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Reply 1
Hang on, your bored and you want to read about Physics as something to do? MAN YOU MUST BE BORED! lol, anyway if you search forums asking about what books to read you generaly get the same advice, the exact books you will read depends on University and Tutor (as most Tutors like you to read their books) so It is impossible to give a definate answer, best advice, kick back, get drunk and enjoy your free time while you can, but if your getting realy worried then any degree standard Physics book with give you a background knowlage, but nothing in depth enough to help you much with your course.
Reply 2
tktaylor6
hey, starting physics at imperial in october, bored to death of summer, can somebody please name me some books or lead me to some info that might be useful preparing for the physics first year.

I refer you to this thread:
http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/t127889.html
Reply 3
kinda unrelated to the thread but it is a physics-y question!

I didn't want to make a new thread ->here it goes:

What to do you university physicists, in 1 of the worlds most respected institutions for physics, think of the --->

HUTCHISON EFFECT!


danke
Reply 4
One word. Pseudo-Science. Actually, is it actually one word?
Reply 5
Mehh
One word. Pseudo-Science. Actually, is it actually one word?

Yeah, pseudoscience.

As for the Hutchinson effect (*looks it up*) http://www.hutchisoneffect.com/ it seems rather contrived. His site is 5 years out of date and frankly his videos could have been faked. If so many people saw it happen, they would have tried to reproduce it themselves. If it were reproducible by other people, we'd hear a lot more about it.
Reply 6
don't mean to be a conspiricay/pseudo-science junkie; but I have looked it up!

Just wondering what a first yr physicists grads' opinion on such a thing would be!

so do you actually just think its a joke? it's pretty damn cool! (totally submerged in secrecy too!)

>According to him: there have been scientific reconstructions of his experiments!

>5 yrs out of date!?

>forged: my mate said that as well!

danke
Reply 7
You should be more sceptical. If it's a true phenomena I'm sure it would have been found by others. The point is that if it's reproducible, others should be able to reproduce it too. I don't see it as headline news in the NS or SA.
Reply 8
Ok, My head hurts and my temperature has risen a couple of degrees.....I'm outta here.
Reply 9
ok - I know exactly what you mean! And I am a sceptic (loosely speaking)

But surely there are tons of things that never see the light of day!?

I'll take ure advice!

anaways; he has a thing about a zero-point energy battery device thingy that has been funded by conglomorates and studied in japanese universites

Yeah I know -- > sounds ludicrous

trixx
Ok, My head hurts and my temperature has risen a couple of degrees.....I'm outta here.


Am assuming u looked at that website?

Danke for keeping up with this odd off-topic jibber-jabber
Reply 10
Jazzy
ok - I know exactly what you mean! And I am a sceptic (loosely speaking)

But surely there are tons of things that never see the light of day!?

I'll take ure advice!

anaways; he has a thing about a zero-point energy battery device thingy that has been funded by conglomorates and studied in japanese universites

Yeah I know -- > sounds ludicrous



Am assuming u looked at that website?

Danke for keeping up with this odd off-topic jibber-jabber

What do you mean there are 'things that never see the light of day'? Physics isn't about covering up new discoveries; if this were real I'm sure it would be published in an established journal.
As for a 'zero-point energy battery' that's complete BS. You can't access the zp energy.
Reply 11
no convincing you! :biggrin: hey?

anyways;

>yes that possibly is BS

> don't be so naive; surely you can't think that ALL information would be recorded in the concise format that is the NS journal? What about open-mindedness


I got what I came for; the opinion of a physicist ---> would all of have the same response?

danke
Reply 12
Why don't you read the work of some established physicists and then graduate onto the BS once you've got your PhD? The Feynman lectures are a good place to start... :wink:
Reply 13
Ouch.
Reply 14
Tom H
Ouch.

It's good advice Tom!