When bullying goes galactic..
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, December 19 2007 02:45
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quote:Well, we're still working on that solarbonite bomb. Science willing, we'll take them all down with us! -------------------- You lose. Posts: 2156 | Registered: Thursday, August 24 2006 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Wednesday, December 19 2007 09:46
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So I looked up what a "solarbonite bomb" is supposed to do. It's supposed to "explode" sunlight. That is, it turns photons into pure energy! OMG! Except that photons already are pure energy. Drat. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, December 19 2007 20:15
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I suppose I deserved that for learning what little I know of science from what was dubbed 'the worse movie ever made.' I'm still confident that humanity will eventually figure out some way to destroy the universe, however. -------------------- You lose. Posts: 2156 | Registered: Thursday, August 24 2006 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, December 20 2007 13:09
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I don't know what photons are, but they aren't 'pure energy'. We've had this discussion before, I believe. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Thursday, December 20 2007 13:13
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Well, in any sort of technical sense, you're right. But as a massless particle that carries energy, I think the photon has nearer claim claim to that sci-fi term than anything else does. More to the point, you can't blow up sunlight. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Infiltrator
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written Friday, December 21 2007 06:26
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quote:It's mine. Could you please put it back in that 12-dimensional fold in space time I hid it in? I don't want to live through another apocalypse. -------------------- Either I'm crazy, or everybody else is nuts. And I know I'm not crazy because the little man who lives on my shoulder told me so. If people don't think there's something wrong with you, there's something wrong with you. Oh well. Another day, another dementia. Posts: 558 | Registered: Friday, September 15 2006 07:00 |
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Agent
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written Monday, December 31 2007 16:56
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I find the concept of photons confusing. I first learned that light was composed of electromagnetic waves, and then they discovered photons. It's hard to keep up with technological and scientific advances these days. -------------------- A Bile Crux Posts: 1384 | Registered: Tuesday, February 6 2007 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, December 31 2007 16:58
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Yeah, every darn hundred years there's something new. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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? Man, ? Amazing
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written Monday, December 31 2007 18:43
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I keep all my photons in a bag. I sometimes take them out to play with, but when I'm done, back in the bag they go. -------------------- Synergy, et al - "I don't get it." Thralni - "a lot of people are ... too weird to be trusted" Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, December 31 2007 19:27
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quote:It's quite simple. Light is like marbles, but they're wobbly. And prone to interference. —Alorael, who now wants to play a game of nanoscopic marbles with diffraction gratings. This would have to be played at near light speeds, obviously. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, January 1 2008 03:46
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quote:No, those are your gluons. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Tuesday, January 1 2008 05:02
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quote:Particle models were dominant until the mid 19th century, when the wave model became widely accepted (although the wave model had already been proposed in the 17th century by Newton, Huygens and Hooke). Today we know that light is both a particle and a wave. :) -------------------- The Noble and Ancient Order of Polaris - We're Not Yet Dead. Encyclopedia • Blades Forge • Archives • Stats • RSS (This Topic / Forum) • Blog • NaNoWriMo Did-chat thentagoespyet jumund fori is jus, hat onlime gly nertan ne gethen Firyoubbit 'obio.' Decorum deserves a whole line of my signature, and an entry in your bookmarks. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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? Man, ? Amazing
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written Tuesday, January 1 2008 11:15
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quote:I should have bought the extended warranty. -------------------- Synergy, et al - "I don't get it." Argon - "I'm at a loss for words..." Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Tuesday, January 1 2008 12:43
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The situation of light is best summed up by a quote, which at one point I heard attributed to Schrodinger but may actually have been said by Ralph Baierlein: "Light travels as a wave, but departs and arrives as a particle." Alternatively: When light is alone and unobserved, it stretches out, free and wave-like. But then when you look at it, it gets embarrassed and scrunches down into a photon. And it turns out that everything else does the same thing. [ Tuesday, January 01, 2008 12:45: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, January 1 2008 14:17
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Well, actually this is a very interesting question even for professionals. The tendency of photons to show up in detectors as tiny blips of light is as much about detector physics as it is about light itself. But only a rather small subset of physicists understands detection physics much at all. Particle theorists usually speak blithely about IN and OUT states of non-interacting particles, and know practically nothing about how real particles are detected. Particle experimentalists usually understand rather little about the quantum fields their machines monitor. As far as I can see, only a few of the best quantum optics theorists (which category happens to include most of the best quantum optics experimentalists) understand light detection at a level that is both fundamental and realistic. Alas, I do not yet count myself in this happy group. But I'm getting there. On the other hand, I don't think anyone entirely understands light detection, since it is, after all, an example of quantum measurement. -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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