Cleaning beakers for scientists doesn't make you one of them, STM.

It so does. But I burnt lithium toooo! Like a boss.

Also, about your video.

Ye ol' Hadron Collider or w/e the fuck it is, are they still using it? There was some big shit going on a few years back about it being activated and now there's nothing about it at all.

Perhaps Switzerland is gone.

A black hole enveloped Switzerland, it's why they have such a strong currency. It's running at half power and they are charging it up to full power for 2014. Apparently it will take a few years to find enough evidence for the Higgs Boson.

Switzerland is a bit of a useless country, anywho.

Historically its very important, it's also good for proper human rights.

It's good for cheese, too.

But let's not talk about Scissorland anymore, but the massive god-damn fucking hadron colliding end-of-world doom machine.

Seriously, why the fuck would anyone in the right mind want to replicate the big bang, when people assume it's like the city-smashers dropped on Japan times a fucking billion. Then, take that percentage and multiply it by infinity.

Those Swiss are hardcore menz

Dixy...I think you need to go and look at what they're trying to do, then remove the scaremongering factor that The Daily Mail tried to implement in your mind.

Yes, but they painted it to be exciting.

I'm not having my excitement destroyed by understanding it's benefit.

(For the record, I read the Derry Journal).

I no not whether the Derry Journal is as crazed as the DM.

It wasn't as crazed as the News of the World.

OAH!!

Fuck double posting.

New planet recently discovered.

Lol that's old news. Yep, can you feel that? That's me reaching into your pocket and picking the thunder from it.

The story was published on that site not so long ago, so was I meant to know it was old news?

And that's not thunder. It's my dick.

I mean people have been finding binary systems for a hundred years.

And that explains why it's all old and shrivelled up, thunder is a lot more substantial. You're losing your touch, and damn it you keep leaving the dungeon doors open.

It's a binary system with a planet, which until recently many astronomers thought might be impossible. Can you feel that? That's me punching you in the vocal cords so that you lose the ability to be patronising to people less ignorant than yourself.

does light pass through objects to some extent?

it clearly passes through stuff like glass. water and certain plastic but does it pass through non transparant material but just get weaker when it does so it's not noticeable? it at least passes through eylids cause when I look at a light source with my eys shut it's brighter than when I have my eys shut in dark, also I can block the light with my hand and it get's dimmer, I'm just wondering if it passes through everything but gets degraded alot more with other objects

To an extent, yes. It's a very small extent.

It also depends what you refer to as 'light'. Electro magnetic radiation in general does pass through matter to a greater or lesser extent. X-Rays wouldn't work otherwise. The smaller the wavelength, the more likely it is to pass between the atoms in the material without hitting them and being absorbed or bounced back.

Ouch, you angry person Nate!

Not angry. Just tired of you being patronising to people who know what they're talking about.

For all he knew, it might have been old news and that site only recently discovered it.

But then you said it's the first binary system with a planet, then STM was a zombie.

Are you sure that's how it works, by that logic wouldn't that mean any material that isn't soundproof is somewhat translucent? That would also mean that radio waves (that can be metres long)can't travel through, well anything.

Of course I'm probably just saying something stupid.

It's time someone taught you the meaning of a joke Nate. I mean, you can't physically steal someone's thunder, nor can you put thunder in someone's pocket. Furthermore, it is a very rare occasion that I am patronising because I can ill afford to be. In all fairness I could say the same to you I'm sure.

STM also can't physically touch my penis.

To do so would cause him to explode in a hail of confetti and glitter.

It would just be that good. And that's scientific fact.

lol

That's not patronising, it's just being sarcasm.

They're not mutually exclusive, you know.

The whole 'stealing thunder' thing isn't what made your comment patronising. It was that you attempted to correct someone else whilst mocking them. Even if you had had your facts straight it would have been patronising, but the fact that you were full of shit just made it worse.


As for the first point, I don't know why you mentioned sound; they operate on very different principles. As for light, most materials that we come in contact on a daily basis are dense enough to block all visible light (by which I'm refering to the photons that have wavelengths in a certain spectrum) but would be transparent to gamma rays and x-rays, to a certain depth. I'm working from memories that are a decade old, so excuse a little fuzziness on the details, but I think it has to do with more than just the density though. It also depends on what the material is and what its crystalline structure is.

As for radio waves, they actually do get blocked quite easily. The plus side of long wavelengths is that they bounce easily and spread out quickly (like the light beam from a torch that widens as it is emitted), so if there's a narrow gap for them to enter a building (say, through a window), they'll quickly spread out to fill the whole room.

Understatement.