Posts by GrimJack

Wrong!!. You are only considering classical phenomena but quantum mechanics has more to say. At absolute zero kelvin, the motion does not ceases and the maximum velocity of a electron corresponds to the kinetic energy equal to the Fermi Energy.
To quote from the link:

Even the entropy is not zero for non perfectly-crystalline/ solids at zero kelvin. This is called Residual Entropy. Ice, for example has a residual entropy of 3.4J/K/mol.

Did you not read the first 4 lines?

Assumptions:
vibrations, matter, particles
Definitions:
Zero Kelvin is defined as the state in which all particle motion ceases and entropy is zero/infinite

Actually, I had not even heard of Fermi Energy - thanks for the links!

I especially like the part about "...frustration... may lead to highly degenerate ground states with a nonzero entropy at zero temperature. This implies that if we were to send the crystal lattice to a 'massage parlor' it would end up with zero entropy at zero temperature.

WRT your avatar.

I was just asking that to point out how you're a hypocrite. Or do you distinguish between blind and unblind adherence to ideologies?

It doesn't matter if you do, because there are many ideologies that you blindly adhere to. Like the way you like your opinions more than other people's. That's an extremely egocentric thing to do. And you do it blindly.

I do not know who you are nor do I care - foad (sometimes stated as esad).

What is capitalism?

Look, no one here is going to use google for you; if you do not understand how to use it try this

Such as blind adherence to centrism?

What part of 'blind adherence to any ideology' do you not understand?

Suddenly beatboxing has been in my ears

Germans have 'Purity Laws' wrt their beer; one story I heard about how beer was tested was that 6 bergers would pour beer onto a bench then sit on the bench in their lederhausen and drink a bunch a tankards. They would then all stand at once and if the bench lifted with them - the beer passed (how they all got into the toilet with a bench stuck to their butts is way beyond me).

Great , so can we say universe cease to exist when it stops vibrating and when it starts vibrating again it comes into existence ?

The answer lies in the question.
Consider vibration to be pendulum-like and the universe disappears at the apogee of each arc for that moment when acceleration is infinite (or undefined - you decide) and velocity is zero.
Consider string theory in which particles are composed of 'strings' that have only 2 dimensions (and yet create a universe of 11 dimensions) and vibrate all the time.
Consider the universe as a particle that is pendulum-like in a higher dimension and what we see as the big-bang followed by the big-compression as just a tic/toc in the time of a meta-universe.

Consider absolute zero (again - back to this because it is so much fun) - we can't get there from here but we can get to 200 degs K and at that point we suddenly see Bose-Einstein condensate. The particles have slowed down to about half a mile per hour (from 1100 mph at room temp) they become superfluids that have little or no friction but still have surface tension which could lead to liquids that when left in a bowl will flow up the sides and out; but the real use of a BEC is coherence but the fun thing about BEC is quantum de-coherence (sometimes called the quantum Zeno effect after the Zeno paradoxes) in which …

Assumptions:
vibrations, matter, particles
Definitions:
Zero Kelvin is defined as the state in which all particle motion ceases and entropy is zero/infinite

All vibration ceases at Zero Kelvin;
All 'things' are made of matter;
All matter is made up of particles that vibrate;
therefore
All 'things' that do not vibrate
either
Do not exist
or
exist at Zero Kelvin.

It has been pointed out that I might be ridiculing Aia; I would rather think that I am just using his tactics against him (sort of a political Ju Jitso); but then I did devolve into a bit logical manipulation - I would call it a bit of whimsy but I suppose you could see something more sinister in it if you wish.

I will discuss things with people and I will even respond to people who refuse to have a discussion with me. I try to keep things civil but I have been known to 'lose it' occasionally - take me to task for it. Point out the errors or at least the points where we disagree; as far as I am concerned the title of this thread was an open invitation to take exception.

The article I linked to (thank you, I don't get to American Thinker often enough) is another piece of work that I will leave for another time, but (the ubiquitous 'but') holding up Bill O' as an exemplar in an article on ridicule works on so many different levels....

The difference between the Spanish Flu of WW1 and modern flues is the Spanish Flu killed the healthy leaving the elderly, the very young and the very, very lucky (genetic or otherwise) alive; the SF co-opted the immune system of the healthy into attacking the body - conversely, it might be that the immune system went into overdrive and attacked everything; experts disagree.

I, personally, am against the immoral, unfettered precepts that capitalism stands for when corporations are the institutions that enforce it against anyone and everyone regardless of the ethical bankruptcy that uncontrolled capitalism represents.

Blind adherence to any ideology requires such a complete inability to see more than one side of any question that such adherence is the ideological equivalent of a Möbius Band (a surface with only one side and only one boundary component); often disguised a 'moral certitude' it is actually a rigid fear of any idea that does not fit.

This is one of those odd things - there is probably no genetic pressure that selects for being able to smell the by-product compounds of asparagus is probably just one of those things. It turns out that only 23% can smell it

It is said that in a venerable British men's club there is a sign reading "DURING THE ASPARAGUS SEASON MEMBERS ARE REQUESTED NOT TO RELIEVE THEMSELVES IN THE HATSTAND."

It has been established that the aroma was in fact caused by several S-methyl thioesters, specifically S-methyl thioacrylate and S-methyl 3-(methylthio)thiopropionate.

t was originally thought this was because some of the population digested asparagus differently than others, so that some people excreted odorous urine after eating asparagus, and others did not. However, in the 1980s three studies from France,[28] China and Israel published results showing that producing odorous urine from asparagus was a universal human characteristic. The Israeli study found that from their 307 subjects all of those who could smell 'asparagus urine' could detect it in the urine of anyone who had eaten asparagus, even if the person who produced it could not detect it himself.[29] Thus, it is now believed that most people produce the odorous compounds after eating asparagus, but only about 22% of the population have the autosomal genes required to smell them.[

Autosomal genes are genes found on one of the 22 pairs of non-sex chromosomes

The joys of the Free Market Economy as espoused by conservatives:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/opinion/04lewiseinhorn.html
http://www.cjr.org/the_audit/the_stanford_financial_scandal.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18598574/
http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/another-despicable-financial-scandal/
The conservatives taking care of them and theirs with our money.

Home made (no-knead) bread, fresh out of the oven.

and the Obligatory Rye and coke (switched from bourbon).

Sorry, I thought you wanted a thoughtful discussion.

I was just thinking about this when I ran across this quote:

I don't think we're likely to get much more than a terabit per second of bandwidth out of any channel, be it wireless or a fibre-optic cable, because once you get into soft X-rays your network card becomes indistinguishable from a death ray...

- will gamers be the death of life on earth?

When you visit Yellowstone Park (in the US, I am sure there are similar places elsewhere in the world(?)), you see these really, really hot springs that have a rainbow of colors leading from the source - those colors are the different varieties of extremophile that live at different temperatures and mineral saturations.

When these organisms were found living in harsh environments that would kill any other organism, scientists began trying to understand how they were able to survive. The proteins inside extremophiles each adapted to the habitat where the extremophile lived. It was discovered that each type of extremophile had enzymes that were resistant to extreme heat, saline, acids, high/low Ph, and high barometric pressure.
Since extremophiles use proteins in different ways than other microorganisms do, scientists are working on adding a sixth kingdom in the classification of life just for the extremophiles. This classification will be called archea and it will include all prokaryotic and eukaryotic extremophiles.

But I digressed.

We keep finding different forms of communication as we study the life forms we grew up with: elephants use sounds below our hearing to communicate, alligators use sounds above our hearing; Orcas are known to create sound sculptures that behave as discrete unitary (soliton) 'things' that are used to herd fish towards waiting hunters.

I guess the point I am, haphazardly, working towards is - would we even be able to 1) recognize intelligence; 2) communicate with it if it is so far out of …

Something to note:

researchers have confirmed the existence of 19,599 protein-coding genes in the human genome and identified another 2,188 DNA segments that are predicted to be protein-coding genes.
In humans, genes vary in size from a few hundred DNA bases to more than 2 million bases. The Human Genome Project has estimated that humans have between 20,000 and 25,000 genes.

Let's pretend that all genes are only 100 bases long and that there are 'only' 20,000 genes. It is estimated that only 1% of human genes contribute to the differences between people. This leaves us with 200 genes composed of 100 bases each and half of those are just duplicated so we are down to 100 genes with 100 bases which is the same as 100[TEX]^{100}[/TEX](my head hurts is 100[TEX]^{100}[/TEX] = 10[TEX]^{101}[/TEX] or 10[TEX]^{102}[/TEX]?). There are 31,556,926 seconds/year (use a sidereal year here) so 3 years are about 10[TEX]^8[/TEX] seconds so if on gene were changed each second it would take approximately 10[TEX]^{93}[/TEX] or 10[TEX]^{94}[/TEX] years to randomly duplicate a human. That is 10 followed by 93 zeros; the current estimates of the age of the universe is 1.4 X 10[TEX]^{9}[/TEX] years.

The myriad is 10[TEX]4[/TEX], or 10,000. By continuing with "one myriad," "two myriad," etc., Archimedes gets up to "one myriad myriads," which is 108, or a hundred million. He calls the numbers 10, 10[TEX]^2[/TEX], 10[TEX]^3[/TEX], 10[TEX]^4[/TEX], 10[TEX]^5[/TEX], 10[TEX]^6[/TEX], 10[TEX]^7[/TEX], and 10[TEX]^8[/TEX] the "first arithmon." The "second arithmon" takes him up to 10[TEX]^{16}[/TEX], and so on. …

The reason that there would be no similarity is that each and every step was randomized right down to the whether or not the DNA would be left handed or right handed. Even given right-handed DNA with the same 4 components - there have been at least 4 'great' extinctions after which everything changed.

Just consider what was discovered in the Burgess Shale - many of those creatures no longer exist (see attached reconstruction pic). The largest living thing on earth is a fungus under a forest in Minnesota - what if fungi became the dominant life form? What is vibrating crystals were the dominant life form? Life on Earth is one long series of accidents that could never in the life of the universe be duplicated.

I don't have the band-width for this but it is interesting

Hi! welcome.

rocked.

but, as a relatively-new parent, i realize they give these movies a PG-13 rating for a reason.... the reason being that it's not really appropriate viewing material for four-year-olds.

oh, well, he shouldn't suffer permanent scars.

much.

When I was a kid, The Wizard of Oz scared me so much I walked out of the theater but The Deadly Mantis, Them, and all that were no problem. By-the-by - when I saw OZ, the movie cost 10cents, a coke was a nickle, and popcorn was a dime - $0.25 was party time at the movies.

Sorry, you have too many outside interests to become a true computer nerd/geek - you need to focus, stop going outside, eat more chinese takeout, drink lots of jolt, that sort of thing.

Oh, welcome!

The increase in computing power allows for the creation of smaller and smaller *precision* gates along with the use of newer 'doping' techniques like 'camel gates' but you may also notice that they are now adding more processors to the cpu; my laptop has dual processors. The language is changing to help keep up - the cpu is multi-core, newer versions are massively multi-core. Graphics cards now have an incredible amount of processing power of its own.

Most of the increases are now in the programming, take a look at the wiki-link to get am idea.

Lady Sovereign - I love her voice and that subtle little laugh under her breath

Bones are an active organ; the way they prevent breakage is by fracturing - really tiny fractures called micro-fractures. The repairs strengthen the bone against similar fractures in the future; this, combined with electrical fields produced by piezoelectric compression voltages, is how your body adjusts to daily living. Fully 40% of your daily caloric intake is used to support this wonderful organ - your skeleton. It is also where your new blood comes from.

Hi - heh,heh - Single young noob seeks geeks for interdigitation.

Have fun.

Well, you can close the Tools window and keep the password list open but....

You have too much advertising in your .sig

Hi - welcome, I am going to suggest that the Mod move this to the notebook area.

Don't get lost and stop by the various 'hangouts' to just s-t-s

Welcome to the DW community - you got questions, we got answers; please use the appropriate area for your questions (ie not here).

Does it only happen in your browser? What browser?

There are a couple possibilities:
Check your Accessibility settings
Check to see if your keyboard needs cleaning

Have you tried a different mouse/keyboard? What kind of mouse/kybrd (wireless, USB,?)

Yeah, but it is the same electricity that lets those lumps of coal sing and dance.

and my signiture is also turkish but a little bit slang. am=vajina, am-in-a=to her vajina, koyim(slang for koyayim which means put), bu saatten sonra= after this time. basically all the signiture means, i put someone's vajina if they/she comes after this time in my life. i dont feel necessary to explain what i put anyway :D

Well, you just lost any sympathy or credibility that I was trying to scrape up for you. You're just a putz (well, actually I like the old definition of schmuck - too low to kick, too squishy to step on).

But it is all good.

Just for a little balance, I found:
Sendur, India - It is in Surguja District (Chhattisgarh state); Pando and Korwa being the major tribes of the district.

Neither Serkan nor Sendur translate from either Turkish or Hindi.

Your .sig (bu saatten sonra gelenin amina koyim) does not seem to translate well from Turkish: "After this time of the koyim Amina"

But Google translations were never much good for anything but a general idea.

I was hoping to find some information on the names or their origins but after a bit I realized that I would probably have to be able to read Turkish to get anywhere with that search. Names have fascinated me since my Marine Corps DI stated the obvious - they may spell it Chvla but if they pronounce it Smith - Smith it is.

Then I found this - icky, icky glurge

I will stop for a while.

OMG! They are back! Who'd've thunk it? Now they are ringtones GLURGE

Ouch - double, super-Glurge

All it would have taken was a tensioned come-along - the g-d-ed tree leaned towards the house. A tree will almost always fall south given no other considerations. I coulda taken that tree down safely and I haven't handled a 36" bar in near 40 years (we have a little pecker of an 18" bar at the cabin in Montana and I could taken it down safely with that w/o a come-along).

Sigh!

Ronnie James Dio is 66 years old

Q: "How many lesbians does it take to change a light bulb
THAT'S NOT FUNNY

I just heard a theory that in about 500,000 years that so much Carbon Dioxide is being sequestered via bones on continents (bones like coral) that there will be none left in the atmosphere and the earth will just be a hot, life-less desert. The Medea Hypothesis by Dr. Peter Ward (local hero and outspoken believer in technology as the savior of mankind). The Medea Hypothesis is the opposite of the Gaea Hypothesis:

one states that the Earth is a single entity that will adjust the world to keep us alive
The other states the Earth is a single entity that has no control over her appetite and runs amok when ever she can and kills off life in cycles from snowball to hell.

I have never understood the attraction of strip clubs. Back when I was a sign language interpreter, some of my deaf friends would drag me off to a club (I mention their handicap only because that is what we had in common - none of my other friends would even think about hanging out in a strip club <er, except for my female friends who danced in strip clubs back in the '70s, one of whom is now a guy> except that I forgot that I had a stripper girl friend back then so I occasionally did hang out in clubs to pick her up after work -- I don't think you want to hear the rest of that story) and I would sit through the pounding beat, flashing lights, and pretty bad routines (pole-dancing was not big here in Seattle back then but it was legal to be topless until about 1975 in the city limits). The routines were so bad that I took a 7 week course in burlesque from a woman named Tsunami Jones (yeah, her parents actually named her Tsunami - I am pretty sure she changed her last name to Jones for balance) - I realized i was not cut out for the stage and that those dancers had such bad routines because their hearts were not really in it. They were just putting in their time just like any other poor schlub punching a time-clock and waiting for the '5 o'clock whistle'.

You gotta tell us about your system - hw, sw, os and so on, we can't even begin to help.

Welcome - normally I'd say No Adverts but that sounds kool. How programmable is it?

Wow, working for NPR in DC - that is only a couple steps below working for The Smithsonian in my hierarchy of job-lust!

Welcome.

Welcome, and that is why we are here - ask away.

Welcome, now would be a good time to invest in some steam-punk computer hardware - unfortunately, there are still kinks in the steam-satellites so your connection could be spotty.

Sometimes, just sometimes decision trees can get away from you - so you go to option 2.

Is that an 'edible underwear' joke?

And sometimes I listen for the humor:
Pigs didn't start the swine flu - The pigs are innocent, I tell you.

I am 60 yo and I had my first jello-shots last Halloween - if they had been around in my youth, I might not have survived! That was the easiest alcohol I have ever had; I had 4 before I realized what I was doing -- wayyy kool!