h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Sounds tempting, Satan...

*Pours a hot chocolate for F.C*
I don't forget! I may be a little slow, but I don't forget. Honest!

*jingle*

Good morning all! Happy diddly doodly day! I'm feeling so...

*stops. sees Satan. Watches a drunken Minoova slither down the path*

Satan? Wow. You get all kinds. IIEM, could I get a coffee regular in a large cup please? C(_)

soul to sell? hmm... nope, better not, HE may not be too happy about it

thanks for the hot choc btw Spork... BB did forget... *pouts* never mind! IIEM can you re-heat it please?


*settles back for a quiet night*

A cinnimon latte please, IIEM.

*takes (_)] and sits down to chat with Ultimate Evil*

*Washes up and puts the v/_\3 on*
I DID NOT forget, FC. I was in the other room when you made your order, I returned to the room, saw your order, made it, and you had gone. That is not forgetting, merely being elsewhere at the time. I did make you a hot chocolate, you just didn't find me to tell me you wanted one. I found out later.

So please don't accuse me of having a bad memory - you just didn't tell me.

*cowers* well.... can i get it now? *thinks: eek. here i am offending peope unintentionally again...*

please BB?

*Gives FC, his old friend, a hot chocolate. *
Enjoy - good things come to those that wait.

By that logic, Virgin trains should be good things. But somehow I doubt it - they're always too late and too dirty.

ugh! virgin trains being a good thing.... nope. only if they'll bring you ot edinburgh on saturday... then i may make an exception to them being masty!

*sips hot choc...*

*pokes head in the door*

Gosh, it's quiet.

IIEM: Kona black, to go, please. And an Ook special.

*Looks up.*

Come on down, Ook. It's been a while since anyone's been here. I wonder if the IIEM can be reconfigured so that you can order for yourself. It's very unusual that nobody comes by for this length of time.

Ook: Ook, ook!

*leaves and continues her stroll*

The man on the red-velvet-couch nods sagely.

Certainly he continues thinking about quantum theory, expecially as it relates to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

*enters back door quietly*

IIEM, a double espresso, please.

*nods to sagely nodding man on couch and goes back outside to peaceful porch*

*goes and quietly sits beside Loony, looks at some notes he's made and gets very confused...*

uncertanty was never my forte!

*Loony's notes*

In layman terms, the uncertainty principle means that it is physically impossible to measure both the exact position and the exact momentum of a particle at the same time. The more precisely one of the quantities is measured, the less precisely the other is known. Because of the small value of h in everyday units, this principle is only significant on the atomic scale. It is important to note that the uncertainties of {delta} x and {delta} p arise from the quantum structure of matter, and are not due to imperfections in the measurement instruments. One experiment introduced by Heisenberg, which helps clarify this idea, is discussed by Serway (p.1225) with the following illustration. To see an electron, and thus determine it's position, you might use a powerful light microscope. For the electron to be visible, at least one photon of light must bounce off of it, and then pass through the microscope into your eye. A problem occurs here, as the photon transfers some unknown amount of its momentum to the electron. Thus, in the process of finding an accurately position of the electron (by making {delta} x really small), the same light that allows you to see it changes the electron's momentum to an undeterminable extent (makes {delta}p very large).

Fashion Cat, maybe chaos thoery is more your thing?

Sips green tea, made using Cool Blue New Zealand glacier-fresh water - excellent for use in hydrogen bombs.

*Wandering in looking a little the worse for last night's wine.*

Ooooh, double espresso, please IIEM.

Too early for physics if you ask me, my brain hurts already .

Chaos Theory... I never went past GCSE physics, so when doing it in the Chemistry part of Biochem it gets very confusing for me...

*prepares herself* right. chaos theory. explain please? (I have an inkling but want to check first...)

FC, I have an inkling many people will be shaking their heads when they see (I very much doubt it will be read) the tack this forum has taken.

Chaos Theory, theory describing the complex and unpredictable motion or dynamics of systems that are sensitive to their initial conditions. Chaotic systems are mathematically deterministic;that is, they follow precise laws, but their irregular behavior can appear to be random to the casual observer. Chaotic behavior is common in systems as varied as electric circuits, measles outbreaks, lasers, clashing gears, heart rhythms, electrical brain activity, circadian rhythms, fluids, animal populations, and chemical reactions. It is suspected that even economic systems, such as the stock exchange, may be chaotic. The field of chaos is evolving rapidly from a theoretical to an applied science.

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Sips tea.

I think I coped better when the conversation was about tea, coffee and Blue Sumatran orang-utans .

well tough. i thought this place was changeable depending on who was in at the time???

*has some coffee to keep people happy *

I thought that was it... you'll probably find that most things return to a law if you delve deeply enough. though i was surprised to see measles on that list. *puzzles* there is so much to this world we dont understand. it really is mind-boggling...

Whoa! This is too much for me. All I know is coffee = nice.
*explains his theory to IIEM and gets a coffee. Nice.*