I think it's the other way around, as long as there are experimentalists that keep on pushing the boundaries, there will be some eyebrows raised.March_Hare wrote:On a side note: crackpots never give up - which is what makes them different from scientists.
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- Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:54 pm
- Forum: Controversial topics
- Topic: Anti LHC, already proven wrong?
- Replies: 23
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Re: Anti LHC, already proven wrong?
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:39 pm
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19599
Re: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
If you Google "physics Brussels", Solvay is prominently there! And in stead I went for something that couldn't possibly be it, because it's standing in a park and you can't see any park in your pic... The building "Lycée Émile Jacqmain" is actually also in a park, LeopoldPark : http://blogsimages.s...
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 9:09 am
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Where will the harm come?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16282
Re: No harm
It might be useful to observe this paragraph in context. - Wittgenstein had (how can I say this respectfully) problems with seeing the importance of math in relation to other facts of life. - Math indeed is not prefect, but there is no application of math (in the sense of bridges and so on) in real...
- Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:50 am
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19599
Re: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
Either my appearance is to distractive, or you guys are blind, simply not interested, or don't like beer. But after two clear hints and I don't feel generous anymore and I'll just post the answer. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Solvay_conference_1927.jpg/800px-Solvay_confer...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:27 pm
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Where will the harm come?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16282
Re: Where will the harm come?
I can feel it, thanks, you are an angelCharmQuark wrote:... don't worry about not comforting people thats my job
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:00 pm
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19599
Re: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
Actually that hat is my souvenir of the Grand Canyon. Since it has accompanied me on several epic holidays and has become my "Epic Hat", I might take it with me if I ever get a chance to visit the LHC. Back to the quiz - since you're from Brussels, how about the Atomium? The hat is cool it makes yo...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:22 pm
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Creating "Sparks"
- Replies: 164
- Views: 305283
Re: Creating "Sparks"
I got an other reply to my TLP & Radon question: Thank you for writing about your interesting question. I presume you contacted me on the basis of our paper, Cheng, Y.-S., T. D. Holmes, T. G. George, W. H. Marlow. 2005. Size measurement of plutonium particles from internal sputtering in air. Nuclear...
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 11:24 am
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19599
Re: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
Nope, btw I gave a hint.Shadowdraxx wrote:Well... Could be Berlin,
Because it was cold, can't you see the snowShadowdraxx wrote:but more importantly, why are you wearing an arsenal hat hmm?
I sure am.Shadowdraxx wrote:Other than that I smell a Urban Explorer, I know Chris is of sorts .
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:53 am
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Where will the harm come?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16282
Re: Where will the harm come?
Proverbially speaking, I sometimes fear that I might be right, otherwise I do enjoy the speculation and the grandeur of a catastrophic event, it tickles my imagination.Stephen wrote:Are you actually afraid of the LHC, or just enjoy speculating on the subject?
Sorry, I'm not good at comforting people.
- Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:36 am
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19599
Re: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
Also, rumors have it that for greater efficiency one should wear the tinfoil as a hat... Hey March, now I get the picture why you are posing with a hat ;) Chelle: NARUTO ! Oh sorry... Off topic... ye, of course, I've got a 9 tailed demon in me, and I look a bit like him, especially when I was young...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:53 pm
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 19599
Re: Tinfoiltards mentioned in El. Reg.
I saw this topic already for some time, and I didn't now what "Tinfoiltards" meant, so I just looked it up, and Oh-oh I think I might be one. Cause my computer-space at home is shielded off by Tinfoil!!! Perhaps this the reason that I keep asking questions, while all you others have been subliminall...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:35 am
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Richard Feynman videos
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14380
Re: Richard Feynman videos
Check out also this video of him, Richard Feynman talks about the O ring: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qAi_9quzUY Wouldn't he been even more magnificent if he had came up with this before the disaster: It found that the Challenger accident was caused by a failure in the O-rings sealing a joint on...
- Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:56 am
- Forum: Science
- Topic: Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6295
Colliding Particles Can Make Black Holes
Interesting article in news.sciencemag.org (Don't know if it's already mentioned somewhere on the forum.) You've heard the controversy. Particle physicists predict the world's new highest-energy atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) near Geneva, Switzerland, might create tiny black holes, wh...
- Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:48 am
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Where will the harm come?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 16282
Where will the harm come?
I couldn't help but laugh when I read this debate in a tiny philosophic book between the man who invited your computer (T) and a man called Wittgenstein (W): http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hia3UngKtqY/S6ioOp7jywI/AAAAAAAACGM/FcmOyLCHtGc/s1600/Turing.jpg Apparently the little book is also published on the...
- Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:47 pm
- Forum: End Of The World
- Topic: Creating "Sparks"
- Replies: 164
- Views: 305283
Re: Creating "Sparks"
It says on the wiki-page: One possibility is that electrodynamic effects related to the fracturing of near-surface materials could charge any gases that might be present, such as implanted solar wind or radiogenic daughter products. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_lunar_phenomenon#Electrosta...