>>1225
Oh, another problem.
Well, as they say in the article, it is "it's own prototype" in that something on that scale is too expensive to do a trial version of, so it is inevitable it'd burp every now and then.
I do hope they can get it working fully.

>>1161
Fuck me, that's a big fucking pencil!

Awesome.

>"It's going to happen this year."

Bloody hell. Thanks for this OP.

It's great to see technology progress, but I bet it will end up the same swindle and broken promises we had with fission.

>>1223

...but...but....<sigh>...

Wait! Do not despair! THERMOPOWER WAVES are here!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8556656.stm

Your mother has 67 protons.

>>1195

No atomic mass 235!

Argon selenium. Dysprosium indium a fluorine iodine rhenium.

The joke doesn't work because you've not taken into consideration the oxygen atom.

>>1200
Believe it or not, arsoles are not very aromatic.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/09/nanotube_acronyms/

A true classic. SI contains information for opening closed CuNTs.

>>1125
I'm sure he will.

>>1113 I know it's wrong but I've always done it. So there.

>>1127

It was with great trepidation that I looked to see what post you were replying to.

On seeing this thread I was going to post "Any minute now someone is going to post that fucking xkcd comic" but I see some arse already did halfway through.

>>1132

And me to you kind sir...

>>1218

good stuff... ta.

1/3 = .3333…
(1/3)*3 = 1 = (0.3333...*3) = 0.9999...

this would never have happened if we built our counting system on base 12 instead of base 10

Your basing these equations on a fact that reoccuring numbers have a definitive value.

>>1213

Yes it would. If the system went 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,10, then 0.B recurring would be equal to 1.

>>1214
That's because it's a fact that recurring numbers have a definitive value.

I believe you guys are posting in a troll thread.

>>1205
Not "in a way", they're as equal as 0.5 and 1/2 are.

>>1180
I really liked this.

>>1180
Very interesting, thanks.

I used to see geometric shapes when I pressed on my eyes as a bored school kid. The images I saw reminded more of walking past cubicle walls or pillars made with the whole image being a browny/monocrome pixelated blur.

>>1193

For me, it was always approaching a green Oort cloud type thing, then rushing into it and moving into something similar to that windows 'tunnel' screensaver.

>>1193>>1198 Same here. All I remember was that it was all shitty greens and beige and the sequence of patterns was totally predictable every time.

I don't want to try it again in case I break my 30 year old eyeballs.

>>1179

Now that is an interesting thought, a potential physical 'after life' existing in a dimension.

>>1181
That's just reincarnation.

>>1179
That seems pretty unlikely. Unless in this other universe there are beings similar enough to people to resemble ghosts and their solar system happens in be in perfect sync with ours.
If this were the case, why should it be that residues of life comes through as opposed to the energy given off by, say, a sun?

>>1183

In most multiverse theories there would be a huge (infinite?) number of universes that were almost identical to ours - it's possible that in our neighbour universe, the only difference is that ten years ago you either did or didn't finish your mashed potato. You could see why this might account for people seeing familiar humans, and that sort of multiverse setup is seen as being far more likely that one in which each universe is wildly different.

>If this were the case, why should it be that residues of life comes through as opposed to the energy given off by, say, a sun?

That is a better point, a very good one indeed. I have no idea - though there is nothing to say that there isn't a 'ghost sun' - but if this 'ghost' does not give off any significant energy (or any at all, if it is simply an echo, it would not necessarily have to follow our laws of thermodynamics) we wouldn't really notice it.

There could, for all we know, be ghost planets all over the shop but we just don't have the equipment sophisticated enough to see them - or we might see them all the time but assume a 'ghost' planet is a side effect of limitations in our tech.

Or it could be that something human sized can easily slip through a dimensional 'gap', whereas something sun-sized simply couldn't echo through - perhaps it is too big, too intense in frequency, or simply that the information of a sun is far too large to pass through a 'gap' if they are only open for a certain amount of time/space.

I realise that last bit seems like it must rely on my idea of a dimensional gap but I think it could fit wether it was a gap, or a momentary overlap or a certain time where both universes occupy the same time and space at the same time and, erm, space.

My last conversation about ghosts went something like this.

Her: "I saw a ghost last night. It was like fog. Moved around my room"
Me: "It wasn't a ghost."
Her: "There are things our there that can't be explained!"
Me: "So stop trying to explain them."

Seemed to shut her up quite nicely.

>>1171
Awesome.

>>1170 That sounds too good to be true.

I bet that stuff would burn like crazy if sprayed on naked skin.

Er, hang on?

>>/b/120695

>>1146

Come on, it's only a model. Of course it's wrong, but it's pretty damn good for most purposes.

This said I will lol wholeheartedly if whatever results they get turn out to be a +1 for string theory.

>>1134
That's a very positive view, anon. What field do you work in?

>>1146
It's fun when things aren't right, isn't it?
One of my lecturers reckons he's nearly disproved thermodynamics. Took him two years to convince one of the other lecturers in our department who was a specialist in thermodynamics, I think.

>>1165

I think the important thing is that he did convince him.

A Beautiful Mind

>>1165
how?

>>1155
I am, too. As a chemistry student, I find it quite interesting although I can guess what he's going to say half of the time.

Just watched it here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25lprEvoFJ8&feature=PlayList&p=B1A8EFA970A903AF&index=0&playnext=1

Quite an interesting show.

>>1140

In this case, my IQ is 130.

>>1152
And mine is 139. Though I should probably have more points deducted for the tiny amount of pleasure I got from posting this.

>>1097

Hold on, that is precisely what happened to me. Mrs Field's class, Year Two, clock reading, had flu. Rhyme unintentionally awesome. Always preferred digital clocks ever since, it takes me a while to remember the rules for reading analogue.

>>1154

There are no rules, you just see what numbers the hands are pointing to, and that's the time. Sort of.

I got 148 on the WAIS
Sage for no real reason to post in or bump this thread.

But would the rest of the universe exist if no-one was around to observe it?

>>1142

Yay for human solipsism.

>>1069

>>1144

>>1144>>1145

I don't know what you two are getting at.