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@ Surly:

Not math per se, but interesting nonetheless:

So with negative index of refraction (meta)materials being made - could we see Cerenkov in air?
You know, accelerate an electron out of a metamaterial and with c_m > c_air ...?

^ Bayes Theorem.

Partition the sample space on x > c, and x < = c (Due to X being distributed an uniform pdf over compact [0,1] the event probabilities are 1-c and c respectively)

Have you guys read Nie Rongzhen or K. Sundarji on Nuclear Deterrence , as opposed to Nuclear Warfighting ? It goes a long way to describe, IMO, China and India's nuclear thinking. Plus, it seems as though Pakistan's nukes (maintained and supplied by China) can be explained well through their lenses.

^ Again - don't boats have to undergo inspection after submitting a sailing plan - crew or no crew?

^ Out of curiosity - what is the connection to Cayley Algebras?

I think you'll be alright Shroom: Boats have to pass inspection before the port authority will give them berthing - even if you hire licensed crew. The inspectors will probably fail the boat, and it'll have to be shipped on a larger vessel. What margin is your dad expecting? (Depending on how you ca...

You can derive the speed of light from Maxwell's equations without any fixed reference frame. We have experimentally verified all of Maxwell's equations that are required for the derivation. Special relativity uses this fact - it isn't a "proof" of it. General Relativity and Classical Elec...

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Well, Peace if America's Profession, so I guess it's lovely how they end up hand in hand with the advocates of the Religion of Peace.

Just the Sunni branch (Apparently - they are the most "peaceful" )

[quote="Broomstick" THEN we get into the problem of various European countries having to pay reparations back and forth, and those who were part of the USSR at the time will (justifiably) want their pound of flesh... [/quote] A poor example :twisted: : Most of the European SSR's were ruled...

^ Apropos of this question - just some stuff that I'm ignorant of :

India supported the anti-Taliban elements in Afghanistan right? Not really anything in Pakistan?

What kinds of sources is he using to debate? Even though Israel is the target for a crapload of conspiracy theories, I've never seen it mentioned in the context of Balochistan. The closest thing I can think of would be the assertion that Israel sold some weapons to the mujahedeen in the Soviet occu...

I'm debating this fundi nutjob (anti-Semite). I've got most of his points answered but need help with a few points that I do not know much about: 1) Specifically, he is asserting that Israel and India have together funded an insurgency in the Balochistan region of Pakistan. I think this is ridiculou...

^ So you bothered to posture but not actually google " anti neutron magnetic moment" :lol: :lol: Here's a hint: the Graemer and Ghandi paper - the very first hit on Google demonstrates exactly what my post stated. Also - don't use the word "CPT violation" if you don't know what i...

^ Are you trying to claim anti-neutrons aren't produced? Which part of the ALPHA Collaboration page do you believe contradicts this? I like the vague citation this time rather than the exact passages used previously

Ditto the "suspicions" that aren't voiced

Likewise, antihydrogen would be antiprotium, which only has an antiproton and a positron. There are no antineutrons present in this antihydrogen, so your assumption is way off base... They don't make one anti-protium, dude. During the collision anti-neutrons are generated, as are a host of other pa...

^ Weren't the designs more or less limited by their manufacturing ability? Germany could not really produce much more powerful engines - they simply did not have enough stockpiles of the right grade steel to make production versions of stronger pistons. In the absence of better engines or transmissi...

^ Anti-hydrogen isn't for "fusion" or "antimatter/matter based energy plants/bombs/engines" or whatever - that would be laughably inefficient given the ground state energy of stored antimatter. The anti-hydrogen is to see how the magnetic dipole of the anti-neutron scales as the ...

^ Do you think Japan likes North Korea? Do you think Japan likes China? Do you think the Japanese "defence forces" are an actual army?

EDIT: Also noticed - apparently in Stravoland the JSDF can "bulk itself up" with "a small buildup"

How is that going to help people who don't want to go past a bachelor's? For people like me a bachelor's is more than enough, and I'm not sure if I'll continue past my associate's. We should have a range of possible electives for juniors/seniors - elective options both for those who wish to continu...

^ Yep - that is roughly why retrogade orbits are more stable. Do you have the Gravity Sim source code? (I'm almost certain the simulator is using too low a Runge Kutta - and that's leading to the long term instability) Essentially - I think the arrangement you have should be stable , at least to ~10...

^ It would be superb if the second two years of undergrad were structured the way grad school is. It's shocking how many of our incoming grad students don't know how research works - or even know that the journals in a field have tiers of differing quality. This "review paper = research" m...

^ The paper AFAIK talks about a restricted 3 body problem. (Will read the full paper after my group meeting - just skimmed abstract & conclusions now) This means it's assuming an viable elliptic orbit for at least one of the bodies (probably the planet) - restricting the degrees of orbital freed...

- Orbital spaceplanes are like nuclear fusion based powerplants. ... There is ample evidence to suggest that the spaceplane itself is a flawed idea to begin. ... Through brute force and technological finesse future engineers may make the concept work but it will not be cheaper per kilo than rockets...

^ How many periods do you want to check stability for? There's obviously no closed form for an arbitrary 3 body problem, but you can check stability of planet 1 given IEO of planet 2, and then planet 2 given IEO of planet 1. You aren't in a situation where deviations from the elliptic are going to c...

^ Finally - someone who understands the actual point of F1. Congrats!