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Monday, April 30, 2018

Why the electron cannot be view as a spinning charged sphere?

Why the electron cannot be view as a spinning charged sphere?


Why the electron cannot be view as a spinning charged sphere?

Posted: 30 Apr 2018 05:59 AM PDT

Are there any health benefits associated with sleeping on a schedule VS sleeping when you feel like it?

Posted: 30 Apr 2018 01:55 AM PDT

I was listening to Matthew Walker (Neuroscientist) speak on Joe Rogan's podcast, and it got me thinking...

If someone is hypothetically in a position where they don't have any deadlines associated with their work so they just sleep whenever they're tired... For example 4 hours here, 10 hours there, 2 or 3 naps one day, more sleep than necessary the next, etc. Is that any more or less beneficial than forcing yourself into a routine that doesn't feel natural?

In other words, I understand we train children growing up to sleep according to a specific schedule, but I wonder if that is simply a product of a functioning society or if it is actually good for you physiologically? It seems like the body naturally wants to shift the cycle, and that we have to force ourselves into consistency.

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Can you get Vitamid D from a large enough fire?

Posted: 30 Apr 2018 05:22 AM PDT

The sun is essentially a huge bonfire way way far away, so can a smaller fire that's closer provide us with Vitamin D?

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Is a 128 Gb memory stick just made up of two 64 Gb chips "glued" together or is it an entirely different technology that suddenly occupies half the space?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 08:18 AM PDT

Memory sticks are so big on comparison to the chip inside them, so I guess they could stick 10 chips in it and create the "biggest ever" memory stick rather easily...

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When people are in a coma, do hospital staff maintain their dental hygiene?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 03:27 PM PDT

I would imagine just like when you sleep, bacteria are still growing on your teeth. Do they wake up with a bunch of cavities?

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Can extremely high-pitched sounds send compression waves through single molecules?

Posted: 30 Apr 2018 03:03 AM PDT

Also the inverse question: can single molecules be made to vibrate as to produce sound?

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How come we never have the red eyes effect on pictures nowadays? What changed in cameras?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 09:28 AM PDT

Does the body all die at once if the brain dies first? Or do things shut down at different times?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 04:27 PM PDT

Can I launch something small into orbit?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 08:46 PM PDT

Friend and I are starting an aeronautics and aerospace club at my school. I know you can get weather balloons ~30km up fairly easily, but is it possible to get something in orbit? at least for a little while?

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Just watched a program about how the moon may have been formed, couple of questions in text?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 10:08 PM PDT

My take away is, BM (before moon) the Earth had a 5 hour rotation OMG right?, AM (after moon) the moon has added 19 hours to our daily rotation. 1, is the Earth still slowing down? and by how much over how much time 2. will the Earth slow down to match the moons rotation reaching a kind of equilibrium? essentially having the moon locked in one place over on the Earth? 3. or will the Earth eventually stop rotating because of the moon?, and the moon just goes around the Earth while the Earth has stopped spinning?

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How was it decided upon that there are 360 degrees in a circle? What makes a degree, a degree?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 08:52 PM PDT

After large organ removal, what, if anything, goes back in?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 06:34 PM PDT

I'm thinking specifically about when a lung is removed but I wonder the same thing about large sections of liver or intestine.

Left behind, I imagine, is a large void, nearly half your upper torso in the case of a lung. Is anything put there during surgery to fill that large void? Does it fill in naturally somehow?

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How did the Red Rocks form in Colorado? (Red Rock Amphitheater)

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 02:58 PM PDT

Tried Wikipedia-ing it and I didn't understand half the words used.

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How does a submarime ascend and descend?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 10:50 PM PDT

What is the need of n-dimensional geometry in mathematics, with n greater than 3 ?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 02:30 PM PDT

Why don't the Appalachian mountains cause a rain shadow?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 10:23 PM PDT

Is there a reason a greenscreen has to be green? Can other colours be used?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 10:09 AM PDT

Are people with mental illnesses more likely to develop neurological diseases such as dementia and Alzheimers?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 05:57 PM PDT

How do meteors burn and dissolve in the mesosphere when its -100 C out there?

Posted: 30 Apr 2018 03:10 AM PDT

I kinda know it's because of friction, but I need some elaboration.

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We think Earth has a magnetic field because of the iron in the core. But the sun and moon also have magnetic fields. What causes their magnetic fields)?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 01:50 PM PDT

Tangled Cords = Slower Speed?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 08:34 PM PDT

If a cord is tangled, will it fractionally reduce the speed of the information travelling along it?

I imagine it would be faster to travel in a straight line than it would through knots and turns.

May be a stupid question, I'm not the best with electronics.

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Sunday, April 29, 2018

Brain tumors are known to directly cause depression, but could the opposite happen for someone that is already depressed?

Brain tumors are known to directly cause depression, but could the opposite happen for someone that is already depressed?


Brain tumors are known to directly cause depression, but could the opposite happen for someone that is already depressed?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 08:54 PM PDT

To my knowledge, various different brain tumors can have negative emotional impacts such as depression or anxiety, but if an individual already suffers from these illnesses, could a tumor have a reversing like effect?

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What is the net greenhouse gas emission of agricultural causes?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 05:31 AM PDT

Hi all, doing an economic report on how we need to reduce greenhouse gases without effecting the economy. I've done a few years of chemistry, so it was somewhat bothering me how people claim greenhouse gas is "created" (ie conservation of matter). Can someone with better knowledge of the topic explain whether or not my assumptions are justified:

1) Grass or wheat (grain) photosynthesise CO2 and water, "storing it" inside the plant matter

2) Cows digest said grass and wheat, releasing greenhouse gases into the atmosphere

3)The greenhouse gases is photosynthesised and Chemosynthesised, repeating the food cycle

By this assumption, the long term net greenhouse gas emission of cow digestion is a lot less then initially assumed, as the emission results from the digestion of food created for the animals. The same can't be said for the CO2 output from cars, as gas and oil takes millions of years to form, resulting in an "increase" in the atmosphere.

I obviously realise there will still be more greenhouse gas transferred into the atmosphere then there is consumed, but does anyone have any thoughts of how much this amount is? If I have made any massive fundamental errors please also correct me

Thanks for helping my curiosity!

Bonus question: Given cyanobacteria and algea account for 70-80% of O2 production why don't we just cultivate them to reduce greenhouse gases (hopefully no great oxygenation event 2.0)

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Is there any part in the body that cannot get cancer?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 05:03 AM PDT

Do primates get under arm body odor as humans do?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 08:13 PM PDT

How far do tectonic plates shift during an earthquake?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 04:01 AM PDT

Why do so many drugs end in HCl (hydrochloride)?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 02:23 PM PDT

Why are elements distributed non-uniformly in the earth's crust?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 08:52 PM PDT

How do seems of gold or uranium end up in one rock formation but not another elsewhere? Why isn't the earth's composition uniform or closer to uniform? Is there something about our core or mantle that puts a little more uranium over here than over there?

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Do the North Atlantic Oscillation and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation have the same effect of North Atlantic climate conditions?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 04:47 AM PDT

Does a positive index value of the NAO have the same effect on temperature/climate as a positive value of the AMO?

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why is chemical sunscreen put in certain perfumes?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 12:09 AM PDT

the other day I read the ingredient label in a cologne and it had "ethylhexyl/octyl methometoxycinnamate" which i'm pretty sure blocks UVB rays

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If I wanted to travel to the Sun, at which direction do I point my thrusters?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 12:06 PM PDT

In a ship that are in earths orbit around the sun. I figure we already have momentum, so if I pointed the thrusters in the opposite direction of my momentum. Then I would decrease my speed around the sun and gravity should pull me in. I think

Or is it just as simple as pointing my engines away from the sun and head inwards? Like walking on one of the arms of a carousel towards the center.

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what is the difference between our perception or thoughts and our subconscious?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 12:54 PM PDT

its a very abstract thing to try and feel out the boundary between my own thoughts and the subconsciousness (that i can't access with those thoughts). are the thoughts just auxiliary and its all really just my subconscious, with those thoughts just bouncing around the brain but just don't go too close to certain areas that are too personal or traumatic, or just too complicated, sort of like how you can't think two thoughts simultaneously? OR, is it life that's just that complicated, and we're just helpless to understand it one thought at a time? or are thoughts not even quantifiable in that way at all; maybe I'm mixing thought up with perception, and if so, then would it just be my 'perception' that is unable to pierce the veil of my subconscious 'thought'? or in other words, can someone just explain what goes on when a human 'thinks'? or do we not actually think at all, in that way at least, in which case is this just whats called 'internal dialogue', that term where something like half of the population talks to themselves in a constant stream of thoughts but aren't crazy?

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If an object exceeds the speed of sound it passes the sonic barrier. Is there an equivalent barrier passed when an object travels faster than light? If no then why?

Posted: 29 Apr 2018 12:25 AM PDT

Are there any known examples of jump discontinuities occurring in the natural world, (not related to manmade systems)?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 03:20 PM PDT

Why does pouring water on a grease fire make it bigger?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 05:53 PM PDT

I saw the post on r/WTF and it reminded me that I've always wondered.

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Are there examples of cancers that have a normal copy of p53?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 02:12 PM PDT

It's been said that over 50% of tumours have a mutation in p53, but I can never find examples of tumours that actually have an intact p53 protein? Can these tumours even exist?

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How does Plan B work?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 02:34 PM PDT

Can Lactic Acid be considered an alcohol?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 11:02 AM PDT

I was studying HS biology, respiration to be exact. Whilst solving the questions, I wondered the molecule structure of lactic acid. Once I looked at it, I realized it had a carboxyl group (like an acid) and an hydroxy group (like an alcohol). So can lactic acid be considered an alcohol as well as an acid?

Edit:hydroxide hydroxy, excuse my incorrect usage.

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How does the body make more blood after you finish bleeding?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 11:52 AM PDT

As somebody who gets a lot of bad nosebleeds, especially during the winter, I've lost a lot of blood this way, and I've always wondered how more blood gets made once the bleeding stops

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Why is the mass attenuation coefficient inversely proportional to density (mac = μ/ρ)?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 07:23 PM PDT

Wikipedia definition: "The mass attenuation coefficient, mass extinction coefficient, or mass narrow beam attenuation coefficient of the volume of a material characterizes how easily it can be penetrated by a beam of light, sound, particles, or other energy or matter."

Surely a denser material would make it harder for light to penetrate it? Therefore mass attenuation coefficient should be proportional to density?

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How are mineral seedbeds created?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 03:08 PM PDT

What minerals are in trees that get deposited into the soil? Why do certain trees prefer this?

Edit: I'm being downvoted and I'm not sure why. This is my first post on here and maybe I'm missing something for my question? I'm learning about post fire forests and the texts mentions mineral seedbeds are produced after fire, but they never really mention what that is. Just that some trees prefer this and I don't really know what that means.

I tried Googling it too, but again, most of my results just studies where some plants respond better to this type of soil, but not sure of exactly why or what it is. Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me understand.

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Why does having a certain amount of protons make an atom that specific element? Also, what would happen if all protons were removed from an atom?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 06:08 PM PDT

So I'm a high school freshman who hasn't yet taken chemistry. However, I do know that the amount of protons in an atom make it a certain element, such as one proton making an atom Hydrogen. So why does having one proton cause the atom to exhibit the properties of hydrogen? Are an atom's properties more dependent on their neutron number (as in different isotopes)? And what would happen if all protons were removed from an atom and how would someone do that?

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Saturday, April 28, 2018

Is there a relation between the spherical shape of bubbles and objects such as planets, stars, etc. that have reached Hydrostatic Equilibrium?

Is there a relation between the spherical shape of bubbles and objects such as planets, stars, etc. that have reached Hydrostatic Equilibrium?


Is there a relation between the spherical shape of bubbles and objects such as planets, stars, etc. that have reached Hydrostatic Equilibrium?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 11:15 AM PDT

How exactly do Holograms work? How does the light emitted from the machine stop mid-air to create the images?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 04:28 AM PDT

I saw this post and it reminded me of a question I've always had about this.

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Why do russian RD-180 engines run oxygen rich?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 07:01 AM PDT

As far as I know, every other rocket engine in existence favours fuel-rich operation. I know efficiency is inversely proportional to molar mass, and oxygen is lighter than RP-1, so is that the main reason why ther RD-180 is such a good engine? If so, what made it possible to run it oxygen rich and what prevented the US from developing the same engine?

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How does the chemical reaction in glow sticks work?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 12:40 AM PDT

How does the myosin and actin crossbridge cycle work?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 06:40 AM PDT

I don't get the role of ATP in this. It's so confusing. Each source says different things. Are there any good animations for this? Could you please explain what ATP does at each part in the cycle?

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If lightning is an electric current, made of electrons, what happens to the positive ions those electrons left behind?

Posted: 28 Apr 2018 12:54 AM PDT

I'm assuming the matter it comes from is water vapor in clouds. I may be mistaken about how that works. I might be wayyy off base about how that works but I'm fine with sounding stupid.

Also, another question. Ionization is a chemical change, isn't it? So wouldn't whatever caused the matter in clouds (again, assuming water vapor) to ionize have to be a chemical reaction rather than a physical one? I believe I've read that the leading theory is that it comes from the motion of the water vapor "knocking off" electrons. That doesn't seem possible to me without a LOT of energy in the vapor. Do the atoms/molecules in clouds really move that fast? Or is something else at work here?

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Why does public transportation typically not have any seatbelts?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 06:42 PM PDT

I've taken buses in big cities across the EU, Middle East and North America, none have ever had seatbelts of any kind. Why is this? I assume that buses are no less likely to get into accidents, and would even assume that bus accidents would be more fatal due to the atypical seat layout (levels, rotated seats, etc...). So what's reasoning behind them not having any kind of seat belts? Surely it's just not an issue of inconvenience?

On that same note, tramways (streetcars) also don't seem to have any seatbelts.

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How were maps made before satellites and aeroplanes?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 06:05 PM PDT

When a new human being is created how do the cells know they need to develop organs like the brain in our bodies?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 02:31 PM PDT

Why are IgA antibodies found in serum 2x more than IgG, even though IgG accounts for more than 80% in the body?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 10:26 PM PDT

Why are halogens used as disinfectants? How does their structure contribute to their ability to disinfect better than other elements?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 10:00 PM PDT

[Astronomy]What's the minimum size a meteor would have to be to penetrate the atmosphere and strike the surface with enough force to make a crater?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 12:35 PM PDT

As I understand it, dust-sized meteors vaporize in the atmosphere, and large ones frequently explode in flight showering the ground with fragments. Some meteors essentially hit the atmosphere and stop, or at least go from cosmic speeds to near zero, then falling passively to the surface. So how large does a meteor have to be to survive the atmosphere more or less intact, and hit with enough force to make a crater? How large would this "minimum" size crater be?

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Why does tetanus almost always cause lockjaw before any other symptom?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 02:48 PM PDT

is this muscle more susceptible to the toxin?

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How is it that Jupiter can keep earth safe when they orbit the sun differently?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 06:33 PM PDT

How does a fighter jet know when it's being locked-onto by a seeker missile?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 10:23 AM PDT

In movies you always hear beeping in the cockpit to indicate that you're being targeted. Assuming this is a real thing, how does the aircraft detect that? Is it looking for certain infrared frequencies or something?

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How big would a building, like a large dome, have to be to have an internal weather system?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 01:44 PM PDT

Does the way food looks and smells influence taste? If so how does that work?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 05:07 PM PDT

What factors influence metastatic spread of a malignant tumour, other than venous drainage?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 03:03 PM PDT

So for example, are there any particular types of cells that are more likely to metastasise and take hold in the brain as opposed to the lungs? Does the cell lineage (e.g. epithelial vs mesenchymal) have any effect?

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Do the chemicals produced during REM sleep have any application for "full dive" virtual reality?

Posted: 27 Apr 2018 11:57 AM PDT

I'm talking specifically about the ones released to keep your body from moving while you're dreaming. Also, if you've read any articles about this topic, I'd love to read them as well.

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