Intelligence - General knowledge

[size=10]I am young of age, but yet eligible to be on this domain.
Are there any people on here that are intelligent enough to tell me what a hypercube is or quantum mechanics.

I know LITTLE about them, but saying that, I'd like to know more. Anyone want to share there knowledge?

And none of that copy and pasting bullshit from wikipedia.
If this isn't in the right forum, woops.

Better yet. Just post some general knowledge for the sake of everyone...

EDIT: Ignore the science shit above.
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Post reason for requiring of such knowledge.

Post reason for not sharing such knowledge.

Retort: Quantum mechanics aren't really general knowledge, mate. I mean, you can probably get some mainstream facts from the community, and I can argue quantum philosophy and time travel all day, but other then what each member takes a personal interest in, this isn't just the wrong section, but the wrong forum in general.

[size=10]So what your saying is; this SERIOUS and potentially knowledgable thread doesn't belong in the 'Serious descussion' section?
I'm asking people to share cold hard facts. [/h]

I think he's saying that there are very few people, if any, on this site that can share any facts about quantum mechanics.

A hypercube is the higher dimensional equivalent of a cube, in most cases, dimension four. In terms of general knowledge, there isn't a lot else to say about it. Obviously, one can't actually create or view a hypercube, as we don't exist in and can't really visually conceive higher dimensional space. However, the idea is that four dimensional space, for instance, would have at its origin four lines that all intersect at right angles with each other. A four dimensional hypercube, also known as a tesseract, would have corners such that at each corner, 4 rays each go outward such that they all create right angles with one another and any three rays mark the boundaries of a distinct three dimensional space(distinct in that any other three rays will mark the boundaries of a different three dimensional space from any other three rays).

In terms of viewing higher dimensional objects, they can be projected from R^N space to R^(N-1) space by means of a Schlegel diagram. To understand more about these, you would have to familiarize yourself with perspective and stereographic projections. However, here is a picture of the result of projecting a four dimensional hypercube into three dimensional space.

Whoa whoa bro.
Can't understand all that shit.

General knowledge would be about:
Society, Politics, History, World Events, Et cetera.
Fakku users just happen to be geniuses, smartasses, and retards all at the same time.
Its all right if you don't know what people are saying. In the world, there will always be people who know more then you.

It would take pages to explain quantum mechanics to you. You need a good understanding of lesser physics to grasp all the concepts.

Show off...

Since that was taken. In a nutshell quantum mechanics are the rules that subatomic particles such as electrons, protons, quarks and possibly even smaller particles we haven't discovered yet (since last time I checked quarks were still theoretical.

Can I begin to explain it in more detail? Probably not. I'm going for political scientist, I know it has scientist in the name but, its not the same.

For all to read: It doesn't have to be about quantum mechanics or anything science based. Just post some god damn general facts. About ANYTHING.

[size=10]Thanks Whitelion, enjoyed reading that. Though I knew quite a bit of it, it still refreshed my mind.[/h]

Hmm...general facts, huh? It's physically possible to actually end up in another planet before you know it.

Here is a general fact; 10 point font is hard to read early in the morning.

[size=10]Wow. You all seem to have a problem with my font size. Fuck.
I'm not changing it. Use your fucking eyes, it doesn't matter how big it is.
Trolls. Smoke my pole pl0x.[/h]

[size=10]I'm just joking, geez.[/h]

Fact:
There's no sound in space.

Fact: Due to the unknown methods by which our mind operates, a fact is not necessarily true only a widely accpeted percetion of a given thing in a given situation.

Oh and 9 out of 10 scottish women have one leg shorter then the other :)

You sound like a trap to me, I'm a bit boyish on mentality. But at least I can potentially help a young bastard.

If you want knowledge, I suggest for a minor(sure?), it's good to know basic human values so you'll know what to go for or what to avoid, they're not that I'm so good with it, but I'm open for it. Probably, the best teachers for them is religion, parents and self. Even feelings, sometimes, what's important is just what makes you feel better.

Then study what had power, it seems to be doubted as evil but some video games call it's neutral. I'm hardly even begin it although I'm already in early 20's but though I think kids should know much it already. It's to have more control to get the "what to go for" and evade "what to avoid", there's even what you don't have to pay attention at.

One of the sources available for knowledge closest available is your own sense and logic. I seem stupid for suggesting something too common but because I think some people avoid it. I think you being open for knowledge is intelligence. I suggest that logic means, what you use to simulate things on your mind.

Advanced Science, they're better to master later... I don't wanna be knowledged at a science but is a sucker. You might end up as someones tool with money not knowing what's important to you.

As such, basic human values, something I ignored, social charisma since I deemed it as for the weak but I think everyone normally needs it as I'd like a person who's fine mannered won't I? Y'know, charisma is about attractiveness, physical beauty is just one of its categories. It worked so much as, if this site's design was fucked up, I wouldn't have even try forums here.

A railgun is a purely electrical gun that accelerates a conductive projectile along a pair of metal rails using the same principles as the homopolar motor. Railguns use two sliding or rolling contacts that permit a large electrical current to pass through the projectile. This current interacts with the strong magnetic fields generated by the rails and this accelerates the projectile.

[spoilSchematic diagram of a railgun-

It can be shown from the Biot-Savart law that the magnetic field a distance s from a semi-infinite current-carrying wire is given by:



So, in the space between two semi-infinite wires, the magnitude of the field is:



To obtain the average magnetic field in the space between the two wires, we assume that r is small compared with d and compute the following integral:



By the Lorentz force law, the magnetic force on a current-carrying wire is given by IdB, so since the width of the conductive projectile is d, we have



The formula is based on the assumption that the distance (l) between the point where the force (F) is measured and the beginning of the rails is greater than the separation of the rails (d) by a factor of about 3 or 4 (l > 3d). Some other simplifying assumptions have also been made; to describe the force more accurately, the geometry of the rails and the projectile must be taken into consideration.

EASY DEFINITION- BAD ASS ELECTRICAL GUN!

So, while knowledge posted in this thread might be technical, this probably belongs in Random if it is just going to be a collection of whatever facts or theories people decide to post on a whim. If there are specific topics for which there is demand for a serious discussion, fine, but it seems like people will be more inclined to list intriguing facts or bring over info from wikipedia. I have nothing against curious facts, they can be interesting, I just don't think they constitute a serious topic.