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I suppose it will happen that - following a cold day - it will be warmer before 9am the next morning than any time over the previous 24hrs but that would be rare and unusual. Maybe you should contact them and ask how (or if) they deal with that should it occur. For climate change purposes - averages and trends - it probably doesn't occur often enough to make much difference but it probably does need to be considered. Maybe it is. That any maximum records would be broken when it occurs will be even less likely - not impossible but possibly so rare that it has never occurred. Do you think temperature records and averages/trends derived from them are invalidated by the choice of a 9am to 9am "day" for record keeping purposes? I don't.

Glad to help, come back if you want more detail.

This might be best. Frankly, I'm tired of seeing people come here for science-minded explanations, only to reject them as "those who have already mocked us". We've tried our best to respect that this is a real phenomenon while gently trying to remove the "supernatural" aspect from it (hello, science discussion forum). We've tried to show how everyone can do this to some degree, but it's clear this is something some people feel makes them potentially special, and they don't want to hear mundane reasoning. So post your link to a discussion offsite, which is normally against our rules. I'll close the thread and folks can guess about this all they want. Does that sound fair?

And my rebuttal is the same as previous, because this path and its justification are awful. People shouldn't be punished for crimes they have not committed, but might commit. Everyone might commit a crime.

Evil, like good, is a product of the human imagination. While other animals show degrees of ingenuity in problem-solving, we have a flair for problem-creating. We have put as much effort into making one another suffer as we have into healing - and certainly more of our human and material resources into warfare than welfare. It's not so much a question of how many of its people are bad for a society, as how bad a society is for its people. A criminal justice system is built up from the assumption that the most desirable outcome for a nation is that all citizens abide by the law. To that end, it sets about training up its citizens to obey its laws. Those who fail to obey the laws are designated "criminal" - a breed apart, suddenly different in kind - and dealt-with according to some philosophical principle ranging from gentle persuasion to years of torture. We deal in the same way with the law-abiding citizens of another nation with which we happen to be in conflict. And with otherwise law-abiding citizens who have been on the losing side of an internal disagreement over political leadership. And sometimes with citizens who profess a spiritual belief that has been repudiated by the current rulers. Every society makes its own criminals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UqNIOc8rgc&t=51s But we're not like that anymore!!!!

Good morning ans welcome, 10th grader. NO it is not dumb or magic to wonder about electricity. But electricity is a huge and very important subject. So you have to start somewhere, your teachers cannot tell it all to you at once. Since you mention the electron let me start there. Britannica puts is so well. The carrier of electric properties in matter. The basic electric quantity is electric charge. As far as we know electric charge is always attached to some particle of matter or another. Any particle of matter that has attached charge becomes a carrier of charge as it moves about. These particles could be electrons, protons, ions and are known as charged particles. Some are bigger than atoms (ions) some are smaller than atoms (electrons, protons). Atoms themselves are not charged, they are electrically neutral. Charge endows matter particles it is attached to with extra properties, that interact with matter's own mechanical properties. It also has some additional properties of its own. It is these properties that hold the sub atomic particles in atoms together and hold larger assemblies of atoms together as molecules. One of the special properties of charge is that there are two types of charge. We use the sign convention of positive for protons and negative for electrons and neutral (=no charge) for atoms. Ions can be positive or negative. I say sign convention because it is simply a way of distinguishing. It does not imply any special importance of one over the other. There are many such sign conventions in Science. Back to Britannica. A great deal of electrical theory was developed between about 1850 and 1900. As Britannica notes, the electron was not discovered until the end of that period. And the charge carried by the electron was not confirmed until 1910. So the electrical theory considered electricity as some sort of weightless fluid (they tried to weigh it) that could be transferred or flow from one body of matter to another. The flow of this fluid was called 'electric current' and supposed similar to currents of material in fluids like water. However this theory was shown to be inadequate and that there are, in fact, several types of electric current, even before the discovery of the electron. Nowadays we distinguish Direct Current which is made up of a flow of current carriers which could be electrons, protons or ions in solution. Alternating Current which is actually a flow of energy, no particles actually move anywhere though they could be said to move slightly backwards and forwards. Does this start to answer you questions ?

But does the monkey consider it good or evil or just nature in general. I suspect none, since its potential for philosophical thinking does not exist, therefore the concept of good and evil doesn't exist. Good and evil are labels that we put on things for which society accepts to be right or wrong, evil often used for wrongs that are atrocities against society.

Yes. Moving a charge will create a magnetic field, and yes, a change in the field will cause current to flow (or induce a voltage if there isn't a complete loop for current to flow)

Electrons flow in response to a voltage gradient. They do not produce energy when they flow, but transmit it from whatever is responsible for the voltage gradient. So there is no violation of conservation of energy.

I mean no offense, but having lived in the United States through the horrific decisions and policies of the Bush/Cheney administration, I was aware long before "Vice" was made of the ways in which our VP took control of the administration and manipulated the President. I will leave it there, for now, and let wit and humor continue to reign supreme in the thread.

I have, with a heap of cases in this and the torture thread. And I'm not really interested in Buddhism, Kung fu [ could be contrued as punishment, even torture] or Pandas, as cute as they are, along with the Dalai Lama of course. PS: I don't at all have faith in the scientific method, rather trust, due to its success rate and logic.