User talk:Daran

Hi :) I think I better give you the formal welcome... I hope you like the place and choose to stay.

Some links that may be of use:

• Wikipedia:Welcome, newcomers
• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
• Wikipedia:Village pump - ask questions you may have here, or leave a message on my talk page

Hope to see you contributing in future! :) Dysprosia 06:27, 14 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Welcome from me too. Thanks for the positive feedback on positronic brain. I left in the piece about the gravitonic brain, even though I am sure I had read nothing about that twist in Asimov. Is it a contribution from one of the inheritors of the Asimov franchise? Though he was among the more scientifically literate science fiction authors, Asimov perpetrated a few howlers, but to replace a fermion (the lepton) by a boson (the graviton) which interacts so weakly with matter, seems uncharacteristic of him. Platinum and iridium are dense enough that giving Daneel a human-like neck strong enough to support the brain might be a challenge, but they are not that dense. -- Alan Peakall 08:14, 17 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Thanks for the welcome. I'm not familiar with Asimov's work, and I know nothing about any gravitonic brain; I merely edited a previous contributor's submission under the assumption that everything in it was factually correct. If you think that part's suspect then by all means take it out. One sanity test might be to find out when the word graviton was coined.

You make an interesting point about the substition of a strongly[1] interacting particle with a relatively weakly[1] interacting one. I long ago gave up trying to make sense of Star Trek's technobabble; "it's got an -ic at the end, and it sounds good, so we'll use it." Of course, other writers including Asimov set a much higher standard.

[1]in the naive sense of the words. I'm aware that leptons don't participate in the strong interaction, nor, to my knowledge, do gravitons in the weak.

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Re The History of Middle-earth, NPOV doesn't mean deleting everything resembling an assessment. For instance, I doubt you'll find anybody characterizing Tolkien's world-building as anything other than an obsession; he spent his entire life at it, and I suspect it's more elaborate than any other that has ever been created. If you could find somebody that said this was perfectly normal and mundane, then NPOV means you would say something like "everybody except so-and-so thinks this was a magnificent obsession". As it is, your changes made a perfectly fine bit of text dull and lifeless, not unusual for WP perhaps :-), but we do want to make our material more interesting and engaging, not less so. Stan 02:29, 21 Oct 2003 (UTC)

Magnetic and geomagnetic poles

Over a year ago, you asked « Can someone please explain what the difference is between the magnetic pole and the geomagnetic pole, because they seem exactly the same to me ». Go see the North Pole#Geomagnetic North Pole article as it stands now. I think you'll find your answer.

Urhixidur 20:52, 2004 Dec 22 (UTC)

AfD nomination of Hebrew Bible views on women

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2014...

For 2014: Wishing you a Healthy, Happy and Fulfilling NEW YEAR. Shir-El too 19:37, 23 December 2013 (UTC) (image: NASA Mars Rover, sunset)

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