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From: Tak To on 22 Feb 2010 13:42 jimp(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: > In sci.physics Andrew Usher <k_over_hbarc(a)yahoo.com> wrote: >> Brian M. Scott wrote: >> >>>>>>> And trying to come up with a new calendar fixating on >>>>>>> Christmas is about as logical as fixating on Waitangi >>>>>>> Day. >>>>>> This is just West-bashing. >>>>> Don't be silly: New Zealand is part of the cultural west. >>>> But what the day commemorates is not. >>> You should have checked to see what it actually does >>> commemorate before posting such nonsense. >> As far as I know, it's used today as just another excuse for white >> guilt. It hasn't been continuously observed since the event itself, >> like out July 4 has been. > > Nonsense, execpt for "As far as I know", which is apparantly not far. > >> And even if I'm wrong, it's no more important than July 4, and I don't >> base my calendar around that, either. I chose the Christian holidays >> because they are international, and fitting other US days is a bonus. >> >> Andrew Usher > > Yeah, they celebrate lots of Christian holidays in China, Japan, India, > Korea, and the Middle East. 1/4 of South Koreans are Christians. Tak -- ----------------------------------------------------------------+----- Tak To takto(a)alum.mit.eduxx --------------------------------------------------------------------^^ [taode takto ~{LU5B~}] NB: trim the xx to get my real email addr
From: John Dunlop on 22 Feb 2010 13:53 Michael Stemper: > Not one possessive pronoun has an apostrophe. A friend of mine's apostrophes are possessed. Mine aren't. -- John
From: spudnik on 22 Feb 2010 14:02 how about a leap-fortnight, half as often? > Just use a 364-day year with a leap week. What's troublesome about that? thus: well, if Christopher Walken will only do weird/creepy but not bad, as I just read in teh Sunday NYTimes, then so can Bill Shatner; eh?... of course, the "bad" is in the denouement or resolution. (at the moment, HSJ is just letting me waste my time on him, which *might* be a good thing .-) as for interesting, it could be used as a vehicle to promulgate math, like the "purposefully mistaken calculus instructor," more or less (because, I hypothesize that it is really an alias for Obama, jerking us around for some reason). > Hmm. You'd need someone who can do humourless/irrational, while making thus: the only comment is that "the quaternion people" did not "do" any thing "to the scalar;" Gibbs took quaternions apart into two operations, using all of the nomenclature (and not adding any, I think), except for "imaginaries." thus: well, if the microphone is your ear, then it is commonplace observation; two ears, you can even locate the emmitter, immediately. so, what is the *same* about the waves & the particles? thus: NCLB/Come the Rapture; won't matter about Babel-on! > What's the "No Child Left Behind" *Alphabet*? thus: vous etes tres pathetique, monsieur Valev. comme-ca, quelle es problematique avec <<dilation doo temps>> -- faites-vous supposez, cette est le meme chose a journe' <<een>> temps? > http://astronomy.ifrance.com/pages/gdes_theories/einstein.html > "Le deuxième test classique donne en revanche des inquiétudes. > Historiquement, pourtant, l'explication de l'avance du périhélie de > Mercure, proposé par Einstein lui-même, donna ses lettres de noblesse > à la relativité générale. Il s'agissait de comprendra pourquoi le > périhélie de Mercure ( le point de son orbite le plus proche du > soleil ) se déplaçait de 574 s d'arc par siècle. Certes, sur ces 574 > s, 531 s'expliquaient par les perturbations gravitationnels dues aux > autres planètes. Mais restait 43 s, le fameux effet "périhélique " > inexpliqué par les lois de Newton. Le calcul relativiste d'Einstein > donna 42,98 s ! L'accord et si parfait qu'il ne laisse la place à > aucune discussion. Or depuis 1966, le soleil est soupçonné ne pas être > rigoureusement sphérique mais légèrement aplati à l'équateur. Une très > légère dissymétries qui suffirait à faire avancer le périhélie de > quelques secondes d'arc. Du coup, la preuve se transformerait en > réfutation puisque les 42,88 s du calcul d'Einstein ne pourrait pas > expliquer le mouvement réel de Mercure." > > http://astronomy.ifrance.com/pages/gdes_theories/einstein.html > "Arthur Eddington , le premier en 1924, calculâtes théoriquement un > décalage 0,007% attendu la surface de Sirius mais avec des données > fausses à l'époque sur la masse et le rayon de l'étoile. L'année > suivante, Walter Adams mesurerait exactement ces 0.007%. Il s'avère > aujourd'hui que ces mesures , qui constituèrent pendant quarante ans > une "preuves" de la relativité, étaient largement "arrangée" tant > était grand le désir de vérifier la théorie d'Enstein. La véritable > valeur fut mesurée en 1965. Elle est de 0.03% car Sirius est plus > petite , et sont champ de gravitation est plus fort que ne le pensait > Eddington." --les OEuvres! http://wlym.com --Stop Cheeny and Rice's 3rd British (ICC) Invasion of Sudan! http://larouchepub.com/pr/2010/100204rice-ists_sudan.html
From: Androcles on 22 Feb 2010 14:12 "Michael Stemper" <mstemper(a)walkabout.empros.com> wrote in message news:hlufet$ida$1(a)news.eternal-september.org... > In article <%GIfn.45264$lB6.23443(a)newsfe16.ams2>, "Androcles" > <Headmaster(a)Hogwarts.physics_u> writes: >>"R H Draney" <dadoctah(a)spamcop.net> wrote in message >>news:hlni3r01mb3(a)drn.newsguy.com... >>> Robert Bannister filted: >>>>Androcles wrote: > >>>>> The USA doesn't have a football schedule. The rest of the world plays >>>>> football, the USA calls that soccer and then plays it's own version of >>>>> parochial handball. >>> >>> One expects such a reaction from someone who inserts an apostrophe into >>> possessive "its".... >> >>Oops... I forgot that is one possessive word that doesn't have an >>apostophe. > > mine, yours, his, "Michael Stemper's blunder" is a contraction of "Michael Stemper, his blunder". http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/contraction : a shortening of a word, syllable, or word group by omission of a sound or letter;
From: Paul Madarasz on 22 Feb 2010 14:13
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010 05:39:36 -0000, jimp(a)specsol.spam.sux.com wrote: >In sci.physics Sam Wormley <swormley1(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2/18/10 10:13 PM, Andrew Usher wrote: >>> Owing to the inconveniences which attend the shifting of the calendar... >> >> Why not get rid of the calendar altogether... thru the >> majority of human existance none was used. > >True enough, but... > >Prior to about 10,000 years ago, humans lived as hunter-gatherers and >had little need for a calendar. > >During the Neolithic Revolution, humans "invented" agriculture, established >permanent settlements, domesticated animals, and started using metal tools. > >At about this time, the calendar was invented. > >If you want to live as a hunter-gatherer wandering the wilderness, hunting >for rabbits and grubbing for berries to stay alive, go ahead and throw away >your calendar. > >If you like any of the advances humans have made in the last 10,000 years, >like a permanent structure to shelter you from the elements and food on a >regular basis, I guess you are stuck with calendars. Jared Diamond thinks that agriculture is one of humankind's big mistakes. |