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Just wondering if anybody knows where I can find a tutorial on SSL programming that doesn't require me to have microsoft visual studios. went to hackers.com but it seems they have been displaced. if anyone has any ideas where to find a tutoral online, or a good book, I'd appreciate it. So...

Not sure, This was a topic we discussed in one of my ohysics courses. you can probably find something if you look hard enough. I'll see if I can dig up the actual name of this idea.

1) shouldn't a physicist be open to investigating any and all theories? 2) if physicists would investigate the mind, all theories would be unfolded because the reality that physicists try to explain is 3)nothing but perceptions in the mind. 1) No, a physicist should be open to examining...

if you look at this bitmap it basically gets the theory across. Starting on the left with the blue line, and electron it moves forward in time until it sees a gamma ray(green), then it starts moving backwards in time(what we see as a positron) until it sees another gamma ray, and it then turns...

Yeah I know what you are talking about. It was one of feynmann's ideas(kind of). when an electron and a positron come together they anihilate and form a gamma ray. Feynman said that both the elctron and positron involved in the annihilation had a past. before they came together (duh) and...

there is nothing wrong with that equation. The 35 dps have to be uniformly(evenly) distributed over a sphere whose origin is the 35 dps source. This means that you will detect an amount of dps equal to the percentage of the sphere you are monitoring.

integration of mind to machines -- yes some cybernetic work is actually being carried out. the only bit I know about though involves simulating sight in a blind man by wiring his brain. and by sight I mean a not quite dot matrix quality arrangment of dots that can perceive differences in...

Funny I had a problem like this on my thermodynamics final. Yes Presure affects the speed of sound(we'll call it u) in the material. The equation follows u^2 = d P/d Rho)s The speed of sound squared is equal to the partial of Presure with respect to density at constant entropy.

That problem is the result of A setting into affect the actions which result in B, say having a ladder kicked out from under you causes you to fall. if the events where to be connected faster than c, then you would fall before the ladder was kicked out from under you. Hence the paradox, you...

Theoretically, the rim of a black hole is very unstable. This instability leads to something known as Hawking radiation, yes after Stephen Hawking. What happens is that the rim of a black hole starts to produce particle/antiparticle pairs because of its instability. When an antiparticle gets...

The logic is wrong because the situation is wrong, and makes some false assumptions. Not True: The atmosphere heats and cools, not the ground(on a whole) we typically think of as the earth. Once you dig down a few feet the temperature of the Earth is fairly constant regardless of day or...

I now see where you got the x being the arm length. I was trying to put the CoG over the bar. Something tells me that the fact that you edited that post before I saw it was a good thing. We have a politics forum?

I really got to thinking about this question a year ago, and eventually came up with an answer. Forget measurement, time is the interval between events. it can (and is) strech(ed) compressed etc.

That H bomb design is the Russian one. Not that it makes much difference, but I think the American design had a single chem lens.

the only place I have seen that is in conceptual physics books. I have NEVER seen it in any analytical Physics books.