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Post by Mira on Jul 22, 2010 15:18:34 GMT -5
This one is fairly simple. Light's a wave... I thought light was actually particles called photons? I'd also like to say this thread has quickly turned into stuff that makes my brain turn to liquid when I try to understand some of the things being dicsussed lol. I now feel like the person with the lowest IQ on the forum In spite of potentially turning your brain into a delicious smoothie, light is both a wave and a particle.
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Post by katsuro on Jul 22, 2010 18:02:42 GMT -5
I thought light was actually particles called photons? I'd also like to say this thread has quickly turned into stuff that makes my brain turn to liquid when I try to understand some of the things being dicsussed lol. I now feel like the person with the lowest IQ on the forum In spite of potentially turning your brain into a delicious smoothie, light is both a wave and a particle. Is it particles that behave like waves or something? I seem to have a vague memory of that phrase in my head from somewhere. Most likely school, so most likely it's wrong as 90% of the stuff they teach you in high school science is actually incorrect. I'd also like to say this thread has quickly turned into stuff that makes my brain turn to liquid when I try to understand some of the things being dicsussed lol. I now feel like the person with the lowest IQ on the forum I'm afraid I have to challenge you to that title. Then it's pitsols at dawn, sir!
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Jul 22, 2010 20:40:22 GMT -5
Well, when a supergiant goes supernova, it blows away a large portion of its mass. When it collapses into a black hole, it will still have hundreds or thousands of solar masses left. All the matter and energy that's within the black hole's event horizon gets pulled in to a singularity. A singularity being an object that has mass, but no volume. Try not to think too hard on this one... It can be a tad confusing without a decent amount of understanding of the structure of matter. I should have phrased the question more clearly. 'Collapsing' was the wrong word to use. I understand how black holes form and the concept of a singularity (as best as someone who isn't a physicist can, anyway), but I'm wondering about the theories that say that a black hole has a finite lifespan and will eventually evaporate, for want of a better term. Perhaps these theories have fallen out of favour, but if they haven't... when the black hole "dies", so to speak, where does the mass go? Since matter and energy cannot be created or destroyed, one would assume that the singularity couldn't simply cease to exist. Is the burst of radiation that Hawking theorizes would be given off by this 'dying' black hole made up of everything drawn into it, with all matter converted in energy form? Ah. Only truly minuscule black holes would fully evaporate due to Hawking Radiation. Energy is escaping there, too. The reason black holes of a realistic mass won't die from it is because the background energy present throughout the universe will exceed the amount lost by the black hole. Not really sure on the specifics, though. I haven't looked into them very much.
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Post by Vene on Jul 22, 2010 23:08:31 GMT -5
In spite of potentially turning your brain into a delicious smoothie, light is both a wave and a particle. Is it particles that behave like waves or something? I seem to have a vague memory of that phrase in my head from somewhere. Most likely school, so most likely it's wrong as 90% of the stuff they teach you in high school science is actually incorrect. No, it's just both. Fucked up things happen at 3x10 8 m/s.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 22, 2010 23:14:02 GMT -5
I think the most succinct explanation one can offer for light is that photons are fucking weird.
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Post by Napoleon the Clown on Jul 22, 2010 23:22:25 GMT -5
Well, stuff honestly starts getting really weird as you get closer to one extreme or the other. Whether you're dealing with a quantum scale or you're dealing with supermassive black holes. It just gets... weird. Which is part of why physics is so tremendously dumbed down in high school. Things start getting just... weird.
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 22, 2010 23:34:47 GMT -5
^^ Although it's only weird because it contradicts what humans consider to be common sense.
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Post by MaybeNever on Jul 23, 2010 0:17:45 GMT -5
I offer this:
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Post by Julian on Jul 23, 2010 4:13:55 GMT -5
I offer this: The good thing about this is there'd be no speeding tickets, because if they knew how fast you were going, they wouldn't know where you were, and if they knew where you were they wouldn't know how fast you were going... That and caravans aren't allowed.
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Post by ironbite on Jul 23, 2010 4:38:42 GMT -5
Fucking magnets...how do they work?
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Post by Mlle Antéchrist on Jul 23, 2010 4:57:51 GMT -5
Don't wanna trust no scientist, ya'll motherfuckers lyin', gettin' me pissed.
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Post by Julian on Jul 23, 2010 4:58:17 GMT -5
Fucking magnets...how do they work? I don't think they're recommended at home for robotic creatures - you might short something.
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Post by shadowpanther on Jul 23, 2010 5:26:25 GMT -5
Fucking magnets...how do they work? Oh that's an easy one. They work via application of SCIENCE!! Not mad or otherwise deranged SCIENCE, just normal SCIENCE. Which is totally in no way related to magic, newtypes, nanomachines or minkovsky particles.
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Post by MaybeNever on Jul 23, 2010 7:00:38 GMT -5
Magnets use magical invisible nails.
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Post by rookie on Jul 23, 2010 14:50:52 GMT -5
Fucking magnets...how do they work? Oh that's an easy one. They work via application of SCIENCE!! Not mad or otherwise deranged SCIENCE, just normal SCIENCE. Which is totally in no way related to magic, newtypes, nanomachines or minkovsky particles. I see the mistake you made. Fucking, as in "fucking magnets" is used as a verb, not an adjective. Ironbite, it takes a circle magnet and a good handful of petroleum jelly.
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