Ask a physicist anything. (8)

[Justatruthseeker]

ROFl, the IEEE is not a physics journal. It is an engineering journal.

Why would a physicist publish in an EE journal?

Again, so much for your claims.

IEEE - History of IEEE

"However, as the world's largest technical professional association, IEEE's membership has long been composed of engineers, scientists, and allied professionals. These include computer scientists, software developers, information technology professionals, physicists, medical doctors, and many others in addition to our electrical and electronics engineering core. "

The world's largest.

Where else would you publish about plasma, an electrical medium? If I am a doctor I publish mainly in medical publications, if you study plasma you publish in an electrical publication, since you are dealing with an electrified medium.

http://www.plasmacoalition.org/what.htm

"Plasma is often called the "Fourth State of Matter," the other three being solid, liquid and gas. A plasma is a distinct state of matter containing a significant number of electrically charged particles, a number sufficient to affect its electrical properties and behavior. In addition to being important in many aspects of our daily lives, plasmas are estimated to constitute more than 99 percent of the visible universe.

In an ordinary gas each atom contains an equal number of positive and negative charges; the positive charges in the nucleus are surrounded by an equal number of negatively charged electrons, and each atom is electrically "neutral." A gas becomes a plasma when the addition of heat or other energy causes a significant number of atoms to release some or all of their electrons. The remaining parts of those atoms are left with a positive charge, and the detached negative electrons are free to move about. Those atoms and the resulting electrically charged gas are said to be "ionized." When enough atoms are ionized to significantly affect the electrical characteristics of the gas, it is a plasma."

So they publish in journals where people will understand what is written, not in the realms of fantasy land astronomy where astronomers have never taken a single course in plasma physics or electromagnetic field theory.

This is why it is called "peer" review. You go to those that understand what is written, not to those that have a psuedoscientific belief of how it behaves. This is why astronomers don't publish here, because their psuedoscientific views of plasma would never pass peer review.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Again, so much for your claims.

IEEE - History of IEEE

"However, as the world's largest technical professional association, IEEE's membership has long been composed of engineers, scientists, and allied professionals. These include computer scientists, software developers, information technology professionals, physicists, medical doctors, and many others in addition to our electrical and electronics engineering core. "

The world's largest.

Where else would you publish about plasma, an electrical medium? If I am a doctor I publish mainly in medical publications, if you study plasma you publish in an electrical publication, since you are dealing with an electrified medium.

Coalition for Plasma Science - What is a plasma?

"Plasma is often called the "Fourth State of Matter," the other three being solid, liquid and gas. A plasma is a distinct state of matter containing a significant number of electrically charged particles, a number sufficient to affect its electrical properties and behavior. In addition to being important in many aspects of our daily lives, plasmas are estimated to constitute more than 99 percent of the visible universe.

In an ordinary gas each atom contains an equal number of positive and negative charges; the positive charges in the nucleus are surrounded by an equal number of negatively charged electrons, and each atom is electrically "neutral." A gas becomes a plasma when the addition of heat or other energy causes a significant number of atoms to release some or all of their electrons. The remaining parts of those atoms are left with a positive charge, and the detached negative electrons are free to move about. Those atoms and the resulting electrically charged gas are said to be "ionized." When enough atoms are ionized to significantly affect the electrical characteristics of the gas, it is a plasma."

So they publish in journals where people will understand what is written, not in the realms of fantasy land astronomy where astronomers have never taken a single course in plasma physics or electromagnetic field theory.

This is why it is called "peer" review. You go to those that understand what is written, not to those that have a psuedoscientific belief of how it behaves. This is why astronomers don't publish here, because their psuedoscientific views of plasma would never pass peer review.

Wrong again. If your science was valid they would not have to go to a journal that is at best an engineers journal. Did you see they included medical doctors as their supposed members to. Does that mean you would go to that source for information on a hernia operation?

The avoidance of applicable journals by EU's is extremely strong evidence that they are pushing "woo".

 

[Cactus Jack]

Question- Limestone is comprised of Calcium Carbonate. Dolomite Limestone is comprised of Calcium Magnesium Carbonate. Explain to me why they cannot mine the Dolomite Limestone for magnesium.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Question- Limestone is comprised of Calcium Carbonate. Dolomite Limestone is comprised of Calcium Magnesium Carbonate. Explain to me why they cannot mine the Dolomite Limestone for magnesium.

It can be, but there are other ways to get it. It is the third most abundant ion in sea water. So in the U.S. most magnesium is made from brines. In China they may use dolomite. There are several "ores" of magnesium:

Magnesium - Although magnesium is found in many minerals, only dolomite, magnesite, brucite, carnallite, and olivine are of commercial importance. Magnesium and other magnesium compounds are also produced from seawater, well and lake brines and bitterns.

Ore minerals

 

[Justatruthseeker]

Question- Limestone is comprised of Calcium Carbonate. Dolomite Limestone is comprised of Calcium Magnesium Carbonate. Explain to me why they cannot mine the Dolomite Limestone for magnesium.

The expense of mining it would not be worth the gain, being there are more easily mined sources of magnesium.

 

[Justatruthseeker]

Wrong again. If your science was valid they would not have to go to a journal that is at best an engineers journal. Did you see they included medical doctors as their supposed members to. Does that mean you would go to that source for information on a hernia operation?

The avoidance of applicable journals by EU's is extremely strong evidence that they are pushing "woo".

Actually yes.

IEEE Xplore - SearchResult

The doctors go there to find out what the best technology is to advance their knowledge.

Once again we find your claims are without merit.

My, we even have scientists posting Dark matter articles here.

IEEE Xplore - SearchResult

Some 206 papers, but you are right, a site no scientist would publish in.

So what is your next excuse for ignoring the evidence?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Actually yes.

IEEE Xplore - SearchResult

The doctors go there to find out what the best technology is to advance their knowledge.

Once again we find your claims are without merit.

My, we even have scientists posting Dark matter articles here.

IEEE Xplore - SearchResult

Some 206 papers, but you are right, a site no scientist would publish in.

So what is your next excuse for ignoring the evidence?

One more time. If a "science" totally avoids the peer reviewed journals of the science that is a subset of alarm bells should go off. It does not really matter if substandard physicists publish in IEEE, for example here is the abstract from the first Dark Matter article listed:

The simple singlet fermionic dark matter (DM) extension of standard model (SM) is studied in this paper, we study this model more completely, we consider that the dark matter mass in a much wide range, and we have studied the influence of mixing angle θ in this model. We also update the value of fT, from the recent lattice simulation to give a more accurate spin-independent elastic dark matter-nucleon scattering cross-section. We find that WMAP and CDMS, XENON experiments together give a stringent constraint to this model, the coupling constant in the dark sector must be much small in case of that mass of DM is light, when DM is heavy light Higgs may be excluded. The Higgs decay is also studied in some benchmark points.

IEEE Xplore - Simple singlet fermionic dark-matter model under the new results of dark matter search

There is no excuse for so many grammatical errors in the title of a journal article. The next article has poor English too. There is not necessarily a correlation between poor English and a poor article, but it does not give a good first impression.

If your science was valid you could find articles in other journals besides IEEE. It does not look like their standards are exceptionally high.

 

[Subduction Zone]

So once again, present me evidence from an astronomy journal. And it better be a well respected one. You can always find some vanity press that will publish an article for you if you pay them enough.

 

[Cactus Jack]

Since water is H2O (Dyhydrogen Monoxide), and H2O2 is Hydrogen Peroxide (properly Dyhydrogen Peroxide?), then what about Dyhydrogen Trioxide (H2O3)?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Since water is H2O (Dyhydrogen Monoxide), and H2O2 is Hydrogen Peroxide (properly Dyhydrogen Peroxide?), then what about Dyhydrogen Trioxide (H2O3)?

It exists - it's an unstable molecule called trioxidane (wiki). It's little used, but papers on it are here and here.

 

[Justatruthseeker]

One more time. If a "science" totally avoids the peer reviewed journals of the science that is a subset of alarm bells should go off. It does not really matter if substandard physicists publish in IEEE, for example here is the abstract from the first Dark Matter article listed:



IEEE Xplore - Simple singlet fermionic dark-matter model under the new results of dark matter search

There is no excuse for so many grammatical errors in the title of a journal article. The next article has poor English too. There is not necessarily a correlation between poor English and a poor article, but it does not give a good first impression.

If your science was valid you could find articles in other journals besides IEEE. It does not look like their standards are exceptionally high.

Because it was written in Chinese and translated into English or did not the authors names give you a clue?

"Hongyi Qin ; Inst. of Theor. Phys., Beijing Univ. of Technol., Beijing, China ; Zhaohua Xiong"

Man, you will just spew out nonsense in any attempt to ignore facts won't you. I am not aware of very many native Chinese, Japanese. Mexican or whatever that have a very good grasp of the English language, and translations across languages always end up not being quite grammatically correct. How bigoted of you to suggest just because someone is not flluent in the English language they are not in their own. But I expect you would do even worse trying to translate it into Chinese.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Because it was written in Chinese and translated into English or did not the authors names give you a clue?

"Hongyi Qin ; Inst. of Theor. Phys., Beijing Univ. of Technol., Beijing, China ; Zhaohua Xiong"

Man, you will just spew out nonsense in any attempt to ignore facts won't you. I am not aware of very many native Chinese, Japanese. Mexican or whatever that have a very good grasp of the English language, and translations across languages always end up not being quite grammatically correct. How bigoted of you to suggest just because someone is not flluent in the English language they are not in their own. But I expect you would do even worse trying to translate it into Chinese.

I know that. It still was not very professionally done.

One more time, if a science is real, serious scientists will publish articles in the journals of their profession first. If all you can find are articles in journals of other professions there is something seriously wrong.

Why can't you find EU articles in astronomy or physics journals?

And it is not bigoted to expect people writing for professional journals to get a professional translator. It shows disrespect for their work when they do so.

 

[Cactus Jack]

Explain the theory on ionic static attraction.

 

[AV1611VET]

What is CCTV over there? and what is "Treble 9"?

Is that the equivalent of our 911?

And is a gas station called a "garage"?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Explain the theory on ionic static attraction.

Ions are atoms with a net electric charge, which happens when they have gain or lose electrons. Because they're electrically charged, they repel similarly charged ions and attract oppositely charged ions.

Usually this causes positive ions to stick to negative ones. The classic example of this is when a chlorine ion (Cl[sup]-[/sup]) is attracted to a sodium ion (Na[sup]+[/sup]), forming NaCl, or table salt.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

What is CCTV over there?

'CCTV' stands for 'closed-circuit television'. Apparently the UK has the highest density of CCTV cameras in the world; we don't seem to mind, so make of that what you will.

and what is "Treble 9"?

Is that the equivalent of our 911?

Yes - '999' is the number for the emergency services in the UK, as well as most of Asia and the Middle-East. Incidentally, if you dial '911', you also get put through, which is a nice touch for foreigners who dial it by mistake.

I've never heard it referred to as 'treble nine'; perhaps it's just where I come from, but it's always been 'nine-nine-nine'.

And is a gas station called a "garage"?

Yes.

Why do you call it 'gas' when it's a liquid?

 

[Subduction Zone]

Yes - '999' is the number for the emergency services in the UK, as well as most of Asia and the Middle-East. Incidentally, if you dial '911', you also get put through, which is a nice touch for foreigners who dial it by mistake.

And you probably have a similar joke about people asking for the number for 9 1 1 in an emergency.

Why do you call it 'gas' when it's a liquid?

"Gas" is short for "gasoline" just as "petrol" is a shortening of "pertroleum".

 

[Damian79]

I have a question. Why is the big bang theory regarded as fact these days especially in light of simpler theories of the universe which arent event glanced at? Woudlnt Occam's Razor atleast force most people to look at these alternate theories why have dark matter and dark energy if it isnt needed? Then there is the cosmological constant(aka fine tuning) forcing the big bang theory to become even more ridiculous with the multiverse theory and now alien design?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

And you probably have a similar joke about people asking for the number for 9 1 1 in an emergency.

We do!

We have one about stupid people asking for the recipe/ingredients to make ice.

"Gas" is short for "gasoline" just as "petrol" is a shortening of "pertroleum".

Do you ever get kids who genuinely think it's actually gaseous?

 

[Subduction Zone]

We do!

We have one about stupid people asking for the recipe/ingredients to make ice.


Do you ever get kids who genuinely think it's actually gaseous?

Since we are familiar with gasoline long before we take chemistry or physics classes it tends to be the other way around.