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If you see an orange-red neon sign, you are seeing photons directly from the source.

I don’t think Newtonian anatomy is a thing, but... How would you see a photon if it hasn’t interacted with your eye? (If they don’t have to interact with your eye, why does closing your eyelids do anything?)

It could just the spammer lacks enough imagination to vary the scam any more than that. A simple way to exit the thread without further discussion.

Another description of alternative science is “already debunked/discredited science” Speculations is for non-mainstream science discussion, but that’s as far as we go. No WAGs.

You can only see photons that strike your eye. Not before, and not if they go somewhere else.

Reflected light is...light.

Same with sound. Nature didn’t label the notes, humans did. So what? But they exist. 400 nm and 800 nm are a factor of two in wavelength and frequency, and there are methods where you can take two 800 nm photons and make a 400 nm photon. It’s not at all random. It’s just that we came up with musical instruments centuries before we came up with lasers and nonlinear crystals.

Depends on what you mean by “recognize the frequencies” I can’t tell you what frequency a particular sound is, but I can hear the melody.

It is true that if you multiply by something other than two you won't get the same answer as when you multiply by two, but I should think this is not surprising to anyone who understands math. But the notes are convention. We choose what note is associated with what frequency. Being able to distinguish between different frequencies doesn't depend on how we label them.

! Moderator Note Don't hijack threads to bring up your pet theories. (smoking as an evolutionary maneuver, for example)

! Moderator Note "Let's do an experiment and it shows I'm right" is not a prediction or something that can falsify an hypothesis. Closed. Don't bring this up again, in any thread

There's a limit to what any country can do when it involves actions inside of some other nation. Plus you had a recent administration that apparently liked authoritarian actions abroad and applauded human rights violations instead of working to eliminate them.

It won't necessarily be discharged to earth - you can shock yourself on a doorknob (which I regularly do in winter when stripping off a layer of the sticky mats in my lab; lots if static electricity generated) But if there is a path to ground such as what JC mentioned, that's the usual path the discharge takes, because it is intentionally made to be a low resistance path when wiring up electrical power systems

They were all apparently one person, and all accounts identified have been spam-banned, including ones that were still setting up the scam - inserting spam links into quoted posts. It's been a little while since we've seen that ploy. Thank you to those that noticed and reported these posts in the last several hours.

! Moderator Note The discussion has not included sufficient detail and rigor to be discussed (no, "conductors are shiny" doesn't come close to clearing that hurdle). If there is no model or testable predictions - something that makes this falsifiable - it will be closed

Posting in speculations does not absolve you of the responsibility to support claims with evidence and refrain from appeal to conspiracy

The geographic southwest was not part of the US during the civil war, so “the south” in this context refers to the southeast US.

Except you wouldn't, because you aren't seeing anything while the detector was off, so there's no way to see the pattern during that time.

In the south, yes. So much so that they went to war to preserve the arrangement.

This does not follow. The population of slaves can outnumber the population of the elites without outnumbering the population of non-slaves (i.e. white people, predominantly). It depends on what fraction of the population of non-slaves is considered elite. It's not as if every single family owned slaves, and, of course, not everyone is an elite.

1. Appeal to conspiracy is not an acceptable argument in a science discussion 2. "We don't know" is a valid answer (as in, we don't know what causes type 1 diabetes, but we have evidence that suggest certain factors being involved) 3. Bill Mahar may be left-of-center but he is also a loon when it comes to medical issues, and that particular affliction does not have any partisan leaning. (Not to say that specific manifestations have no such correlation, however) DO you have any evidence to share?

The quantum mechanical concepts are independent of the devices used; in general this is the same as assuming devices with 100% fidelity. A real detector will have limitations, and this has implications on how to carry out an experiment and/or analyze data.

Any efficiency. If you detect the photon, you can say the wave function has collapsed. If you don't detect the photon it still has an undetermined path. Observation does not require a conscious being.

I don’t see a green pipe Yes, the pressure you’d need depends on the height of the water column

This is like an inverted glass submerged in water. If the region started out full of water, you could transfer air in and it would displace water