L. Marcus Posted January 12, 2018 Report Share Posted January 12, 2018 Matrices is when I gave up on math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2018 Logic is when I gave up on math. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 12, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2018 10k question on Oz Millionaire Hot Seat aka Who wants to be a millionaire. Which superhero is the alter ego of Marvel character Carol Danvers? a. Scarlet Witch b. Black Widow c. Storm d. Captain Marvel. The contestant ant went with C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 12, 2018 Report Share Posted January 12, 2018 I know, but I have the unsurpressible teacher instinct and can't shut up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 12, 2018 Report Share Posted January 12, 2018 10k question on Oz Millionaire Hot Seat aka Who wants to be a millionaire. Which superhero is the alter ego of Marvel character Carol Danvers? a. Scarlet Witch b. Black Widow c. Storm d. Captain Marvel. The contestant ant went with C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 12, 2018 Report Share Posted January 12, 2018 I admit I would be reduced to guesswork. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 A weather phenomenon occurred in my hometown yesterday. The sunset in that article is typical. Happens the majority of the time. You get a little blasé after a while. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-15/science-behind-sunsets-darwin-wet-season/9329202 Pariah and tkdguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 19, 2018 Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 You're at roughly 12 degrees south latitude? Not counting the flights to/from our honeymoon on Rarotonga, that's closer to the Equator than I've ever been. Intellectually I know some of the differences, but obviously have never experienced them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 19, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 19, 2018 I'm in Darwin, NT. The evolved territory. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Overly fond of beetles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 20, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 What kind of beetles you referring too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 20, 2018 Report Share Posted January 20, 2018 Beetles, or beagles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Misremembering natural historians on my part. It is J B S Haldane, not Darwin, who is alleged to have said that the Almighty has an inordinate fondness for beetles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Ah...ok. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Then again, I would have thought physicists are natural historians. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Well, the splitting of natural philosophy into disciplines we now use was in progress as late as that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I was trying to be funny, and make a joke. Which time era are you referring too? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Not even historians are natural historians. They all work hard for what they get. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Natural philosophy and natural history started splitting into finer disciplines around ... 1700? ... but they continued to remain largely unified (imo) in the efforts to grasp earlier times on Earth: geology and biology in particular, as they developed coherent, workable ideas for evolution and geophysics that depended on each other. Darwin was a great naturalist and obviously a pivotal figure in that. My comment stemmed from misremembering the source of the "inordinate fondness for beetles" comment (perhaps via some anecdotes of the young Darwin as an avid beetle collector), and suggesting drolly that all of Darwin NT was inordinately fond of beetles. The "fondness" remark reflects the truly stupendous number of beetle species that exist, for which there still isn't a good understanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Ah, no worries. My joke was to suggest that as physicists investigate Nature they are acting as historians, thus natural history. But I guess this is more applicable to astronomers than physicists as astronomers record the history of the stars, the galaxy, the universe etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pariah Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Astronomy is often considered (correctly or otherwise) a subcategory of physics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Astrophysics even more so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 I have come to think of having the border between astronomy (and astrophysics) and other disciplines is the dual aspects of data starvation -- where it is quite impossible to run the experiments that seem obvious -- and exceedingly long evolution times for the systems of interest. Geophysics kind of abuts that, but the ability to do active seismic probing removes much of that data starvation aspect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L. Marcus Posted January 21, 2018 Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 The Big Booms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazza Posted January 21, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2018 Question for the Astronomer: what is your understanding of "Cosmos"? Ive been doing reading/researching on the Pythagorean understanding of it, and am interested in a modern science understanding to see if there is similarity or difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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