Recent content by SpitfireAce

are you proposing we turn people into photons and gravitons, send them off to wherever, and then change them back into people? in anycase... like phlog said gravity isn't instantaneous, in fact you can't send information between two point instantaneously according to special relativity... I am...

this post is for people looking for movies to watch... I don't think these movies will disappoint anyone The Best- lawrence of arabia, Dr. Zhivago, Back to the future, American History X, Fight Club, Shawshank Redemption, Batman Begins, Lord of the Rings runners up- sunshine of the spotless...

well, during the year I try to read the textbooks, and occasionally pop sci books... last summer I read Feynman's lectures on physics, I'm doing research with my professor this summer, but I can't figure out what I want to work on, I am reading a Q and A style book (flying circus of physics)...

is harnessing the power of a lightning bolt possible?

that third quote sounds like it's making a case for polytheism =), and I think it contradicts the fourth quote

yay, fun thanks for sharing that I don't know the answer to your question, but check out angle=90 thrust=90 elevator=16 my paper airplanes never do that =)

that first idea is so ingenious and practical, thanks a lot =) the second thing sounds tricky... maybe if you had a fixed marker, i.e. you look at a tower in the distance, right above it is the sun, if you move a few paces to the right and look again, you'll see that the tower is now some...

Does anyone know of any good number games or thinking games (i.e. tic-tac-toe) to kill time when you're bored? Something that doesn't even require a pen and paper if possible...

from infinity to x? how in the world do you integrate from infinity to x?

I guess you want to integrate over the length of the rod and end up with the integral of (1/l+1) dl from 0 to L... that should give you ln(x+1) U= -GmM/L [integral 0 to L (dl /sqrt. of x^2+l^2)] and I guess you can say that the square root of x^2+l^2 is x+C where C is some constant...

Why is it that Physicists always always require so much expensive equipment? Now the Department of Mathematics requires nothing but money for papers, pencils, and waste paper baskets and the Department of Philosophy is better still. It doesn't even ask for waste paper baskets. -University...

"I don't know but I've been told... Eskimo kitty is might cold" -Full Metal Jacket damnit fargoth, I read that whole damn thing

"Btw, does anybody know of a book which has tried to explain the whole physics conceptually from the most basic fundamental pov?" nah, the road to reality is tough and mathy, not really conceptual... I would say Feynman's lectures on physics, though niether of these are "cant put down" books...

the asteroid belt was thought to be created by a planet being obliterated by a huge collision, I think we have simulations that show that a certain type of glancing collision (and then a second one upon return) would cause the formation of one moon about the size of ours, the core being hot is...

uhhh, so what do grad schools want? I am still not sure anyone addressed this beyond reassuring him that his grades are ok... so from what you said I gather they only care about gpa... and if those A+'s were in English it wouldn't make a difference... what else? Is extracurricular stuff still...