Comments by "GH1618" (@GH-oi2jf) on "" video.

  1. Best recent donut joke was in New Yorker. A woman logs into her Zoom meeting and says “Good morning, everybody — I brought donuts!”.
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  2. George Gamow — pronounced Gam ov (or off) — was one of my earliest inspirations in science, through his book “1,2,3 … infinity”. Published in 1947, it was available in paperback a few years later and was probably the first book I ever bought. Many people my age (old) cite it as their first serious science book.
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  3.  @Kanner111 — There is an aspect of whimsy on this channel, which I like.
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  4. Physicist? I thought he was a butcher.
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  5. Isaac Asimov wrote a book titled “Atom — journey across the subatomic cosmos.” It is 30 years old now, so is somewhat dated in the details, perhaps, but he gives a lot of the history. Powell’s has it, and gives a description.
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  6. Alibris has a new copy of the trade paperback listed for only $12.65, which is less than the new price printed on my copy.
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  7. It’s her channel and her time spent talking about doughnuts.
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  8. What if the donuts are gluten-free?
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  9. "Stable" in this context means low mass per nucleon. The mass of a single proton is 1.007+ atomic mass units. The mass of iron-56 is 55.935 atomic mass units, or only .99884 atomic mass units per nucleon.
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  10. Since she went to Graduate School at the University of Kentucky, I don’t think the story would be exotic.
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  11. I hope he got a book he likes.
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  12. You mean integers vs. real numbers. "Floating point" is a computer thing.
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  13.  @oregonsenior4204 It isn't. "Floating point" has to do with how numbers over a wide range of magnitudes are represented in a computer. It's a completely different thing. FP numbers aren't even continuous, which is what she was describing.
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  14. I don’t think it is helpful to think of a neutron star as an atomic nucleus.
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  15. Not only that, some people get “discreet” vs. “discrete” wrong.
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  16. It follows that you have to eat it in one bite.
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  17. I don’t recall ever hearing it pronounced so badly before. Perhaps because my high school science teachers knew how to pronounce it.
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  18. An analogy for what? The problem with finding an analogy to the atomic nucleus is that it is not like anything with which we are familiar.
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  19. Neutrons contribute mass approximately equal to protons. Mass is a pretty important property.
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  20. Probably two would be more health-conscious. They would be happy to eat the leftover holes. The hole is the most healthful part of the donut.
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  21.  @maymkn — Usanians
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  22. In AC current, the individual electrons don’t move far, but they produce a field effect and the field transfers the energy. See “The Science Asylum.”
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  23. Helium-1? If it’s “1” it’s hydrogen.
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  24. It takes awhile to get used to her sense of humor.
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