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If a race of people were from another dimension, but in that dimension they were from another planet, would they still be aliens?

The NBA 14/15 season is a day away from starting so this thread for any fans and mildly interested posters. I am a LA Lakers fan myself but there are many compelling stories playing out around the league. Beyond seeing how Kobe holds up in his return from an injury plagued season it will be interesting to see: how the Miami Heat perform in the post James era, the return of Derrick Rose to the revamped Bulls, if the Cavs are pretenders or contenders, if Golden State can get over the hump, if Melo can become a true leader, and if Durant can perform to or even above expectations? All thoughts and opinions are welcome.

I think the OSF should add a biochem category as part of the chemistry forum, its only right. Add more topics. ~EE

Hi all, i just started a new mind game project that involves creativity and imagination for the end solution goal. its sort of electronic brain teaser, please have a look and share your opinion, not trying to promote but just hearing your opinion on the idea and game. many thanks for any input! tom http://igg.me/p/995497/x/8110649

What is gravity? I may have the answer. I will try to explain using logic and thought experiments. Here goes nothing: Think of language. Let's look at English, as it's the language we are using. I've found three particular sentences that have logic and are true, even when taken out of context. I came about them when I asked, where truth lie or lay? All the observer needs are the Laws of English. But this leads to a problem? A paradox? How can one understand language out of context? A lot of questions so here are the sentences and maybe answers: In the past you will lay and lie. (revealed outcomes, whole of information.) In the PRESENT you will lay OR lie. …

Was wondering if there was anybody on this site who enjoys playing around with a Rubik's Cube? I myself have the Rubik's Cube, the Mini Cube, Rubik's Revenge, the Professor's Cube, and the Megaminx, and am able to solve all of them fairly quickly (I may post a video on Youtube on how to solve the regular Rubik's Cube and the Megaminx sometime in the future). I'm also looking into attempting the Teraminx, as it seems like it will be a good challenge. I'm also looking into making a go at this crazy thing too: http://www.superliminal.com/cube/cube.htm

Hey everyone, I wanted to get some opinions from others on filtered water. Whenever I change my Brita water filter, the water always seems like it goes down smoother and has almost a crispness to it. Of course, I know this could be in part to the fact that my mind knows I have just changed the filter, and could be imagined only. I am curious to know whether or not there is anything behind this and if anyone else shares the same feeling or perception. I do have a ppm meter that use and always replace the filter when it is half of the starting amount. I also will admit that I use my filter longer than is recommended because a) I am a single individual and I …

Will we ever switch over to nuclear fission/fusion power alone? or will we stick to the disgustingly simple fossil fuel combustion process? Share your ideas on where the energy industry is headed below.

The wholesale price of electricity in the UK at the moment is about 5p/kWh according to:- www.businesselectricityprices.org.uk/cost-per-kwh (RE:- " Over the past few years these have stabilised to between 4p and 5p per kWh. ") and the wholesale price of Kerosene (@ $1.62 to the £) is about £458/mt (45.8p/kg) according to:- www.thisdaylive.com/articles/falling-oil-price-as-window-for-subsidy-removal/192441 (RE:- " For Kerosene, the actual cost in a foreign refinery recently was $743 per metric tonne "). { I'm using 46.2MJ/kg as the heat of combustion for Kerosene according to:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerosene and 1kWh=3.6MJ } which leads to 3.6p/kWh ( 4…

Many people seek to find solutions to problems by searching for patterns as well finding associations between disparate things. I would like to show very interesting relationships between nature, language, human anatomy and geometry. I believe that these relationships between things can be described as expressing a recursive principle and thus if applied further could represent an algorithm that could explain everything. This post is accompanied by an image. I would like to ask what those visiting this thread think the geometry looks like. I will begin this topic with this image and will post many more strange geometries as found in nature. The reason for doing so is to…

Post your favorite stuff from viXra (or similar). I like this one, where the author solves two Millennium Prize problems in just five pages. I'm also a fan of this one, where the Goldbach conjecture is proven by induction in just two pages. (For those of you unaware, viXra is a pre-print archive similar to arXiv, except they have zero restrictions on who can post what. Whereas arXiv requires affiliation with a university or an endorsement from an established user of the site, and will reject obviously wrong papers (which is pretty much a bare minimum standard), with viXra everyone has free-reign! The results of this policy are entertaining, to say the least.)

I just saw Richard Branson on TMZ say that Virgin Galactic will be shipping passengers into space in a couple of months. Can anybody corroborate this, their site is not specifying any details? I may simply have just misunderstood the statement. The volume was a little low! I think this is pretty cool, and at $200,000 it may be something I might be able to do within my lifetime. Something worth considering . . . . .

I am curious if anyone here takes cold showers and if so, do you feel you experience a sense of "hyper-awareness" during and immediately after? Many years ago I took cold showers religiously but for some reason or another stopped. I am now attempting to reinstate the daily habit and remembered what it feels like right after. Not to be confused with Cold Showers I found this link while searching http://www.thehackedmind.com/7-reasons-to-take-cold-showers-and-1-that-really-matters/. Might be a load of bull but most of it seems believable...

Hey There Scientists, Curious Individuals, and Science Fans, I think this is one of the best place to post this in. I don't think there are many other place on the internet that match this forum for the raw amount of passion for science. As the title says I would like to start a non-profit that is focused, initially, on scientific literacy for teenagers in the U.S.A. Science has always been a hobby, passion, and way of life for me. As a child I watched every episode of shows Bill Nye the Science Guy and Beekman's world. As an adult I live on science documentaries. I would like to help kindle that passion and interests in others. I think the best way to do that is throug…

Hey everyone, As I was reading through threads on the site tonight, I found myself asking why I am a member of this fantastic community. What brought me here, and why spend valuable time that could be spent elsewhere doing other things. My answer is this; I don't get the stimulation that I desire from my peers. Whether that be philosophy, biology, mathematics, or just about anything related to the sciences. It is very easy to find someone to talk to about trivial matters, or at least what I consider trivial, such as movies, eating preferences, yada yada yada, but not science. So, first off, interaction. Additionally, I find the learning and teaching others act…

The app idea goes off the lines of what a user Strange had described: Basically, the ideas there are two sections: The Official Mathematical section and the Unofficial mathematical section. In the Official Mathematical section, people can create whiteboard nodes, modify them, and have discussions about is commonly accepted in the mathematical community IF THEY ARE A CERTAIN RANK. In the Unofficial Mathematics section, users who are lower ranks can create their own whiteboard nodes, modify them, and discuss them related to mathematical concepts that they have in mind and discuss them. Here is how the Whiteboard node system works: When users create whiteboa…

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/fear-ebola-outbreak-make-nation-turn-science gasp! (I thought it was funny...)

Everyone has ideas? Lets make that a challenge. We have here in order of appearance elfmotat CaptainPanic studiot StringJunky swansont hypervalent_iodine Ophiolite Strange Phi for All Arete Janus timo Cap'n Refsmmat mississippichem ajb physica s1eepI want from each one of them a scientific idea on monday morning on my desk.

The Trash Can ought to be named the Bit Bucket.

Music, some of us like to listen to dubstep, others classical. The question I am presenting here is which is the most motivating. We know that music causes, as everything else, chemical reactions in the brain. But using applied neuro-chemistry, and basic observation, not to mention listening to it yourself, which is most motivating (3 SA's due for school, I need some motivation because personally, when I have that much dull typing on book analysis SA's I need motivation or I feel like crap and reallly want to break out Kerbal space program).

To celebrate 50 years of a single TV series Dr Who was cellibrated by a Magnificent Music Performance in the Royal Albert Hall in London two days ago. Although I personally do not get on with the creatures, the 'take' on time is quite fascinating. The section given on Time 23:30 gives an enthralling musical display of the span of : Beginning to End of Universe , as a chunk. It is currently on BBC i Player probably for a week or two.. Enjoy these 2-3 minutes. link DO NOT FORGET TO SET TIME TO 23 :30 stop at 29:35 http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0394dg0/BBC_Proms_2013_Season_Doctor_Who_at_the_Proms/ mike

This post is dedicated to Mr.Egdall and Dr. Tom Swanson but others can post or reply too. Mr.Egdall I bought your book Einstein`s Relatively Simple a few months ago. I enjoy reading your book at first. It is quite humorous and the examples given are quite compelling, rigid and vivid. My knowledge have increased much ever since I started to read your book. But soon it start to fall out of stage. The book is still very new. The datas are updated but the mathematics, to me are too simple. And the mathematics are not stated clearly in the end-the appendix section. Here is an example: In appendix A, your time dilation and length contraction formulae derived from Lo…

I recently graduated with a b.s. in biochemistry. My plans are to persue a masters degree and maybe go further from there. I'm not sure but I've been sending my resume to places here and there as I take a short break from school. The other day I got a phone call from a recruiter for a position at HoneyWell. I was pretty shocked considering they are a really great company and I just graduated. The recruiter asked me several questions about experience and asked if I knew anything about ICP-MS and Ion Exchange. I obviously know what Ion exchange is because my whole last year of biochem lab and recognized ICP-MS because a special topics course I took forced us to learn almost…

Can someone please assist me and tell me where I can find a science forum, that does not expect their members to know every single Phrase , word and meanings, be a literate genius and can discuss science, and not keep discussing current science that we already know? I have found on several forums that they expect seemingly you to know everything, and you are not aloud to make mistakes or have any of your own thoughts, I accuse all these forums of been the Johovah witnesses of science . I intend on finding an open forum, not a stereotypical forum.

Keep seeing this image of a cross on mars taken by opportunity?, Maybe impression left by opportunity, Or Fake? http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/gallery/all/1/m/3720/1M458433044EFFCEQKP2955M2M1.HTML edit: opportunity rover