Dave If you assume the ant has lived in a two-dimensional world WITH gravity, the analogy makes reasonably good sense (to me!). The first time the ant...
Hi Bob & Francis, You asked me how long it would take for an electron to
travel 1metre down a wire carrying a 3 amp current I spoke to Kevin Byron and --- How...
As requested :- This is the book that Dr Robinson reccomended in his discussion at the
SciBAr last night The Great Ice Age: Climate Change and Life R.C.L....
Hi Peter, My original thought was around but less than the speed of light due to
quantum interactions with the molecules in its way.. The answer according to...
I agree, but if we mean electron -not "electricity " 1 hour is still a
long time. I would be very interested in the prof's view. I had some e-mail issues with...
From: Knutsford SciBAr Date: 07/07/05 00:13:58 To: hugo Subject: Re: AMPS as in LAMPS Your figure equates to 2.75 m/hr ie 1/3m per hour Kevin and yourself...
I think that's why he chose amps to rule out variability in resistance and
volts -- ie if the resistance is bigger just up the volts and you get the
same amps...
This is the site Dr Robinson referred to which measures CO2 in the middle
of the Pacific ocean miles from man's industrial and agicultural activity Yours Dave...
The Mona loa site says that, "Air samples at Mauna Loa are collected continuously from air intakes at the top of four 7-m towers and one 27-m tower." it also...
... Sorry, that should have read, 'levels at no more than 4024 m. (I'd missed the point that the base station is itself 3397 m above MSL). Question still ...
From:Dr Simon G Robinson Date: 07/11/05 15:16:54 To: Knutsford SciBAr Subject: Re: KNUTSFORD SciBAr DISCUSSION QUESTION Dear Dave, My initial reaction to the...
Hi John , Try this -- It's a bit long but addresses a lot of issues you have raised http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/~pine/book1qts/chapter7qts.html Fundamentally...
Hi John, you would need to travel near the speed of light to do the experiment and
few plates do so -- Muons do though and they disintegrate after a time a bit...
Hi John, Try the longer version if this is difficult to understand -- and take your
time there's a lot in here Yours Dave Thompson Knutsford SciBAr ...
This is the site dealing with the fact that there is a lot less oil than the
countries/companies are saying there is http://www.peakoil.net/ By the way did I...
Thanks Peter , So now it's all about how many atoms in a metre--An atom's size is about 10
to the power -8 cm so if they were close together that is...
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Apropos Professor Morison's recent talk -- more info on Titan from The New
SCientist Yours Dave Thompson Knutsford SciBAr 07768-355-814 Methane monsoons may...
The first evidence for string theory? 18 December 2004 Marcus Chown Magazine issue 2478 IF YOU consider them separately, these two observations are hardly...
An article from the New Scientist sent in by a member(Matthew) illustrates
some new evidence and the difficulty sometimes in getting evidence accepted
--Long...
They're still hunting Aliens .......one day ! Yours Dave Thompson Knutsford SciBAr 07768-355-814 Has Huygens found life on Titan? 23 July 2005 Stephen...
Have we cracked Saturn's walnut? 13 May 2005 From the New Scientist further to a question from Graham on Saturn's moon Iapetus, at the recent SciBAr on...
No its not a cricket ball -Now do you see what Graham was on about -it's
Iapetus one of Saturn's moons-How did it get like that? Yours Dave Thompson Knutsford...
Titan has no breaking waves 14:51 10 November 2004 NewScientist.com news service David L Chandler, Louisville, Kentucky Print this page Email to a friend RSS...
Flu vaccines not very effective in the elderly, doctors find Sept. 21, 2005 Courtesy The Lancet and World Science staff Vaccines against influenza are modestly...
Why dont you bob along to the photos section of the discussion group ,now,
to see some truly awesome photos of Hurricane Katrina Yours Dave Thompson Knutsford...
Hi guys & gals, A SciBAr member recently expressed an interest in the definition of the
Planck Length and how it arose as a sort of minimum length at which...
Sorry I missed a 2 in the Planck mass definition ie Planck mass = Square
root of (hc/2G) NOT Square root of (hc/G) Yours Dave Thompson Knutsford SciBAr ...
This is a terrific site as Richard says -- I've put it on the SciBAr
website of recommended sites. The video medium has a lot going for it
particularly if...