Did I not explain it very well?

On 06/04/2011 22:45, Bill Wright wrote:

Well no, he's a 'glass is half full' type, because he says the ultimate
fate of our universe couldn't get any bleaker. That's looking on the
bright side isn't it? He could have said it could get bleaker...

Suppose after the scenario he envisages takes place the atoms gradually
rearrange themselves into another universe identical to this one, and we
have to go through the whole bloody torment that is life all over again.

I think the nPower helpline has already reached that stage.

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Mark Carver wrote:

I think the nPower helpline has already reached that stage.

Last week it took two phone calls, of 25 and 50 minutes duration
respectively, to make a small alteration to our banking arrangements.

Bill

On Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 at 23:03:05h +0100, Bill Wright explained:

My head gets hot and my feet get cold at the same time.

That is easy to explain.

The heat is just rising through the body from your feet to you head

PS Why do penguins never get cold feet?

On Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 at 22:26:44h +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Time often stops in hospital waiting rooms.

That is a relativistic effect.

Although you may have only been there for a few hours,
time in the rest of the world has advanced days, or
even weeks ...

In message , Derek F
writes
On 25/03/2011 21:46, Ian Field wrote:
"Dave Plowman wrote in message
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wrote:
My great aunt used to believe that if you left an electrical socket
with nothing plugged in the electricity would escape through the holes
and increase the electricity bill.

Think lots still do by all these dummy plugs you see around...


AFAIK those were originally intended to stop kiddies sticking things in the
holes.


They should have had then when I was about four. I stuck scissors in
the holes. There was a flash and a shock went right up my arm.
Derek

When I was about seven, I wanted to know how long it took for the
elements on the electric fire to warm up, so I put my finger on it, and
turned it on.
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In article , Stephen Hughes
wrote:
On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 20:33:06 +0100, Andy Champ wrote:

On 06/04/2011 17:52, J G Miller wrote:

At this point the cosmic background radiation will have cooled to
about 10-13 Kelvin, and most things will be at about that
temperature unless proton decay or some other such process keeps
them warmer.

I seem to have lost your exponent. 10 to the power -13? not somewhere
between 10 and 13?

Wonder how many people here have newsreaders that can handle superscript?
10#¹³

Came out here as 10 followed by a sharp/hash/crunch followed by the
characters for a super 1 and super 3.

In emails and newspostings I've tended to use either 10^13 or 10**13 from
the usages in some computing languages.

Slainte,

Jim

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In article , Derek F wrote:
Think lots still do by all these dummy plugs you see around...


AFAIK those were originally intended to stop kiddies sticking things in the
holes.


They should have had then when I was about four. I stuck scissors in the
holes. There was a flash and a shock went right up my arm.
Derek

Meccano keys in my case, similar age, similar result. Great minds...
I've often wondered about the "flash", which I recall as two visible orange
flames coming from the socket and running up both of my arms. I can't think of
a mechanism that would really cause this from a 250V source, so my best guess
is that it was just childhood synaesthesia making me "see" the sudden pain.

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J G Miller wrote:
On Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 at 22:26:44h +0100, Bill Wright wrote:

Time often stops in hospital waiting rooms.

That is a relativistic effect.

Although you may have only been there for a few hours,
time in the rest of the world has advanced days, or
even weeks ...
No it's the other way round. I am in there for days, suffering
dehydration and malnutrition, yet when I finally escape only three hours
have elapsed.

Bill

On Thu, 07 Apr 2011 09:13:19 +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

In article , Stephen Hughes:

Wonder how many people here have newsreaders that can handle
superscript? 10#¹³

Came out here as 10 followed by a sharp/hash/crunch followed by the
characters for a super 1 and super 3.

In emails and newspostings I've tended to use either 10^13 or 10**13
from the usages in some computing languages.

You didn't get the superscript minus-sign. Your newsreader understands
unicode UTF-8, but presumably remaps it to a character set like
ISO-8859-1 which has superscript numerals 1-3 but not superscript minus.

On Wednesday, April 6th, 2011 at 18:23:40h +0100, Jim Lesurf wrote:

In article , J G Miller
wrote:

which is cold enough for most things to be a solid -- freezing point of
helium is 4.22 kelvins.

Isn't that the boiling point?

Well spotted -- thanks for the correction!

That is indeed the boiling point.

Helium will only freeze at 0.95Â*K (or below) under a pressure of 2.5 MPa.

So this means that even at a temperature of 10^-13 kelvins,
or 10^-30 kelvins, helium would still remain in liquid form
in an end of the universe steady state scenario.