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SamCogar mentioned above... ... to which Phi for All responded... I'll probably not win any friends by saying this, but I'd say Sam is, on this point at least, largely right, and Phi largely wrong -- with no disrespect intended to any of our members. Phi's sentiments reflect a vaguely Popperian view of science, one that is often repeated by scientists who, in many cases, quite understandably due to other commitments, are unable (or even unwilling) to keep abreast of developments in the history and philosophy of science. Popper's view goes something like this: Science can be described as a process of "critical rationalism" or "conjectures a…

If you have any interesting facts on science post them here! Here are some of my facts: You burn more calories eating celery than celery has in it. People that smoke a pack of cigarettes every day puts a halfcup of tar in his or her's lungs each year. I'll post more later.

This thread has been started after a comment SkepticLance rightly made in the Limit to Growth thread. Basically he felt that he was being asked for sources disproportionately more frequently than other members, and that other people do not cite references as often as he is asked to provide them. While I personally think that's a monster Lance creates for himself, you can't ignore the fact that we don't use references anywhere near as one would expect on a forum like this. Certainly we ask for them much more than we provide them without being asked ourselves. Do we do it often enough? Do we rely too much on poor sources? Do we invoke higher standards for oth…

(A collection of some thoughts brought on by recent posts and posters. Some of these are touched upon in the FAQ and Pseudoscience section, and these sentiments can be found on other science fora) If you think you've toppled relativity, quantum mechanics, evolution or some other theory with your post, think again. Theories that have been around for a while have lots of evidence to back them up. It is far more likely that you have missed something. Here are some things to consider: 1. You have to back your statements up with evidence. 2. Anecdotes are not evidence. 3. Being challenged to present evidence is not a personal attack. 4. Calling the people…

I recently read a very good book called "The Web of Belief" by W.V. Quine and J.S. Ullian. Its basically a compact introduction to rational belief and an entry point to areas of philosophy, methodology of science, and philosophy of language. Here are some excerpts from the section on the virtues of a hypothesis. I thought it would be beneficial to any aspiring scientist. There are five in all, but I don't have time to type them all up atm, so here are the first three. I will finish them up tomorrow. Virtue I: conservatism: In order to explain the happenings that we are inventing it [hypothesis] to explain, the hypothesis may have to conflict with some of our pr…

does anybody know the weight of iodine per gram

In science , possibly one of the most varied , yet most flexible tools . It's prominence in the current 'Electronic age ' gives us insight as well a mechanism to examine our surroundings .' " FEEDBACK " However it finds its place , widely spread , in Nature, Industry , Management as well as Electronics. Can we learn interesting points and insights , from the action of Feedback " ? There appear to be a range of differing effects , with different types and styles of feedback ( say , positive, negative, damped, loose, levels of, etc ) Are there uses for understanding these differing effects. Namely , in understanding scientific observations , in the univ…

So, I had a thought. What if there is a population contingent whose natural preference to a typeface would be from right to left and not left to right? Like the torah, there are examples of literature that read the opposite way to the norm. I propose an experiment, out here in the intermawebby, where a website is set up with the axis flipped to produce a left to right with some reading material and a vote/comments area. Just for fun, see? Is this just me being overtired and stoopid, or a remarkably cunning experiment that will break the conformities of literature, as we know it? You decide.

Hi. Garlic is supposed to be harvested by mid summer, when plant shows certain signs and bulb has developed to a 'normal' size. The question is; not harvesting the garlic for another year until next summer, will the plant produce more bulbs, bigger bulb, plant dies, existing cloves germinate or stays the same ?

'Which is the most progressive Human Invention among the following ' What will you pick? https://pollsgo.com/poll?p=ohCWHqd

In other words, a nuclear device made to create mass amount of destruction. If you watch TV. You'll probably heard if this, and its usually said AL-quida might try this. Well let me tell you something, even if this was possible (which its not) the nuclear radiation emitted from it wouldn't even be enough to light a firefly's ass. You wanna be worrying about a biological weapon going off. I don't know where they get these daft ideas from? and the general public seems to believe in this stuff.

I don't know if this method has ever been thought of or if it would be efficient, but from what I hear there is a lot of space debri that is in space(not man-made) that may be valuable resources. I was thinking maybe there could be a way to gather this space dust and use it as a valuable resource. Is this an idea to investigate?

The research topic is "Models for evaluating the effectiveness of the organization of production of small and medium-sized enterprises in the industrial sector." I would be very grateful for any help, for example, in choosing the optimal model, using the methodology for forming integrated performance indicators (safety, ecology, quality), etc. Does anyone know what "efficiency" is, not from an economic point of view? I would be interested in how lean manufacturing methods (tools) are implemented and applied in a real industrial enterprise, in particular: rapid changeover (SMEO), universal equipment maintenance (TPM). Thank you in advance.

Do you agree with the physicist Brian Greene? I also heard this reasoning from Michio Kaku. I strongly disagree. They reason that we would be no more interesting to an ETI than an ant hill is of interest to us. There are lots of ant hills on Earth, but we don't know how many Earths there are in the galaxy, or more importantly within 1,000 light years of us. So far, Earth is very unusual and would be of great interest to any ET. The Rare Earth Hypothesis explains the Fermi Paradox, and also why we would be of great interest to ANYONE more advanced to us. Kepler Mission has NOT found many Earth 2.0s out there. Neither has the TESS (transiting exoplanet survey satel…

9^9 (387,420,489) Combinations/Equations http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Constants/ [uPDATED 1998 CODATA-NIST VALUES] The Primary Universal Gravitation Equations E=(hc^5/G)^1/2 4.9038802 x 10^9 kg-m^2/s^2 = [(6.6260687 x 10^-34 kg-m^2/s) (2.4216061 x 10^42 m^5/s^5)/(6.6723641 x 10^-11 m^3/kg-s^2)]^1/2 4.9038802 x 10^9 kg-m^2/s^2 = 4.9038802 x 10^9 kg-m^2/s^2 [rsu 3.9 x 10^-8] E=c^5/Gv 4.9038802 x 10^9 kg-m^2/s^2 = (2.4216061 x 10^42 m^5/s^5)/ (6.6723641 x 10^-11 m^3/kg-s^2)(7.4008894 x 10^42 /s) 4.9038802 x 10^9 kg-m^2/s^2 = 4.9038802 x 10^9 kg-m^2/s^2 [rsu 3.9 x 10^-8] E=hc^3/Gm 4.9038802 x 10^9 kg-m^2/s^2 = (6.6260687 x 10^-34 kg-m^2/s) (2.694400…

I was just made aware of a bird call identifier called Merlin. Last evening a friend used some (name unknown to me) app to identify a plant; I used to have one on a previous phone, and newer iOS devices can leverage visual lookup to do so. In the past I’ve used an app to identify insects (bug identifier or picture insect) I also have a sound meter app. What else is out there for nature and science buffs? Preferably free, and stand-alone — nothing that needs to be plugged in to the phone.

Hi, The midway point between the largest thing we can see (looking straight outward this is the radius of the visible universe) and the smallest thing we can see (an atom) comes out to equal exactly the radius of earth! median(the radius of the visible universe, size of a carbon atom)=radius of earth median(14,284,800,000,000,000,000m, 10-10m)= 20,518,481m I think that's as weird as it is stupid, LOL! Rusty

I want to use this platform to propagate the movement of renewable energy thus the creation of this thread. I am not a scientist or qualified in any manner to discuss this technical topic but I hope to see this happen so I am promoting it. I am an avid reader of military thoughts in my personal life and resources are an essential component of military thought. The idea of having an abundance or even better, an infinite supply of resources to work with is insurmountable. From any living thing's perspective, having a never-ending flow of resources is both assuring and safeguarding. You do not need to be at the mercy of another being. On a species level, imagine what a speci…

Any of you run @home projects? Currently I run folding@home, einstein@home, and seti@home...I want either join a team or start a small team.

"Since the General Theory of Relativity implies the representation of physical reality by a continuous field, the concept of particles or material points cannot play a fundamental part. The particle can only appear as a limited region in space in which the field strength or the energy density is particularly high." - Albert Einstein, IDEAS & OPINIONS, p. 348 Having One's Tea While Spilling It Also, continued: 'Obviously the universe is not made up of a bunch of disturbed areas. Because, if it was, by now it would have *spread indefinitely.' - J.W.N Sullivan (THE LIMITATIONS OF SCIENCE) and G.P. Thompson (A *tensor equation - *4th coordinate; of…

I'm B.S meteorology, so I guess I have a long way... Anyway, what degrees do you people have here?

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…

I have read that if a large amount of 100% oxygen is inhaled it can be dangerous (oxygen poison). I have also read that in an experiment participants that inhaled pure oxygen for 1 minute prior to reading a list of words remembered more words than participants that breathed regular air. So my question to you all is can the inhalation of oxygen increase a body and mind's performance? and if so why is it not used by athletes or during learning? after all it only hurts you if you inhale too much I was just wondering, if you know anything about the topic please post. thanx

I have some questions that i really would like to know the answer to. Please be as detailed as possible and justify and conclusions. Thanks 1. What would happen if the earth were to stop rotating? 2. What happens in a black hole? My theory is that nothing actually disappears but rather breaks up into millions of pieces and therefore seems like something has disappeared 3. Will it ever be possible to cut through the centre of the earth? E.g. from australia to japan 4. Why do i wake up before something happens?E.g. a poster falling down. I don't know it is going to happen but there i am, suddenly awake lying there wondering why i am awake and then 5 seconds later, t…

what i wanted to tell is, scientific community should ask questions instead of defending evolution, such as why only biblical creationist should be taught in schools why not islamic or hindu? amerika is a secular country every theory then should be taught. such questions should be asked, by the way i am from india and we have no creationists here, not a single and in our schools we have evolution every year! and no one here challenges evolution, in our syllabus evolution is cumpolsary, if you dont read it you lose the marks :D well back to point this is what i got from http://www.icr.org/index.php?module=articles&action=view&ID=1842 ==========================…