The Great Brains of SG.

Okay, no google... sexy up yr brain cells for this simple quiz...

Douglas Coupland in a stupid move to be clever and hip said, eroticize your intelligence. Fuck you douglas coupland!!! you genX fuck. Anyways, he's boring, and so am I. Take this Quiz and find out what Hillary Duff song you most resemble!!!

It's Fun!

01. What modern theory based on grand unified theories explains an event that precludes the big bang and suffices many of the problems that a solemn big bang theory creates?

02. James Joyce wrote one obnoxious novel to most that describes the lives and thoughts of lower class Irish men in the span of one day, the name of this novel is what?

03. The Atomic Number of an element represents what characteristic of an element?

04. Who said ....we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender[...]

05. The term AD means what when referring to years? (specifics are not needed)

06. To what nations are the Likud, and Sinn Féin parties associated?

07. What text completes the line "Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him," (to the next comma).

08. "Mr. Kurtz, He Dead" is originally from what text?

09. Orson Wells' film, Citizen Kane was loosely based on what real life character?

10. Who painted the painting [sic]Saturn devouring one of his Children?

and special extra bonus super happy points for!

11. What two elementary particles are so close in energy that they can be included in a model called the Nucleon Spinor?

woot!!!!

I usually don't take part in your little mental masturbation games, but it's a few hours until I have get ready for work and I'm bored so I'll play along. And no, I didn't use any search engines.

Based on grand unified theories? There is no grand unified field theory, if there was then physics would be kinda over, don't you think? Maybe you meant based on Quantum Field Theory? In any case, I'm going to assume you're referring to superstring theory as your answer.

The number of protons in the atom.

Churchill.

Anno Domine, Latin for "the year of our lord". It's how many years after the birth of Christ, though history has shown it to be innaccurate, since the birth of Christ probably took place 3-5 years before that according to records of Herod's death and His birth relative to that.

"...Horatio." Hamlet

Flux is gonna hate me, but it's from the obscenely boring Heart of Darkness. Sorry, I just can't stand existentialism.

On no one, according to Wells. Though Hearst believed it was based on his life.

1. dunno. string theory?

2. dunno. ulysses? never read joyce.

3. uhm. number of.. electrons. probably.

4. some badass.

5. year of our lord. anno domina(?). years after the birth of christ.

6. israel and ireland.

7. horatio.

8. pbblt.

9. ah shit. i know this.. it's.. fuck. i can't remember.

10. agh. i can see the signature.. it's.. is it goya?

11. are you kidding?

is it really? i thought that was too easy. i figured it was a trick. damnit.

Well, that was a fun thread.

damnit! COME BACK AND TELL ME WHAT I WON!

ha, you said masturbation!

No I didn't Chalmers, Steven Weinberg, and a few other Indian guys came up with a similar theory (for which they recieved Nobel prizes), to wit that the weak, strong nuclear forces and the electromagnetic forces all merge at a certain energy. Maybe you are thinking Super Unified theories, which include gravitiy. No, I'm NOT refering to string theory which is all a dice roll to see who can come up with the next world-theory that contains a -brane suffix.

BING! correct.

BING BING BING! also correct. you've got the board, I suggest APE TIT for 10,000

Fierce! right again!

Ooooh Judges? Can we... Uhm... to the next comma it would be Horatio: A man of infinite Jest, to wit writer David Foster Wallace named his huge-ass novel after.

Yes, which follows into the Wasteland, and the Golden Bough, and whatnot, she's right though, it's good stuff. I don't know how existential Heart of Darkness is, so much as mythopoetic, in a sense of "The Golden Bough", but that's debateable...

As Far as I know it was hearst... who knows, Wells was a doddering fool who nipped off to south America while some other mong could (of course, correctly) finish his films... that's why we have directors cuts of Touch of Evil and what not... what a bore he was.

doo doo Da Deeeee... !!! Fun!

Dude, you skipped two;

10: Francisco De Goya

11. Gotta be Nucleons and Pions, yeah? Though I was under the impression that "elementary particles" referred only to fermions...

yay! everyone wins because they've learned something today!

Hey! Be nice.

I wish I where smart.

I'm Not.

All I knew was Protons, and that #4 was some dead American

I don't have time to learn. I'm too busy reminding myself to breath.

Minor correction to #5: anno dominI. It's genitive, masculine, singular.

Sorry to nitpick, but I have sworn to uphold the sacred laws of Latin grammar. Yeah, that's what I get for skipping career day at school . . .

I would have daid that, but I didn't care enough

Weinberg received a Nobel prize for contributing to the development of the electroweak force theory. Before I got into computers I was pretty into physics so I have some idea of what I'm talking about. The electroweak force combines the electromagnetic force and the weak nuclear force above a certain amount of energy (not frequency). That's only two forces, it doesn't integrate gravity or the strong nuclear force, which is a requirement for anything that wants to refer to itself as a unified field theory.

I googled for "inflational theory" and got bupkus; the term doesn't exist. However googling for the two names you listed I found mention of a "cosmic inflation theory" which I'm assuming is what you're referring to. Rereading your question I found this probably fits the bill, however it doesn't negate my answer. Your question wasn't what was the first theory to solve the problem, and inflation is a subset of practically every attempt at a unified field theory since the 1980s, including superstring theory, which I mentioned because it also solves the same Big Bang problems and unifies all four forces.

churchill was british. the p.m., actually. he is dead, though, you're right on that one.

American? Fuck me, England had an American prime minister in WW2? Please say that was a huge typo and that you really know Winnie the Puke was a Pom? His old lady may've been a Yank but his old man was an English Lord and the son of the Duke of Marlborough, no less. Pretty bloody English, I'd say, wouldn't you, old chap? Plus he was an old sot, usually half-tanked by noon though you'd be hard-pressed to pick it, he carried it so well.

Pip pip, tally ho, hey nonny nonny and all that crap.

SMRT!


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1) Who was the first king of the Carolingian Dynasty?

2) Where is myelin found?

3) What determines an atom's ability to bond with other atoms?

4) Who became involved in the conspiracy to assassinate the third Julio-Claudian Emperor of Rome after years of being subjected to insults and homosexual innuendos by the same?

5) Name the primary ingredients of gunpowder.

6) Which European country was the last to be officially pagan?

7) What was Gargantua's favorite thing to wipe his ass with?

8) Where did Pliny the Elder die?

9) Who benefitted the most from the Albigensian Crusades?

10) What is the goatse.cx man's real name?

woah, gooch. those are some hard ones.

i don't know any of the answers, except i think gunpowder is mostly saltpeter with some sulfur and charcoal.

Agreed, allthough I think Gargantua's fave TP was the citizenry of London... I think. I believe he's Britain's version of Godzilla.

I was incorrect in that he didn't recieve the 1979 for all three energies (omiting the strong interactions), however he did do much work on it later, I MAY be incorrect but at the time there was a problem integrating 3 energies due to infinities popping up, which were then normalized somewhat by a man in the Netherlands whos name I forget....

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=inflationary+theory

I don't know what you typed but the whole page comes up with the theory, and YES IT DOES EXIST, & you are wrong the way you describe it. How can you spend 5 minutes and look at something and then tell me about it, after having studied it for a good year.

Inflationary Theory (the term was coined by Alan Guth), but not invented, though he perfected early models, later different models of inflationary theory would be worked out by Andre Linde, etc... In any case it REQUIRES GUT level energies to work, it doesn't create them. Also, your last question is patently false, since the start of the inflationary period is the breaking of forces, not the unification of them.

I have no idea what your constant need is to insult me to my friends, as if that will charm them, or try to act as often a jerk as you are when I leave you completely alone, but I'll only assume it's a deep desire to destroy something that threatens you. I'm speaking of your onslaught to this thread, not the arguing which is no big deal... Just relax and if you don't read my threads, you won't get upset.

[Edited on Oct 04, 2004 by Sadistic_Miike]

isnt this Dirty Talk...not Smart Talk