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From: David Bostwick on 18 May 2010 16:27
In article <7b1e9ed7-01b2-4964-9c4d-43a2b533b632(a)a39g2000prb.googlegroups.com>, jbriggs444 <jbriggs444(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>On May 18, 1:06=A0pm, david.bostw...(a)chemistry.gatech.edu (David
>Bostwick) wrote:
>> In article <0777d4e9-d5a3-4dd4-b88f-f00e66256...(a)v12g2000prb.googlegroups=
>..com>, jbriggs444 <jbriggs...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>
>>
>> >Contrary to what physics jargon might suggest, the act of "weighing"
>> >an object
>> >normally means "determine the mass of the object". =A0[My chemistry
>> >teacher
>> >objected to this disharmony and insisted that we use "mass" as a verb
>> >to describe
>> >the operation. =A0'Let us put the object on a scale and mass it']
>>
>> Mass does not change. =A0Weight does, because weight is affected by the
>> gravitational force on the mass. =A0That's why the formula for inertia do=
>esn't
>> contain g, but only m and v. =A0I'll "mass" the same on the Earth or the =
>Moon,
>> or in a space station, and I'll have the same inertia, but I definitely w=
>on't
>> weigh the same.
>>
>> [...]
>
>But if you weigh yourself, you will get the same result. Assuming
>that you
>use a properly calibrated scale.

No. If you recalibrate the scale, you've changed the standard.

From: David Bostwick on 18 May 2010 16:28
In article <uVBIn.6617$of4.5324(a)newsfe03.ams2>, "Androcles" <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_z> wrote:
>
>"Martin Brown" <|||newspam|||@nezumi.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:sKBIn.7612$%u7.5241(a)newsfe14.iad...
>> On 18/05/2010 10:58, Androcles wrote:
>>> You should be made aware that you are conversing with a miserable
>>> fuckwitted bigot called Martin Brown. His opinions will not enlighten
>>> you at all, and nor will anyone's opinion. Opinions are like arseholes,
>>> everybody has one and they all stink. Contrary to Brown's opinion,
>>> Androcles has not voiced any opinion on matter.
>>
>> Androcles is a foul mouthed third rate netkook with delusions of adequacy.
>> His knowledge of physics is very dodgy. CAVEAT EMPTOR!
>>
>> Regards,
>> Martin Brown
>
>Brown is fuckwitted troll hell-bent on a flame war, he cannot argue
>logically
>without resorting to insult.
>Disregards,
>Androcles.
>
>
>
>
>

Pot. Kettle.
From: spudnik on 19 May 2010 22:52
which has more decimal places:
the integer value of Avagadro's No., or
teh surfer's value of pi?

thusNso:
"infinite descent & more" is just a contradiction
of some sort, which assuredly is plausible
for such a negative conjecture/theorem.

why is unique factorization problematic
for these non-allowed integral values (assuming,
Fermat was correct, for once ?-)

whether mod arithmetic Day One is inadequate,
I don't know enough of it to say.

> and often non-unique factorization causes problems too.
> basic modular aritmetic is too weak.
> no problem with quadratic reciprocity, though.

thusNso:
twins are always of the form, 6n plus and minus one?

thusNso:
on the wayside, please,
attempt to "save the dysappearance"
of Newton's God-am corpuscular "theory,"
by not using them in equations with "momentum
(equals mass times directed velocity)."

thusNso:
actually, receding glaciers are probably better
for rafting, compared to advancing ones, iff
there's more water.

thusNso:
can one tell a priori that a black surface will absorb more
infrared, since it is invisible in the first place, invoking,
perhaps, blackbody curves (and, there are "line spectra"
for both absorption & emmission) ??
I wish folks like Y'know and y'Know would at least *try*
to write their syllogistical theories in terms of,
"There Are No Photons?"
just this afternoon, a lecturer showed a slide
with a graph of "phonons from 0 to over 1 teracycles;"
is that the sound of light?
http://www.xs4all.nl/~johanw/PhysFAQ/General/LightMill/light-mill.html

thusNso:
I like all three of those;
note that there is a raw infinity
of trigona, two of whose edges are perpendicular
to the other edge, as far as spherical trig goes,
and I really like those "half lunes."

--y'know dot the surfer's value
of pi dot com period semicolon & I mean it!
http://\\:btty
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