It occurs to me that your son and grandson know plenty of physics, just not in a neat and packaged conventional form. If they did do a course on say, basic Newtonian mechanics (not orbital stuff), I'm sure they'd be all over it.
Cheers, Mike.
Sorry I didn't get back to reply since I am on the injured list for 3 weeks now with a lower disc problem that started 40 years ago but it hasn't been like this since around 2001 so I have been laying on my back and it is hard to take a few steps and now for some added reason my one ankle feels like I hit it with a hammer and is a bit red and hurts the most when I try to get up and stand on it........and this is as close as I have been to a doctor this time since I just hope for it to get back to normal......and I have a meeting to go to on wednesday and my goal right now is to never have another member take my place.
I would have the son and grandson read this and they would be wondering what you are talking about/
The grandson is a heavy equipment operator so he is never driving those on the road but when physics is involved all the time that is not what they are thinking.
The son is a truck driver who has driven more in the area of dump trucks and logging trucks and he prefers the logging trucks......even though he always was in the mountain snow of Idaho and a year ago his truck decided to slide over a cliff but he jumped out in time and not hurt much but the truck was destroyed and it was his own log truck so good thing they have all those rules so he had insurance.
And that Earth and trees decided not to move equal and opposite and the truck and its load decided to be as one with the Earth.
So physics is of course part of their jobs but they would think I was just making it all up
The grandson will probably make more money since he has been working at a gold mine and his dad is just working and makes plenty but he tends to lose it to as they say these days.....to his babies mothers.....but I think at 50 he has finally figured that equation out.
I'm long ago retired and had my property and things all paid for when I was 40
But I do get tempted to buy electronics once a year still
Sorry to hear of your incapacity. I do hope that you will get out of pain soon. Backs are always difficult to treat IMHO.
As for physics knowledge with various activities : we are all pretty much have encoded in our neurology the tools to survive and manipulate within three dimensions and in a (nearly) constant gravity field. Without even thinking about it.
I too have a laptop at the bedside and mainly for watching, these days, Twitch streams while I fall asleep. Factorio is my favourite game at the moment.
Cheers, Mike
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Sorry to hear of your incapacity. I do hope that you will get out of pain soon. Backs are always difficult to treat IMHO.
As for physics knowledge with various activities : we are all pretty much have encoded in our neurology the tools to survive and manipulate within three dimensions and in a (nearly) constant gravity field. Without even thinking about it.
I too have a laptop at the bedside and mainly for watching, these days, Twitch streams while I fall asleep. Factorio is my favourite game at the moment.
Cheers, Mike
Thanks Dr Mike,
Very true and gravity is the first force we all discover yet hard to explain still.
And by far, the weakest of the four fundamental interactions and we didn't even need inverse-square law to know if we drop the hammer it falls and at times faster than we can move our foot.
But then we didn't think about dropping hammers and feathers at the same time in a vacuum until
Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton and before them Tycho Brahe and after that Albert Einstein to really make us dizzy just trying to understand his theories and today even more from the physicists we grew up with.
And for me way back in the early 80's explained simply to me at Cal-Tech by the late great Caltech Professor David Goodstein and Caltech professor Richard Feynman
And now we just wish we could be here in 100 years to see the future and not just dream.
So you heard the great Richard Feynman speak! What a blast.
The most famous man I ever saw at university was one of Nixon's henchmen, I think it was Charles "Chuck" Colson. Fresh out of jail and an upright citizen by then. I missed Julian Assange at Melbourne University by about 20 years too soon, he tilted at windmills back then too ... :-)
As for scientists I attended a guest lecture from Bart J Bok talking of his globules. He also showed us a gadget fresh from Silicon Valley : a charge coupled device which he correctly predicted would revolutionise astronomical imaging. Now on every backplane. I saw another international guy, forget his name though not the lecture on crystal imperfections. Possibly John W. Cahn. The only other one I remember was a professor in renal disease, he thought he should have got a Nobel but didn't so I won't name and shame.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I was a co-op student working at Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill in the early 1970s when Edward Teller gave a lecture. He mentioned in the lecture that he had recently pulled in his 20 years until commercial fusion power forecast to 18 years on the basis that no new plasma instabilities had been discovered recently.
Off by a little bit, sadly.
Definitely an engaging speaker--never mind his grim reputation.
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mob
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https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/nokia-3210-2024-can-i-stand-on-it-and-other-questions/
This is a pretty good review and quite snarky.
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https://pca.st/episode/8e9c96
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https://pca.st/episode/8e9c9616-4860-433a-ba22-4e6331930f68
This supposed to be an episode from Science Friday.
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Mike Hewson wrote: Hi
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Sorry I didn't get back to reply since I am on the injured list for 3 weeks now with a lower disc problem that started 40 years ago but it hasn't been like this since around 2001 so I have been laying on my back and it is hard to take a few steps and now for some added reason my one ankle feels like I hit it with a hammer and is a bit red and hurts the most when I try to get up and stand on it........and this is as close as I have been to a doctor this time since I just hope for it to get back to normal......and I have a meeting to go to on wednesday and my goal right now is to never have another member take my place.
I would have the son and grandson read this and they would be wondering what you are talking about/
The grandson is a heavy equipment operator so he is never driving those on the road but when physics is involved all the time that is not what they are thinking.
The son is a truck driver who has driven more in the area of dump trucks and logging trucks and he prefers the logging trucks......even though he always was in the mountain snow of Idaho and a year ago his truck decided to slide over a cliff but he jumped out in time and not hurt much but the truck was destroyed and it was his own log truck so good thing they have all those rules so he had insurance.
And that Earth and trees decided not to move equal and opposite and the truck and its load decided to be as one with the Earth.
So physics is of course part of their jobs but they would think I was just making it all up
The grandson will probably make more money since he has been working at a gold mine and his dad is just working and makes plenty but he tends to lose it to as they say these days.....to his babies mothers.....but I think at 50 he has finally figured that equation out.
I'm long ago retired and had my property and things all paid for when I was 40
But I do get tempted to buy electronics once a year still
Like a laptop next to my bed
Sorry to hear of your
)
Sorry to hear of your incapacity. I do hope that you will get out of pain soon. Backs are always difficult to treat IMHO.
As for physics knowledge with various activities : we are all pretty much have encoded in our neurology the tools to survive and manipulate within three dimensions and in a (nearly) constant gravity field. Without even thinking about it.
I too have a laptop at the bedside and mainly for watching, these days, Twitch streams while I fall asleep. Factorio is my favourite game at the moment.
Cheers, Mike
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
Mike Hewson wrote: Sorry to
)
Thanks Dr Mike,
Very true and gravity is the first force we all discover yet hard to explain still.
And by far, the weakest of the four fundamental interactions and we didn't even need inverse-square law to know if we drop the hammer it falls and at times faster than we can move our foot.
But then we didn't think about dropping hammers and feathers at the same time in a vacuum until
Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton and before them Tycho Brahe and after that Albert Einstein to really make us dizzy just trying to understand his theories and today even more from the physicists we grew up with.
And for me way back in the early 80's explained simply to me at Cal-Tech by the late great Caltech Professor David Goodstein and Caltech professor Richard Feynman
And now we just wish we could be here in 100 years to see the future and not just dream.
Cheers,
So you heard the great
)
So you heard the great Richard Feynman speak! What a blast.
The most famous man I ever saw at university was one of Nixon's henchmen, I think it was Charles "Chuck" Colson. Fresh out of jail and an upright citizen by then. I missed Julian Assange at Melbourne University by about 20 years too soon, he tilted at windmills back then too ... :-)
As for scientists I attended a guest lecture from Bart J Bok talking of his globules. He also showed us a gadget fresh from Silicon Valley : a charge coupled device which he correctly predicted would revolutionise astronomical imaging. Now on every backplane. I saw another international guy, forget his name though not the lecture on crystal imperfections. Possibly John W. Cahn. The only other one I remember was a professor in renal disease, he thought he should have got a Nobel but didn't so I won't name and shame.
Cheers, Mike.
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter ...
... and my other CPU is a Ryzen 5950X :-) Blaise Pascal
I was a co-op student working
)
I was a co-op student working at Bell Telephone Laboratories at Murray Hill in the early 1970s when Edward Teller gave a lecture. He mentioned in the lecture that he had recently pulled in his 20 years until commercial fusion power forecast to 18 years on the basis that no new plasma instabilities had been discovered recently.
Off by a little bit, sadly.
Definitely an engaging speaker--never mind his grim reputation.
https://www.inverse.com/enter
)
https://www.inverse.com/entertainment/enemy-mine-reboot-terry-matalas
A trailer for a "cult classic" possible revival.
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https://news.mit.edu/2024/mos
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https://news.mit.edu/2024/mosaicml-helps-nonexperts-build-advanced-generative-ai-models-0621
Open source AI
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https://arstechnica.com/infor
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https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/06/researchers-upend-ai-status-quo-by-eliminating-matrix-multiplication-in-llms/
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