----------------------------------- Martin Sun Jun 22, 2003 1:50 pm Waves ----------------------------------- Almost everything emits an infinite amount of waves, and all waves carry energy. So why don't all objects emit an infinite amount of energy? ----------------------------------- Asok Sun Jun 22, 2003 2:27 pm Re: Waves ----------------------------------- Almost everything emits an infinite amount of waves explain this part in full. ----------------------------------- Catalyst Sun Jun 22, 2003 3:56 pm ----------------------------------- dont start with quantum mechanics now darkness ----------------------------------- void Sun Jun 22, 2003 6:16 pm ----------------------------------- well..lemme ask u the most perplexing question in quantum mehcanics...is light a wave or a particle? ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Sun Jun 22, 2003 6:33 pm ----------------------------------- lol void ----------------------------------- Homer_simpson Sun Jun 22, 2003 6:34 pm ----------------------------------- a particle ----------------------------------- Catalyst Sun Jun 22, 2003 6:45 pm ----------------------------------- light is a wave and a particle, its called duality ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Sun Jun 22, 2003 6:45 pm ----------------------------------- a photon but it has properties of both a particle and a wave... and the way it moves through the vaccuum of space is kinda wierd too... it like creates a magnetic field to travel through ----------------------------------- Homer_simpson Sun Jun 22, 2003 7:16 pm ----------------------------------- Light is simply a name for a range of electromagnetic radiation that can be detected by the human eye...Electromagnetic radiation has a dual nature as both particles and waves. ----------------------------------- void Sun Jun 22, 2003 7:57 pm ----------------------------------- and thus being...it is neither a particle nor wave...(dont bother discussing this..coz its not official yet...they are still running tests and experiments to determine) ----------------------------------- Mephi Sun Jun 22, 2003 9:47 pm ----------------------------------- would this not go into spam? ----------------------------------- Dan Sun Jun 22, 2003 10:13 pm ----------------------------------- yes, it should..... dang lamer mods whith there imposiable question :twisted: ----------------------------------- rizzix Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:28 pm ----------------------------------- haha... light is state. difficult to explain this concept. but light does not travel. That so called travel of light is really the change of state. there's a lot more.. thats just something i picked up from somewhere. ----------------------------------- Asok Mon Jun 30, 2003 6:54 pm ----------------------------------- light does not travel. That so called travel of light is really the change of state. rizzix, how would light get from a star to the earth without traveling any distance? go into a dark room, turn on a flash light and direct it at the wall. Light has to travel to get to the wall, then it has to be reflected so you could see it. it can't get there without traveling as there is space between the flashlight and the wall and your eye. ----------------------------------- Catalyst Mon Jun 30, 2003 7:00 pm ----------------------------------- yes light does travel (there are pictures of it) ----------------------------------- Tony Mon Jun 30, 2003 7:28 pm ----------------------------------- you can also conentrate light to a point where it takes on liquid properties :lol: It sounds really awesome, too bad my school doesnt have the equipment to do some experiments with that. I got a feeling I'll be hanging around waterloo's physics department and playing with their nice toys :lol: ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Mon Jun 30, 2003 11:16 pm ----------------------------------- lol that might be kind off cool to see... light as an liquid lol ----------------------------------- rizzix Tue Jul 01, 2003 2:25 pm ----------------------------------- naa i agree light is a wave and a particle at the same time... it is also something that limits our capabilities. :evil: ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Wed Jul 02, 2003 9:02 am ----------------------------------- what I really want to see though is stuff at absolute zero :shock: ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Jul 02, 2003 3:33 pm ----------------------------------- absolute 0 is 0 degrees Kelvin, or -273.15 degrees Celcius. Something like -273 was achieved in lab conditions and absolute 0 is impossible (or so I think...) anyway, its a theoretical number at which all molecume motions will stop and gas would have 0 volume... 8) ----------------------------------- Catalyst Wed Jul 02, 2003 4:15 pm ----------------------------------- one word bose-einstein condensate (well thats three words) ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Wed Jul 02, 2003 5:10 pm ----------------------------------- I know what it is... but apparently crazy stuff is supposed to happen when it is achieved... I think in one test where they came close, hydrogen moved up hill (this is recalling from grade 11 chemistry... or maybe it was physics this year, dunno... either way it was a while ago) ----------------------------------- Tony Wed Jul 02, 2003 7:25 pm ----------------------------------- what do you mean "moved up hill" ? ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:23 pm ----------------------------------- you know how things normally flow down hill because of gravity? apparently at absolute zero it went up hill... like there was no friction at all or something ----------------------------------- Catalyst Wed Jul 02, 2003 8:40 pm ----------------------------------- bose-einstein condesates have been created ----------------------------------- PaddyLong Wed Jul 02, 2003 10:35 pm ----------------------------------- I just did some reading on BEC and it seems rather interesting