Recent content by Trexman89

I've also heard that jet engines allow planes to go faster than their current "top speed." The reason why jet planes don't go any faster is because the friction with the air would melt the nose of the plane.

yea Gamow is great. I'll definitely pick up his other books. Reading a book by someone who actually worked with Bohr is awesome!

I just finished reading through this book http://e-ducation.net/scientists/30years.jpg and I really liked it. The author focused on the ideas that shaped quantum theory, and only talked about the people behind the theories when it was relevant...although the author does go into several...

so will a wrench if you use it to connect the terminals of a car battery. I know this from first hand experience. My physics professor's explanation as to why I didn't get shocked was that the voltage supplied by the battery wasn't high enough to push the current through my body. I could...

Work is equal to a force applied over a net distance (aka displacement) . Net distance is the difference between your starting and ending point. So if you push a box from point A to point B, and then push it back from point B to point A, no work will be done. In your diagram, for part 1, it...

oops, my bad. This link was just posted today on a social bookmarking site so i assumed it was something new.

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0601-JUNE_GENES_rev_ long story short, they don't like the idea of biologists being able to patent the genes they use for their research.

http://spectrum.ieee.org/nanoclast/semiconductors/nanotechnology/nanostructured-metamaterial-enables-invisibility-cloak?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IeeeSpectrum+%28IEEE+Spectrum%29 "We can even have amplification of light instead of its absorption. Here, for the...

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn15018-pick-of-the-pictures?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

First of all, do you believe the new measurements are accurate and the proton is actually 4% smaller. If you do, What implications do you think this will have?

Well, gravity is a conservative force. The only force I can think of that isn' conservative is friction.

this video is far more entertaining http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xD_HQ4B0Fcw&feature=related

yes, it has the same mass. If you scratch something without removing any of the metal, then you have basically just changed its shape. You can change the shape of something all you want, and still have it way the same. You could even break the thing in half if you wanted to and it would weigh...

What are the steps I need to take to get my papers and ideas out there for others to read? I don't expect anything to happen with my papers, but I want to try to get something out there so I look more appealing to Grad schools. It doesn't matter to me how long the process takes. I got a couple...

Have you ever seen one of these you put a coin in the slot and it rolls around the funnel and spirals down. When your first insert a coin, it barely gets closer to the center. That's kind of how gravity works. Forget all that stuff about centrifugal forces and centripital forces. The coin...