What type of god do you belive in (4 Viewers)

[SONYMEGADRIVE]

weird ammunition

 

[ICUH8N]

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[La La]

what an eloquent description. all i can say is if that ever happened.....well.......Karla Faye Tucker's fate would be yours too im sure

 

[ms.b.haven]

.. ..

Beautiful.

i can't spell

 

[Lefty Frizzell]

yes i fucked a gigalo and i'm also selling my story to "woman" magazine so you can read it there if you like

now if you're really interested in a good shag call 0877122513

 

[La La]

 

[ITalkShite]

i have no idea if its true, (she started a thread about it a while back) i dont really care either way. im glad to say i dont know her at all in real life. im sure you could ask her about her about the experience yourself, but i wouldnt expect a coherent answer from it!

Where's the thread? This is golddust, people! Trollop that everybody hates talks about her fucking of boy-whores! Link!

 

[ICUH8N]

*sigh

 

[Rogue]

Descartes has a theory that the reason the human mind can comprehend the notion of a supreme being is because they were created by one.

Haven't read the Descartes but surely there's a problem with that theory: comprehending the notion of a supreme being is easy but to comprehend the reality of a supreme being is beyond us. To follow his logic, if we were created by a supreme being we must be able to comprehend that being in the context of the real world, i don't think 'we' can.

I also skipped the last 3 pages so apologies if this has been talked into the ground already.

 

[ms.b.haven]

jesus. harsh

Trollop that everybody hates quote]

 

[Corey]

i repped you for all that

.

Thanks. I love rep.

you truely are a brilliant person. and i am truely stupid. now that's the recognition you wanted isn't it. what i can't come to terms with is that you continue to lower yourself by bothering with me? whys that?

I'm quite humble once you get to know me, but dont go wasting your time. And i'm not bothering with you . I'm glad you're here. To me you're like a volvo. You're big. You sound awful. I can see you coming a mile away. But most importantly, i get great mileage out of you.

So keep it comin; or dont. It's all the same to me.



I'm done spitting. This argument is over. Now, back to the joys of religion, science, and what lefty was doing in the stags head.....

 

[Corey]

*sigh

You're sick as a dog H8N, sick as a fucking dog. You hear me?? Sick.

 

[ms.b.haven]

i wouldn't even class it as that

it was just a way for you to feel better about yourself. plain and simple and those are two glorious words that remind me of you

can you post up those pistures for me now so i can look at the pretty colours

This argument is over...

 

[Wavioli]

aww wav, defending my honouw

 

[Corey]

jesus. harsh

Thats rich and aromatic like Kenco's finest blend. Hey, remeber when you said this?:

i think i come in my pants if i got just one chance to take a nice fine hard swing at that bitches head, brain juice everywhere and the little tiny whimpers of "but i always have the last word"

hahaha fucking whore

 

[Wavioli]

and i am truely stupid.

funniest sentence today

 

[ms.b.haven]

yeah well at least she's just hated by one person, i get everyone

 

[photon]

The language of physics is maths and that's the only true way to understand it. Quantum Mechanics is way weird and so removed from our realm of experience, that when you talk about it in ordinary english you have to resort to metaphor,' it's like this it's like that ', when it isn't really like anything we know from direct experience.
The maths works and makes accurate predictions however, independently of our inability to capture its meaning in english

Brilliantly put.

And it's true for any field, not just physics--there's lots of jargon that means something very specific to people working in that field, but means nothing to laypeople. So reducing technical concepts to ordinary language to get the general idea across to nonspecialists is never going to capture the full essence of what's being explained. All you can do is try your best to relate them to concepts they understand, and in language they understand.

If you don't like this, then that's fine. It just seems to me a bit unfortunate, as you've resigned yourself to dismissing any attempt by a specialist to try to tell you what they're doing.

Snakybus, I don't know what you do, but I bet it involves stuff I'm not an expert in. If I asked you a question about your field, would you immediately start spouting technical terms at me? I'd hope not, because it wouldn't mean anything to me. I'd hope that you'd try to put it in terms that I'd understand, even if it meant holding back some of the details.

I personally really admire people who can do this. As the world gets more and more specialised, it's all too easy for people to retreat into their own ivory towers and ignore the outside world. The ones who make a genuine effort to let others outside their field of study are valuable ambassadors--they hopefully let others know why it's important and useful for people to do these things, and ideally also communicate why it is (or can be) an interesting subject. And most of the time, they do so by giving laypeople the general, ahem, flavour of the subject.

Two great examples of this in my own field would be Richard Feynman and Brian Greene. Both have written "pop science" books that explain basic, but technically complicated, ideas in language that lots of people would understand. In doing so, they use metaphor, figures of speech, analogy, all those little linguistic tricks that give the reader an idea of what's going on without intimidating the fuck out of them.

But if you're happier seeing the maths, here you are:

For a particle of nonzero mass m and velocity v:

energy=E=mc^2(1-v^2/c^2)^(-1/2)
momentum=p=mv(1-v^2/c^2)^(-1/2)

For a photon of frequency f:

E=hf
p=hf/c

h is Planck's constant, c is the speed of light. And "^" means "to the power of".

Now you can decide for yourself if a photon is "pure energy". Me, I'm now off to confuse my students with technical jargon.

Paul

 

[La La]

 

[Corey]

yeah well at least she's just hated by one person, i get everyone

Save it.