[net.arch] net.physics for lasers?

hal@cornell.UUCP (04/20/84)

Isn't there a net.physics group?  That would seem to be an appropriate
place to discuss lasers (as opposed to laser printers).


Hal Perkins                         UUCP: {decvax|vax135|...}!cornell!hal
Cornell Computer Science            ARPA: hal@cornell  BITNET: hal@crnlcs

rentsch@unc.UUCP (Tim Rentsch) (04/26/84)

<Giggle.  I couldn't resist.>

[Note to the more serious minded:  forgive my transgression into net.arch
and accept my apologies in advance for continuing another bogus topic.  I
won't do it again, promise.  My hope is that we can humiliate the laser
people into taking their discussion elsewhere.]

Re:  Drains in the southern hemisphere.  Believe it or not, serious
experiments to test this theory have been done.  It turns out that various
other factors mask the coriolus effect so it's way down in the noise unless
one is very careful, e.g., with drain shape.  One non-obvious effect: water
which is "standing still" has a fair amount of angular momentuum (i.e., it's
circulating in the tank slightly) which takes on the order of *months* to
die down.  So would be experimentists can only take a bath (or whatever) 3
or 4 times a year.

[BTW, the satirical point is very well made.  This article doesn't belong
in net.arch either.  So please don't send flames or followups *at all*.  No
one is interested, anyway.  And please, please, add my vote to removing the
laser talk, etc., to elsewhere.  It's gone on long enough.]

cheers,

Tim