Bright lights & wind farm damage in Lincolnshire?

[tocket]

I'm no maths genius myself either and QM is without doubt very maths intense. I only made it through the first course thanks to help from my friends, some of whom are maths geniuses.

Not only is it advanced maths, but QM also has its own formalism (actually several) and notations. Unfortunately, maths are also very necessary to make any good use of QM.

As an example, I would estimate that my textbook on QM consists to about 50% of equations. In the chapter "The basic postulates of quantum mechanics" alone there are 90 equations. In the same course we also had another textbook; "Modern quantum chemistry, introduction to advanced electronic structure theory". The most important chapter in that book, the Hartree-Fock approximation, has 382 equations!

My most important lesson from the course? Stay away from quantum mechanics!

[The_Doctor]

Works for me. I rarely understand a formula unless I worked it out for myself the hard way first, and I'm not good enough to make a habit of that. I even get dyslexia-like confuzzlements over Ohm's and Watt's laws at times no matter how simple they are and how often I use them. Measure thrice and cut once, that's what I say...

[heroic]

Here's an interesting video that shows what happens if a windmill gets out of control,and it's certainly not what happened to the one in Lincolnshire:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cdd_1203701257

Different designs, different scales, different materials, different circumstances, different results. You can't say that it wasn't brake failure that caused the Lincolnshire incident. The complete collapse of the Danish windmill was a fluke occurrence in any case.

[soforene]

The mystery is solved.

Dodgy bolts.

[KevSki]

Dodgy Bl***y bolts....Damn! Oh well thats another great mystery ruined...

[Insanity]

Dodgy Bolts doesn't explain the bright lights though, but the owner of a certain CuBR might be able to enlighten us

Mark

[xntrix]

Maybe Jim, but - to quote the newspaper - a schoolgirl moving in the sky above Little Bowden, - ummmm, curiouser and curiouser!
David

[soforene]

...to quote the newspaper - a schoolgirl moving in the sky above Little Bowden, - ummmm, curiouser and curiouser ...

Huh ?
Why not quote the newspaper article corrrectly.
"the mystery of a strange yellow light seen by a schoolgirl moving in the sky above Little Bowden, Leics, has been solved."


Some daft bint with chinese lanterns.
No case for Mulder and Scully here.

[Insanity]

Some daft bint with chinese lanterns.
No case for Mulder and Scully here.

I still think it's some lucky sod with a big fat CuBR,, maybe I'm jealous, but think it should be migrated to Cambridge for experimental purposes

Mark