Originally posted by Mindship
People generally react to those with psych backgrounds in one of two ways...
- "It's all bull*t."
- "I have this friend..."
Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
"So, like, are you analyzing me right now or something?"
LOL!!!!!!
"Oh, then you would love to study me, I'm so weird, let me unload a torrent of personal information that you are obviously interested in, you know, because I am so unique"
"You aren't unique or strange, don't worry"
[dissapointed] "I guess not"
Originally posted by Symmetric ChaosYou nailed it, at some point this usually being followed by, "It's all bullsh*t."
"So, like, are you analyzing me right now or something?"
Originally posted by inimalistThis is now-n-then hidden in the, "I have this friend..." But then, the "Friend" tactic covers a lot of introductory ground.
"Oh, then you would love to study me, I'm so weird, let me unload a torrent of personal information that you are obviously interested in, you know, because I am so unique"
Originally posted by dadudemon
Well, there are some very useful discoveries and quantifications even in QM. For instance, a computing barrier that both fits the "weird" AND the useful would be the casimir effect. I wrote a paper about it and how it fits into nanotechnology. Outside of computers, I really don't know how useful it would be on a knowledgeable level...so don't ask me cause I don't want to look stupid. lolEdit - Was at work so I almost did not have time to edit. I know that you're not saying that all QP "discoveries" are useless, just wanted to point out a really good one that will be useful.
well, ya, of course, I'm not critiscizing the results, they are pretty unambigious most of the time.
I'm more critiscizing the culture surrounding how the interpretations are done, and what types of research programmes are taken up, but even then, I'm doing it as a layman.
Originally posted by inimalist
not in canada...but no, it doesn't stop anything, but it is a moral victory. I went from being really nervous about a pretty big deal, to having to hold back laughter as this idiot reacted to the fact I'm not a gangbanger. By the end his partner, obviously embarassed, was all but appologizing. The partner was actually a nice guy, or really good at "good cop".
well, think about how much easier it would be to explain why you have a huge set of chemistry equipment in your garage if you have an MSc in chemistry.
this would be me with access to certain chemicals..
Originally posted by inimalistthen seriously man, try to get back into it. seriously if only because, and I know this from experience, it is so nice to tell some aggressive fat pig, to his face, that you are a [b]scientist
when he is hasseling you like some G or something.LOL. I came up with lots of reasons, but I thought that might be best... [/B]
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Light is simply a name for a range of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye. Electromagnetic radiation has a dual nature as both particles and waves. One way to look at it is as changing electric and magnetic fields which propagate through space, forming an electromagnetic wave.
Einstien said "nothing can exceed the speed of light". Galaxies have been measured to be moving apart far faster than the speed of light, so this speed limit is some sort of "local effect", well that´s the term they are using to fit this into the relativity theory.
Here´s a video showing how weird sub atomic particles are.
Originally posted by Bicnarok
Here´s a video showing how weird sub atomic particles are.
I remember the first time I read about wave-particle duality: it blew my freaking mind!
That was probably my first REAL "WTF!" moment.