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Without prejudice to anyone, here Is a good example of biasness in science. The question raised begs to be answered in a certain way. If I bring up spiritual-enlightened experiences as a possible causation in the advent of religion, I find myself automatically outside of the parameters set by the question. I contend that this happens more subtly, yet often in science; biasness taking on the form of selective "rational-reasoning" in scientific enquiry. The search of small “t” truths as aptly stated by Eise is then skewed towards a predictable-consensus accepting outcome. A pernicious way of having one’s worldview invite itself at the dinner table. Like minded thinking att…

I need a really complex scientific forumla. I'm writing a paper and I'm using math as an analogy for physical determinism. I need something really complex to demonstrate how complexity has no baring on making things more "random" (i.e. the math is just as determined whether it's simple or complicated). So what's the most complicated formula from some field of science you can think of?

The Theory of Bargain real or not? Possible or not?

I want to have an informed opinion about it, so what do you all know? My theory is that human behavior is so complicated that series of psychological variations lead to changes in natural feelings, such as homosexuality. It is real, but not inborn. The observations to support my theory : Homosexuality has become more common, society has become more complicated, and homosexuality has been aknowledged as an option. Things are more likely to grow if they are a known option. 2nd is Homosexuality in animals, actually i don't really know (read a few articles but nothin definate). Are there any animals that are SOLELY homosexual. Various circumstances (domestication for example…

"If you look at the world, you will see fossilized wood, petrified wood, standing up running through multiple layers." "Sometimes petrified trees are found standing upside down running through many rock layers. They certainly didn’t grow upside down and the layers cannot be different ages. " Dr. Kent Hovind http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/science/SC1100W1.htm What do you think?

There are 4 states of matter, Solid, Liquid, Gas and Plasma, since a state of matter can go through Solid Liquid and Gas and some plasma, is it possible for farts to turn to fart liquid, or fart solid? Can this also happen to burps? Burp liquid, fart liquid, burp solid, fart solid. The only reason this is not in spam is because I'm being serious. You would have to catch a fart underwater like in the bathtub and catch the bubbles. Air consists of Carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, so you would have to get a pure fart from underwater, or a burp I guess x.x... However, a fart has bacteria, intestinal gasses, carbon dioxide, and nitrogen, all together the comp…

EDIT: I accidentally placed this in the wrong section. Goddamnit. Can a moderator move this? Recently I began a new inquiry into anthropogenic global warming/climate change unlike my previous ones. This time I had both experience debates provided, and a new perspective to explore that my earlier research queries blessed me with. My original stance was that of some confusion. As I wasn't entirely sure of the whole picture. Debating this on various forums helped substantially, and also aided in the gathering of information required for me to delve deeper into the anthropogenic climate change theory. - My first links will deal with the history and development of…

Hi, I'm trying to power my 40 watt lightbulb, and I've been at this for a bit, and was told this morning I would need 22,000 "C" batteries, which seems like it would make my lightbulb explode... Anyway, my standard C battery I am using has 1.5 volts and 7.5 amps when I tested it. Now, my first possible pitful of not being sure is, if I stack these batteries together, I know the volts will just add, but will the amperage stay constant? Now, assuming the amps did stay relatively constant, I figure it would take 5.3 volts to power my 40 watt lightbulb. This is using the following equation: P = iv 40 = 7.5x x = ~5.3 Now, assuming 1.5 volts per battery,…

Do molecules in a solid object move? I thought that molecules in a solid object still move, but very slowly, only to stop once freezed. Then I read this "A secondary characteristic of a solid is that no matter how hard it is squeezed or pulled, the molecules do not move closer together or further apart." Is this true? And could you possibly attach proof for the correct answer? Thanks in advance!

I promise I'm not trying to make a point with this. I'm just curious as to how you feel the scientific community should treat these two groups that oppose basically what it as a body is saying. Now obviously there are some global warming deniers (or anthropogenic global warming, or whatever semantic games you want to play) and even a few Creationists on this site, so perhaps you're going to have a different opinion than us drones, and I'd be interested to hear those too. Is denying the scientific consensus on the origins and development of life and the universe analogous to denying the scientific consensus on anthropogenic climate change? Is one position more valid th…

So I am trying to understand the following and was told not to hijack a thread One of the most important (and hardest) lessons to learn in science is that "we don't know" is a valid answer. And often it is the only, or the best, answer we have. All other answers have a level of uncertainty associated with them, so we rarely (if ever) know things for sure. so my question is does this apply to everything we think we know about science or physics? example: why we see about the Higgs bosom or Higgs field is it all just we don’t know and think we are right. how do we know our data if we have any is right? how do we know we are …

i was curious if anyone had any input on weather or not melting wood would be plausable in conditions where there wasnt any oxygen, some people belive it would turn to charcoal, but i belive it would very well melt considering, you need 3 main things to have a fire. fuel oxygen and a source of ignition, take away one and it should not ignite into flames therefore at a certain tempature, it would melt.

Hello. Q1. How far and fast can a neutrino travel? Q2. How do we know if neutrinos come from our sun, when neutrinos can pass through all known matter? Could they be coming from another star instead? cheers.

What is the conceptual difference between Chemistry and Physics?

I have always been easily distracted when doing my yard work. Stopping to to watch a spider or ant, birds or squirrels or any critter that catches my eye or even ear, as it was with the two frogs that were croaking from my brush pile yesterday. We played "Marco" . . . "Polo" for 15 minutes, never did see either one of them. A mystery that I indulge in every fall takes place in the gravel area in front of my home shop. I noticed 10 or so years ago that the needles from a nearby pine tree, that have been distributed over the area, eventually will begin to cluster into piles. It can get rather windy here so the supply of these needles stays pretty consistent in the fal…

The other day I was wondering, normally, matter in a solid form is more dense than that same matter in liquid or gas form. So why is it that water's solid form, ice, is less dense than water itself? Steam or water in the form of a gas is certainly not more dense than water. Or is it?

Just because something is difficult to prove, that doesn't mean Scientists should just turn their noses up at it. There is a Scientific problem to be solved, so it should be considered. I refer to Classical Homeopathy. The bizarre nature of its mechanism is astonishing, but it is still rational. A German doctor noticed that many substances prepared in the right way produce "symptom patterns" in people. These medicines are acting on the Brain's Homeostatic Centre. Dr Hahnemann simply threw 1000's of these substances at the Brain (using healthy people as subjects) to understand the mechanism of this Homeostatic centre...and he actually solved the problem of…

Does anyone know a simple optical method to determine the focal length (FL) of a concave lens? A method which doesn't require any kind of precision instrument, such a pair of callipers to physically measure the degree of curvature of the glass surface of the lens. In the case of a convex lens, there is such a method. The convex lens converges light rays to a focus, at which an image forms. So all you have to do, to find its FL, is hold the lens against a sheet of white paper. Then move the lens away from the paper, until a distinct image appears on the paper. When the image is at its sharpest, the distance between the lens and the paper, gives you the FL. …

Why is it that, after some time in the freezer, ice cubes (in a usual open ice-cube tray) get white, porous, and start taking up all the bad smells in your fridge ? Couldn't find an answer on the web ... Nicolas

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'…

Hello everyone and everybody! Some string instruments have parts, notably a fingerboard, commonly made of ebony: some Diospyros species, sometimes a Dalbergia species Fingerboard , Ebony , Diospyros , Dalbergia on wikipedia Ebony has drawbacks: the trade and travel of many Diospyros and Dalbergia species is restricted, even as components of an instrument; it takes many years to dry before processing; and it's expensive. Replacements were proposed, including hard rubber "ebonite", which has only 1/10th the stiffness of ebony and maybe not the resistence to abrasion. My suggestion is a polymer loaded with short graphite fibres with random orientation. Th…

Here are 15 science wallpapers I've found and that I've put in a rar file that you can download here: http://rapidshare.com/files/155270975/Science_wallpapers.rar Previews:

I have two objections to archeology's claim to be a science. First, it bases its inferences on data samples which would be considered utterly inadequate to prove the same sorts of assertions in history or in a court of law. A few Egyptian coins of the 2nd century B.C. are found in Massalia, and suddenly archeologists conclude that there must have been significant trade going on between Massalia and Egypt, when in fact the find may have been just a chance event, with some Massalian in the 1st century A.D. having been a collector of old Egyptian coins. Second, its inferences operate on the assumption that peoples in the distant past thought just like us, which we w…