- No swearing
- No posting anything inappropriate of harmful to anyone
- No posting comments like aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa or bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb or xcvxcvbhgfdxcvbnhgfvbcygbfnxyh
ndxhmshnmvcxbndszgbndgszbn .
Thank you for reading :)
Max
Monday, January 31, 2011
Common sense
During the weekend one of my close friends from my old school found a blog that had a list of enemies. On the list he found me and all my friends from my old school along with some other people from that school (I was absolutely horrified). I don't remember doing anything bad to anyone there but my fellows and I must have done something pretty despicable to have ended up having someone post something on the Internet about us. Luckily my good friends that remained at that school are bit by bit trying to un-mask the list maker.We have not reported the blog YET. No need for comments on this post. So this unfortunate event reminded me to remind you of the rules of the blog. The rules are based on common sense I only have 3 rules
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
This will blow your mind!
| String theory for dummies |
 Chapter one: the particles that make up atoms are made up of puny vibrating stings. Think of a guitar string that has been tuned by stretching the string under tension across the guitar. Depending on how the string is plucked and how much tension is in the string, different musical notes will be created by the string. These musical notes could be said to be excitation modes of that guitar string under tension. In a similar manner, in string theory, the elementary particles we observe in particle accelerators could be thought of as the "musical notes" or excitation modes of elementary strings. In string theory, as in guitar playing, the string must be stretched under tension in order to become excited. However, the strings in string theory are floating in spacetime, they aren't tied down to a guitar. Nonetheless, they have tension. The string tension in string theory is denoted by the quantity 1/(2 p a'), where a' is pronounced "alpha prime"and is equal to the square of the string length scale. If string theory is to be a theory of quantum gravity, then the average size of a string should be somewhere near the length scale of quantum gravity, called the Planck length, which is about 10-33 centimeters, or about a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of a billionth of a centimeter. Unfortunately, this means that strings are way too small to see by current or expected particle physics technology (or financing!!) and so string theorists must devise more clever methods to test the theory than just looking for little strings in particle experiments. String theories are classified according to whether or not the strings are required to be closed loops, and whether or not the particle spectrum includes fermions. In order to include fermions in string theory, there must be a special kind of symmetry called supersymmetry, which means for every boson (particle that transmits a force) there is a corresponding fermion (particle that makes up matter). So supersymmetry relates the particles that transmit forces to the particles that make up matter. Supersymmetric partners to to currently known particles have not been observed in particle experiments, but theorists believe this is because supersymmetric particles are too massive to be detected at current accelerators. Particle accelerators could be on the verge of finding evidence for high energy supersymmetry in the next decade. Evidence for supersymmetry at high energy would be compelling evidence that string theory was a good mathematical model for Nature at the smallest distance scales.
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Monday, January 24, 2011
National squash appreciation day!
Did you know that the 24th of January is national squash appreciation day? Yes isn't that great now we have to bow down to squash... just kidding we just have to appreciate the fact that we have squash because squash is often underappreciated. And the 25th is Australia day!
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
So long and thanks for all the fish (dolphins fly to the moon because Earth is getting destroyed).
This is a great video of the opening credits for the Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy at first the screen is small so don't freak out... Post your comments about it here.
February vacation
Are you excited about February? What will you do during February vacation? If you don't know what do you want to do during February vacation?
Friends
Here you can post comments about who your friends are now especially if you just came into middle school and you don't know anyone. (for the kindness and courtesy of others pleas don't post anything nasty.
Thursday, January 13, 2011
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Hobbys
What do you do as a hobby? I for example collect gemstones, marbles, play with Legos, go boating and carve wood as well as skiing. What do you do?
School
School is not as bad as homework in my opinion... we go there to get good grades for college and we also meet friends there. Share stories or summaries about your school day here...
Homework...
Dancing time
Aidan celebrates dancing time apparently, so I made a post to find out what this is about.
Movies
A sanctum for all your comments about good movies, bad movies, and the more common awful movies.
OMG i have a blog
Ok I have a blog now and this post is so you can tell me what you think... I like having a blog and I think this is going to be so much fun!
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