Brendan Janus
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Groucho's Fact Hunt
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a bell maul
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great band
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
Hitler's nephew, William Stuart-Houston, served in the US navy during the War winning the purple heart. He was born in Toxteth.
summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
It is illegal to fire cannon within 300 yards of a dwelling place (section 55 of The Metropolitan Police Act, 1855). You have been warned.
chrismpw
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Yards? 300 Yards, not metres. Thank God for that.
Black Belt Jones
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Stolen from our kid's science class -
You can measure the speed of light with a microwave and some cheese on toast.
Take out the revolving dish, place the cheese on toast in the microwave (so it doesn't move), and heat it for abar 20 secs.
Take it out and you should see hot spots where the cheese is melting. Measure the distance between two of them and that is approx half the wavelength of the microwave electromagnetic radiation (ie light). The frequency is standard for a given microwave (usually 2.4 GHz), and wavelength x frequency = speed.
You can measure the speed of light with a microwave and some cheese on toast.
Take out the revolving dish, place the cheese on toast in the microwave (so it doesn't move), and heat it for abar 20 secs.
Take it out and you should see hot spots where the cheese is melting. Measure the distance between two of them and that is approx half the wavelength of the microwave electromagnetic radiation (ie light). The frequency is standard for a given microwave (usually 2.4 GHz), and wavelength x frequency = speed.
d34noj
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Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.
That's all I see. Kind of like when my eldest brings his maths work home. Maths shouldn't have letters and squiggles in it. Maths is numbers.
a bell maul
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interesting.
So my cheese hot spots measure 6.25 centimetres apart giving a wavelength of 12.5 centimetres.
12.5 centimetres =0.125 metres
.125 m x 2,400,000,000cycles/s = 300,000,000 m/s (which is indeed the speed of light (c) in a vacuum).
NB : Adjusting for the refractive index of light through air (ie in a microwave oven), would adjust the melted cheese distance down a little bit.
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I concur.
a bell maul
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On consideration, you might say the melted cheese distance indicates the total refraction of the microwave post its exiting the magnetron (ie its deviation from 6.25 centimetres would reflect (pardon the pun) light's/the microwave photon's velocity retardation).
I imagine there's an index for this (the melted cheese index?)
I imagine there's an index for this (the melted cheese index?)
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summerisle
The rain, it raineth every day
There are six million parts, and 171 miles of wiring in the Boeing 747-400. The Wright brother's first flight could have taken place in the economy section.
All bar one of Raymond Chandler's novels were written whe he held British nationality.
Is there nothing Cheese on Toast can't do?