Recent content by Joe_Sixpack

There are numerous things in your posts that are misunderstandings or misrepresentations, but this one is so glaringly WRONG that I needed to point it out to you. Please realize that you can move more than a mile closer to the sun after a short hike and more than six miles closer in an average...

It is not an atheist/theist thing - it is a child/adult thing. Whether chronologically still defined as a child, engaging in flame wars is by definition the behavior of a maturity challenged person.

Ok - I have to flag this as the most egregious example of the pot-and-kettleism that I have ever seen. For a creationist to demand someone else take a physics course takes cohones. Thanks for making me laugh.

I know a bit about Big Bang Theory (not a ton, I spent my time on particle physics, not cosmology, but there is some overlap), and I have no freaking idea what you are talking about. Either you are a complete loon, or you are making such an obscure reference to something that you most likely...

No idea why you want to throw the 2nd Law into this question, but regardless, the answer is no - we could not know the history of every particle and track its motions because particle motion is not entirely deterministic. That is the very nature of QM. Now, assuming we could do this (and we...

Where did all the energy of the Universe come from? We don't know - maybe it was "borrowed" through a quirk of quantum mechanics from "nothingness" (this isn't as crazy as it sounds BTW). Maybe some supernatural being (i.e god or even the Abrahamic God) created it. Regardless, however, this...

Aceofspades, I know you feel like you are being persecuted by people saying you do not understand the 2nd Law and that they just misunderstand you, but you must understand, we've all heard this argument before, and every one who understands thermodynamics, particularly physicists like myself...

Umm, I guess us theoretical particle physicists (former) aren't scientists because we get to hang in the relative comfort of the air conditioned halls of academia? Well, the next time your digging through poo results in a theory that is predictively accurate to 15 or more significant figures...

Are you kidding or are you really this stupid? Yahweh is the correct Hebrew pronunciation of יְהֹוָה -. which is the name of God in the Old Testament. "God" is not used as a name in the Old Testament as far as I remember - it is a used as a title. Now...

No, your relative motion doesn't change Earth's time, but it does change yours and it is a lot more fundamental than perception (unless you believe clocks have an ability to "perceive"). All the clocks that traveled with you, including your body's own aging, will say a number less than (exactly...

By the way, this is wrong in both classical and Einsteinian physics. "Spinning" is accelerating. Things only accelerate when a force acts upon them. Things stop accelerating the moment that force is removed. You are accelerating constantly because gravity is working on you. In deep space, things...

Umm, no. Not all things are "spinning." Spinning in the macro sense like the helicopter is an acceleration. Acceleration is not relative. Also, electrons don't "spin" around their atoms. The idea of planet like orbits around the atom went out about 70 years ago and is demonstrable false...

No it isn't because one your helicopter analogy is useless because that is an accelerating reference frame. Linear motion is ALWAYS relative to something else. Therefore this mystery force would have to work on the cesium atoms differently depending upon the reference frame of the observer - on...

YES!!!! Time is experienced differently at all valid reference points. At a steeper point of curve in a gravity well as well as from relative velocity. No one's time is any more correct than anyone else's - there is no "universal clock." For some stupid reason I am not following my own advice...

Think you need to go back to Michelson-Moreley. Hate to break it to you, but c is not different depended upon your relative speed - there are an extremely large number of experiments that confirm this. Also, try looking up the concept of symmetry. If the simplest clock changes depending upon...