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i don't understand the question Philip

There wasn't actually an experiment that determined this, is was a man named Schrodinger, he was a mathematician. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Schrodinger.html In 1930 he proposed that electrons are continuous clouds.

go sayonara³! You're really making me work now... I've got to go out but when i get back i'll have a brainteaser that will tease all of your brains!

i could be wrong, but last i checked our current widely accepted theories don't explain exactly how gravity or magnetism really works. e.g. newton gives examples but not reasons. and Rootje it's Hawking sorry for being pedantic but one of the greatest men alive shouldn't have their names spelled incorrectly

the mistake is how the $30 is accounted for. The $2 is part of the $27 the men have paid. So $27 was paid and $30 was not. I won't post more until someone finds an answer to the other one. you'll kick yourself when you know the answer.

just cause you guys are such smartasses and keep getting my brainteasers here's another one. There men stay at a hotel for the night. The innkeeper chargers $30 per room per night. The men rent one room, each pays $10. The hotel porter leads them to their room. Later, the innkeeper discovers has has overcharged the men and asks the porter to return $5 to them. On the way upstairs, the porter realised that $5 can't be split evenly amont three men, so he decides to keep $2 for himself and return $1 to each man. At this point, the three men have paid $9 each, totalling $27 and the porter has $2, which adds up to $29. Where di the 30th dollar go?

you're right MadScientist. here's one: How quickly can you find out what is so unusual about this paragraph? It looks so ordinary that you would think that nothing is wrong with it at all, and, in fact, nothing is. But it is unsual. Why? If you study it and think about it, you may find out, but I am not going to assist you in any way. You must do it without coaching. No doubt, if you work at it for long, it will dawn on you. Who knows? Go to work and try your skill. Par is about half an hour.

Jasc animation shop is good. People have been known to get the full version on a filesharing program such as LimeWire or Kazaa (there are many more of course and you probably have one) People have also been known to go to http://www.keygen.us to unlock the trial version for free. Please note that I don't condone or encourage doing the above, as they're illegal, but people have been known to do them

Eye monsters? Really? Are they eating my eyes? arrrrggggggg! :-D

there is a barrel with no lid and some wine in it. one person thinks the barrel is more than half full, the other says it's less than half full. without any measuring implements and without removing any wine from the barrel, how can they easily determine who is correct?

well in that case, my one must be right too. you think?

that may be the case sometimes psi20, but it can happen when you're not actually asleep yet. sometimes you can just be relaxing with your eyes closed and it happens.

i wonder if there have actually been any conclusive scientific tests done on this subject. I'd like to conduct one (some) if there havn't been. If anyone has any ideas on how to do this, I'd love to hear/read them I have no idea what would cause the falling feeling but am dying to find out.

thanks for replying. i know what the bugs are, i was more meaning to ask what causes the magnification through the towel. possibly the light coming through the towel isn't doing anything but allowing a singular point to focus on rather than it all being light.

sear=hot sea=cold huh? huh?

I was just outside lying in the sun with a towel over my face, and sunlight got through tiny holes in the towel, it wasn't a very thick towel. It made pretty little circles in front of my eyes. I started playing with them (for want of a better word) and they got bigger and smaller depending on how i focused my eyes, as one would expect. After tinkering with my eyes a bit, I was able to 'zoom in' to these circles while still focusing on them, and saw that I could see the surface of my eyes in them. little bugs floating around in the liquid etc. I'm interested to know how a towel could act like a lens like that... It was very cool, I recommend you all try it.

yeah i considered the fact that there may not have been any good research done on it, thanks anyway man, i might have to conduct an experiment of my own on this one

yeah you were right Sayonara³, I'll post a harder one next time YT2095 I have no idea! Still thinking though...

when we're actually able to prove that black holes exist even don't get me wrong, i think they do, and scientifically it's very probably, but it's not a fact.

I knew I should've said "i've never heard any credible person suggest their own DNA would become modified upon consumption of GM food." Secondly... If they would find it funny, they wouldn't be wiped out.

it's very brave of you to bring this up It's a huge topic of conversation that can never be proven or disproven, but still very fun, even if at times it makes you want to pull your hair out. Firstly, the definition of evolution is: A gradual change in the characteristics of a population of animals or plants over successive generations. I'll join in the debate after more people have cause my brain just overloaded with thoughts on it and I must lie down now...

Okay, i've never heard anyone suggest their own DNA would become modified upon consumption of GM food. The arguments against GM food that I feel are valid are the ones that don't look at selfish things like "how will this affect me" and think of the future of the planet and human life. Here is a common one: It only takes one big mistake with GM to possibly change the world forever. It could be a good change, but more likely it would be a bad one. The "circle of life" isn't just a concept for kids who watch The Lion King, you know. There really is a cycle. Often as humans we aren't aware of this because we often act first and think later, especially when we're eager to invent/prove new technology. It's important to remember that the living things that inhabit this earth havn't been like this forever, or even for long. Homo Sapiens are among the new species on the planet. We're a product of evolution - whether God put it in motion or not, I don't mean for this to become a religious argument. We - and every other living thing on the planet - has been "genetically modified" by nature to best survive. It blows my mind that any human, or team of humans, could claim to have the foresight/intelligence/maturity to be able to change things at the genetic level safely. Just because we're the "smartest" beings on the planet, doesn't mean we're very smart in the grand scheme of things.

i'm guessing the answer is "you will kill me" here's a new riddle: A friend told Trevor that someone has stashed a $50 note in a book in the local library. The friend doesn't know the title of the book but goes on to tell Trevor that the money is hidden between pages 201 and 202 of the unnamed book. With all this information, does Trevor ransack the library looking for the right book and the money, or does he laugh off the whole matter? Why?

i agree spaceman and ophiolite, and luciddreamer of course, i'll look forward to it

to expand, LucidDreamer, Flores had brains the sizes of grapefruits severian, yes they're very different from modern humans. They appear to be most similar to Homo Erectus, who died about 250,000 years ago. Flores Man is thought to have stemmed from Erectus roughly 800,000 years ago. It's strange you'd dispute a well observed biological phenomena, spaceman. It's called The Island Rule. Google it. Here's the first result you'll get: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eden/giants.html Here's a quote you'll get: "Rodents tend toward gigantism, while carnivores, lagomorphs (rabbits and hares), and artiodactyls (deer, hippos, and other even-toed ungulates) are more likely to become dwarfed. Overall, amongst mammal species that colonize islands, big ones have a tendency to shrink while small ones are apt to bulk up. Biologists have come to call Foster's generalization the "island rule." "