Hello everyone!

During some tests I was running on Crayon physics theory Deluxe the other day, I realized I could code a small campaign editor really fast. So I did! It took me about 4 hours of coding, and, I  must say, it works like a charm. User-created levels are nice, but a user created campaign would be even nicer. There’s only one problem: you won’t get  thumbnail when hovering your mouse over a level, since the game doesn’t auto-generate them. Maybe Petri will fix this.

cpdME

I’m not going to go into the usage, because it’s explained in the readme which comes with the tool. The readme is just a .txt file. Sorry for that but I don’t have Dreamweaver on this pc, so I couldn’t make a .html readme. Hopefully, I’ll make one soon. Also, I’d like to make the tool open-source when I have the time (pretty soon I hope).

Download:  cpdME.zip (640kb)

In order to run cpdME, please install Visual C 2005 SP1 redistributable package.

cpdME uses SDL, SDL_gfx and SDL_ttf. Also, I want to thank Petri Purho for creating such a great game.

As a disclaimer, I want to say that cpdME was done without any help from the author of Crayon physics theory Deluxe, Petri Purho, and I’m not responsible for any damage or loss of data caused by running cpdME. cpdME is a freeware, use-it-at-your-own-risk-ware.

Comments and cryticism are welcome.

Peace

The Righteous Schimmelbusch law of physics theory for avoiding bogans.

The number of sweatpants (SP) being worn in public (P) by people who haven’t been to the gym (-G), or aren’t coming home from a pyjama party (-PP) increases exponentially (xE) in relation to the number of miles (NM) you are from the GPO (xGPO).

Yours, while finding hair in new and surprising places including forehead and palms

Righteous

p.s. computer says no

The physicist Nikola Tesla once suggested exactly that. And recently, two scientists have proposed a mechanism, based in part on an observation made twenty-three years ago and forgotten—until now.

First, a little background: That any element having an atomic number greater than 83 (the number of bismuth) is well-enough known. Indeed, some isotopes (substances occupying the same place in the Periodic Table, from the Greek isos the same and topos place) of elements normally considered stable are also radioactive. But: conventional science still has no idea why! Ernest Rutherford, who worked out the internal structure of atoms and studied radioactivity extensively, found no influence that could vary radioactive decay rates in any way, and naturally assumed those rates to be constant. Nikola Tesla found out that electromagnetic fields could affect radioactive decay, and suggested that some mechanism, perhaps a hitherto-unknown type of radiation, might trigger radioactive decay.

And now the radiation responsible might have been found: neutrinos.

Neutrinos are tiny particles, having no charge, very difficult to detect, but known to trigger nuclear reactions. The sun radiates neutrinos in copious amounts. And, like all other radiation that the sun produces (including, of course, its light), the flow, or flux, of neutrinos varies inversely as the square of the distance from it. So if neutrinos are the triggers of radioactive decay, then the rates of radioactive decay would vary inversely as some power of the distance from the sun. For some elements, like uranium, the effect would hardly be noticeable, given the tremendous half-lives of most of its isotopes. But many other elements are much more highly radioactive, and decay much faster—so that a relatively small variation in the distance from the sun would produce a noticeable variance in the decay rate and the half-life. (And for the record, the difference between the aphelion and the perihelion of the earth is about three percent.)

In 1986, physicist David Alburger, at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, noted that silicon-32, a beta-emitter having a half life of 172 years, decayed at rates that varied with the seasons. The decay was fastest in February and slowest in August, which are the months of perihelion and aphelion. Dr. Alburger blamed his experimental set-up for what he was sure was a laboratory error, but never found the source of that error.

Then in 2008, Ephraim Fischbach and Jere Jenkins of Purdue University rediscovered those results and wondered whether the seasonable variation was not an error at all, but a real finding. They reasoned—correctly—that if anyone else had seen the same thing, they, too, would be embarrassed to report it, thinking as they did that their own equipment was at fault. They found that in 1998, a German team found a similar result with another isotope, radium-226.

To paraphrase the late pulp novelist Ian Fleming: Once is happenstance, twice is coincidence, and the third time it’s a pattern. Thus far we see two findings, not quite enough for an incontrovertible pattern. But the experimental technique in each case appears to be unimpeachable, and the proposed mechanism is eminently reasonable.

The implications are enormous. They strike at the heart of the theory behind radiometric dating, the technique most often used to “prove” that the earth is very old. Radiometric dating depends on three assumptions:

1. That the composition of any object to be dated is known positively as of the time that it forms.
2. That no process other than radioactive decay will materially change the proportions of mother and daughter nuclide.
3. That the rate of radioactive decay never changes, for any reason.

These findings of seasonable variations in radioactive decay, that track exactly the distance from the earth to the sun, cast doubt on the third assumption above. To be sure, a seasonal variation is not enough by itself to accelerate radioactive decay to any great extent. But suppose—just suppose—that at a certain isolated time, or two, or three, the sun emitted a very high, concentrated burst of neutrinos, that had the effect of accelerating the decay of all radioactive substances on earth?

Evidence that such acceleration has occurred does exist, in the form of pleiochroic haloes in certain ores, and in zirconia that contain far more helium than conventional theories predict. This event could have occurred on at least one of three occasions, and perhaps on all: the Creation Week, the Global Flood, and some unspecified time in between. If it occurred shortly before the Flood, it might even have triggered it, by releasing large amounts of heat within the earth’s crust. More to the point, such an acceleration would account for the tremendous observed apparent ages in the oldest rock samples, even if the first two of the three assumptions of radiometric dating remain safe.

Fans of the smoothed-out physics theory debut, Future Talk rejoice! The High Society EP is a little something to hold you over until the trio’s next full-length comes along. And, just like their debut, you can groove along to High Society with your headphones plugged in, or in your car cruising down Alki Beach. Either option succeeds in delivering the new Seattle summer soundtrack for 2009.

The music on High Society is Seattle’s own updated version of early to mid 90’s Native Tongue-style hip-hop. The influences are all here, including the jazz inflections, laid-back flows, and straight-up J. Dilla/Ummah-style beats. Thankfully, the production respectfully imitates more than it mimicks, which means the music is allowed to proudly display its roots while still remaining mostly fresh.

Standout tracks include “Back Track” which is specifically an homage to The physics theory’ influences (Wu and Tribe are named) and “The Session,” an addictive fusion of jazz instrumentation and futuristic sound effects; the rhymes are delivered two bars at a time via a playful back-and-forth between emcees Thig Natural, Monk Wordsmith, and a catchy saxophone riff.

There is one annoying track called “I Just Wanna Beat.” Once again it’s the dreaded Sex Joint. You know the one about picking up shorties at the club and taking them home “just to hit it?” We’ve all done it, we all know it happens, so why do rappers insist on making songs about it? (Actually, the track “Good” is based on the same concept, but at least it’s done cleverly and with a hilarious verse by Macklemore.) Anyway, that’s just a minor complaint among an album full of great music.

High Society is just an EP, so it’s easy to play through the whole record two or three times and not even realize it. The only thing really holding it back is its short length (better to keep fans hungry) and the aforementioned sex talk (typical, so — whatever). This is actually a pretty exciting release because it shows The physics theory truly have the chops to succeed in the industry. They exist in a well-defined hip-hop niche but still manage to stand outside of it because of their raw talent. The follow-up sophomore album can’t come soon enough.

So I’ve completed a week at Penguin High, I can’t believe I’m actually employed! I know this is only the start but I’m really looking forward to it. Laura has been really helpful and has worked with another teacher to devise an observation/team-teaching timetable for me until the end of term. I’m really grateful as it means I’ll get the chance to see what the pupils are like and how teachers actually teach at Penguin High.

What I’ve learnt this week is that it’s going to be so different being an NQT than a trainee. As a trainee, I had to make sure each lesson was exactly how the class teacher thought it should be taught – now I get to be myself more. The teachers I have observed have such good relationships with the pupils and I’m hoping that in time, I’ll be the same. I’ve also realised that not all lessons have to be whizz-bang – there’s just not enough time to plan 20 hours of lessons a week like that.

I’m teaching AS physics theory next year which I’m really excited about. I know it’ll take up a lot of my time planning the lessons and practising the practicals, but it’ll be worth it. What I’m finding daunting is the intellect of the other two physics theory teachers, who not only have more experience than me but are both physicists as well. And here’s little me, an NQT with a Master’s degree in Chemistry!

I taught one lesson last week with Laura acting as the support teacher. It went OK – not brilliantly, but at least I differentiated and assessed the pupils’ learning! And I confiscated a pupil’s mp3 player as well, much to the delight of the rest of the department! This week I’m teaching a little more – bring it on!

Is the speed of light invariant? Did Albert Einstein know about the Michelson-Morley experiments? These are the subjects of the recently-released papers from the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology.

I just love it when newspapers and magazines publish something like this. See the link below and tell me what you think.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/204892

Vamos imaginar uma plano inclinado com ângulo [; \theta ;]. Nesse plano inclinado há atrito estático e também uma condição de rolamento ([;\ {v}={R}{w} ;]). Temos então a possibilidade de colocar para rolar sobre esse plano uma esfera, um disco e um anel. Nessas condições, vamos analisar qual deles chegará primeiro ao final da rampa.

As condições iniciais (e favoráveis) para haver rolamento é eles possuírem massa, haver gravidade, momento de inércia e que eles sejam soltos de uma altura [;\ {h} ;] com velocidade inicial zero. Os momentos da esfera, disco e anel são, respectivamente:

[;\ {I_{cm}}=\frac{2}{5}{M}{R^2} ;]

[;\ {I_{cm}}=\frac{1}{2}{M}{R^2} ;]

[;\ {I_{cm}}={M}{R^2} ;]

O rolamento é interpretado como uma rotação instantânea em termos do ponto P (contato).

[;\ {K}=\frac{1}{2}{I_{cm}}{w^2}+\frac{1}{2}{M}{v^2} ;]

(obs: Sendo o primeiro elemento da soma a energia de rotação do centro de massa (sem translação) com velocidade [;\ {w} ;] e o segundo elemento a energia de translação do centro de massa com [;\ {v} ;] (sem rodar))

[;\ E_{1}={m}{g}{h} ;]

[;\ E_{2}=\frac{1}{2}{I_{cm}}{w^2}+\frac{1}{2}{M}{v^2} ;]

[;\ E_{2}=\frac{1}{2}{I_{cm}}\frac{v^2}{R^2}+\frac{1}{2}{M}{v^2} ;]

[;\ {mgh}=\frac{1}{2}(\frac{I_{cm}}{R^2}+{M}){v^2} ;]

[;\ {v}=\sqrt{\frac{2mgh}{(\frac{I_{cm}}{R^2}+{M})} ;]

Utilizando os momentos fornecidos anteriormente, tiramos que:

Esfera: [;\ {v}=\sqrt{\frac{5}{7}\cdot(2gh)} ;]

Disco: [;\ {v}=\sqrt{\frac{2}{3}\cdot(2gh)} ;]

Anel: [;\ {v}=\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}\cdot(2gh)} ;]

01:41 am, 5^th of July, 2009.

Historical moment: Fatimah Ahmad Alkhunaizi admits that physics theory is interesting.

At 01:42 am in the early morning, Samar Ali Al-Qatari convinced Fatimah that physics theory is interesting, and she actually did admit that.

Evidence:

Samar has accomplished by doing that the world’s eighth impossible. Congrats, Samar Al-Qatari.

Next target: Danya Abdullah Al-Abandi.

Note from Al-Qatari: Dear Danya, I told you that physics theory is interesting and I told you that one day I’ll make you believe that. Well, guess what? That day is coming soooooooooooon.

Physicist Paul Davies on the perplexities of the life and consciousness friendly universe and its origin:

The problem with saying God did it is that God himself or herself is unexplained, so you’re appealing to an unexplained designer. It doesn’t actually explain anything; it just shoves the problem off. But to say that the laws of physics theory just happen to permit life is no explanation either.

I have composed this work neither for the common people, nor for beginners, nor for those who occupy themselves only with the Law as it is handed down without concerning themselves with its principles.

‘The Guide For The Perplexed’, Maimonides (12th Century)

“Conversations with an Elder”

Philolaus (Φιλόλαος)

(ca. 480 – ca. 385 BCE)