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Msgr MΩment classic ☑️'s avatar

You're thinking of <i>I Sing the Body Electric</i>.

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Msgr MΩment classic ☑️'s avatar

The coolest thing about magnetism is that it's a relativistic effect, the only one that you see every day. Currents in a wire produce magnetic fields, which exert a force on moving charges outside the wire. But what if you look at things from the electron's point of view? No current, therefore no magnetic field, and yet the "moving charge" still moves. It's the coolest thing I get to teach. No lie.

< shoves glasses back up his nose >

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Msgr MΩment classic ☑️'s avatar

<i>Once you go black....</i>

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Msgr MΩment classic ☑️'s avatar

BenFRANKLINghazi!!

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Msgr MΩment classic ☑️'s avatar

IK,R? I had been teaching college physics about eight years when I first had to teach E&M (out of Purcell) and saw it for the first time. Same reaction.

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No love? Hell, a share an inertial reference frame with those little buggers.

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PubOption's avatar

The people in the outpost could request help by means of electromagnetic waves (radio). If we could have arranged for a plane to get to Benghazi from Italy at the same speed as the electromagnetic waves were travelling, the Jihadis could have been thwarted.

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Outside of my specialty, so I just looked it up at <a href="http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php\?term=peeballs" target="_blank">urbandictionary</a>.

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Zippy W. Pinhead's avatar

according to Bing and Bob anyways

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bobbert's avatar

Do Androids Dream of Electric Dildos?

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bobbert's avatar

If only we had MOIP (Marines over IP).

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bobbert's avatar

For some value of "would have to".

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bobbert's avatar

If Tyson could <i>explain</i> dark energy, he wouldn't have to be on the cheesy Fox Network.

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bobbert's avatar

Can you libel something that doesn't exist?

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