Awesome stuff you see on the internet

Snowy

@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

"previously extinct" = not available in that location. Although formerly extinct might be correct with cloning one day

Well the independent got it right in more common language - "A bird species previously extinct in Europe is back". The definition of extinct is: "no longer in existence". Semantics, but agreed that cloning does change it all. Is a species extinct if it's DNA still exists?

@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

Anyway this sort of stuff blows my mind

Love that stuff too.Muons going faster than the speed of light! WTF? Just when I thought it was an immutable law of physics (actually they do explain a bit further to clarify). Just finished reading a Neil deGrasse Tyson followed by a Brian Cox. Always had a bit of trouble getting my head around space time but the Brian Cox one explains quite well (and why humans have so much trouble grasping the concept). Amazing stuff being discovered and theorised all the time. Making me feel very old that so much has been learnt since I left school. I don't remember much about elementary particles at all!

voodoo

@Snowy names of the books? And do you recommend one over the other?

Snowy

@voodoo "Astrophysics for people in a hurry. Neil degrasse Tyson
"Why does E=MC² and why should we care" Brian Cox and Jeff Forshaw

They are both good, give a grounding in the topics without needing to actually be a rocket scientist to understand. Cover different subject matter. I liked the E=MC² one because I like the significance of the discovery and the whole space time continuum which, as I said, I had trouble grasping the 4th dimension aspect,

voodoo

@Snowy thanks mate

Snowy

I should add that a good understanding of spacetime will ruin a lot of sci fi movies for you.

booboo

@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

I should add that a good understanding spacetime will ruin a lot of sci fi movies for you.

Hyperspace...

Snowy

@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

I should add that a good understanding spacetime will ruin a lot of sci fi movies for you.

Hyperspace...

Exactly, but never let reality get in the way of a good story.

nzzp

@booboo said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

@Snowy said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:

I should add that a good understanding spacetime will ruin a lot of sci fi movies for you.

Hyperspace...

screw that, 'magic' could fix it ... but sound in space aint' a thing. It makes movies really good though, so let's just roll with it