Claidheamh

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Claidheamh,

The Earth will always be here. We, on the other hand…

Claidheamh, (edited )

That’s a very balanced and well written article, thank you.

Claidheamh,

Why not? That’s the exact scenario the word applies to.

Claidheamh,

It’s not a comparison, it’s an analogy. Important distinction.

Claidheamh,

But did it work because of the style or in spite of it? No reason to believe it wouldn’t be even more successful if he had been less abrasive like he is now.

Claidheamh,

Of course it is. A square is also a rectangle but it’s still an important distinction.

Claidheamh,

The analogy is that the end result doesn’t justify the behaviour from the person in power. It’s apt.

Claidheamh,

How is that obvious? Especially because it’s become even more successful after he’s mellowed out?

Claidheamh, (edited )

My point is exactly that. It’s not obvious, and as such you can’t attribute the success of Linux to his behaviour. Like the OP said, there’s no logic in looking at something successful and picking a singular thing to be responsible.

Claidheamh,

Learning isn’t the same as researching.

Claidheamh,

It’s electromagnetism you mean, not quantum mechanics.

Claidheamh, (edited )

The relation between them is that they’re both forces that scale with the inverse square of the distance between the objects. Any force that scales with the inverse square of distance has pretty much the same general form.

Another similarity is that both are incomplete, first approximations that describe their respective forces. The more complete versions are Maxwell’s laws for electromagnetism and General Relativity for gravity.

Claidheamh,

They’re different things. The OP means electromagnetism, Coulomb’s law has nothing to do with quantum mechanics, it’s classical physics.

Claidheamh, (edited )

Quantum mechanics didn’t supersede electromagnetism. Again, they’re different things. Electromagnetism is a fundamental interaction. Whereas quantum mechanics describes the mechanics of quantum particles. Whether those particles are affected by electromagnetic forces or not. It’s a description of how they behave at quantum scales.

Coulomb’s law has nothing to do with quantum mechanics, it’s a description of how macroscopic charged particles interact. What the OP should have said to be correct is:

Awesome to see the similarities between: Newton’s law of gravitation and Coulomb’s law

I don’t know where he got quantum mechanics from.

Claidheamh, (edited )

Always upvote Feynman. Got me through some tough times in undergrad.

Claidheamh,

The original spelling wasn’t aluminum, it was alumium. Which then was proposed to be aluminium in French, and got picked up by the Royal Society. After, the guy who introduced the term to the Royal Society (Humphry Davy) started calling it aluminum but the other term had already stuck.

Claidheamh, (edited )

I think I heard it’s more around the 150-200% mark

Most cheap air conditioners have COPs (coefficients of performance) around 3.2-3.5, which means 320-350% efficiency. In real world conditions, the best systems reach 4.5, though the theoretical limit is about 8.0.

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