Thelonious

Well, let's just hope they get it right this time then.

Has anyone heard if NASA has a plan for servicing the James Webb Space Telescope? With an orbit so far out, it sounds very difficult and risky to use manned missions. Perhaps we will finally see robitic servicing?

Yes, but more simply, entropy can be measured as the amount of thermal energy in a system not available to do work.

I see. Forgive me, but what is the significance of prime density? I cannot think of any application or advantage to knowing prime density.

Anyone know what is meant by this?

I was having a great time watching The Prime Number Shitting Bear and I noticed it keeping track of "prime density." It seems there is a hole in my education. Could someone please explain what prime density is and how it is calculated?

In theory or in practice?

No.

Time dilation is what caused the twin paradox and is described similarly to the Lorentz transformation. Just as length is contracted, the passage of time is "slowed" by the same factor. So, whenever an object is in motion, it is subject to time dilation relative to slower moving objects.

It cannot be explained more elegantly than that. Particles seeking more stable existences is what makes everything possible.

Would take a rather long-winded explanation. It took me about twelve pages to explain this principle as well as I could in a paper I wrote on time travel. I suggest reading up on special relativity, but be sure to read the most technical documents you can find for the best understanding.

To be basic, as far as nuclear radiation is concerned, there are three kinds of ways nuclei can decay, and in the process, radiating. These decay processes are called alpha decay, beta decay, and fission. In alpha decay, an alpha particle, a helium atom with two neutrons, is radiated. In beta decay, a beta particle, an electron, along with a theoretical antineutrino, which is unimportant right now, is radiated. In fission, an atom actually splits, most commonly into near equal halves, and four neutrons are radiated in the process. And, during each of these forms of radioactive decay processes, energy in the form of gamma rays, or high energy electromagnetic radiation akin to visible light, can be radiated as well. There are more "advanced" radiation processes, but I would say the aforementioned are the most basic.

I believe he meant that your uncle was just adding them up in his head with the knowledge of the sum of the first three ahead of time. That way it would take no time to find the result.

But the last two three-digit numbers have to have different repeating digits like 111 and 222.

No, no, no! The mass is conserved. Whether you are fusing or splitting the nuclei, the strong force bonds between the protons and neutrons is breaking and releasing the incredible amount of energy. For an example of the mass being conserved in nuclear fusion, two hydrogen isotopes, deuterium, are combined to form helium isotope and a free neutron. Deutrium (D) has one proton and one neutron with an atomic mass of about 2.014 amu. So, D (2.014) + D (2.014) → ³He (3.02) + n (1.008) In nuclear fission, the massive nuclei that is being split forms two smaller nuclei, most commonly each is about half as massive as the original nuclei, plus a few free neutrons.

Particles DO have position and they DO have velocity. However, their movement is bound by probability.

Well, first he would have to build a mathematical model to test and see if the same results were the same as the current model. Then you could think of applying Occam's Razor, but still, you would need definitive proof either way as Occam's Razor would do nothing to validate the theory.

Yes, the higher the energy you use to bounce something off a particle, the more you alter its velocity and the less energy you use the less you know about its position.

Matter is not made into energy in a nuclear reaction. Rather, the energy in the strong force bonds between the subatomic particles is released. Sorry, but I do not quite understand how matter can be made of "space" when "space" is nothing.

Then how does quantum mechanics so accurately predict the quantum world?

Check these articles out: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/cosmic_darkmatt_020108-1.html http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/cosmic_darknrg_020115-1.html They should answer any questions you have.

One know this to be true. For instance: lim 2x/x x->∞ In this case, one notes that, while both the numerator and denominator are infinite, the numerator is increasing twice as fast as the denominator. So, yes, there is a speed at which infinity does increase, and a velocity if one moves into the realm of integers.

Einstein's religious beliefs were very complicated. I think you may be interpreting him incorrectly. Yet we know from the Heisenberg uncertainty principle that we cannot know the velocity and position of particles, so we cannot predict the future nor the past with certainty. Yes, but how does this prove the existance of God? Personally, I do believe God did create the universe in whatever means He chose, even the Big Bang. But there is not any simple or obvious way to prove this. However, there are two points of interest in this discussion. First, the great amount of energy in our universe had to come from somewhere. Second, there is a sizable amount of missing mass if our cosmological model is correct. Now, these are not definitive proofs, but they do leave grounds for the discussion of God.

I have studied Einstein's life quite extensively and I have never heard of this at all. His final work was on grand unification, indeed. I do not see how your reasoning points to the existence of a god. Rather, I think it supports the position of there NOT being a god. But showing that there are so many planets you imply that the chance of life appearing on one of them is inevitable. Well, the nervous system has strong roots in evolution. Certain fish have very basic nervous systems and there is a strong path of evolution evident up to the most advanced, humans. So, no, I do not believe it is a coincidence. Probability would suggest life is an accident.

The Islamofacists are not proud of the body count, but are still glad that those who do die will go to heaven. They still see it as a cost of war, obviously, because less people means less blowing things up.