Farewell

GoldCoinLover · October 16, 2004 12:30PM

As you guys might've noticed. I haven't been posting here much. I won't be posting here much anymore, if at all.

My interest has been geared towards calculus/physics and space in general now. I'm still interested in coins though, and I will come back to these boards from time to time.

Peace.

Bear · October 16, 2004 12:31PM

May good fortune go with you.

loanshark · October 16, 2004 12:31PM

ms70 · October 16, 2004 12:32PM

Good luck in your endeavors & best wishes!

cladking · October 16, 2004 12:32PM

Physics and math are fun. We should be here when you get back.

Louis · October 16, 2004 12:33PM

Good luck in whatever you choose to do.

tradedollarnut · October 16, 2004 12:33PM

All you have to do is figure out the space/time continuum thingy and then you can be there and here at the same time!

loanshark · October 16, 2004 12:35PM

Good luck to you. Coin collecting you can always come back to. It will always be here.

Your education is more important at this stage in your life.

Your friend,
Loan Shark

Purple73 · October 16, 2004 12:35PM

Nows the time of year. Orion with M42 is coming up also the 7 sisters. As far as planets go Saturn and Jupiter has been up for some time early in the morn. Excellent things to study.

Just don't be busting ya head with E=Mc2 cause it doesn't work no matter how ya slice it.

Have fun!

PURPLE!

Cladiator · October 16, 2004 12:37PM

c ya

granddad · October 16, 2004 12:38PM

Please come back and post pics of any coins that you find "in space".

Have a Great Day!
Louis

ms70 · October 16, 2004 12:38PM

<< All you have to do is figure out the space/time continuum thingy and then you can be there and here at the same time!

>>

JRocco · October 16, 2004 12:46PM

Go to school, make lots and lots of money, then ---- YOU WILL BE BACK !!!

Yousri · October 16, 2004 12:56PM

Good luck

Rob790 · October 16, 2004 1:08PM

Good luck to ya GoldCoinLover. Physics is great and interesting.

ER · October 16, 2004 1:10PM

When you get to Heisenberg 's Uncertainty Principle, you 'll be back.

phut · October 16, 2004 1:31PM

Good luck... Great choice.

mrearlygold · October 16, 2004 1:37PM

Good luck!

keets · October 16, 2004 1:49PM

Just don't be busting ya head with E=Mc2 cause it doesn't work no matter how ya slice it.

...............famous last words!!!!!!!! just hang on to your seat real tight and get ready for the ride of your life in the near future. i find it amazing, given the advances of mankind in the last century that you could ANY possibility. perhaps the mind that will solve the riddles we don't understand hasn't even been born yet.

al h.

MacCrimmon · October 16, 2004 1:50PM

Calculus and Physics are easy in comparison to grading coins!!

You either make straight A's, or drop and give me 10.

EVillageProwler · October 16, 2004 2:04PM

Hey GCL,

When you get to Fermat's Last Theorem, let me know what you think of it. That is *the* problem that got me hooked on Math. Do a web search on Dr. Andrew Wiles of the IAS.

EVP

airplanenut · October 16, 2004 2:32PM

<< Calculus and Physics are easy in comparison to grading coins!!

You either make straight A's, or drop and give me 10.

>>

Duh... it's hard to argue a rule

... plus, when you get to AP exams, there's no consenus... just one teacher saying, "he's right"

richbeat · October 16, 2004 2:33PM

Good luck!

golddustin · October 16, 2004 2:42PM

Good for YOU! Mathematics are the basis of understanding just about anything. Most things in life can be broken down or explained by some formula. When you take TDN up on his proposal, maybe you can swoop by the mint and pick up some nice fresh proof patterns, or one o'those 1913 nickels!

Neptune · October 16, 2004 2:49PM

good luck GCL - study hard and behave!

relayer · October 16, 2004 2:54PM

Sounds like a great plan - the more you know the better off your life will be.

Coins are insignficant compared to the wonders of the world.

Good Luck

ajia · October 16, 2004 2:59PM

"All you have to do is figure out the space/time continuum thingy and then you can be there and here at the same time!"

Naw, if he figures that out then he can come back to yesterday & we'll never know he was even gone!

Best of luck in your new path.

northcoin · October 16, 2004 3:21PM

Thanks for letting us know what you will be up to and that all is going well otherwise. Check in when you finish exams and let us know how things are going calculus, physics and space.

GoldCoinLover · October 16, 2004 5:22PM

<< Thanks for letting us know what you will be up to and that all is going well otherwise. Check in when you finish exams and let us know how things are going calculus, physics and space. >>

Thanks for the support all. Will do. I don't have an exam though; heh, I'm 16 and in high school. Going to be a physist professor and teach phyiscs or something at Arizona State University. Already got a invitation there the other day because of my grades

I really don't try to go though calculus and study each equation piece by piece. That'd take to much time. I just like to get an overall fundamental view of it; it's the concept that counts the most to learn anyways.

Vector Calculus is alot more fun and interesting than diff/int calculus. I guess because it has more real life applications and physics in it.

Quantum physics/mechanics -- I don't know. Not quite there yet. That sh*t is confusing. And there seems to be never ending information on it.

What I'm REALLY interested in is time travel. The fasinating thing is that it IS, at least in theory, possible. There is already one person actually trying to invent a time machine using extremely high powered lasers. The lasers are criss crossed in a closed space. The trick is to get high enough powered lasers, and the goal is to send; just an atom; into the future.

Anyway, sorry to talk about this stuff on a coin forum. I should've posted this on the open forum; although I thought if I did that not as many people would know.

..and just when I thought vector calculus was the highest level of calculus..I see Fourier Series

I'll look up Fermat's Last Theorem's.

GoldCoinLover · October 16, 2004 5:23PM

<< When you get to Heisenberg 's Uncertainty Principle, you 'll be back.

>>

Heh, are you certain?

..because I'm already there

relayer · October 16, 2004 6:38PM

Actually traveling forward in time is an important concept in Relativity.

If you want to travel thru time into the future, all you need to do is move in the opposite direction of the center of the Earth. The faster and farther you go before turning around and coming back to Earth determines how far into the future you will have traveled.

Anyone who has ever climbed up and then back down a mountain has traveled into the future, and anyone who has ever flown in an airplane has traveled into the future even further. So far the people who have traveled into the future the most have been the astronauts who have gone to the moon and back.

It leads to the one of the most fundamental problems in space travel. If you travel away from Earth at a velocity approaching the speed of light for 20 years and then turned around and came back, the 40-year trip (according to your clock) that have passed, thousands of years will have passed on Earth. So once somebody can build a ship to travel that far and that fast, and goes out into space, there may not be anyone left on Earth to return to.

It is Einstein's universe, and those are the rules.

Speaking of which, both Einstein's Universe by Calder and A Brief History of Time by Hawking are both excellent books if you want to understand the concepts in Relativity. I think those two books should be required reading for everyone.

Gemini · October 16, 2004 7:57PM

Good Luck to you future Professor and as far as time travel goes......Yikes!!! ...I already have a hard enough time trying to comprehend infinityyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

ER · October 16, 2004 8:35PM

Mr. Data, engage.

cosmicdebris · October 16, 2004 8:38PM

If he does figure out time travel imagine the coin collection he could have.

coincollector1989 · October 16, 2004 8:44PM

Math rules, see you when you come back.

joeyuk · October 16, 2004 9:22PM

I guess you won't figure out the time travel thingy or you would have come back
and explained it in your first post.

Best of luck

ziggy29 · October 16, 2004 11:03PM

Can you imagine travelling back in time to the Philadelphia in the 1790s and plucking a few of the Mint's recent new offerings back into the "future" 210 years later?

Shamika · October 16, 2004 11:18PM

FatMan · October 16, 2004 11:27PM

Given : e^x = e^x; Chain Rule; x = 1; f(x)c = c.
b^x = e^(x ln b)
= e^u (x ln b) (Set u = x ln b)
= e^(x ln b) (x ln b) = b^x ln(b)

or

Hmmmm......I am sure glad I am an old fart that doesn't have to make these decisions. As a youngster, you are making a wise choice. The time is right for calculus and physics. The coins will always be here when you choose to return.

Study hard and good luck.

ziggy29 · October 16, 2004 11:41PM

Yeah, but Fats...maybe in the future he'll be able to set the "Way Back Machine" to Dahlonega in 1845, and get

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directly from the mint in, say, MS-66?

nolimitz · October 17, 2004 12:01AM

Good luck GCL. A wise decision.

mgoodm3 · October 17, 2004 12:40AM

Later. Fermat's last theorum is one of those intuitively correct statements that's a b**** to actually prove. (actually not even intuitively correct). Pain in the butt that theorim is.