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Science: Everything explained by PV=nRT, F=ma=Gm(1)•m(2)/r^2

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LynahFan said:
Definitely not a dumb question. My supposition is that it just means no pattern has been found *yet*. I suspect a quick Google (didn't try it myself) would bring up many examples where patterns have been discovered in phenomena that had formerly been presumed to be random. We are pretty darn good at finding patterns in things and breaking codes that had held for dozens or hundreds of years.
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Thanks. That is exactly what I was getting at in my layman's way.

Although I suspect if we detected a repeatable pattern in quantum events that would be a significant discovery for everything else we know. It might even square the circle of God's dice playing that put the wind up Albert.
 
Kepler said:
Thanks. That is exactly what I was getting at in my layman's way.

Although I suspect if we detected a repeatable pattern in quantum events that would be a significant discovery for everything else we know. It might even square the circle of God's dice playing that put the wind up Albert.
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Yeah, Heisenberg would probably be a little peeved if we started to say we had perfect information about what was going on at a quantum level....
 
LynahFan said:
Yeah, Heisenberg would probably be a little peeved if we started to say we had perfect information about what was going on at a quantum level....
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But still only within a larger frame, because you could never know where you were in the sequence.
 
From my experience, the initial quake is already over while you're still stunned. The first quake I was in I was standing in front of an enormous glass window and the only way I can describe it is it changed into liquid -- the glass was momentarily water, held in a vertical sheet, and then it solidified again. That gives some idea of the cognitive shock. You have no time to be scared, you're just off kilter. When it stops, then you're scared, but also relieved because it's over.

When the aftershocks come you are primed so you are "awake" through it all, and you are terrified while it's happening. Emotionally it is much, much worse.
 
Pretty much what Kepler said. The initial quake is such a shock your mind barely recognizes it. Any subsequent aftershock you are fully aware of mentally. They wake you up in the night, they dead stop you during the day, it’s mentally exhausting.
 
Jimjamesak said:
Pretty much what Kepler said. The initial quake is such a shock your mind barely recognizes it. Any subsequent aftershock you are fully aware of mentally. They wake you up in the night, they dead stop you during the day, it’s mentally exhausting.
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You get false shocks, too. Your body braces, nothing happens. Like an abused child. It sucks. It's basically a very mild form of PTSD.
 
Kepler said:
You get false shocks, too. Your body braces, nothing happens. Like an abused child. It sucks. It's basically a very mild form of PTSD.
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Yeah, that was the big thing with the quake a few days ago. Just a collective “oh no here we go again...”

I just remember sleep being a struggle, especially with my daughter, you’d start to fall asleep, another one would hit and your body goes “never mind let’s stay awake for more hours!”

The original quake was scary on some level but I’ve been trained for so long to “duck, cover, hold on” that it was easy. They just forgot the “and then do it again another 30-40 times”.
 
You converted me years ago with that. But I have a special affinity for Pi day now that it's my anniversary :-O
 
dxmnkd316 said:
You converted me years ago with that. But I have a special affinity for Pi day now that it's my anniversary :-O
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That's nice, Did you do that on purpose?

Dr. Mrs. & I have the anniversary of the birth of Johann Bernoulli, the actual discover of L'Hôpital's rule.
 
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Kepler said:
That's nice, Did you do that on purpose?

Dr. Mrs. & I have the anniversary of the birth of Johann Bernoulli, the actual discover of L'Hôpital's rule.
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So I had to look: On this day in history - Today in History - Historical Events - March 15th - History Hop

I didn't get married on Pi Day, but the 34th Marsenne Prime (primes that can be expressed as 2^n-1) was discovered on our anniversary day (51 have been found now), so we got that going for us. It was also the day that San Marino, the oldest country still in existence, was founded.
 
SJHovey said:
That's interesting.

I've never been through an earthquake. So what is it that makes the aftershocks the worst part of the experience?
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That's not entirely true. Minnesota has earthquakes every so often, they're just not scary like the ones out west. In 1993, the day before I did my first on-road practice with my driving instructor, we had a quake; it was small, and barely noticeable, but it happened. There have been a few since then, but I'm not sure how many.

Doing a quick Google search, and found that in 1979, Matt Walton of the U of MN wrote a paper that said there had been 10 recorded earthquakes within the state since 1859. (Writing from my work PC, I can't copy/paste into the board's text window, so search this stuff on your own, should you like.)
 
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