exchemist

So this is all gibberish, then. None of the quantities in your equation have any defined physical meaning at all.

What is f? And what is E?

What source are you quoting from?

You have not answered my question, which is what quantities do u, g, and f represent? They must each stand for some quantitative property if your expression is to make any sense.

You need to say what these quantities u, g, f are. I am also a bit dubious about the value of an expression that contains an infinity symbol multiplied by a quantity and equates that to what looks like a sum of energies. You seem to have copy-pasted this from somewhere. What is the source you are quoting?

Ah, I see, fantasy-adventure-comedy. No wonder I haven't heard of it. 😁

Is this some kind of mash-up of HMS Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance?🤔

I have Percy Scholes, who only provides a few lines on hemiola and if you look up sesquialtera he refers you to hemiola. There seems to be some difference of opinion in the literature about whether the terms are synonymous or not. It may be a transatlantic distinction, as with some other musical terminology, the names of grape varieties, the spelling of the chemical element Al (Americans use the original name), the numbering of seats in a rowing VIII and so much else.

But note that the LLM opted to disguise its blunder by wrapping that up with reference to both geology and “human history”, whatever that means. This is what is so creepy and dangerous. If it had simply referred to national parks that would have been OK.

Hemiolas are quite common in Baroque music. Händel uses one in bars 9 and 10 of the introduction to this well-known chorus from the Messiah: It's in 3/4, i.e. 3 crochets in a bar, so 1 2 3, 1 2 3. However in bars 9 and 10, as you approach the cadence at the end of the opening theme, the rhythmic "feel" of the music changes, like this :...... 1 2 3, 1 2, 1 2, 1 2, 1 2 3. The time signature remains 3/4 but the pattern of notes superimposes a rhythm that feels like 2-in-a-bar over the underlying 3-in-a-bar. In my score this is marked by 3 square brackets along the top and bottom of the stave, grouping the 3 pairs of the hemiola, spread across 2 bars of the music. If you listen out for it, this happens at the 10 sec mark.

I gather in music the Latin for hemiola is sequialtera, both meaning 3:2. But I'm only familiar with hemiola.

Well yes, I don't see why this remark is the least bit shocking, as it is obvious. The ambassador said he disliked references to this outmoded phrase, which is due to Churchill and was said 70 odd years ago. A lot has clearly changed and it has become both absurd, and in my view demeaning, for the Brits to keep harping on about it in the hope of special favours. The King I thought put the relationship in the right context by reminding everyone of the shared history and the fact that so many of the legal and constitutional principles of the USA are due to that history, right back to the Bill of Rights and even Magna Carta. If there is a special link, that is what it is. One perspective that being a hereditary monarch provides is a view of the broad, long, sweep of history. I think it was useful for the King to remind US politicians of history, their place in it and their concomitant responsibilities. Easy to lose track of that in the heat of the day to day pressures. One favour Trump has done the British is to strip away the cosy assumption that the USA will always protect us. It is clear that it won't, or rather may not, depending on the government of the day. We and the other Europeans need to be able to defend ourselves, possibly even from the USA. So let's junk this worn-out and subservient term and stand once more on our own feet.

What a lousy cartoon. As for @Linkey 's use of it to suggest that Navalny was somehow in the pay of Putin, to boost Putin's popularity, that seems (durrh!) to overlook Putin's repeated attempts to poison Navalny and his eventual killing. I can only presume @Linkey is a Russian troll.

No, I was very much a family man at that stage, being married to a Frenchwoman who didn’t like beer and with a small son at the Lycee Vincent van Gogh in Scheveningen. So no pubs for me then. But quite a lot of singing, in an English choral soc and also in a small a cappella group that sang Renaissance polyphony (early music being a speciality at the Hague Conservatorium). I learned a lot about music while I was there.

Yes I agree, on both points.

Hmm, Scheveningen, or St. Andrew's or Helensburgh for that matter, are hardly "safari parks", though.

Bit much though when they pinch your fush n chups out of your hand.

There seems to be a distinction made between herring gulls and lesser black backed gulls: Where such measures are proving ineffective, local authorities and landowners can take immediate action if these gulls pose a risk to public health or safety under the terms of a general licence, (a licence which is already in place provided certain conditions are met). This allows them to remove the nests and eggs of lesser black-backed gulls and herring gulls without having to spend time applying for a specific, individual licence. It also allows lethal control of lesser black-backed gulls in certain circumstances. Herring gulls, however, have been red-listed as a bird of conservation concern so their lethal control is only permitted by obtaining an individual licence from Natural England. From: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/advice-on-how-to-deal-with-problem-seagulls It is not very easy to tell the difference though. And they can be a menace, as we found out when we lived in Scheveningen in the Netherlands (and my son found to a lesser extent in St Andrew's). (But you are allowed to kill foxes, I've discovered, so long as humane methods are used, e.g. not poison.)

This thread seems to be a piece of Russian propaganda intended to tarnish the reputation of Navalny. Who do you guys bother? The man is dead.

Well he does claim to be on the spectrum, so might be wired up a bit differently from you and me I suppose. But he has a range of answers now so we'll see if he was genuine, or just a drive-by creationist 😀.

Ha. My paternal grandfather lived on the Firth of Clyde and was both a Methodist minister and prof of church history at Glasgow. He knew the ins and outs of all these denominations - and tended to poke a bit of gentle fun at the Wee Frees. (He was probably part of the reason why my father rebelled and converted to Catholicism.)

A lot of “Wee Frees” up there, a sort of Calvinist denomination that includes keen observers of the Sabbath, i.e. Sunday. It was only in recent decades that steamer services became allowed to run on Sundays. There is, or was, something called the Lord’s Day Observance Society that kept a beady eye on what commerce was allowed to take place on a Sunday. There used to a rhyme contrasting the Wee Frees with the established Church of Scotland (which is Presbyterian): The wee kirk, the free kirk, the kirk without the steeple. The auld kirk, the cold kirk, the kirk without the people.

Pronounced fush and chups. (My son went to St Andrew's).

Ah yes, not all woodlice can roll up. I’ve never come across those common names though. I’ve heard a Scot call them slaters.

"Fish and Chips delicatessen" 😆 That's Scotland all right.