Recent content by Ulnarian

A couple of months back I was reading an article about an Australian physicist who theorized that not only does quantum entanglement affect particles across space, but also, particles may be entangled through time as well. If we can calibrate this effect, it seems to me like it would be pretty...

Living in the city, it seems that some jerk tries to merge right into my car on a daily basis during rush hour (i.e. they try to come into my lane without even looking if I'm there or not). Assuming that avoiding a collision isn't possible, what is the best way to reduce the amount of force...

I'm pretty much a newbie to this quantum physics stuff, but the one thing that really blows my mind is the double slit experiment. I just don't make much sense. Anyways, I was wondering, could the interference pattern caused by firing a single particle through the double slits be the case of...

Please forgive my puny grasp of the subject, but are these implying that we can now transmit data through time? For example, can we presently create an entangled photon in the year 2013 year along with a set of instructions. "Ok future us, if the Red Sox win the world series in 2012, please...

I'm pretty much a beginner trying to wrap my head around the concept of voltage division within a circuit. To help myself out, I've come up with the following circuit. [PLAIN]http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/801/voltagedivision.gif I am having trouble determining the voltage between...

So, I want to build a timer in the style of an old-school flip clock (like this http://www.ladidah.com.au/range/images/flip-clock-grey.jpg) that counts from 000:00 minutes to 108:00 minutes. Whenever a user enters a certain sequence of numbers on the computer, the timer should reset itself to...

Awesome. Thanks for the responses (sorry I've been away from the computer for awhile) :)

So I've been trying to wrap my head around the concept of the direction of current flow. I thought a voltage divider would be a good place to start. One website I've visited told me that the following image is a voltage divider. Both R1 and R2 will work together to affect the voltage of...

To what extent is a wrong-doer responsible for their actions? If a person is not responsible for their own actions, it doesn't seem quite right to punish the person. For instance... If a homicidal maniac is driven to do evil things by an uncontrollable compulsion, do we say that this person...

So I got to thinking about lines of latitude recently. Since the Earth is a sphere, that means that, at the equator, a person would have to walk pretty far to go all the way around the Earth. Now, as you head towards the North Pole, if you keep walking along the lines of latitude, you will...

Hmm, possibly. You know though, I've fired and have watched people fire a lot of guns at the firing range, and I don't think my eyes were ever once quick enough to see that bullet. But, yes, perhaps I wasn't looking in exactly the right place (although, admittedly, this could also be due more to...

I was doing some thinking as to whether aliens are really out there. Then I figured, they probably don't want us to find them if they are out there, so they are probably hiding (and maybe a little even embarrassed by us as a species). Then I thought, "How exactly would one go about hiding a...

Hey, Thanks for all of the answers, sorry for the delay. I've been very busy lately with things and I haven't really had time to sort through the answers to give them the analysis they deserve. Starting now...:)

Why can't "forces" travel faster than light speed? As always, I'll start with a disclaimer that I know next to nothing about physics, just that I have an interest in the subject (actually, relativity kinda scares the hell out of me for some odd reason). Anyways, I am reading through this...

"Lost" (TV Show) Equations Recently my favorite tv show (Lost) featured an episode in which a bunch of equations were quickly presented on a cool little black light map. These equations are beyond the realm of most layman, so I figured Id come here to see if you guys have any idea what these...