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[doodab]

I thought welsh was just a made-up language?

They were all made up by somebody.

[Doggy Styles]

I don't think Mathematics is necessarily the language to use to describe how the universe works. Has anyone tried explaining it in Welsh?

I thought welsh was just a made-up language?

[SupremeSpod]

I have and do, yes, because I find a lot of the hand waving and analogies don't really explain things very well. These days, I would rather put in the effort to learn some new mathematics than read another pop-sci book. I do sometimes wished I had worked a bit harder at uni.

I don't think Mathematics is necessarily the language to use to describe how the universe works. Has anyone tried explaining it in Welsh?

[doodab]

Have you studied the mathematical models yourself?

That's what is meant by sticking-plaster.

I have and do, yes, because I find a lot of the hand waving and analogies don't really explain things very well. These days, I would rather put in the effort to learn some new mathematics than read another pop-sci book. I do sometimes wished I had worked a bit harder at uni.

[Sysman]

Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop them putting gherkins on the Quarter Pounder ??

Science and Gherkins (Youtube}

and yes, they do emit an awful smell in the process

[Sysman]

Bah! Next you'll be telling us that all those explosions don't make satisfying loud explosion sounds in space

There was a good bit in "You Only Live Twice" where a space ship turned 180° within its own length.

[NickFitz]

That reminds me of a link I think Nick Fitz once provided to an anti gravity device, no wait it was a perpetual motion machine employing an anti gravity half disk or something, dreamt up by a famous physicist, which I think he thought would actually produce work. But I can't remember which physicist it was or the name of the device. It was quite simple and clever and took a bit of debunking IIRC.

It was probably something in The Museum of Unworkable Devices, which was in MLFTB VII

[TimberWolf]

That reminds me of a link I think Nick Fitz once provided to an anti gravity device, no wait it was a perpetual motion machine employing an anti gravity half disk or something, dreamt up by a famous physicist, which I think he thought would actually produce work. But I can't remember which physicist it was or the name of the device. It was quite simple and clever and took a bit of debunking IIRC.

[Zippy]

Could we end up with a periodic table of more than one hundred forces?

I like that.

[Doggy Styles]

If you can be bothered to study the maths rather than reading the verbiage that attempts to explain them to the layman without using equations they actually make a lot more sense.

Have you studied the mathematical models yourself?

That's what is meant by sticking-plaster.

[MarillionFan]

[TestMangler]

Oy!
I've been to art collage and I've got a science degree

Can you PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE stop them putting gherkins on the Quarter Pounder ??

[sasguru]

Oy!
I've got a science degree

Menaingless if its from a polyversity after the 80s.

[SupremeSpod]

Oy!
I've been to art collage and I've got a science degree

Put the kettle on love!

[NickFitz]

Oy!
I've been to art collage and I've got a science degree

Then you're not average