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Electromagnetic forces for like charges repel with a 1/r^2 dependence. Gravitational forces attract with a 1/r^2 dependence. Both are long range forces ( never get to zero ), yet one is a 1000 billion billion billion billion times stronger than the other. Do you still not see the problem with your thinking ?????

If the concern is unsafe food handling in the US, the regulations adopted by the EU should reflect that. The amount of Chlorine in drinking water is considered safe up to 4 mg/l or 4 ppm. The amount of Chlorine used to wash chicken surfaces is as little as 20 mg/l. Just wondering... How much water do you drink per day ? ( as opposed to how much residual Chlorine is on your chicken ) If you're going to be concerned about chicken... As a little kid, I lived on a farm, and little chicks ( hatchlings ) would be about the size of your fist for several weeks, and not fully grown for 6 months. Fully grown chickens are delivered to Swiss Chalet's ( Canadian chicken restaurant chain ) processing plant 4 weeks after hatching. Bit of a discrepancy there, and maybe something to actually be concerned about. ( yeah, I don't eat much chicken )

Has everybody seen the clip of D Trump's reaction on finding out about her death ? https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/music/other/twitter-reacts-to-trump-learning-of-ruth-bader-ginsburg-s-death-while-elton-john-s-tiny-dancer-plays/ar-BB19cR5l?ocid=msedgntp If staged ... wow, ballsy ! If coincidence ... wow, weird !

Did a little research. Oddly enough there is a non-binding rule, called the Biden rule ( from 92 ), which suggests that, if there is going to be a change in the Presidency, then the people's will should be followed, and a wait for the new President is suggested. This was the case in 2016, as B Obama could not be President in January 2017. In this case, the argument is that D Trump may still be President in January 2021, so he shouldn't have to give up his Constitutional powers to appoint SC justices. Looks like D Trump will get another nomination ( although he's been quiet on the matter ), and, barring quite a few defectors, the Republican controlled Senate will ram it through.

Are there no rules in place, constitutional or otherwise, that prevent replacement nominations in the thick of the election campaign ?

Yeah, experimental Physicists are simple folk. Their work essentially consists of hitting stuff with other stuff, and seeing what happens. ( if nothing happens, hit it harder )

Looks like he might have set his hair on fire a couple of times, and had to trim it back. Besides, if you wanna hear some AC/DC pipe music you should listen to 'It's a Long Way to the Top ( if you wanna rock and roll )'. 'Thunderstruck' is stripper music ( so I've been told ).

Yeah, no physicists ever invite me over for dinner parties. Come to think of it, the only other person with a Physics degree that ever invites me over ( actually I just show up ) is my older brother, MigF.

Why are you letting your grandma play in the middle of the road ?

Tried that once in the middle of a Canadian winter. ( took two days to un-stick my tongue from the pole of the stop sign )

I didn't know the UK was considering overriding international law, and not following the agreement that has brought peace to Northern Ireland, in an effort to get itself out of the mess that Brexit has become. Any 'good' US president will comment on international matters with respect to keeping peace and stability in the rest of the world. The current president just threatens the rest of the world.

Not really Zap. When you add up the people who voted for D Trump, and the people who are indifferent to bad government that they can't be bothered to vote, you end up with the disaster that is the current US government. Either way, you get the government you deserve; only about 28% ( 55% voter turnout, 28% Clinton, 27% Trump ) of the electorate was against a D Trump presidency, or cared enough to go to the trouble of voting. Do you think they know better now, and you'll get more than 55% of eligible voters participating n November ? There are many times I'll be in casual conversation with friends/acquaintances, and a question will come up which I know the answer/solution to, but I feel the need to intentionally dumb it down, or even worse, just smile and say nothing at all; I guess I don't want to be perceived as an aloof, know-it-all. And I'm far from it, I can just imagine the trepidation of some really intelligent and well educated people. ( you're not very popular if you start talking about Black Holes and Quantum Gravity at the next dinner party; you may not get invited back )

I like 'tagliatelle' noodles ( wide fettuccine noodles ) with Bolognese sauce. Oh, and some crusty Italian bread ( certainly not rye bread ) to sop up leftover sauce, and a good quality Chianti. What time is dinner ?

I don't believe it for one minute ! Not the part about the steel bar of soap, but a Polish guy making Bolognese sauce.

So this dark matter 'grid' would be a geometric field that 'fixes' trajectories of test particles. Sounds an awful lot like the geometric field of space-time 'fixes' trajectories along geodesics; also known as gravity. But since you want to modify GR to account for the observed galactic rotation curves, are you, in effect, proposing MOND ( Modified Newtonian Dynamics ) gravity? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics

Sorry Koti. I wish Venus was like it was depicted in 1930s pulp sci-fi also. ( Edgar Rice Burroughs novels ) PH3 is a strong reducer ( stronger than ammonia ) and readily oxidized ( actually burns ) to Phosphorus Pentoxide, or to Phosphoric acid if water is present , so it doesn't last long. Since the Venusian atmosphere is strongly acidic, the other method for producing large amounts of Phosphine ( if actual, much higher than in Earth's atmosphere where it is due to bio-decay ), by reaction of white Phosphorus with Sodium/Potassium Hydroxide, is probably a non--starter. Thanks for the link, Area54

Don't really know much about the event. Always thought it was a sudden return to ice age temperatures after glaciers had been retreating for several thousand years. The usual explanation is the start of a warming trend after the peak of the last glaciation about 20 000 years ago, which resulted in ice covering retreating from the Ohio valley to Northern Canada, and from central Europe to the Scandinavian countries. The resultant rise in sea levels submerged the Siberia-Alaska land bridge and the sudden influx of fresh water disrupted mid-oceanic flows which bring warm equatorial waters north; the temperature drop which followed, about 12 000 years ago is what I know as the Younger Dryas event. Maybe you could explain what effects have been attributed to this 'cause', and how aliens and Elvis fit into all this.

Yeah, I make Phosphine ( see my profile ). I won't go into specifics, but it involves the continuous conversion of white Phosphorus to 20-25% red Phosphorus ( with heat ), and then reacting the slurry in very high strength Phos acid at temps of 300 degrees with superheated steam sparging, according to this patent https://patents.google.com/patent/US3371994A/en None of the required conditions seem unlikely to be found on Venus, so I would suspect a geological process, rather than bio-decay, as the cause ,IF it does turn out to actually be Phosphine.

I've been 'itchin' for a good political discussion ( Politics Forum has been pretty slow, even with Ten oz's return ) But you give me nothing to argue with in the above, iNow. Bang on analysis of the sad state of American politics. Not that I want to see the Democrats lose the upcoming election, but D Trump has certainly given them enough 'Ammunition' in the last 4 years. They seem to be running an "I'm not D Trump" campaign. When are they going to start making him account for his record ? No-one even mentions the fact that he was impeached for collaborating with foreign powers who are again trying to influence the election. Or that Iran is now a great threat because of his provocative actions and the fact they are building a deliverable Nuclear bomb again due to his unilateral dissolution of an agreement not to. Nor to his contempt of institutions and countries, like NATO, Europe and North America, traditional allies of the US for at least the last century, and instead fawning over dictators like V Putin and Kim Jung Un. And the hundreds of mis-steps that have led to the death of 200 000 people ( so far ) due to Coronavirus. When are Democrats going to start throwing all the crap that has made the US a laughing stock, in the faces of his supporters ? There are only two months left; if he wins again, there won't be much complaining, just crying.

Technically, you're right. Dr Zaius, member of the Ape National Assembly, Minister of Science and Chief Defender of the Faith, was an orangutan. Don't know what role gibbons played in their society.

Gibbon, an ape, as in Rise of Planet of the Apes ? Or E. Gibbon, as in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire ?

This will soon turn into a discussion about equal opportunity vs equal outcomes. Equal opportunity should be available to all ( it currently isn't ). Equal outcome depends on how bad you want it ( not what's provided for you ). Exemplified by spoilt rich kids who have everything provided for them, and they never even try. While immigrant kids, who have seen what their parents have endured, work their asses off to better themselves.

Apparently Dark Matter is 'darker' than previously thought. It seems that the gravitational lensing produced by Dark Matter distributions in certain galaxy clusters is up to 10x greater than expected from galactic rotations and orbits ( motions ). Indcating that not only are we in the 'dark' as to its make-up, but also distributions and/or properties. https://www.msn.com/en-ca/weather/topstories/astronomers-discover-a-surprise-twist-in-the-mystery-of-dark-matter/ar-BB18Wylr?ocid=msedgntp

Only the second part of the above is right. You SHOULD think that if you had an excess of 1charged particle per billion, billion, billion, billion particles those planets, stars and galaxies would fly apart. The electromagnetic force exerted by a proton is 39 orders of magnitude than its gravitational force. Hence, weak, in comparison.

Even pzkpfw's cat ( avatar ) is distressed by the lack of rigorous thinking in your argument. He's slapping his forehead in disbelief.