Hey team ! Today I learnt a really interesting fact thanks to the book written by Sean Carroll called Something Deeply Hidden. I just have to tell someone. The power generated in gravitational waves by the Earth orbiting the Sun is close to ( choose one ) :
A. 2 Watts
B. 20 Watts
C. 200 Watts
D. 2 Kilowatts
E. 2 Megawatts
.... all answers/guesses must written on the back of a $50 note. :-)
ANSWER >> Yep it's C : 200W, a mere few light globes worth. And to think that the little wiggles detected at LIGO represent the blowing off of several Sun's worth of mass/energy. << ANSWER
For a while now I've had my eye set on a new host build, but have not jumped in because I was waiting to see which GPU/CPU setup will be a good option for the final release of the gravity wave GPU app. If that wait is longer than eight months, then that will be fine by me because my wife was just accepted to run in the 2020 Boston Marathon. We want to make a major trip of this once-in-a-lifetime event and she has mentioned how we need to save up our money for it. So I just wouldn't feel right dropping hundreds of dollars on, as she sees it, my obscure hobby ("What does that even do?") that I've already spent hundreds on ("Another computer part? I could've had a new laptop for all that stuff you've bought.") and which doesn't seem to do anything other that heat up the back room ("Why do you think the cats hang out in there?) and occupy an inordinate amount of my time ("Are you still on-line?"). *sigh* ...the sacrifices we make...
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
For a while now I've had my eye set on a new host build, but have not jumped in because I was waiting to see which GPU/CPU setup will be a good option for the final release of the gravity wave GPU app. If that wait is longer than eight months, then that will be fine by me because my wife was just accepted to run in the 2020 Boston Marathon. We want to make a major trip of this once-in-a-lifetime event and she has mentioned how we need to save up our money for it. So I just wouldn't feel right dropping hundreds of dollars on, as she sees it, my obscure hobby ("What does that even do?") that I've already spent hundreds on ("Another computer part? I could've had a new laptop for all that stuff you've bought.") and which doesn't seem to do anything other that heat up the back room ("Why do you think the cats hang out in there?) and occupy an inordinate amount of my time ("Are you still on-line?"). *sigh* ...the sacrifices we make...
I saw a show on tv a week or so ago that said finding Gravitational Waves is proof of 'the big bang' so you could tell her you helped do that. If you also do PrimeGrid they use those for passwords for very high level above top secret communications, they are a one time use thing so they always need new ones.
Hey team ! Today I learnt a really interesting fact thanks to the book written by Sean Carroll called Something Deeply Hidden. I just have to tell someone. The power generated in gravitational waves by the Earth orbiting the Sun is close to ( choose one ) :
A. 2 Watts
B. 20 Watts
C. 200 Watts
D. 2 Kilowatts
E. 2 Megawatts
.... all answers/guesses must written on the back of a $50 note. :-)
Hey team ! Today I learnt a really interesting fact thanks to the book written by Sean Carroll called Something Deeply Hidden. I just have to tell someone. The power generated in gravitational waves by the Earth orbiting the Sun is close to ( choose one ) :
A. 2 Watts
B. 20 Watts
C. 200 Watts
D. 2 Kilowatts
E. 2 Megawatts
.... all answers/guesses must written on the back of a $50 note. :-)
I don't have any 50s on me; would a $100 bill still be a valid entry?
Mikey wrote:
I saw a show on tv a week or so ago that said finding Gravitational Waves is proof of 'the big bang' so you could tell her you helped do that. If you also do PrimeGrid they use those for passwords for very high level above top secret communications, they are a one time use thing so they always need new ones.
I did not know that about PrimeGrid! ..or about proof of Big Bang. Good to know!
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
Hey team ! Today I learnt a really interesting fact thanks to the book written by Sean Carroll called Something Deeply Hidden. I just have to tell someone. The power generated in gravitational waves by the Earth orbiting the Sun is close to ( choose one ) :
A. 2 Watts
B. 20 Watts
C. 200 Watts
D. 2 Kilowatts
E. 2 Megawatts
.... all answers/guesses must written on the back of a $50 note. :-)
I don't have any 50s on me; would a $100 bill still be a valid entry?
Mike Hewson wrote:Hey team !
That's very interesting!!
mikey wrote:Gary Charpentier
Tiw's Day
Wrong language, old English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuesday
Gary Charpentier wrote:mikey
Well I guess that's better, Old English being long dead as a spoken language by regular people anyway.
mikey wrote:Gary Charpentier
And for some it is already Thorsday.
Gary Charpentier wrote:mikey
And for some it's still hump day
For a while now I've had my
For a while now I've had my eye set on a new host build, but have not jumped in because I was waiting to see which GPU/CPU setup will be a good option for the final release of the gravity wave GPU app. If that wait is longer than eight months, then that will be fine by me because my wife was just accepted to run in the 2020 Boston Marathon. We want to make a major trip of this once-in-a-lifetime event and she has mentioned how we need to save up our money for it. So I just wouldn't feel right dropping hundreds of dollars on, as she sees it, my obscure hobby ("What does that even do?") that I've already spent hundreds on ("Another computer part? I could've had a new laptop for all that stuff you've bought.") and which doesn't seem to do anything other that heat up the back room ("Why do you think the cats hang out in there?) and occupy an inordinate amount of my time ("Are you still on-line?"). *sigh* ...the sacrifices we make...
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
cecht wrote:For a while now
I saw a show on tv a week or so ago that said finding Gravitational Waves is proof of 'the big bang' so you could tell her you helped do that. If you also do PrimeGrid they use those for passwords for very high level above top secret communications, they are a one time use thing so they always need new ones.
Mike Hewson wrote:Hey team !
MAGIC Quantum Mechanic
I don't have any 50s on me; would a $100 bill still be a valid entry?
I did not know that about PrimeGrid! ..or about proof of Big Bang. Good to know!
Ideas are not fixed, nor should they be; we live in model-dependent reality.
cecht wrote:MAGIC Quantum