Other Sciences

Just curious as to whether there are any subscribers to the intelligent design stance? Personally I think it's a bit like creationism in disguise and also smacks of sitting on the fence. Me, I support evolution. But of course I could be wrong and maybe we are all just a giant experiment in somebody/thing's petri-dish.

I was once told that glass is not a solid but is a liquid. Is this true? I was told that that is the reason the large skyscrapers filled with glass windoes have to flip the glass 180 degrees because the gravity causes the glass to taper leaving the top side more narrow over time.

I want to get some new ideas for concepts that relate to photography. I will start with two of my favorite techniques. My favorite and most important rule is the rule of thirds. If you want to make a picture interesting, then you want it to follow this rule. NEVER place the main subject directly in the center of the frame. If you are shooting portraits, then you will, at best, end up with a pretty mugshot. Imagine a tic-tac-toe that evenly divides your frame. The goal is to try to stay out of the center block. You can organize the viewer's attention by guiding him or her around the frame. This can help you tell a story by managing their attention in sequence. An…

Hello everybody! The material used for the walls of woodwind instruments, and its real, perceived, imagined or absent influence on the sound and ease of playing, has been and is the controversial matter of recurrent discussions that I gladly reopen here. The air column is the essential vibrating element of a wind instrument, the walls are not, but this is only a first analysis. The walls are commonly made of wood (sometimes cane, bamboo etc.), metal, or polymer aka plastic, which manufacturers call "resin" to look less cheap. Mixes exist too, with short reinforcement fibres or wood dust filling a thermoplastic or thermosetting resin ("Resotone" for instance). I'…

Ideas and strategies for terraforming mars. I have no serious backround in sciences above high school level but I had several ideas for terraforming mars and I would like any one with knowledge to the contrary of my ideas come forward so that I may know and adapt my ideas. 1) My first idea is that to increase the amount of gas trapped in mars's atmosphere we must increase the gravitational pull of the planet by increasing it's density, to do this couldn't we put a material on mars that is very dense that will increase of mars but the mass much more. I think this would increase mars's density and its gravitational pull so that it would hold more gases in and create…

Someone asked me that if you could travel throug the time and i instantly said no. But thinking about it, yes you can travel to the time, if you could do some stuff. For example... if you invert all electromagnetic field and run your electrons spin exactly the opposite you´d be travelling to the time backwards... Thinking that you could build a machine that inverts the electromagnetic fields, then you enter in... spend one hour inside then you turn it on.... you´ll travel backwards 1 hour. Einstein could never bind electromagnetic fields with gravity.. i dont think is to hard (hypotheticaly) though everything responds to electromagnetic fields, gravity is …

What is your favorite experimental "mishap"? Mine would have to be the time I decided to drill a hole in my potato cannon to see if the added oxygen concentration would have an effect on the firing distance. I forgot to point the hole away from me. ouch.

Let me first say that this is not a justification for recent anthropogenic warming. The last 30 years is a bit too much and we should begin remedial measures. However, the reference below is interesting. http://www.sciencedaily.com:80/releases/2008/12/081217190433.htm It suggests that the world would be entering a new glaciation period, with glaciers advancing, and the whole world cooling, if it were not for early anthropogenic global warming. If this is correct, I am glad it happened. I would much rather live in our current relatively balmy conditions than in a new deep freeze.

Ok, a few days ago my teacher was telling me that the faster an object travels, the more mass it has. The mass keeps on increasing until right below infinte at where it reaches the speed of light (i think. Cause this is all from memory ) My questions are HOW and WHY? Thanx guys

Here`s the idea, I want ALL who read this, to think of the individual nubers !, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 for next Saturdays lottery in the UK at 8:50 pm is the draw I`m going to put those numbers on my ticket, I want you all to WILL them to appear, bear with me, I know it sounds a bit screwball! an experiment was done in a TV studio some years back, they were given (the audience) a set of numbers to WILL for the appearance of, it worked at 87% (well above probability!) I wish to test this for myself, and want some volunteers/helpers. IF we DO win the big one (jackpot) all will have an equal share of the money, this money will only goto the serious ones! email me on satur…

Ok here goes. I am trying to find a corilation between high intelligence and depression. We have all heard the phrase "ignorance is bliss" and stupid people are often happy as a pig in sh*t . I have never added a poll to a thread before so I hope this works. I know this is will not prove anything at this stage but it will do untill I devise a decent test.

I acquiesce that DrmDoc and myself are seldom in agreement on matters related to mind. And here is another "crackpot" intervention of mine; this time on molecular and evolutionary biology "Technical advances have brought an accelerating flood of data, most recently, giving us complete genome sequences and expression patterns from any species. Yet, arguably, no fundamentally new principles have been established in molecular biology, and, in evolutionary biology, despite sophisticated theoretical advances and abundant data, we still grapple with the same questions as a century or more ago." The point being made is that we easily remember what is right, but…

http://www.slate.com/id/2155164/?GT1=8900.

Absolute zero has been deifined. Is there an established "Absolute Highest Temperature" in the universe? I imagine this was at the Big Bang, but is there a constant limit to matter and energy now?

Is a man more dangerous swimming in pool(floating) or staying on ground(touch land) when there is lightning? Will the situation change when it is sea water?

What would happen if you were teleported to pluto/sedna for 1 to 1/2 a millisecond.. then back i duno.. this topic just popped into my mind.. would you freeze to death even with the 1ms? would you even feel as though you were there? would you see black space?

hello.... im not sure where this is supposed to go.. but im jus wondering... im like a teenager right... an i was just thinking... like if i go to another state at 4am in the morning in the middle of some city's CBD... and go down a dark alley.. an there happens to be a single person walking the opposite way to me. just say for some reason i stab that person in teh throat > jump in my car > travel 400km's back to my home. no one knows what i did an i will never tell anyone. in this situation.. can i be caught for murder? like ive heard of cases where they kill somone an hide the body an somehow the guy still gets caught.. i dont see how thats so pos…

I've read that the technology exists to power a car with hydrogen fuel cells. I've even heard that successful prototypes have been created. Scientists claim that the problem with selling these vehicles to the public would be a lack of hydrogen, but I'm not sure how this could be a problem. Can't you just take water, and extract the hydrogen by using an electric current? Why are we unable to power our cars with water? Is the technology just not ready yet, or is it physically impossible? Or, does it simply have to do with political reasons? I'm sure the government would lose a lot of tax money if everybody stopped purchasing oil.

I seem to have this ability to hear certain wave lengths. I can hear the radiation coming from any TV set if the screen is totally white, and I can hear mobile phone microwaves at night. The mobile phone noise keeps me awake. Has anyone else noticed this noise? Pincho.

Freeman Dyson is the last of the greatest 20th century physicists, a colleague of Einstein and Feynman, Professor Emeritus of Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study, who wrote Imagined Worlds which has a chapter on ETHICS that documents the facts about why scientists have failed Humanity for over 50 years. Some of the more important quotes that characterize scientific culture are: The most historic warning of all is reserved for the UC National Labs, the worst case example of tenured welfare state scientific culture devoid of humanitarian motivation characterized by Dyson, is contained in President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s 1961 Farewell Address to the Nation: It …

Recently I debated Buddhists and Hindus about certain metaphysical beliefs of theirs. I have great respect for both religions and their self-cultivation methods, I just disagree with the supernatural stuff. Their key argument was that my skepticism is meaningless because science was wrong before and when the germ theory was created, scientists initially rejected it (which is largely true). How would you guys counter it? Those two discussiosn were the first time I've debated religionists for over a decade.

Hopefully you will experience the good ghosts and not the bad ghosts . Also , I don't know why this thread is in religion , when it could just as much be at home in theoretical physics .

It seems to me, that Science is - or should be - a constant process of simplification. Scientists look at apparent complexity, then find an underlying simplicity to explain it. For example, consider the complex movements of the planets in the sky. The planets aren't like the "fixed stars". They don't stay in the same position like stars. The planets wander around the sky. How can we explain such wanderings? The explanations went through three stages of development: 1. The Classical Greeks invented the idea of "epicycles". This involved every individual planet going round in its own unique set of complicated circles, 2. Then, in the early 17th century, K…

Laser physicist Russell Targ gives talk on his 23 year long research work on remoting viewing / ESP. Findings published in credible academic and scientific journals. Experiments included research related to national security cases involving CIA and other intelligence agencies. Interesting stuff. VIDEO: Physicist Russell Targ talk on ESP

As per the title. I recently, as part of a job interview, was asked to complete a Jung / Myers-Briggs test to reveal my personality. I agreed, as I found this interesting since I had never ever considered doing this previously. Possibly naively, I was sceptical of such tests as I felt they are open to ambiguity since it's my belief that personalities though possibly similar between people follow a spectrum and are unique rather than fit within a category. Anyway, cutting to the chase I completed the test and my result was : INFJ - Introvert. Intuitive. Feeling. Judging. Which turns out to be the rarest personality type with only around 1.5% of the world's popula…