[17th Miss Regt]

Scanned the technical paper and downloaded it. Looks like a good read for later.

[jpsb]

F=MA or Force = Mass x Acceleration. Newton was one really smart human.

[Leaning Right]

Here’s a math problem I’ve been working on, just for fun. Take a shot at solving it, if you care to.

A lady (let’s call her Hillary) has been taking X number of bribes for Y number of years. She has been indicted for Z felonies.

Given that:

X > 0
Y > 0
Z = 0

Prove that Hillary is a Democrat.

[House Atreides]

The link won’t open for me now...I’ll try again later. Sounds interesting.

[krunkygirl]

I want to marry any/all...lol...men who are able to respond intelligently to this thread...(you might not want to marry me tho’).

[Mr. K]

Newton was awesome. He had to invent calculus in order to solve the equations for gravity (and other things)

[Billthedrill]

Well, I disagree. In every one of the great disasters of history, mathematics has played a role. Don’t even get me started on the laws of physics. Newton has blood on his hands, I tellya.

[Politicalkiddo]

I personally cannot do math, but I do appreciate those who can do math and enjoy it. I honestly wish I had *some* mathematical talent, but alas, my talents run in other directions.

[Eternal_Bear]

He was the greatest physicist of all time. He invented modern physics.

[dr_lew]

Newton’s mathematical brilliance was in realizing that this basic equation could be made universal by applying a gravitational constant to the equation, in which gave birth to perhaps one of the most important equations to ever be derived by mankind; Newton’s Version of Kepler’s Third Law.

This not how Newton worked. He followed the form of Euclid, and considered that Kepler's Laws were an empirical fact, and showed that this motion REQUIRED a central force law, which was in fact the Law of Universal Gravitation.

However, he never named or discussed a Gravitational Constant. Instead he worked his way towards PROPOSITION VII. THEOREM VII: "That there is a power of gravity pertaining to all bodies, proportional to the several quantities of matter which they contain."

He then uses this proportionality to compare various gravitational systems, and derive the ratio of the masses of the central bodies.

[onedoug]

I usually cite mathematics as evidence for God, in that the universe (at least as we perceive it) requires sequencing of fields and particles, that even here, billions of years later, has us looking back at that sequencing through the concept of number with remarkable understanding and derivative predictive power.

[A Navy Vet]

I really appreciate and admire mathematicians and physics scholars. Their knowledge is beyond my comprehension.

However, since a kid I've always wondered what was behind the Universe and how it started. While the Doppler affect with red-shift tells us the galaxies are moving apart, and therefore they must have originally been at one spot if you reverse the flow. I'm still wondering what caused what is now called the Singularity - the ultra mass that exploded into the big bang.

Personally, I don't believe math equations or physics theories will ever explain how that came to be. It's simply beyond our comprehension. I believe there is something beyond our underdeveloped human brain to understand.

My only hope is that during the growth of the human mind from birth is that a conscienceness joins the what is driving this Universe.

[cicero2k]

You don’t have to explain Newton or Einstein physics to show that you are intelligent.

Just list a series of prime numbers (1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19 etc.). That list is just as valid here as across the universe, or as moving from the earth at the speed of light. It deals with real integers, base 10, but could be binary or octal or base 17.

On the other hand, Newton/Einstein still boggles the mind.

[hoagy62]

Sorry. Although math is involved in what I do, I consider...and have always considered...math as my mortal enemy.

[SES1066]

Save for later

[kanawa]

Bump for morning coffee

[minnesota_bound]

Penny: Ahem. Actually, that’s not true, Leonard. In fact, recently I’ve been thinking that given the parameters of your experiment the transport of electrons through the aperture of the nano-fabricated metal rings is qualitatively no different than the experiment already conducted in the Netherlands.

[Leonard is astounded]

Penny: Their observed phase shift in the diffusing electrons inside the metal ring already conclusively demonstrated the electric analog of the Aharonov-Bohm quantum interference effect.

[Everyone is dumbfounded]

Penny: That’s it; that’s all I know. Oh, wait! Fig Newtons were named after a town in Massachusetts, not the scientist.

[Diamond]

Psalm 19:1-4
¹ The heavens declare the glory of God,
      and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.
²Day to day pours out speech,
     and night to night reveals knowledge.
³There is no speech, nor are there words,
      whose voice is not heard.
⁴Their voice goes out through all the earth,
      and their words to the end of the world.

........

“What though in solemn silence all

Move round this dark terrestrial ball,

What though no real voice or sound

Amidst their radiant orbs be found?

In reason’s ear they all rejoice

And utter forth a glorious voice,

For ever singing as they shine

The hand that made us is Divine.”

[windsorknot]

And then there is Quantum Mechanics where things really get weird and entangled.