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#76
Quote from: Bu☆ns on June 09, 2017, 05:18:12 AM
Was posted in an irc chat and I know this is appreciated around here: https://www.wmagazine.com/story/james-comey-donald-trump-harassment-abuse-of-power

That was a really well-drawn and apt analogy.
#77
Quote from: Brother Mythos on May 25, 2017, 12:30:15 AM
Quote from: Brother Mythos on May 23, 2017, 12:48:34 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on May 21, 2017, 06:15:08 PM
Quote from: Brother Mythos on May 18, 2017, 09:07:36 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on April 22, 2017, 02:21:42 AM
Quote from: Brother Mythos on April 18, 2017, 02:54:17 PM
However, while electric charges exist, magnetic charges have never been observed in nature.

WAIT... what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lodestone

Yes, "Magnetic Fields" certainly do exist in nature, and they are routinely created by the flow of electricity through a wire. 

But, think of this as "Magnetic Charges" versus "Magnetic Fields."

In electricity and magnetism, "Charges" and "Fields" are related phenomena. But, they are also different phenomena.


What in the fuck are you babbling about? Yes, a magnetic charge and a magnetic field are different, but you can't have a magnetic field without a magnetic charge, so you're still just amazingly wrong. Have you taken physics or chemistry?

For what it's worth, I've taken seven (7) quarterly semesters of university level physics, four (4) of them with labs. (That includes one (1) semester, my fourth (4th), entirely dedicated to electricity and magnetism.)

And, I've taken three (3) quarterly semesters of university level chemistry, worth 4.5 credits per semester, all of them with labs worth an additional .5 credits per semester.

Following is a link to the list of SI Electromagnetism Units.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_electromagnetism_units

Let me know if you find a unit for "Magnetic Charge" on that list.

Hint: There's a reason why you won't find a unit for "Magnetic Charge" there, or anywhere else.

It occurs to me that your introduction of the "magnetic charge" is much too profound a revelation to be left to linger in the fetid darkness that is this forum. I believe you owe it to the scientific community to bring your revelation to their attention. After all, Gauss missed it when he formulated Gauss's law for magnetism. Maxwell missed it when he put his four (4) equations of classical electromagnetism together. And, even Einstein missed it while studying Maxwell's equations to formulate his theory of special relativity.

In fact, your introduction of the "magnetic charge" is so profound, I recommend you skip publishing on arXiv.org and send your manuscript directly to Nature. (Here's the link to their FOR AUTHORS page: http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/index.html)

Now, it typically takes Nature a couple to a few months to get around to publishing a newly submitted manuscript, so you're probably not going to make the short list for the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2017. But, on the bright side, those dark energy and dark matter guys aren't likely to get anywhere soon. So, you'll be a shoo-in for 2018. And, you probably won't even have to share the prize money with anyone! After all, they gave a Nobel to Millikan for just measuring elementary "electrical charge," and he didn't even theorize or discover "electrical charge."

Now, the bad news: under normal circumstances, the scientific community would further honor you, immortalize you in fact, by naming the unit of "magnetic charge" the Nigel. Unfortunately, the letter N is already being used to denote the SI unit of force, the Newton. And, the letter m is already being used to denote the SI unit of length, the meter. But, the letter U isn't currently being used for anything, so I suggest that you could request the unit of "magnetic charge" to be denoted as the "Unicorn." (Years ago I saw what was advertised to be a unicorn at the circus. But, to be honest, I think it was just a goat with something that kind of looked like a horn glued to its head.) Anyway, my thinking is that since "magnetic charge" is every bit as rare as unicorns, the name is appropriate.

You're welcome.   

So you're shifting your argument away from "magnetic charge" and specifying that no magnetic monopoles have been found in nature? Well that's true. Have you ever considered being precise in your use of language?
#78
Quote from: Junkenstein on June 08, 2017, 10:27:10 PM
Statement from idiots lawyer now out. Comey the actual devil and idiot didntdonuffin, ever.

Trumpeteers will believe this as gospel truth. I suspect that the True Trump Believers will be dangerous if he does get impeached.
#80
Super curious about how the closed hearing will go. And also I guess we won't know for like 30 years. How do they even handle damning classified testimony at that level?
#81
Quote from: Trivial on June 08, 2017, 01:52:59 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 08, 2017, 12:54:13 AM
Quote from: Trivial on June 07, 2017, 11:54:37 PM
diabetic again  :argh!:

going to have even more fun trying to gain weight

Ahhhhh lame!

I'm up only 3lbs. At 28 weeks.  This kid has amazing metabolism or something. This is not how the other one went at all.

That's super weird! Well shit, as long as you have enough reserves (crossing fingers) for you and the sprog.
#82
This is definitely going to be interesting. I look forward to the ensuing Republican contortionist performance.
#83
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 07, 2017, 04:42:22 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 07, 2017, 04:01:08 PM
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 07, 2017, 03:48:10 PM
Thanks! I'm particularly happy about staying in the lab in the interim. I don't want to lose momentum.

Yeah, that's really awesome! Will he take you as a grad student? More relevant question; do you want to do your grad work in his lab?

Yep, we had discussed the possibility of me coming in as a PhD student, but he's eying retirement, but he said he's happy to take me on as a master's student. I'm probably going to continue to follow up on my senior thesis and related stuff either way, so I definitely want to work in his lab, can worry about the PhD in another year or so. When I was doing my poster presentation I was talking with my microbiology TA and she asked me what my interests were. When I said the overlap of microbiology, virology, genomics, and evolution, she said, "yeah, that's Mike. That's definitely Mike."

Very cool.
#84
Quote from: Zenpatista on June 07, 2017, 05:43:40 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 07, 2017, 04:05:26 PM
Totally unrelated to anything, a grad student I barely know asked me to babysit for him during another student's thesis defense. Like in the middle of the day on a Friday. I was just like, wut? :? Is this a thing?

Yes, this is a thing. The senior grad student who trained me sauntered into the lab one day, handed me her first born and said, "Here. Hold her a while. I have to start some stuff." Of course, I was in the middle of my own stuff and in the middle of the lab. So, I went and sat in the office with the little one. Her kid was a newborn at the time, but I was a 20-something man-child. It was like I could feel myself growing up just sitting there.

My wife, OTOH, raised her first child as a single parent while in grad school. She wasn't impressed by my "maturation".  :lulz:

That's weird.

However, I have gladly watched the senior grad student in my lab's dogs while she did other shit.

This guy isn't in my lab and I don't even know his name. I had a conversation with him once.
#85
Or Kill Me / Re: Singing my tune
June 08, 2017, 12:56:05 AM
I like this.
#86
Quote from: Faust on June 07, 2017, 04:22:25 PM
That's true actually, in fact trying to protect inefficient practices or obsolete products at the expense of innovation... Trump is the villain of an Ayn Rand novel, he is literally the enemy of John Galt

How hilarious that irony would be, if it wasn't also so terrifying.
#87
Quote from: Trivial on June 07, 2017, 11:54:37 PM
diabetic again  :argh!:

going to have even more fun trying to gain weight

Ahhhhh lame!
#88
Totally unrelated to anything, a grad student I barely know asked me to babysit for him during another student's thesis defense. Like in the middle of the day on a Friday. I was just like, wut? :? Is this a thing?
#89
Quote from: LMNO on June 07, 2017, 04:00:40 PM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 07, 2017, 03:56:27 PM
Quote from: Freeky on June 07, 2017, 01:57:06 AM
Quote from: Mesozoic Mister Nigel on June 07, 2017, 12:59:23 AM
Quote from: Cain on June 06, 2017, 10:57:57 PM
Millenials killed soap, for fucks sake.

I had to Google "Millennials killed" to see what popped up, and holy shit, as far as I can tell, Millennials are just ruining the shit out of just about everything.

Not economic conditions or a changing information landscape. Nope, Millennials are specifically and personally killing all the things.

Hey, Business Insider says it's our preferences, so it MUST be so! But at least it's the Baby Boomers' fault.

http://www.businessinsider.com/baby-boomers-caused-millennials-destructive-spending-habits-2017-6

I LOVE that not spending money on frivolous consumer goods has been re-labeled "destructive spending habits". Boomers pioneered actually destructive spending habits in a gluttony of consumerism that literally threatens the future of life on  this planet, but Millennials just not buying shit is "destructive".
:lulz: :lulz: :lulz:

"Business Insider" knows its target demographic.  And it ain't the kids.

"Damn kids! Stop your destructive spending habits and start spending money you don't have on items you don't need, like we did in the 80's!"
#90
Quote from: Nephew Twiddleton on June 07, 2017, 03:48:10 PM
Thanks! I'm particularly happy about staying in the lab in the interim. I don't want to lose momentum.

Yeah, that's really awesome! Will he take you as a grad student? More relevant question; do you want to do your grad work in his lab?