Anthology of Ideas

Fantasy is a huge genre, but with few exceptions (“The Iron Dragon’s Daughter” comes to mind) there are very few fantasy worlds that have any sort of modern setting, and even less of these feature a world that develops over time. However, the world of Arathria will evolve over time; the mythos of the world will expand from a primitive state all the way into a futuristic setting. However, the bulk of the stories about the world will be about a clichéd medieval period.

I’ve decided to give INAP its own page. Aside from listing changes in the next version, and giving users a single place to go for updates, it also demonstrates one of the coolest features in the next version of INAP (2.2): Embedded Posts.

This is a reference list with notes of all SI and derived units in physics. The notes provide a brief explanation of some of the more confusing elements, but be warned that the full explanation could take many pages, and may be explained elsewhere on this website.

Physics has only 5 base units. (Plus the SI units Mole and Candela, but these are rarely used in Physics.)

Name	Abbreviation (Symbol)	Standard Unit	Notes
Name	Abbreviation (Symbol)	Standard Unit	Notes
Length	l, x (for distances)	Meter (m)	A meter is defined as the distance light travels in a vacumm in of a second (in physics it is customary to use metric measurements although the basic principles apply if you to use feet instead of meters)
Mass	m, M (when used with measurements in meters)	Kilogram (kg)	A kilogram is defined as the weight of a specific platinum-iridium cylinder
Time	t	Second (s)	Seconds are defined as 9,192,631,770 vibrations of radiation from a cesium atom
Temparature	T	Kelvin (K)	A degree kelvin is defined as of the distance between absolute 0 and the triple point of water
Electric Current	I	Ampere (A)	An ampere is the amount of charge (C) passing through a surface per second, and is defined as the current which produces a force of newtons per meter of length between two infinitely long, perfectly straight and parallel conductors with an infinitely small cross section separated by one meter in a vacuum..

Each of these base units is defined on fundamental constants, and all other units are based on these five units. At times it useful to break longer equations down to their most basic units to determine if the equation makes sense. The most common combinations of these basic units are given their own symbols and names. These common units are as follows.

We have all seen those weird phrases that occur when you translate a normal sentence into several different languages through one of the many translation services, but this is different–slightly. I noticed from a tracback that a review (I think) of one of my plugins was posted in Japanese. Although I can stumble though some basic romanized Japanese, I can’t read Kanji or Kana, so I went over to Google to find out what it said….

I have finally gotten with the program and have updated my feed links to go through FeedBurner. Old links will still work, but if you prefer FeedBurner you can use that now.

Unfortunately the Admin ignored the sign and clicked the big, red button. Fortunately the only thing that was lost was user comments and the statistics the last 10 or so days. I have read all the comments from the last 10 days, and probably replied to them, but if you would like you can post them again. I apologize for the RSS feed fun that is going to happen. I’ll try to avoid big, red buttons in the future.