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- Unr3a1, on 01/07/2008, -0/+32"During the initial construction stage, the two graduate students would often spend all day in the pit, sautering wires, attaching sensors and assembling small parts."
LMAO I think they mean soldering wires. - Schneckehaus, on 01/07/2008, -0/+18Fascinating for nerds like myself, but the article doesn't really explain what that means, so I get the impression a lot of people are gonna scratch their heads when they read that. Seems like it could use better writing.
- briguymaine, on 01/07/2008, -1/+171. chop up wire into 1 inch lengths.
2. melt butter in a pan.
3. add chopped wires to melted butter.
4. saute until golden brown.
I love sautered wires, mmm... - LaGStAr, on 01/07/2008, -2/+18Thats exactly what I was thinking... o_O
- spidrw, on 01/07/2008, -1/+17At least she mentioned that they 'sauter' stuff.
I thought every newspaper had at least one editor... - jskistud7, on 01/07/2008, -2/+17This is actually really interesting stuff. Measuring their accelerations to 15 decimals is a huge step forward. They could probably use this data to get a much more accurate value for G.
- Slimer, on 01/07/2008, -2/+16I'll play troll. they probably could get a more precise value of G, because of the excessive amount of decimal places, but to the acceleration, g, is a step away from the gravitational constant G. Unlike the cavendesh [sp] torsion measurement it's not a direct measurement as it still requires calculation of the quantity M/R^2.
So the accuracy which is the error bounds on the measurement would still probably be quite high. - dotorg, on 01/07/2008, -1/+15I have the same problem with my girlfriends' mystery pit.
- mgood16, on 01/07/2008, -0/+9"sautering wires" ... Is that kind of like soldering wires? Hahaha
- gotterdammerung, on 01/07/2008, -0/+9I figured she meant "solder." Unless these physicists are somewhat devout, and read Pslams in the mystery pit.
- doctechnical, on 01/07/2008, -1/+8Alas, proofreaders have been replaced by spell- and grammar-checkers.
To the detriment of writing style everywhere. It's a pity. - chewyrunt, on 01/07/2008, -1/+7Spell-checkers will catch typos, but not ignorance.
- mikoss, on 01/07/2008, -2/+8we pronounce it 'saw-ter-ring' but I've never heard anyone pronounce it 'sordering'
how do you pronounce it? 'sol-der-ring?' never heard anyone pronounce it how it's spelled :P - ayeroxor, on 01/07/2008, -1/+7That's what we used to call your wife.
- doctechnical, on 01/07/2008, -0/+6Oh man, now *I* want a Mystery Pit!
I think they had one at the old Shady Lake amusement park... - ilves7, on 01/07/2008, -0/+5being located next to a first class university sadly does not reflect any type of intelligence upon the general population
- 0ceanic, on 01/07/2008, -0/+5jesus, at that precision the time of the day and the time of the month will both have an effect.
- benbos, on 01/07/2008, -0/+4No pun intended? I'll bet he sat there for half an hour trying to think of something for a soundbite.
- chewyrunt, on 01/07/2008, -0/+4can't find 'sauter' in any dictionary - can you cite?
- knight666, on 01/07/2008, -0/+4The answer is, ofcourse, "Yes, but only in a vacuum".
Which we've known since Galileo. - garryw, on 01/07/2008, -0/+4I think his ideas were proved at the end of WWII. Ask Japan what they think of e=mc^2
Ask XEROX what they think of the photoelectric effect.
It's all been proven - benjorino, on 01/07/2008, -0/+4it became science when it was tested and the results agreed with prediction.
- cambob76, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3Where I'm from, we spell it soldering, but pronounce it like sautering. I don't get it either.
- Jon211, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3In principle yes, but you could only use feathers and bowling balls in a perfect vacuum because of the differences in air resistance between the two.
- wbtn, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3I predict a "Einstein was right" story on the front page soon.
- skabyss, on 01/07/2008, -1/+4It puts the lotion on it's skin.
- andyd273, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3Hmm, ok, I'll bite.
Google does return results. Guess I'll have to read up on it after work. - brian6String, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalence_principle
- Campog, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3Not funny anymore.
- inactive, on 01/07/2008, -3/+6I like how they test a theory by using something they have no knowledge of.
"According to lore, it was built during the 1960s for space gravity research, Kasevich said. Meanwhile, Hogan said he had heard rumors about it being used to monitor the magnetic fields of heartbeats emitted by dogs."
Oh look, a random object, I'll use that to prove that black holes are just electrical outlets for galactic giants. - chewyrunt, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3Pronunciation is immaterial; this kind of error can only arise from a combination of ignorance (of both English and engineering) and ignoring the plaintive wail of one's spell checker (thought if one was used I'm guessing it suggested something even more wrong, such as "sauntering").
- mattmollysdad, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3I heard that Jimmy H. is down there drawing up next seasons plays.
- GOVStooge, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3This is not Einstein's equivalence principle described by relativity. This is testing Galileo's assertion. Einstein's principle states that an object falling in a gravitational field, like the Earth's (1g), is equivalent to as the an object at rest in an accelerating reference frame, like a space ship accelerating at 1g. It is far more encompassing than the simple "everything falls at he same acceleration on the earth."
- ajb312, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3But the mass of the earth does not.
- ninxmz, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3gtfo
- inobla, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5_dOEyAfk
- legendxx, on 01/07/2008, -1/+4Yeah, I'm sure digg commenters really strike at the core of these leading-edge scientists.
- tekrat, on 01/07/2008, -1/+4"According to lore, it was built during the 1960s for space gravity research, Kasevich said. Meanwhile, Hogan said he had heard rumors about it being used to monitor the magnetic fields of heartbeats emitted by dogs."
I have actually heard rumors on this pit. The greatest/craziest ones I've heard is about this is this is actually a sarcophagus for a 'Reptoid' leader. The leader was reanimated once or twice a year to review the status of the progress of controlling the environment to make it more suitable for its people.
The Reptoid's followers are actually hybrids of Atlantians and Retoids which serve their master out of a genetically programmed loyalty. Of course those hybrids are actually the royal bloodline, including Bush, Cheney, and Kerry. The reason the pit was dug was because the original tunnel has collapsed and they needed tighter security on who could see their master. This is also why so many of the same leaders gather at Stanford at the same time. Also the physics building was placed there to cover any radiation generated in the re-animation process.
If you want to go all the way to crazyville lookup “The Secrets of Thoth” and “The Keys of Enoch” - MindStalker, on 01/07/2008, -2/+5Assuming it turns out that the small atoms fall at a rate exactly the same as larger atoms (exactly to every single digit, 15 or 20) then the mass reliably cancels out in the equation.
- doctechnical, on 01/07/2008, -0/+3Sometimes science involves digging holes. I can't all be the glamor of Tesla coils and Geiger-Mueller tubes.
- Matteos, on 01/07/2008, -1/+4"Was" a science and tech website.
/cries in corner. - inactive, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2Human interest story != science journal. Did you also catch the "degrees Kelvin" reference?
- thanakar, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2A spell checker would not have wailed, sauter IS a word. This error is 100% ignorance.
- Neiby, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2I pronounce linux as lin-ux, which happens to be exactly how I would pronounce lynn-ex. Now, if you had written line-ex or line-ux, that's a different story.
- benjorino, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2He means G not g. the two are different.
[Although his comment may actually make more sense if he did mean g... hmm...] - ObeseSnake, on 01/07/2008, -1/+3sautering? Really? Kind of discredits the reporter's article for me. Must have been a phoned in interview.
- mahdaeng, on 01/07/2008, -0/+2Yeah, I bit, too, out of curiosity. I took a look at the first link:
http://www.lightparty.com/Spirituality/ThothEnoch. ...
Hmmm...if only they could remove all the spelling errors, historical mistakes, and cultural inaccuracies, they just might be on to something. /sarcasm
BTW, Quetzalcoatl was not worshiped by the Maya. He was worshiped by the Aztecs. "Queztalcoatl" is a Nahuatl word, after all, not Quiche or any other Maya dialect. A corresponding deity was worshiped by the Maya, but was called "Kulkulcan" or "Gucumatz".
Oh, and I suppose our friends at lightparty.com would like us to suspect that George Lucas was inspired by the ancient "Jedai". - banq59, on 01/07/2008, -2/+4It is just a deep pit. No one can remember why it was built is all. They are just using the space with their own equipment.
- GOVStooge, on 01/07/2008, -1/+3The theory of relativity was always completely science.
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