Ask a physicist anything. (2)

[pgp_protector]

OK, lets say he was hanging on wires for the air trick, and use sliding glass for the glass trick, but what about the water trick, any explanation for that?

The Water one is easy, I can even do it.

But as I stated above, I don't break the Magicians Code.

 

[Doveaman]

The Water one is easy, I can even do it.

But as I stated above, I don't break the Magicians Code.

Very helpful.

 

[pgp_protector]

Very helpful.

If you want to know how it's done, without stealing the secret, go out and buy it.

If you don't care about stealing the secret, go use google.

 

[Doveaman]

If you want to know how it's done, without stealing the secret, go out and buy it.

Where's the store? Does it come with a pool?

If you don't care about stealing the secret, go use google.

The masked magician says glass.

His actors weren't that good, though. And he used a private pool instead of a public one. Nevertheless, I think he might be onto something.

Do you think he can repeat what Jesus did? I heard someone tried it and drowned.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Where's the store? Does it come with a pool?

You can make any illusion happen without enough money. Do you believe Darren Brown actually predicted the lottery? Do you believe Uri Gellar can actually bend spoons?

The masked magician says glass.

How reassuring.

His actors weren't that good, though.

Says who? You? How good do actors have to be when it's all mirrors and smoke? Hollywood does it all the time, and to a much higher calibre.

And he used a private pool instead of a public one.

Source?
Either way, that hardly vindcates his stunt.

Nevertheless, I think he might be onto something.

Of course you do. And if an atheist recreated the stunt exactly, and explained how he did it with wholly natural means, you'd decry him as a charlatan and a Satan-worshipper.

Do you think he can repeat what Jesus did? I heard someone tried it and drowned.

The onus being on you to show that Jesus actually did what is claimed of him...

 

[Spacewyrm]

This thread is too awesome to go this long without a new post!! I need to ask a question!! (I want this thread to last forever...)

I've heard of the luminiferous aether. How did scientists figure out that there was no such thing?

Bonus question for Doveaman: Do you dream of electric sheep?

 

[Maxwell511]

I have a question....

What is the difference between a physicist and an guy that has a physics degree?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I have a question....

What is the difference between a physicist and an guy that has a physics degree?

The same difference between a biologist, and a Creationist with a biology degree.

This thread is too awesome to go this long without a new post!! I need to ask a question!! (I want this thread to last forever...)

I want to live forever! As an atheist, I know there is no afterlife, so I don't want to be proven wrong when I die .

I've heard of the luminiferous aether. How did scientists figure out that there was no such thing?

If memory serves... the aether is a medium in which light moved. They figured that, as the Earth goes round the Sun, at some points it will be moving with the aether, and at others it will be moving against it. Thus, light should seem to move faster and slower over the year. Turns out, it didn't. This was a resounding disproof - not just evidence against a hypothesis, but full on refutation. Cool beans.

Wikipedia has a pic:

 

[Cabal]

I want to live forever!

I know the feeling. There's too much science to do!

 

[Doveaman]

Bonus question for Doveaman: Do you dream of electric sheep?

Can a sheep function without electricity?

 

[Doveaman]

I want to live forever!

I know the feeling. There's too much science to do!

Is it because it will take forever for you guys to find the correct scientific answers?

 

[Cabal]

Is it because it will take forever for you guys to find the correct scientific answers?

I think I'd rather let the fact that you think you have all the answers speak for itself on that one.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Is it because it will take forever for you guys to find the correct scientific answers?

"You guys"? You talk as if you're working separately from us. What, have you discovered the True Answer™?

 

[SithDoughnut]

Is it because it will take forever for you guys to find the correct scientific answers?

Maybe, maybe not. Who knows? Certainly we're the only ones making any effort to look, as opposed to guesswork.

 

[Spacewyrm]

If memory serves... the aether is a medium in which light moved. They figured that, as the Earth goes round the Sun, at some points it will be moving with the aether, and at others it will be moving against it. Thus, light should seem to move faster and slower over the year. Turns out, it didn't. This was a resounding disproof - not just evidence against a hypothesis, but full on refutation. Cool beans.

Ah. That makes perfect sense. Cool beans, indeed.

Hmm. Last night I thought of another question to ask, but now I can't remember what it is.

 

[TerranceL]

"You guys"? You talk as if you're working separately from us. What, have you discovered the True Answer™?

MAGIC MAN DONE IT.

 

[sandwiches]

Is it because it will take forever for you guys to find the correct scientific answers?

How's using applied scientific principles working out for you, bud?

 

[Spacewyrm]

Can a sheep function without electricity?

I supose it depends on what sort of function the sheep is supposed to be serving.

Actually, I do have a serious question for you (or anybody else who has knowledge about this "electric universe" stuff); how does plasma cosmology account for the formation of the Solar System? (And please, give me an answer more detailed than "God did it, with electricity".)

 

[IzzyPop]

Are warrens ever actually fully explained in Malazan: Book of the Fallen or is the reader just left to muddle through with the tiny pieces we are given?

 

[TerranceL]

The series largely takes place on one planet, although there are extensive sequences that take place within the warrens (other realms or planes of existence) of magic.