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Like people said, he obviously didn't marry her for her mind. :rofl:Jimmy Snyder said:If a car is traveling at 80 miles per hour, how long will it take to go 80 miles?
Like people said, he obviously didn't marry her for her mind. :rofl:Jimmy Snyder said:If a car is traveling at 80 miles per hour, how long will it take to go 80 miles?
Gokul43201 said:A cylindrical hole is drilled diametrically through a sphere. If the height of the cylindrical wall generated is L, what's the volume of the remaining material?
Isn't she a legislator in Tennessee? Then again, probably not - she's smarter than that.Evo said:Like people said, he obviously didn't marry her for her mind. :rofl:
Jimmy Snyder said:If a car is traveling at 80 miles per hour, how long will it take to go 80 miles?
The question is complete. Perhaps I can clarify a little bit by calling the cylindrical hole a cylindrical through-hole (think of the guy that's digging a tunnel through the center of the earth).QuarkCharmer said:Doesn't that depend on the radius of the drill?
emailanmol said:Does someone have a link to the solution of infinite resistance network.?
Oh I see what you mean.Gokul43201 said:Your attempt (ignoring the typo in the formula for the volume of a sphere) is missing the volume of the two "polar caps" that are lost as well. And of course, it's relying on numbers not provided in the question.
Only if you're blonde.DragonPetter said:Is this supposed to be so simple to confuse you of the obvious answer?
Gokul43201 said:A cylindrical hole is drilled diametrically through a sphere. If the height of the cylindrical wall generated is L, what's the volume of the remaining material?
QuarkCharmer said:
Borg said:Divine intervention.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSSzjgVl9RM
Q_Goest said:Here's an oldie I really love: You're in a room with 2 doors and 2 guards. One of the doors leads to freedom, the other to death, you don't know which is which. One of the guards always tells the truth the always lies but you don't know which guard is which.
You are allowed to ask one of the guards one question to gain your freedom. What do you ask?
DragonPetter said:You ask one guard what the other guard would say if you asked him which door leads to freedom.
Jimmy Snyder said:If a chicken and a half can lay an egg and a half in a day and a half, then how long will it take for a cockroach to kick all the seeds out of a cucumber?
Nice work. How did you solve it?BobG said:What is [tex]\frac{\pi L^3}{6}[/tex]
This is really all you need to do to solve the question, especially given my confirmation that the answer was independent of the radius of the hole.BobG said:I imagined a hole through the sphere with a radius of 0, in which case the nonexistant hole has a length equal to the diameter of the sphere, making it easy to calculate the remaining volume.
The washer method is nice. Didn't think of that.Or, in English, I used the washer method of integration using the radius of the sphere (R) and the radius of the hole (r). Your limits of integration can be from -x to x (with x calculated from R and r using the Pythagorean theorem) or, since spheres are symmetrical, from 0 to x and then just double the volume (the latter means less arithmetic).
[tex]V = \frac{4 \pi (R^2 - r^2)^{3/2}}{3}[/tex]
The length of the hole (using the Pythagorean theorem) is:
[tex]L = 2 \sqrt{R^2 - r^2}[/tex]
Substituted L into the original solution.
Not really (or maybe I'm just making excuses for my inelegance). That's how I double-checked that the question was indeed legit. All you have to do is calculate the volume of a "polar cap", and that takes maybe a couple minutes or so.It would be a very hard problem if you started with L and tried to solve it.
BobG said:I imagined a hole through the sphere with a radius of 0, in which case the nonexistant hole has a length equal to the diameter of the sphere, making it easy to calculate the remaining volume.
Then I imagined a hole through the sphere with a radius equal to the radius of the sphere, in which case, the sphere ceases to exist, the length of the hole is 0, and the remaining volume of the nonexistant sphere is 0.
Then I imagined all the possible radii for the hole in between 0 and the radius of the sphere.
Gokul43201 said:This is really all you need to do to solve the question, especially given my confirmation that the answer was independent of the radius of the hole.
Alow me to defend it for a moment.Ryan_m_b said:By what stretch of the imagination is this "art"?
Yes. If who we are is an emergent property of our brains, then a copy of our brains is also us.netgypsy said:when you were reassembled, would you still be on the inside looking out?
Each would view themselves as the original.netgypsy said:And one could take this one step further. If you were accidentally reassembled twice, which one would you be inside looking out of? One, none or both??
Which is why the answers are so easy. We are the sum total of our physical bodies. Reassembling our bodies, whether singularly or plural, means we have reassembled ourselves.netgypsy said:And I'm interested in this problem from the point of view of physics, not philosophy or religion.
DaveC426913 said:...ST:TNG: ...
Which is why the answers are so easy. We are the sum total of our physical bodies. Reassembling our bodies, whether singularly or plural, means we have reassembled ourselves.
What is it, exactly, wrt Bell-type LR formulations of quantum entanglement, that causes Bell inequality violations?dpa said:hi all,
i want you to post best mind boggling/twisting questions you know of.
Thanks
dpa
I'm genuinely sorry to hear that you require pain medication. But how, exactly, does one get pain medication? I've experienced some rather severely painful intervals during flareups of my ulcerative colitis/Crohn's disease, but the VA is quite reluctant to administer pain medication. Anyway, it's in remission now so no problem. My generic pain medication is brewsky.Evo said:Why is it that sometimes my pain pills work one day and not the next for the same symptom?
Ok, so, in theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there's often a difference between theory and practice. But it's practice, not theory, that decides the truth of things. Fact: theories are sometimes wrong. So, the theory that there's no difference between theory and practice is wrong.skippy1729 said:A short mind boggling answer:
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.
Yogi Berra
Well, in theory at least..ThomasT said:Ok, so, in theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there's often a difference between theory and practice. But it's practice, not theory, that decides the truth of things. Fact: theories are sometimes wrong. So, the theory that there's no difference between theory and practice is wrong.
You wouldn't! Where did you get this idea?netgypsy said:This bothers me because Identical twins aren't both on the inside of both bodies looking out. The are identical but separate. Assuming you could be reassembled twice at exactly the same time from exactly the same pattern I still can't perceive that you would be inside both bodies looking at yourself or even being able to switch back and forth.
Define "you" in a rational way.netgypsy said:Clones are incredibly close but not the same consciousness. it's true you couldn't be assembled at the same place as well as at the same time but I somehow suspect that if you were disassembled you would be no longer there period. You would "die". And the reassembled "clone" for want of a better term would be your twin but not you.
Wait. When did we start talking about clones? That's a completely different beast. A clone does not share anything with the original except DNA.netgypsy said:But the weirdest part of the whole thing is that this twin would have all your memories, perceptions, thought processes and so on but i think it would be your identical clone, not you.
Yes it would. You asked for physics, not philosophy or religion. Any identical copy of your body and brain will truly be "you". Multiple copies will all be "you".netgypsy said:As was said, the point is, if this could be done, two new identical consciousnesses would be created but "you" would no long exist in the sense that I am now inside my body looking out, as this would cease if I were disassembled, and would not be recovered in the two new identicals.
Not if you want to stick to your original tenet of 'phyics please, not philosophy or religion'. It would be a very short discussion.netgypsy said:The twin study of long distance communication between two DNA identicals besides cell phone would be quite interesting.
Yes. This should have a period on the end, and a paragraph break.netgypsy said:I do not at this point have any data that leads me to believe it can happen
What? Of course we do.netgypsy said:but I do feel there are refinements of the senses, combinations of them and so on that we don't have data on yet that cause fish, flocks and herds to act as a unit rather than an individual.
They're not gone.netgypsy said:One more interesting ramification of the disassembly and reassembly, if two new identicals were produced, could the family, spouse, children tell that the original was gone
You don't see any reason? humans - heck, vertebrates - are vastly more complex than single celled organisms. It's like saying I can walk to the store so I see no reason why I can't walk to A. Centauri. Walking does not scale up.netgypsy said:Which leads to another interesting question - cells divide by binary fission so I see no immediate reason why an entire human couldn't do the same and produce two where there is now one using this method.
Yes. Flatworms.netgypsy said:(To add to the mix, I seem to recall a study which indicated memory can be passed on by eating part of an individual - the study was with lower order species but a behavior was trained, then the trained individual was fed to the untrained which then exhibited the behavior of the trained individual.)
DaveC426913 said:Yes it would. You asked for physics, not philosophy or religion. Any identical copy of your body and brain will truly be "you". Multiple copies will all be "you".
Not if it was created at different place or different time. What makes me, me, is physical. The fact that I'm inside looking out is physical. So why should I not be inside all of them looking out? Because they were created at a different time or place? I don't consider the fact that I'm "inside" this body looking out to be religious or philosophical. I consider it to be a physical fact. I stick my finger and it hurts. I'm inside looking out. That's physical. We don't adequately understand how we get inside one entity but why does the fact that we don't understand it make it "not physical". We don't understand a lot of things but that doesn't mean they aren't physical.
Not if you want to stick to your original tenet of 'phyics please, not philosophy or religion'. It would be a very short discussion.
A twin study would be done using PET or MRI and determining if there is a physical connection over a distance. It may have already been done but I haven't read about it. Not that difficult. What does it have to do with religion or philosophy?
Yes. This should have a period on the end, and a paragraph break.
And your point is?
What? Of course we do.
Then please share the study that indicates how multiple members of flocks and herds react at the same time when all cannot see or hear the the disturbance that caused the deviation in the first place.
They're not gone.
I'm dead according to the definition of dead meaning my physical body is no longer a functioning organism. The duplicates are not even identical if they aren't created at the same place in the same time. Any time delay between destruction and creation of the organism will have an effect.
You don't see any reason? humans - heck, vertebrates - are vastly more complex than single celled organisms. It's like saying I can walk to the store so I see no reason why I can't walk to A. Centauri. Walking does not scale up.
Don't assume that I don't know the difference between a single cell and human/vertebrate. Theoretically is there a reason this cannot be done? Is there a law of physics that would violated?
Yes. Flatworms.
No. Chopping up humans and feeding them to other humans does not imbue the cannibals with the memories of the hapless victims.
Flatworms don't have brains. They're a walk to the store. It is not simply a matter of "scaling up" to more complex organisms - any more than getting to A.Centauri is a scaling up of the walk to the store.