I am informed that the idea has been aroud for a while.CapNemo wrote:
Anyway would love to see the chemical reaction for that one
I'm not so sure... there'd be an additional waste element you'd have to resolve but the process is chemical, not mechanical, so the salt isn't as dramatic an issue as it is in trying to render drinking water*...CapNemo wrote:you'll probably have to run a desalination plant
Oh well guess I should actually go read up on it before I talk to much
, remind me to never tick of anakha 
The testing will prove how good (or bad) the reactor is when concentrated light equal to 10,000 suns is fed into it.
rustypup wrote:i imagine the radiation and hypersonic super-heated steam would make life interesting long before the improbable venting of molten iron and rock even figured...
also, that's some very creepy wondering there, Dr McEvil...
ADT wrote:Yeah
heat and light are both a form of energy and has energy can not be destroyed but converted from one form to the other... heat energy can be converted to light energy and vice versa...StarPhoenix wrote:What, if any, is the relationship between heat and light?
Light = energy, energy excites molecules, molecules vibrate = friction = energy released as heatStarPhoenix wrote:What, if any, is the relationship between heat and light?
But then, thats why i don't have "scientist" under my name 
Physicist uses maths to avoid traffic penalty
By Katie Scott, Wired UK | Published 19 minutes ago
A physicist faced with a fine for running a stop sign has proved his innocence by publishing a mathematical paper, and has even won a prize for his efforts.
Dmitri Krioukov is a physicist based at the University of California in San Diego. When faced with a court hearing over allegedly driving through a stop sign, he put together a paper called The Proof of Innocence, which he has since published. The abstract for the paper reads: "A way to fight your traffic tickets." The paper was awarded a special prize of $400 that the author did not have to pay to the state of California.
Krioukov's argument is based upon the premise that three coincidences happened at the same time to make the police officer believe that he had seen the physicist run a red light, when, in fact, he hadn't. He writes: "[In this paper], we show that if a car stops at a stop sign, an observer, e.g., a police officer, located at a certain distance perpendicular to the car trajectory, must have an illusion that the car does not stop, if the following three conditions are satisfied: (1) The observer measures not the linear but angular speed of the car; (2) The car decelerates and subsequently accelerates relatively fast; and (3) There is a short-time obstruction of the observer's view of the car by an external object, e.g., another car, at the moment when both cars are near the stop sign."
As Physics Central explains, because the police officer was around 30m from the intersection where the stop sign was situated, "a car approaching the intersection with constant linear velocity will rapidly increase in angular velocity from the police officer's perspective."
The physicist even created graphs showing what would have happened to his angular velocity if he had either been driving at a constant linear velocity or had made a quick stop and then accelerated back to speed, which is what he claims happens (actually, he sneezed, causing him to brake harder than usual). It was during this sneeze stop that another vehicle obscured the police officer's view of Krioukov's car, argues the paper.
The conclusion of the paper? It isn't the police officer's fault but he/she was wrong as their "perception of reality did not properly reflect reality." Bet that's a statement the other officers loved to remind them of.
This guy is awesome! 
KK is talking about the kinetic vibrational energy of substances as heat. Infra red radiation is one of the ways heat energy is transfered (radiation), the others being convection and conduction.RiaX wrote:If u dive deep into physics you will find that heat is actually a photon im too lazy to look for references now maybe later I will
if you look at the heat you feel from the sun that is all infrared photons (well mostly infrared), its also the basic principle of which an infrared camera works
RiaX wrote:Uhm heat is a form of light btw falls under the force of electromagnetism. Heat is simply light in the infrared spectrum we just can't see that form of light
Uh. No.RiaX wrote:If u dive deep into physics you will find that heat is actually a photon im too lazy to look for references now maybe later I will
An infrared camera works exactly like a normal camera - it just has a film/sensor that is sensitive to the infrared spectrum. It's the same with x-rays, you just need to use something that is sensitive to the wavelength you want.if you look at the heat you feel from the sun that is all infrared photons (well mostly infrared), its also the basic principle of which an infrared camera works
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Gummy Bear juiceMaybe black holes don’t really exist....
...Astrophysicists came to accept the idea of black hole because the gravitational collapse of sufficiently large masses cannot be stopped by ordinary means. But Pawel Mazur and I realized some time ago that quantum gravitational effects modify the collapse process....
