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How exactly do you "winterize" a power grid?

How exactly do you "winterize" a power grid?


How exactly do you "winterize" a power grid?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 04:02 PM PST

Why are physicists searching for magnetic monopoles?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 03:54 AM PST

I'm an undergraduate physics student and I've heard that the discovery of magnetic monopoles could be really important for the simplification of essential equations in theories like supersymmetry. My understanding of the electromagnetic force is that magnetic fields are generated by aligned spins of charged particles. If this is true, then anything that generates a magnetic field must be polar. So why do physicists have reason to believe that magnetic monopoles exist?

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Why do we use gold instead of silver?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:08 AM PST

Today I found out that silver conducts electricity better than gold (wikipedia).

Since gold is also so much more expensive as silver, Why do we use gold in almost all our electronics instead of the apparently superior silver?

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Does high Platelet count raise change or affect d-dimer results in blood test?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 07:32 AM PST

Long story short I have a d-dimer blood test in a few days and mildly injured my ankle (sledding with nephews). I know the purpose of the test to look for any clotting issues in my blood. From my understanding platelets help clotting and increase production during injury. I am concerned that the test will be thrown off due to my recent injury but I cannot find anything online the correlates both platelets and d-dimer. I would appreciate any help. Thanks everyone.

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How come there are two planets able to support life in our solar system (counting Mars too, as it theoretically was in the past), when our star is just like any other of its class and this kind of planets are seemingly hard to find alone as far as our spectrometers can measure?

Posted: 19 Feb 2021 01:23 AM PST

Does Covid affect smell AND taste, or is it really just smell?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:48 PM PST

I was born with no sense of smell, and as a result, I can't really taste most things. My friend has covid currently, and is experiencing a loss of smell and taste, and when he described his loss of taste, it sounded very similar to how I taste when I eat food every day. Research seems to only explain how covid may decrease smell, and I have not found anything on how it decreases taste. So is it possible it only affects smell, and as a result, people think their sense of taste is affected as well?

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Why do the little puffs of cloud in a Cloud Chamber seem to have a relatively low velocity? Surely the particle is moving through the chamber at almost the speed of light?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:01 PM PST

Why is the Cardia (oesophagus-stomach opening) named so?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 08:24 AM PST

I'm curious about the linguistics (?) and the reasoning behind whoever named that region, considering that everything heart-related is "cardiac," but just recently I learned that anything related to the Cardia is also "cardiac".

They both seem to be from the Greek word "kardia" (heart) according to Merriam Webster, so I'm curious if something got lost in translation or if the scientist naming that region just decided to be funny.

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Can I use circular polarizers to make a polarimeter?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 09:32 AM PST

Hello, I am making a device to measure the angle of rotation of passing polarized light through a substance. I ordered some polarizers off of Amazon but I didn't realize linear and circular polarizers were different. I'm thinking that the polarization has to be linear but I'm not quite sure. If I rotate the lenses together, the light changes but doesn't black out. Help would be appreciated!

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Why do aerosols cans all use flammable gas as the propellant? Why not use an inert gas/normal air?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 01:12 AM PST

Is it known what the exact mechanisms are which allow SSRI’s to help treat anxiety disorders?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 06:56 AM PST

Just wondering if we've made any progress on the research front on this in the last few years, because as I understood it science was very much in the dark on this despite decades of research and experimentation

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How will the eruption of mount etna in Italy have an effect on air quality and sun rise sun set colors of any?

Posted: 18 Feb 2021 12:53 AM PST

At what speed or frequency do human DNA and human cells/atoms move in a person who is sitting still?

Posted: 17 Feb 2021 08:46 PM PST

I was reading a study about the effects of electric stimulation on depression/anxiety and it asserts that human DNA has a 'frequency' between 54 to 78 Gigaherz. What does that mean exactly? How fast the atoms/electrons are moving? Is there some kind of electric frequency that is unique to humans? Are there more studies related to that? I feel like something important could be discovered.

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