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  • #31
    I like the neurons stuff because it is a lot closer to what is really science. And physics, even stuff that is not theory, is really cool. I am betting that you have mostly read the popular type books on it, you should try reading some real physics books if this is the case (the popular books are fun and all, but some come away from them with some big misconceptions, and physics that we understand better is really cool on it's own (field theory and chaos and quantum mechanics and relativity and all sorts of other areas (of course, relativity is mostly theoretical although there is a satelite being built to do some searchs for gravitational waves)).

    JM

    (we do have tests on relativity, in astrophysics and the like, and we use special relativity all the time (but than special relativity isn't that interesting))

    (I actually know very little about GR, I have some books at home I need to study myself)
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    • #32
      HERE IS YOUR SCIENCE

      NUKE SUB = PWN3D

      DUH


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      • #33
        Subtle.
        "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
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        • #34
          Meridian Bioscience (NASDAQ: VIVO
          Kind of like Tungsten (symbol: W)...am I missing the silent Vs in "Meridian"?
          meet the new boss, same as the old boss

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          • #35
            Originally posted by Vince278
            Subtle.
            GP is my dogg he's knows I'm giving mad props to the underwater blasters.
            We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. - Abraham Lincoln

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            • #36
              Right now, I'm working on electron spectroscopy, finding a bound for the mass of the neutrino.

              Went to a grad school interview yester/today. Looking into working with a guy who does mantle convection/atmospheric nonlinear dyndamics. He was talking about linking the fluid flows, Navier-Stokes, etc., with maximizing entropy. Neat ideas. Good program generally... But it's in Houston.
              "Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way. "
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              • #37
                Isn't gravitation linked with maximizing entropy?
                "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
                "Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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                • #38
                  Well, the idea that entropy generally increases is basically that a system tends towards the state with the largest number of microstates. Say, if you have a pair of dice at any state and you keep rolling them, you would tend to see the numbers add up to 7. So the idea applies to any statistical system, including those that involve gravity.

                  As for gravity, matter and energy curve space, changing the idea of distance (what's called the metric). That's essentially what Einstein's field equations say. And objects travel through the locally minimal path length between two points, based on that metric. So that's what you'd be minimizing.
                  Last edited by Ramo; March 22, 2006, 05:15.
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                  • #39
                    So if we carry that to its logical conclusion maximum gravity equals maximum entropy.
                    "And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." -- JFK Inaugural, 1961
                    "Extremism in the defense of liberty is not a vice." -- Barry Goldwater, 1964 GOP Nomination acceptance speech (not George W. Bush 40 years later...)
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                    • #40
                      Kind of like Tungsten (symbol: W)...am I missing the silent Vs in "Meridian"?
                      It has to do with In vivo, meaning in a living body in lating
                      Monkey!!!

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                      • #41
                        Originally posted by Vince278
                        So if we carry that to its logical conclusion maximum gravity equals maximum entropy.
                        Well, maximum gravity = black holes, and the maximum entropy that can be held in a volume (or was it area?) is that of a black hole's quantityof the same, so yeah.

                        My major is Biomedical Engineering; I'm an undergraduate sophomore. Although I also have a huge fascination in physics as well; I'm still sort of torn whether or not to change my major, or at least minor in physics.
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                        • #42
                          Originally posted by bipolarbear
                          I'm excited about theoretical physics. Really anything theoretical is cool though, because they can get away with alluding to outrageous stuff and because its all theroy its cool.
                          M-Theory and the Ekpyrotic model of the Big Bang:

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                          • #43
                            Hi GP. I'm a social scientist

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                            • #44
                              Originally posted by Odin


                              M-Theory and the Ekpyrotic model of the Big Bang:
                              How much do you know about M-Theory Odin?

                              JM
                              Jon Miller-
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                              • #45
                                What is verification r2?

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