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7:12 AM

A: Hilbert, Gödel, and "God equations" - a 19th century lesson for 21st century physicists?

The question Is there any sense among physicists that it might be impossible to articulate the "ultimate nature of reality" in equations and formal logic? is about a belief (like a faith of a religion) that most physicists may or may not have. Just like physicists have many different faith, I thi...

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Brandon Enright

8:16 AM

It's been a quiet few days :-/

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Kyle Kanos

2:23 PM

@BrandonEnright It has been pretty quiet.

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Kyle Kanos

3:24 PM

Interesting move: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/94809/…

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Q: velocity of a ball after sliding down a inclined plane?

A M kg ball at the constant speed of V is sliding up an inclined plane(inclined angle is θ) and the COF of inclined plane is μ. Can anyone please tell me what is the velocity of the ball in the 2nd position in the picture?

The guy posted the first link on gamedev.SE about 20 minutes after posting the 2nd link here.

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Brandon Enright

4:45 PM

@KyleKanos Funny. Looks like he added the "I'm making a gave involving physics simulation" part just to try to make it on-topic there.

If he'd put as much creativity into physics as he does lying and cheating he'd already have the answer.

Kyle Kanos

@BrandonEnright The friction part makes it harder because you can't use conservation of energy. But it's straight-forward enough in Newtonian mechanics...

Glen The Udderboat

Help me out, pls. What does it mean for a theory to be coherent?

Kyle Kanos

@GlenTheUdderboat That it's logically consistent?

Glen The Udderboat

@KyleKanos OK. Thanks. I asked because somebody said: 'if that postulate was true it would make quantum mechanics not coherent', and since it was about decoherence I got confused. :)

Brandon Enright

@GlenTheUdderboat Yeah I don't think it has anything to do with coherence.

Kyle Kanos

4:54 PM

We need more words in our dictionaries.

Glen The Udderboat

@BrandonEnright Thank you as well.

Kyle Kanos

5:20 PM

@BrandonEnright: That question by AmitG that you answered comes from here: physics.stackexchange.com/questions/94817/… where he tried hijacking the thread

Glen The Udderboat

5:48 PM

What's ICP?

BTW, note that we seem to have another 'celebrity physicist' here. Please don't scare him away like y'all usually do. :)

Kyle Kanos

Insane Clown Posse

They wrote a song called "Miracles"

In it, one of the two rappers say, "F$%^ing magnets, how do they work"

Glen The Udderboat

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Kyle Kanos

@GlenTheUdderboat That's the line

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Amaterasu

7:54 PM

am a little bit confused - my 3 questions are upvoted, but remain unanswered with very low views

Kyle Kanos

8:23 PM

@Amaterasu My guess is there probably aren't any (many?) atmospheric physicists here.

user215721

8:33 PM

What's wrong with my answer here: (after the edit)
http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/94471/how-do-i-explain-to-a-6-year-old-why-people-on-the-other-side-of-the-earth-dont/94777#94777

Kyle Kanos

8:59 PM

@user215721 Because (a) it doesn't answer the question and (b) it's not aimed at a 6 year old

Glen The Udderboat

9:24 PM

@KyleKanos Nitpicking, are you? mgh

Kyle Kanos

@GlenTheUdderboat Yes, pretty much.

Glen The Udderboat

lol. keep it up.

Kyle Kanos

The dude is complaining about one equation being popular and not others.

Glen The Udderboat

I'm pretty sure that in some age cohort f=ma is more known than e=mc^2.

@KyleKanos It is kind of funny though that a large part of the population knows or recognises the equation (well: the symbols constituting the equation) and probably almost none know how to use it or for what purpose for that matter.

Also, there was a time, not long ago, that 1+1=3 was very popular.

Glen The Udderboat

9:52 PM

@KyleKanos You might want to delete your comment now.

It's silly that it gets up voted after the edit, isn't it?

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