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What things were predicted by math before their observation?

What things were predicted by math before their observation?


What things were predicted by math before their observation?

Posted: 22 May 2018 06:46 PM PDT

Dirac predicted antimatter. Mendeleev predicted gallium. Higgs predicted a boson. What are other examples of things whose existence was suggested before their discovery?

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Why is green always used in special effects like green screens? Why not yellow or purple or red?

Posted: 23 May 2018 05:45 AM PDT

Are there any gemstones that have applications in the scientific community?

Posted: 23 May 2018 03:52 AM PDT

How and why does touching the opposite end of an auxiliary cable produce a buzzing noise from the speaker it is plugged into?

Posted: 22 May 2018 01:24 PM PDT

I've always wondered how and why there is a buzzing noise produced particularly because different people produce different frequencies of buzzing.

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If fire goes from red to yellow to blue to white, matching with the frequency of light why do we not (or very rarely see) green natural fire?

Posted: 22 May 2018 03:03 PM PDT

I've seen multiple fire colours from natural heat and not copper, strontium or others. So why is it that we rarely (or don't) see green fire?

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What is the process for a new atom or element to form, specifically from the beginning when there was only hydrogen and helium?

Posted: 22 May 2018 05:34 PM PDT

If all matter began from hydrogen and helium, how did we end up with 120+ elements? Is it possible to create a specific element by mashing x amount of protons, neutrons, and electrons together? Obviously I know this is not how it works AT ALL but how could other elements form from just 2 elements?

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Do archaea contribute to diseases in humans? Do antibiotics work on them?

Posted: 22 May 2018 01:59 PM PDT

Could you escape an intersection of event horizons?

Posted: 22 May 2018 02:32 PM PDT

In a "perfect" scenario, at least for a 2d thing exactly at the point where the gravity of one is exactly equal to the gravity of the other, and the 2d thing is rotating exactly as fast in there as the black holes are orbiting around their center of mass. Assume the orbit is perfectly stable, etc.

Then if there are 2 of these 2d things and they bump into one another hard enough, they could send each other outside of the event horizon, right?

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If high power lines are exposed why doesn’t a catastrophic failure occur every time it rains?

Posted: 22 May 2018 01:53 PM PDT

I would think in a large storm enough rain would come down to run a current down the metal towers.

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Are wave pools shaped like auditoriums intentionally?

Posted: 22 May 2018 01:17 PM PDT

I've notices that wave pools tend to have the same basic shape as traditional theaters/auditoriums. Does this have something to do with the dynamics of audio waves and fluid waves?

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What is it that makes bulletproof glass so strong?

Posted: 22 May 2018 09:15 AM PDT

Does the relative temperature of a liquid change the speed of the liquid flowing?

Posted: 22 May 2018 02:34 PM PDT

If a cup of water is at 25 degrees Celsius, will the viscosity be different than if it is at 50 or 75 degrees Celsius? If the viscosity is different, would that change the speed that the water travels at?

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Does exercising your eyes help improve vision?

Posted: 22 May 2018 02:43 PM PDT

Does the tread of my tire travel at the same speed as my car?

Posted: 22 May 2018 12:42 PM PDT

If I'm driving a car going 60mph, does the outer edge of my tire spin at the same rate or does it have to be spinning faster/slower to keep up with my car?

Is edge velocity a thing, and if it is does it differ from the inside of a circle to the outside? Like does the axle spin slower than the outside of my tire?

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Was most of the matter in the early universe created by massive hadronization during the initial inflationary epoch?

Posted: 22 May 2018 10:23 AM PDT

I've always wondered whether the process of hadronization was the mechanism by which most of the matter in the early universe was created.

Were the earliest quark pairs/triplets/groups or the quark gluon plasma stretched incredibly quickly by inflation causing hadronization to occur on a massive scale once the initial phase of inflation ceased?

I'm imagining (as a simplified thought experiment), for example, a lone quark-antiquark pair suddenly being separated by a huge distance in an incredibly short amount of time and then the new space between becoming rapidly populated by a massive amount of new mesons and hadrons (formed from the energy of the inflation due to confinement). Is this picture totally wrong or is it a decently accurate description of what happened in the early universe?

Was confinement even "in place" or rather, operating, at that time, or did the initial inflation occur before confinement started to govern the earliest quarks and gluons?

Thanks for reading, and I apologize if any of this doesn't make sense, I'm just an interested layman.

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Beyond formatting, is there a reason why the Lanthinide and Actinide series are separated from the rest of the periodic table? Are there tables that include them within? If so, are there rules for including them in specific coumns, or is it a free-for-all?

Posted: 22 May 2018 10:45 AM PDT

And while we're on the subject of the elements, is there any specific reason why technetium does not exist in nature, despite being surrounded in the table by natural elements?

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Why do the edges of a shadow get blurrier the further they land from the object?

Posted: 22 May 2018 06:44 AM PDT

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