Recent content by happyhacker

What would be the consequence if a powerful (1 Tesla) magnetic field came into proximity of Earth? Options open concerning size of generating body and distance. Thank You.

Are you expecting the battery to influence the magnet. A battery will produce a field if a current if flowing through it but in your 'circuit' nothing is happening afaics. Draw a circuit.

Thanks so much for that pinball and your time. I will look into your refs. So WHO is World Health Org., CDC Centers for Disease Control and Prevention? I am in the UK. Yes, I think what I am looking for is an 'accredited' (not sure if that's the right term) scientific news aggregator. I am an...

I am writing a (hard!) Sci-Fi novel and am considering capturing some of my research in references. I would welcome any suggestions as to online resources that pull together across all science (+ physics) disciplines the sort of subject materials I would likely need. Idea is to focus somehow...

I was looking online for dried organic apricots. I noticed that the chopped version had higher stated sugar content of the carbohydrates (no added sugars). An enquiry to the companies contact informed me that the chopped per 100gm was denser than the un-chopped. This seems odd to me as the...

Are the political elite in Russia suffering yet? Until they do nothing will stop this or his next target.

I worked for BT back in the early seventies with the first broadband (2MB PCM switch) run on a PDP11 doing the call handling. Stored Program Control they called it although that sounds a bit weird now. It wasn't long after that the microprocessors came in with MSI. What processor did the PDP have?

Possibly. You would need to observe and record output in response to inputs. Then you need to create flow charts for operations (black box approach). Then you would need to get the instruction set of the chips inside. Then you might be able to create the low level operations from the flow...

I assume that as the light years to another Star reduce the position of the Star will change relative to other references in the navigation calculations. So what adjustments would be necessary to a Starship's course as it gobbles up the distance to maintain pointing it's nose at the destination...

Multiverse has no mathematical theory.

Thanks, great answers even though I was not entirely clear with my question. What is the maths for the time dilation?

Would an observer many light years from Earth (and approaching say) see events leading onwards through time (to what level of detail i am not proposing but say weather and maybe Humans on the ground?) in the light received?

Many thanks. Read the references. Clear now.

Apologies, when I wrote 'like Oumuamua' I did not mean Oumuamua just referring to it's general shape. I should also have put metres for the volume. My object is in place so it's approach is not a factor. So if that does not clarify I will withdraw the question. Thanks for the input so far.

I am thinking about an extraterrestrial object like Oumuamua but say volume 750 E+9 (=750,000,000,000 I think but not sure of density although not solid rock) that takes orbit near Space to Earth. 1. Would the magnetic field of this object disturb the balance of local orbits or operation of...