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"What science stuff do you know brainiacs? Share some science like.. What is a van der graaf generator? And why? " A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge. Invented by Robert J Van de Graff in 1929. Bananas are radioactive. Due to being rich in potassium, every banana is actually slightly radioactive thanks to containing the natural isotope potassium-40. Interestingly, your body contains around 16mg of potassium-40, meaning you’re around 280 times more radioactive than a banana already. Any excess potassium-40 you gain from a banana is excreted out within a few hours. | |||
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"What science stuff do you know brainiacs? Share some science like.. What is a van der graaf generator? And why? A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge. Invented by Robert J Van de Graff in 1929. Bananas are radioactive. Due to being rich in potassium, every banana is actually slightly radioactive thanks to containing the natural isotope potassium-40. Interestingly, your body contains around 16mg of potassium-40, meaning you’re around 280 times more radioactive than a banana already. Any excess potassium-40 you gain from a banana is excreted out within a few hours. " Does that mean we could put bananas in our nuclear power stations? Could it have avoided chernobyl? | |||
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"I 'know' very little, but am fascinated by so much... My favourite mindfuck that baffles me as to how anyone 'understands' has to be Schrodinger's Cat. It's become a mainstream term, everyone knows the simple 'it's both dead and alive' (Christ you can get T-shirts and everything!) and there are many 'Shrodingers something' references but the actual concept of quantum superposition and the challenges of applying quantum mechanics is lost on me (and most I presume - either that or I'm just a dumbass!)" Well I'm afraid I can't shed any light, particle or wave varieties on this paradox. But talking of things that I failed to understand... Complex and imaginary numbers... I mean.. What's that all about? Or even maths in more than three dimensions... On that note I imagine bedtime now | |||
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"The ideal gas equation" Ten Guinness and a Madras. | |||
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"The ideal gas equation Ten Guinness and a Madras." Christmas dinner + cheese board | |||
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"I 'know' very little, but am fascinated by so much... My favourite mindfuck that baffles me as to how anyone 'understands' has to be Schrodinger's Cat. It's become a mainstream term, everyone knows the simple 'it's both dead and alive' (Christ you can get T-shirts and everything!) and there are many 'Shrodingers something' references but the actual concept of quantum superposition and the challenges of applying quantum mechanics is lost on me (and most I presume - either that or I'm just a dumbass!)" Schrodinger's cat. confusing? Yes. Schrodinger's scratch card: no The easiest way to explain this is to swap out the cat, life and death, poison and dark box for a lottery scratch card in a clear case in the corner shop. When you buy your chosen card The card has a layer of wax hiding the printed numbers/prizes. The card is either a winner or a loser: after you have bought it The card has two values: the prize money or zero pounds The card has two values (until you scratch the wax off) and that's how the scratch card business model works. As for the poison, well after a fixed amount of time scratch card games get closed down/reach the end of the game's life. | |||
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"The coexistence of the three phases of a substance (gas, liquid and solid) in thermodynamic equilibrium is called the triple point " 0.1'c for water I believe | |||
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"The coexistence of the three phases of a substance (gas, liquid and solid) in thermodynamic equilibrium is called the triple point 0.1'c for water I believe "  | |||
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"All I know is that Au is the chemical symbol for gold. And I remember that because I attributed it to Autumn Gold as a way to remember it. That’s all I got. Sorry! " Random fact but that’s why Au vodka is in gold bottles or vice versa | |||
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"Fibonacci sequence, now I know it is considered a mathematical concept but it does integrate science, maths and nature through the spiral patterns on shells, leaves on a stem, pinecones patterns and flower petals will follow the fibonacci numbers and golden ratio I would like to know why???" This is a good one! 🐚 | |||
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"Fibonacci sequence, now I know it is considered a mathematical concept but it does integrate science, maths and nature through the spiral patterns on shells, leaves on a stem, pinecones patterns and flower petals will follow the fibonacci numbers and golden ratio I would like to know why??? This is a good one! 🐚" Look up A$ paer and it's links to the golden ratio | |||
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"What science stuff do you know brainiacs? Share some science like.. What is a van der graaf generator? And why? A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge. Invented by Robert J Van de Graff in 1929. Bananas are radioactive. Due to being rich in potassium, every banana is actually slightly radioactive thanks to containing the natural isotope potassium-40. Interestingly, your body contains around 16mg of potassium-40, meaning you’re around 280 times more radioactive than a banana already. Any excess potassium-40 you gain from a banana is excreted out within a few hours. Does that mean we could put bananas in our nuclear power stations? Could it have avoided chernobyl? " Probably not. But we could use thorium, a plentiful element which has lower radiation than uranium. In fact china and India are working on thorium based nuclear power station. Thorium is named after the Norse god of thunder. | |||
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"We don’t think of oxygen as anything but an invisible component in the air we breathe, but unlike many other gases on the periodic table, oxygen isn’t colorless. If you cool O2 down until it becomes a liquid or freezes solid, you’ll see that it’s an incredibly pale blue." And your tongue can stick to it. | |||
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"The coexistence of the three phases of a substance (gas, liquid and solid) in thermodynamic equilibrium is called the triple point 0.1'c for water I believe "At sea level ? | |||
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"The iron catastrophe is a postulated major geological event early in the history of Earth, where heavy metals such as iron and nickel congregated in the core during a geologically brief period. Heating from radioactive materials in the early Earth’s mass gradually increased the temperature until a critical condition was reached. As material became molten enough to allow movement, the denser iron and nickel, previously evenly distributed throughout the mass, began to migrate to the centre of the planet to form the core. This is thought to be a runaway process increasing the temperature of the protoplanet above the melting point of most components, resulting in the rapid formation of a molten iron core covered by a deep global silicate magma. This led to the spinning super-hot metal core that is responsible for the creation of the Earth's magnetic field, the magnetosphere, which protects the Earth from solar wind and the most harmful components of solar radiation coming from the Sun. The magnetosphere protects both Earth's atmosphere and life to the present day. The term catastrophe is, here, in the mathematical sense of "a large, sudden change or discontinuity", as contrasted with "a disaster" This all occurred on a Tuesday morning at 8:47 AM about 500 million years into the formation of the planet….. "It was probably Tits Out Tuesday creating so much 🔥. | |||
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"We're both scientists, first and foremost. Random fact? Many bacteria exhibit chemotaxis, whereby they move towards a source of nutrition. E.coli take this a bit further - they not only move in straight lines, but every so often, they do a little commando roll and then carry on. Its called "run & tumble" "I never thought I'd find bacteria adorable, yet here we are | |||
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""J" is the only letter that doesn't appear in the periodic table." Apart from Jermanium which is named after a member of the Jackson Five. | |||
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""J" is the only letter that doesn't appear in the periodic table. Apart from Jermanium which is named after a member of the Jackson Five." Germanium? Now Beat It, you | |||
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""J" is the only letter that doesn't appear in the periodic table. Apart from Jermanium which is named after a member of the Jackson Five. Germanium? Now Beat It, you" Glad you can take a Goke! | |||
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"Look up A$ paer and it's links to the golden ratio" A* paper sizes use a ratio of the square root of two rather than the golden ratio which is half of one plus the square root of five. A0 is one metre squared in area. A1 is A0 cut in half. A2 is A1 cut in half, A3 is A2 cut in half and so on. But you are right, like almost everything in maths, they are related. One interesting way of thinking about the golden ratio is that it is one plus one divided by one plus one divided by one plus one divided by one plus one and so on to infinity. Maths nerds will understand that the above is ambiguous as it needs parenthesis to work but it gives people a rough idea. Another way of looking at this is that the golden ratio is the sum of the ratios of successive Fibonacci numbers. The golden ratio squared is also equal to the golden ratio plus one. | |||
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"But talking of things that I failed to understand... Complex and imaginary numbers... I mean.. What's that all about? Or even maths in more than three dimensions... On that note I imagine bedtime now " Multi-dimensional numbers, also called n-tuples, are just an ordered collection of numbers. The most familiar one is the 2-tuple which can be thought of as an (x, y) point on a two-dimensional graph. Complex numbers are effectively just a special kind of 2-tuple where the y part is multiplied by the square root of minus one. The square root of minus one is an imaginary number but in practice you can ignore this and manipulate complex numbers just like any 2-tuple - for instance using basic geometry to perform things like scaling or rotation. Some algorithms take real numbers then manipulate then in the complex plane and eventually the imaginary parts end up being zero and we get answers that are real numbers. The Mandelbrot Set is drawn on a complaex plane with one axis being real and the other imaginary. | |||
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"If you don’t like peanut butter but do like diamonds then you are in luck - you can compress peanut butter under great pressure (along with a load of co2) and the result is a diamond." Is that true of lidl peanut butter too | |||
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"Einstein's theory of relativity. It's actually really simple. Time moves more slowly when you're with your relatives." | |||
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"If you held your father's hand, and he held his father's hand and he held his father'shand (your great grandfather) and you kept that line going..at the 300 mile point your ancestor would be where humans beings and chimpanzees and gorillas and orangutans and bonobos all split off from a common ancestor. A kind of lemur /ape/ humanoid creature." That's Port Said, Egypt, to Tripoli, Lebanon, as the crow flies | |||
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"Look up A$ paer and it's links to the golden ratio A* paper sizes use a ratio of the square root of two rather than the golden ratio which is half of one plus the square root of five. A0 is one metre squared in area. A1 is A0 cut in half. A2 is A1 cut in half, A3 is A2 cut in half and so on. But you are right, like almost everything in maths, they are related. One interesting way of thinking about the golden ratio is that it is one plus one divided by one plus one divided by one plus one divided by one plus one and so on to infinity. Maths nerds will understand that the above is ambiguous as it needs parenthesis to work but it gives people a rough idea. Another way of looking at this is that the golden ratio is the sum of the ratios of successive Fibonacci numbers. The golden ratio squared is also equal to the golden ratio plus one. " The A4 paper fact fest is Dr. Hannah Fry's favourite ...she's got something about her too🔥🔥🔥 Hannah, if you're here, message me!! | |||
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"Look up A$ paer and it's links to the golden ratio A* paper sizes use a ratio of the square root of two rather than the golden ratio which is half of one plus the square root of five. A0 is one metre squared in area. A1 is A0 cut in half. A2 is A1 cut in half, A3 is A2 cut in half and so on. But you are right, like almost everything in maths, they are related. One interesting way of thinking about the golden ratio is that it is one plus one divided by one plus one divided by one plus one divided by one plus one and so on to infinity. Maths nerds will understand that the above is ambiguous as it needs parenthesis to work but it gives people a rough idea. Another way of looking at this is that the golden ratio is the sum of the ratios of successive Fibonacci numbers. The golden ratio squared is also equal to the golden ratio plus one. The A4 paper fact fest is Dr. Hannah Fry's favourite ...she's got something about her too🔥🔥🔥 Hannah, if you're here, message me!!" and a threesome with Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell to boot? | |||
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"The A4 paper fact fest is Dr. Hannah Fry's favourite ...she's got something about her too🔥🔥🔥 Hannah, if you're here, message me!! and a threesome with Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell to boot?" Let's get Rachel Riley in too and turn it into a real party. | |||
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"Major girl crush on Hannah Fry 🥵🔥" Obvious deep intelligence, a huge smile, a lovely intimate and enthusiastic sounding voice and sparkling eyes combined are extremely attractive. | |||
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"We're both scientists, first and foremost. Random fact? Many bacteria exhibit chemotaxis, whereby they move towards a source of nutrition. E.coli take this a bit further - they not only move in straight lines, but every so often, they do a little commando roll and then carry on. Its called "run & tumble"
I never thought I'd find bacteria adorable, yet here we are "I am the proud owner of a fluffy, smiley syphilis spirochaete | |||
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"Major girl crush on Hannah Fry 🥵🔥" Sameeeeeeeeeee | |||
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"Major girl crush on Hannah Fry 🥵🔥 Sameeeeeeeeeee" Woah woah woah people... Hannah, ignore them, here I am! 👋 | |||
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"Major girl crush on Hannah Fry 🥵🔥 Sameeeeeeeeeee Woah woah woah people... Hannah, ignore them, here I am! 👋" What happened to sharing? 🥺 | |||
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"Major girl crush on Hannah Fry 🥵🔥 Sameeeeeeeeeee Woah woah woah people... Hannah, ignore them, here I am! 👋 What happened to sharing? 🥺" Sharing is caring ❤️ | |||
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"Major girl crush on Hannah Fry 🥵🔥 Sameeeeeeeeeee Woah woah woah people... Hannah, ignore them, here I am! 👋 What happened to sharing? 🥺" Good Shout! OK Hannah, here's the deal; me, the two Kinkys, Horny PT, Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell and Rachel Riley... you in? | |||
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"Major girl crush on Hannah Fry 🥵🔥 Sameeeeeeeeeee Woah woah woah people... Hannah, ignore them, here I am! 👋 What happened to sharing? 🥺 Good Shout! OK Hannah, here's the deal; me, the two Kinkys, Horny PT, Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell and Rachel Riley... you in?" When you say 2 Kinkys, don't forget there's two of us here, and the other one is JUST as keen to join in 😈 | |||
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"No one has ever understood why hot water freezes faster than cold water. You get a shit load of money if you can explain it to scientists xx" How hot is the water when it starts to freeze quicker? | |||
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"Major girl crush on Hannah Fry 🥵🔥 Sameeeeeeeeeee Woah woah woah people... Hannah, ignore them, here I am! 👋 What happened to sharing? 🥺 Good Shout! OK Hannah, here's the deal; me, the two Kinkys, Horny PT, Victoria Elizabeth Coren Mitchell and Rachel Riley... you in? When you say 2 Kinkys, don't forget there's two of us here, and the other one is JUST as keen to join in 😈" ABSOLUTELY!!! I was just going by names, the more the merrier! | |||
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"No one has ever understood why hot water freezes faster than cold water. You get a shit load of money if you can explain it to scientists xx" It's called the Mpemba effect. There is dispute as to whether it really exist as it's difficult to find evidence for it in precisely controlled experiments. It could be that we're not looking at pure water when we observe it. For instance cold water can hold far more disolved gases than hot water. Although at first sight water seems to be a simple molecule made up of one oxygen and two hydrogen atoms it has all kinds of interesting and often unexpected properties. It's kind of the universe's best solvent which is why many believe that life would be impossible without it. | |||
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