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Glunnator · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 1:43 pm Post subject:

Gravity we actually don't know about how it actually works.
Weird.

If anyone does know anything about it, do tell!
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Eternal · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:13 pm Post subject:

Glunnator · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 4:54 pm Post subject:

Gahhh Eternal's brain is too large to be happy with.

Yes, indeed, you're absolutely right, Eternal. Again!

Anyone seen the films of 'Einstein's String Theory' and 'What the Bleep do We Know'?

Yes, Eternal, I know you probably have.

If you haven't, you're either a complete geek, or much, much older than we believe you to be. (you still haven't told us your age?)
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Eternal · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:02 pm Post subject:

I haven't seen those! =o And now I'm confused. String theory did not come from Einstein.....
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Glunnator · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:15 pm Post subject:

It did in that documentary =o
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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 2:19 am Post subject:

I didn't mean a force formally, I just meant a physical phenomena. o_0;;

</3 complex numbers.
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Eternal · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 8:17 am Post subject:

Anything you see around you is a physical phenomenon, Romeo. =) I think you need to work on your terminology.

<3 complex numbers. Need help with them?
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Glunnator · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:55 pm Post subject:

OMFG PHYSICAL PHENOMENOMENOMENOMENOMENON!
We're surrounded!
Shocked

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Coren · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:17 pm Post subject:

and you were complaining WE go off topic?
<3
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Eternal · Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:28 pm Post subject:

AHHH! AN OFFTOPIC PHENOMENON!!! Shocked

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Psycho Romeo · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:10 am Post subject:

The only part about complex numbers I don't get (as of now) is how they can be logically and realistically represented on a graph with real numbers. >_>
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Namrorrim · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 12:10 pm Post subject:

It's to complex for us to know =D >.>
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Eternal · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:08 pm Post subject:

Umm, why not? Since all complex numbers are just real numbers plus a multiple of i, why not make a graph with the real numbers on one axis and the multiple of i on the other? =| The graph won't describe anything realistic, it's just a handy way of looking at things.

I'm at school working on lab right now, so here's a random graph for joo! =D

The jpeg format sorta killed my colors, but no matter. Edited to make the pic smaller! =o
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Evil Eagle · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 3:12 pm Post subject:

Can you translate that pl0x?
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Eternal · Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 5:28 pm Post subject:

Uh, you want me to translate the graph? You sure? o_O Hokay....

There's a well known experiment which shows the wave characteristics of light, dubbed the double slit experiment. If you shine a light on a wall with only two small slits in it, then look at the light that comes out of the slits, you'll see a strange pattern of light spots and dark spots. The reason for this pattern is that light is a wave, and the two waves emanating from the two slits interfere with each other.

If you look at any one color on my graph, that's what you're seeing. The higher up it goes, the brighter it is. So you can see that the result of the experiment is alternating bright and dim spots.

However, we had a problem - our sensor (called a photomultiplier) was picking up too much light at any given time. Instead of just picking up the tiny bit we needed, it was also picking up the light next to it. That's the reason the graphs don't hit zero near the middle (they're supposed to). When the sensor tried to measure the spots that were totally dark, it also took it a little bit of light from the nearby peaks, so it didn't go to zero.

The graph is supposed to show that when the sensor had a smaller opening, it would let in less light at a time, and therefore would be more exact. The green was the smallest, the red was the biggest.

^_^;;
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