Other Sciences

Scenario: Miniature & Parallel Universe The following question originated at a dinner party among friends. There was an interesting and educational variety of answers. By the readers leave I’ve transferred the question to SFN Question: In a universe parallel to ours, exactly the same in every way; with all of the galaxies - including the Milky Way, and our solar system with all our planets as they are, including earth and everything on and within it and including its inhabitants and the molecules, atoms, electrons, nuclei, photons - except: that this ‘twin universe’ and all of its contents was one thousand times smaller than the universe we in the here and …

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…

Do you agree with what is said at the Wikipedia article on hard sciences below. The Wikipedia article seems to suggest that there is no distinction between hard and soft sciences. It is largely imagines or at least the distinction has no scientific basis. One perceived difference supporting the distinction is the degree to which conclusions in different fields are controversial within those fields. Some believe that conclusions from physics or chemistry tend to be less controversial among physicists and chemists, versus how much of political science is controversial among political scientists. However, in most physical sciences there has been extensive debate about is…

I think I remember mentioning this as one of my ideas (among others) in the "lightning as an energy source" thread; what if we were to have some kind of grid-like (except 3-D) network of wires of some conductor positioned in the sky in a way that the angle can be changed so that said network can be passed through a charged cloud, and then have the wires converge so as to combine all the electricity from the network of wires into one wire, giving it a path to the ground, but except in order to get to the ground, it'd have to pass through an area where it was coiled around a ferromagnetic material to create a solenoid? Imagine how strong the magnetic field would be, even if…

Say you're framing an hypothesis for an experiment. Should you phrase the hypothesis so that it's a positive statement even if you personally expect to see a negative result? For Example: "If I throw a lemur it will fly." I would expect for a lemur not to fly if I were to throw it, but should I phrase the hypothesis positively anyway for when it is to be tested?

In their latest redesign, CNN.com completely removed the science page from the web site. They now have a very small science section at the bottom of the tech page. Wouldn't you agree that tech should be a category of science? Science can include so many different subjects that aren't related to human technology.

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Yes, it's time to bring up discussion on something alchemists have tried to do for many millennia. So, how did gold get here in the Universe and on Earth? What's your big idea?

Now I know the title is a bit alarming to some, but just hear me out before you go off the deep end on me. I question everything because my care for the field in general makes me highly critical of anything really. Now, don’t get me wrong, I love science but I have issues on where its going. It seems to me that science bears some of the basic social ills that most anything human suffers. What I mean from this is science was basically put forward as a system or means in which to try to deduce truth about the natural world around us and or reality. Now I know that science has been applied to more then just what some would consider natural, though I don’t know how unnatu…

Do any of you know of any science based radio stations on the internet. I like to listen to thought provoking shows, but I can't really find a station devoted to that kind of thing.

when i was driving through france the other week(weird driving on the right side of the road, very weird) i noticed something weird about the clouds infront of me, there was three layers of clouds, nothing unusual there, the top and bottom layers were white and the middle one was grey. this struck me as odd. because all three layers had direct sunlight (it was nearing sunset so the sun as off to the side and they weren't particularly close packed.) yet they appeard different colours. surely if they are all droplets of water then they should be the same colour. i can't figure out what caused the colour in the grey colour but i'm thinking dust. ami i right or t…

Well, not wrong per se, yet not the most effective or swiftest form of progressing science either. (Skip to the bottom for the short version) I have a "focus fire" concept on how to approach expanding fields of science and technology. Essentially, universities, government agencies, and corporations (involved in the appropriate field, of course) could come together, and focus all of their funding and efforts on a small number of projects. These projects would be selected in advance based on how much they will advance that area of science, likely through a vote of those pulling the strings. For example, computer research groups (IBM, Bell Labs; universities s…

This Saturday, NASA is expected to launch the Phoenix Mars Lander. The launch will take place between 5-6 a.m. EST. For those of you who don't know, the Phoenix Mars Lander is intended to land on the northern polar cap where there is carbon dioxide and water ice in abundance. By going here, scientists hope to study how the polar regions affect Martian climate, the dynamics and history of water in the polar caps, and maybe even the possibility of life. It is equipped with the capability to analyze soil samples. This mission is intended to make up for the failure of the Mars Polar Lander, and some of the instruments that were designed for that spacecraft will be o…

This is of no specific relevance to the discussion of science, technology or related topics. However, I thought it might be of interest, nevertheless, given the growing number of scientific articles that are appearing on Wikipedia; some of which seek to deal with particularly advanced and difficult topics, and in light of the growing propensity for many people to quote, or reference, Wikipedia articles as part of their arguments. It's a good, easy listen presented by Clive Anderson, a well educated individual who is generally worth listening to and usually has something intelligent to say. The program is not, as far as I could tell, biased for or against Wikipedia, …

This dissertation is not posted here with any intention to sell books. Since 1959, the work has been small press printed, internationally distributed (in three languages) and sold out of print in ten hard copy editions of essays and books. It has yet to be disqualified. This is a publicly accessible condensation of the 627 page 6th edition of 1979, posted for the sole purpose of public enjoyment and education, with an invitation to whomever may care to correct, corroborate or otherwise comment upon. http://forums.delphiforums.com/EinsteinGroupie Regards, - KO

Hi, it has been a very long time since I last posted on this forum but I recently thought of an idea and thought this would be the best place to pitch it and see what everyone thinks. I got my inspiration from reading about Vacutrains. I was trying to think of ways to improve on it or to make it faster when it dawned on me that there is one place where you never have to worry about evacuating the environment and that was space. I then got a funny picture in my head of a giant track that went from Earth's orbit to the moon. Obviously that wouldn't work but it lead me to another idea. What if the same concept of a gauss gun or rail gun was used in space. Anyways, he…

Has anyone heard of the western price foundation http://www.westonaprice.org/ They have alot of ideas that go against modern nurtion and the advice of the USDA and FDA But alot of it makes very good sense and science Like unfermented soy is dangerous for people and babies it contains things like; phytoestrogen, phytic acid,enzyme inhibitors, antinutrients soy bean is poisonous They are very pro animal fat and offal meats from animals feed grass and allowed in the sun (sorry silly americans who rasie there animals inside on grain) Did you know american indoor dairy cows butter is actually white and has to be artifically made yellow They are al…

well will it? http://www.willitblend.com/videos.aspx?type=unsafe now This is My kinda "Science"

Now that it's been summertime for weeks I'd like to do what I was waiting to do during the school year... apply what I learned in Physics and Chemistry during the summer. Trouble is, I'm not sure if I adequately remember Physics and Chemistry, so I'd like to check here to make sure I'd know what I'm doing. First off, with volts, amps, and watts; Volts is joules per coulomb, meaning energy divided by charge; am I to assume this means voltage refers to "how much energy the charge has"? Amps is coulombs per second, so how much charge is flowing per second, and watts refers to joules per second, so how much energy is flowing; so in a modified version of "Faraday's Iron Ri…

How do them things you can plug in tape players and attach a CD player actually work? I understand how a tape work. It is a magnetic strip that, I think, digitally tells the reader what to play. But how does the cd player magnetise the strip and then play it immediately. Is there simply some sort of delay? cheers. ps. sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

and a few others popularised in Sci-Fi. I`m interested to know how the "Stun" setting could be possible? granted, Stunning by electricity or EM waves of a frequency that directly influence the brain is indeed possible now. but does anyone know if it`s possible to actualy transmit that via a "light" beam without being so intense as to burn a hole through the subject? light flashes can induce epileptic attacks as well, so is a Star Trek type of "Stun" setting possible?

Newton asserted ‘Hypothesis non fingo’. - ‘I make no hypothesis’. Yet, his entire, unarguably revolutionary Classical Mechanics was based on the hypothetical particle that science has yet to assuredly accommodate. The ‘particle concept’ that dominates physics and the vast majority of colloquial planetary human thought: has never been proven beyond hypothetical scientific retainers. ‘The (rarely) indicted ‘particle’ Isn’t found ‘wrong’ here, but rather: resiliently incomplete; so as to aggressively exclude the incumbent role of the continuous field in the balance of material considerations.- KB Robertson Regards, - KaiduOrkhon http://forums.delphiforums.com/Einst…

Not that I'm against science, or that I'm some type of religous person but I was wondering is science really an organized system of ignorace. I strongly believe in science, I believe it's what make the human race the greatest thing to happen to the universe and the most unique race in the universe, so far. I also believe that science may sometimes cross the line, between moral righteousness and phenomenal scientific breakthroughs. For example the atomic bomb, chemical warfare, cloning, etc. I myself don't have a true opinion on this subject, but I would really like to be interested in reading yours.

Hey guys! Is this possible? What I am trying to achieve is this: I take a thin piece of cardboard, rip out a section from the middle of the cardboard and place it aside... I then take the big piece of cardboard and place it into a cup (or any kind of narrow holder), I then wish to submerge the little piece of cardboard and let it fall. Now the problem... How can I make this little piece of cardboard move to the hole on the big piece... (orientation does not matter) Is this possible without the use of magnets/other big contraptions? Thanks Mason R

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huolongjing This is a very interesting article, definitely worth the read. This 14th century Chinese book outlines the use of shrapnel bombs, poisonous gunpowder solutions, firearms, flamethrowers, bombards, cannons, exploding cannonballs, land mines, naval mines, rocket launchers, aerodynamic winged rockets, and multistage rockets with a booster rocket to launch the missile up before igniting a swarm of smaller rockets. INTRO The Huolongjing (Wade-Giles: Huo Lung Ching; Simplified Chinese: 火龙神器阵法; English: Fire Drake Manual) is a 14th century military treatise that was compiled and edited by Jiao Yu and Liu Ji of the early Ming…