User talk:Nimur

Looking to Contact You

Hey Nimur! You may remember a brown friend who you used to hang out with back in your days in New York. It's me. I've been looking for a good way to contact you, since it looks like your email is bouncing lately. Got a reason or two to drop you a line this time of year. I'll also get around to calling you soon, if I hopefully have the right number, but in the meantime, let me know what your updated email address is. Mine is still the same as before. Hope things are well, and I'm glad to see you're very active here - it's something I always wanted to do but never had enough time to seriously devote to. Vmanjr (talk) 15:32, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

I think I still have your phone number, and email, I'll try to get in touch with you this weekend! Thanks for the note! Nimur (talk) 16:01, 9 October 2010 (UTC)

You deserve this

		The Reference Desk Barnstar
		for explaining that two pigeons can make a half-wave antenna (just not a very useful one) [1] Physchim62 (talk) 22:40, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

re: Pigeons on my TV aerial?

"two pigeons in a row constitute a half-wave antenna at 700 MHz" That's a pretty cool intersection of radio invisible waves seems-like-magic and real-life objects! On the other hand, did you perhaps just crack the secret for implementing RFC 1149? DMacks (talk) 05:26, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

My reply to your post

Hi Nimur. I thought you might be interested in my reply to your post at WP:Reference desk/Science#light pulse intensity with time. So I'm pointing it out to you here, because I figured you might not otherwise notice it, since the thread has been otherwise dead for a day and a half, and the topic is old enough that it's transcluded from the archives, so my reply doesn't show up in the ref desk's history. I've been too busy with real life to reply in a more timely manner. Red Act (talk) 06:22, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

Yeah. I figured there could be some unusual "edge effects" and wave packet shape effects, plus geometry, that might make the situation more complicated; but as I mentioned, "I don't know how..." - it's been a while since I did anything numerical with optical wave interference so I'm not the most well-equipped to evaluate the idea. Anyway, it's a neat concept, I've been thinking a lot lately about ways to create optical frequency-mixing. This is a hard problem. Nimur (talk) 12:23, 21 October 2010 (UTC)

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Thanx!

The Refdesk Barnstar For helping me vanquish the despicable Ariel font once and for all. DRosenbach (Talk

My bad

As per header - Cheers for the heads up about including SERPs on the helpdesk Darigan (talk) 17:02, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

Reference desk

Sorry for using your thread to moan about you. As you can probably guess my gripe was primarily that you had asked me to prove facts that were in the article BLU-82 and which I thought easily confirmable by a web search. eg searches for "BLU-82" or "GSX explosive" eg eg an example that should be reliable (snippet only).

By the way one of Melvin Cook's competitors to supply the explosive for the BLU-82 gives a simple account of why it was successful: archived conversation between Gerald Hurst and someone else (Gerald Hurst is this guy ,inventor of Astrolite)

Anyway sorry about what might seem a lot of fuss about nothing. I just got annoyed. I do however have a proper question (see reference desk talk page again).

I shouldn't have blown up like that, sorry.Sf5xeplus (talk) 20:47, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

No worries, we're all human (except the bots and search-engines). I'll work on my part, which is to keep my contributions up-to-snuff. I may be a "regular" but I do make mistakes, thank you for checking my work. It keeps me honest. Nimur (talk) 21:10, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

reply

Replied here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Computing#running_a_c.2B.2B_program). thanks--180.234.38.71 (talk) 14:21, 31 December 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:Hubble.jpg

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I have added a fair-use rationale template for that image: File:Hubble.jpg. Nimur (talk) 17:31, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Orphaned non-free image File:Hubble.jpg

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Thanks for uploading File:Hubble.jpg. The image description page currently specifies that the image is non-free and may only be used on Wikipedia under a claim of fair use. However, the image is currently orphaned, meaning that it is not used in any articles on Wikipedia. If the image was previously in an article, please go to the article and see why it was removed. You may add it back if you think that that will be useful. However, please note that images for which a replacement could be created are not acceptable for use on Wikipedia (see our policy for non-free media).

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Edwin Hubble

I'm sorry, I can't see any discussion on the talk page. In any case, non-free content cannot be used in favour of free content, even if it is of a higher quality. Our deliberately strict non-free content criteria are quite clear that free content must always take precedence, even if the free content has yet to be found. However, in a case like this, where we already have a free image of the subject, it's pretty much black and white. If you disagree, that's fine, but your problem is with the policy, not with me; please do not add the non-free image back into the article in the mean time. J Milburn (talk) 22:18, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I apologise, I didn't actually see the message on my talk page, I assumed you meant the article talk page. If you are concerned that the "free" image has been uploaded under a false license, then perhaps you could nominate it for deletion? J Milburn (talk) 22:29, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

I will try to investigate the exact copyright status of both images, including the original photographer and institution. This is a bit difficult because both photos have been reprinted in thousands of different websites and print sources. Nimur (talk) 22:30, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Thanks; I'm sorry about my rather curt message above, as I say, I hadn't seen your message to me. I disagree that we should use "the higher quality image" necessarily- we should use the smallest amount of copyrighted material possible. As you argue, the pipe image is more useful, but it should certainly be reduced drastically in size, and perhaps cropped down significantly (just face and pipe?) J Milburn (talk) 22:33, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Before we take any action, can you give me a day or two to try to track some more authoritative copyright information down? I agree that we need to minimize the amount of "encumbered" content, but I'm not sure either image has a currently valid copyright, because I don't know the actual original author/photographer of either image (except that to the best of my current research, both images originated from Mount Wilson). Nimur (talk) 22:36, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

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Looking to Contact You

Thanks for replying me. Here goes another interesting topic. Does a string really exist? No,it's not. If we consider that a string is self-vibrating, then a question can be asked. Why does a string vibrate? The charge,mass,energy are created due to the vibration. But as we all know that energy can not be created but can be converted. So,here comes a question that from where does a string gets it energy to vibrate?

Another thing is that is a photon really mass less? I think,no,it's not. Photon has a mass of the range of 10 to the power -57. That's why we consider it as a particle of mass zero.

You've told me that there exists dark energy in vacuum. But,what does hold or carry the energy? Energy can not exist freely. It definitely needs a medium.

One more to go. In black holes why the light can not escaped from it? The escape velocity in the black holes is greater than the velocity of light. That's why the energy of a black hole continuously increases. The energy gets converted into mass and as a result the mass as well as the gravity of a black hole continuously gets increased in a larger way. I know it is hard to prove. But it is not so hard to prove that any kind of elementary particle in our world is created from the photons. I'm definite that it could be proven. Think about it. If these could be proven, no one can stop you from getting a Nobel. I don't want anything but a scholarship as I belong to a lower middle class family. Hope that you would be kind enough to reply me again.