Does the language you speak affect the shape of your palate? |
- Does the language you speak affect the shape of your palate?
- How much 'stuff' is in space between the Earth and Mars?
- Does the size of an object passing through the sound barrier have an effect on the force of the shock wave?
- How do vegetables like asparagus and brussels sprouts effect the scent of urine?
- Why can icicles drip when it’s below freezing?
- Why are Saturns rings all on the same plane?
- Does hybridization occur in all valence bonds? If not then how do you identify where it happens?
- Is it impossible for something with 2 equally probable result, like a perfect coin toss, to only give one result given any number (and/or infinite amount) of trials?
- How does rubbing alcohol “dry out” rubber?
- Why would male snowboarders go downhill faster than female snowboarders?
- What determines what a particle decays into?
- Is it possible that an asteroid or comet would approach the earth so fast that we'd be unable to observe and predict it at all?
- What effects did the weight and size of a dinosaur have on the type of environment it needed to support it?
- Do photons lose energy one go, or they gradually lose energy until they're completely absorbed by objects?
- How can people create such long telegraph cables without the powering fading out at the other end?
- Why do sedimentary rocks have such perfect stratification?
- What determines when we have to pee?
- If multiple jupiters collided, how long would it take for the material to settle allowing fusion to occur?
- Is a singularity a discontinuity in spacetime?
- Blackbody radiation, how does it work?
- Why do buildings sometimes have angled concrete columns (picture of example included)?
- How many percent of the Sun's radiation is generated by proton-proton fusion, and how many percent by electron-positron annihilation?
| Does the language you speak affect the shape of your palate? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 08:49 AM PST I was watching the TV show "Forever", and they were preforming an autopsy, when they said the speaker had a British accent due to the palate not being deformed by the hard definitive sounds of English (or something along those lines) does this have any roots in reality, or is it a plot mover? [link] [comments]  |
| How much 'stuff' is in space between the Earth and Mars? Posted: 11 Feb 2018 04:38 AM PST I had a student ask how empty space is, and I told them I really did not know. So, in an area like the orbital path between Earth and Mars (leaving out human space junk) how many objects would you find? Any? None? added question, if anyone knows: How much stuff is in true outer space - beyond out solar system, how often might you encounter an object of any size? Thanks [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 11 Feb 2018 06:51 AM PST I know from the Space Shuttle that the length of the vehicle produced a double shock wave. What - if any - would be the difference between, say, a baseball crossing mach 1 versus a Range Rover? [link] [comments]  |
| How do vegetables like asparagus and brussels sprouts effect the scent of urine? Posted: 11 Feb 2018 05:57 AM PST |
| Why can icicles drip when it’s below freezing? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 08:18 AM PST In the upper Midwest right now and the temperature has been in the mid-20s for a few days, but all of the icicles around my house are dripping. Is this truly "melting," or is it something else? Thanks! [link] [comments]  |
| Why are Saturns rings all on the same plane? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 09:50 AM PST |
| Does hybridization occur in all valence bonds? If not then how do you identify where it happens? Posted: 11 Feb 2018 12:35 AM PST |
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| How does rubbing alcohol “dry out” rubber? Posted: 11 Feb 2018 06:11 AM PST It's frequently referred to as "drying out" rubber, but I can find references that say it's actually making it less elastic. What's happening? [link] [comments]  |
| Why would male snowboarders go downhill faster than female snowboarders? Posted: 11 Feb 2018 02:15 AM PST Discussing a challenging course, a commentator on Australian Winter Olympic coverage said that male snowboarders go downhill faster than women. What would be the reasons for a significant difference in speeds between the men and women? [link] [comments]  |
| What determines what a particle decays into? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 07:39 PM PST For example, the Tau can decay into a tau neutrino and other particles each with their own probabities. What tells it to decay into a charged pion or an electron and electron antineutrino? [link] [comments]  |
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| Posted: 10 Feb 2018 07:53 AM PST I am not 100% sure I used the right flair, if another would be more appropriate, please change it! I used to drive semi trucks, and one of our major rules was never leave a loaded trailer on anything but concrete, because it's supports would sink into the ground on anything else. In addition to that, I play and watch a number of scifi mecha type games, movies, and anime, and the discussion always comes up how mecha are unfeasible especially when they get big, because the ground wouldn't support their weight focused on where their feet were. That had me wondering if the huge multi-ton dinosaurs had similar problems. I am interested in hearing anything about how their mass/size/weight effected them. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 10 Feb 2018 09:49 PM PST I am not sure if I have framed the question right. In a well-lit room, there's a continuous supply of 'fresh' photons from the light source, but the room doesn't get brighter (after a certain point). This is because photons are constantly absorbed by objects kept in the room. My question is: does an individual photon lose energy in one go, when it gets absorbed by an object? Or, does it keep losing energy as it bounces off objects, until it's completely absorbed? [link] [comments]  |
| How can people create such long telegraph cables without the powering fading out at the other end? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 03:06 PM PST Copper (Which what telegraph cables are made of) cannot carry electricity for long distances, It will fade out. If you put too much power through it will burn up so how did they do it? [link] [comments]  |
| Why do sedimentary rocks have such perfect stratification? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 08:06 AM PST Driving around you see cutouts through sedimentary formations and the different layers are pretty cool, but why are they distinct layers? Why is it not just continuous if it was being laid down consistently over time? - and what's with the wildly different types of rock being right next to one another? It's like for millions of years you had one sort of rock being laid down then, poof, now for something completely different! [link] [comments]  |
| What determines when we have to pee? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 07:58 AM PST When we pee we don't excrete the same amount of fluid each time, so the procces of determening when you have to pee can't only rely on when the blader is full can it? [link] [comments]  |
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| Is a singularity a discontinuity in spacetime? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 09:58 PM PST |
| Blackbody radiation, how does it work? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 08:57 PM PST This chapter about light interactions with matter in my astronomy textbook is only 10 pages but it's taken me hours to understand. Ive watched videos but they get too complicated with stuff i havent heard of or isnt in this textbook. This is what i understand for the most part: an object glows when it gets hot because the neutrons colliding give off electromagnetic radiation. As the temperature rises the color of the glow changes from red to yellow to blue. Why do moving and coliding particles give off electromagnetic waves such as visible light or infrared? Why do colder objects give off longer waves and hoter objects give off shorter waves? Does an object have to be black to be a blackbody? Do all objects give off blackbody radiation? If stars can be so hot to be red, yellow, or blue does this mean they are or near black in color? If so what makes a star black? Can a star be invisible to our eyes by emiting only ifrared or UV light? Basically i understand what is happening to a blackbody object, i just dont get why it happens or what makes it happen to one object and not another. Another thing from this chapter that is less relsted to astronomy: Atoms can obsorb photons if the wavelength of the photon has the right amount of energy. Waves without the correct energy just get bounced off, right? Is the bouced off wave the color we see with our eyes? in the book it says an atom that obsorbs a photon of the corect wavelength becomes unstable(due to neutron changing levels) and re-radiates the photon in a random direction. If the atom is constantly re-radiating photons of different waves how does something stay one color? This confuses me as well. [link] [comments]  |
| Why do buildings sometimes have angled concrete columns (picture of example included)? Posted: 10 Feb 2018 10:49 AM PST I've seen a lot of buildings lately with angled concrete columns like the columns on the ground floor of this building: link. Why are columns sometimes angled like this? [link] [comments]  |
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