02-07-2002 16:20									#121
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Because they emit light from heated gas at the fringe (event horizon?). But I'll leave that to the physics guys to describe in appropriate gibberish.

	02-07-2002 16:23									#122
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Nope. I donīt think heated gas has anything to do with it. Not even light can escape the clutches of gravity.

	02-07-2002 16:26									#123
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I may well be confusing things there - when you say not dark, do you mean light or also the roentgen and other stuff ?

	02-07-2002 16:35									#124
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quote: Originally posted by Boris Godunov Very simple - squeeze him in! They tried pushing him in to no avail. They then pushed on his swelled abdominal wall. (BIG mistake!) Guess what? William the Conqueror's body burst like a popped balloon! The pus and putrefaction drenched the King's burial garb. The stench filled the chapel. The mourners raced for the doors with their hands covering their noses. (I wasn't even there and I can imagine the smell!) Needless to say, they buried him very quickly! His body was allowed to rot in peace until 1562 when the Huguenots dug him up and threw his bones all over the courtyard.

	02-07-2002 16:37									#125
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I mean radiation.

	02-07-2002 16:38									#126
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quote: Originally posted by Paul Hanson Yippee! My question is: which US president hold the record for the shortest presidency ever, and how long was it?

Zachory Tailor........(I think)he was vice president, or speaker for the house and the president, and vice president(everyone who was above him in the line of succesion) were temporarily out of the country, so he was the pres for like an hour(while he slept).

	02-07-2002 16:41									#127
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Taylor was president for a couple of years.

Though I do remember hearing about one guy who was speaker of the house, who became president for one day, because the old president left a day early, and there was a day before the next president came in.

	02-07-2002 16:44									#128
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It could be the wrong guy but I think it was Zachory Tailor when he was speaker of the house, and the pres was "on his day off"(didnt work on Sunday, religious) and the vice pres was out of the country.

	02-07-2002 16:45									#129
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Well part from an interim president, there was one who died a few days after inauguration. I always associate "Garfield" with that story, but that may be a brain error....

	02-07-2002 16:47									#130
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What about Garfield? He only held office for four months IIRC.

Edit: Cross post

	02-07-2002 16:48									#131
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No, that was William Henry Harrison. Didn't wear a hat to his inauguration. Gave a very long speech in the cold weather. Died of pneumonia I think in about 31 days afterwards.

Garfield, I think lasted a whole 6-8 months before being shot.

	02-07-2002 16:54									#132
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quote: Well John Lackland was a vassal of the Pope. Doesn't necessarily say much.

I seem to recall the King of Navarra getting his ass kicked along with the rest of the French nobility at Crecy...

quote: Black holes are called just that because they donīt emit any light. Still they arenīt exactly black, why is that?

The basic idea is that black holes can be described as a linear combination of energy eigenstates. Which leads us to believe that there's an entropy, and therefore a temperature associated with it.

	02-07-2002 16:56									#133
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I think Harrison had two months after inauguration, BTW.

	02-07-2002 16:57									#134
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quote: Originally posted by Ramo The basic idea is that black holes can be described as a linear combination of energy eigenstates. Which leads us to believe that there's an entropy, and therefore a temperature associated with it.

Maybe I was unclear (I am a layman after all...) Iīm after a certain quantum mechanical process(?). Name that process

Edit: Itīs also that process wich eventually leads to the evaporation of the black hole.

	02-07-2002 17:03									#135
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"I seem to recall the King of Navarra getting his ass kicked along with the rest of the French nobility at Crecy... "

Which King ? Charles the Evil (who already ruled in 1346 I think) was allied with the Black Prince and Peter the Cruel of Castile. He switched sides a couple times (he was from the Capetingian family after all) but the one you may mean who died at Crecy was John of Bohemia....

	02-07-2002 17:04									#136
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I have no idea what you're talking about. A name associated with the entire idea or for the definition of entropy or something else entirely?

	02-07-2002 17:06									#137
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Hmmm.. that could be true.

	02-07-2002 17:09									#138
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"Name that process"

That particles can escape thourgh the Tunnel effect ?

	02-07-2002 17:11									#139
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Are you by any chance referring to the Heisenburg Uncertainty Principle, in particular the energy/time pair?

	02-07-2002 17:13									#140
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quote: Originally posted by Roland The Basques developped the Navarra kingdom with some germanic influence, but they were never subjected by the Visigoths. So in a way their continuity reaches into the 16th century, with the fueros into the 19th.

quote: Originally posted by Ramo But for a lot of Navarra's history, the King of Navarra was often a vassal to Castile or (later) France.

The Navarre kingdom, though founded indeed by a Basque (Iņigo Arista), was strongly influenced since the beginning both by Castile, Aragón and France, and was ruled since the 13th century by French kings.

The first one was Teobald of Champagne, whose reign began in 1234, and the French dinasties (the Foix and others) continued ruling Navarre until 1512, when she was conquered by Fernando, the Catholic King.

	02-07-2002 17:23									#141
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"...and was ruled since the 13th century by French kings."

Again, that doesn't say much. England was ruled by french kings, the Plantagenates. Germany had a Castilian King for a couple years. As long as those were only united through the person of the king it does not exclude independence of the country.

"until 1512, when she was conquered by Fernando, the Catholic King."

Thanx for the info, I'd have thought a tad later...

	02-07-2002 17:27									#142
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quote: Originally posted by Roland Thanx for the info, I'd have thought a tad later...

Well, Castilian dominion over Navarre was contested until circa 1530, but more as a result of French invading attempts than real Basque-Navarre opposition, which was never really strong.

	02-07-2002 17:27									#143
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Roland, Ramo, fill in the blanks:

"Classically, black holes are black.

Quantum mechanically, black holes radiate, with a radiation known as [blank] radiation, after the British physicist ****** ******** who first proposed it."

	02-07-2002 17:30									#144
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Hawking

	02-07-2002 17:33									#145
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Yes! We have a winner

Maybe I should stick to qestions I actually can explain...

A nice site about Black holes and Hawking radiation.

http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/hawk.html

	02-07-2002 17:38									#146
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What is Maxwell's Paradox and the solution?

	02-07-2002 17:42									#147
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AFAIK there is no solution. Thatīs why itīs called a paradox Itīs like Schrodingers Cat...

Edit: Are we talking about Mawells Demon?

	02-07-2002 17:44									#148
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Describe Boltzmann's gremlin. Why is it not a paradox?

	02-07-2002 17:47									#149
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Donīt forget Plancks plathypus. Stunning logical theorem there...

	02-07-2002 17:52									#150
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Maxwell's Demon = Boltzmann's Gremlin.

Different practical applications though.