What Are the Unknown Forces Shaping Our Random Thoughts?

[Ivan Seeking]

Since e = mc², a rise in temperature would be a rise in energy would be a rise in mass.
You'd just need a very very fancy scale.

Correct!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Alas, no.

The container is sealed and insulated, the temperature has to go up by some internal method - one that doesn't rely on adding energy. Therefore the mass will remain unchanged.

(Have to run this by Ivan. He didn't specify where the heater is in the system, but hints seem to require it be internal. eg. No holes for probes...)

It was constructed with wires protruding for a heating element, and then sealed. :) But you could simply shake it or swirl the water and raise the temperature as well. But as OM indicated, you would need a very, very, very sensitive scale.

The mass increases due to the increased average speed of the molecules as the energy of the system increases.

 

[topsquark]

...But as OM indicated, you would need a very, very, very sensitive scale. ...

Perhaps we should get my ex-wife in here. She was very sensitive!

-Dan

 

[Algr]

Thought from today's shower: what if there were a Nobel prize for music?

Well... what music has changed the world the most? (Outside of influencing other music?)

 

[topsquark]

Well... what music has changed the world the most? (Outside of influencing other music?)

Depends on the era. Back in the 50's I'd say the beginning of the Rock era, and if you want to get a bit more modern I'd say that John Williams has had quite an effect on Symphony (though some don't actually like his influence.)

-Dan

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Well... what music has changed the world the most? (Outside of influencing other music?)

 

[Frabjous]

Well... what music has changed the world the most? (Outside of influencing other music?)

Religious chant.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

How long until Facebook [Meta] is populated by chatbots all arguing with each other?

 

[Tom.G]

How long until Facebook [Meta] is populated by chatbots all arguing with each other?

Wasn't that about 3 years ago?

 

[pinball1970]

Thought from today's shower: what if there were a Nobel prize for music?

This post has been driving me nuts. If it's just popular music then I could have a good crack at it but to include all music would be so difficult to narrow down without having a detailed knowledge of all the genres.
For me three contenders.
Popular, show (musical and film) and Jazz.
Perhaps I'll do a poll in the music category.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

This song has gone where few songs have ever gone before! Where is it now?

 

[Ivan Seeking]

This song has gone where few songs have ever gone before! Where is it now?

about 14.4 billion miles out.

I always thought this was so cool! The man was forgotten in his own time [died a horrible death] but his work may outlast the earth itself!

 

[russ_watters]

Posts discussing UFOs have been deleted. Let's keep it light here, thanks.

 

[BillTre]

Thought from today's shower: what if there were a Nobel prize for music?

Dylan got a Nobel Prize for his music.

 

[BillTre]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nobel_Prize_in_Literature

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Dylan got a Nobel Prize for his music.

I had no idea!!! WOW!!!
Bob Dylan
The Nobel Prize in Literature 2016
Born: 24 May 1941, Duluth, MN, USA
Prize motivation: “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”
Prize share: 1/1
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2016/dylan/facts/

 

[BillTre]

That owl would be a good surprise emoticon.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

That owl would be a good surprise emoticon.

It is now. :)

Just a big one!

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Happy now?

 

[BillTre]

View attachment 322244

Happy now?

Too small, loses some of the surprise aspect.

 

[surffoil]

After you die, you'll still receive emails for years.

My grandpa died and his Medical Insurance company kept mailing him ‘Health and Lifestyle’ Magazines. It annoyed me and upset me as he was a flawed man but a good man. After several years I sent them all back unopened and wrote on the front of each magazine.....”My grandfather Joseph Alexander died 3 years ago, please stop sending these magazines to him as his Health couldn’t be worse and his Lifestyle is unlikely to change.”.

 

[pinball1970]

My grandpa died and his Medical Insurance company kept mailing him ‘Health and Lifestyle’ Magazines. It annoyed me and upset me as he was a flawed man but a good man. After several years I sent them all back unopened and wrote on the front of each magazine.....”My grandfather Joseph Alexander died 3 years ago, please stop sending these magazines to him as his Health couldn’t be worse and his Lifestyle is unlikely to change.”.

An ex-colleague died in tragic circumstances in 2010.

Sometime later I received an alert from his linked in asking me to “link” to him, like it was from him.

I think there was an image of him too.

Very spooky for about 2 seconds before I realized it was just one of those automatic things.

Still freaks me out that his life stopped abruptly at 35, two young children and that’s it.

 

[Grelbr42]

The sun could have exploded at this moment and you wouldn't know it until 8 minutes have passed

If the sun exploded, you would not know it when the wave front got here. The wave front would be moving at very close to the speed of light. Your nerve impulses move very much slower than that, something in the neighborhood of 100 m/s. So, by the time your nerve impulses traveled from any part of you to your brain, you would no longer have nerves.

 

[surffoil]

I often Ponder that as no one knows the Nature of Time, the force or whatever is still out there to be found. And I wonder what could be all around us, equal, indivisible , yet so far, unknown.