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But if color perception is only possible when light enters our retina, then why can we see colors who don't enter our eyes like in these cross-shaped stars?

What do you mean by 'uniform and balanced'? How exactly did gravity cause the sun and the planets to gain so much angular momentum?

A God doesn't have to be a human. A God doesn't have to be human in form, it can also be something virtual. For example the electron and the photon could be two Gods. The electron for example spans so many academic fields like electrical engineering, condensed matter physics, chemistry, nanoelectronics and so on so the electron could very well be considered a God. So does the photon. Theoretical/mathematical physicists would probably regard mathematics and superstrings to be their God. I believe there is some sort of higher force or a higher principle to the world but that is not quite the same as a God.

I don't like to put myself in political categories. However I do believe in a better afterlife for all people, regardless of religious affiliations. As such I believe in the afterlife much more than I believe in God. The concept of an external God which lies beyond humans and operates beyond human control is a turn-off for many people. The concept is a bit scary and I can understand why.

Then why do they write that it's also used to develop applications if it's not an API? On Microsoft's site it's written: "The .NET Framework is Microsoft's platform for building applications that have visually stunning user experiences, seamless and secure communication, and the ability to model a range of business processes." http://www.microsoft.com/net/overview.aspx

Hi everyone, I have a question about Microsoft Net. framework 4.0. I installed Microsoft Net. framework 4.0 on my computer from here and after the installation I see nothing: no program shortcut, no shortcut in windows explorer or anything else from which it's possible to run the program. What could be the problem here? Does Microsoft .Net framework 4.0 require Visual Studio 2010 to run or how else can I open (aka run) this program?

While I'm not sure if there is a God or not I think that we can still know what he is. We know that God is one and is omnipresent. This means that God gives off heat, he is the essence of all objects whether solid, gases or liquids, he is in the essence of all sounds and colors and basically all modes of reality are in him like pain, heat, sound, colors, solidity and softness, fluidity etc...

But what about fundametal particles like electrons and photons? Are they also impermanent? God's spirit is also eternal and impermanent in some sense because it existed before the universe ever came to be.

The only thing I like about Buddhism is that Buddhists do not want to be "slaves" to an external God. About all things being imparmanent, I'm not sure about that. The universe and the outer reaches of space could be eternal and permanent.

Yeah that's what I was thinking intially but thanks for confirming it to me guys.

What do the underbraces in the following equations mean?

Buddhism is perhaps one of the freest religions along with Taoism because Buddhists (and also Taoists to some extent) do not believe and do not worship an external coercive God. http://www.urbandharma.org/udharma3/budgod.html

The material inside neutron stars is known to be very dense but it only forms under extremely high pressure. Other than that I don't believe such a material really exists and there are some reasons to believe that it doesn't. If it did, this would probably pose several problems like violaton of the law of conservation of energy. Another problem is that if such a thing exists it would contradict the big bang because according to the big bang everything started out as pure energy such light and electricity. This means that every solid material must broken down to these fundamental particles.

According to Wikipedia aggregated diamond nanorods are the hardest materials. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregated_diamond_nanorod

I read somewhere that testosterone reduces good HDL cholesterol but why is that? Is it because testosterone is derived from cholesterol?

Questions like this have always bothered me: why the universe is the way it is and not some other way. Some of these questions are, for example: What is the reason behind inertia (Newton's First Law of motion)? Why are the electron and proton opposites and why do opposites attract at all? Why is the electron's charge -1 and the proton's +1? What tells light that it always needs to travel at speed c?

It's mostly bread but there are other gluten-containing foods like beigels which also make me feel sick and feverish. I also can't stand certain vegetables like asparagus.

Hi guys, I would really appreciate your help here. After checking the results of my blood tests it was found that my thyroid hormone levels are too high (beyond the healthy range) which indicates hyperthyroidism. In addition I have discovered that I have a sensitivity to bread and to other foods like nuts and asparagus. After eating a bit of bread or nuts I immediately get nausea, a feverish feeling (like feeling hot and weak) and sometimes even vomiting. Many times after only seeing bread I immediately get a feverish feeling associated with nausea and vomiting. My question to you is: Could there be a relationship between hyperthyroidism and feeling sick after eating or seeing bread or nuts?

In algebraic topology there is something called a chain complex. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_complex My question is: Why is the composition of any two consecutive maps [math]d_n \cdot d_{n+1}[/math] equal zero?

So what does X_c mean?

I took it from here: http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/arxiv/pdf/0907/0907.0379v2.pdf and it appears that c is a subscript of X.

Thanks Timo. Merged post follows: Consecutive posts mergedWhat does B → Xcℓν mean?

Thanks for the reply Timo. But what does the [math]\bar{b}[/math][math]b[/math] stand for?

Hi, I have a question. In this physical review letters article, what particles do [math]\bar{v}[/math] and [math]v[/math] stand for?

Hi everyone, I have a question relating to gafferuk's but probably a more fundamental one. Don't get me wrong. My math skills are completely lacking in this area and I still haven't reached the chapter of trigonometry and vectors in my college algebra textbook. So please if you could provide an answer which is not mathematically rigorous as possible that would be appreciated. According to Newton's first law, it takes a force to make a massive object to start moving from a rest position. If an object starts moving by a force from a rest position, it will keep moving unless stopped or slowed down by some kind of force such as friction or gravity for example. So my question is this: How did the planets, the sun and the galaxies start moving, rotating and spinning around their axes in the first place? An object with such a high mass such as the sun surely needs a huge amount of energy to start moving at the speed it does now. Even we, as advanced as we are, don't have an energy source so great as to move a star as large as the sun in such a great speed. So what is the current accepted theory of how the sun, the planets and galaxies started moving in the first place and how did they reach such great speeds?