Re: Has anyone heard of a [-1;1] logic?

From: Michael Moroney (moroney_at_world.std.spaamtrap.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 04:42:58 +0000 (UTC)

"jgreenfield@seol.net.au" <jgreen@seol.net.au> writes:

> Pick a proton, and an electron. Write the charge of one in terms of
>the
>> other. ONE of them is gonna be negative.
>>

>Prove it!!!!!

I knew it when I saw the original post. Someone who says "Prove"
something trivial and when someone takes the bait you come right back
"But that doesn't meet _my_ definition!" or something.

>Stick your finger in a power socket, and record the "less than zero"
>jolt you get, fuckwit.

That's because the power frying you goes as the square of the voltage,
and as everyone knows, the square of a negative number is the same as the
square of the same magnitude positive number. If you look at the
spasms of your heart muscle, you'll see it jerk negative, then positive,
then negative, ... in step with the power frequency as the current does
its thing.

Oh, btw, when you add inductors and capacitors to AC circuits, not only
do you need to understand negative numbers, you need to understand
imaginary numbers (j=sqrt(-1)), too. WAY over your head, I bet.

> By the look of your answers, you've done it
>before. Positive/negative for protons and electrons are LABELS. You
>could call them "up" and "down".

Here we go with the "it doesn't meet _my_ definition!" kookiness.

>That's why I realise that having (-5) electrons doesn't change them
>into protons..........and you don't.

They're called "positrons". Add 5 electrons to your -5 electrons (or 5
positrons, if you please) and you'll get nothing but annihilation energy.
(oh, here comes the "That doesn't meet _my_ definition!" reply)

Anyway, Eric wasn't talking about the negative of an electron, he was
talking about the _charge_ of an electron. There's no way around it, the
charge of an electron is the negative of the charge of a proton, even if
an electron isn't a negative proton. 

-- 
-Mike
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