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Saturday, October 15, 2016

What kind of experiments are the astronauts doing on the ISS?

What kind of experiments are the astronauts doing on the ISS?

What kind of experiments are the astronauts doing on the ISS?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 08:42 PM PDT

Are they doing astronomy, weather science, or just seeing how things act without gravity?

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Why do objects shatter more easily when they are frozen?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 08:00 PM PDT

How do drugs which act on serotonin receptors treat disorders of the nervous system?

Posted: 15 Oct 2016 06:17 AM PDT

What senses does an ordinary house fly have? And to what extent does it use them to operate?

Posted: 15 Oct 2016 06:11 AM PDT

I'm creating a first person fly simulator game and I'm interested in getting a better understanding of how exactly an ordinary fly moves, avoids obstacles, finds food, evades danger and so forth.

The game will sacrifice authenticity for fun where needed, but I would like it to be scientifically accurate in general.

My primary points of interest are obviously vision, but also the sense of hearing/feeling? Like if something loud happens, a fly will be spooked, but through what means did it sense it? Did it hear it? Sense vibrations in the air through antennae? Is it able to distinguish the direction the sound came from? To what extent does its own flight make it harder to "hear"?

When hunting food, does it capture food particles in the air and follow them to the food?

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what causes sunrays to form lines in pictures? why not a field or gradient?

Posted: 15 Oct 2016 06:25 AM PDT

Are the same chemical properties that make HFCs good refrigerants the same as the ones that make it a strong greenhouse gas?

Posted: 15 Oct 2016 06:00 AM PDT

I saw that 170 nations just agreed to ban hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in the Kigali Amendment since they are apparently about 1000 times as potent greenhouse gas as CO2. I also know that CFCs are a class of refrigerants that were banned earlier, and I was wondering if the same chemical properties that make these molecules good refrigerants were directly related to their destruction of our atmosphere.

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How can we hear so many different sounds when sound waves are nothing but frequency and amplitude?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 06:56 PM PDT

Is diesel a necessary by-product of oil refining?

Posted: 15 Oct 2016 02:00 AM PDT

Some governments are thinking about banning new diesel cars in the long term. I heard that diesel is a natural residual product of oil refining, so if diesel cars were to be banned, oil refiners couldn't just produce less diesel, as it naturally arises in the refining process together with gasoline, bitumen, waxes etc. Is that true? If so, is there something that can be done with the produced diesel outside of burning it for energy?

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What occurs when a monosomic gamete (n-1) and a trisomic gamete (n+1) undergo fertilization assuming the aneuploidy is on the same chromosome? On different chromosomes

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 11:59 PM PDT

Is there any evidence linking the period of heavy nuclear testing (1940s to 1970s?) to increased rates of cancer, either locally, nationally, or globally?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 10:52 AM PDT

Where does the energy from black holes merging come from?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 11:17 AM PDT

I was just listening to a podcast (BBC Discovery - Black Holes: A tale of cosmic death and rebirth) and a researcher on there (Prof. Alberto Vecchio) was explaining that in the merging of the 2 black holes that were the first gravitational wave detection, that they "release more energy than is released by all the stars, in all the galaxies, in the entire universe".

Where does all this energy come from?

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When you get positron/electron annihilation which leads to the production of two photons, Is it a condition that this interaction can only occur at rest mass energy (where there is no kinetic energy of the e+/e-)? As all examples I see are at this condition with two photons released at 511keV.

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 11:45 AM PDT

I know as well PET scanning relies on the detection of these two 511Kev photons. If this is the case why can't the e- or e+ have greater energy surely this would just lead to the two photons having a greater kinetic energy without violating any conservation laws so far as I can tell.

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Why does basal body temperature increase when a woman begins ovulation?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 10:45 AM PDT

Why does basal body temperature increase when a woman begins ovulation? I have found sources which claim that it is due to an increase in progesterone production, is this true? Furthermore, if increased progresterone is the cause of bbt increase, how does progesterone cause this increase? What is going on kinetically?

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Why does sublimation occur for some compounds? What's happening on a molecular level?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 03:03 PM PDT

What causes some compounds to skip the liquid phase?

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Friday, October 14, 2016

When the LHC was created there was an expectation that it would lead to the discovery of the Higgs boson. Do we have any similar discoveries we are expecting to make in the near future?

When the LHC was created there was an expectation that it would lead to the discovery of the Higgs boson. Do we have any similar discoveries we are expecting to make in the near future?

When the LHC was created there was an expectation that it would lead to the discovery of the Higgs boson. Do we have any similar discoveries we are expecting to make in the near future?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 02:07 PM PDT

What chemically happens in the brain when a person is depressed?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 09:42 PM PDT

What is the highest a mountain can be? Is there a limit to it?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 05:11 AM PDT

how is protium stable without a neutron?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 06:19 PM PDT

I am in grade 9 so please keep it simple :) but without a neutron, shouldnt the electron and proton result in fusion and release energy since negative and positive charges attract? (Correct me on anything and everything, just looking for knowledge)

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Are there any theoretical limits on the decay half-life of nuclides?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 05:20 AM PDT

or how fast or how slow a radionuclide can decay?

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Can we accurately predict the behaviour of, say, a NaCl molecule by knowing the full properties of Na and Cl separately?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 09:12 PM PDT

I meant to say: Can we accurately predict the properties of a NaCl molecule by knowing the full properties of Na and Cl separately?

Edit: For those interested in the philosophical implications which basically proved to me that this doesn't violate reductive physicalism: http://individual.utoronto.ca/jmwilson/Wilson-Non-linearity-and-Metaphysical-Emergence.pdf

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How is the Hubble telescope able to take such high definition pictures at those distances and little light?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 08:46 PM PDT

Why does my TI84 calculator think that sin(8pi) is -4x10^-13?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 11:11 PM PDT

Why is my calculator slightly off for even a simple math calculation?

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For a spaceship or probe to navigate the asteroid belt, how difficult is it without hitting anything obviously?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 07:06 PM PDT

Basically is the asteroid field like science fiction showing it very dangerous to pass through or are things spread out enough that it isn't as difficult as pop culture suggests?

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Why is it that we can "see" and even guess the composition of planets that are hundreds of light years away, yet we are unsure of the existence of other planets in our own solar system?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 06:31 PM PDT

I've heard lots of talk of other planets that may support life based off of guesses at their composition and atmosphere, and these are often hundreds of light years away. Yet we are still not sure if there are even other planets in our solar system beyond Pluto (Planet nine, for example). Is this due to a difference in how they are detected, or is our knowledge of the potential life-supporting planets heavily exaggerated?

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If all the moons of Jupiter collide with the planet, would it become a star?

Posted: 14 Oct 2016 05:12 AM PDT

What's sticking around when a cast iron pan is being "seasoned"?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 03:35 PM PDT

Statistics and entropy: How many possible configurations are there in a box with 50 red balls, and 50 blue balls?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 03:14 PM PDT

Fear not, this is not a homework quetsion, but is something I was thinking about after watching this video about entropy by Steve Mould.

He mentions that if you had a box filled with half red balls and half blue balls (assuming they all lie in a flat configuration) and shook the box up, that you would have a higher entropy in the box due a "statistical phenomena" because there is only one possible outcome that results like this.

However, a commenter mentioned that all of the red balls can be interchanged with one another, and all of the blue ones as well. However, wouldn't this result in a lot more possible combinations than one?

I'm not very good at statistical calculations, but as a quick shot at, I thought that the possible configurations of (50) red balls, as well as the (50) blue balls for each configuration of the red, would amount to a total of 50!2 possible combinations that would all result in having red on one side and blue on the other.

This is smaller than 100! (what I presume to be the total possible configurations of the entire box), however, it is much larger than one.

Any insight as to where I have gone wrong, or a more detailed explanation on how entropy statistics like this are calculated are appreciated and thanked for in advance.

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How does the revised galaxy count effect Dark Matter?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 10:59 PM PDT

Hi All

I was just wondering how the revised galaxy count effects the issue of dark matter. As I understand it dark matter makes up a large proportion of the universe we cannot see, do the extra galaxies go any way towards removing the need for dark matter?

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[Geology] What effect do earthquakes have on the relative chronology of layers of dirt/rock?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 06:12 PM PDT

Suppose an earthquake a long time ago caused layers of ancient dirt, rock and sediment to become exposed on the surface. Today, what might that look like? What clues might exist to indicate that an earthquake took place? If new sediment began to accumulate on it, could the mixup of old dirt and new, make it difficult to figure out the relative ages of different depths of dirt?

If an area suffers from a lot of tectonic activity, like the Caribbean or California or the Himalayan mountains, is the area tougher and/or easier to analyze? What sort of patterns deep in the ground might exist to indicate what's going on? For example, without knowing the Indian plateau is moving towards/into Asia, could a geologist in the Himalayan mountains deduce the plateau is moving, based on soil samples from various depths in the ground? Ignoring the fact that there's giant mountains all around, could the tectonic movement be figured out from underground?

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If something with a very low statistical probability happens to me, why is it statistically less likely to happen a second time?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 03:06 PM PDT

Google tells me that "Your odds of being struck by lightning this year are 1 in 960,000". If I get struck by lightning, and I'm not in a profession or position that makes being struck by lightning more statistically probable than anyone else, why does the probability of me getting struck again lower?

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Does Taylor's Theorem imply Fourier's Theorem?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 01:03 PM PDT

If all continuous functions can be represented by polynomials, and sin/cos are continuous, that implies every form of sin or cos has their own Taylor series. Does this mean that every function that has a Taylor series can be translated to a series of equivalent sines and cosines?

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Why do peak flood waters occur days after the raining/hurricane has stopped?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 09:57 AM PDT

I live in North Carolina and have a lot of friends in the eastern part of the state who are experiencing heavy flooding as a result of Hurricane Matthew. I keep seeing reports saying that peak flooding levels will occur on Friday, but it stopped raining on Saturday/Sunday. What gives?

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How is the probability of a nuclear reaction occurring calculated?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 11:58 AM PDT

I noticed that when you fire an alpha particle, neutron, or other particle at certain elements, there can be a variety of different reactions: For example, deuterium fusion can results in three different outputs (Helium, Tritium, or another I can't remember) with a fixed probability for each. With the exception of neutrons it seems that it is quite rare for the new nucleus to simply be the old nucleus plus the amount of neutrons and protons in whatever you shot at it (alpha, proton, etc) when I look in a table of reactions.

How is this probability calculated? Is it just observed and recorded as what it is, or is there some sort of mathematical way to figure out these probabilities?

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TIL abdominal muscles are a vestigial feature in humans. What did they used to be? And how long ago did we last use them?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 07:26 PM PDT

I think vestigial features are one of the coolest aspects of Evolutionary Biology and today I found out that abs also fall under the vestigial category. Unfortunately, a Google search into what purpose they served and when didn't yield me many relevant/reliable sources. Thanks in advance!

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Quantaum teleportation and how it works?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 06:51 AM PDT

I have read a couple things about it and the most recent was from a chapter in "Beyond our Future in Space" by Chris Impey. He probably did a great job explaining it but the only I got out of it is that an object from one place can be broken down to particles and teleport to another place where the particles will be put back together. It seemed very weird.

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What is the main difference between organic PVs and inorganic PVs?

Posted: 13 Oct 2016 10:32 AM PDT

Aside from the material, what are the main differences between organic solar cells using fullerene derivatives and inorganic, silicon based cells? I guess I should also add CdTe cells and all thin films. Are there differences between the mechanisms to convert energy? Sources would be great if possible. Thanks!

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Thursday, October 13, 2016

Does the imaginary part of the voltage in an RLC circuit really exist, or is it just an artifact of the math we use to derive it that can be discarded? Is there any way to measure it?

Does the imaginary part of the voltage in an RLC circuit really exist, or is it just an artifact of the math we use to derive it that can be discarded? Is there any way to measure it?

Does the imaginary part of the voltage in an RLC circuit really exist, or is it just an artifact of the math we use to derive it that can be discarded? Is there any way to measure it?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 06:59 PM PDT

So in my physics class that I took last semester we learned about RLC circuits and my teacher sort of handwaved away the imaginary part of the voltage, saying "we only care about the real part." Is this totally true or is there just a deeper rabbit hole he didn't want to get into for the purposes of our class?

If we have a capacitor, resistor, and inductor in series and in a closed loop with no external voltage source (for the purposes of this explanation, anyways.) We can use kirchoff's law to derive the fact that the voltage drop over any closed loop is zero, so we get:

 

-L(dI/dt)-IR-(R/C)=0

 

=-L(d2 Q/dt2 )-R(dQ/dt)-(Q/C)=0

 

=(d2 Q/dt2 )+(R/L)(dQ/dt)+(1/LC)Q=0

 

So now we have a differential equation, whose solution we can guess is something like : Q=Aeiωt

 

Therefore:

 

-ω2 Aeiωt +iω(R/L)Aeiωt -(1/LC)Aeiωt =0

 

=-ω2 +iω(R/L)-(1/LC)=0

 

Where (1/LC) is some resonant frequency ω0 squared, so we can solve the quadratic:

 

-ω2 +iω(R/L)-ω02 =0

 

to find ω, which will be:

 

ω=i(R/L)±sqrt(ω02 -(R2 /4L2 ))

 

[edit: i skipped some parts here, i'm just going off what i have in my notebook]

 

so finally Q=Ae(-R/2L)t +iωt

 

which is e to a complex power, which can be re-written using euler's formula, which gives a real and an imaginary part:

 

Q=Ae(-R/2L)t cos(ωt)+Ae(-R/2L)t isin(ωt)

 

so now for Q we have a real and imaginary part. So what does the imaginary part mean in reality? If we tried to see it on an oscilliscope, per se, could we? Could we have some sort of device that would measure charge or voltage in the complex plane? Or does none of this matter because the imaginary part is just an artifact of the mathematics that doesn't have any real meaning?

 

thanks for your time, anyone who reads and is able to respond to this.

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What material could produce the X-ray florescence spectra for this historical artifact?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 08:46 AM PDT

Hi there, Science! I'm a historian doing archaeology, which means I'm doubly out of my element (so to speak). I've been looking at glass beads that were dropped in the outhouse of a New England boarding school sometime in the 1860s. Most of them are simple glass beads, perhaps used for teaching girls crafts, but I've got one that I can't identify. It's definitely not glass, but I also doubt it's jet, which was sometimes used for fancier things.

Because it's a historical artifact, any form of destructive analysis is out of the question. I used an X-ray florescence tracer at two different settings, one that excites only low-Z elements (generally those less than Zn) and one that excites high-Z elements and uses a filter to absorb excess energy and obscure X-rays returning from low-Z elements. For those not in-the-know, X-ray florescence sends X-rays into an object, which excites the electrons; when they settle back down, they produce X-rays of their own depending on how big their home atoms are; the tracer collects these return X-rays and plots how many arrive at each energy level, basically producing a chart of which elements are present in the object.

As you can see, the low-Z spectrum reveals almost no Si, which is the predominant element in glass. It instead spikes at S and Ti, with a number of other trace elements as well. The spike at Rh/Pd is caused by the X-ray tracer itself and can be ignored (although it obscures any Cl that might be present). Note that the tracer also has a hard time picking up elements beneath Al, so I can't assume that C, O, or other light elements are absent.

Regarding the high-Z spectrum, the peaks at Rh and Pd can again be ignored, and the broad peak around 19.0 keV is the Compton peak representing a scattering of the Rh/Pd energy; it's height suggests that this isn't a very dense material, but it doesn't tell us much more. There are small peaks for most elements between Ti and Zr, with taller peaks at Ti and the Sr-Y-Zr combo which suggests (to me) a natural mineral source.

This is all qualitative kind of stuff, and unfortunately, there's no way to translate this data for rigorous quantitative analysis (unless I did destructive analysis on a small sample, which is again out of the question). I did push it through a program called PyMca, which uses fundamental parameters (i.e. a large number of assumptions that never quite match reality), and I almost certainly made errors in using the program. These data should be taken with a high degree of caution. Nevertheless, here's the elements that PyMca calculated having a mass fraction of ≥ 0.5% in each spectrum. Low-Z: Si 1.27%, P 0.50%, S 10.27% (Ti came out surprisingly low). High-Z: Se 2.97% (whereas I would have expected Ti, Sr, and Zr, with possibly Fe, Ni, Cu, Zn, Hg, Y, and Sn as well). My next step is using PyMca (or some other form of analysis) to produce more believable mass ratio data.

So that's what I've got! Does anyone have thoughts on what this could be, good places to find reference data that I can compare spectra or calculated mass ratios to, or any other constructive ways to use the data on hand? I'm grateful for any ways out of this dead end (but keeping in mind that I have only little access to the artifact and absolutely no access to research funds).

EDIT. Thank you for your overwhelming interest and knowledge! I've gotten a lot of great recommendations for future methods of analysis—Raman spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, etc.—but for the moment I'm constrained to what I've got. The general consensus seems to be that the base matrix is probably rubber (organic, comprised of light elements that don't show up with X-ray florescence) hardened or "vulcanized" with Sulfur. Charles Goodyear patented this process in 1844, and the hardened rubber, also called Ebonite, was soon being sold as a cheap substitute for fancy jet jewelry. This bead could very plausibly be a cheap bit of jewelry, perhaps even a bolo tie, although I've also gotten a few other interesting suggestions: an early electrical part, a jacket button, or even a piece for a stringed instrument.

The Titanium peak may represent Titanium Dioxide, which can be used to opacify and whiten a material. In this case, that would probably be a white paint or other residue, which may be seen in the grooves on top. I suspect that this might come from lead paint that was dumped or otherwise leached into the outhouse on top of the bead. Although surface contaminants didn't substantially affect my assays of glass beads, in this case it may have been different. There was no white residue visibly present where I took my assays, but it may have bonded or otherwise permeated the surface and thus contaminated my results.

With these things in mind, I'd appreciate any further thoughts:

  1. Does anything about this summary seem wrong or misstated?

  2. High Sulfur points to Ebonite, but can't Jet also have high levels of Sulfur? Is there anything that points to this material not being Jet?

  3. The other earth metals haven't attracted much attention. Are these plausibly present in Ebonite? Jet? or possible contaminants like white paint?

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What causes the distinct "chopping" sound of a helicopter if the rotation of the blades is constant?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 07:49 PM PDT

Do atoms emit spectral lines in the nonvisible spectrum?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 06:39 PM PDT

I'm taking a Stellar Astronomy course, and have a very limited understanding of spectroscopy.

My basic understanding is that emission lines are the result of electrons needing a very specific amount of energy before they can change orbitals, and when changing orbitals they emit a photon to account for the energy change. This photon results in the emission line, right?

Assuming I have that understood properly, Here is my question. Do atoms have emission/absorption lines in the radio/infrared/ultraviolet etc. spectra? And if so, could we gain any information by examining these additional spectra?

Like I said, My understanding is very limited, but I really enjoy this subject and look forward to the answer!

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How does propulsion in space work?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 09:45 PM PDT

I know that space is for the most part a vacuum. So considering newton's third law, if space shuttle (or any object) is at rest its pretty much stuck there, and ay the same time its trajectory is pretty much set once it 'leaves' a large body's gravitational field.

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If I were to put a capacitor in a microwave oven, would it be charged by current induced by the microwaves?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 07:14 PM PDT

In addition, would an LED light up in a microwave? Or would both the LED and capacitor just spark and overheat?

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Has there ever been a mathematical conjecture that appeared true due to Heuristic justification but eventually was shown to be the opposite by a far outlying counterexample?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 06:13 PM PDT

The Goldbach Conjecture appears to be true from heuristic justification alone since it has been tested to such an extremely high value, but without a concrete proof, there could always be a number that doesn't work (which would disprove the conjecture).

Heuristics is also an argument used for the Collatz Conjecture being true -- but has there ever been a mathematical conjecture that appeared true for some time but was proven false by an outlier?

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Why don't spacecrafts use nuclear fuel?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 06:57 PM PDT

How does tritium glow?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 05:57 PM PDT

Tritium as i understand it, is an isotope that is radioactive, unstable, and luminesces even without external energy. How does this work, what colors can it glow in, and how long will it be able to glow for beforr deteriorating?

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Is the sequential atrial contraction simultaneous with the contraction of the ventricles? Or is the ventricle contraction delayed by a moment?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 07:59 PM PDT

Why can't we see stars in pictures taken from the moon?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 06:27 PM PDT

I saw a couple pictures recently (at separate times from seperate posts) taken on the moon, with the "sky" in the background. One was a picture of Earth (seen on today's front page.) You could see no stars, and I'm curious as to why!

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Where do scientists obtain radioactive isotopes of common elements such as Oxygen and Carbon for experiments that involve tracking the movement of molecules?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 01:02 PM PDT

I thought about this after reading in my textbook about the procedure that Melvin Calvin and his colleagues used to identify the carbon compounds created in photosynthesis.

How does one "make" radioactive isotope? Or, are they just collected as natural radioactive isotopes that are sorted and stored for such purposes?

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If we can calculate/know the speed and direction of particles in the universe, couldn't we theoretically know the future? What is the counter argument for a deterministic view of the universe?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 12:30 PM PDT

This plays into whether we actually have any willpower (i.e. can actually make choices). I know one theory is that quantum events in our brains could be the source of our (potentially perceived) willpower, but to me it still seems possible for choice to remain just an illusion. I know this may count as a philosophy question as well, but I'd love to hear the science side first.

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On the topic of light pressure and flashlights, how long would it take for a flashlight turned on in the vacuum of space to propel itself to the speed of light?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 10:06 AM PDT

For simplicity's sake assume the flashlight has a super powerful battery that lasts eons.

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Does the movement of astronauts effect the trajectory of their vehicle?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 11:42 AM PDT

I've seen them using the bulkheads to kick off of to move around inside. Does this effect their trajectory moving through space or are they moving fast enough that they don't need to account for the force?

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Is FTL communication possible if morse code and Quantum Entanglement are used?

Posted: 12 Oct 2016 08:33 AM PDT

Context: A friend and I were talking about Quantum entanglement. somewhere in the conversation, he mentioned that information can be sent instantly. I said no useful information can be sent. Then we talked about useful information could be encoded and sent, but the decoding algorithm would at most travel at the speed of light. This got me thinking if a far off place also knew of the morse code, I could sent dots and dashes through instantly, which can be decoded properly. Now, this means that I sent across useful information across. This violates the no useful info can go ftl law. Am I missing something?

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