If you can do second order differential equations and laplace transforms you can do engineering. If you read up in advance on them and gain a clear understanding you will breeze through if you cannot then consider yoga instructor instead
One of the first problems considered in quantum mechanics
Perhaps it is better to think of the wave nature of the electron in this instance instead of the particle nature, can a wave collapse to a point?
Travelling at near light speeds would require massive amounts of fuel, that why SF writers invented the ram scoop
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ram_scoop
In general we all travel into the future at 1 second per second, object that are traveling quickly (significant percentage of the speed of light) move into the future more slowly as do object in intense gravitational fields
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation
life in general is more ordered than non-life, it requires considerable more information to describe life compared to minerals, gases, solutions etc.
"Does the apparent rarity of life in the universe reflect the rarity of order on the large scale?"
I'm sorry couldn't let this one pass, what...
Myelin acts as an insulator between nodes creating a defacto capacitor like linkage, the impedance of capacitors is high to DC and low to AC while nerve condution is low frequency compared to most communications it is still high enough to transmit like AC.
Think of the myelin sheath and nodes...
thankyou for your reply
Couldn't get the Notre Dame paper to download for some reason, try again later.
The shaded diagrams are fine for me, very difficult for the computer.
It is mostly a case of, I can see why the syllogism is true I just cannot automate the process.
Parse the...
If a monkey takes 10,000 days to write a Shakespearean play I would be impressed. I've never written a Shakespearean play. Genius is noticing something that no one else has, how many people before Newton saw an apple fall and thought no more about it.
Why refer me to that thread, they seem just as confused about the explanation there as here?
As for the idea that tidal forces are too small to worry about - consider the mass of water being lifted by those tidal forces.
http://www.pol.ac.uk/home/insight/tidefaq.html was interesting but...
Surely if the CMB is due to a big bang then it would have radiated out from the source at the speed of light and only be detectable at the edge of the universe
"What I mean by that is that you test peoples ability to create something under time pressure."
So if someone like Newton or Einstein took years to produce their theories they are not genius (what is the plural of genius? genii?) by your definition? Don't think so.
so your saying it is a coincedence that both tides are the same height, and the peaks of high tide not corresponding to the position of the moon in the sky is unimportant?
do you have any math to support this or is just something you know?
Does NASA launch its rockets at the peak of the...
I'm not sure that thinking of galaxies as projectiles is appropriate.
If I inflate a balloon all points on the surface of the balloon move away from each other trying to analyse each one of those points as a projectile from a common source of origin will give some interesting but false...