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“Science should be about the open questions that everyone is trying to solve, and not about who was right and who was wrong,” said Dr Julia Bodensteiner, a co-author of the study from the ESO who proposed the “vampire star” explanation. Black hole that was closest yet found does not exist, say scientists in U-turn | Black holes | The Guardian

This question is OT. There is a Psychiatry forum for this, I think.

I hope you know that, just like so many other "quotes" from Einstein, Einstein never said that. Einsteins insanity quote (alternatememories.com)

The age of the universe in cosmology is referred to in the comoving reference frame, which would be time of the observer who is at rest relative to CMB.

Hence, if somebody (e.g. @eric in a post above) claims that the fact of not detecting sparticles in LHC refutes string theory, this claim is equally valid to all SS theories, not only the string theory? Or, other SS theories predict much heavier sparticles to begin with?

OK, there is no string theory without SUSY. Is there SUSY without string theory? If so, does it predict sparticles independently of the string theory?

AFAIK sparticles are predicted by SUSY rather than string theory, aren't they?

lol

It is skewing the stats. Talking of WTC. I was there on 9/11 at 9am.

Here are the results from random samplings in February.

“Any further delay in concerted global action will miss a brief and rapidly closing window to secure a liveable future.” IPCC issues ‘bleakest warning yet’ on impacts of climate breakdown | Climate crisis | The Guardian

I don't have any attachment to the string theory. Just curious, what do you refer to in "a decade after [it] was proven wrong"? The LHC experiments?

GR equations - not words - show how it happens.

Well, I was not talking about seasonal variations, but rather about changes in populations from year to year. And, being a (former) SCUBA instructor with about 3000 logged dives, I see the "invasion" first hand. The bottom line, what I see here is very different from what you describe. Maybe the process is just different in different parts of the ocean, but here we don't see these disturbing things. The lionfish seems to be just another fish in our "aquarium". BTW, there are many native fishes that are not preyed on by other native predators. For example, nothing eats adult green morays, barracudas, jacks, scorpionfish, rays. This is not something that is special about lionfish, not a factor that makes them different. Yes, sometimes we find them swarming around a rock. But then there are thousands rocks without them and with plenty of native fish doing there usual things.

Einstein said that nationalism is a disease. He didn't say nations.

Thank you. I'm very glad to hear this, because I don't like the sensationalistic hint in the original report about a possible discovery of a "missing link" between prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Although, I have to clarify, this "missing link" speculation appears only in the pop sci report, NOT in the primary report in bioarxiv.

Yes, however until this recent discovery they all were less than 1 mm in size and didn't have a DNA pouch. The new one is almost 1 cm long, has DNA pouch, and has been discovered in some Caribbean mangroves.

Genetic adam and eve are accepted terminology in evolutionary biology.

"Adam" and "Eve", since they have never met, did not have children together.

The "Adam", i.e. a male ancestor of all living humans, and the "Eve", i.e. a female ancestor of all living humans, have never met and lived tens of thousands of years apart. The "Eve" lived long-long before the "Adam."

Don't hold your breath.

I wondered how fast this bacterium reproduces considering its size. But anyway, their evolution occurring faster they could evolve this feature really recently. How about in the last million years, for example?

Yes, 75 million years I consider not long at all on the 3-4 billion years scale. Mostly, after the dinosaurs. Of course they have changed their habitat many times. This is evolution. The unknown we are talking about is, when during this evolution they evolved this peculiar compartmentation.

Yes, not enough data. The only knowledge is that they evolved some time during the last 3-4 billion years. At any time during this window. They live on mangroves. How long do mangroves exist? Not very long.

As a former Soviet citizen with a part of the family coming from Ukraine I have to say that I never thought I will have such a high respect to the Ukrainian people and to their president (whose last name rhymes with mine.)