Thinking Definition and 397 Threads

I was wondering about what people consider good science based majors I want: A challenging degree(important) mostly based on independent work(pretty important too) Good job prospects and pay(not that important) analytical with theory and practice Logical and conceptual in nature. I...

I *think* I remember hearing something about a study that showed just thinking about working out was able to increase muscle mass.. was this true?

I am thinking about switching my double major from Applied Mathematics and Statistics (AMS) and Economics to AMS and Pure Mathematics with maybe a minor in economics. I want to keep my two career options open: Actuary or going to grad school However I have been hearing from some upper...

I know that a rocket flying through space can burn fuel, which has mass, at a constant rate, thus a constant forward force. But does the acceleration of the shuttle increase or decrease with time, or does it just stay the same?

I have heard a whisper that GD is in the doldrums, is it because there is nothing to talk about, or pure apathy? i know there are posters to GD that exhibit signs of intelligent conversation, and an inkling of wit, well two or three to be honest, are you one of them? :biggrin:

I was wondering about something today, I once heard a quote from Roger Penrose: a bar maid asked him what drink he wanted and he didn';t respond for a couple of seconds. When he did he said 'Sorry, I was thinking in about 12 different dimensino and I find it hard to come back to one' (or...

Which has contributed more to your life?

I have some questions, so if you like to joke or anything--offtopical points are also welcomed..:wink: In order to draw something, we need a pen and a paper, so if we don't use the pen, what can we use ? Second, when we draw something we can use crayons or color pens to add colors to the...

hi guys assistance in this area would be great just see what i have written and comment on them please thanks! all. im thinking about the errors in titration from doing a typical acid-base titration to talk about in my experiment and these are the errors i came up with. First of all my...

hey any 1 attended this course ... if so .. could u tell me about it .. what is it exactly and how do they evaluate u ... and what is the perfect way to score high level in it ... and if anyone has a site or an ebook or anything which would help 4 the course ... please give me regards no...

We adults usually think in concrete terms. Would you agree, however, that the majority of our mature abstract thought processes can be related directly to our imagination as a child? How can this association justify the seeming exclusivity of child and adult minds? What magical thinking do...

Suppose you want to take a photograph of yourself as you look at your image in a flat mirror 1.8 m away. For what distance should the camera lens be focused? You must be ½ the total distance away: since the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection, the distance needed to get a...

For example, when you are doing an essay, you must get some idea to write. Thus you send an impulse through the nerve cell to the brain. But what send the impulse, and how is it controlled?

Hi all, and bless. Sorry about the mystic greeting but I feel like I need all the grisgris I can get these days. A frustrating week. However, i was last working on Pascal triangles, tetrahedra, and higher dimensional simplexes. N-choose-k was the math of the day. Now I have recently...

first of all, I'm only fairly confident that I've chosen the appropriate forum for this. anyway -- loving and thinking, for me, have always been two different, distinct, indulgances. however, I've noticed that if i partake one, i ignore the other. to wit, bein' a lover is grand but...

http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro-ph/0408081

URGENT. Simple satellite / rocket separation problem... is my thinking wrong? Rocket mass M-kM and satellite kM (k < 0) are separated by an explosion which releases energy Q and let's rocket M-kM come to a stop relative to the observer and satellite kM continue at velocity v. Initial velocity...

Quantum physics movie -- What the *$@! are we thinking? And upcoming movie.. My friend who is learning calculus and physics, and I teach him what I know, works at movie theatre. He told me about a new movie in 2004, called "What the fuc* are we thinking?" It's about quantum physics and...

So I'm trying out the test to prepare me for my upcoming cambridge interview, there is one problem I can't understand though this one: 44 Sally is helping her father dig worms for fishing. "That's exactly enough," he says as she places a worm in his tin. "How many do you need?" she...

Should I run away? I mean, if one is unhappy (to some degree) with the day to day routine of life, then why not? If i did, where would I go? Maybe to the circus. Nah, there aren't any to speak of anymore. Also, should I get a pole and a bandana and wrap my belongings in it (as i have seen...

I'm sitting in my suite in the Courtyard by Marriott right now thinking about blowing up a gas station. I worked for three hours on Friday, drove for 12 hours to San Jose got 5 hours sleep and then went to work today. My job is surveying and I have to do a survey of about 30 gas stations for a...

Are there any good books or websites that can help me become a better thinker, both critically and logically? Science is one of the things in life that interest me most, but I have trouble studying and understanding it since I'm not the best "deep" thinker. Any help is greatly appreciated.

A merchant owed a large sum of money to a moneylender. The old, ugly moneylender fancied the merchant's beautiful daughter. He proposed that he would forget the debt if he could marry the merchant's daughter. The merchant and his daughter were horrified. The cunning moneylender suggested...

Predisposition's aside, I've been thinking about a whole bunch of stuff. I'm not even sure if they're questions. 1) If we assume when a spaceship is moving at the speed of light, it has infinite mass. In order for a ship with infinite mass to move, it would require infinite energy. Since the...

Two football players run into each other at midfield. We can (or cannot) realistically apply conservation of momentum to calculate the players' velocities just after the impact because A. The system of interest floats in space. B. The players are functionally isolated. C. We can treat...

This is a question in David W. Hoggs SR Book, so it is not homework. Problem 3-4 A rocket ship passes the Earth at speed B = 0.8 (B=v/c). Observers on the ship and on Earth agree that it is noon. Answer the following questions: a)At 12:30pm, as read by a rocket ship clock(assuming it is...

Apparently, Iran's defense minister is a fan of this preemptive war stuff, and figures that if using preemptive war is good enough for the USA, that it would be good enough for Iran, and is thinking of preemptively attacking Isreal, specifically their nuclear facilities. Also, due to American...

this is the first time for me to prepare or thinking about the experiment which will be taken on the accerlerator. what should be taken into account before experiment?

Why the work of LQG from a SRian approach is considered? Ths distilliation process was good for Smolin as it helped me to understand from his examples as to how the formation of the "new logic" might have extended from this head shaking that went on. This to me lead into other issues of...

BCS theory has been disproven, though still people use it to explain things,that's all. No, I don't remember where I read it. It was a credible source though, physicsweb.org, or scientific american...

Anyone worked on problems from "Thinking Like a Physicist" ? This is a compilation of qualifier problems from the University of Bristol (I think) Physics Dept. - very different from the standard physics problems you come across in texts like Irodov, Resnick, etc. I found them quite refreshing !

The Universe Is Alive And Thinking! ...because we are alive and thinking. Ming acting on a molecular scale implies that consciousness may exist at all levels of matter even atomic and subatomic levels---Physicist Fred Alllen Wolf

Few adults realize that they do not know anything about critical thinking. The words sound familiar but the reality is that they know nothing about critical thinking. Learning critical thinking is equivalent to two or three 3-hour college credit courses for a total of 6 to 9 hours of college...

* * "In his Tier III class, Moody uses a variety of evidence, including a Discovery Channel documentary, "Sasquatch: Legend Meets Science," to teach students how to weigh evidence. The movie presents a range of clues for the existence of Bigfoot, including films of purported...

"Think of the devil and there he is", definitely a devil knows the speed of thinking. I need your openion on the following question. Q: What is the speed of thinking A) Infinite B) limited and variable C) Constant other than speed of light D) Same as speed of light E) Zero D) Not...

I saw NBC Matt Lauer's report on the booted American Idol contestant William Hung who apparently is going for stardom. Whát are they thínking? :eek:

I'd like to ask for some opinions about what I've been developing. It's about visual language and thinking visually. Originally I was just trying to satisfy my own curiosity, if I could create many different kind of geometrical figures, which could act as an useful tools for my thoughts, but I...

September 18, 2003 Thinking About Neoconservatism By Kevin MacDonald Over the last year, there’s been a torrent of articles on neoconservatism raising (usually implicitly) some vexing issues: Are neoconservatives different from other conservatives? Is neoconservatism a Jewish movement...

On my quiz, it asked... "When using a hammer to drive a nail into wood, you have to swing the hammer through the air with certain velocity. Because the hammer has both mass and momentum. Describe what happens to the hammer's momentum after the hammer hits the nail." SCIENCE ISN'T...

What the hell is Bush Thinking?? If you guys haven't heard about this one: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9111-2003Oct23.html It seems our President has informed NATO that it has to change the date for its summit because, get this, his daughters are graduating from college...

In comparison with other physics forums I enjoy the special qualities of this one. People here seem to be more open to a friendly dialogue (rather than indulging in personal aggressions, as is widespread) in the aim of developing more complete views and insights. The implied capacity to 'listen'...

My 9th grade national tests just came back. I did above average on everything, my quantitive thinking however barely got passed the average mark. My parents are not pleased, even though they are decent scores. So, I need help on this subject. Any books or websites that provide this...

When we think we think using words for the most part maybe with an imgae or two for color but mostly we think in words. How dose one go about thinking without a language like an infiante or another anmial. is problem solving inhibted ?

Is there a long word that means separation of church and state? I think it starts with an "A". Help! Please!

In how many dimensions one can think? Can anyone give idea?

I'm thinking about joining Mensa and I was wondering what experiences others have had with them. I really don't know if it's something I want to do or not. What are the benefits of joining?

Thinking about gravity and ineria I had the following thought. Please, give me your thought about it and feel free to blow holes in it. When any object with mass moves, even in what we may perceive as a straight line with constant velocity on a curved surface or within a curved...