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neverdespairgirl wrote: »Thanks Lydia - Newton's are also right unless you are an incredibly annoying 8 year old way outclassing his loving mother (-:
Plonk him in front of this and stand back and wait for further questions!
Lydia is quite right. There was talk of force before Newton but I don't know if it was cogent discussion or just people flapping their gums.:DThere is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
My advice is to keep Isaac away from schrodingers cat, wave-partical duality, any quantum physics experiment with a slit in it, any book written by Stephen Hawking, and /or black holes and / or time dialation.
Science fiction is also dodgy, particularly new wave science fiction but for other reasons...“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
My advice is to keep Isaac away from schrodingers cat, wave-partical duality, any quantum physics experiment with a slit in it, any book written by Stephen Hawking, and /or black holes and / or time dialation.
Science fiction is also dodgy, particularly new wave science fiction but for other reasons...
Yes, deffo keep him away from shops with titles like "The Android's Dungeon"
Only problem is that modern "non-SF" movies like "Gravity" look what we'd have called SF when I was a teen.
There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0 -
Yep, haven't got a clue what you are all talking about.
Not even the Teletubbies bit!Still striving to be mortgage free before I get to a point I can't enjoy it.
Owed at the end of -
02/19 - £78,400. 04/19 - £85,000. 05/19 - £83,300. 06/19 - £78,900.
07/19 - £77,500. 08/19 - £76,000.0 -
Better_Days wrote: »Started watching GW yesterday which I had recorded but something went wrong with my recorder and while whatsername was talking about crocuses and the sound went :mad:. Good idea - will catch up on-line.
If it's any consolation, it wasn't your recorder - it was the transmission ... :mad:The one thing I do know is that it needs to be something that is happy without getting any direct sunlight.
Judging by what I've removed, that includes brambles, dandelions and mint (and something that smells like citronella). I expect I'll be seeing them all again as there were a LOT of roots and I didn't really have anything substantial by way of tools to deal with them.
Was it a rosette-like plant that could also be described as smelling like cat's pee?
If so, it's herb robert. Easy to pull out but comes back ...
You've done a lot, well done :T0 -
If it's any consolation, it wasn't your recorder - it was the transmission ... :mad:
Was it a rosette-like plant that could also be described as smelling like cat's pee?
If so, it's herb robert. Easy to pull out but comes back ...
You've done a lot, well done :T
I'm not sure, but I done think it was that. I should have left some to see really (I'm sure it will be back though). My current best guesses are catnip or lemon balm. It looked like mint, but definitely smelt like a citronella candle.0 -
I'm not sure, but I done think it was that. I should have left some to see really (I'm sure it will be back though). My current best guesses are catnip or lemon balm. It looked like mint, but definitely smelt like a citronella candle.
Lemon balm smells like lemon. My first guess was bugle... but I don't really know whar citronella smells like!“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »In the night garden has a gravity defying train called the ninky nonk which can go upside down along the underside of tree branches. That may help here.
This is all true...however it slightly worries me that you know this....
Don't some of the theories postulate that their are massless particles/waves the exchange of which is observed as gravity?
Got so fed up today I dumped all the junk from the kitchen/family room that was not put away into the dining room (=currently the downstairs junk room) and asked the kids to tidy up. The relevance of this is that scientists no longer need to worry about the 'missing matter' - it is all here.
Edit: Forgot to say Nikster's garden already looks in better nick than ours and we have been here nearly 4 years.....I think....0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Are the NPs who signed up ready to start the Dan Ariely course? I'm a bit nervous. Haven't studied for a few years. Looking forward to it though.I'm a ready as I'm going to be. After an initial enthusiastic weekend of reading, I've not managed to read much further since. Seeing as I have yet to complete my last course of study, I'm not convinced I'm going to make it to the end.
At work, someone suggested I should watch the recent Horizon about decision making (and how we aren't as rational as we think) to 'help' me understand something. I quite enjoyed replying that it was something I'm aware of and soon to do a MOOC about
I logged in to ask if people had done the questionnaires!:D
There's pre-course reading?:eek:
I was hoping having read the books might have helped...:o
Hoping that I have the time to get it done alongside packing (which I have already decided takes at least 3 times as long as you think it will. Stop looking through everything jelly!)
How many houses have I lived in? Erm, 1.:oIt's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
This is all true...however it slightly worries me that you know this....
Don't some of the theories postualte that their are massless particles/waves the exchange of which is observed as gravity?
Got so fed up today I dumped all the junk from the kitchen/family room that was not put away into the dining room (=currently the downstairs junk room) and asked the kids to tidy up. The relevance of this is that scientists no longer need to worry about the 'missing matter' - it is all here.
I also worry why in an allegedly expanding universe I still keep bumping into things!
There used to be a concept called gravity waves. It was pretty empirically neutral ie the evidence was pretty ambiguous. There were a group of Sociologists of Science back in the postmodern era who studied the scientists studying this to demonstrate that scientific truths were merely social constructs and nothing more (ie what scientists say isn't true in any objective sense, but just a bunch of high priests chanting nonsense).
They called themselves the "Strong Programme" and were totally skeptical about science. While some skepticism is healthy you can be so open-minded that your brain falls out.
Maybe gravity waves will show up one day. Maybe not. Can't hear them discussed without thinking about these professional Doubting Thomases.There is no honour to be had in not knowing a thing that can be known - Danny Baker0
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