Photons are little packets of EM energy. The energy of each photon is inversely proportional to it's wavelength.
Naturally, we've moved way past that in the time it took me to type it.
Gunn: We open a can of Machiavelli on his ass. Harmony: It's Matchabelli, Einstein, and it doesn't come in a can.
'Soul Purpose'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
DXMachina - Mar 04, 2005 2:30:18 pm PST #4281 of 10002
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
Lee - Mar 04, 2005 2:30:31 pm PST #4282 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
Aimee, will you go to Mrs Fields and buy me a cookie?
Atropa - Mar 04, 2005 2:31:16 pm PST #4283 of 10002
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
However, I just found them on eBay, once again confirming that ANYTHING is available via eBay.
Girl Scout cookies on eBay?! I cannot begin to wrap my head around that concept.
The cute neighborhood girls who took my order for cookies last month haven't delivered them yet. I hope they do so this weekend, otherwise I'm going to have to figure out which grocery stores will have Girl Scouts in front of them.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 04, 2005 2:31:50 pm PST #4284 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
They have a very tiny mass.
Not really. They have varying energy, which can be converted into mass if the photon interacts with a particle and changes it to a different, more massive particle. But every accepted theory I've read sets the mass of photons at 0, and experimental evidence has verified that even if accepted theories are wrong they would have to have an immeasurably small mass (by current standards, anyway).
There was some interesting hubub some years back about a possible mass measurement for neutrinos, but I haven't heard anything on that subject in quite some time.
§ ita § - Mar 04, 2005 2:32:27 pm PST #4285 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
::eyes Matt's diversity of knowledge suspiciously::
Cashmere - Mar 04, 2005 2:32:41 pm PST #4286 of 10002
Now tagless for your comfort.
We haven't found a girl scout to order off of this year, since I'm not working.
I need to find a sales table at the grocery or something. Thanks to Plei, I'm DYING for a thin mint.
sarameg - Mar 04, 2005 2:36:29 pm PST #4287 of 10002
There is a piece on Punkabilly Pies on the radio right now. I wonder if it still exists. Or if it is fiction.
Kalshane - Mar 04, 2005 2:37:27 pm PST #4288 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why?
Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.
It's the one just before all the glass behind the bar explodes and people go flying, right?
Sometimes.
My friend used it for getting the attention of belligerent drunks who seemed to gravitate towards her front lawn at 3am for some reason. She said it sent them packing really quickly.
Emily - Mar 04, 2005 2:37:57 pm PST #4289 of 10002
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Naturally, we've moved way past that in the time it took me to type it.
Not really. Got any comment on my nuclear explosion question?
ita, I think Matt's diversity of knowledge is getting suspicious. You don't want to upset it.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 04, 2005 2:39:07 pm PST #4290 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
::eyes Matt's diversity of knowledge suspiciously::
Bwah! Thank you, I think. I was a physics geek back in high school. Mind you, I lack the math to really follow the equations on esoteric stuff, but the interest has kept me reading Discover and Scientific American over the intervening years. I'm at that stage where I can translate the layman-y stuff to people without science backgrounds, but I'd be totally lost once anything past pre-calculus is needed.