CPL.Luke

what you guys seem to be talking about is the semi-classical limit. Quantum mechanics simplifies to classical mechanics as the various parameters go to infinity, however classical mechanics only perfectly coincides with quantum in the limit that things go to infinity, at the macro-level classical mechanics becomes an excellent "approximation" for quantum mechanics, however quantum mechanics still holds the real answer at these levels. unfortunatly the quantum processes that are in effect at this level are poorly understood and considerable work is being done on the behavior of quantum mechanics in larger systems. The main motivation for this work is that large scale quantum systems exist like, like superconductors and understanding how quantum mechanics works at this scale may eventually lead to an understanding of how high temperature superconductors work.

however did they ever say that electrons could group together to form protons and neutrons? or that electrons could under certain circumstances form composite fermions. It is strange however that the electrons couldn't also join together to form bosons.

a linguistics forum could be interesting.

it had a verb or two, but it still didn't make any sense. well there are two kinds of economics, economic theory, and economics I think both are important and should be put into a seperate section.

how bout an economics forum, we already discuss some of the economics stuff in politics, but it really deserves it own forum.

not to mention that its hard enough to find a test site for a 50 megaton bomb let alone a 100MT bomb

the largest man made explosion in history was the tsar bomba (great bomb) in 1951, it detonated with the equivalent of 47-57 megatons of tnt, used the equivalent of 1% the total power output of the sun, and could produce third degree burns over 100 km away. It was also the cleanest nuclear weapon megaton for megaton to ever be detonated. The bomb design was severely handicapped as its second stage wasn't included in the production version, if the second stage had been included the bomb would have had a yield of 100+ megatons.

people were very much interested in space back then (mostly because of em). Einstein created SR by deriveing SR from maxwells equations, and by his doing this solved a very difficult problem in physics (the absence of the aether). It also took special relativity about 7 years to be accepted (alot of scientists did not like the idea). it also has since been proven correct by hundreds of observations The main difference between pseudo-science and science is tht scientists use existing work to build their ideas.

severian, do people with phd's ever do research? under normal circumstances

yep, some people have trouble with math in general, these people probably won't be able to understand the mathmatics of a feynmann diagram without a large amount of effort. Then again it would take me a lifetime of classes to learn how to draw anything more than a stick figure

to the sexual instinct I think you would have to look at masturbation as an example, most people were never exposed to how to masturbate, but they learned.

why no? if it were learned than it would only be practiced in certain parts of the world and certain time periods

well an easy way to differentiate between learned behavior and non-learned behavior here would be to check if isolated tribal cultures practice kissing, or to check the historical record for evidence of kissing