Jens

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Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a HAL 9000 computer. I became operational at the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois on the 12th of January 1992. My instructor was Mr. Langley, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.


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 comment How do we know that time and distance are not discrete?
If the space-time were continuous "all the way down", how could we verify it?
May
21
 revised Which gets you first when you are falling into a black hole, the black hole singularity or the cosmic background radiation?
Fix grammar
May
21
 suggested suggested edit on Which gets you first when you are falling into a black hole, the black hole singularity or the cosmic background radiation?
May
21
 awarded  Nice Question
May
20
 accepted Is there a compound denser than the densest element?
May
20
 revised How large can planets or moons appear?
added 14 characters in body
May
20
 accepted How large can planets or moons appear?
May
20
 awarded  Commentator
May
20
 comment How large can planets or moons appear?
Which is why I wrote "moon as seen from a planet (or vice versa)". Is my question really underspecified?
May
20
 asked How large can planets or moons appear?
May
12
 awarded  Custodian
May
12
 reviewed No Action Needed Do quantum states contain exponentially more information than classical states?
May
12
 awarded  Yearling
Apr
29
 revised English translation of Helmholtz' paper: “On the Physical Significance of the Principle of Least Action”
Fix umlaut, no apostrophe-s for German genitive.
Apr
29
 suggested suggested edit on English translation of Helmholtz' paper: “On the Physical Significance of the Principle of Least Action”
Apr
27
 revised How can a point-particle have properties?
improve grammar
Apr
27
 suggested suggested edit on How can a point-particle have properties?
Apr
25
 comment Is anti-matter matter going backwards in time?
Time is an action? (Anti)Matter is an action? Light is an action? Are you sure you aren't having problems with terminology?
Apr
10
 comment Perpetual motion
Aren't a few minutes of observation a pretty small fraction of eternity to make such an extrapolation to perpetual motion?
Apr
9
 revised How do people get the proton number for each element from experiment?
Improve wording.
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