Why are coronaviruses named after the Greek alphabet? |
- Why are coronaviruses named after the Greek alphabet?
- Is the three polarized filter experiment really a demonstration of quantum uncertainty or is there a much more simple explanation?
- If there was an effective Covid treatment available and a new vaccine resistant variant came to be, could that variant also make treatments ineffective?
- Variety in antibodies after COVID vaccination?
| Why are coronaviruses named after the Greek alphabet? Posted: 03 Dec 2021 11:27 PM PST For example why is the newest variant called Omicron? Also I know these aren't the official names but they are still called that and I wanted to know why. [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Dec 2021 10:44 AM PST I just watched this video where I've just now learned of the polarizing filter experiment demonstrating Bell's theorem. But it's done my head in a bit because my immediate thought was simply that the experiment is flawed and the light is just in a reflection loop. Light passes through filter A, half of it continues through filter B toward C. The other half is reflected back toward filter A where half of it passes through in the opposite direction and the remaining half of the bounced light again reflects back toward filter B where half of it continues through toward filter C making it brighter. Upon each reflection, the light is slightly scattered and its directionality will be altered allowing it to pass. Add to that that a large amount of light was bounced off of C initially which will have gone through the same reflection paths. This goes in a decreasing loop adding brightness to C until you get the significant boost their experiments observed. To me, this doesn't appear to be a great demonstration of quantum uncertainty because it is explainable through a more certain physical process. My question is this: what am I missing? Why do scientists go so far down the quantum rabbit hole to explain this "strange" phenomenon that seems perfectly reasonable to me and why is my explanation not reasonable. Thank you! [link] [comments] |
| Posted: 04 Dec 2021 03:10 AM PST Do these things go hand in hand? Or only under some specific conditions? Perhaps the right treatment could be the game changer no matter the variant? [link] [comments] |
| Variety in antibodies after COVID vaccination? Posted: 03 Dec 2021 08:45 PM PST With a covid vaccination, we'll generate a mix of antibodies against the spike protein. Do we know approximately how many different antibodies a person will typically have? Or how variable the range is among individuals? I assume someone with a greater variety of antibodies will have a greater chance to be able to fight off new variants. And is there less variety in antibodies with age or similar variety but fewer of each to account for the lower antibody levels? [link] [comments] |
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