StringJunky

It seems more like a free-for-all in physics because it's less immediately tangible or tactile than other subjects so the potential scope for arm-waving is greater.

To me, the patent is for various methodologies and not the virus itself

It is a place for people to talk about religious matters from a disciplined and objective perspective - which is part and parcel of being scientific - that they may not find anywhere else. It's existence also shows that this forum is not closed-minded and therefore not dogmatic in the eyes of those with religious leanings, unlike those forums that lack one. It is a place for those with such leanings to challenge the scientific consensus and hopefully - extremely rarely though - alter their world view to a more objective one. it also interesting to some with scientific leanings to discuss religious perspectives, impact on society and it's evolution as a sociological exercise.

I wouldn't say caused but one can be directed verbally what to 'see' in a scene where there is a multiplicity of possible images in it.

But it is - in that scenario - your present modus operandi which is what you are alluding to, irrespective of whether you are doing it right now.

Theories are nothing without maths because the essence of a theory, particularly physical ones, is that it can make predictions i.e. describe events under varying conditions.or parameters. There's no other effective way to describe quantitative phenomena really. By asking someone to put the numbers to your hypothesis you are basically asking them to do the most important and difficult work. Dreaming up visually or verbally expressed ideas is the easy part.

As long as the original intent gets across that's all that matters really. English has evolved from several languages so the rules are a bit of a mess and lack overall consistency. 'Going to' is a common expression of intent. We are figuratively moving through time.

Yes Captain Panic, we, the British Isles, are a country and the present-day Scots are hankering for a past they never knew. We are just different ends of a 4-member continuum. In scientific discussions I'm fine with metric but in my everyday life I'm dyed-in-the-wool yards and pounds. so, sod off! In the angling fraternity here even young kids, familiar with metric, ask "what pound line are you using?".

If you are happy to chat on your mobile phone for twenty minutes that's about as much radiation as your wifi will give you in a year and there's no evidence that that level is harmful from a mobile phone (Paraphrased from Source:UK Health Protection Authority). Non-ionising radiation - which is what wifi uses - doesn't cause chemical bonds to break which is necessary for chemical reactions/altered configurations to occur and if there is no chemical reaction, there are - to date - no known long-term adverse cellular-level effects from frequencies domestic devices use, other than it could make things a bit warmer. A mobile phone could possibly do this if held to your ear long enough but wifi - being longer range in use is unlikely to do this except from a laptop - it's a good idea to protect your gonads from the conducted heat generated by the components. Concerning the WHO's '2b' classification: A critique of your source: I'm no expert but every time I check out this subject I find nothing convincing to worry me enough to cause me to change my computer and phone habits ...other than keeping my gonads cool...laptop's on a table. .

Exclusive homosexual behaviour apparently occurs in about 10% of male rams.

Yes, a blunt visceral instrument like such a picture you mention speaks louder unfortunately.

Vaccination is an important act of social responsibility benefitting the collective physical well-being of society and not just the individual.

Congratulations.

Just thinking along those lines myself.

(Phys.org) —Back in the early sixties, physicist Richard Feynman gave a series of lectures on physics to first year students at Caltech—those lectures were subsequently put into print and made into text books, authored by Feynman, Robert Leighton and Matthew Sands—and now they've been formatted for the web and put online with free access for anyone who chooses to experience them. Titled, The Feynman Lectures on Physics, they have been divided into three volumes: "mainly mechanics, radiation and heat," "mainly electromagnetism and matter" and "quantum mechanics." Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-09-famous-feynman-online-free-access.html#jCp

@Ten oz. OK. Thanks for the clarification. I suppose looking into these triggers we might learn what we like/fear but would we be able to find out when they occurred?

Tips For Writing A Research Proposal (PDF upload I've downloaded from Wisconsin University Google link): Tips_for_Writing_Research_Proposals.pdf

At best, the 'memories' passed on will be coarse simple ones like smell aversion given as an example. I can't see how complex abstract thoughts can be passed on; the molecular configurations necessary to store a lifetime's worth of experiential information in the genetic code would be be much more than the DNA/RNA apparatus could cope with. I'm no geneticist but that's how it looks to me. Memories are actual molecules arranged/ordered in a certain way and that means taking up physical space.

A cursory Google suggests that they are being used this way for this purpose legally. Having said this there is the how they are used to consider for which there is probably legal controls.

Yes, that's the one. Not that I'm happy about it but he shone the laser over it's eye and it never moved its head to avoid it like you would if someone shone a torch in your face. It carried on swimming peaceably in the bush. I get what you are saying though. We'll have to see what happens with them in open water.

I came across something the other day that was curious to me. An angler was demonstrating to someone how a green laser pointer can spook off water birds that are causing a nuisance. He pointed it at a coot's head and sure enough it flew off. He then pointed it at a moorhen that was pretty close in the bushes and it carried on completely oblivious even though the light shone across an eye at times. Does this mean that moorhens are totally blind to green?

Probably better to think of the Earth as a discrete supersystem composed of interlocking organic and inorganic subsystems. Sure, Gaia is conscious but it is manifest in certain Earthly organisms and not as an emergent property of the sum of all Gaia's components.

I think one has to first ask oneself: "What is the probability of life, that is much more technologically-advanced than us, being within 100LYRs of Earth?". This is roughly how far the first radio-transmissions will have reached now to indicate our presence. Also, one has to think about the physics of travelling up to that distance within that time. To put this in perspective I found this: http://www.planetary.org/multimedia/space-images/universe/extent-of-human-radio-broadcasts.html The little blue dot is the transmission-radius relative to our galaxy if we are in the middle of it.

Half the trick to finding information is learning how Google 'thinks' and the target reference source terminology.

It sounds like science fiction, but it seems that bacteria within us—which outnumber our own cells about 100-fold—may very well be affecting both our cravings and moods to get us to eat what they want, and often are driving us toward obesity. In an article published this week in the journal BioEssays, researchers from UC San Francisco, Arizona State University and University of New Mexico concluded from a review of the recent scientific literature that microbes influence human eating behavior and dietary choices to favor consumption of the particular nutrients they grow best on, rather than simply passively living off whatever nutrients we choose to send their way....Read more