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One of the Few

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  1. Hello, i've been having trouble thinking of a science fair project for my Sophomore year in highschool. My partner has a moderate amount of experience with automobiles, yet i'm an aspiring theoretical physicist. She's fairly complacent and really only wants it done. I'm really picky, which is my ultimate downfall. But at this point I haven't much of a choice.

     

    We're both enrolled in Molecular Biology at the moment, and the teacher is an FFA fanatic, so he is only concerned with agriculture. The only chemistry/Physics teacher is in the arctic at the moment and I'm positively stumped.

     

    If any of you can help me by brainstorming come ideas i'd be very thankful.

     

    Sincerely,

    One of the Few

  2. Hello, i had a dream a weeks ago, and still remember this vividly. It has confused me in every way, i have spent a very long time contemplating its meaning.

     

    First I see my self (or to what I assume to be myself) Carving a three pointed star comprised of scalene triangles rotating clockwise. All corresponding points are linked by punctures, into the wood of an old oak desk in my house. I look deeply into this symbols and a quicksilver mass rises out of the center, twisting and writhing, I proceed to look into the mass and see a horrific eye pulsating, growing and shrinking, pupil dilating and encompassing the whole eye.

     

    It is all so confusing, I could really use some help, whether it is interpretation of said dream, or a tidbit if knowledge to what this symbol is.

     

    Thank You,

    One of the Few

  3. I have a simple question, if I were to use a cylindrical NdFeB magnet and coil it in a plastic coated copper wire, would it amplify it's magnetism? (such as in iron or nickel.)

     

    Furthermore, if I were to get ahold of liquid nitrogen, would this "contraption" super-conduct?

     

    I am very interested in learning how electromagnetism works, and wish to go further than coiling iron nails.

  4. 45% of people told Gallup that God created the Earth 10,000 years ago, while 37% said that humans have developed from less advanced forms of life, but God guided the process.

    QUOTE]

     

    I am one of the 37%, although i'm not very religious, I feel that something must have given us a little boost every once in a while.

     

    In fact, if i was a super religious person, i'd have never joined this website.

    People are scared of that which they don't know, and always will be, it's a part of our nature that religion has only magnified.

  5. As iNow stated, our brains use the same machinery during dreaming as it does when we're awake.

    When we're awake, our brain produces a coherent reality based in information it is givin about it's surroundings from our senses. The brain is constantly updated with new information about what's happening.I]

     

    Perfectly put, when we fall asleep, the part of our brain that forces reality and conformity shuts down. We are left defenseless to our brains' "secondary" interpretation of reality. Our brain is so complicated, we may never fully understand it.

  6. My goal in high school was to retire by age 40. So far I have been retired 12 years but may have to go back to work around 70 or so, hopefully I will have learned a useful skill by then.;)

     

    In all honesty, unless i love what i am doing, i don't want to be working at age seventy.

  7. you don't HAVE to go to MIT to get a good education. there are plenty of very good universities out there.
    I know, i've just been so set on MIT, i guess it's an ultimate goal for me. Maybe i'll just get my first four years at UW or WASU and then try enroll in massachussetts.
  8. Yes, it's not like most physics books though. You don't NEED to read the book in order, it's in sections that can be read individually. It is extremely re-readable, I must have read the whole thing a total of 5-6 times.

  9. NO! It's merely the debate, over a hypothetical machine. While it has been attempted before, if s/he had never heard of it before, it is very intuitive of them.

     

    Despite this I still abide and respect the laws of thermodynamics.

  10. Exactly, the only things preventing me are the overall cost of going to MIT, and the fact that I am smart but can't seem to get the grades I need. MIT rarely accepts B students, especially in the advanced courses, let alone a C+/B- student. Luckily I am curbing my habits and getting better about grades.

  11. At first I wanted to be an inventor, making billions with my revolutionary ideas. Then i started looking deeper into the science of my inventions and found i liked that even more. Alas my passion is physics, but in my future I see a business man. Hopefully though it is my own business and I am doing something useful and fulfilling.

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