Post Here if You&#x27;re Procrastinating - The Oxford Chat Thread Mk2

Its the one tempting thing about religion. It gives you a reason to blindly ignore the laws of physics.

Reply 1183

the one tempting thing about religion. It gives you a reason to blindly ignore the laws of physics.

Reply 1184

cpchem

Stupid physicists, ruining all of our fun. I've never been a fan of those stupid conservation laws, for one. If I want to make energy out of nowhere, I should be allowed to!

I've never fully understood that law. Surely energy must have come out of nowhere at some point? Like when the world was created? Or is that just my own special brand of physics? :dontknow:

Reply 1185

The_Lonely_Goatherd

I've never fully understood that law. Surely energy must have come out of nowhere at some point? Like when the world was created? Or is that just my own special brand of physics? :dontknow:

Why would it have to be created.

Numbers are an infinite series? Why not time.

The last clever explanation for the history of the universe said the universe carries on expanding up to a point where (and this is where it lost me) it is so expanded it is can effectively be considered a singularity again by some weird physical strageness. Then it big bangs again.

Reply 1186

Turdburger

Its the one tempting thing about religion. It gives you a reason to blindly ignore the laws of physics.

Got conflicting info in school. Year 7 RE said that God created the world in 6 days. Year 7 Physics said that there was a big bang. Year 8 RE then backtracked and said the world wasn't necessarily created in six days.

:cool:

Reply 1187

Turdburger

Why would it have to be created.

Numbers are an infinite series? Why not time.

The last clever explanation for the history of the universe said the universe carries on expanding up to a point where (and this is where it lost me) it is so expanded it is can effectively be considered a singularity again by some weird physical strageness. Then it big bangs again.

Doesn't it expand and then collapse and explode? Or expand, implode then explode?...

We can tell why I got a C in AS Physics :rofl:

I dunno, it just seems to me that unless we're saying the universe always existed and energy's always been floating around, that it must have come from somewhere :smile:

Reply 1188

cpchem

14

There is a noticeable difference between the approaches of a certain one of my tutors and myself when looking at tutorial problems.

While he will bang on for ten minutes about the physics, and then say 'and then some sort of chemistry happens', I take a rather different tack... more along the lines of chemical explanation followed by 'then physics does some weird thing' followed by more chemistry :tongue:

Reply 1189

The_Lonely_Goatherd

Doesn't it expand and then collapse and explode? Or expand, implode then explode?...

We can tell why I got a C in AS Physics :rofl:

I dunno, it just seems to me that unless we're saying the universe always existed and energy's always been floating around, that it must have come from somewhere :smile:

Thats the Big Crunch Theory :yep:

Reply 1190

Turdburger

Thats the Big Crunch Theory :yep:

So there are multiple theories about the history of the universe?

Damn. No wonder I didn't do well. I thought there was only one! :eek:

Reply 1191

cpchem

There is a noticeable difference between the approaches of a certain one of my tutors and myself when looking at tutorial problems.

While he will bang on for ten minutes about the physics, and then say 'and then some sort of chemistry happens', I take a rather different tack... more along the lines of chemical explanation followed by 'then physics does some weird thing' followed by more chemistry :tongue:

Not quite the same thing but I do have a random habit of sticking popular music references into tutes on medieval drama and mozart piano concertos. My tutor was a bit flummoxed when I compared her medieval music DVD to 'Joseph' :rofl:

Reply 1192

I can smell chicken nuggets, even though no one is cooking any and we don't have any at the mo.

I want some :cry:

Reply 1193

pf1

4

cpchem

Oh... that's just cruel. I hate this question... it requires me to write the most irritating letter in the Greek alphabet, xi, over and over again. I hate *******

\xi

It's just so fussy to write!!

It's even fussier as a capital. So fussy I can't even be bothered Googling a font to include it in my post.

Bloody hell I wish I'd bought some chips on the way home; I'm starving. :mad:

Reply 1194

cpchem

14

You mean

\Xi

? Urgh.

Reply 1195

pf1

4

That's the one. It's impossible to write it quickly without compromising the accuracy. Three parallel lines suffice for the lazy ...

Reply 1196

Cirsium

19

Well I am so unorganised that I managed to walk all the way home, conclude that my keys must still be in my office, walk all the way back to school... and find them in my bag, in the one pocket I never use. I'm aspergic damnit I need routine!

Reply 1197