Gasoline is a blend of hydrocarbons that also has other impurities. Sulfur-containing molecules would be one of those. There may be a few nitrogen-containing molecules like pyridines, but I don't think there would be ver much of those at all. If there are other major elements, I am blanking on them.
Well if all the impurities could be distilled out of gasoline would it not be purely oxygen, hydrogen and carbon?
FWIW can you give me the exact chemical makeup of ethanol?
By weight, I just meant its presence in the scientific literature and popular press. It clearly isn't something that is disproven without pervasive coverage. If there is an interesting work in the area, I usually at least see it on the science blogs I read.
I have run the numbers through a super computer and found the atomic weight to the big bang theory to exactly = zero, incidentally which exactly equals the atomic weight of the AGW theory.
(I would say the AGW theory = sub zero but don't want to get into another endless gay rights discussion.)
Haha...I just looked at the board and got very worried for a moment. It looked like the instructor had left the Hamiltonian operator off of the Schrodinger equation on the blackboard. However, now that I look more closely, you can barely see it peaking through the molecule. That would have been embarrassing....
Not to mention the Jeffersonian operator is always ignored in the modern day scientific community!
Genius at work: 12-year-old is studying at IUPUI | The Indianapolis Star | indystar.com
When Jacob Barnett first learned about the Schrödinger equation for quantum mechanics, he could hardly contain himself.
For three straight days, his little brain buzzed with mathematical functions.
From within his 12-year-old, mildly autistic mind, there gradually flowed long strings of pluses, minuses, funky letters and upside-down triangles -- a tapestry of complicated symbols that few can understand.
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At this point, Jake's math IQ -- which has been measured at 170 (top of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children) -- could not get any higher.
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The numbers that keep him from snoozing are the same that led him to develop his own theory of physics -- an original work that proposed a "new expanded theory of relativity" and takes what Einstein developed even further.
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"There are two different types of when stars end. When the little stars die, it's just like a small poof. They just turn into a planetary nebula. But the big ones, above 1.4 solar masses, blow up in one giant explosion, a supernova," Jake said. "What it does, is, in larger stars there is a larger mass, and it can fuse higher elements because it's more dense."
OK . . . trying to follow you.
"So you get all the elements, all the different materials, from those bigger stars. The little stars, they just make hydrogen and helium, and when they blow up, all the carbon that remains in them is just in the white dwarf; it never really comes off.
"So, um, in the big-bang theory, what they do is, there is this big explosion and there is all this temperature going off and the temperature decreases really rapidly because it's really big. The other day I calculated, they have this period where they suppose the hydrogen and helium were created, and, um, I don't care about the hydrogen and helium, but I thought, wouldn't there have to be some sort of carbon?"
He could go on and on.
And he did.
"Otherwise, the carbon would have to be coming out of the stars and hence the Earth, made mostly of carbon, we wouldn't be here. So I calculated, the time it would take to create 2 percent of the carbon in the universe, it would actually have to be several micro-seconds. Or a couple of nano-seconds, or something like that. An extremely small period of time. Like faster than a snap. That isn't gonna happen."
"Because of that," he continued, "that means that the world would have never been created because none of the carbon would have been given 7 billion years to fuse together. We'd have to be 21 billion years old . . . and that would just screw everything up."
So, we had to ask.
If not the big bang, then how did the universe come about?
"I'm still working on that," he said. "I have an idea, but . . . I'm still working out the details."
Sure, I'll listen to your rock theory.
The 'big rock' isn't really theoretical, it is actual reality.
Back in the fifties astronomers noticed an asteroid sized rock (the big rock) in deep space and further observed it was headed toward Earth and eventually would actually impact Earth.
Remember the one recently that passed between the Earth and the Moon that was said to be the size of a bus? Well to put the big rock in perspective, if the bus sized one was a pebble in your driveway, the big rock would be the size of your house.
Of course it was immediately realized that something of that size hitting Earth would end life as we know it and so the government immediately classified any and all information about the big rock to be top secret code word, after all who is going to pay their taxes when you think the big rock is going to get you before the tax man does?
So as the decades passed by and more studies were done and solutions discussed, there have been several things discovered. There was discussed the idea of using a nuke to blow up the big rock but that would be like asking a deer if would rather be shot with a 12 guage slug or a load of buckshot, either one is fatal.
The advent of improved computers and better otics helped make two discoveries, one was that the orbit of the object conicides with the Mayan calendar in that it passes by Earth (every 3552? years) and that original calculations were slightly off, it wasn't going to hit Earth after all but only pass closely by.
Meanwhile more information came in from a space probe we had sent to examine the big rock and it was found that it was leaving a trail of iridium in it's wake.
The thing that makes that an important discovery is that after the big rock passes by Earth, we will be orbiting for several months in the iridium dust and tests show that this much iridium will convert through a chemical reaction, the nitrogen (70% of our atmosphere) into nitrous oxide.
And you know how people behave when the inhale a lot of nitrous oxide.
So actually people will be running through the streets, throwing off their clothes and partying like crazy. This was the main reason for the Obama NASA muslim outreach program, he was just explaining to the mullah types that this is an inevitable event and so try not to overreact when their women start shedding their burkhas and running around in public naked.
Anyway the final conclusion of the big rock theory is that no matter how bad things may get, hang in there, just keep on rocking and rolling and you are going to experience the party of your lifetime, and whenever you think of the big rock, it's party time! :dance2:
