Let's see if I sort of get it. Basically what we have is a device for picking up concentrations of electric charge. A computer then takes that, color codes it...

Hi. Well, I hope this doesn't get deleted because of speculative nature or anything, but this seems a good place to ask. I've read a lot of non-mathematical books on physics (sorry). I'm a very interested layman. I am curious about these pictures of atoms that you see. The ones that look...