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Discussion of science topics that don't fit under any other category.

  1. Started by Wyatt Peele,

    I was informed that I was indeed correct, but I was late, there is already a law of the unity and conflict of opposites, that was created 150 years ago. (Thank you for letting me know, so I don't make the mistake of putting my life to research of a law that already exists.) Now I can research and come up with other theories about the universe we live in, and maybe the universes outside.

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  2. Started by Nickjohny,

    It has the dimension of force per area or the same dimension as that of pressure. It is called stress. It is a fraction which compares the change in the configuration of the body to the original configuration of the body. It is called Strain.

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  3. Started by Genady,

    As noted in another current thread, hundred years ago science textbooks used to talk about "destruction of heat". This language is not used in science today. I think, there might be many other examples of interesting evolution of scientific English, not involving changes in underlying physics. The first came to my mind, "mass". Not long ago (but after 1905) it often was used with a qualifier, e.g., "rest mass", "relativistic mass". Today, it is just "mass" meaning "rest mass", in all (almost?) textbooks, presentations, papers. Other interesting examples?

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  4. Started by CrystalMagic,

    I've been thinking. I decided to write one really serious topic. Those who have read my previous topics know that sometimes I have written humorous topics. Now you will understand why I did it. I see a lot of people here who understand the sciences or are interested in them. Sorry English is not the language of my country, I don't know it well and I have a little dyslexia. If you don't understand me, just ask me again what I wrote. If you don't understand something, then write what you don't understand, I will try to answer if I have time. I have one question for you. Why are you doing this? I'll explain in more detail. Have you ever thought that science is not developing…

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  5. Started by Externet,

    Hi. What determines a big branch off a tree cannot be rooted as a small branch can ? Or can it ? Never heard of being done; every time they use a 6 inch twig instead of a 6 feet long branch. Not being done does not mean to me that cannot be done. Better jump to time stamp 14:20 at ---> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXVCGk-P-cg In the above video; the branch portion shown could be instead, a complete branch to the end; could it ? Seen stumps sprouting several times. Can a branch be 'attached' there instead ? In other words... cut off a tree flush to soil. Take a branch off the downed tree. Graft it to a root still in the s…

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  6. Started by Externet,

    Good day. Someone had milk in doubt of being apt for consumption, as 'expired' or kept a while unrefrigerated. Dumped on a vegetable garden soil. Someone had extra granulated plain sugar and spread it on the soil at a vegetable garden. Someone had a flour that did not like and spread it on a vegetable garden soil. Someone had yogurt, or used cooking oil, or orange juice and decided to spread it on the soil instead of the garbage can. What benefit can the plants get from such ? What harm can it cause to the plants ? -nothing composted-

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  7. Started by geordief,

    Found in England on an archaeological site. A lollipop.lady with an unusual hair style? https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-64426061

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  8. I read on the internet the 10,000 hour rule to be expert on some thing normally they use examples of playing chess, baseball, basketball, swimming or martial arts so on the 10,000 hour rule. So I did the math of 10 year period is 1,000 hours per year and that is 2.7 hours a day. When you look at other areas of study it is normally to be medical doctor, phd in physics or phd in philosophy or phd in economics or phd in biology is normally 10 hours a day of studying that is 3,650 hours of studying in one year and in 10 years that is 36,500 hours. As it normally takes 10 years to get phd in physics, philosophy, sociology, psychology, economics, biology or medical doctor.…

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  9. Started by studiot,

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-64352634 Interesting observation of UFO shaped clouds

  10. Started by sddfds,

    hello i would like to ask where it is possible to purchase metamaterials. thanks very much.

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  11. There was a time when most of the universe was an unexplored place. Today we have thanks to time machines, hubble telescopes etc, what it takes to have gleaned the depths of the known universe. You will say there is a lot to be discovered yet; but how much of those discoveries would make the progress of mankind a less futile objective? We have for example invented everything of practical importance there is to invent; the light bulb, facebook, the wheel, electricity etc. The human race appears to have stagnated in the annals of scientific discovery. Again, no doubt there are stuff out there to learn about science, like for example, how many toes does …

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  12. Started by TheVat,

    https://www.bmj.com/content/379/bmj-2022-072833 Abstract Objective To compare the rate of energy expenditure of low efficiency walking with high efficiency walking. Design Laboratory based experimental study. Setting United States. Participants 13 healthy adults (six women, seven men) with no known gait disorder, mean (±standard deviation) age 34.2±16.1 years, height 174.2±12.6 cm, weight 78.2±22.5 kg, and body mass index 25.6±6.0. Intervention Participants performed three, five minute walking trials around an indoor 30 m course. The first trial consisted of walking at a freely chosen walking speed in the participant’s u…

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  13. Started by Raghav Sastry,

    I have been suffering from the gastric problem for 2 years. Whatever I eat, it creates converted into gas and bloating in the stomach. can anyone suggest how to get rid of excess gas in the stomach?

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  14. Audio is loud, muted the video Before we get started, I wanted to say that I am no expert and nor do I claim to be an expert in any kind of science. I'm only curious and if anyone could provide to me a Well-established explanation. This would be great, maybe I have made a bigger deal out of something that isn't really that important. I want to clarify that the anomaly happening in this video was first discovered on accident without recording from a secondary phone. I First noticed it purely from my own eyes. (The Anomaly) One evening when I was texting, I noticed as my fingers came close to the words on my phones keyboard, a very str…

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  15. Started by kenny1999,

    I have a cup that I like it very much, I'm not sure about its exact composition but it should be made of ceramic. It has been used for a few years but I start to find some stain spot of pale black color in the interior of the cup but they shouldn't be stain from my drinks, they are not removable even with heavy-duty scrubber. I wonder what they are.

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  16. pertain to the human body in one way or another? What field of science is more concerned the human body than any other? If I were to want to pursue a science career to gather as much knowledge of the human body as humanly possible which scientific disclipline would be ideal?

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  17. Hi. Even eating such daily, in considerable amounts, which food does not contribute to build-up obesity ?

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  18. Started by kenny1999,

    It is said solid state hard drive is more durable because it doesn't have any moving parts. In other words, why, spinning drive with moving parts is less durable? Assume that they never drop from height or get damaged, does a moving part of any device fail more easily? What is the reason behind?

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  19. Hello What would happen if you put an incompressible car in a press that close fully for 100% of the time ? I guess it's a stupid question but I can't resist to ask you

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  20. Started by Externet,

    Hi. As many say tomatoes are fruits; when having such in meals, salad, spaghetti sauce, ketchup, whatever... And nutrition suggests to have so many grams of vegetables and so many grams of fruits daily; where to count the tomatoes had ? Obviously as fruit intake ? 🙄

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  21. Started by GeeKay,

    This post refers to the (excellent) primer on codes and ciphers, namely The Code Book by Simon Singh. The question itself concerns the one-time pad cipher, the one form of encryption which is claimed to be truly unbreakable, that's to say proof against any known form of cryptoanalysis. . . short of telepathy? One aspect about this cipher is bamboozling me, however. Namely it's this: would it be possible to crack a given one-time pad cipher if one was already in possession of the key? Singh offers this example: Key: P L M O E Z Q K J Z L R T E A V C R C B Y Plaintext: a t t a c k t h e v a l l e y a t d a w n Cybertext: …

  22. Started by Intoscience,

    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…

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  23. Started by kenny1999,

    Does white colored object actually reflect all UV so that it is free of being attacked by UV? or is it also attacked and dyed by UV but since it's white you can't see the effect? Another question is we know that white clothes is cooler in the summer than black clothes, is it because most light is reflected by white color?

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  24. Started by kenny1999,

    I am not living in a very modern building and the budget of the management company is not high so I think the technology employed shouldn't be something new. The public entrance door is normally closed and locked and it can only be unlocked when I put my hand close to the door "sensor" then it will detect my hand and unlock the door, but if I touch the "sensor" it will not unlock the door and doesn't show any response. What is the general working principle of such device? I don't know if it's actually a sensor so I use quote and quote in the above context.

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  25. Not sure where to put this so I am starting with other science if we can include bonkers maths as currently practiced by UK politicians. I have recently received notification from my electricity supplier company that my standard tariff has increased from £0.2992 per kW-hr to £0.3661 per kW-hr. So imagine my suprise to see this report by the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63329233 What ?????????? they will pay me £3.00 to use off peak electricity ? When do I get started, I plan to use as much as possible. Will I get rich quick ?

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