And you still maintain that you have a legitimate degree in physics?
I think the answer to this challenge is obvious enough.
And you still maintain that you have a legitimate degree in physics?
ghost7584 said:A magnetic field will not attract or repel electrons; it causes them to curve at right angles to the field.
ghost7584 said:I was pointing out that the medium of the metal wire ended at the cathode, and the vacuum could not be considered that kind of medium; the metal is electrons suspended and drifting through atom lattices - the vacuum is different from that.
ghost7584 said:It can't be electrons because the electron drift velocity in metal is so slow (about the speed of heat conduction or a snail crawling), that the wire could not deliver enough electrons fast enough to the cathode to support the cathode ray, moving at close to the speed of light.
ghost7584 said:If electrons are only flowing in the wire, at the speed of heat conduction, about as fast as a snail crawls, the wire cannot deliver enough volume per second of electrons to support the much faster cathode ray flow.
How could the small number of electrons per second (from a flow as fast as a snail crawling) provide enough electrons to make a cathode ray beam moving near the speed of light? And the beam when it is illuminated is wider than the wire. It would take more electrons than that slow flow rate could deliver. So, the ray can't be made of electrons. That is what I am trying to say.
mercurio said:Hang in there, take a few deep breaths maybe, or abuse some other people if you get bored.
phlogistician said:'abuse' there's a bit of a dramatic term. Have I used foul language? No. Have I stayed on topic? Yes.
I've corrected some physics, asked some questions, and doubted this guys supposed qualifications. That's not abuse, and to suggest so is absurd.
I've called you a retard, but that was merely in retaliation to you initial ad hom, so don't dish it out if you can't take it!
I can't wait for your reply, and can't figure out why you need Porfiry to give you a green light, but that could just be more drama on your part. I think perhaps you're just stalling, because you do't agree with this guy, but just don't want to admit that, and are drawing the debate?
SkinWalker said:If you were to have a pipe of a diameter just large enough to accept a ping pon ball, long enough to reach the end of a city block, then filled it with ping pong balls from end to end, placing another ping pong ball in the pipe would cause the last ball to pop out almost instantly. This is what electrons are doing and this is what electron drift is, if I understand it. Perhaps phlog and mercurio will correct me if I'm wrong.
mercurio said:as to the German engineer and his wheels, there is very little to be found on the Net, so I'll draw up a sketch of how his wheels worked. Pretty cool, actually. Smart engineering.
mercurio said:No, you're an abusive little pr*ck allright, and way before you called me a retard.
That Xev person should be stripped of mod rights.
The forum should ban people who use loads of accounts.
Porfiry should read his mail, and clean up his act in more ways than one.
And I have much better things to do than correct your English
physics
, or manners. Bit too late in all cases, I fear.
Well, nothing reincarnation won't cure.
slotty said:Well on the original question of how the pyramids were built i will give you the true answer. They were built with whips.
ghost7584 said:The air is so thin that a slave force couldn't do intensive labor up there and crops could not be grown to feed them up there. What primitive tool, no matter how many slaves and whips you have, could even move a 400 ton stone. - think about it - 400 tons.
Stryder said:Mercurio,
If you think that certain things are being done wrong on this site, then by all means start your own one elsewhere with your enstated ruleset.
Porfiry pretty much allows the site to exist as it's own animal/entity, in the sense that what ever becomes of it is up to the audience that uses it, only on occasion does it actually have to rain down fire and brimstone on people that have either abused his generousity or attempted to namecall.
As for Xev and the other moderators of this forum, they put in their own time and effort to try and keep this place in some form of order, rather than allowing anarchists to "drill holes" in the preverbial sciforums boat hull. If it was for them then this site might cease to be (which might have been on some peoples agenda)
You have to note that this forum isn't about learning how to hate, or causing fights, it's suppose to be about the envisionment of people being able to collect thoughts together and work out the basic fundemental truths of our lives and the universe.
As soon as you start to veer away from that understanding then you should be asking the question of "why do you post here?".
I'm not going to go into any more details on that, and I expect this thread to stay on topic from this point on, otherwise I will have to start Chopping content out which causes people to complain because of how strongly people feel about being edited.
SkinWalker said:I think your ignorance must be a result of a combination of a lack of education as well as an ethnocentric perspective. So quickly are you to apply the Our Ancestors, The Dummies hypothesis to the abilities of ancient cultures. Moreover, the assumption that the only way monumental architecture could possiblly be constructed is if a "slave force" conducted the labor is grossly incorrect. The fact of the matter is that there is significant evidence to suggest that just the opposite was true: the labor was voluntary and eager to construct.
You avoided the question. Eager or not, what primitive tool can move a 400 ton stone gate? I don't care how many men you have on it. What do you use to drag stones weighing many tons up to a plateau from a quarry at ground level? Did they have steel cables and diesel cranes? No.
Would ropes made out of vines or lama hair accomplish that? No.
Eager or not, how do you move a 400 ton stone gate with anything they had?! Just what do you think 400 tons is?