Thank you.
Something clicked and I can accept electrons forming valence shells without an atom's nucleus because they are trapped and "fixed" in place by their own repulsion to each other and band gap. That makes sense to me. I can picture it.
To get more info I picked up a book which...
In reference to the OP:
Democracy is desirable to who? To everybody?
Do you make the claim that everyone's opinion on how to run their government holds equal merit?
That is the flaw in democracy that nobody talks about: the fallacy that everyone's opinion is equal. The myth of equality...
Richard K. Morgan (Altered Carbon and the other two in that series if you're interested)
I've read most books by those authors (in some cases all) excluding David and Peter Hamilton.
I might have enjoyed the Neal Asher books the most consistently. When Iain Banks is good ; he's great...
Thank you for the link although I am still a bit confused.
There are a few things which confuse me.
1. I can accept that electrons can be confined into a cage ( a small crystal in this case) but I get confused at the idea that the absence of electrons can also be confined. I think the...
Can someone either explain Quantum dots for me or point me in a good direction?
I didn't have much luck with the wiki's I've seen.
I would like an intuitive grasp of: what they are, how they are made, and their basic functions.
I think you missed the point.
On uneven ground with a car halfway falling down a trench and a person is trapped underneath (plus cars have wheels so what could be considered a lift could even be part roll) and the person lifting only has to lift a few inches to get the person trapped out.. yes...
People are comparing Olympic and record breaking lifts to random people lifting cars or helicopters with trapped people underneath and that's incorrect to do. There are very strict rules for how a lift executes in official and recorded competitions.
Leverage counts for a lot and so does...
Are you sure about fully developed civilizations being possible as far back as 7 billion years ago?
So you mean a modern type solar system at least 10 billion years old because I can only assume it would take a few billion years to form a civilization from a rocky world.
That seems like a...
I don't particularly want to start a separate thread since this question closely ties into the period of time after BB that those many conglomerations of gases formed.
The part that puzzles me is: what was stopping a homogenous distribution of mass all throughout the early Universe?
If it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_breathing
"Liquid breathing has also been proposed for use in deep diving and space travel."
I'm assuming the proposed idea is to eliminate the air in lungs problem already mentioned for short times during hard acceleration.
Bones and blood vessels...
Question: How is electricity consumed in U.S. homes?
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U.S. Residential Electricity Consumption by End Use, 2008
End-Use Quadrillion
Btu Billion Kilowatt-
hours Share of Total
Space Cooling...
I saw that show it made me lose respect for those writers. Do they get their ideas from bazooka joe?
First off they crucified him (shirtless) to show off his pecks. That should be blatantly obvious.
Their argument was lame compared to the other more obvious parallels ; you could say anyone...
My 2cents in order of importance.
1. Material Sciences : Particularly CNT. In my opinion CNT advances represent an entirely new way of looking at materials. It's about as amazing as plastics and nylon were for their times. Look around you and subtract everything in your room that contains...
"I don't see them staying around until today to provide observational signals," Vachaspati said.
Well that's just it. Those quasars we see are not here today. I'm sure Vachaspati is aware of that.. but it was not made clear in the article how far back in time those quasar patterns are...
"observed nontrivial alignment of quasar polarization vectors and make predictions for future observations."
Is there really a cluster of 355 quasars forming loopy loops like the Physorg article's artist drawn picture...