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Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Tue Sep 26, 2006 7:02 pm

It's elementary!

Henry

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:04 am

Yeah, I also thought they used that word a little too much. Where was their proof reader?

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:43 am

Somewhere else in the compound?

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:17 am

Do you mean to tell me they let people like that just wander around??

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Wed Sep 27, 2006 8:31 pm

Re "Do you mean to tell me they let people like that just wander around??"

It's Brownian motion - what'a'ya expect?

Henry

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 7:16 am

What gall! Wandering around and eating brownies. Probably getting crumbs all over the joint.

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Thu Sep 28, 2006 9:37 am

Well, yeah!
Or something...

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 7:14 am

First Quantum Teleportation between Light and Matter

Researcher at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching and the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen have succeeded in transferring a quantum state of light to a material object - an ensemble of atoms.

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:41 pm

You know, in the past when I've gotten in online arguments with Physics STUDENTS who passed their most recent tests and are POSITIVE they know everything there is to know it's times like this that steel my position.

This in nothing I could have ever dreamed of other than coming from the mind of an alcohol and drug soaked mind of a marginal SciFi writer. And yet, here we are, almost.

What I would really like is for all of those know-it-all students to now genuflect before me and kiss my communicator! Just because they didn't teach it to you in school does NOT mean it isn't possible.

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 8:14 pm

Re "and are POSITIVE they know everything there is to know"

Wonder how many of them know why an up quark has an electric charge of opposite sign and twice the magnitude of the charge of a down quark?

(Though I've no idea if the experts have an answer to that question yet, or if at this point that's still something that has to be measured.)

Henry

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 11:16 am

Wonder how many of them know why an up quark has an electric charge of opposite sign and twice the magnitude of the charge of a down quark?

Steroids??

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:27 pm

Well, that or one of the Ferengi rules of acquisition...

Henry

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Sun Oct 08, 2006 4:02 pm

"Honey! Where's my copy of the Ferengi 'Rules of Acquisition'?"

Henry J · Post by **Henry J** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:36 am

A boost for solar cells with photon fusion

An innovative process that converts low-energy longwave photons (light particles) into higher-energy shortwave photons has been developed [...]
the scientists have, for the first time, manipulated normal light, such as sunlight, to combine the energy in photons with particular wavelengths

Xjmt · Post by **Xjmt** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 2:50 pm

I just hope they're wearing an adequate sun block.