Ask a physicist anything.

[AV1611VET]

Why don't Weebles fall over?

 

[catzrfluffy]

No physicist can answer that!

The only time I've injured myself and not felt the pain was when I drove a ice pick into my hand while trying to put holes in a bottle lid that I was going to put bees into.

Why were you putting bees into bottles?

 

[canehdianhotstuff]

The only time I've injured myself and not felt the pain was when I drove a ice pick into my hand while trying to put holes in a bottle lid that I was going to put bees into.

I'm pretty sure I was in shock.

I have a question: Why when you magnify the light of the sun it causes things to burn, but when you magnify the light of a lamp or something like that it doesn't?

It would have to be the difference in EM waves coming off the sun compared to that of a regular light. The sun puts out much higher (shorter) wavelengths of energy than a light bulb that for the most part only puts out visible white light. The higher energy concentrated to a single focal point eventually meets the activation energy to cause fire.

Either that or simply a higher concentration of photons in the visible light region carrying the intense heat they do. Concentrate it all with a magnifying glass...fire. Maybe a combination of both.

 

[Cabal]

Why don't Weebles fall over?

Their shape.

Or perhaps because of all the pie.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

The only time I've injured myself and not felt the pain was when I drove a ice pick into my hand while trying to put holes in a bottle lid that I was going to put bees into.

I'm pretty sure I was in shock.

I have a question: Why when you magnify the light of the sun it causes things to burn, but when you magnify the light of a lamp or something like that it doesn't?

The Sun is a bit hotter than a lamp . You can focus the Sun's rays to burn a hole through steel, but the lamp simply doesn't have enough wattage to do that.

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Why don't Weebles fall over?

They're weighted, so their centre of gravity is very low, and they're rounded, so they can roll to any orientation.

Technically, they do fall over. They just right themselves again. Interestingly, there's a particular object which is self-righting, but doesn't actually rely on being weighted. It's of uniform density, and it's the shape that rights it:

 

[Wiccan_Child]

It would have to be the difference in EM waves coming off the sun compared to that of a regular light. The sun puts out much higher (shorter) wavelengths of energy than a light bulb that for the most part only puts out visible white light. The higher energy concentrated to a single focal point eventually meets the activation energy to cause fire.

Either that or simply a higher concentration of photons in the visible light region carrying the intense heat they do. Concentrate it all with a magnifying glass...fire. Maybe a combination of both.

I don't think it's the higher wavelength of the photons, since the shortest wavelength produced in any significant number is really just ultraviolet.

Yellow is the Sun's spectrum as seen in space, red is as seen on Earth (as you can see, the atmosphere absorbs certain chunks of it), and the grey line is the black-body spectrum (basically, an ideal object that emits light solely as a result of it's temperature, which is a good approximation of the Sun's emitted spectrum).

 

[Doveaman]

it's YOUR job to back it up. If YOU fail to back it up nobody is going to take YOU seriously.

I have seen others brought very good back up to you to support their claims and all you did was to reject their back up like a thirsty horse who refuse to drink good water.

Go get an education, pal, then come back here.

Your arrogant tone is sickening.

 

[Cabal]

I have seen others brought very good back up to you to support their claims and all you did was to reject their back up like a thirsty horse who refuse to drink good water.

Who said that the backup would be approved after it is provided? Not providing anything of substance in one's argument to begin with is a basic error.

Your arrogant tone is sickening.

This coming from someone who still hasn't grasped the distinction between what science and religion is several hundred posts later and is so arrogant he will quote his own mistake in his signature

 

[Doveaman]

[/color][/color]This coming from someone who still hasn't grasped the distinction between what science and religion is several hundred posts later and is so arrogant he will quote his own mistake in his signature

You hate my signature, don't you?

 

[Cabal]

You hate my signature, don't you?

You're not exactly the most amazing philosopher to grace this planet, nor are you the first to come up with that statement.

While it is fractally wrong, I do like your sig for the massive irony fail it lands you in, like in your last post.

 

[AV1611VET]

Are you [guys] "British" or "English"?

 

[Wiccan_Child]

Are you [guys] "British" or "English"?

To someone from the Home Nations, I'm 'English'. To everyone else, I'm 'British'. Foreigners generally can't tell the difference between the two, so it doesn't really matter.

But someone once thought I was Welsh just because I live in Bristol (near the England-Wales border)...

 

[Chesterton]

Do you like chicken tikka masala?

P.S. Have you ever had scurvy?

 

[brinny]

I'm enjoying these physics-related threads so...

Ask a physicist anything .

what makes yer heart dance fer joy?

 

[Cabal]

what makes yer heart dance fer joy?

Physics, clearly.

 

[Cabal]

Do you like chicken tikka masala?

Not nearly spicy enough.

P.S. Have you ever had scurvy?

Is this some limeys inference....? I suspect our teeth are bad all by themselves, not due to any particular vitamin deficiency

*And to those who may be wondering why I'm answering the Brit questions while sporting an Irish flag, I'm half and half

 

[AV1611VET]

To someone from the Home Nations, I'm 'English'. To everyone else, I'm 'British'. Foreigners generally can't tell the difference between the two, so it doesn't really matter.

Is it politically correct to also consider someone from N Ireland as "British" or "English"?

 

[Cabal]

Is it politically correct to also consider someone from N Ireland as "British" or "English"?

I would strongly not recommend it. "Northern Irish" will suffice.

In general, I'd stay away from the topic altogether

 

[Chesterton]

*And to those who may be wondering why I'm answering the Brit questions while sporting an Irish flag, I'm half and half

Black and tan, eh?