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I will be graduating in a year with a B.S. in Mathematics, and will likely go into industry working with computers. I know how to program, and am fascinated with the mathematics of computer science (combinatorics, graph theory, algorithm analysis, etc). I came across a masters program...

I would like to hear what your thoughts are about the Large Hadron Collider they are going to fire up in August? Think were making a doom's day product?

Hi. I plan to major in aerospace engineering after high school. My question in, does it matter where I go for my undergraduate degree in aerospace engineering? The in-state public university has an AE program, but isn't accredited by ABET. I was wondering whether I should stay in state...

Several questions they may not be all answerable but hey :D How do proton and neutrons stay together? If one's got a positive charge and one's got a neutral charge there's nothing holding them together? Once a proton is split from a neutron and/or it's nucleus would you be able to bind them...

Given that 1/ f(cx) = k - g(x) and 2/ the above is an identity, where f(.) and g(.) are two functions and c, k are real valued constants. The problem is to infer upon the types of f(.) and g(.). I have a hunch that f(.) and g(.) are logarithimic functions. Can anyone provide...

Note: Please read the entire opening posts. As some of you may know, I moved to Quebec City about a month ago. I found the place I live in just a week before I moved here. I just jumped on the boat and came here. Family, friends, and colleagues thought this was crazy, and amazing. (I'll get...

I'm interested in hearing from the experts (practicing physicists and teachers) here about what you think of the possibility of an artificial black hole being created at CERN and, specifically, if you think it possible the black hole could interact with surrounding matter and pose a danger to...

Ok imagine this: --1---|------2------- | 4 | |-------3------ 1 is a rigid pipe supplying air at a constant rate 2 and 3 are elongated air tight cloth bags of equal volume 4 is a rigid pipe connecting the 1,2 and 3 together Would both the bags fill...

So, I am finishing my undergrad (physics) this year and have several offers from graduate schools. What I am looking for is some insight as to what career appears to be better as far as job opportunities and pay. I am equally split on which program I like more, so that has become a...

just a thought. if the energy of a photon E= hf. and an electron can receive or loose photons in such energies only. and the electron can not absorb half of the photon then the other half just a full quantum at a time. doesn't that mean is some sort of way that there is no time elapsed...

i've never been good at putting my thoughts into words...so i was hoping someone could pickup on my theory, maybe even share it, and help me edit it so it's more easily readable. thanks :) there is only 1 thing that exists. the universe. it is all 1 thing. 1 single matter. 1 with its many...

So I am just a simple high school student whom, while reading Elegant Universe, came up with an idea that would answer why the quantum world is so unusual. I am not well educated in quantum mechanics or the such, so please don't be too brutal while shooting down my thoughts, lol. So, while I...

Hello, All. I found this forum through a google search. This post could have been attached to the thread started by Bob Guerico on 09-Jan-08, but I felt it would be better to start a new thread. I've been reading about SR and GR for about a year now. I've been through several iterations of "I...

My posts have been rude i am just annoyed that all though i have learned a lot about cosmology i have learned nothing that matters, you guys spend years of hard work doing things only you can, i wish you had a bigger budget to work with, so that theory could be tested, i know you would like...

My thoughts "Emergent physics: Fermi point scenario G.E. Volovik" http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0724 Emergent physics: Fermi point scenario G.E. Volovik What if Volovik is correct that the true TOE is some sort of Fermi point scenario? 1 string theory is dead, and SM particles are not...

I'm reading a book, "Schrodinger's Rabbit's", by Colin Bruce. In it, he subscribes to a theory that explains quantum mechanics with a hidden variable theory, called the "Pilot Wave Theory". The idea is a basically a particle theory of physics, with the exception that every particle has a...

I just took a look out the window and saw what seemed to be confetti. But then I noticed that no two were alike so it had to be snow flurries. I paid close attention to one of them that seemed in no hurry to go anywhere. It would sink a few inches, then rise, move a little to the left, but not...

<<Note from Moonbear: I've separated this from the urinal thread since it seems to have become a discussion all it's own. I couldn't resist the title. :redface:>>[/color] Jackson Pollock's work was brilliant. Art from that era looks inexplicable to people like Evo, but there is method in...

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...

Let me start off by saying I'm not 100% certain that this is the correct forum for this to be posted in, if I'm incorrect in doing so, I apologize. I've found several threads previously discussed about mousetrap cars, none of which answer the questions I have. I have four days to design...

Hi, we know that in a system with two base states, any state ∣Φ> of the system can always be described as a linear combination of the two base state:∣Φ>=∣1>*C1+∣2>*C2, where C1 is the ampitudes to be in on base state and C2 the other. My question is, does that mean the state ∣Φ> can only swing...

Albert Einstein says that knowledge is a tree of which different specializations are its branches. Sri Krishna in Bhagwat Gita similarly, says that Knowledge is a tree upside down i.e., of which root is on top; and trunk, branches and leaves spread at bottom. If we all see the expansion of...

Thoughts on the "caged birds in a plane" chestnut. Someone recently asked in the notes and queries section of a British newspaper, "would the weight of a plane flying at a constant altitude change if its cargo of birds in cages were all on their perches or flying about in their cages?". I have...

If one person is disgruntled but later adopts a cheerier mood, are they now gruntled? If firefighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight? (OK, not mine, but it's still hilarious).

Anybody here ever try online dating? I think it is starting to get more credit from back when it started—people are complete losers that try it, and that nothing good ever culminates. Are there any stores, thoughts, or personal experiences with it from people here?

What exactly does everyone here think on Martian life, and the existence of water on Mars.

I have another question. Some of you may know I plan on moving out soon. My other problem is about your thoughts about putting school on hold. I don't mean permanently. If I can get a $35-40,000 job on a 12 month contract, would it be such a bad idea to put school on hold. Before I had the...

I was looking into why chloroplasts and mitochondria have their own DNA separate from the cells DNA. I found an interesting theory; Chloroplasts and Mitochodria were once single celled organisms. Another single celled organism consumes the mitocodria/chloroplast, but they continue to...

What are your thoughts on how we can successfully win in Iraq, and does anyone know of examples where insurgencies have been successfully crushed in the past?

RE: Thoughts on existence (& happiness) Sorry I'm not sure if its o.k. to continue a thread, I just find this an interesting subject because it's such a basic question. What are peoples reasons for living from one day to another? Not only as individual humans but as a whole specie. I'm not...

I used to be very pessimestic regarding humanity's fate, thinking we would kill each other off in ten or so years. I only recently changed my ideas when this thought appeared: We can war and be dumb for another century or so, just as long as we don't use doomsday weapons we'll eventaully snuff...

This is just an idea I had to do with shared thoughts that can be found among groups of people. When people share an experience there is bound to be shared thoughts on the experience. Could the fact that similarly configured pulses of neuronal firing in the brain and nervous systems (ie...

If black holes are at the centre of each galaxy is it possible that all the matter from that paricular galaxy came from another universe through the black hole sucking in one side and blowing out the other? Transfering matter from one universe to the other. Perhaps this a natural way to...

I'm thinking about UT-Knoxville, and I've been doing some research on Oak Ridge. I'm wondering if anyone has some opinions about the place.

I'm a 4th year student in my second year as a physics undergrad. Having changed my major 4 times, I decided to settle on a subject and chose physics, which I do enjoy. However, the more I think about it, the more interesting engineering, specifically mechanical engineering, seems. Changing my...

Hello fellow scienteers and mathematians :p, after talking with my computer science teacher (who I idolize ;)) I've decided to take AP Physics next year, he'd be my teacher for that course. He wouldn't tell me what I'd be taught in that course, figures, since he's a teacher and all that jazz...

I don t understand people who feels that the only way to get some type moral guildances, control and spiritual attainment is through religion. The kind of religion that are more or less entail the worshipping of some god or deities. I am disgusted by people who feels the need to reduce the...

These are probably old ideas (or, perhaps, just stupid), but recently thinking about non-locality it seemed to me that (a) non-locality clearly shows that time's arrow IS invariant. Physics texts often point out that if you were to make some kind of movie of a physical event such as the...

So, I'm a teenager, and have always been interested in precisely how life began on earth. Is there any widely accepted and thuroughly proven theory about how you got from inorganic molecules, or even organic molecules, to the first cell? All I've ever gotten as a respons was pretty much this...

Is there any truth to this (are there actually scientific papers describing how thoughts affect genes) or is this a publicity stunt to promote his book? Liptons website

So, what are your thoughts on the Federal Reserve? I'll start the thread with some notable people's opinions on the Fed, and related to the Fed. “I sincerely believe ... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by...

Need to design a digital circuit that determines the frequency of incoming signals. Incoming signals will vary, but all will be converted to a 0-5 V square wave before going to the digital portion of the circuit. The current idea is to have a counter to count the edges for a certain period of...

http://www.filecabi.net/v/file/insanetargetpractice/wmv I, uhh, don't even know what to think :rolleyes:

According to wikipedia, earworm, a literal translation of the German Ohrwurm, is a term for a song stuck in one's head, particularly an annoying one. Use of the English translation was introduced by James Kellaris, an associate professor of marketing at the University of Cincinnati. His studies...

Brazilian cops shoot unarmed, subdued man http://www.m90.org/view_image.php?image_id=8282

I hear he has a 5 week PhD candidacy exam beginning next week, which sounds pretty intense. So I think we should give him some happy thoughts! Account no man happy till he dies. - Euripides Er, wait, I can do better. We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees. - Jason Kidd, upon...

Why i think this IS possible: Classes The polarization of classes in this country has become an increasingly large issue; http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/pove...04/pov04hi.html poverty was 12.7% in 2004, i don't have 2005 figures. So it is evident that the middle class is disappearing, which...

Could those chips which they can put in the brains of quadripletics (sorry, spelling mistake probably) which allow them to move objects by having an electronic device read their thoughts be used in other people (At a cost) for example those who wish to improve their relationships with others or...

I believe Einstein said, 1.There are four dimensions to space, the normal three plus time. 2. Speed of light cannot be obtained due to an object traveling at such speeds gaining mass. The faster it goes, the more mass gained, until it reaches “infinite mass”. 3. Mass and Energy are pretty much...

I recently read an article where the author stated that the momentum transferred to the air by a passing wing will eventually strike the earth, even from a high cruise altitude (in other words, out of ground effect) I have a problem with this for the following reasons, feedback would be...