However, what I must add (good point, though) is that these indents are not rough; they appear to be natural indents about 0.7mm thick and spaced apart by 7mm along my left thumbnail, in my case. My friend said a while back that it was a zinc deficiency...
What is the right way, the best way to physically pronounce - thr - correctly for non English speaking people?
What do I have to do with my mouth, tongue, air in my mouth to make it sound right? E.g three, through, ...
I don't seem to have much problems with the - th -, I just have to stick out my tongue and press the air outwards between my tounge and teeth.
But actually I just want to ask this:
How do you calculate rpm? (Revolutions per minute)
If it can be calculated, how do you determine how much rev can an engine take? (before the engine blows up or something happened to the engine)
Here is one I've always contemplated: Suppose one placed two perfectly round marbles on a perfectly flat table, 20cm from each other, and left them there in a sealed room. Would they ever move, let alone touch each other? Surely the extremely minute amount of gravitational pull that both the objects possess would eventually pull them towards each other?
I remember reading an article about particles that copy eachothers movements even though they are in completely different places. They suggested that they were linked by an invisible force which meant they reacted to eacothers movements even though they were hundreds of miles apart. Can anyone provide any more information on the subject?
No. Unless the table was frictionless.
Assume the marbles weigh 20 grams each. The gravitational attraction between all objects is the Gravitational Constant multiplied by the masses of the two objects multiplied together, divided by the square of the distance between them
F = G (m1m2/r^2)
In this case it's G(0.02x0.02/0.02^2), resolving to G x 1. So the gravitational force between them is the same magnitude as the Gravitational Constant - 0.00000000006.67N.
The frictional force between a marble and the table is roughly 1.3% of their mass - 0.0027N - which is 40 million times stronger. The marbles won't move together without any external influence.
If you assume the table is frictionless, then yes, the marbles would gradually come together. Though it'd take nine and a half years.
how do you determine how much rev can an engine take? (before the engine blows up or something happened to the engine)
Though it'd take nine and a half years.
Do you remember what the particles were?
IT was as if some ghostly bridge across the city of Geneva, Switzerland, had permitted two photons of light nearly seven miles apart to respond simultaneously to a stimulus applied to just one of them.
The twin-photon experiment by Dr. Nicolas Gisin of the University of Geneva and his colleagues last month was the most spectacular demonstration yet of the mysterious long-range connections that exist between quantum events, connections created from nothing at all, which in theory can reach instantaneously from one end of the universe to the other.
In essence, Dr. Gisin sent pairs of photons in opposite directions to villages north and south of Geneva along optical fibers of the kind used to transmit telephone calls. Reaching the ends of these fibers, the two photons were forced to make random choices between alternative, equally possible pathways.
Since there was no way for the photons to communicate with each other, ''classical'' physics would predict that their independent choices would bear no relationship to each other. But when the paths of the two photons were properly adjusted and the results compared, the independent decisions by the paired photons always matched, even though there was no physical way for them to communicate with each other.
Albert Einstein sneered at the very possibility of such a thing, calling it ''spooky action at a distance.'' Scientists still (somewhat shamefacedly) speak of the ''magic'' of ''quantum weirdness.'' And yet all experiments in recent years have shown that Einstein was wrong and that action at a distance is real.
The idea behind Dr. Gisin's experiment was not new. Since the 1970's, physicists have been testing a prediction of quantum theory that ''entangled'' particles continue to communicate with each other instantaneously even when very far apart.
Entangled particles are identical entities that share common origins and properties, and remain in instantaneous touch with each other, no matter how wide the gap between them.
Who does that?If you really want to blend in with most English English speakers, pronounce the "th" as an "f" too. But I will hit you.
I think you mean replace th with a d
I find it odd that the 'General Questions' thread has become the 'Mostly Inane and Time-Wasting Doubts that Affect People Who Have Too Much Free Time" thread.
Yes, of course I do. Since I don't speak English or in fact live in England.
...ok, no need to be a little touchy when someone doubts you.
Doubting me is fine. Correcting me on the basis of... nothing?
So please, enlighten the audience as to your expertise with English as commonly spoken in the United Kingdom.
You'll notice that I didn't say you were wrong, in my post I put, 'I think', not that, you're wrong and this is what you mean. As in it's my opinion that you may be wrong.
So please, enlighten me and everyone else as to why you're in such a pissy mood?
*gets bucket of popcorn*
Ah yes. Of course. Your error is my fault because I'm in... some kind of mood or something. Straw man, at all?
Seriously - you know so much about the English language as it's spoken in the UK. Enough to tell everyone exactly what you think about it. So please come forward with the origin of your knowledge - I'm sure it exceeds mine, since you saw fit to correct my statement with your thoughts.
Do you remember one of the central tenets of GTPlanet? "If you don't know the answer, don't give it."
I based it on my opinion
I tried saying it in my head it didn't seem like something anyone would say it that way.
And if I've broken one of the rules then give me infraction and lets be done with this.
Got a blended drink for this. Why is it that today's blenders are made, of all things, out of plastic? Wouldn't that be a less durable and now more expensive alternative to glass?
I suppose no where. Just my opinion based off that I speak English.I'll ask again - your opinion of English as spoken in the UK originates from where?
Now try with the two words kikie was using as examples - three and through.
To me "fawcet" doesn't seem like something anyone would say instead of "tap". I wouldn't stretch as far as saying I thought they were wrong about how their own language is spoken in their own country.
Since obviously I'm a supermoderator and that means disagreeing with me gets you an Infraction? Dismal.[/color=indigo]
I accused of that since you got a little touchy because of my first comment, and decided to drag it out to here now. Plus you closed the 'would you' thread, in my opinion, no reason.Now, your accusations of my "pissy mood". Here are all of my posts since yesterday (if that link doesn't work, Advanced Search, Famine, Yesterday are the options you need). Have at it.[/b]
I suppose no where. Just my opinion based off that I speak English.
That's different though, thats two different words meaning the same thing. We were talking about changing a couple letters.
No, you're the one who decided to pull something from the AUP.
I accused of that since you got a little touchy because of my first comment, and decided to drag it out to here now. Plus you closed the 'would you' thread, in my opinion, no reason.
So, why don't we take this to pm's since we've taken up so much of this thread with useless ramblings.