Recent content by Vosh

What was going on ten years ago except trying to make chips that had more memory and were faster? I don't know what else you can do with a computer except increase capacity and speed. So, maybe that means coming up with another kind of material to use for processors besides silicon based stuff...

Finding this was a life saver! Do you have any idea how many books and websites can't manage to be this clear and straight forward? One website referred to sister chromatids as a "chromosome"... it did point out the chromatids, but then, in a large bracket, called the whole thing one chromosome...

I was wondering this, too... but I think at one point there are 92... currently trying to google it.

Well, this tips my Universe upside down. Firstly, I don't have formal training under my belt. I'm, shall we say, PBS Nova educated. That said, I'm not sure what you mean; do you mean that most of the EM radiation we encounter - as in radio waves impacting us, etc.? And the visible light is...

I read that the source of all light/EM radiation is an electron being energized to a higher orbit, then falling back and shedding a photon. But, I also read that an antenna transmits radio by dint of the e's in the antenna being vibrated back and forth so that the electric field lines emanating...

I can get the same education for next to nothing at the public library; so my opinion is that universities are over charging. Finding scholars to ask questions is work, but they're out there. Anyway, I learn best from those who have only just found out themselves... Most, though, prefer to put...

If you're going to tell people the truth, you had better make them laugh, or they'll kill you. -G.B. Shaw

I looked it up in the dictionary and "life" has about 20 different meanings.

I wish I knew! The ability to do work. Energy is the ability to do work. Information is the communication of knowledge. I can hear someone saying that the universe and everything in it communicates knowledge to us... but it wasn't knowledge until it ended up in our mind. This reminds me...

This happens to be in keeping with what I've been wondering about, so I won't start a new thread, but if it seems like I should, someone will pipe up about it, I expect. If a brick is pushed gently in space, it will move uniformly until acted upon by an external force. If it then collides...

I won't be able to help until I personally truly understand the concepts, then I will be able to explain it in understandable terms to the lay person or to an 8 year old.

Counting ten characters... So, anyone?

Oh, I was just asking a similar question - but as far as anyone having a firm idea or theory, so far as I know, no one like Stephen Hawking has made an official declaration one way or another. The discussion so far seems to consist of, "maybe, maybe not...".

does that mean that the past and the future exist somewhere? It makes it seem like everything we're experiencing is one big solid object in some higher dimension we can't visualize, naturally, just as an ever widening and then shrinking disk seen by a two dimensional person is really a 3...

Have you ever seen her behave this way? I find her to be eminently reasonable and the finest example of maturity I've ever come across. Her column is about her wanting to help people sort out the difference between reality and fantasy, which she regards as the one area most folks need more help...