Gathering of the Figments

pommie42

Year 12 Physics is a right bastard on the brain, as my friend Skeggles can testify.
We have learnt that technically none of us exist.
We have also learnt that you are a wave (literally).
As well as this you may not actually be where you are, that is just where you probably are...
And also you have around a 1/10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 chance of 'tunnelling through' a desk i.e. your entire hand passes through a solid desk.

This is all true, and if I remember any other crazy stuff like this or learn some more, you can be sure I will assist in teh exploding of your brains by telling you. (And no, I do not understand most of it Very Happy

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Shaye · Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 8:42 pm Post subject:

*looks at you*

Okay, then.
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Figment · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 1:28 am Post subject:

Hmmm, cool....

Well, i would rather have you giving me the lamens (however you spell that) explanation of it, so that i don't have to worry about all the calculations and stuff, and i can just sit here and go "Cool, i want my hand to pass through my desk!"

So keep em a coming Pommieness!
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pommie42 · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject:

Well, press your hand against a desk. Then lift it up. Repeat around ten trillion gazillion times and your hand should pass through the desk at least once Very Happy

And apparently if you look really really closely (so closely we haven't seen that closely yet) then you can see someone diffract when they walk in a door Very Happy

(Very very closely...)
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Shaye · Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:

I'll keep that in mind.

Look very very closely.

Very closely.

Okay. Right after I'm done pressing my hand on the desk ten trillion gazillion times.

Edited because I spelled desk like dest. I'm messed up.
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Figment · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:43 am Post subject:

diffract?

It might be the wee hours of the morning making me stupid... but what does that mean Pommie?
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pommie42 · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 3:29 pm Post subject:

Easiest way to see diffraction is get a water wave. Now imagine it (or actually create it and watch it) pass through a narrow section (like two headlands for example) and the centre will carry on straight, but the edges will curve outwards and make a semi-circle wave. Hard to imagine a human doing the same thing, but 'tis true, we do diffract.
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Shaye · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 10:10 pm Post subject:

Kinda' like a mickey mouse cartoon or something where a poor animal has to squeeze through a little space and manages to do it?

Like that?
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ArcT · Posted: Sat Jun 02, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject:

It is possible to walk through solid objects Razz

All you need is to match the resonant frequency of the particles in said solid object, and moving at a constant speed, walk. However, that resonant frequency is at an atomic level, and therefore extremely small, so walking through, say, a door would take around a century.

Also, due to Quantum physics, it is entirely possible, though improbable, that two thermo-nuclear missiles will turn into a bowl of petunias and a very surprised-looking whale. Energy randomly turns into matter, and matter to energy constantly, and for apparently no reason - in space, on earth, everywhere, and once the universe is old enough, it will eventually create enough matter in the right elemental proportions and in the right places to create anything- the Enterprise, a DB9, Richard Gere, fridgemagnets, you name it.

And also, as pommie said, you are a wave! You turn red if you're running away from someone, and blue if you're running towards them, and you get more wavey then Razz

Also, we found out that you can put the entire population of the Earth onto the Isle of Wight and there'll be just enough room for everyone. If we were all to jump at the same time, we wouldn't move the Earth out of orbit at all- we'd move it something like 4.3x10^-6 metres, which is 0.0000043 metres Very Happy

BEWARE MY KNOWLEDGE OF PHYSICSY THINGS!

And one more thing: BOTTOM QUARK!! Laughing

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Hawkins · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:28 am Post subject:

Dammit, ArcT, I'm not a doctor! I don't get it!

Though I was told in high school that 99% of us is just empty space (in more ways that one...) so walking through a solid object ought to be simple. Though our 1% of matter ought to get in the way...crap...

Pommie, find a way around this for me so I can start walking through walls. Actually, find a way THROUGH it. Ha ha, get it?...

I'll just stay the 'comedic relief' guy, not the 'science' guy.
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butterflii · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:11 pm Post subject:

Me too, lets just stay as the simpletons that nod and smile when something they don't understand comes along.

Although, I really fancy this walking through walls business.
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pommie42 · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:43 pm Post subject:

Oh just walk into the wall. It may be your lucky day. Of course, you are more likely to win the lottery without a ticket, but hey, it may happen Very Happy

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Hawkins · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 1:35 pm Post subject:

Does seem logical...

Mae said that the only reason that there's that uber slim chance is because we don't actually know everything. (OMG!) So we have to put in that slim chance, in the very creepy event that something like that does happen, we have credibility. Or something like that.

And I figured if you're pressing against a desk 10 katrillion times, after about the 400 billionth your constant rubbing (because I'm sure after a while, you start to rub it. Just a bit.) would wear a hole right through. HOORAH!

Edited by Shaye to fix double post.

I know...go away...

Tyler is, as we speak, trying to tunnel through a desk. He's up to about 350 or something now.[/b]
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pommie42 · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject:

That will take a while...

And oh yes, this in relation to particles, but it could work on our scale...

If you know where something is, you cannot possibly know where it is going.
However, if you do NOT know where something, you will know EXACTLY where it is going.

How about that for not making sense Very Happy

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Figment · Posted: Mon Jun 11, 2007 5:54 pm Post subject:

but... but... If i see something... say a ball... rolling... and i can see what direction it is going in... then can't i see where it is AND where it is going???

Wink

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