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Monday, February 20, 2017
Thursday, February 2, 2017
why do we sweat more if cooler but humid?
ok. I'm going to try to blog a bit more regularly. I am a theoretical physicist who thinks about everything, especially the brain. I have come up with heaps of really good ideas, such as twenty20 cricket, my SIDS theory, why we dream, how creativity s generated in the brain etc.
my website is at www.justgeorgeous.net.
i also post more details of some stuff on tehre. check it out from time to time.
today, i was working down a well at my place, which is only about 12 feet down. outside it was about 31C and quite humid. i may have been sweating a little, could hardly notice much. when went down the well, it was cooler but more humid, and i started to sweat like crazy. it was pouring off me. literally. my shorts and undies were soak wet. i was like in a shower almost. anyhow why do i sweat more if it is cooler (but more humid). the answer has to do with humidity obviously. is my body sweating more because it cannot get enough evaporative cooling, or is it because my body is trying to set up an equilibrium with the more humid air around me. when water vapour condenses to releases its latent heat of condensation. and my body would get hotter if not for the fact that my body is producing much more water to set up an equilibrium with the air so less or no water from the air gets to condense on me. the temperature felt quite cool as i entered the well. i would be guessing only but about 24-25 C would have been it.
my website is at www.justgeorgeous.net.
i also post more details of some stuff on tehre. check it out from time to time.
today, i was working down a well at my place, which is only about 12 feet down. outside it was about 31C and quite humid. i may have been sweating a little, could hardly notice much. when went down the well, it was cooler but more humid, and i started to sweat like crazy. it was pouring off me. literally. my shorts and undies were soak wet. i was like in a shower almost. anyhow why do i sweat more if it is cooler (but more humid). the answer has to do with humidity obviously. is my body sweating more because it cannot get enough evaporative cooling, or is it because my body is trying to set up an equilibrium with the more humid air around me. when water vapour condenses to releases its latent heat of condensation. and my body would get hotter if not for the fact that my body is producing much more water to set up an equilibrium with the air so less or no water from the air gets to condense on me. the temperature felt quite cool as i entered the well. i would be guessing only but about 24-25 C would have been it.
Monday, January 5, 2009
The origin of twenty20 cricket May 1997 Dr George Christos
Dr George Christos has recently written to the International Cricket Council (ICC), requesting recognition that he first came up with the idea of 20/20 cricket, in a letter sent to the ICC (with a copy to the England and Wales Cricket Board) in May 1997.
Dr Christos, who was a mathematician at
Dr Christos, said “Driven by some jealousy, and a detestation of the DL method, I wanted to come up with a shortened cricket match, that eliminated the need to use the complicated DL method, that was not understood by players and spectators, and in my view ruined one-day cricket.” "This is why I came up with 20/20 cricket", he said.
In his letter to the ICC, dated 2 May 1997, he also points out that a shorter cricket match would lead to much more exciting cricket, and as it would last for about 2-3 hours, making it comparable in duration to a football match of any code, this would enable families to attend, and viewers to watch. The EWCB expressed interest in the idea at the time (letter of reply June 1997) but it seems they have since decided to claim it to be their own idea. On Wikipedia.com it states that the EWCB discussed the idea of a shorter cricket match in 1998 and 2001. The first 20/20 match was incidentally played in 2003.
Dr Christos said he had contacted the ICC about this matter a couple of years ago, through a webform on the ICC website, but had not received a response. “Maybe it never reached the top level”, he said. Asked why it has taken him so long to claim intellectual property of this idea, Dr Christos said he had been seriously ill over the last 5-6 years.
Dr Christos now wants recognition of his intellectual property to be posted on all 20/20 cricket websites, and to be acknowledged in 20/20 cricket match broadcasts.
Dr Christos said that if recognition was not forthcoming from the ICC (and the EWCB) he would seek legal advice in February 2009.
Dr Christos said copies of his May 1997 letter and the responses he received from the ICC and the EWCB, together with other information have been posted on the website:
http://www.members.iinet.net.au/~justgeorgeous/2020cricket.html
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