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Tim Wallace's butchering of the second law shows a stunning lack of understanding of both evolution and thermodynamics. Funny how his amazing insights (which can be debunked by any 19 year old with a semester of college level physics) have not been picked up by the Nobel committee - he has...

Not that the opening post wasn't an obvious troll, but some of the responses might have bought a little too much into the "there is no controversy" propoganda. There is no controversy that the Earth has warmed since meaurements have begun and that it is likely at its point of peak warmth of...

Common sense is notoriously unreliable. Explain it to her like this: before shooting the gun or dropping the bullet, both bullets are in equilibrium with respect to forces acting upon them. The force of gravity on the bullets is exactly matched by the normal force of the compression of the...

John, I usually think you are nearly as entertaining as Dad and so I would never want to see you banned. I would, however, like to see you get smacked upside the head for making such a whining thread. Ug - creationist who intentional misrepresent science to try to preach their religious...

I rarely come back to this site, but when I do I am always happy to find that John is here still proving his ignorance while giving everyone else a good laugh. I love the "Elliot Gould" comment! Do you think that was between making Ocean's 11 and Ocean's 12 or back when he was Ross's dad on Friends?

Not that all your other nonsense wasn't entertaining, but why would you think a pound of each would have different energy? Do you think that just because Einsteinium has more baryons in its nucleas that it would have more energy? Now if you said one helium atom versus one Einsteinium atom, this...

Just wondering, but where is inappropriate content mentioned in the Bible? Or is someone doing one of those naughty interpreting the text in light of the modern world things?

By the way - like pretty much all physicists (well except some bozos at NASA), American physicists use the metric system. This was especially true of GERMAN physicists working at the time in Switzerland. Now besides the history lesson, your point is simply stupid. Whether you use the metric...

Little hint there big guy: c=the speed of light in a vacuum, it doesn't equal the speed of light in Earth's atmosphere. Einstein would be the first to tell you that the speed of light can and does change with its medium, but the propagation of light waves through space do not change, no...

Wow - that was an impressive dodge. Ok enough time for you little boy. Go back to believing your fairy tales - chief amongst those is the fairy tale that you actually have any idea what you are talking about. I have no problem with creationists who simply say that faith drvies their decision - I...

Shinbits, Let me just say: What a load of hogwash! One, people getting offended about something said by others has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not something is a religion. I get offended when uninformed and undereducated layman butcher some tidbit of theoretical physcis...

Well light created en route might eliminate all the physics problems with a young universe, but it creates a whole lot of logical problems. The most glaring is that light carries information and that information if the light was created en route would really be misinformation. For example...

Shinbits, you are missing something rather obvious in your example. Even if you were somehow able to magically move at millions of times the speed of light backwards away from the Earth, the photons leaving your flashlight can't. Therefore, there wouldn't be a continuous stream hitting the earth...

What you are doing is aiming a stream of photons emitted by your flashlight at the earth. When you are right next to the ground the photons you emit hit the ground nearly instanteously, but as you recess, the distance those photons have to travel increases and the amount of time they take to hit...

Race might be the wrong word - "ethnicity" would be a better choice. Hitler did not care about the religion of the Jews evidenced by the fact the Nazi's killed many converted Christians born to Jewish parents while sparing practicing Jews who were halb-Juden (half Jewish) by birth. The Nazis...

To be precise, there is only one type of relativity - that is the General Relativity. Special Relativity is simply the special case of a non-accelerating reference frame. General Relativity actually applies everywhere except it gets all screwy over very short distances.

It is really isn't all that hard, though I bet I would need to go back an pull and old relativity text. To be real slick you'd include the GR effect as well due to the slope of the gravity well being slightly less steep at the equator than it is at the North Pole. In the end you'd end up with a...

For differences between Equator and the North Pole? Likely more years than humans had existed. I can't be bothered trying to calculate it out right now.

Considering they can measure time difference in airplanes compared to the ground, I am sure they could measure it - the question would be why bother?

Actually, yeah you can say. Quantum gravity isn't needed. Heisenberg Uncertainty is enough to make any measurement at or below the Planck Length (or within the window of Planck Time) fundamentally unobservable. Measurement accuracy is fundamentally limited, even if the Standard Model is correct...