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Member Since 12 Nov 2006
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In Topic: Homeschool vs Public School vs Private School

08 February 2012 - 10:20 AM

Theres so much that needs to be learned that home-schooling can never provide. Anyone can go on and list the intangible things that home-schooling fails to provide.

The "I was homeschooled and public school was super easy for me" is a pretty common instance I guess for it to be recurring so much. I wouldn't make the decision based on apparent academic superiority of home-schooling. Those who were homeschooled until high school and had an easy time in high school doesn't necessary mean home-schooling is the reason for that. MANY colleges now have an acceptance rate of undergraduate with over a 4.0 GPA(different colleges and such calculate overall GPA differently but that doesn't change the fact that the average GPA of the admitted glass is much above a 4.0) which means that all those kids had a relatively easy time in high school too. Which seems to imply that high school isn't easy cause home-schooling prepared them but rather high school is just easy in general.

In Topic: Trying to remember this old song. Help me?

01 November 2011 - 10:23 PM

It was in english. Im pretty sure the songs name is Down. But I still cant remember the artist name - I'm pretty sure it was something asian though.

In Topic: Speed-of-light experiments yield baffling result at LHC

26 September 2011 - 03:22 PM

No, because we cannot travel at light speed as it is now.

Just because they discovered something that travels faster than light doesn't really mean anything since our technology isn't advanced enough to make use of that knowledge anyway outside of computer chips, fiberoptic wires, or something.

Hence why i asked how this discovery would change anything and why it is even really significant outside of theoretical equations and what not as it has no real application of earth shattering significance.



What part of our understanding of the universe would this change besides things not being able to surpass light speed, and theories that involve this barrier? I mean its not going to change the main laws that we know of which govern what we experience anyway such as motion and the measuring of momentum, velocity, etc.

Knowing that light is not the fastest thing out there isn't suddenly going to allow me to fall "up", and neither is it going to lead to sudden break throughs in, as wondered by the above poster "time travel". And obviously the past discoveries still hold otherwise certain technologies we have now would not function otherwise.

Maybe it will lead to some break through in communications delay, and a reevaluated measurement system but i really don't see what else it would bring about, and these small potential break throughs in technology is not really the sort of thing i would think of as "changing everything that we know".


I would think that something worthy of being called "wreaks havoc on our understanding of the universe" would be like um.

Discovering that gravity doesn't exist and that we are held down because space is a reverse vacuum or something....This discovery is more akin to upgrading from an analog watch to a digital one, or discovering that the metric system is more efficient than the standard measuring system.


I don't get it. Isn't time just a name given to the passing of moments? To say that something can travel through time (backwards or forward, experiencing time slower or faster than something else even) implies that anything that happens in the past/future are recorded and saved at every passing interval in a "time stream" of sorts which i always thought of as only existing in science fiction novels..

I've never thought of time as anything more than a theoretical dimension of the universe used to explain certain anomalies, but not actually existing.


Time travel is closely related to the speed of light. Relativity predicts that if objects were to move near/at/beyond the speed of light, the object would be subject to a time machine effect. So, something moving at beyond the speed of light might have strong implication in time travel.

Anyways, there were already other things that we think break the speed of light barrier in our universe - such as the expansion rate of our universe.

I do agree that our life styles would likely remain the same even if this experiment is valid. However, the most interesting part would probably be the explanation for the experiment - if proven valid. Perhaps relativity still holds and neutrinos used some kind of a wormhole (showing evidence of a theoretical/ science fiction based object) to cut through the space fabric to apparently break the speed limit. Even though this would likely have little to no effect on our standard of living, this could be the revolutionary discovery of the century - or just a faulty experiment.

In Topic: High Schoolers in the USA

12 September 2011 - 11:29 AM

The SAT is very reliable - people score within their range mostly. But the problem I see with standardized test(SAT atleast) is that it doesn't measure what it's supposed to measure. For example, theres a math/writing/reading section. One of the parts of writing is the essay and a significant portion of the writing score is based on the essay. However, any writer/teacher will tell you that GOOD writing is rewriting. Writing one essay without a draft is hardly a measurement for writing capabilities.

Math section is the biggest joke. Anyone who completed 8th grade math would do well on this. Ability to do math problems on the SAT math section is hardly an accomplishment. Math is really about creativity/imagination because problems are never as straight forward as the ones you see on the SAT. Math isn't really about solving those problems on the SAT. It's mostly about proofs, if you don't have the imagination/creativity to be able to prove abstract concepts - you're not good at math despite getting 800 on the SAT math section.

The problem with AP testing is that data has shown that pass rate is largely related to the teacher. So, using AP scores as a measure of a student isn't quite valid either.

In Topic: Music Sheet Program?

08 September 2011 - 08:48 AM

Never heard of such a thing, but I could give you a program to write your own music sheet.
I did some research for you and the tab to this song doesn't seem to exist, I went on 4 different sites and didn't find anything, same goes on youtube, there are no tutorials / no covers with a tab posted in the info.
At this point you're better to do this by ear, doesn't sound too hard tbh



Thanks for the help guys. And ehh, honestly I'm not good enough to be able to do it by ear. I tried looking into musescore and I don't think it can do it from a sound file. Thanks anyways tho.