hereticalrants Wrote:"The way you explain it, it sounds like it is electricity(electrons or whatever) but it's all photons... from radio waves, to visible light, to x rays and gamma rays."liosama Wrote:hereticaldkaslkas the way you understand it is also wrongI don´t think I said enough about the way I understand it for you to say as much. In fact, you repeated the only things I really did say on the topic.
... why am I even posting this? Defend your nerd pride! Yaaaaaar! Hahaha.
Aijin Wrote:Let's just say I had to steal the lenses from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to make them.Hmm. I think you should've been the one to post a cache of kanji-neuroscience links.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope see, I'm not making things up, it really IS called that)
liosama Wrote:Nowhere does that imply that electrons cannot produce electromagnetic radiation.....hereticalrants Wrote:"The way you explain it, it sounds like it is electricity(electrons or whatever) but it's all photons... from radio waves, to visible light, to x rays and gamma rays."liosama Wrote:hereticaldkaslkas the way you understand it is also wrongI don´t think I said enough about the way I understand it for you to say as much. In fact, you repeated the only things I really did say on the topic.
Whatever
Aijin Wrote:Let's just say I had to steal the lenses from the Very Large Telescope in Chile to make them.Lmao, that sounds like a name that I would have given it
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very_Large_Telescope see, I'm not making things up, it really IS called that)
IceCream Wrote:EDIted out a bunch of questions, i'm gonna just take a leap of faith on these physicsy things, there's a good chance i'm never gonna get it anyway...Lol, if you can understand the crazy biochem stuff you guys are talking about, you can understand anything. Just keep in mind how many 4-year degrees worth of concepts you are trying to self study in a relatively short space of time. It may take some time.
my head hurts.
hereticalrants Wrote:pm sent.liosama Wrote:Nowhere does that imply that electrons cannot produce electromagnetic radiation.....hereticalrants Wrote:I don´t think I said enough about the way I understand it for you to say as much. In fact, you repeated the only things I really did say on the topic."The way you explain it, it sounds like it is electricity(electrons or whatever) but it's all photons... from radio waves, to visible light, to x rays and gamma rays."
Whatever
It´s not like I said, "Yahahahaha science and Bohr´s model are both wrong; electromagnetic radiation cannot be produced by electrons jumping energy levels!!!"
Seriously.
IceCream Wrote:cool Aijin!! Yeah, i think the psychology bits are more interesting too. But i totally get how knowing the mechanics of everything helps!I studied it all in English so I don't know what Japanese textbooks are available unfortunately. As far as I know, a lot of the neuroscience texts available in Japanese are just translations of textbooks/studies done in English though.
don't suppose you were studying this stuff in Japanese were you? If so, please recommend your textbooks!!!
Quote:EDIted out a bunch of questions, i'm gonna just take a leap of faith on these physicsy things, there's a good chance i'm never gonna get it anyway...It's great that you have such curiosity and lust for knowledge, but yeah a lot of these things are 4-year degrees in themselves
just having a short paragraph understanding of things should be more than enough. The why of everything is more for specialists in the fields, and even then with science if you ask "why" enough the answer eventually ends up as, "...because that's how it is!"
Aijin Wrote:If you find the combination of neurology and psychology interesting though I'd suggest some of the books by Oliver Sacks. He's sort of the rock star of neurology.I'd second that - the classic is "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat", and more recently "Musicophilia" is excellent. Eloquent and insightful, and the cases are so remarkable that the details are engrained in your memory for ever after reading them.
Aijin Wrote:So basically developing a tumor behind your retina is a great excuse to smoke pot.Part of me wants to suggest introducing this as part of our assessment at work... but somehow i don't think it will fly...
To tie this into Japanese, one of my professors once jokingly told the class, "There is only one true way to test fluency in a foreign language. Get high and see if you can read a book. The number of pages you can get through with actually following the plot is the indicator of your fluency."
