According to the science behind becoming small and large, the sub-atomic distances are shortened or lengthened, and subsequently the small guy has a great density and his punches carry a greater force. By this logic, shouldn't the small tank be at least as heavy as the original, if not far more powerful? Or should not the enlarged ant be so less dense, that it floats in the air!?
Is there a canonical explanation for how Ant-Man's weight works when he shrinks down that's consistent with the various events depicted in the film?    I think the explanation given in the film is roughly "the suit compresses the space in-between atoms, so your size decreases, your density increases, and your total mass stays the same", however it seems to be portrayed in contradictory ways.  For instance:   He can float in water, and even be sent shooting through the air by a relatively gentle flow of water filling a bathtub.  This wouldn't happen if he retained his original mass, as he'd essentially be the densest thing on the planet and should sink like a stone even in a vat of molten lead. Upon landing after being ejected from the bathtub, the ceramic tile underneath him shatters.  That takes a significant amount of force, and similar effects are used at other points in the movie where he falls onto (or straight through) various things. He's able to get sucked into a vacuum-cleaner.  One that didn't even appear to be a high-end, extra powerful vacuum-cleaner, let alone one capable of sucking up a 200 pound piece of dust.   He can run along the barrel of a gun as someone shoots it, apparently without causing them to drop the weapon or even have trouble continuing to aim it.     Does a more consistent explanation exist in other media, that would fit with the above examples?  Or is this simply a case of the power being made to do whatever happened to be most convenient at the time?
Often I need two (or more) map frames in map layout to present different data next to each other. It is easy to make multiple map frames in QGIS Print Composer. BUT...  It is in the nature of my work that very often I need to update some map frames because data I am presenting in map changed or I need to add/remove layer, change scale, projection etc.  So if I create one map frame, lock it (Lock layers for map item), create second map frame with different layers, scale,projection etc. and than realize I need to change something in first frame, I can't find a simple way to do it...  To simply do that in Mapinfo, there are more Map Windows, in ArcGIS there are multiple Data Frames. What is in QGIS to achieve that? When we want to open an application or file from the terminal, we type, say,  okular file.dvi   This opens the application, but also shows the status of the application. We cannot close the terminal, because it kills the process. Unfortunately, if you're trying to, for example, create a LaTeX file, you will need one tab for the text editor, one for the dvi file, and so on. And if you're trying to open all windows from the terminal, you can forget it. I'm trying use the terminal as much as possible, and while I have Yakuake, it is still a bother having so many tabs and seeing which of those have an application I've killed and so on.  So, is there a way to open an application/file from the terminal so that the status doesn't show and immediately gives the prompt so that we can use it to open more applications? How do I log all input and output in a terminal session? How do I keep logs of all the work done via terminal? For example, I want a record of all the work done on database via terminal. File list command line (hidden and subfolders) Quantum entanglement faster than speed of light? recently i was watching a  on quantum computing where the narrators describes that quantum entanglement information travels faster than light!  Is it really possible for anything to move faster than light? Or are the narrators just wrong?  Regards, How can I hide username and computer in terminal command prompt?   In Terminal it says  Last login: Mon Jan 13 00:00:14 on ttys000 Whatever:~ UserName$    Is it possible to show just the current folder and $ sign? Realtime audio processing using Dynamic How to install gail and atk-bridge? What does 'Ign' , `Get` or 'Hit' mean when running an apt-get update? I understand that for resistors in series we need to add R for each resistor to get the equivalent resistance, where R is resistance. I also understand the mathematical manipulations that show that for resistors in parallel we need to add the 1/R for each resistor to get the equivalent resistance. However I have a couple of questions that have to do with the physical interpretation of the mathematical manipulations involved.   First, I am trying to understand why in the case of parallel resistors we have to add 1/R's instead of adding R's as in the case of resistors in series i.e. could it be thought that the current in the wire is like a sort of water flow in the pipe that has two horizontal parallel pipes positioned one on top of the other and in between connected by a number of vertical pipes that have a tap each that could be adjusted to represent different resistances. Then at the top of each vertical pipe the water pressure P exists and at the bottom the pressure will be reduced by P*R.   For example, suppose we have three vertical pipes, so then the pressure at the bottom of each (after the tap) is P*R for the total of 3*P*R so why is the equivalent resistance not 3*R*P but 1/R = (1/R1 + 1/R2 + 1/R3) and how can I be able to visualize this relation? Linux ACL behaviour: settings the mask changes 'ls' output, but not actual permissions It might be the time of night, but this is puzzling me. Picture the following.  [root@node1 acltest]# getfacl foo/ # file: foo # owner: root # group: testuser user::rwx group::r-x other::---  [root@node1 acltest]# ls -la . total 24 drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 Feb  9 21:53 . drwxr-xr-x 25 root root     4096 Feb  9 21:54 .. drwxr-x---  2 root testuser 4096 Feb  9 21:53 foo [root@node1 acltest]# setfacl -m m::rwx foo [root@node1 acltest]# getfacl foo/ # file: foo # owner: root # group: testuser user::rwx group::r-x mask::rwx other::---  [root@node1 acltest]# ls -la . total 24 drwxr-xr-x   3 root root     4096 Feb  9 21:53 . drwxr-xr-x  25 root root     4096 Feb  9 21:54 .. drwxrwx---+  2 root testuser 4096 Feb  9 21:53 foo [root@node1 acltest]# su - testuser [testuser@node1 ~]$ cd /acltest/foo/ [testuser@node1 foo]$ ls -la . total 16 drwxrwx---+ 2 root testuser 4096 Feb  9 21:53 . drwxr-xr-x  3 root root     4096 Feb  9 21:53 .. [testuser@node1 foo]$ touch bar touch: cannot touch `bar': Permission denied   In words: I create a directory foo, with mode 0750, root as owner and testuser as the group. (testuser is the private group of testuser, but that doesn't matter.)  The getfacl command correctly shows no ACL's on this directory and there is not mask yet. The mask will be set accordingly to the group permissions if I would add a named group or user now.  If I explicitly set the mask to rwx now, the group permissions as shown by ls change too. I know it happens the other way around (the mask changes when the group permissions change), but this seems puzzling.  The more puzzling because the getfacl output does not show the group permissions as rwx but - as said - ls does.  Which one is right? Apparently, the output of getfacl is right, because testuser cannot write to foo. As expected, by the way, because I did not grant the testuser group any permissions to do so.  It goes on. I cannot allow the testuser group write permissions on foo by just using chmod. I have to explicitly set an ACL using setfacl -m g:testuser:rwx foo to allow testuser to finally touch foo/bar.   Can someone explain the rationale behind the difference in the outputs of getfacl and ls? I know it can be tricky to have normal permissions go together with ACL's, but this seems plain wrong. (Though I expect to be missing something glaringly obvious ;))  I have already seen Apps retaining data after being deleted How to install (old) packages for Ubuntu 9.04? Based on some excellent feedback by Mark here (), today I was able to use the vmware converter to clone my production server for a staging server.  However the nic won't come up no matter what I do. I attempted to inistall vmware tools, as I suspect that the fact that it is not installed might prevent the nic from working. (I have the nic set as a vmxnet3 card in the vm settings). The install failed because there were several dependencies missing as well as the Linux headers. Given that Ubuntu 9.04 has been EOL'd, the packages I need to install to get the vmware tools to install are no longer available. I doubt the ubuntu 9.04 install CD has the packages on it.   What are my options? I'd rather not upgrade the version of Ubuntu yet, as the point of the vm right now is to maintain parity with the production server. Might I have better luck resetting the driver to use vmxnet2 instead of the vmxnet3?  Thanks in advance!  Chris How to find an ellipse , given 2 passing points and the tangents at them? Please answer to a question , how to find an ellipse which passes the 2 given points and has the given tangents at them. And one related question is that the given condition can decide just one ellipse which satisfies it?  Thank you in advance.  Edit : May be , I can say the first answer (by Mr. André Nicolas) is for the general case. Is there no special case where only a finite set of ellipses satisfies the condition?  Edit : According to the answers and comments , I can compute an arbitrary chosen ellipse for my condition (using the method by Mr.Patrick Da Silva). But there are possibly many others which satisfy my conditions. Am I right? Resume a process via a PID number I wanted a daemon to start on boot so I added a line to /etc/rc.local that ended in "&amp;"  I did that so it would run in the background.  The daemon is loaded and working fine but when the daemon is running you can press keys that do other important things.  When I am finally logged in I wanted to resume process or send it a terminal (tty2) so I can do a couple of things.  I'm new to linux and not sure how to do this.  I do a ps -aux |grep uox to work out which PID it is. But not sure how to resume. A sci-fi book or TV show about a tribesman discovering he or she actually lives in a huge spaceship I have a problem. I have several large equations within the text. And when LaTeX does not manage to put the equation on the same page and moves it to the next one, he spreads the paragraphs of the text in the first page. How could I prevent this? I know about \pagebreak and \newpage, but I do not want to force the \newpage, as the text may move (if I add something later or so on) and the pagebreaks may not be valid. I would like to make LaTeX not to spread the paragraphs over a page automatically. Is it possible?  I tried to make an example:  \documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{book} \usepackage{amsmath} \begin{document}  LaLaLa\\\  LaLaLa\\\  LaLaLa\\\  LaLaLa\\\  \begin{eqnarray} 123&amp;+&amp;123 \\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ \end{eqnarray}  LaLaLa\\\  LaLaLa\\\  \begin{eqnarray} 123&amp;+&amp;123 \\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ 123&amp;+&amp;123 \nonumber\\\ \end{eqnarray}  \end{document} Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous how are you?  Well, my biggest doubt at the moment is the difference between these two tenses. Actually, the more I study the more I have doubts with these tenses.      /         These similar threads helped me to clarify and reiterate my previous understanding.   I'm not posting in these threads because the site suggests avoiding asking for clarification (I don't know why because it would avoid new threads with the same content).  My main doubt is as follows:     I've lived in New York for two years.   In my understanding, the sentence above implies (1) that I lived in NY for two years and now I live in another place; or (2) I'm moving to another city after two years living in NY; or (3) I lived in NY for two years, then I moved to another place for some period and, finally, I'm returning. Is that correct?     I've been living in New York for two years.   Whereas the sentence above, in my understanding, implies that I lived in NY for two years and I still living there.  Anyway, many sources that I've already read say that these two sentences have the same meaning and are interchangeable. Therein lies my question. Is that correct? Because if these two sentences are interchangeable, it destroys all my understanding.  Thanks in advance. Irreducibility of $X^n - 2$ over $\mathbf Z[i]$. I was “playing” with Eisenstein's criterion and the polynomials $X^n-p$ ($p$ being a prime number).  Over $\mathbf Z$, the classical Eisenstein's criterion directly applies and shows that $X^n - p$ is an irreducible element of $\mathbf Z[X]$. The question was “what happens over $\mathbf Z[i]$?”  We know that in this new ring, a prime number $p$ has one of three different fates:   if $p \equiv -1\ (\mathrm{mod}\, 4)$, $p$ still is an irreducible element of $\mathbf Z[i]$, or equivalently $(p) \subset \mathbf Z[i]$ still is prime. (Unless I'm mistaken, number theorists say that $p$ is inert). Eisenstein's criterion still applies and the polynomial is irreducible over $\mathbf Z[i]$. if $p \equiv 1\ (\mathrm{mod}\, 4)$, $p$ can be written as a sum of two squares: $p = n^2 + m^2$ and is therefore reducible on $\mathbf Z[i]$: $p = (n+im)(n-im)$. These two factors aren't associated (the units in $\mathbf Z[i]$ being $\pm 1$ and $\pm i$) so $(p)$ splits: $(p) = (n+im)(n-im)$ is the product of two different prime ideals. One can still use Eisenstein's criterion with either of these prime ideals, and $X^n - p$ is irreducible over $\mathbf Z[i]$. if $p = 2$, the oddest of all primes, one still has a factorisation $p = (1+i)(1-i)$ but this time, $1+i$ and $1-i$ are associated. In NT slang, $(2)$ is ramified: $(2) = (1+i)(1-i) = (1+i)^2$ and one cannot directly use Eisenstein's criterion.   So here's my question: how do we prove (or disprove) the irreducibility of $X^n - 2$ over $\mathbf Z[i]$? The tag  and meta-tag  syntax generate much nicer looking results than merely surrounding your tag with [square brackets].    However, they only work when you're talking about the site you're on.  On Area51, in Chat, and on Meta sites, this is frequently not the case, leading to attempts at syntax like [[tag:failure]](https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/failure), which produces:    Hmm, must be some subtle syntax thing:   : [tag:failure](https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/failure) []: [[tag:failure](https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/failure)] : [tag:[failure]((https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/failure))] : &lt;a href="https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/failure"&gt;[tag:failure]&lt;/a&gt; : [tag:failure][1] \n\n [1]: https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/failure : [more text is a [tag:failure] too](https://superuser.com/questions/tagged/failure)   I give up!  How can I create a link to a tag on another site with tag markdown?