Recent content by splinewave

hi all: i have some insects/particles that i placed in the center of an arena, and tracked their position after a set period of time. what i can get in MATLAB is a 2d scatter plot (several hundred x,y points). i have several different types of particles that show a larger or smaller degree...

In the video, they mentioned that the fish eat shrimp. Well, shrimp have a nervous system, and they also use oxygen - why don't we care about them? There must be all sort of microorganisms down there too ... and we don't worry about them going 'pop'. :)

Well, many of you have seen a recent video of fish that live close to 5 miles under the ocean. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mKotQs93Dc&feature=user http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95567915&live=1&ps=bb1 As an organism, does anyone know what sorts of factors these...

I was taught that individual photons have discrete energies (E = hv) according to their wavelength (which is a smooth parameter). Why then do we use filters before the ccd camera in a microscope to detect photons of different wavelengths? Isn't there a detector that can tell me the energy...