farmboy

You didn't mention either of those things. They will produce heat, though not very much. When you crash two things together some of their kinetic energy is going to be converted into other forms of energy, like heat, noise etc. Is there a specific type of energy you want to be produced?

Rubber.

Sorry, I'm really not sure what you mean at all. Is there some effect you are trying to explain?

You sure it is real? I remember reading about some condition like this, but it has nothing to do with actual electricity.

What is the philosophy of science?

Is there any evidence to support this theory?

Perhaps look at a 2 carbon compound in the middle, and two three carbon compounds for the two sides.

I think the term van der Waals applies to a few different types of intermolecular attractions, of which the london dispersion force is one. I don't think that name is used very often though, they are generally called instantaneous dipole induced dipole forces, which is a much better name as it basically ''does what it says on the tin.''

It is hard to say, the science is good, but I'd imagine it would be more of a question of politics/economics as to whether any such plan could be implemented. People can't even agree on whether or not global warming is happening, so it seems unlikely that they anyone would be willing to put money into such a project. That is just pure speculation though.

If you could get enough power from the solar panels to convert the CO2 back into the fossil fuels, then why use the fossil fuels in the first place? It would be easier, and far more efficent, to just use the power directly from the panels. What about them? All reactions are reversible, but that doesn't meant they are easily reversible.

The reality of the bonding is no where near as simple as that. Sharing electrons is more like a model that gives us generally the right answers, and allows us to start understanding chemistry but isn't real. You have to remember that the atoms don't really look the way they are drawn, with a shell convienently missing an electron and another atom that just happens to have another one that matches up nicely. The atoms are three dimensional and have three dimensional electron clouds. Each Cl is bound to 6 Na's and vice versa forming a lattice. The charge is stabilised over the whole lattice. Even that doesn't really tell us what is going on. To get the true picture you would need to describe the system quantum mechanically, which I probably couldn't do myself, and besides, unless you understand quantum mechanics yourself that answer probably won't be any more fulfilling than sharing electrons. I'm pretty sure he doesn't mean the four fundamental forces, just the four forces mentioned previously in the thread. He was saying tht Van der waals are weak intermolecular forces, not that they were the weak (nuclear) force.

1984 for the reality tv generation?

Yeah I realise that, but it seems to me that this is an explanation for how gravity works rather than a demonstration it doesn't exist. As I said previously, the evidence that gravity exists is undeniable.

How did Einstein prove that gravity doesn't exist? I would say the evidence that gravity exists is undeniable.

As others have pointed out, it isn't really the nucleus that is important, but the way the atoms are arranged in their lattice. Osmium adopts a hexagonal close packed lattice structure which has a higher packing efficency (90.69%) than golds face centred cubic lattice structure (74.05%).

Firstly I would say that it is not true at all that advanced biology is chemistry and advanced chemistry is physics etc. The subjects have areas of overlap, but it's entirely wrong to think of them as going in order like that. If you really want to do physics then you are almost certainly going to need to be able to do some complex maths, but you can study chemistry or biology, and make real scientific breakthroughs in each without significant mathematical knowledge. Each of the science requires different skill sets. Just because someone is a brilliant mathematician, that doesn't mean they would make a good biologist.

Planning to shake someone really hard?

I suppose when you go down far enough, everything depends on quantum mechanics. Quite a lot of biological systems make use the different oxidation states of certain metals, which is essentially a quantum mechanical property.

sulfuric acid and sugar perhaps.