don't expect to make money from school projects; do something stupid and dismissible instead

At 7/18/09 05:00 PM, Toast wrote: I have a question that's been eating my mind. When you shine a light on a window, part of the light will be reflected back to you, which shows a faint reflection of the inside on the glass, and part of the light continues outside through the window which is why someone standing outside the house can see what's happening inside through the windows. Now that's easily understandable if you think of light as waves, but the strangest thing is that it's made of particles (photons), and that some of them are reflected not when they reach the end of the window, but on immidiate contact with the window glass. How does each individual photon know whether to be reflected or not? And if it is reflected, how does he know to reflect on contact with the mirror as if it already knows the thickness of the window? (thicker windows means more photons are reflected)

I'm afraid this has nothing to do with quantum physics, and is actually just a matter of the critical angle between air and glass - the angle at which light no longer is refracted, but starts getting reflected.

I'm pretty sure, the reason why some light is refracted, and some is reflected is purely because glass isn't smooth. It looks at feels smooth, but if you go down to a microscopic level, the surface will appear quite rough. When light reaches the glass, most of it is at an angle less than the critical angle and so just goes straight through. However, some of the light hits the glass at a larger angle (due to the small imperfections in the glass) and so instead of being refracted, it is reflected back to you so you see your reflection.

The light has two different places it could be reflected - entering the glass, and exiting it.

As for why more photons are reflected by thicker windows, i can't say i have ever noticed this happening. I can't see any reason why it would happen. Could you give an example of when you might see this happening?

Flipping through the channels, and saw "Cartoon Network Real". Really. They should have just called it "Network". Fuck you CN

At 7/18/09 06:08 PM, Jimp wrote: What do you guys think, am I just being greedy? I really have learnt very little on my course, and the Flash tutorials were laughable. I just wanted to blow them out the water with this one, surely its in their best interest to let me release it as long as they are getting some kind of credit?

as long as you made it, you have full rights to it. if someone told you how to make it, but you didn't promise them anything, you get full rights to it.

there's no legal way they can claim your money without your permission.

At 7/18/09 09:56 PM, fluffkomix wrote:
there's no legal way they can claim your money without your permission.

unless, as he said, he turns it in as his final project. Don't turn penguinz in as your final project.

At 7/18/09 09:05 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Flipping through the channels, and saw "Cartoon Network Real". Really. They should have just called it "Network". Fuck you CN

I WARNED YOU ALL, I DID, SERIOUSLY, I DID AAAAAAAAAAAA

At 7/18/09 09:58 PM, citricsquid wrote: Where are you making it? I've always been under the impression that if you're using their equipment in their time it's theirs.

That may apply to working for a company, as they're paying you to be there so technically they could say you're stealing time and therefore money from them, or that you produced something while on their dime.

A school is tough though. Technically, you're hiring them (and they are providing the service of teaching you, and supplying you with a place to work)... not the other way around, so I'm not sure how it would work in that scenario.

Pics for proof.

Super amazing cool shit that all should do.

At 7/18/09 09:05 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Flipping through the channels, and saw "Cartoon Network Real". Really. They should have just called it "Network". Fuck you CN

Are there any good shows on CN anymore? I do admit I like chowder because of it's subtle old pop culture and adult refrences. But I don't think anyone else likes it.

CN real is just a bunch of anouying preteens acting like douches.

At 7/18/09 11:48 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Pics for proof.

Super amazing cool shit that all should do.

I think that that has always sounded incredibly fun. I'll have to do it sometime.

At 7/18/09 11:55 PM, MichaelHurst wrote:

At 7/18/09 11:48 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Pics for proof.

Super amazing cool shit that all should do.

I think that that has always sounded incredibly fun. I'll have to do it sometime.

I think I can survive without it thank you very much. :P

At 7/18/09 11:57 PM, turtleco wrote:

At 7/18/09 11:55 PM, MichaelHurst wrote:

At 7/18/09 11:48 PM, TheCriminalDuder wrote: Pics for proof.

Super amazing cool shit that all should do.

I think that that has always sounded incredibly fun. I'll have to do it sometime.

I think I can survive without it thank you very much. :P

I went skydiving with Derek today, I jumped out the plane right before he did. Here's some pics I took from his video.

At 7/19/09 12:36 AM, MTCaptain wrote:
I went skydiving with Derek today, I jumped out the plane right before he did. Here's some pics I took from his video.

moar there

:D

At 7/18/09 11:53 PM, turtleco wrote:

At 7/18/09 09:05 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: Flipping through the channels, and saw "Cartoon Network Real". Really. They should have just called it "Network". Fuck you CN

Are there any good shows on CN anymore?

Yes, there are still good/semi-good shows on CN.

i disagree i think ATHF is pretty good though venture bros. is good just not as funny as ATHF.

At 7/19/09 12:36 AM, MTCaptain wrote:

I went skydiving with Derek today, I jumped out the plane right before he did. Here's some pics I took from his video.

Man! this looks like soo much fun! As a matter of fact i had a crazy dream about dying earlier, these pics reminded me of it. Went like this:

watched my friend get ejected out of a convertible with a rocket on his back, he flew up a bajillion feet with this rocket and he was happy. So i walked over to my girlfriend and said "see that bright light! thats blair up there... i'm going to do it now" (even though he did it cuz he was going to die if he didnt, i just did it for fun)

So i got in a car with a sunroof with a giant balloon, i was hanging onto the balloon string and jumped out of the sunroof, it started lifting me higher and my hands started slipping and i was like "SHIIT!" and i was going to let go but i didn't wanna drop and fall and die, so i held on and went higher.

Then i woke up with my arms above my head grabbing onto my pillow...

:D

At 7/19/09 09:19 AM, Wasim wrote: nah jk u gotta coauthor for using these

Get out of here.

Cartoon Network

They used to have loads of good shows, Dexters Lab was my favorite, though we don't have sky anymore. They've gone down a lot from what i hear, lots of shows that are practically the same with different art.

Skydiving

Looks awesome, gonna have to try and persuade someone to do that sometime. Make sure to post the vid if you get it up Duder.

At 7/18/09 08:08 PM, CybexALT wrote:

At 7/18/09 05:00 PM, Toast wrote: I have a question that's been eating my mind. When you shine a light on a window, part of the light will be reflected back to you, which shows a faint reflection of the inside on the glass, and part of the light continues outside through the window which is why someone standing outside the house can see what's happening inside through the windows. Now that's easily understandable if you think of light as waves, but the strangest thing is that it's made of particles (photons), and that some of them are reflected not when they reach the end of the window, but on immidiate contact with the window glass. How does each individual photon know whether to be reflected or not? And if it is reflected, how does he know to reflect on contact with the mirror as if it already knows the thickness of the window? (thicker windows means more photons are reflected)

I'm afraid this has nothing to do with quantum physics, and is actually just a matter of the critical angle between air and glass - the angle at which light no longer is refracted, but starts getting reflected.

Everything has to do with quantum physics :P

On a semi-related note, the bomb-testing thought experiment seems relevant:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur-Vai dman_bomb-tester

I watch CNN, are we watching the same channel?

At 7/19/09 10:57 AM, jmtb02 wrote: I watch CNN, are we watching the same channel?

That would make for some interesting television.

At 7/18/09 05:41 PM, El-Presidente wrote: To upgrade from 4 to 8 GB on Ram for a Dell Studio XPS was + $500

Blooming hell.. you can get 2gb ram for £16, so 4gb is under £40! Assuming that the motherboard has 4 ram slots, you can easily get 8gb for under £100. That's of course really cheap ram and not desirable for any serious usage (and if you're going to get 8gb, you obviously want proper ram).. but still :P

Dell is overpwiced almost as much as apple ;P

At 7/19/09 11:53 AM, liaaaam wrote: Dell is overpwiced almost as much as apple ;P

Agreed, but still...well I've gone to the dark-side now anyway, should probably make the best of it!

Shit, didn't blank out the unlockment link :/ Can someone delete that?

At 7/19/09 12:53 PM, Paranoia wrote: This is an automated message from Newgrounds - http://www.newgrounds.com.

Got that shit, too.

At 7/19/09 03:12 AM, jake-thesnake wrote: i disagree i think ATHF is pretty good though venture bros. is good just not as funny as ATHF.

For some reason I don't think it is all that funny. I probably just don't get it. Venture bros is funny though, and although the humor in robot chicken is incredibly dumb, I still find it funny. I guess I'm not that intelligent. :S

At 7/19/09 12:59 PM, turtleco wrote:

At 7/19/09 03:12 AM, jake-thesnake wrote: i disagree i think ATHF is pretty good though venture bros. is good just not as funny as ATHF.

For some reason I don't think it is all that funny. I probably just don't get it. Venture bros is funny though, and although the humor in robot chicken is incredibly dumb, I still find it funny. I guess I'm not that intelligent. :S

Sorry, had to get in on this. V.B. is hella funny, for the fact it pokes fun at all of the yester year cartoons like Jonny Quest (however the hell you spell it) and Scooby Doo and the rest of the crew. Robot Chicken is funny in the fact that I think it's just NG animators grown up and playing with dolls. lol I mean, seriously, can you not look at both and find the same jokes?

At 7/19/09 12:53 PM, Paranoia wrote: Things

I haven't had that. I automatically label all e-mails from Newgrounds and skip the inbox, because I was sick of getting the daily e-mails.. (done the same with Facebook, E-bay, and a few others) so I had to check specifically, just ~960 e-mails labeled "Top 5!" "Top 10!" and.. whatever >: P

At 7/18/09 08:08 PM, CybexALT wrote: I'm pretty sure, the reason why some light is refracted, and some is reflected is purely because glass isn't smooth. It looks at feels smooth, but if you go down to a microscopic level, the surface will appear quite rough. When light reaches the glass, most of it is at an angle less than the critical angle and so just goes straight through. However, some of the light hits the glass at a larger angle (due to the small imperfections in the glass) and so instead of being refracted, it is reflected back to you so you see your reflection.

You're using laws of classical mechanics to explain how light reacts as a wave, but this theory breaks down when you're treating individual photons. You can't apply classical mechanic wave formulae to particles in quantum mechanical situations.

As for why more photons are reflected by thicker windows, i can't say i have ever noticed this happening. I can't see any reason why it would happen. Could you give an example of when you might see this happening?

Shine a light on a 10 nanomter thick window, and then on a 1 kilometer thick window. I'm pretty sure the former will reflect less light

At 7/18/09 06:16 PM, Doomsday-One wrote: It's all probability really.

If it's all probability, then how do you always get the same percentage of photons reflected if you shine the same group of photons on the same piece of glass? Or maybe that's not what you meant to say

I think the double slit expirment and this mirror reflection both have the same explanation. I am nowhere near a certain understanding of this, but I think it has to do with Feynman path integrals. The photon doesn't behave like a ball that rebounds when you throw it on a wall. Instead it has many "alternate possibilities" of what's gonna happen, and its final action is the sum of all those possibilities (least action principle). My knowledge about this is very shaky, I just read about this problem long ago in the book Light Years, and I don't quite remember what the conclusion of the problem was. What I do know though, is that photons don't actually rebound off the mirror, they are absorbed by electrons and then new photons are created, which means that there's no reason they should follow what we would expect of an object rebounding on a wall (this is the photo-electric effect shown by einstein)

At 7/19/09 12:54 PM, Paranoia wrote: Shit, didn't blank out the unlockment link :/ Can someone delete that?

I got the same email. Seems like someone is stupid enough to go through all the reg lounge people's accounts and try to guess the password or something.

lol @ posting the activation link

At 7/19/09 01:38 PM, Toast wrote: You're using laws of classical mechanics to explain how light reacts as a wave, but this theory breaks down when you're treating individual photons. You can't apply classical mechanic wave formulae to particles in quantum mechanical situations.

I don't get why this problem needs quantum mechanical explanations. Photons are neither a wave or a particle, but they show aspects of both. They're just small packets of energy. In what way exactly does my theory brak down when you treat each individual photon?

Shine a light on a 10 nanomter thick window, and then on a 1 kilometer thick window. I'm pretty sure the former will reflect less light

I can't see any reason why it would. Perhaps the reflected light on the 1km thick window would be more apparent because the refracted light would get so refracted it would be difficult to see right the way through.

I've never heard of this sort of thing before, nor noticed it in life, but you've got me interested. Where did you hear that thicker glass reflects more light?

Anyone know any good sites for selling T-shirts? It seems like a far more sensible way of making money out of Flash so long as you have the forwards planning to advertise them in-game.