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That's a great answer. I remember when I was a kid my summer holidays felt like an alternative life. Full of experiences that seemed like brought from another world.

So many misconceptions. So many wrong assertions. Remember what I said about looking stuff up, before putting your ignorance on display ? Ask one question at a time, and don't go jumping to conclusions. The only gravity there is, is classical, whether Newtonian or GR. Yes, atomic particles interact gravitationally. For an atomic particle, the Electromagnetic interaction is approx. a billion, billion, billion, billion times stronger than the Gravitational interaction. The Strong interaction, mediated by gluons and binding quarks below its asymptotic limit, is 137 times stronger than the Electromagnetic interaction, but only 'residual' force binds nucleons inside the nucleus, and quickly drops off after that. So why would you conflate the two, and go on to make all the other ignorant assertions ???

If not considered in earlier discussion, this election was a referendum on Trump that likely owes victory to Republicans rather than Progressives, Democrats, or some other independent affiliation. The evidence for this is suggested by the loss that House Democrats experienced and their failure to make significant gains in the Senate despite Biden's nearly 5 million more popular votes than Trump. This significant margin of popular votes suggests to me that a large number of Republicans crossed party lines to vote for Biden while continuing their support for down ticket Republicans. If other affiliations were responsible for Biden's victory, they likely would have also elected a congress that would likely support rather than potentially obstruction his administration's goals.

As Endy mentioned, the light does not affect the bacteria positively, but plants that produce cellulose and other materials that can be used for consumption. For the most part especially UV is harmful to bacteria as they induce oxidative stress as well as other damages in bacteria. Just for clarifciation, the guys producing acetic acid are bacteria, i.e. the mentioned Acetobacter aceti. Edit: I should add that there are of course photosynthetic bacteria do benefit from UV-light (below harmful doses, of course). But the bacterium in question is not one of them.

That's very conceited. You are the 'Moon'.

What is a model in scientific terms?? When i think of a model I think of: G*m1*m2/r^2

iWhen you solve Schrödinger's equation for the hydrogen atom, the potential term is just the Coulomb potential energy. Completely classical. And as Serg pointed out, the value for the gravitational potential energy is ~40 orders of magnitude smaller. There's nothing here that suggests you need anything but Newtonian gravity, since deviations from that would only happen for exceedingly massive entities (which we don't have) or exceedingly short distances. We already know the effect can be safely ignored, so GR deviations from it can likewise be ignored. I wasn't even referencing virtual particles, which we acknowledge not to be real. Phonons, for example, are just a convenient way of describing the quantized nature of vibrational states. It makes understanding the behavior easier, but phonons don't have to actually exist in order to do the analysis. Or semiconductor holes; they are literally the absence of an electron, so the hole is not some object that independently exists. It's purely for convenience of understanding and ease of calculation. So are electrons actually particles, or are they excitations of some field? It depends on what you're trying to do. In science you use the model that is going to give you the answer that is in best agreement with how nature behaves. It doesn't matter if elements of that model don't physically exist; the model works.

The more mundane your life is, the faster time flows because, apparently, one uses significant life events as markers and tend to forget ther mundane stuff in between. This gives the impression that the 'significant' events seem like they happened sooner than they did. In very young children, days are subjectively long because they are filled with new experiences every day, so their memory is filled with memorable events, giving them the impression time is 'slow'. If that makes any sense.

I've always maintained that our biggest problems economically are caused by mixing the goals of public and private ownership. Public works need to be as free from profiteering as possible, but we go out of our way to include private interests, and it almost always ruins the efforts. Every American can send a letter to any other American for the same low cost because the system wasn't designed for profit, but that's being derided as socialism instead of using the right tool for the right job. IOW, both major parties serve a different set of billionaires. The People need to reassert their ownership or we're going to end up with a king who owns everything again.

Right-leaning Democrats, 'right' as in within the Democratic spectrum, that are Pro-Big Business, may seek to undermine aspiring progressive policies from the left of the party.

When I snip out the middle part of your OP, I think the answer to your title becomes more apparent. You've spent "years of study", but you've always rejected mainstream explanations. Now you're YEARS down the line, sounding pretty bitter, arguing with people who make this stuff work every day, YET you somehow believe you're a "better thinker" thinking up "better mouse traps", and blame it all on jealousy and hate?! Does that sound reasonable? You have to know what's inside the box very well before you have the capacity to realize you need to think outside it. Maybe the confidence of having their explanations actually work makes it seem like scientists "think they know everything". Explanations that work, that give us the power to predict what will happen next, this is what's important.

Since you have given us no idea of the level of you understanding of Mathematics I will have to give a general answer. Mathematically, evolution is a dynamical system. There is substantial math for dynamical systems of all sorts. Probably the best place to start would be the so callled predator - prey equations, which can include chaotic solutions. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Lotka-VolterraEquations.html

I just wish you would start making sense ... Woops, my bad 🤣🤣 .

Any time a progressive policy is put in front of the American people, they overwhelmingly support it. Examples of Popular Progressive Policies: 1. Medicare For All (Universal Healthcare) polls at 69% support: https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/494602-poll-69-percent-of-voters-support-medicare-for-all 2. 67% Support a Living Wage (15 USD per hour) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/07/30/two-thirds-of-americans-favor-raising-federal-minimum-wage-to-15-an-hour/ 3. Green New Deal: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/06/green-new-deal-may-be-more-popular-carbon-tax/592201/ 4. Legalizing Marijuana Poll (two thirds support) https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/11/14/americans-support-marijuana-legalization/ 5. Free College - Poll 58% support (https://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/461106-majority-of-voters-support-free-college-eliminating-student-debt) Unfortunately, progressive policies are antithetical to the goals of corporate America, so they are usually subverted by Corporate Democrats, who serve Corporate interests rather than the American people.

I tend to agree Doc. It would be statistically impossible for all Republicans to be idiots. And I'm starting to think that no matter how much some of the members of this forum ( along with some progressive Americans, and the rest of the free world ) may want it, America, as a whole, is not yet ready to embrace a progressive agenda.

Well, Sanders didn't run against a Republican, so we'll never know how he might have done. As a matter of fact, a real progressive has never run in a Presidential election for the Democrats (only in the primaries). That includes Obama, who was a centrist / moderate, not a progressive. There have been decent third party progressive candidates like Ralph Nader and Jill Stein, but it is exceedingly difficult for third parties to do well in America given how the system is designed. Could Biden have won areas like Atlanta, Detroit, or Philadelphia (which in turn helped him win those states (Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania) without massive turnout from progressive voters? I doubt it. Of course, moderates and conservatives helped Biden as well. This was more of an anti-Trump election rather than a pro-Biden election, meaning, the thing that united most people was their hatred of Trump, and not their support for any particular policy that Biden put forward. The conveniently philosophical slogan: "Battle for the Soul of Our Nation" encapsulates this perfectly. It doesn't mean anything concrete, and it doesn't have to. It simply means: "We're not crazy like Trump." Not a very high bar. Where do things go from here? The Corporate Democrats will keep pushing their Republican-lite messaging, chastising progressive candidates like the squad for "costing them elections". This is absurd really, as the squad won all their seats back easily, while centrist / republican lite Democrats experience defeat after defeat. Corporate Democrats will see Biden's election as a convenient mandate to return to business as usual - i.e. arguing why they can't do anything meaningful for the American people. Business as usual wasn't working before Trump. It's not going to work again now.

The increase has to be taken in the context of the distance. A 5 cm increase starting from 5 cm doubles the linear distance of the field of view. It quadruples the area. If the field of view is ~ 60 degrees, that’s going from a 5 cm x 5 cm patch to 10 cm x 10 cm. If you’re aiming at your forehead, you now start to include things that are not your forehead. Your hair has a different temperature and emissivity than your skin.

So within the stated operating distance range of your thermometer it reads 36.7o ± 0.1o. Is the resolution of your instrument 0.1o ? Then your readings would be within calibration.

The background in the instrument's field of view, outside/around the measured object, will increasingly influence the target reading as you step back... it doesn't just 'see' the area occupied by the target..

...and after January 20... plus they have to get him out of there:

it seems this is a meaningless topic to me..

Has it ever occurred to you that the inherent paradoxes involved in time travel, such as any causality breaking or 'grandfather' paradox, suggest time travel is unreal ???

Interesting logic. Imagine I could say abra-cadabra and I could turn a tea cup into a mouse. I think that proves magic is real...

Did you notice that evryone is betting on Nevada right now? BETTING on NEVADA?!

It's a Nobel approach that is worth traveling, it worked for Newton and Einstein..But both however were scrutinized and scandalized much like scientist do to each other today...Its Jelousy and it disturbs comfort zones to change when theories may be incorrect or start breaking down and need upgrades.. That's what Thinking out of the box is for, it should be inspired not ridiculed. Me too "trust me."😎

I shudder to think. WTF are you talking about?

I was told posting videos was against Forum Rules, """my point exactly""" thnks for validating my point.... My point exactly, thats why asking questions about a subject "even if the questions" don't fall into the category of science itself is important....Scientist make it as though speaking requires rules like mathematics.

Does Classical Gravity exist in the "atom." If not what keeps the atom held in place.. Ok so the strong nuclear force...understood.. Is this strong nuclear force, the same that governs the Macro Universe? Is the strong nuclear force another name for Gravity?? F = m1*m2/ "the distance of both "from their centers squared"

In my years of study and questioning the ideas of science that effect our world, especially the environment I "always" come across scientist whom for "political reasoning" need to bash others with discriminate words and other "in-direct" or """passive""" insults that brake forum rules systamatically to "diverge" the very fact that scientist have not one clue of what they speak of when dealing with out of the box thinkers" and authentic reasoning... There is no such thing as a dumb question as there is no such thing as absolute concepts.. So the saying goes, there will always be better thinkers as there will always be better mouse traps, as there will always be jealousy and haters....

No one knows the "origins" of math and no one can claim legitimacy for its use.. Like no one knows why energy is quantized and "what exactly are plank's units." There is no such thing as understanding anything becuase "everything" is a collection of ideas linked to outcomes that simply predict and repeat without chronological proof at the universal level.. There are , and will always be gaps in science.... Everything is make believe...

How so?? If 0--->1 defines any quantity, then the quantity itself has a limit within itself, thus infinity is made of limits within limits and contradicts itself with the very nature that defines it....And what would that be??? The ""limit itself.""

Anything with a radius, is pi , becuase remember units are man made systems, so length is time, and time is bundles of loops that repeat indefinitely...Why? Becuase infinity is a concept, so the concept is the model itself as a volume of probable outcomes. Thats why pi and r work so well together, "it's a real shame that's never talked about." Science is so occultic that way..