How did this article, suggesting Intelligent Design of the hand, make it through peer-review and into PLOS One? |
- How did this article, suggesting Intelligent Design of the hand, make it through peer-review and into PLOS One?
- If I had a rope on earth and someone was at the sun with the other side of the rope then one person tugged on one side, would the other instantly feel it?
- Is it possible for a person to 'overpower' a mental disorder like Schizophrenia or the Capgras delusion?
- How is an actual memory different from a memory of an imagination or fantasy?
- In 2014 Harvard infamously claimed to have discovered gravitational waves. It was false. Recently LIGO famously claimed to have discovered gravitational waves. Should we be skeptical this time around?
- Is there a marine equivalent to a ruminant mammal?
- If benzodiazepines enhance the effect of GABA on your brain, why wouldn't GABA supplements do the same?
- If I could exert a large force on the entirety of the earth, what direction would cause the earth to fall into the Sun first?
- What type of radiation does Iodine-125 emit? I don't understand the wikipedia article about it (source in comments)
- What would happen if someone with OCD was physically prevented from carrying out their compulsions?
- Appalachian and Penokean mountain-building?
- Why don't electrons "stick" to protons in the nucleus of an atom?
- What effects has gaining weight on the balance of a person? More exactly, do the shoulders fall back in order to compensate the weight of the belly?
- What would happen if the black hole at the centre of a galaxy disappeared?
- Does the mass of a supermassive black hole determine the shape of the galaxy it is at the center of?
- How long was a day on Earth 300 million years ago?
- Is there a rate and depth at which bodies of water freeze that can be calculated based on temperature and duration?
- In information theory, if I = log 1/p, then an impossible or extremely unlikely event would have infinite information, can this explain the origin of the universe?
- How do the operators of the LHC (and other particle accelerators), get the protons they use?
- Is there any correlation between the shape of a 3d object and it's ability to conserve energy?
| Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:16 PM PST http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0146193 Also note the comment section: "Even if I should not be able to convince the authors, editors and peer reviewers of this study of the non-existence of a divine intelligent Creator, please consider: Humans occasionally use their hand as a tool of masturbation, one of "a multitude of daily tasks" performed "in a comfortable way". Masturbation is a sinful activity according to most religions, including Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism and apparently even Buddhism. Thus, the hand cannot have been designed by a divine Creator, but in fact possibly by the Devil himself, to lead the humanity (and other apes) into temptation." [link] [comments]  |
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| How is an actual memory different from a memory of an imagination or fantasy? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 05:50 PM PST For example, if a person is given a lie detector test and instead of focusing on his actual memory the person focuses on an alternate imaginative version of that memory. Will this person's body still react as though he is telling the truth or will it react like he is lying? [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 03 Mar 2016 05:29 AM PST Harvard claimed to have detected gravitational waves in 2014. It was huge news. They did not have any doubts what-so-ever of their discovery: "According to the Harvard group there was a one in 2 million chance of the result being a statistical fluke." 1 in 2 million! Those claims turned out completely false. https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/jun/04/gravitational-wave-discovery-dust-big-bang-inflation Pretty appalling unscientific approach to this whole ordeal by Harvard. Recently, gravitational waves discovery has been announced again. This time not by Harvard but a joint venture spearheaded by MIT. So, basically, with Harvard so falsely sure of their claim of their gravitational wave discovery, what makes LIGO's claims so much more trustworthy? [link] [comments]  |
| Is there a marine equivalent to a ruminant mammal? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 07:13 AM PST I understand that fish have gut fauna to help in digestion, but do any fish or inverts feed on primarily plant matter that have cellulose? [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 03 Mar 2016 06:23 AM PST This is ignoring the fact that the Sun is expanding, obviously. My ideas were a force pushing the earth directly towards the sun and a force directly against the direction of its orbit, slowing it. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:21 PM PST https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iodine-125 what type of radiation is that? gamma? [link] [comments]  |
| What would happen if someone with OCD was physically prevented from carrying out their compulsions? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 03:13 PM PST Of course, such an experiment would be extremely unethical and not something that should be done, but admittedly I am curious about what the results would be. Would the person realise that no harm has come to them after not carrying out the compulsion? [link] [comments]  |
| Appalachian and Penokean mountain-building? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 06:53 PM PST My current understanding of the creation of the Appalachian mountains is that Gondwanaland collied with what is now North America because the ocean that was there at the time closed. This joining created the Appalachians around 270Ma. My question is: were the Penokean Mountains created in a similar way, 1.8Ga? As in, did the Atlantic ocean (or whatever was the paleo-equivalent ocean) close up at an even earlier time, creating the Penokean mountains? Or was it something else? [link] [comments]  |
| Why don't electrons "stick" to protons in the nucleus of an atom? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 08:19 PM PST Shouldn't electrons' negative charges and protons' positive charges attract each other, like oppositely charged magnets? Instead, we're given an image of electrons orbiting a nucleus in a surrounding "cloud," which seems weird, since opposite charges attract (like ionic compounds composed of anions and cations). [Answered -- Don't know how to put that flair, sorry. Thanks everyone!] [link] [comments]  |
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| What would happen if the black hole at the centre of a galaxy disappeared? Posted: 03 Mar 2016 03:57 AM PST Would the spot where the black hole used to be still act like the barycenter of the galaxy and everything would just keep orbiting that? Or would something else happen? [link] [comments]  |
| Does the mass of a supermassive black hole determine the shape of the galaxy it is at the center of? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 11:17 AM PST |
| How long was a day on Earth 300 million years ago? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 08:48 AM PST |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2016 01:30 PM PST For example, "a deep freshwater lake will freeze at one millimeter per hour for every degree below zero" or "saltwater will freeze to a depth of two meters after XX days of -20 degree weather." [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2016 06:38 PM PST As per the title, I understand that in information theory, Information (I) = log 1/p, where p is probability. Would that mean that an impossible or extremely unlikely event would have infinite information? If so, can we move from infinite information to an explanation of the creation of the universe? Take the event "Something happening to nothing", that would have an extremely low if not impossible probability, over infinite time though would that not result in infinite information? [link] [comments]  |
| How do the operators of the LHC (and other particle accelerators), get the protons they use? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 02:22 PM PST More specifically how do they get the protons into the mechanism itself? [link] [comments]  |
| Is there any correlation between the shape of a 3d object and it's ability to conserve energy? Posted: 02 Mar 2016 05:03 AM PST I'm interested to know if there is a correlation betwen the shape of the "object" and its heat conserving capacity, given the same surface area, material composition and external factors. ex: Does a sphere lose energy faster than a cube? [link] [comments]  |
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