I remember once when I was little, my grandma bought us these giant chocolate bunnies. We spent like weeks eating them.

I'm an atheist - Christmas is just an excuse to get completely slaughtered. Drink responsibly, kids.

I won't, don't worry about me.

may i ask, forgive me if i offend any of you - but what is it with easter? i have no idea what it is celebrated for, and i don't think that a chocolaate bunny is a serious thingie..

Jesus got reborn.

lol, are you serious? so what does it have to do with chocolate bunnies?

They brought Jesus back to life by stuffing broken-up bits of choco bunny into his mouth. After a bit of forced nom-nomming, the bearded one came back to life. I think that's the answer you're looking for, no?

(Yeah, I knew he was actually reborn, but the Bible is a boring enough story as it is)

WTF??? Chocolate bunnies? Seriously?

Yes gullible

mm. that's a more believable story
I thought he was reborn as a chocolate bunny..

I don't really get it either what the rebirth of Jesus has to do with painted eggs and chocolate bunnies. But then again, what does the birth of Jesus have to do with a tree and a fat old guy with reindeer?

actually the bunnies and eggs makes way more sense than a fat guy with flying reindeer with presents. The whole bunny thing seems like a way to celebrate Spring as opposed to celebrating Easter, but the whole Santa Claus thing sounds like it came from a drug-induced dream.

For a presentation I have after the holidays, I just calculated how well a stone skips over water, alcohol, olive oil, syrup, mercury, liquid nitrogen and peanut butter. God, I love physics.

lol: http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sgseen/in_the_heartlands/279810/h1n1_available_at_this_clinic.html

weell this is definately random chat...

(Evan, where did you get that signature thingy lol)

fat guuy with  flying reindeer... ok... very beleivable

(sorry for the bad spelling)

bouncy rabbit and eggs... hmmm....

But who cares? I get chocolate at Easter and Presents at Christmas sooo

lol jell. today lecturer taught us how you should hit someone in the head when you need/want to, physics-wise.. it was awsome.  

I've had scissors explained, physics-wise. How the energy and force that was in the cutting process was condensed into a small enough area that it was able to sublimate aluminium. There is no limit to physics.

did you study anything about superconductivity? THAT is awsome. we've seen stuff float in the air

you guys sound like nerds.

They ARE nerds, Livio.

Superconductivity is unexplainable in the classic physics, and I haven't gotten far enough in quantummechanics to be able to understand it yet. From what I understand, all processes conducted at a temperature of 0 K occur without any change in entropy. This means that inside a system, no energy will be lost in the form of heat. So if you have electrons moving inside a material of 0 K, they won't lose any of their kinetic energy and will keep moving at the same speeds. Simply put, the material has no resestivity.
When the magnetic field changes around a conducting material, an Eddy current will be induced in the material in such a way that a magnetic field gets created opposite to the changes in the outer magnetic field. Because with materials around 0 K there is no resestivity, that current will start instantaniously at the slightest change in magnetic field. So if you put a permanent magnet above the superconductor, the gravity will force a change in the position of the magnet, which results in a change in magnetic fields, which results in a Eddy currents, which results in an opposite magnetic field, which results in a floating magnet.
But why the conductivity nears 0 at the different temperatures for different materials, I don't know that. That is pretty advanced quantum mechanics.

yep, you said almost all i know about the concept. well, we've had experiments and xamples with it, so we witnessed floating magnets. it was awsome. and freakin cold.

there's a wide variety of temperatures in which different materials become superconductive. the lowest is obviously Hydrogen, and that's like 0.something away from 0 kelvin..the highest found, if i'm not wrong, is somewhere around -70 celcius(or -170? don't remember) and it's some kind of combination of Itrium other random components. this concept can be very useful if we manage to get anything superconductive in a fine temperature, as more than 50% of our electricity is lost when going through the wires to our homes...

Yup, they definitely are nerds.

ok stop calling them nerds b/c now we just sound like dumb people

I don't mind being called a nerd. It just shows that the others realise I'm smarter than them.