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    You are right. I have also googled it and not found anything of any rigour to support it. This is why I posted this enquiry in Pseudoscience. However, can you comment on what this guy says, extract: http://www.rhfweb.com/scalarwv.html In the meantime I will google for scholar atricles... Her's one you can get using your academic account. Hope this is right. http://prola.aps.org/abstract/PRD/v35/i4/p1533_1
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    From my original reading, I thought these were longitudinal EM waves as opposed to standard EM waves which are transverse and that Maxwell had a complete set of equations relating to them. However, they are quite firmly in the world of pseudoscience at the moment but the Russians are 'apparently' using this technology. I see your problem about scalar fields because it seems like nonsense doesn't it? Bearden is prolific in his belief that these exist: http://www.rhfweb.com/scalarwv.html
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    Great and good luck with the PhD. I have been in that world as a Postdoc as well and found that if you are not in a leadership position by the age of 36, you are too expensive to fund as a researcher so I took up teaching instead. If you ever want to take a year out to come to London and teach, I will recommend you highly and you can spend a year enjoying a tour of the UK and experience teaching and earning some money at the same time. But, of course, pursue your dreams first. Take it easy and keep making those excellent videos.

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    I have not understood more than a few words of what you have written man except for 'fields' and 'electromagnetism' - teach me in simple K12 language please.
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    If you can get a teaching qualification, I am pretty sure I can help you to get a job in a tough-ish but friendly school in London. The kids would love you if you are strict, kind and give them loads of practicals - I am serious here!

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    Agreed. However, I don't think the Mendelian inheritance of blue eyes is a simple Mendelian trait and may involve some multi-gene epistasis. That is only an opinion because I am too tired to look for a link right now.
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    You are the most beautiful woman I have ever seen in a Science Forum. Do your looks match your brains?

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    Very interesting question. IMHO, even before we try to harness energy from the Sun, economically developing civilisations will go to war against each other to harness the dwindling carbon-based energy resources. This power-play will keep us pegged to te first stage. This is a simplistic notion but we can debate this point. I will propose that China will come into conflict with the West at some point in the future.
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    I was amazed to read about scalar, longitudinal electromagnetic waves as I have never heard of them before. However, I was casually looking through the web and found this: http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~sai/Beard_wmod.htm My questions are: Do such waves exist? If they do, what sort of properties would they show and how could you detect them?
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    I don't know which level you are aiming for. However, this link is a one-stop shop for most Biology questions and careful reading will increase your knowledge. If you are below this level, send a reply and I will suggest another link. http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ultranet/BiologyPages/C/ClonalSelection.html#LymphNodes
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    Now that is very interesting. I am sure that I attended a seminar which stated that enzymes shifted from an aqueous to an ethanolic environment or even in other solvents became efficient with completely new substrates. This is all speculation but I wonder if isolation of enzymes in 'microenvironments' caused the substrate switch?
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    Thanks for that link. I read the abstract and the paper which is interesting in its phylogenetic diagrams. However, I still am a little confused. How would you propose that genes can be selected or diverge sufficiently to fix an atmospheric gas? I know that this event must have occurred for fixing carbon dioxide during photosynthesis and preceded animal life in the evolutionary time course, but...it is a hell of a puzzling process even given millions of years. There has to be some sort of advantage for survival in the stages that led up to efficient fixing of carbon dioxide and I cannot think of it at the moment.
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    I would love to make some biofuel for myself using vegetable oil, ethanol and a catalyst due to the prohibitively high cost of fuel at the moment and the probability that the cost will remain high in the future. The question is, will it be economical to do so or is it not worth the hassle?
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    Interesting points made in the OP, most of which have been already addressed. Suffice to say the DNA is actually active, not inert, during the main part of the cell cycle in Interphase. It is making and providing regulation for enzymes that speed up the chemical reactions of the cell. Enzymes are crucial to the functioning of the cell at the correct time and in the correct number. I like the way you are trying to think independently. However, you would have more luck with debating the origins of and functions of RNA. Good luck.
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    Thanks for the reply. How does the mat give each device its required charge though?
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    I remember being quite excited by this charging mat when it first came out. apparently you could recharge any device after first plugging the mat into the mains. You could then automatically charge up any electronic device that contained rechargeable batteries. However, what has happened since and how does it work? Because I need one! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2861987.stm
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    I would reply without doubt Cell Bology, but then I am speaking from the perspective of a British first Science degree. It was a fresh and rapidly changing science then and we had a professor who would sit in tutorials and wander off for a couple of hours telling us stories about his life and work and then pull us back on to topic in the last ten minutes. We also had to dredge through papers written on subjects that were controversial at the time such as phospholipid flip-flop and the phosphatidyl inisitol systems and thoughts about how facilitated diffusion occurred. Yet, thinking back on it I still remember the main parts of the course today. My title should really change from Quark to Old Fossil but ah....golden days, golden days!
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    Great Britain need a new anthem in contrast to the ponderous and old-fashioned anthem we have now. I suggest we pen some new lyrics to the Led Zeppelin tune 'Whole Lotta Love' and we can have the most energetic and enjoyable anthem in the world.
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    Are you talking about cognitive enhancement through the use of certain appropriate chemicals?
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    Thank you for that response. I have been forced to do some reading of my own and I now feel that we are in a sort of bubble embedded into a higher set of dimensions. The extra dimensions seem to be tightly curled into fractions of a centimetre tough. This article helped me out: http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEID_CHAR=5E0C9057-3990-43A4-819C-09DEB18A335 This quite humorous and interesting blog also added more detail but more confusion for my tiny mind: http://backreaction.blogspot.com/2006/07/extra-dimensions.html
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    Could we just be four dimensional? I don't really know the answer to this
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    A puzzle I have been facing recently is to try to figure out how bacteria managed to capture nitrogen from the atmosphere to incorporate it as ammonia. I suppose I have always considered it similar to the method by which chloroplasts can incorporate atmospheric carbon dioxide into soluble carbohydrates. However, I don't know - it all looks so complicated. Any thoughts...
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    I suppose what I meant was the possibility of the existence of other dimensions tightly curled and small but nevertheless theoretically possible. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extra_dimensions I think there are 11 dimensions theorised now. I just wondered if there is a possibility of extradimensional life forms (like ghosts etc...) which could accommodate paranormal wierdness.
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    foodchain thanks for the answer. I agree with you and it is a difficult point to answer. However, I suppose it is possible for RNA to code for a protein which then subsequently specifically modifies the activity of the RNA so perhaps I have answered my own question partially. It's just a matter of hypothesising when DNA came into the picture. However, I do take your points on board about the sheer complexity of the simplest biochemical pathways in bacteria.
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    In answer to the OP, I thinkI know what you are getting at. However, I think you are asking the question: 'Why do humans die?' despite having near perfect DNA and RNA polymerases and 'fail-safe' mechanisms. People will answer you with how, but not why - that is a mystery...
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