Zixar

Like it? I shot it myself through my telescope last Monday night... :D-->

Seaspray: In music, when you go up an octave, you double the frequency of the sound. So, if you have a 440Hz tone (which is the note "A"), the "A" in the next octave up on the piano will have a frequency of 880Hz. This nifty phenomenon makes all sorts of harmonious musical mixtures possible. Visible light, on the other hand, only has a range of 400-700nm--not enough to see "chords" or even a harmonic. If we could see just a little farther down into the infrared (800nm), then deep violet (400nm) would be a harmonic of that color.

Hee hee! Nice poem, Tilda! :D-->

Pretty much. It's like charging people to "teach" them how to walk on hot coals when anyone can do it.

Sirguess: Yes, I meant within the context of rainbows. All EM radiation has higher harmonics. The circular rainbows around shadows are usually called "glories" and can be seen around your own head if you look into a foggy valley with the early morning sun behind you. This is another trick the bull.... self-help gurus try to pawn off as "empowerment"--they let you "firewalk" the night before, then fake you out at dawn with your "glory".

seaspray: Find a copy of Ernest Martin's book "The Star That Astonished The World". He's the man who originally came up with the September 11, 3 BC date for Jesus' birth. (VPW footnotes this in JCOPS.) Martin goes into much more detail. As far as astronomy software, the easiest to use is Starry Night, available from space.com. If you're a serious stargazer, you may wish to use Software Bisque's "The Sky" instead. If you want the best freeware, pick "Cartes du Ciel" (don't worry, it has an English version).

Harmonics are integer multiples of a given frequency. The lowest possible visible frequency (dark red) has a wavelength of about 700 nanometers. When you double the frequency, you halve the wavelength. Thus, the first possible harmonic of that color is at 350nm, which is, unfortunately, fifty nanometers into the invisible ultraviolet potion of the spectrum. No. Harmonics. Period.

This is wrong. Multiple rainbows occur from multiple reflections and refractions through the atmosphere. Harmonics are in no way involved since the visible portion of the spectrum subtends less than a full octave of frequencies.

Just having fun, Pat... :)--> You might want to do a web search on the post hoc, ergo, propter hoc logical fallacy. Loosely translated, it means "after the fact, therefore, because of it." Most superstitious behavior stems from this fallacy. "If I cut my hand after breaking a mirror, then breaking a mirror brings bad luck." That sort of thing.

It happens automatically, the more you post, unless Paw decides you need a unique title...

The pronoun "who" is either interrogative or relative. From Dictionary.com The same applies to the other relatives, whom, what, which, whoever, whomever, etc. None of my examples use it in the interrogative.

Geez. Read this: Note that "whomever" is a relative pronoun that has no antecedent, because it certainly does not reference the only preceding pronoun, "You". Or consider the following grammatically-correct sentence, that has a nonetheless-ambiguous antecedent for its relative pronoun. "We spoke to the woman and the man who danced." The antecedent is either "the man" or "the woman and the man", but the ambiguity cannot be resolved within the context of the sentence. Therefore, the antecedent of the relative pronoun is not definite. This also invalidates Wierwille's statement.

Never mind.

I don't know any Greek, so I can't help you there. I think that what I have posted certainly refutes Wierwille's contention as it relates to English, though.

Raf: Howzabout John 13:20, then? Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me. The relative pronoun "whomsoever" has no antecedent in this sentence. None of the anteceding pronouns are represented by it.

Rafael: False. Consider the statement: "Jack wondered who spilled the milk." The relative pronoun "who" does not refer to the nearest noun, "Jack".

Yep. Call Dell. They'll be able to build you one with all that stuff. The only thing that's a rip-off is if you go for the top-of-the-line processor. You don't need to pay $600 for a 3.0 gigahertz Pentium 4 when you can pay $250 for a 2.4 gigahertz processor. No popular program taxes even a 2 GHz CPU, so it's wasted money to be on the bleeding edge.

Um, why?

Ferbie: Read the last post on the previous page.

Rafael: I found a good example on the Net. Consider the following sentences: You have no problem understanding which pronoun refers to which antecedent, but it's obvious that it's not the closest possible noun except for "they" and "police". Wierwille was wrong. (edit: Wrong about the rule, not necessarily about the antecedence in that verse. It's theoretically possible it is as he said. But his rule is not a true rule.) [This message was edited by Zixar on April 03, 2003 at 20:44.]

The color in question is indigo. Standard spectrum colors are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet, indicated by the mnemonic ROY G BIV. It's a dark bluish-purple.

Mike: Oh, please! By that "logic", I can deduce that you are a homosexual pedophile, because a) I've never seen you have sex with an adult, and b) I've never seen you in the company of any females. Any protestations you might make to the contrary can be safely discarded as "bad data" because of your obvious "heart" bias. Therefore, in the absence of any "good data" that denies the allegation, you molest little boys. QED. You're one sick piece of work, Mike.

Of course, a real scientist doesn't hold to a theory once it's been disproven either, but that apparently doesn't bother some people. Honest research doesn't just throw away the data that doesn't fit in with the pet hypothesis.

Heck, you can replace your motherboard for $50, then buy a 1GHz Intel Celeron CPU for $40 and 256 MB of RAM for another $25. More than triple your new performance for about a hundred bucks. See www.mwave.com. They'll even assemble and test your motherboard bundle for another nine bucks. The last four computers I've built have come as parts from Multiwave, and none have given me a lick of trouble.

Hey, everybody? Would you check your Bibles for me? All of mine only have 66 books, and none of them have orange covers! I think I done been LIED to!