General Chat / The Random Question thread

No, I just really like George Carlin.

Don't you?

Purple!


Do you enjoy salad?

not really, unless it has an actual taste

Why do you like purple so much?

why dont you?

I really don't hate purple, it just is an ugly color unless it is used with green.


Is this going to turn into a debate about colors?

well, actually colors are derived from transition metals, so it will be a topic about inorganic chemistry.

why does everything i talk about turn into science?

because you're a rebel \m/

is travis really the moonstar?

well, actually colors are derived from transition metals, so it will be a topic about inorganic chemistry.

No

Lowenaldo, colors actually come from what type of light matter absorbs, without light, everything would be colorless (aka dark).

Are you a spaceranger?

without the metals we would either. gosh darn, stop being wrong all the time.

plesa can you get me a drink?

jkid, please dont tell me im wrong when i talk to doctors( PhD's) where that is what they specilize in. and light has nothing to do with it, its photons that excite the electrons into a different energy level (orbital) which is typically a higher one, so a jump from lets say 1s to 2s or higher, depending on the wavelength.
although to you i suppose light would equal photons but whatever.
..... im not going to write a paper talking about this, but on a side note, jkid wikipedia isnt a good source.

hands sammy a coke.

go get me some tert-butyl.

It is wave leignths that make color, but basically visible light is a waveleignth inbetween ultraviolet and infared, which is considered invisible light. When you were talking about metals, those are pigments, and pigmients have color (such as iron has red), but they need light to reflect off of them. You are right, but I don't get how colors are derived from transition metals.

Well, forget about this, lets stop talking about colors and use this thread for what is really is supposed to be, asking random questions.

Okay?

............jagkid stay in school k?

I'm sure he does, but I don't see what your getting at, Lowenaldo. But since this is turning into a debate about particle physics, then I suppose I should step in. You're both correct. jaguarkid is correct in his statement that colors result in the absorption of certain electomagnetic frequencies. And you are correct in your statement that colors result from electrons changing energy levels. Because light isn't just made of waves, it's also made of particles. The electrons in everyday materials are constantly bombarded by photons causing them to become excited. When they finally come down off their little electron high, they release energy. The number of electrons in an atom (as well as the number of protons and neutrons) dictate what color the energy is released as. It is technically correct to say that materials absorb light, but that is not what directly produces color.

Did everyone understand that? Can we move on now?

no

please explain more?

Do you always have to be so sarcastic?

^random?

sarcasm is great cause it makes people like you feel abit silly.

got wood?

always.

got milk?

mmmm milk......
mmm breasts......
mmmm soup....

am i going a little bit insane *over enthusiastic eager to please voice of mocking self satisfaction*

...

never

Got food??

Damn you beat me.

Edited by Goliath123, 13 September 2009 - 03:20 PM.

Yeah. Tortilla chips and salsa!

Shammy, what does soup have to do with milk and breasts? Soup does not come from breasts.