Jay-qu Posted March 30, 2007 Report Posted March 30, 2007 This thread is for all those questions you may have that you dont think warrents starting a whole thread on :) I will start, I have 2 that came up today that are kind of bugging me: 1. Why is the Russian Orthodox Easter on a different date to other 'Easters' (note that it actually isnt this year..) The second elludes me at the time of posting, and I have to run off to class - ill have to get back to you :hyper: J Quote
Buffy Posted March 30, 2007 Report Posted March 30, 2007 Quick Question: How do you know if a question is quick? Look, up in the sky, :PBuffy Quote
Jay-qu Posted March 31, 2007 Author Report Posted March 31, 2007 good question! Perhaps one that has a non-debatable answer and can be answered in just a few short lines. :shrug: Quote
Boerseun Posted March 31, 2007 Report Posted March 31, 2007 If the 'shortness' of question is determined by the ratio of the number of words that framed it, and the length of the answer, the the winner must surely be: "Why?" This question has held Man enthralled for centuries, and is solely responsible for the vast field of study we know as 'Philosophy'. Philosophers have been debating it since the time of the ancient Greeks, and for shortness, the best, most concise answer they could come up with turned out to be "Why not?". It can be said that the philosophers have been wasting their time. Seeing as philosophical studies were exclusively the realm of men, they never thought of asking any female for her insights, because as any mother will tell you, the best answer (if shortness is the determining factor) is "Because". But if brevity of the question is the matter at hand, "Why" have been superceded millennia ago in terms of the amount of letters framing the question. It was when Grog, a caveman, returning from a hard day of clubbing Neanderthals to death, lay back on a log and looked up at the night sky. He was considering the moon, the stars, the vastness and age of the universe, the elegant beauty of thermonuclear reactions firing the hearts of suns many light years away, when he single-handedly founded the whole field of philosophy and human enquiry in general, pre-dating the Greeks by tens of thousands of years, when he uttered that one magic syllable: "Ug?" Quote
Guest chendoh Posted March 31, 2007 Report Posted March 31, 2007 Jay-qu...the Easters of any of our groups is based on the caledars that we; (our groups) follow. Please read my 'new sig.' Quote
Jay-qu Posted April 1, 2007 Author Report Posted April 1, 2007 But thats not correct - the common date (afaik) is next sunday - it is the first sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox. But its not that date for all religions Quote
Guest chendoh Posted April 1, 2007 Report Posted April 1, 2007 And that is just one set of timings that pertain to my family, and it sounds like it to yours.........The Russian Orthodox have a compleatly different starting point, as does the Jewish Faith, Muslim, Budda, and a host of others. And as you suggest Astronomy, has a hand in it. What seems important is that we all seem to agree within a month or twoLent = 40?Ramadon = 30?Hanuka = 8to12?Buddhism = ?? I need to brush up. But again, with different starting points. Quote
Jay-qu Posted June 24, 2007 Author Report Posted June 24, 2007 Ok another question, would the discreet nature of photons limit the shortest pulse of light that can be emitted from a source? Theorectically it would be possible to let off just 1 set (or one) photon, Or would light behave as a wave in this situation? Quote
Boerseun Posted June 24, 2007 Report Posted June 24, 2007 I suppose it would be a wave. It would proceed from there not being a photon, to there being a photon, to there not being a photon again. It should be describable as a simple sine wave. In other words, I guess the smallest 'amount' of light that can be sent, would be either a single photon, or one full oscillation of the wave, depending what you're testing for! Quote
New-ideas Posted June 24, 2007 Report Posted June 24, 2007 Im new to this forum, so I was wondering, how does rep work, and hwta are those little blue bars under every users name? Quote
InfiniteNow Posted June 24, 2007 Report Posted June 24, 2007 Im new to this forum, so I was wondering, how does rep work, and hwta are those little blue bars under every users name? Hi New-ideas, You might find assistance in the below two threads, which themselves can be found in the "Tutorials and How-to's Forum." http://hypography.com/forums/tutorials-how-tos/7215-reputation.htmlhttp://hypography.com/forums/tutorials-how-tos/2278-understanding-user-levels.html :):) Quote
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