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MuseChaser · 07-07-2021, 10:37 AM

Kaku's books are great. "Hyperspace" and "Parallel Worlds" are both fascinating, thought-provoking works written in a very approachable style, and one needn't have a strong physics background to enjoy them. Thanks for the reminder... I'll have to revisit them. Read them for the first time shortly after they were published... 1998 for "Hyperspace" and 2005 for "Parallel Worlds." Of course, the book that first really popularized cosmological thought/theory was Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" published in 1988; that's the one that sucked me in, at least. That book is an even easier read than Kaku's books, and a great jumping off point for constant wonderment.

JD001 · 07-07-2021, 02:26 PM

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Originally Posted by MuseChaser

Kaku's books are great. "Hyperspace" and "Parallel Worlds" are both fascinating, thought-provoking works written in a very approachable style, and one needn't have a strong physics background to enjoy them. Thanks for the reminder... I'll have to revisit them. Read them for the first time shortly after they were published... 1998 for "Hyperspace" and 2005 for "Parallel Worlds." Of course, the book that first really popularized cosmological thought/theory was Hawking's "A Brief History of Time" published in 1988; that's the one that sucked me in, at least. That book is an even easier read than Kaku's books, and a great jumping off point for constant wonderment.

My claim to fame, work duties took me to Cambridge, saw Stephen Hawking's SUV, walked through his department, full of breakout spaces with lots of blackboards with various furiously scrawled mathematic formulae. Looked very geeky, nerdy and beyond my understanding..

ScoobsMcGee · 07-07-2021, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Dadhawk

TIL Dr. Michio Kaku at 15 years old was already smarter than I'll ever be. (For a high school science fair, Dr. Kaku built a 2.3 eV particle accelerator in his garage. Using scrap metal and 22 miles of wire, he created a magnetic field 20,000 times stronger than Earth’s, as well collisions powerful enough to produce antimatter).

I also learned that while both hand phasers and DeathStars are theoretically possible it is likely we would have a Deathstar first because it could be built using xray lasers powered by Hydrogen bombs but we don't have a good power source for a hand phaser.

(Reading "Physics of the Impossible". Great read (OK, listen) if you want to Geek out on some physics.)

Eesh. Pretty sure I spent most of the summer when I was 15 playing the original release of Final Fantasy Tactics. I regret nothing. It was probably friggen hot outside.

Dadhawk · 07-07-2021, 03:48 PM

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Eesh. Pretty sure I spent most of the summer when I was 15 playing the original release of Final Fantasy Tactics. I regret nothing. It was probably friggen hot outside.

I know where I was. My Father owned a small roofing company. I was sweating my ass off on top of somebody's house for room and board.

ScoobsMcGee · 07-07-2021, 03:55 PM

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I know where I was. My Father owned a small roofing company. I was sweating my ass off on top of somebody's house for room and board.

Now that I think about it, it was that fall when I got my first job working in the dish room of a local retirement home. Had to apply for a special work permit because I wasn't 16 yet, but all of my friends were a year older than me and already worked there. Pretty sure the terms of employment were a wee bit different.

beltax90 · 07-07-2021, 06:53 PM

the sound a dog makes

soundman98 · 07-07-2021, 07:01 PM

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I know where I was. My Father owned a small roofing company. I was sweating my ass off on top of somebody's house for room and board.

i remember that. i was furiously applying everywhere, and getting nowhere. because after 2000, insurance and liabilities of hiring a 15-18 year old was too great for most places unless "you knew someone(wink)", or "had previous work experience", which is ironic considering that no one would hire me...

so at 16 i convinced my 14 year old brother to buy a pair of heavily used lawn mowers, put an ad in the paper, and started mowing lawns for just about anyone that called about the ad...

Spuds · 07-07-2021, 10:29 PM

Soccer.
Referee.
Best spring/fall job ever.

Captain Snooze · 07-08-2021, 03:39 AM

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That a stamped steel beam is meant to twist in this application. Not exactly earth-shattering but still interesting.

That was weird. At first glance I thought that looked familiar but I couldn't quite place it. Hang on a sec! Am I in the right thread?
*light bulb moment* Read the text, makes sense now.

Captain Snooze · 07-08-2021, 03:40 AM

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Originally Posted by NoHaveMSG

At 160km away the sound from Krakatoa’s 1883 eruption was estimated at 172db. At 5000km away it sounded like a nearby gunshot.

So it could have been only 171db.

beltax90 · 07-08-2021, 10:54 AM

I'm poor!

Tcoat · 07-08-2021, 11:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Captain Snooze

So it could have been only 171db.

Or 173!

Pretty sure they could "estimate" whatever they wanted.

ScoobsMcGee · 07-08-2021, 11:21 AM

TIL: It's pronounced "kah-say-ah" with a slight emphasis on the say. I was saying it as "case-ya".

Yoshoobaroo · 07-08-2021, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by ScoobsMcGee

TIL: It's pronounced "kah-say-ah" with a slight emphasis on the say. I was saying it as "case-ya".

What is?

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