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Nova John

Member Since 24 Aug 2006
Offline Oct 03 2007 12:16 AM

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In Topic: Happy Birthday Nova John

17 August 2007 - 03:26 PM

Thanks everyone! yeah the no alcohol thing kinda sucks but what ya gonna do?

In Topic: What are your views on this so-called church?

05 June 2007 - 06:38 PM

Unfortunately even New Zealand has extremist sects like this one. A year or so ago 'Destiny Church' marched against the civil union bill (Equivalent to marriage for homosexuals), with 5+ year old children, performed a Haka (Maori war dance) and brandished their fists with their anti-gay banners held by adults and children alike. This I object to. That and knocking on my door once a week or following me around at uni. I don't have a problem with religion as a whole because I know most leave me alone. The extremists and door-knockers bother me quite a bit though.

In Topic: Did time have a beginning?

05 June 2007 - 06:14 PM

thats right sonic/sunscorch. Which is the measurement problem, by trying to know where the photon is as a wave it instead acts as a particle. It is an important aspect of the experiment which should be noticed, since it annoys every physicist.

Also of note is that the particle 'clumps' form at the first order nodes, (areas of zero occurrence) which is also particularly frustrating for physicists since waves CANNOT be there, but particles can.

If you follow this Link you will see an experiment which can tell you which hole the wave passes through without causing the measurement problem. Not to mention you may get to blow something up!

In Topic: Physics

03 June 2007 - 03:51 PM

QUOTE(Bryan @ Jun 4 2007, 10:26 AM) View Post
The fact of the matter is that this forum is oriented towards teens, and since the majority of our users are in the teen years, expect to see teenage levels of maturity.


Fair point, didn't think of it that way. I'm a bit of an old fart like that. LOL.

In Topic: Did time have a beginning?

03 June 2007 - 03:49 PM

Um to quickly clarify a clerical error on sonics behalf, if you shine coherent light through a double slit you get a diffraction pattern (multiple lines on the wall, the wave case). If you then try to find which slit a photon travels through at any one time the pattern changes and forms 2 clumps (the particle case, think cannonballs through a pair of holes, they can only be in 1 of 2 places). If you use a detector which is only going to be correct 50% of the time you get both patterns at once. This is significant because it means we cannot identify whether photons are particles or waves because they change their nature by the sheer attempt at measurement. This is known as the measurement problem to QM physicists.

This means that if you try to prove light is a wave and know which slit it goes through, it acts like a particle, and so on.

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