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Romance › Re: How Ladies Push Their Man Away Unknowingly by paranorman(m): 10:36pm On Sep 20, 2015
[quote author=Mzflexydeeva post=38211704][/quote]I like your facial expresions on your P photo... Hehehehhe
Science/Technology › Re: Playstation 4 Is Getting A Price Cut In Japan by paranorman(m): 11:48am On Sep 16, 2015
I love that game console!
Science/Technology › Re: Iphone 7 Speculated Release Date by paranorman(m): 11:45am On Sep 16, 2015
Universal sim card caught my attention.
Politics › Re: North Korea Warns Nigeria Against Encouraging Material Inciting Assasination by paranorman(m): 7:15pm On Sep 14, 2015
All these nonsense wil stop when Christ begin to reign..
Repent for the kingdom of God is at hand!
Politics › Re: Buhari Inspecting Guard Of Honour In France by paranorman(m): 7:07pm On Sep 14, 2015
bigwind:
This man look like wong fei Hong in Once upon a time in China and America
hahahahahahaha!
You still remember that movie?! Cousin Yeeeeeee....!
I love the combact scenes in that movie..
I even downloaded its theme song!
Pets › Re: Help! My Dog Acting Wired by paranorman(m): 11:15am On Sep 12, 2015
Coldplay007:
Lol.. it's not weird.. Dogs bury food to keep.. haven't u ever heard of dogs burying bones before?
Next time, post in pets section..
coldplay?
Politics › Re: FG Responds To JP Morgan Delisting Of Nigeria From Bond Index by paranorman(m): 12:17pm On Sep 09, 2015
I am with the central bank on this. Protect our interest first, every other thing follows.
We are one strong nation, we will survive. There's light at the end of the tunnel. If light no dey there, we go hold touch-light.
Celebrities › Re: Famous Unseen Cartoon Characters Have Their Faces Revealed by paranorman(m):
Hehehehe. Cow and Chicken's parents and Ed's brother steals the show for me. I just love Ed, Edd and Eddy!
Events › Re: Singles Please Select Your Wedding Prefarable Style, Don Be Shy (see Pictures) by paranorman(m): 2:32pm On Sep 05, 2015
The bicycle
Science/Technology › Re: It Is Official: Apple Releases Ios 9 by paranorman(m): 2:45pm On Aug 29, 2015
I just don't fancy Apple. Mabe cause I am too tied to MS.
I got some ideas to help MS get its grip on the mobile platform world.
MS should contact me.
Science/Technology › Re: Meet The World’s Hottest Hacker (photos) by paranorman(m): 2:37pm On Aug 29, 2015
High tech facility? Maybe she has her own def of high tech.
Al she got is her chest and that's what she got to leverage.
High tech facilities will scan her life, future and after life self.
Science/Technology › Re: Six Weird Things About The Human Brain by paranorman(m): 2:32pm On Aug 29, 2015
The only thing that makes humans unique is their brain nd mind. Compared to other animals, we have limitations.
Science/Technology › Re: Does Electricity Works In A Vacuum? by paranorman(m): 11:31am On Aug 26, 2015
Teempakguy:
bonding is the key. Covalent bonds, ionic bonds . . .
Imagine two people. Name them A and B
A has a basketball. B wants to touch the basketball. A can say, well okay, have it. In which case, of a random basket ball came out of nowhere, he would be able to catch it because his hands are free. But if A said, no bloody way. I can't survive without touching my basket ball. So, you can touch it. But I also have to touch it. So, now, both A and B are clutching on basket ball. If a random basket ball should come flying, none of them would be able to catch it. In the atomic world, A and B are atoms. The basketball is an electron. The part where A completely surrenders the ball is called ionic bonding. The other scenario is called covalent.

One thing you need to understand about the atomic world is that there is no propulsion system. The electron doesn't have muscles, or rocket boots, and we know that motion is caused by force, right? So . . . where do we get these forces? Forces that can make the electron move. Well, you would need something like a small magnet . . . I don't know, a "charge" maybe? grin
Yes, a charge does the trick. But alas, normal atoms have no charge! Because their protons are balanced with their electrons. But what happens when you remove or add electrons? Yay! Force achieved. The electron jumps from it's initial position to where the charge is! But in a case where the atom doesn't want to surrender any atoms or even gain. huh No charge. No motion.

Now, in a wire, an electron jumps from atom to atom, creating a net charge. But not all is easy. Instead of the electron to proceed as planned, it sometimes hits other atoms, other electrons, and some other subatomic particles.(I can't say)
It would be best to just place the final atom and the initial atom ONLY in a vacuum, and then the electron would just jump straight to it. But in a wire, you have like billions of atoms between atom A and B. Eventually, they help, but they also don't . . . in a way. huh
And that's the basic concept of resistance. How many neutral atoms the electron will hit, slowing it's speed, destroying it, sending it back and so on . . .

Semiconductors are actually insulators, but they can be doped with conductors to make them do all sort of cool tricks. For instance, they can make sure once an electron leaves an atom, it NEVER goes back. angry
They can also make electrons go faster/in larger numbers. Think of them as streets with traffic signs. cool
honestly, I know some these things you wrote up here, I just love to statisfy my curiosity. I Love thhe way you explain thaings.

I learned a thing or two, thanks.

Wel, as a matter of discusion, I suppose the energy needed to exite the electron(s) got to be absorbed from a source, say Light, heat or so.
Einstein really redefined physics.
God bless his memory!
I need more explanation on this semiconductor thing.
Science/Technology › Re: Does Electricity Works In A Vacuum? by paranorman(m): 7:57am On Aug 26, 2015
Teempakguy:
in Lightning, electrons take the path with the least resistance. Which means that some parts of the atmosphere have more resistance than other parts. The light is produced by photon emission which occurs when the electrons hit some atoms, exciting them.

Current and static electricity are just manifestations of a more fundamental force. The electromagnetic force. This is one of the forces that hold the atom together. Take an electron. This is the unit of electricity. When you strip an election from it's atom, it optimizes it's motion. Jumping from atom to atom. Through the vaccums between those atoms but first, something has to attract it. It's that attraction that enable the electron to even move. And when there is no attraction, the electron wouldn't be able to even move. That's one of the differences between conductors and resistors.

In a complete vaccum, provided enough attraction is provided, an electron will travel several meters from one place to another at almost the speed of light.

It can do this because electricity is a product of particle movement. The units of electricty have mass and can therefore move in vacuums. Compared with sound, sound is the product of particle vibration. So, you need particles to be lined up between A and B so they can transfer sound from A to B. But electricity, you need just one particle to move from A to B.

You grab my drift?
i get it now. It's about the force.
F=ma.

So, what really is resistance? I mean why are the atoms of resistive elements stingy?

What are semi-conductors and what makes them special?
Science/Technology › Re: Does Electricity Works In A Vacuum? by paranorman(m): 6:53pm On Aug 25, 2015
Teempakguy:
Lolz. grin
The conductor is actually a resistor. Blocking the flow of electricity. It's just that it's so lowly resistive, compared to everything else, that in the end, electricity would rather travel within it than in the surroundings. That's why semiconductors work. They provide just enough resistivity in and fluctuations to make sure the electricity is guided to produce work.
then explain what happens durring lightening. The ions react and produce flashes, which I suppose is electricity.
We got static electricity where we have ions sitting idly, doing no work. In lay language, when ions reach it produces energy and when set on motion produces it becomes current.

What then is electricity? I suppose this is when the + and - charged particles workout and produces current na.
Science/Technology › Re: Does Electricity Works In A Vacuum? by paranorman(m): 3:55pm On Aug 25, 2015
Teempakguy:
electricity is it's own medium. Once converted to the right form (electron beam) it can transverse a vacuum. This is a technical question,
wow, I never knew. I ain't physicist anyway.
But wait, isn't the conductor of electricity the same medium?
Science/Technology › Re: Does Electricity Works In A Vacuum? by paranorman(m): 12:36pm On Aug 25, 2015
Electricity needs a medium to flow na
Technology Market › Re: Microsoft Office 2016 To Launch On 22 September by paranorman(m): 12:32pm On Aug 25, 2015
Great news, questionable source.
Science/Technology › Re: New Brain-inspired Chip Can Perform 46 BILLION Synaptic Operations Per Second by paranorman(m): 7:40pm On Aug 22, 2015
Good Ol' IBM.
Amazing!
Intel and AMD had better gear up.
European Football (EPL, UEFA, La Liga) › Re: Categories Of EPL Fans In Nigeria by paranorman(m): 10:52am On Aug 08, 2015
You forgot the classic supporters. We never stop, we never quit, we never stop believing, we never change..!

We are Manchester United, we are the EPL.. We are the elites.. We are the best.. We are the reason football is alive.. We are competition.. We are the greats.. We are United.. We are the best.. Viva Manchester, viva United..
There are only two competitors on England: Manchester United, then the others!

All hail Manchester United.. Glory, honour, glory..
M.A.N.C.H.E.S.T.E.R. U.N.I.T.E.D.
Science/Technology › Re: Bizarre!!!:odd Animal Behaviors You Might Not Be Aware Exist by paranorman(m): 3:24pm On Aug 07, 2015
Amazing..!
Science/Technology › Re: Is Time Machine Possible? by paranorman(m): 7:33pm On Aug 04, 2015
Hehehehe.. This is why I love science!

You wanna travel to the future or past?!
Pause.. Think deep.. Wait a sec..
Again I ask, do you know the meaning of 'travelling'(in the context of human resoning)?
Do you really understand what 'time' means(same context of human reasoniing)?

Time. Time. Time!

Even is you move at a speed twice that of light, you cannot travel to the future or past, certainly not in our dimension of time and space.

time is ultimate. The scientific equations are not enough, not even close to give us a clue.
Our dimension has limits and we that live in such dimension commot exceeds its 'barriers'.
To time travel, we will have to live another dimension and exist in a unique state..
Funny how we human-beings try to substantiate/quantify all things realtive to our understanding to ease up measurement. We forget the 'quality' of existence.
All equations, computations, e.t.c are all based on 'quatity'.

We left out 'quality' but its not our fault, we still have limited knowledge, we might not get there.

Human has always been susceptible to errros since time immemorial. No wonder we have error analysis/management/reduction. So I ask, what if all knowledge if science we have is just a specsky little insignificant something compared to the main things?
What if we have errors in our error analysis? Hehehehe.
You create a code, it has a bug. You never knew. You discovered it, fixed. Then rediscover another bug. The process continues and you never got rid of them bugs. But the code does what you programme it to do.

What if all our scientific equations all have bugs? Hehehe.. Though, we get the results from them in applications. Error, error, error.
Pity mankind.
To time travel, perfection is non-negotiable.

I wanna ask a question: can something be created out of nothing?

Which leads to the second question

How was light created?
We all have estimate of earth's age. Read lots of amazing arguments/hypotheses about the creation of the universe. Even computer simulations have bn created. Everything has a beginning(in human logic), doesn't it? Can something be created out of nothing?
Computers › Re: Please Some Should Help...!!!! by paranorman(m): 7:36pm On Aug 02, 2015
Before you get help, specification/model of the PC is needed.
Science/Technology › Re: Whatsapp & Facebook Already Shaking As Yahoo Introduces Its New Messaging App. by paranorman(m): 12:41pm On Aug 02, 2015
I had to read this writeup twice to really get it.
Okay, 'videos are better at showing emotions than audio'.
I send a vid of me frowing to my friend, he sends a vid of him laughing hard.., no auds, just acts.
It's interesting in a different way.
Science/Technology › Re: Windows 10 Is Spying On Almost Everything You Do – Here’s How To Opt Out by paranorman(m): 12:35pm On Aug 02, 2015
No wonder they say ignorance is no excuse!
TV/Movies › Re: My Top 20 Movies For 2015 So Far by paranorman(m): 8:22am On Jul 31, 2015
Chai! I am so 1956. Only read about one of these movies..
I haf mizzed oh.
TV/Movies › Re: My Top 20 Movies For 2015 So Far by paranorman(m): 8:16am On Jul 31, 2015
Chai! I am so 1956. Only read about one of these movies..
I haf mizzed oh.
Science/Technology › Re: No Waiting, Upgrade To Windows 10 Now by paranorman(m): 10:24am On Jul 30, 2015
DavidGodwin:
Wetin be ur data carrier?
glo..! Network is slower than slow..
Science/Technology › Re: No Waiting, Upgrade To Windows 10 Now by paranorman(m): 8:13am On Jul 30, 2015
DavidGodwin:
Bros na how many MB
nothing less than 3gig

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