Its a magical barrier. It has no temperature. If it absorbed heat then it would be draining heat from the system, which therefore means it doesn't have heat capacity. All energy that strikes the magical barrier is reflected back to the direction it came from. Because the energy is reflected...
The physics are the same except that there is a magical barrier which prevents most energy from leaving the system. What if I said that instead of a magical barrier it was a small, closed bubble of space time where expansion was equal to gravity.
It means that no energy is lost from the system. I also specified that the perfect insulator "prevents anything from leaving".
I also never said there is a material that exists with these properties. I'm not asking if its realistic. Read the op again please. I think you're confused.
"One of...
A hypothetical is anything where you posulate an assumption to be true. But anyways say that 1 photon every million years is released so that entropy is non zero.
But if fusion stops then that means the core isn't pushing outwards against the force of gravity. Then gravity causes the fusion to...
So this is kind of a crazy hypothetical, but what would happen if you surrounded the sun in an invulnerable, perfectly insulating sphere that prevents anything from leaving. I imagine that as the sun heats up, the rate of fusion increases and the life time of the sun decreases. But that's about...
I'm confused on how a null surface, where light falls into the black hole, is moving at all. This is like saying that a shadow is moving; a shadow is just the lack of light though and doesn't exist in any physical sense.
How would this particle imply other particles? If its a new particle that the standard model didn't predict, then how could you possibly know it implies anything at all? Why couldn't it just be one particle on its own?
I didn't say it had to do with code optimization. All I was suggesting was the lines of code does, in fact, have an impact on performance and speed (in web development), which is what the topic is. The topic isn't necessarily about making the code execute more efficiently based on the title.
So I have a school project that requires me to use a sliding window in order to transmit a file to a server, but I'm having trouble understanding how sliding window works.
I don't really understand how rejects are done and how the program knows to send a new packet and then move onto the next...
In web programming your code gets minified, which means all the superfluous junk and formatting is erased. This gives performance advantages and lowers the amount of bandwidth required to transfer the web code to the user.
I obviously realize that sound requires a medium to go through. However, suppose that there was a supernova and it was magically surrounded by an atmosphere that has the same composition and density as Earth's atmosphere. Now, if you were far enough away so you didn't get wiped out, then what...
I doubt its that general relativity needs to be modified. Cosmologists and astrophysicsts have shown that the distribution of dark matter isn't even, and you would expect the effect of dark matter to be directly proportional to the galaxy's mass if it was a problem with general relativity...
There's this game called sword of the stars and one of the most interesting weapons is the meson beam. Essentially what happens is that mesons are generated and accelerated close to the speed of light so that they decay once they're inside an enemy ship, thus bypassing all defenses and creating...
I've noticed there are a lot of documentaries and youtube videos about what would happen if the Earth stopped spinning.
However, I would like to know what would happen if the Earth kept speeding up, what would happen if it did, and the approximate maximum rotational velocity before the Earth...
So for an outside observer it appears someone falling into is slowing down and then gets redder and redder. But what about for the local observer? From the perspective of the person falling I would imagine that the universe would appear to speed up tremendously. Is it possible you could survive...
In theory you would see the universe speeding up if you were falling into a black hole since for your frame of reference the universe would appear to experience time more quickly. Its possible you would see the entire duration of the universe pass before your eyes, and it would becoming...
But why wasn't the primary objective to find life? I mean I would trade all the evidence of past water and all of the dirt analyses and all of the atmospheric tests for just one clearcut example that life was on mars. Minerology is laughably insignificant compared to the search for extra...
I think it might be worth it to try rather than confirming for the umpteenth time that "ZOMG WATER WAS ON MARS". I don't understand why we need to confirm that there was water when the evidence is basically undeniable.
Its worth the effort to sample the actual content of water and perhaps see...
Thanks for your reply. Don't we already know how when and where water existed on mars? And don't we already know the soil composition since the days of the 1970s? I thought the viking lander figured out a good chunk of stuff in the 70's. Then I'm pretty sure the two rovers before curiosity found...
They had a satellite which saw water streaks on the surface. If they could some how use curiosity to intercept those streaks and investigate the liquid composition then that sounds more useful than re confirming that water is and has been on mars.
Look for life of course. Or focus on a europa mission, or focus on sending a probe to investigate titan's methane lakes, or check our enceladus' under water ocean, etc, etc. I mean I can think of an infinite number of superior missions. We already know there was water on Mars approximately up to...
there's an entire branch of philosophy devoted towards that question but the limestone deposits, the silicates, and the dried up rivers, deltas, canyons, etc are all conclusive enough in my submission.
I might ask you though how much evidence is needed to constitute proof for gravity? Or do we...
So I always see in the news that the curiosity rover or some NASA study of previous data discovered evidence of water like its actually news. Wasn't it shown a decade ago that there is conclusive evidence that lots of water existed on mars? I don't get why they're still spending so much time...
Thanks, but black holes don't really have a temperature right, and doesn't this black body equation only relate to a regular object that emits light? The black hole itself might have temperature but the event horizon is not a black body in the traditional sense because its a boundary where the...
If you're only dealing with the relationship between x and y as specified by dy and dx, then Z is just a constant i would image. Its like when you integrate and you get the + c constant added, but that C variable isn't one of the relationships in the equations.
so if you integrate z*dx then...
Why is it that the smaller the black hole is, the more quickly it supposedly evaporates? It seems like a black hole should radiate energy proportional to the surface area of the event horizon. To me it seems like the evaporation should slow down the more the black hole shrinks because the energy...
Does the set of random integers with random lengths (the number of digits), which hypothetically would generate random numbers with random lengths for eternity, produce all possible integers? It seems to me that this is a natural conclusion but I've never seen a proof of this. A more incredible...
Its infinite because it has an infinite number of decimal places. I didn't say infinite in magnitude i just said infinite.That second part refers to an infinite number like pi for instance which has random decimal numbers. The idea is that contained in something like pi is all possible patterns...
That's a fallacy, also known as the false analogy. Math has concrete results in a variety of fields and it is used in physics to make predictions. The usefulness, productivity, and efficacy of math makes it completely different from string religion. Furthermore, are you seriously putting string...
That depends on your definition of directly observe. I don't assume directly observe means only with your eyes. Directly observe in my case means that you can use some instrument or device or method to measure and determine its existence; my point was also that due to the uncertainty principle...
Yeah you can disprove it because there is unbeatable evidence. The issue of solipsism doesn't have evidence one way or another because you could never show that someone was actually conscious or just a perfect replica. Solipsism assumes the difference between those two ideas and so the...
An infinite number is one that goes on forever and so there are an infinite number of compressible sequences inside a completely random number. 3 obviously doesn't represent infinity so that point is moot. So compression could run an infinite number of times especially considering compression...
But its completely illogical and wrong according to all the evidence which is why its stupid. Believing in something with no evidence, logic, or sensibility is stupid IMO. The experiment could be and has been done without human observation by using video cameras and it would work the same. Also...
Seems more like the string religion. No predictions, not that much evidence, and no apparent way to observe something 50 orders of magnitude that small. I mean considering it seems almost impossible to observe something on the 10^-32 meter magnitude, it seems even more impossible to observe...
People say that human consciousness and observation is what causes a wave collapse. That's incredibly stupid though and I am confused as to why anyone would think that. What's causing it is the interaction of the wave with something like a photon that we use to observe it. It has nothing to do...
So I've read from various places that maximal compression produces a truly random output. But suppose you were going to apply compression to a truly random series of numbers with something like LZW. Well wouldn't it be the case that since randomness often produces sequences which do not appear...
Ok fair enough, but i also provided some evidence that protein folding depends on quantum mechanics; projects like folding @home use quantum physics in their simulations in order to get better results like using QM to make improved predictions like my collagen example. And if protein folding...
How did it not happen by chance? Unless you believe in predetermination, which is basically disproved by QM, that seems like an incredibly big claim. At some point its likely a bunch of large organic molecules were frothing around with some high temperatures and or reactive chemicals, which...
Hhere you go:
" In 2005, Folding@home tested a new quantum mechanical method that improved upon prior simulation methods, and which may be useful for future computational studies of collagen. Although researchers have used Folding@home to study collagen folding and misfolding, the interest...
So you're saying something like photosynthesis has a classical formulation that doesn't depend on QM formalism? The absorption of light by a molecule, which then causes a disturbance in the electrical properties and chemical bonds of the molecule, leads to the formation of a glucose molecule...
Hence I am suggesting sub surface water like Europa or Enceladus or Titan or the underground aquifers of earth. Bacteria could exist in sub surface water aquifers at the poles or something--where its just cool enough to allow a kind of high temperature bacterium to survive.
Higher bases like base 16 also seem like likely candidates for alien math because those bases compress more information with fewer digits. However, aliens probably don't use just one base. Its convenient to use many different bases for a variety of different tasks. No need to just stick with one...
Don't underestimate planets. If the planet has low levels of green house gases and harbors a sub surface ocean, it could potentially harbor some kind of life. Life on Earth is known to be able to survive high water temperatures as well.
I mean just consider our own solar system; moons like...