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This is just for my amusement... There is this "Maxwell-Faraday equation". I was thinking is there any scientific formula or law or a thing that might include two stronger names? For example, is there something like Einsten-Newton stuff in physics, or something like Euler-Gauss stuff in mathematics?

I cleared out some junk and stumbled upon an early attempt at doing “science” with math and observations to get some result. I used a cheap monocular to project a partial eclipse on a paper, the goal was to measure how much of the sun that was covered. I remember getting help with the math for intersecting circles, we had not done such geometry (yet) in school. Do you have any early memories from attempting something scientific? A fun aspect of this little experiment is that I think one can get decent precision even with cheap equipment. In the age of internet I might try to locate data* from this event and see what the real value was. But my skills at ob…

Same even with immortality, is question: 1. if you get transferred into computer 2. or die and copy of your mind gets transferred Even even if so, what if someone kills you, or you die by accident, if you mind will be backed up and than copied to new body, it won't be you, but your copy. Even if you was lucky and lived like 10k years, eventually you will die anyways, even universe is probably going to end and it will be difficult to survive... Same there is no point, why would you do that ? So you can live another x years for what ? And it is so boring, everything is predetermined, or random, which is not any better... So you maybe explorer new planets…

Is there a place on the site for videos like this and if not should there be?

Scientists have achieved powerful technologies. They use these technologies secretly. All the people in the world divide in two classes. Class A: Politicians , Famous people , Rich people - They are joined in a system. Class B: People Class A people know about the secret technologies and they have to observe system laws. For example, they can't talk about the secret technologies. I'm not in Class A. I'm in Class B. But for some reasons I know about the secret technologies and I'm going to reveal about it. Politicians can control people by space satellites. Space satellites send waves to all of your body. Specially your brain. Calss B people can not detect th…

Sorry to bring such simple minutia, but am confused. Got a kite for my daughter and cannot figure out how it goes together (no instructions) The drawing shows all the spars 8; 10 at the concave side ¿?. But there is two holes passing the strings 51, 51' trough the sail. Pictured hanged to my ceiling fan to show better, with bridles 47s ans 51s hanging. Element 37 not attached. Not shown spars are on the top side. The drawing source is ----> https://patents.google.com/patent/US4815681A/en as I saw such printed on the sail. How does it go ? Spars on convex or concave ?

So here Is was deeply immersed in studying a dissertation on CKM mixing angles with regards to Higgs and electroweak symmetry breaking. Going through the unitary triangle etc when I come across a technical term I couldn't believe. I almost thought the author had gone batty until I dug deeper. "The Feymann Penguin diagrams" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin_diagram Literally it is the one loop diagrams I have worked with and seen in dozens of technical literature however this was the first time I had ever seen them referred to as penguin diagrams. I nearly pissed myself laughing so hard.

I'm getting married next year and wanted something unique for a ring. I read on SlashDot last week that I could get an iridium ring from this company: http://www.americanelements.com. Has anyone ever bought one of these? Are they safe? Do they last? Can anyone suggest any other cool or exotic elements for wedding rings?

Any Sci-Fi people see Netflix's latest A.I. feature? It's called "I Am Mother". Synopsis: a young human girl "Daughter" is raised by A.I. "Mother" in a secure bunker after humanity has experienced an "extinction event". Things go awry when another human enters from outside, and tells the girl that all is not as it seems. Definitely worth a watch - lots of twists and turns and seamlessy produced. The film was also interesting because it's basically the movie version of Stuart Russell's TED talk: "3 principles for creating safer A.I" and his "fetch the coffee problem".

This is just cool. Could zoom in and out for a long while. Click the link to try it yourself The Extreme Temperatures of the Universe https://www.visualcapitalist.com/extreme-temperatures-in-the-universe/

I’m writing a story about a scientist in the Star Wars galaxy and he wins the Star Wars equivalent of a Nobel Prize. Do you have a Nobel prize thing my scientist can study that’s SUPER advanced and almost like Science 2.0. It doesn’t have to be super technobabbly and I’d like to avoid time travel, teleportation or parallel universes because those things conflict with the Force and could damage the story.

Does your online personality correlate to your real life personality

I hope there are no lasting ill effects to be gleaned from excessive minus points? Such as being muted or banned for instance? I hope this is not the case for if it is so, I shall immediately cut down on my creative output and confine myself to a propounding on existing ideas alone. Right now I'm balancing a 3 dimensional tightrope of creativity, learning and discussion. However if my tenure on site is at stake I shall proceed to leap off said tightrope like a leapin lizard, cut down on creativity and learning and merely focus on discussion.

The video in the attachment is the one I sent CERN. (Untitled.mp4) Short, brusque, to the point. Just like www.scienceforums.net thought me to do it. I know they will plaigarise my idea. I have no desire to hold on to a globally changing Idea. After all, I am nobody. I am also making a magazine. It's called Global Warming. The solution pertains to a heavily researched version of my CO2 salt theory. (Cover page below, designed via photoshop, incorporating stock footage and my own face-person on bottom right is yours truly. Untitled.mp4

Thirteen posts my friends would have called me a genius for. -17 points for my trouble. In my egoistical view of the world, I contend I pretty much solved all the worlds troubles. In one day. But the rules of the site beg to differ. OK, my rational self now begs that I take that as a stepping stone to greater things by adapting my views to that which must have surely been set in place for the betterment of science. Which means two important things: 1.Unless absolutely scientifically supported, theories are 'speculation' 2. The said theories even if supported by maintream science, must be as accurate as a computer program on many levels to…

I was browing google for good discussion forums dedicated to the cause of scientific thoughts and this forum showed up and here I am. It's a brilliant place for a person seeking to combine research and scientific debate and discussion with the pursuit of like minds. I am very happy I chose this forum to alight upon my scientific travails. I particularly like the extensive profile features almost akin to the complexities that facebook and youtube lavish upon themselves. Haha. Very nice! Any questions?

Hello guys, I know this is a science forum but it's also where many smart people gather. I was just curious whats your idea about investing if you had lets say a small amount of 1000$. For example I heard that most Cocoa producers are switching to other fruits as it is really not profitable so chocolate prices will surely increase. One option would be to invest in a long shelf life cocoa product.

The luthéal is a less common instrument... A historical one is in Brussel's Musée des Instruments de Musique, one built more recently is in Paris' Musée Instrumental, one was built for Daniel Hope, and apparently that's all. George Cloeten patented it in 1919 as extra hardware on a piano to change the timbre at will, plus controls available to te pianist. wikipedia And there are records of this instrument, even recently : mim.be GuiPX6BVSkg on Youtube at 9:39 (the piece starts at 05:33) Two (2) known pieces were written for the luthéal, both by Maurice Ravel, but are commonly played on a normal piano: L'enfant et les sortilèges, and Tzigane. I had alw…

Golf is one of the most technical games in the world. I agree golf requires a lot of investment initially, it does become enjoyable once you get the hang of it. It is a game of making the right strategy and using your best possible options to achieve your score. It provides a variety of hurdles which you must overcome quite similar to our lives. I gained a lot from golf, you would too if you start liking it.AND What is good about golf? ________________________________________________________________________________ Source: commercial link removed by moderator

Anyone been following this series? What can happen in the next and last episode? If you haven't been watching, spoiler alert. Spoiler Interesting to note that the Dragon Queen went hog wild burning up the city on her dragon. There are many that hate her for that, including Arya. The huge knight who was body guard for Cersei had a fight to the finish with the Hound and turns out he was a red-eyed zombie! The Hound stabbed him through the skull and the knight just pulls the knife out and keeps fighting. Then they both fall into the fire. Maybe the Knight is still alive? We can't be sure that Cersei and Jamie Lannni…

Hi all. I have the vinyl long play since forever, and on music CD, but now on doubts if a DVD exists of that show... Anyone has it / knows ?

I've taken a little break from writing my paper on the proof of the Collatz conjecture to work on some new music. From now on, I'm going to post all of my music to this thread. So, I will be making posts throughout the week of all of my music here. This online concert begins with my latest composition that I wrote for someone who I completely adore and is one of my best songs yet. Enjoy!!!

Polling in yet another election closed a few minutes ago. In fact it was so cold I saw a politician with his hands in his own pockets. .......?

Hey all, it's been a while since I was on here. Thinking I'll start posting again. ~ee