I have just noticed that there is a new hierarchy of members classes.
The old "God Member" is replaced after 1000 posts to be a Edison Member.
After that I suspect at 2500 posts you get to be a Faraday Member
Some where between 6000m and 9500 the is the threshold for a Tesla Member
and finally in excess of 10,000 (I suspect) you are a Shannon member.
I must say that great as those people were I wonder if they are above the Gods?
I am glad to see Tesla ranks higher than Edison. After all we do what we enjoy, not necessarily making boat load of money or electrocuting cows so Tesla is a higher standard than Edison
Some theoretical physicists have been left out of the ranks. They are very curious kinds too
If we sub-divide the ranks into a few tracks, like inventors track, physicists track, chemists track, engineers track, computer genius track, etc. then I can go from say Poynting to Ising or something.
I want to be a Franklin member, after the open source hero who made his lightning rod free to the public:
"As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously."
-Ben Franklin (from the Autobiography)
focalist, if you overcome Ohm's law as you said, you're likely in some danger. I used to teach physics 2 in college and we had this lab to study Ohm's law on light bulb filaments. Only at high temperatures does Ohm's law break down. Resistance goes up for Tungston and down for carbon so to bread Ohm's law you need some sort of danger.
[quote author=Coding Badly link=topic=50102.msg357401#msg357401 date=1296167462]
The "God" level should be replaced with "Watson" (as in Thomas A. Watson).[/quote]I second that. "God" is a little misplaced, context-wise, in the list.
I am glad to see Tesla ranks higher than Edison. After all we do what we enjoy, not necessarily making boat load of money or electrocuting cows so Tesla is a higher standard than Edison
Some theoretical physicists have been left out of the ranks. They are very curious kinds too
As an old Tesla fan I thought that was pretty cool too!
As for curious theoretical physicists I vote for Feynman
so Edison volunteered to do it to show electricity can kill.
No, Edison volunteered to show that Westinghouse's AC (as opposed to Edison's perfectly-safe-but-it'll-electrolyse-your-body-fluids DC) could kill.
I don't want to be associated with Edison as a patent-clerk-bribing charlatan, so if someone will either change the ratings, or delete my account, I'd be ever-so grateful.
(did someone seriously not know who Claude Shannon was?)
Feynman was beyond whatever gods could remotely aspire to be.