Ask a physicist anything. (5)

[SAMMISPARROW]

Shouldn't you be answering this?

What is the question???

 

[SAMMISPARROW]

The physical body decomposes. The concious mind ceases to exist, by all appearances. But you haven't answered my question.

What question is that????? :o

 

[SAMMISPARROW]

You rot.

Looks like you finally answered your own question.

 

[badtim]

As for badtim's comment, I think he was just pointing out that the feeling you ("I'm still alive....!......I....Feel......GREAT !........") is the same feeling people experience by taking LSD.

I have taken LSD and yes, it can provoke a serious religious ecstatic experience; actually there's studies of just this thing, from before the federal govt made it illegal. Can also provide an atmosphere where one can have enlightening conversations about the flavor of red, provided that you have an intelligent doorknob to talk to!

though actually i was just teasing him a bit

 

[badtim]

ok so here's a serious question (or two):

what's your current opinion on the monopolar quasiparticle observation reported by Morris & Tennant (Science, 2009)?

oh and about the lack of blurring in Hubble Deep Field images

 

[Wiccan_Child]

What question is that????? :o

"So, you don't know what happens after death?"

 

[Wiccan_Child]

ok so here's a serious question (or two):

what's your current opinion on the monopolar quasiparticle observation reported by Morris & Tennant (Science, 2009)?

Fascinated, as a true monopole would upheave our understanding of particle physics - by all accounts, monopoles shouldn't exist But, of course, as 'quasiparticles', they're not really true monopoles, so the Standard Model can sleep another day!

oh and about the lack of blurring in Hubble Deep Field images

Well, there shouldn't be any blurring, as there's no atmosphere to speak of in deep space. Besides an infinitesimally thin plasma, interstellar space is (conventionally) empty - it's only when starlight hits the Earth's atmosphere that blurring occurs.

 

[badtim]

Fascinated, as a true monopole would upheave our understanding of particle physics - by all accounts, monopoles shouldn't exist But, of course, as 'quasiparticles', they're not really true monopoles, so the Standard Model can sleep another day!

well hmm, i've always been under the impression that monopoles would be consistent with Dirac's idea of quantized charges, but hey, us laypeople

Well, there shouldn't be any blurring, as there's no atmosphere to speak of in deep space. Besides an infinitesimally thin plasma, interstellar space is (conventionally) empty - it's only when starlight hits the Earth's atmosphere that blurring occurs.

nah, not optical blurring, planck scale spacetime fluctuations (Lieu & Hillman, 2003) - though Ng et al (2003) maintain that Lieu overestimated the possible effect by a huge amount (10^15 - 10^30).

and this is why i'm relearning math

 

[Wiccan_Child]

well hmm, i've always been under the impression that monopoles would be consistent with Dirac's idea of quantized charges, but hey, us laypeople

Magnetic monopoles don't exist in the Standard Model; there's simply no particle in the Model that is a magnetic monopole, as usually defined. Though hypothetical extensions have been proposed to account for them if they turn out to exist, there's no real evidence that they do.

nah, not optical blurring, planck scale spacetime fluctuations (Lieu & Hillman, 2003) - though Ng et al (2003) maintain that Lieu overestimated the possible effect by a huge amount (10^15 - 10^30).

I would agree with Ng et al: the effects of the quantum foam would be phenomenally small, even over such vast distances.

and this is why i'm relearning math

Maths always gets two thumbs up from WC

 

[KIYX]

Looks like you finally answered your own question.

It was your question.......

This isn't really hard, the whole "following conversations" thing.

 

[SAMMISPARROW]

"So, you don't know what happens after death?"

Tell me, what is going to happen after you die, because it's obvious that you are still alive.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Tell me, what is going to happen after you die, because it's obvious that you are still alive.

Indeed, and I've already stated what we know about death (namely, the physical body rots, and the mind ceases to exist).

But you keep avoiding my question. Do you, or do you not, know what happens after death?

 

[SAMMISPARROW]

Indeed, and I've already stated what we know about death (namely, the physical body rots, and the mind ceases to exist).

But you keep avoiding my question. Do you, or do you not, know what happens after death?

I know that the physical body perishes. I hope that this answer is sufficient for you.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I know that the physical body perishes. I hope that this answer is sufficient for you.

Perhaps. What, then, did you mean by, "But God serves to prove that when you are dead you are always alive. Right !"?

I'm not trying to trick you out, I just don't understand what you meant by that comment

 

[Steffenfield]

I have an N800 internet tablet.

It has a BP-5L Li-Po 1500 mAh Battery inside it.

Anyway, I use it all the time when I'm taking a pink bubble bath. No judgments please.

I usually have it plugged in to my wall charger.

What would happen if this slipped out of my hands by accident and fell into the tub?

Both while being plugged into a wall socket and also while it's not.

I just realized that I don't want to die.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

I have an N800 internet tablet.

It has a BP-5L Li-Po 1500[bless and do not curse]mAh Battery inside it.

Anyway, I use it all the time when I'm taking a pink bubble bath. No judgments please.

I usually have it plugged in to my wall charger.

What would happen if this slipped out of my hands by accident and fell into the tub?

Both while being plugged into a wall socket and also while it's not.

I just realized that I don't want to die.

The device probably wouldn't fare too well; the display would most likely go peculiar as water crept into its nether regions.

But would you be electrocuted? No, the electrics are generally small and the water too poorly conducting. If you dropped an old-fashioned electric toaster in, or anything with an electric heating element that must necessarily be exposed to the air (or, if submerged, water), then you'll go boom.

So you'd be fine... but the device wouldn't.

HOWEVER don't do it anyway, as I'll probably turn out wrong

 

[Assyrian]

Are you afraid of being electrocuted?
Or having your body discovered in pink bubble bath?
No judgements of course

 

[mzungu]

I have an N800 internet tablet.

What would happen if this slipped out of my hands by accident and fell into the tub?

Both while being plugged into a wall socket and also while it's not.

I just realized that I don't want to die.

The circuit breaker will trip and or the Earth trip (depending on which is the faster). Either way the chances are that you will survive!

As for the pink bubble bath? You will not survive that if the word gets out

 

[KIYX]

Are you afraid of being electrocuted?
Or having your body discovered in pink bubble bath?
No judgements of course

Hahahaha

 

[Supreme]

Wiccan child, what science qualifications (from GCSE's to university degrees) do you have?