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[quote who="Daiwa" reply="13" id="2979001"]SLAJ & myfist0 - Your exposure to Kaku has doubtless been in mass media, where it is beneficial to utilize analogies to help non-scientists (and possible future scientists) grasp the gist of complicated concepts. He does that well, in an engaging manner. Were you students in one of his classes, on the other hand, I expect the experience would be... tolerable, even for folks as intelligent as the two of you. [/quo

Tying it to fleet points could work, but i think it would be difficult to balance the mechanic against using those fleet points for more ships. If need alot of fleet points to make it work effectively, why bother? on the other hand if it's too low, planets will be filled with troops and you cant invade anyhow. So here is the core idea: There is a new number/capacity for planets known as 'troops'. Could simply add it to the planetary info card,

I dont think we can really say anything about the affect of orbital bombardment on recolonization efforts because theres not enough detail. All that can be said is that if you want to have an easier time recolonizing, you have to be more careful with how and where you bomb and vice-versa. Obviously a successful invasion is going to give you the easiest recolonization efforts. I would say to reflect that you might get a bonus to population growth when you acquire the planet. Upgrades included/

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="79" id="2981258"]Not necessarily the direct answer to my questions, but its enough to figure it out.. Thanks by the way. The only question I have from that is what exactly is pair production? One unrelated question but one that has bugged me incessantly is interference with photons... If you have two point sources emitting a specific frequency of light, you can end up with one or more black bands on a wall a set distan

Been reading on parity violation and saw something i forgot to mention: neutrinos always spin to the left. I should clarify here because theres a few words there used in funny ways: 'spin' is not actual physical rotation. but it does contain angular momentum (it breaks down into descrete pieces). Now, left-hand spin means the dierction of spin is oposite the direction of motion. So, neutrintos always spin opposite the direction of moti

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="328" id="2980385"] Surface to Orbit Weapons (let's planets attack) Infrastructure Redundancy (increases planet health) Underground Tunneling (reduce population loss from bombing) Bombardment Shields (reduces bombing damage) [/quote] Maybe you could add research options that tag these effects on to the standard emergency facilities upgrade? For example, the advent have that underground tunnelin

The electro-weak force arises when the higgs field is such that there is no difference in mass between the photon, W, and Z bosons. yeah, so that's pretty much all the weak force does is transmute quarks into other quarks. The prime example is beta decay, which is a kind of radiation. This in turn causes isotopes to break down (for example, the well known carbon-14 half-life of 5730 years). The weak force is mediated by 3 bosons (boson = force carrier): W+, W-, and Z0. The W's

Some recent developments: http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/46826 [quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="70" id="2980858"] A related note, why are neutrons unstable while protons are? Neutrons are only marginally more massive than protons after all.. Is it their interaction with the or

The problem you run into with doctors is that fundamentally, they are not scientists . The way the medical field goes about finding out how the body works and such is scientific, yes. But the doctor prescribes things to you so as to change you. Not to 'see what happens when you poke it with a stick', as is the fundamental way you learn something scientifically. This is good, because I for one would not want to be the lab rat. So the doctor has to go on the best information ava

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="66" id="2980207"]I have a question that I've asked before elsewhere and never really gotten an answer... How does the Higgs boson supposedly instill other particles with mass?[/quote] Well, it's something on the frontier of science right now, so a good discription is lacking. And it may very well be wrong, but its the best idea so far. This is another reason I like the well understood stuff; it can be explained plainly. However I wi

Well, to be blunt, you should doubt until evidence tells you otherwise; That is the way of science. What I understand about dimensions (and I do have some bias that they are not well defined) is that of themselves, they have no properties. You bend them one way, and you get some properties, a different way and you get something else. This is what string theory does: it has multiple dimensions compacted and bent in very specific ways to create the properties. The string itself is 1 dim

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="62" id="2979477"]What's ironic is that string theory supplanted the "multiverse" view precisely because it seemed so absurd...and then ten years later they needed a multiverse to make the 4-5 differing theories work harmoniously. I don't think other universes will throw Einstein out the window. Einstein's theories deal with this universe--but they aren't capable of dealing with others--and quantum theory has recognizable limits wi

I'm digging how they act in the latest patch, though. The AI acts much different and is better tactically. I'm seeing strategic alliances, I'm seeing stategic mission offerings, I'm actually seeing counter units brought on to the field, I'm seeing the AI move in a strategic way (not the disorganized spread in all directions way), I'm seeing alot of turrets with overlapping fields of fire. In other ways, this has made it easier to beat.

with your situation, I think the most important question is: do you have a graphics card? If you do, I would say you probably have the advantage (though, features can always be turned down to make them run at comparable speeds). If you dont have a graphics card (built in, or maybe you think its so old that it's irrelevent), then a number of other factors make it hard to judge, but I would put you both in the same ballpark. Of course, if you need to settle a dispute... the

Man... I remember in the old days.... nobody told you anything about a game before it came out. You had no idea. You'd be lucky to hear about it relatively soon after it's release... I mean, maybe a few were built up and you'd know it was coming, but I dont remember ever being told when or much of anything about them. You'd have to go to the store every week and check . What's the world come to? *sigh* I must be getting old. Great. When did tha

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="60" id="2979112"]Well... In theory, if you had something like a giant vat of entangled particles of each element, you could probably pull it off. You'd ultimately end up more or less deleting one penny and creating one elsewhere. As for the exact mechanics of the machines themselves, I have no idea... [/quote] What he said. You basically take half of the entangled particles and use them to capture the information of the penn

Some general advice about getting a new pc: buy by components and dont get a whole new computer at once. For example, I bought a new graphics card about a year ago, which made my computer like new. My next upgrade will probably be a new processor (which means a new mobo as well). This scheme spreads out the cost of your computer over time, and keeps your computer fairly current. If you have a huge budget for your new pc, it'll do pretty well, but it will mean another huge budget t

well, the sun is scheduled to go hit it's maximum soon. I believe it has 11 year cycles, and we just had a minimum. However, the minimum has lasted longer than usual, leading some to predict no maximum this time (or so quiet that you wouldnt call it a maximum). They point to "the little iceage" some time ago as evidence that there is another periodicity to the cycles. The hope is that if the sun maintains it's cool, it might negate global warming affects. However, eve

[quote who="kyogre12" reply="54" id="2978830"]Quantum mechanics shows that there is an underlying randomness to the universe and that on small scales causality does not hold.[/quote] Well, there is a fine line with causality. Entropy is the driving force behind it. Unfortunately, entropy is a statistical theory and so if you only have a handful of particles, it doesnt work; so it's no suprise that causality doesnt hold. However, if you think about it, the random nature of

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="51" id="2978706"]So my angle on the re-imagined topic but staying somewhat on topic is, "What could be done with entanglement?"[/quote] How about constructing reality? you introduce a particle P, and theres a bunch of vitual particle pairs, so: P ( A+B ) ( C+D ) Then P pairs off with a virtual particle, causing a chain reaction: ( P+A ) ( B+C ) D So information just got transferred from one place to another. This is actuall

Here's a question: does anyone here think that its possible to really truely know Sins without seeing a comparison chart at some point? (I dont mean just the one I made either, some kind of chart somewhere)

[quote who="Sinperium" reply="47" id="2978599"]What's possible is more interesting than what is.[/quote] I disagree, but I suppose its a matter of opinion. The fact that I see something directly in front of me and it seems like the light came directly to me, but it has in fact simultaneously traveled everywhere in the universe to get to my eye, traveling by way of virtual particles popping into and out of existence, and all the while most of the light between me and the

I don't know... I'm pretty skeptical about those ideas. I think natural processes are far grander than anything we will ever achieve, and so far, there are no indications that anything of that magnitude occurs in nature. As far as interpreting certain physics as extra-universal, I am also not in that camp. But, obviously, I could be wrong. Theres nothing conclusive there. Now, do I think there are other universes? Yes, it makes sense. However, there is no reason

[quote who="Volt_Cruelerz" reply="39" id="2978160"]As a general rule, I do know the majority of the stuff you're saying... I'm the kind of person that in seventh grade went to the library and checked out (and read) the most technical quantum mechanics book he could find just for the heck of it.[/quote] No offense intended. As I said, I'm still reading all those books and teaching myself calculus so that I can get more into it (interestingly, theres some calc and alot

well, other universes are one of those tricky things. Theres all kinds of possibilities, but mostly due to our lack of knowledge. There probably are other universes. Whether they can affect us or not is a big if . I dont know that warp-drives are completely harmonius with all theories of space. To get anywhere fast, you have to have pretty significant bending of spacetime. Lets say you had the energy to do it. Now, I'm not sure here as I havent gotten through the nitty gri