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Grand Fromage posted:Virtual particles. The energy all balances out, yep. In fact, things balance out so well (net charge remains the same, as the particles have equal and opposite charge, so EM doesn't care. Not enough energy to do anything with the weak force, so that doesn't care. Amount of energy is the same, so gravity doesn't care. Strong force does care, but only to annihilate them again...) that the only way you can see all this poo poo happening inside the particle is to fire electrons at them really really really fast in a process called Deep Inelastic Scattering. To the rest of the universe the proton may as well be three happy little quarks just sitting there, unless you manage to get inside you really can't tell!
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That's actually kind of cool. Thanks for that technobabble. My own uncertainty experience comes from spectroscopy. Shorter the excitation pulse, greater the bandwidth (wider range of wavelengths in the pulse). Turned out to be useful since we wanted to excite a bunch of transitions instead of just one.
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Cool, I have learned something today. I think QM is my favorite area of science because it's so loving bizarre, it's totally understandable why even Einstein had his "gently caress this poo poo" attitude, but unlike some of the other bizarre hypotheses out there it's a demonstrably true theory.
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# ? Dec 22, 2013 22:27 |
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QM is arguably the most understood thing in human history. There's one number (to do with how the EM force works) that we can predict with a precision of knowing the distance between me and the moon to less than an inch. In other news, McLaren (the sports car manufacturer) are developing a system similar to one used on some jet aircraft in order to replace your windscreen wipers. It vibrates the top layer of the windscreen at some resonant frequency, making water, snow, insects, whatever just bounce off the edge. A force field for your car!
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MrL_JaKiri posted:QM is arguably the most understood thing in human history. There's one number (to do with how the EM force works) that we can predict with a precision of knowing the distance between me and the moon to less than an inch. That's why I love it. Most of it makes little to no intuitive sense but every time you turn on a computer, it reminds you that it's the way the universe works.
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MrL_JaKiri posted:QM is arguably the most understood thing in human history. There's one number (to do with how the EM force works) that we can predict with a precision of knowing the distance between me and the moon to less than an inch. You mean a deflector for your car, right?
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Windshield wipers stink, and thankfully, at long last, the technology is being improved upon.
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DemeaninDemon posted:You mean a deflector for your car, right? The bridge is out! We need to pass an anti-polarised hyperwave beam through the windscreen!
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DemeaninDemon posted:You mean a deflector for your car, right? It's more like hull plating. The percentages refer to the layer that is being harmonically vibrated
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Amazingly, this can also happen when the gluon doesn't have enough energy to do this(!!!) if the particle is short lived, due to the uncertainty principle! (small uncertainty in time due to short lifespan = big uncertainty in energy) Seriously, Quantum Physics is completely bonkers. I'm glad I went into atmospheric science, because that poo poo is bananas. --But very interesting! Thanks for that thoroughly enlightening post!
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# ? Dec 22, 2013 22:40 |
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Grand Fromage posted:If you don't read physics books for fun you are without honor. Loving the particle physics talk. Star Trek thread has the best derails.
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# ? Dec 22, 2013 22:43 |
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All this physics talk just reminds me of why I chose an Engineering major instead of Physics.
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Let's dumb this thread back down a bit.
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Thom12255 posted:All this physics talk just reminds me of why I chose an Engineering major instead of Physics. If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the warp core
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Vagabundo posted:Let's dumb this thread back down a bit. Careful what you wish for, Conquistador might come back. Today on "It Came From TAS" "The Infinite Vulcan" I really need to watch TAS. It's the only series I haven't seen.
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Science talk is cool but unfortunately you're all in the wrong thread, Star Trek has not ever been nor will it ever be about science.
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McDowell posted:It's more like hull plating. There's a hail storm coming Billy. Better polarize the windshield.
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1st AD posted:Science talk is cool but unfortunately you're all in the wrong thread, Star Trek has not ever been nor will it ever be about science. Star Trek isn't, but Star Trek fans are all about that poo poo. Were I at home I could check my Enterprise D technical manual, I'm pretty sure that's in there. MrL_JaKiri fucked around with this message at 23:02 on Dec 22, 2013 |
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Vagabundo posted:Let's dumb this thread back down a bit. The omega particles... they're self-stabilizing!
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MrL_JaKiri posted:In other news, McLaren (the sports car manufacturer) are developing a system similar to one used on some jet aircraft in order to replace your windscreen wipers. It vibrates the top layer of the windscreen at some resonant frequency, making water, snow, insects, whatever just bounce off the edge. A force field for your car! This was a thing in an Arthur C. Clarke novel though, the one about the Titanic and Mandelbrot patterns.
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# ? Dec 22, 2013 23:16 |
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Can any of these gluons turn in to warp particles?
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Lowen SoDium posted:Can any of these gluons turn in to warp particles? Don't be silly, it's Z0 bosons that turn into warp particles
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Vagabundo posted:Let's dumb this thread back down a bit. gently caress THAT poo poo we don't understand it at all, but we can beam some aboard.... how do transporters work again? Oh, and the Borg suddenly have a collective nanoboner for perfection in particle form
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O'Brien must suffer
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Trent posted:we don't understand it at all, but we can beam some aboard.... how do transporters work again? Look, on DS9 they once beamed a universe.
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1st AD posted:O'Brien must suffer End O'Brien's suffrage now! Nice chiefs don't want the vote.
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# ? Dec 23, 2013 00:22 |
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Beats the hell out of mind prison.
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There's more if you click through. It gets pretty dark at the end.
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hailthefish posted:There's more if you click through. It gets pretty dark at the end.
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# ? Dec 23, 2013 01:30 |
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Jesus Well, good thing he ended up on DS9 where he never wants for people bugging him to do and fix mundane poo poo
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Brawnfire posted:I would love that. "This appears to be a combination of several holodeck programs." Pan shot: Inside the Orient Express, a medieval knight struggles to remain standing, a gunslinger helps a flapper put a puzzle together, ensign Steve "services" a long line of Klingon warriors.
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# ? Dec 23, 2013 02:26 |
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Why have a transporter room if you can transport anywhere?
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redshirt posted:Why have a transporter room if you can transport anywhere? It was made specifically for O'Brien. To suffer.
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redshirt posted:Why have a transporter room if you can transport anywhere?
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MrL_JaKiri posted:They do! Like putting too much air in a balloon!
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You soured the milk, laddie!
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redshirt posted:Why have a transporter room if you can transport anywhere? The machine itself has to be somewhere, and maybe using the pads for embarking/disembarking became a kind of naval tradition; even if the technology made it obsolete.
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Transporting site-to-site takes at least double the power, per the TNG Tech Manual. It also limits the capacity of the system and is more prone to errors.
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