Everything posted by swansont
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Derivation of neutrino mass from neutrino scattering...
That tells you where the scattering event occurred. It doesn’t tell you the neutrino path, because you don’t know where the neutrino originated. You might estimate the angle, but how do you know the momentum of the neutrino? When I was a postdoc, we did an experiment where we knew where the originated, because they came from beta decay in a magneto-optic trap, so the source was localized to a small volume. We couldn’t detect them, though, but could deduce their momentum by detecting the beta, the daughter nucleus, and any orbital electrons that were ionized in the decay process, for decays where all the particles were co- or counter-propagating.
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Theory on today's atmosphere. edit: [how bout this new theory i've considered? debunk please]
I’m sorry, have you met science? Science questions the world, makes models, and compares them to evidence. If you don’t have evidence, you aren’t doing science. And these are the requirements for speculations. So let’s have the evidence to support your claims, or this gets shut down.
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hijack from Some questions on Blackholes
! Moderator Note Responses to inquiries need to be mainstream science, rather than pet theories, which can only be discussed in their own thread in speculations
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Theory on today's atmosphere. edit: [how bout this new theory i've considered? debunk please]
What’s the evidence that this is the case?
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Thoughts on religion
! Moderator Note A. It’s their thread, and B. It’s brought up in the OP
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Fighting with chatgpt
Why have a fight with a language model that has only a casual relationship with the truth? (And I should take my own advice)
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Planetary Defense: Shielding Earth from Asteroids
The conditions are not the same, so you won’t get that result. Are you being deliberately obtuse? We weren’t discussing the crew. No, that’s not what the article says. On the other hand, when it’s on the side when our planet completely blocks out the sun, the thermometers plummet to minus 250 degrees Fahrenheit (-157 degrees Celsius). -157 is not in the dark side in sunshine
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Derivation of neutrino mass from neutrino scattering...
There’s nothing inherent in the equations that says the zero-mass particle must be a photon. i.e. it applies to all zero-mass particles.
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Planetary Defense: Shielding Earth from Asteroids
The Webb isn’t in LEO You have no reference for “they don't want them to get cold”
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Planetary Defense: Shielding Earth from Asteroids
And your reference for this is...? What's the point of discussing things if you're just going to make stuff up?
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Planetary Defense: Shielding Earth from Asteroids
That's not accessible now, though. That's a lander that's not returning. I've seen a study where DNA was stored at temperatures below -20ºC and was stable for 24 months. The units that have only recently been available to the ISS don't get that cold. Once the temperature issue gets solved for LEO, the next issue is radiation.
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Planetary Defense: Shielding Earth from Asteroids
And how accessible is the moon?
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Planetary Defense: Shielding Earth from Asteroids
Yes. Perhaps you need to refresh your memory of it. You can’t stay in the shade, and even mirrors heat up. You have to get away from earth to leverage the cold of space. In LEO, where it’s relatively accessible, it’s difficult to maintain something cold. Out where you have the Webb telescope, you can. What’s the point of storing it where you can’t get it?
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Are UAPs/UFOs finally being taken seriously?
Circular reasoning. You’ve assumed a coverup in order to assert there’s a coverup.
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Planetary Defense: Shielding Earth from Asteroids
It’s not actually a deep freeze in earth orbit, for one. On the moon, for example, the temperature can hit 100 degrees C.
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Consequences of raising salaries...
I just read that US automakers are threatening a strike for a 40% increase in pay, which is the raise that the CEOs of some major automakers have gotten the last 4 years. Going to be interesting to hear how they can’t afford to pay the people who actually do the work
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Political Humor
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Neutral simultaneity for two frames.
Since the velocity addition formula can be derived from the Lorentz transforms, this would mean relativity is wrong. Do you have any experimental evidence of this?
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Planetary Defense: Shielding Earth from Asteroids
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Technology based on extending the range of the Strong Force?
If you could do this, you would get larger nuclei that are stable vs alpha decay, and what are now fissionable materials would not be.
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Oscillatory nuclear fusion hypothesis
But you have not solved anything - particularly the immobilization of the deuteron - with quantum mechanics.
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A novel invention for collecting energy from the sun
Details? BTW, volts isn’t a measure of how much energy you’ve collected.
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What is the correct measurement unit for 2,4-Dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D)?
ug/l is micrograms per liter
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Consequences of raising salaries...
The number is at the end of the contract, i.e. 5 years from now, and it’s pay plus benefits https://finance.yahoo.com/news/170k-bit-exaggeration-ups-driver-111600072.html The union says the deal would improve the average top rate for delivery drivers to $49 per hour. At that rate, working 40 hours a week would pay just shy of $102,000 annually. (not including overtime) The rest is what is paid for medical and other benefits, and paid into the pension account. There’s a limit to how long you can work, and this mantra becomes less and less useful as you approach minimum wage.
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Postulating a Basis for Belief in a Technological Afterlife
Forecasting technology has a pretty poor track record if there’s any specifics included. Yes, technology will advance, but the devil’s in the details. If you go back to the 70s and 80s, the predictions of what life will be like in 50 years bears little resemblance to what we have and what’s on the horizon. Their idea of robots in the home was not roombas. We don’t have flying cars getting us everywhere - and it really doesn’t take much analysis to know why, but you need to apply some analysis to know where the tall tentpoles are and what problems need to be solved, and know if it’s a fundamentally problem (like flying cars; it’s the energy) or technology..