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Deleted Ref Desk Contribution
Just letting you know that Baseball Bugs has deleted one of your contributions. It is being discussed on the Talk Page. Buddy431 (talk) 00:23, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * It didn't contribute much, I have to admit. Ssscienccce (84.197.178.75) (talk) 00:12, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

AN/I
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Paul Cohen

 * Maybe this helps:
 * In 1961 Cohen was appointed to the faculty at Stanford University as an assistant professor of mathematics. He was promoted to associate professor in mathematics in the following year and, also in 1962, was awarded an Alfred P Sloan research fellowship. In August 1962 Cohen participated in the International Congress of Mathematicians in Stockholm. He was an invited speaker giving the address Idempotent measures and homomorphisms of group algebras. On a cruise from Stockholm to Leningrad, following the Congress, Cohen met Christina Karls from Malung, Sweden. They married on 10 October 1963 and had three sons, twins Eric and Steven, and Charles.


 * He was promoted to full professor at Stanford University in 1964 having, by this time, solved one of the most challenging open problems in mathematics. Cohen used a technique called "forcing" to prove the independence in set theory of the axiom of choice and of the generalised continuum hypothesis. Angus MacIntyre writes [13]:-


 * A dramatic aspect of the continuum hypothesis work is that Cohen was a self-taught outsider in logic. His work on set theory and p-adic fields has a very characteristic style, combinatorial and rather free of general theory.
 * Cohen spoke about his work on the independence of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis from the axioms of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory in a lecture Independence results in set theory delivered at the international symposium on the 'Theory of Models' at Berkeley on 4 July 1963. His proof appeared in the two papers The independence of the continuum hypothesis (1963) and The independence of the continuum hypothesis. II (1964).
 * In 1966 Cohen published the monograph Set theory and the continuum hypothesis based on a course he gave at Harvard in spring 1965. Azriel Lévy (who first heard Cohen's results at the Berkeley model theory conference) writes:- This monograph is mostly an exposition of the celebrated results of the author, namely the independence of the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice. In addition it presents also the main classical results in logic and set theory. ... This book presents a fresh and intuitive approach and it gives some glimpses into the mental process that led the author to his discoveries. The reader will find in this book just the right amount of philosophical remarks for a mathematical monograph. http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Cohen.html 91.177.244.149 (talk) 16:49, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Unsourced content
Please do not add or change content, as you did to List of emoticons, without verifying it by citing reliable sources. Please review the guidelines at Citing sources and take this opportunity to add references to the article. Thank you.--Otterathome (talk) 21:30, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Neither the history of that page nor the list of my contributions shows any edit of that article made by me. Ssscienccce (talk) 21:41, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * It was List of emoticons, fixed.--Otterathome (talk) 21:43, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * And what is supposed to be a WP:RS for emoticons? if I remember correctly, it was the table throwing icon and one other. Lot's of sites that have it, but none I would consider a reliable source, and frankly, I would hope that "reliable" sources would not waste their time on something as frivolous as emoticons. The fact that Microsoft includes an automatic conversion to emoticons in one of its programs is the reference for most of the emoticons in that article, simply because they are present in the list that MS uses. Is that a reliable source for the widespread usage of them???  I also seem to remember that you were searching all articles that used one particular site as a reference, and deleting the information that carried that ref. not taking the trouble to look for another source, not considering whether the information was likely to be challenged... that was my main reason for reverting your edit; Frankly, I take the WP:RS rules a bit more serious in an article on the dropping of the abomb on Hiroshima than in a list of commonly used emoticons. Ssscienccce (talk) 22:11, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * WP:RS applies to all articles equally.--Otterathome (talk) 22:44, 17 November 2012 (UTC)
 * The 2nd point in the lead of WP:RS is "Context matters". kym is inappropriate for most uses, and potentially appropriate for other uses (such as, supporting the existence of a widespread but otherwise unremarkedupon-in-RSs emoticon). —Quiddity (talk) 00:05, 18 November 2012 (UTC)
 * o.O
 * Is the substitution of uw-.. templates logged somewhere? Or the use of Twinkle or other tools? I've looked everywhere, but I can't figure out how you came across this discussion. recent changes might do it, I guess... Or one of the monitoring tools? Mysterious.. (-_-)ゞ゛ Ssscienccce (talk) 00:16, 19 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Easy! I'm the one who originally added those entries, and I was checking the contribs of the editors who were removing/replacing it! ʕ•̫͡•ʔ  (ó㉨ò)  (͡๏̯͡๏)  —Quiddity (talk) 22:19, 19 November 2012 (UTC)

Health effects of tobacco ‎
Having read this, this evening, I have revised the paragraph. What is your verdict? Sincerely –&#32; –&#32; Gareth Griffith-Jones &#124; The Welsh Buzzard &#124; 18:07, 19 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks for taking the trouble! It's not really the article I had a problem with, it's that paper that really bugs me. I don't have a medical degree, so I could be wrong of course, but to me it looks like a superficially reasonable theory that is so far removed from reality you can't even find studies to disprove it. It starts off like a normal technical paper on the distribution of airborne radionuclides as a function of various parameters like particulate matter concentrations etc. No problem with that, but then it starts theorizing about the distribution of inhaled particles in the lungs, the amount of time these stay there, the amount of damage they do, and how this would explain lung cancer in smokers. There's no medical evidence to back it up, well, the correlation between smoking, radon and cancer is there, but nothing on the distribution or prevalence of these radon daughters (the progeny in the decay chain of 222Rn) in actual people. For a physicist with no medical training, publishing a paper that pretty much states, this is the mechanism that causes lung cancer in smokers, seems a bit over-confident.
 * So far I haven't found a study that contradicts or confirms his assumptions on the distribution of these radionuclides. One thing however is easy to refute: his assumption that the radon daughters attached to smoke and dust particles are the dangerous ones. All other publications on radon say the exact opposite:


 * "While most of the progeny attach to aerosols immediately after formation, a variable proportion remain unattached and are referred to as the unattached fraction. The fraction of unattached radon progeny in inhaled air is an important determinant of the dose received by target cells at a particular concentration in inhaled air; as the unattached fraction increases, the dose also increases because of the efficient deposition of the unattached progeny in the larger airways." (source: RADON EXPOSURE AND LUNG CANCER RISK Department of Medicine and the New Mexico Tumor Registry, Cancer Center University of New Mexico School of Medicine Albuquerque, New Mexico 1988)
 * There are better sources, from international organizations, but my hard-drive is pretty unorganized, so I picked the first I found.


 * In other words, when it comes to radon, aerosols (dust and smoke particles) reduce exposure to the unattached progeny. But his study doesn't consider unattached progeny, he dismisses them right away, saying they are rapidly removed from the air by sticking to the walls. His justification for this is an older paper, where the "room" was the size of a shoe box and the air flow turbulent. Of course a charged particle would quickly end up on the wall, but real people don't live in shoe boxes.


 * Would his theory fit with epidemiological data? Very doubtful. Based on available data, "it's assumed that the combined effect of smoking and radon exposure act in a combined fashion that is close to multiplicative". (from New Mexico study). Best data available is on uranium miners. Almost multiplicative effects are seen, and that includes cases where miners started smoking after or quit smoking before they were miners. His theory not only requires that these periods overlap, it even requires the two to occur at the same moment, ie smoking inside the mine! How likely is that?


 * So there's my frustration, a paper that's quoted from time to time, that I believe to be completely without foundation, but for which I cannot find a single review. I'm a bit obsessive about such things, and this one has been on my list too long!


 * Thank you for the changes, the wording is fine, but don't spend your time on that section, because once I find what I'm looking for, I'll be back! 😎 Ssscienccce (talk) 03:00, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Greetings Ssscienccce!
  Gareth Griffith-Jones  – The Welsh  Buzzard  – is wishing you the season's greetings. Whether you celebrate your hemisphere's solstice or Christmas, Diwali, Hogmanay, Hanukkah, Lenaia, Festivus, or the Saturnalia, this is a special time of year for (almost) everyone. I appreciate your frustration and I'm pleased my revision meets with your approval

Gun safety ‎
Hello Ssscienccce,

I am seeking your advice on how best to address my concerns about the Gun Safety article (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_safety). Although the article is entitled “Gun Safety”, the content is restricted to safe handling of firearms and prevention of un-intentional firearms injuries. I have attempted to correct this shortcoming by adding the following sentences immediately after the restrictive definition of “gun safety”:

The phrase "gun safety" is now frequently used to refer to measures that go beyond the prevention of unintentional injury. This includes efforts to reduce gun ownership by persons not prepared to assure safe use of guns and policies aimed to reduce firearms homicides and suicides.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10] Please refer to the wikipedia article on Gun Politics for further discussion of this broader concept of gun safety.

A couple of editors have deleted this additional language, insisting that the initial sentence of the article (” For discussions on politics concerning firearms and gun safety, see Gun politics.”) deals adequately with the concern I have raised. On the Talk page for the article (see the section entitled “The Scope of Gun Safety”) you will find a summary of my arguments and references as well as the responses of the editors.

In brief, I believe that as currently written the “Gun Safety” article does not meet Wikipedia’s NPOV standards: "Editing from a neutral point of view (NPOV) means representing fairly, proportionately, and as far as possible without bias, all significant views that have been published by reliable sources."

The editors resist inclusion of any language that acknowledges a currently common, broader understanding of the concept of “Gun Safety”.

What would you advise?

Groetjes, Bob Pond (talk) 05:33, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

As of this update, the "Gun Safety" article has been modified to address my concerns. If you have time to consider the issue, please take a look at the latest comments in the section on "The scope of gun safety" section of the articles Talk page. Thanks and prettig keerstfeest, Bob Pond (talk) 19:53, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Hello Bob,
 * I haven't had time to look at the issue in detail yet, seems to be mainly a question of what is considered the most common usage of the term. As a dutch speaking Belgian I'm maybe not the best one to judge on that.
 * As to the amount of information that should be included when a link to another article is provided, that would be a wikipedia policy or best practices question, past discussions and decisions in WP:RFC, WP:DRN and WP:RFAR could be relevant.
 * It's not an area I'm very familiar with, I tend to focus mainly on science facts and the relaibility of specific sources. I will take a closer look when time permits, but for more input from third parties you might also consider one of the notice boards (like Requests for comment, Third opinion or Neutral point of view/Noticeboard), perhaps the wp:reference desk, or one of the long list of other resources these pages invariably offer. Frankly, there are so many projects, noticeboards, help pages, policy pages etc.. it's hard to find what you need sometimes.
 * One piece of advice, don't get too focused on one article or issue. Can get frustrating, especially when there's considerable opposition. I closed my previous account and hardly visited wikipedia for two years after fighting against what I felt was the "hijacking" of articles by some editors and wikiprojects. Now I just stay away from such articles. Ssscienccce (talk) 17:22, 22 December 2012 (UTC)

John Calvin FA status
Recently you commented on an article, saying it didn't seem to warrant FA status as it seemed to have been written by a Calvin fan. Please comment on a suggestion for changing one of the subheadings: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_Calvin#RfC:_.22Securing_the_Reformation.22_heading Markewilliams (talk) 13:13, 24 January 2013 (UTC)

Manometery equation
Hey there. Last week you contributed to the discussion at the now archived "Manometery equation" science reference desk question. I thought that you might be interested in knowing where the mystery 800 came from. It turns out that the question had been misstated, and the relative density of the fluid was 0.8, not 13.6. -- ToE 19:49, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for letting me know. :-) Ssscienccce (talk) 16:22, 7 February 2013 (UTC)

Ballpoint pen in space
Thanks for your input about normal ballpoints in zero gravity. That's notable and surely should be worked into the ballpoint pen article. Seems like a reliable source as well, YES? I'd be happy to put that on my list of things-to-do unless you'd like to run with it yourself, in which case I'll just keep an eye on the edit and clean up afterwards if necessary? I may not be able to get to it myself until we pass into the new year. I'd also like some wikipedic consensus on source reliability, BUT: as far as I'm concerned, you can't get any better than astronaut reports from outer space! Get back to me at your convenience and I'll make a point of working on it. I monitor that page because the existing version is basically mine (using most of what already existed there), and it ties into other ballpoint-related articles I authored (ballpoint pen artwork and some of those ballpoint artists). Penwatchdog (talk) 12:30, 2 December 2013 (UTC)

Notice of RfC and request for participation
There is an RfC in which your participation would be greatly appreciated: Thank you. --Lightbreather (talk) 15:46, 25 April 2014 (UTC)
 * Talk:Gun_control

Thank you for your feedback
Just wanted to thank you for providing valuable feedback. I know you deserve a barnstar. If I could give you one, I would. Thanks again.--NiceAdam (talk) 04:44, 8 September 2015 (UTC)

personal attack
Don't do this and don't attempt to escalate spats to Jimbo Wales talk page; it never goes anywhere. Just accept the consensus on pages where you edit and move on. NE Ent 23:23, 3 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Won't remind people of their old edits anymore. Understood. Ssscienccce  (talk) 00:43, 4 October 2015 (UTC)
 * I wasn't going to say anything about it but, if you are being honest about letting go of personal dislikes of other editors, allow me to point you to WP:WIKIHOUND. Considering that you could not have looked at the context properly, this commentary at an ANI is nothing short of holding a grudge. Pursuant to that comment, you added this commentary which smacks of your having a chip on your shoulder about how you perceive Wikipedia works.


 * Please don't continue to pursue some sort of personal vendettas on Wikipedia, nor imply favouritism and other conspiracy theories which exist in your mind. You've barely started here, yet you've made absolute decisions as to how Wikipedia works. It's a waste of everyone's time (your own included). Wikipedians don't have to agree with each other: they don't even have to like each other... but targeting other editors because you felt you were badly done by, and that I'm a mean, stupid biddy is unproductive. You're obviously an intelligent editor with plenty to offer, so I wish you all the best in developing articles productively. --Iryna Harpy (talk) 22:37, 9 November 2015 (UTC)

You've missed a point
Astrology was a pre-scientific precursor to astronomy, as alchemy was to chemistry and so on. Newton was an alchemist. this is not terribly important except that it seems he may have suffered from mercury poisoning. So some historical character having been an astrologer is a factoid of no real significance. It's not remotely threatening to skeptics because he didn't have any basis for telling whether it was right or wrong. If someone believes in astrology now, it's different. David Tredinnick, MP, a member of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, believes in astrology, homeopathy and all manner of other bollocks. A century ago this would not rate a mention. Today, it is significant, because we know with very great confidence that they are bullshit. I would not care if an article on some great figure form the past cast horoscopes, but I'd be unlikely to include it in an article unless it was short and there wasn't much else to say about him. As far as I am aware, Anaximander believed the earth was flat. This would be of surpassing importance to a flat-earther today, allowing the fallacious appeal to antiquity, but is essentially irrelevant to anyone else. So, unless you are looking to legitimise astrology, which would be a violation of WP:NPOV, the fact that $RANDOMANCIENT believed in it is simply not important. Guy (Help!) 21:13, 15 October 2015 (UTC)
 * No, you've missed a point. It's not about $RANDOMANCIENT believing in astrology, it's about him practicing judicial astrology, which was considered heresy and was punishable by death. Ssscienccce  (talk) 21:01, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * It was still a time before anyone knew better. Guy (Help!) 22:15, 16 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Many court astronomers of those days got their position mainly because the royals wanted personal astrologers, people like Tycho Brahe, Kepler... Someone like Oronce Finé didn't have that protection and spent time in prison for judicial astrology. Some sources say Galilei narrowly avoided a similar fate once or twice. Taking such risks suggests that at least as a source of income, astrology played an important role in that period of his life.  Ssscienccce  (talk) 09:08, 19 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Maybe so, and if it was then reliable independent sources will make the point (I haven't checked the sources you proposed). Obviously we'd need to be careful not to imply that astrology has any validity, there is a long term problem with charlatans trying to claim historical figures for their own in an attempt to legitimise bullshit (cf. homeopathists and Hippocrates' "let like cure like"). As I say, I don't have a problem with covering bullshit as long as it's notable bullshit and we don't pretend it's anything other than bullshit, but it is very important to be aware of historical context. There's a long discussion about Christians in science and technology, where a list has been prepared in the apparent attempt to make it seem as if Christian belief is associated with a lot of scientific advances, with Newton being particularly aggressively claimed even though he explicitly rejected the Trinity and refused to take holy orders, which delayed his matriculation from Cambridge. There are many things that were once common, and if not plausible then at least not obviously refuted, and there is very often some point at which scientific opinion on these went from "meh" to "bullshit"; figures, sources and facts from before and after the tipping point must be viewed differently and in context. Guy (Help!) 10:07, 19 October 2015 (UTC)

Category:Climate change deniers
You participated in the recent discussion which resulted in Category:Climate change skeptics being renamed to Category:Climate change deniers. The new category has now been nominated for renaming back to Category:Climate change skeptics. The new discussion is here. Good Ol’factory (talk) 05:53, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Significance of polarizer in LCD displays
Okay that's a very good answer.If both(electric and magnetic component) pass through a polarizer could you tell me what happens when a light wave is passed through a polarizer.Do you mean to say that only it's intensity starts to weaken when it passes through a polarizer?JUSTIN JOHNS (talk) 06:30, 27 October 2015 (UTC)


 * In normal light, all directions are present, (see this figure or this).
 * A perfect filter would only allow one direction through. A real filter in classical mechanics would decrease the intensity proportional to the cos(alpha), where alpha is the angle between the polarizer direction and the direction of the component. So directions perpendicular to the polarizing direction would be completely blocked, components in the same direction would pass completely, in between, the magnitude will vary proportional to the cos(alpha)
 * In quantum mechanics, there are only two possibilities, either the photon passes, or it is stopped. The odds of passing are equal to cos(alpha). So the classical case is no more than the sum of many elementary components.
 * (This is one type of polarizer, others can filter out more..).
 * (black and white) LCD displays have a reflecting polarizing layer (light polarized in one direction will be totally reflected, the direction perpendicular to it will be absorbed. The glass on top is also a polarizer, in the same direction. Without voltage applied, the component with the right direction passes through, and is reflected back. When voltage is applied to the liquid crystals, they align themselves and light passing through is rotated 90°, so the reflecting layer will absorb it instead of reflecting. Making the segment black.  Ssscienccce  (talk) 13:55, 30 October 2015 (UTC)

Wikipedia is broken
My time is better spent fighting against wikipedia then participating on wikipedia, so I'm off. Ssscienccce (talk) 06:27, 11 November 2015 (UTC)

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