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Posted by: @jitterboogie
I’m typing this I’m driving past
Bad Boy, DO NOT TEXT AND DRIVE. ????
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?? cesium-beam atomic clocks? everybody has a few of them laying around. ????
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@flga-2-2
He’s talking into his phone. It is attempting to translate that into words. Sometimes bread may be bred and sells may be cells.
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I’d just as soon talk to myself rather than trying to have a conversation with a phone. ????
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Wow…..
What a great post you all have helped to create!!!!
More fuel for the fire:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcubierre_drive
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Well, the thing that’s left out of all of these analyses is the human factor and how entwined it is with acceleration and velocity. Crash Davis had that figured out and he willingly shared it. Also a good example of how plugging values into the left side of an equation “solves” the right side.
Bull Durham | “Man, that ball got outta here in a hurry” – Bing video
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Remember this too….the bleeding edge of long standy accepted paradigm is offer the progenitor of the next paradigm shift.
Just saying…..
Looking back to Dirac, and the early theorosists in Quantum theory….
Either way. I am still surprised with our overall response to my simple yet not so sure post.
Awesome thanks for all of your responses
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Hated my Physics 2 teacher, he told me that gravity was the weakest force in the universe. Then goes on to lecture how gravity bends space and can stop time.
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Posted by: @nettronic
he told me that gravity was the weakest force in the universe.
I think that is true if compared by the force two subatomic particles at small distance exert on each other. On planetary mass scale, the other forces become less noticeable.
Then goes on to lecture how gravity bends space
Yes, but it takes a huge amount of mass to have noticeable bending effect.
and can stop time.
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My Engineering Physics I and II professor was one of the guys locked up for months during WW II in order to perfect the device used in Hiroshima.
- Dudley Williams
Dudley Williams, Regents?? Professor of Physics from 1964 until 1982, died December 2 in Las Cruces, N.M.
At K-State Dr. Williams conducted research on infrared spectroscopy and was internationally known for this work. He also was the primary lecturer in Engineering Physics for most of his career here. His interest in teaching led him to write two textbooks for calculus-based physics. The co-author on the first book Elements of Physics was George Shortley. This book was published by Prentice-Hall and had three successful editions. Later Dudley teamed with KSU Professor John Spangler to write Physics for Science and Engineering, which was published by Van Nostrand in 1981.
Prof. Williams came to KSU following a lengthy career that was highlighted by his participation on the team led by Robert Oppenheimer that developed the first atomic bomb.
He was part of the on-site team for the first test of the weapon at Los Alamos, N.M.; his responsibilities involved measuring thermal radiation during the July 1945 test. As such, he witnessed the first test of the bomb.
”I went outside in time to see the awesome but strangely beautiful cloud column rising above Ground Zero,” he recalled years later of his experience at what became known as the Trinity test site.
”The surface around the hole was actually covered by a green glossy material formed when the original surface of the desert ground had been melted. The 90-foot steel tower on which the gadget (the bomb) had been mounted had been completely vaporized.”
Following completion of his work in what was known at the time as the ”Manhattan Project,” Mr. Williams joined the faculty at Ohio State University. He worked for one year at North Carolina State before accepting an offer to become the Regents Professor of Physics at Kansas State.
He served a term as president of the Optical Society of America.
Known for his wit and insight as well as his scholarly knowledge, Mr. Williams lived in Manhattan from his 1982 retirement until a few years ago. A native of Oxford, Ga., he was a graduate of Emory University in Atlanta, which in 2000 awarded him its Alumni Medal for distinguished achievement.
Parts of this article were reprinted from the Manhattan Mercury, January 13, 2005.
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Dudley was a dandy. You could get by with addressing him as Professor Williams, but he preferred Dudley. Always a bow tie atop a long-sleeved white shirt. Great sense of humor, which he worked into his lectures on a regular basis. In the first class there were probably 300 of us in the lecture hall. In the second class there were more like 100. Must have been quite a few majors that only required the first as everyone I ran with was in both. There were separate classes called Elementary Physics for those majors who needed a lower level of experience with the subject. However, I do recall seeing the listing for Physics for Music Majors.
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Indeed.
Both the small and large nuclear forces add electromagnetism rounded out with gravitation, are the four primary nuclear forces that create stars and nuclear bombs…..in the general sense, it’s all just physics…..
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i was sleeping in Los Alamos Last Night. And I also WAS staying at a holiday inn. Was too short to leave enough lasting osmosis of direct knowledge, but Ill go back again. I have evolved a weird travel hobby over the past 10 years or so of visiting the critical sites related to the entire project history, from Soldier Field, to Hiroshima, Hanford, Los Alamos, missed trinity this year, and will eventually visit Nagasaki, and TVA to round out the fundamental sites, which also have been created into A national park tour at each of the facilities. History contains science, whether people believe in it or not.
Pretty cool you got to study with one of those minds from the Manhattan project. When I was considering a Phd In physics, i was seeking out students that were mentees of Richard Feynman, and even had a sit down meeting with one of them. I don’t have the math chops to dive into that realm, so stayed with computers and survey and GIS.
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@flga-2-2
I appreciate the Acronym, my shortened name, its endearing( and im not being facetious) but makes me self conscious, as its the initials of the surveyor that first hired me, gave me my first opportunity to survey at age 43. John B Guyton, affectionately known as JB. I wont ever be able to fill those shoes, so if you need to acronym my ostentatious moniker, lower case would be much more comfortable. Thank you for including me in the discussion, and yes, the social ladder does indeed end just above Land Surveyor, and not by very much. 😉
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@flga-2-2
Well on a health related note, if you can see it still with out a mirror, you’re staying at a healthy weight at least. ???? ????
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@flga-2-2
Voice text, hence the crappy translation of Google
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Correct!
I was actually asking all of you for your DOB SNN and the last 3 years of tax returns. Apparently Goobergle intervened and spawned a discussion on pseudo theoretical physics. 😉
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Posted by: @bill93
I should have mentioned that at human scale the electrical force affects almost everything, even things we don’t usually think of ad electrical. Chemistry depends on it. It is the electrical force that keeps the atoms together to make solids.
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