Comments on: Take the Flame Challenge http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/ Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:13:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Avoiding the Temptation to Use Jargon « Kirsten Gantenbein: Portfolio and Blog http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/#comment-17730 Avoiding the Temptation to Use Jargon « Kirsten Gantenbein: Portfolio and Blog Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:18:59 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5637#comment-17730 [...] learning about the Flame Challenge today via multiple blogs and news stories, I never knew that Alan Alda was passionate about scientific [...] [...] learning about the Flame Challenge today via multiple blogs and news stories, I never knew that Alan Alda was passionate about scientific [...]

]]> By: Anders Ehrnberg http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/#comment-17729 Anders Ehrnberg Mon, 05 Mar 2012 22:25:09 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5637#comment-17729 David B. Benson I guess it was Faraday´s essay you read. Simply beautiful. http://www.bartleby.com/30/7.html David B. Benson
I guess it was Faraday´s essay you read. Simply beautiful.
http://www.bartleby.com/30/7.html

]]> By: JMW http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/#comment-17728 JMW Mon, 05 Mar 2012 13:59:31 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5637#comment-17728 Smoke that so hot, it glows. Smoke that so hot, it glows.

]]> By: David B. Benson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/#comment-17727 David B. Benson Mon, 05 Mar 2012 05:26:42 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5637#comment-17727 When I was young I read an essay on a candle's flame. Maybe I was 11. The portion I remember now is about the parts of the flame: blue, yellow and then the black smoke. I seem to have forgotten one of the parts. As best as I recall there was no mention of oxygen or gas. I suppose those were taken for granted. When I was young I read an essay on a candle’s flame. Maybe I was 11.

The portion I remember now is about the parts of the flame: blue, yellow and then the black smoke. I seem to have forgotten one of the parts.

As best as I recall there was no mention of oxygen or gas. I suppose those were taken for granted.

]]> By: Gary B http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/#comment-17726 Gary B Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:57:05 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5637#comment-17726 This reminds me of Clifford Stoll's oral exam for his Physics PhD, as described in "The Cuckoo's Egg". It was basically one question: "Why is the sky blue?". That of course, combined with a few additional "why?"s leads to a wide ranging set of topics that includes pretty much all of physics. ("But why is the light scattered?" What is refraction? ...) This reminds me of Clifford Stoll’s oral exam for his Physics PhD, as described in “The Cuckoo’s Egg”. It was basically one question: “Why is the sky blue?”. That of course, combined with a few additional “why?”s leads to a wide ranging set of topics that includes pretty much all of physics. (“But why is the light scattered?” What is refraction? …)

]]> By: danR http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/#comment-17725 danR Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:40:55 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5637#comment-17725 A flame is the shape, and the shape's light, of gaseous atoms or small molecules that are burning in the oxygen in the surrounding air that comes into the flame. Gaseous means the atoms or molecules are not stuck together like in a liquid or solid—they are apart from each other, like the air molecules are. A flame is the shape, and the shape’s light, of gaseous atoms or small molecules that are burning in the oxygen in the surrounding air that comes into the flame.

Gaseous means the atoms or molecules are not stuck together like in a liquid or solid—they are apart from each other, like the air molecules are.

]]> By: Matt Day http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/#comment-17724 Matt Day Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:54:36 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5637#comment-17724 I think Richard Feynman explains it very well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITpDrdtGAmo I think Richard Feynman explains it very well:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITpDrdtGAmo

]]> By: Bart R http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/#comment-17723 Bart R Sun, 04 Mar 2012 21:10:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5637#comment-17723 While rule 6 probably disqualifies interactive, dynamic, crowdsourced submissions like mine (http://prezi.com/woqmvvbb_h6l/flame-challenge/), the challenge can only improve the universe of good answers to the question. May inquisitive 11-year-olds win! While rule 6 probably disqualifies interactive, dynamic, crowdsourced submissions like mine (http://prezi.com/woqmvvbb_h6l/flame-challenge/), the challenge can only improve the universe of good answers to the question.

May inquisitive 11-year-olds win!

]]> By: George http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/04/take-the-flame-challenge/#comment-17722 George Sun, 04 Mar 2012 18:38:02 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5637#comment-17722 Check out the 1-minute physics answers on youtube. Already a good answer for 11-year olds. Check out the 1-minute physics answers on youtube. Already a good answer for 11-year olds.

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