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...what with A.I., A.G.I, chat bots etc. etc.. ? i.e. you write to them asking question, and they try to reply the best as they can answer your question.. Intelligent enough A.I. would/should ask similar question "do I exist?".. In 3D games you are all the time walking around the world and hearing that in-game AI are talking to each other about various things (usually having connection to 'mission' of the player).. But ATM they have very basic responses. Discussion with them easily reveals their shortcomings. But that is the way they were (lousy) programmed by the creators.

...even animals are incomprehensible to humans..... only few bother trying to understand animals...

Alien would put you in "sleep", create virtual world similar to the one you know (or exactly the same as you know, recreated from memories from the brain), and observe how you are behaving in various situations. Similar like humans are catching wild animals, placing them in zoo or reserve, and observing how they behave. But you would have no idea that you're participating in their experiment..

The more realistic is addressing it to people under influence of psychoactive compounds during weekend.. But in such state, they are losing their safety brakes and telling too much, exposing too much, than they would like in the normal circumstances. After Sunday's hangover, messages disappear.. but in the Internet nothing really disappears..

Admins/programmers are practically always able to read by analyze of database records and files on disks (even if such functionality has not been created intentionally)... You would have to use your own private encryption/decryption algorithm which only you and person to whom you're writing PM exclusively know, to disallow reading conversation by system admins/programmers. Also, content of private message is sent to mailbox of interlocutor. So if somebody gained access to your and interlocutor e-mail accounts, he/she can read your private messages from this forum. Mailing system is not secure transmission. Intercepting router, switch, server, ISP, will capture contents of PM during sending/receiving.

The first was "First Council of Nicaea" at 325 A.D... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea

Honestly, diversity of religion is quite natural thing, and almost inevitable, especially if there are problems with communication. For similar reasons why human languages are diversed. In older times, when communication and connection between one village and other village, between one area and other area, were much more troublesome or even nearly impossible (like in Old World and Americas, Australia and Islands, in times when there was no reliable means of transport through oceans), one group of humans evolved independently from other group of humans. Even if they would start from the one single religion, after centuries and millenniums without exchange of information with their origin, they were making their own local versions of religions, or making their own local gods. Diversity happened also in Christianity: Catholic Church, Orthodox Greek Church, later Protestants, Lutherans, Christian sects etc. etc. They have e.g. different approach to "saints" (kinda like half-gods and heroes in Greek's Mythology). People pray to half-gods, for intercession at higher level. Placing their beloved "saints" pictures and figures in the room around them.. Diversity also occurred in Muslims: Salafites, Sunnis, Wahhabis, etc. etc. (In fact, it is much easier for Muslims to separate because they do not have the supreme Imam, the equivalent of the Pope). Rarely separations were happening without wars, without innocent victims. Rarely joining/rejoining were happening without wars, and mass murdering people attached to their parents religion and unwilling to convert... ..sounds to me quite like e.g. making "saints"/"half-gods"...

Read my top most post in this thread..

Chlorine-37 + Ve + 814 keV -> Argon-37 + e- This reaction is used in Chlorine-based neutrino detector. "Chlorine detectors, based on the method suggested by Bruno Pontecorvo, consist of a tank filled with a chlorine containing fluid such as tetrachloroethylene. A neutrino converts a chlorine-37 atom into one of argon-37 via the charged current interaction. The threshold neutrino energy for this reaction is 0.814 MeV." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino_detector Check if your peak matches Argon..

Paragraphs, sections with visible bold header between them, equations, graphs, analyze of data.... etc. etc. Scientific theory might not have any text, but must have equations. Equations which will be used on the real gathered data.

If your "theory" has to be taken seriously by scientific community start from calculating something useful in quantum physics using your "theory" equations. Like spectral lines of the all atoms, for instance?

That's difference in rest-masses of particles. Rest-mass and relativistic-mass in quantum physics is measured in eV/c^2 (and keV/c^2 MeV/c^2 GeV/c^2 etc.) Rest-mass of muon is approximately 105 MeV/c^2 Rest-mass of electron (or positron) is approximately 511 keV/c^2 = 0.511 MeV/c^2 If electron and position annihilates together their rest-masses are conserved in kinetic energy of newly created gamma photons.

There are two kinds of muons. Positive with +1e charge, and negative -1e charge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muon Negative muon decays to electron, electronic antineutrino, and muonic neutrino. Positive muon decays to positron, electronic neutrino, and muonic antineutrino. Muon has approximately 206 bigger rest-mass than electron or positron. During decay of muon, so big rest-mass is conserved, as kinetic energies of newly created particles. Electron or positron and neutrinos and antineutrinos are accelerated near the speed of light.

That's not correct. Current I, multiplied by time t, is charge Q. Q=I*t Charge Q divided by elementary charge e = 1.6021766*10^-19 C, is the number of electrons. quantity = Q/e It has included time in the equation! If you have 1 Ampere of current, but you don't know the time of flowing such current, you don't know how many electrons flowed. When charge Q is multiplied by voltage U, you have sum of kinetic energies of electrons: E = Q*U Single electrons has kinetic energy: E.K.=e*U That's energy which electron traveling through medium or wire can lose prior decelerating to local frame-of-reference. If somebody says "we need more voltage to make this circuit element to work properly" (therefore need of voltage stabilizers, boost step-up converters i.e. changing small voltage of 1.5 V, 3 V, 5 V from typical batteries, to higher required voltage), that person is actually saying "we need to have electrons with higher kinetic energy" just using different words.

General note first. If you know some correctly working example, view source code (press ctrl+u in Firefox) and analyze how it has been done there.. Voila! Are you talking about zoom level which is displayed on the right of URI text field in browser? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/zoom " This feature is non-standard and is not on a standards track. Do not use it on production sites facing the Web: it will not work for every user. There may also be large incompatibilities between implementations and the behavior may change in the future. " (it does not seem to be working on my Firefox.. I used Tryit Editor on w3schools) Ok. Example code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <style> p.small { zoom: 75%; } p.normal { zoom: normal; } p.big { zoom: 2.5; } p { display: inline-block; } p:hover { zoom: reset; } </style> </head> <body> <h1>My First CSS Example</h1> <p>This is a paragraph.</p> <p class="small">Small</p> <p class="normal">Normal</p> <p class="big">Big</p> </body> </html> Is not working on my Firefox. But it works in Internet Explorer.. Notice "Browser compatibility" section... We rather helped you at standard HTML and CSS.. ...I doubt it..

If photo-sensor is basically camera (could be IR camera too), and we have two servos able to spin in range -90...+90 angles, no engines, algorithm is very easy. 1) convert image from camera to bitmap (so computer will be able to analyze it). 2) analyze bitmap to find where is "spot" (the easiest would be compare the all pixels to check if some of them is in specified range of colors). for( int j = 0; j < height; j++ ) { for( int i = 0; i < width; i++ ) { if( Color.compare( bitmap.get( i, j ), Color.Red, tolerance ) { spot_x = i; spot_y = j; break; } } } (smarter would be going from the center to outside) 3) calculate distance between "spot" x,y and center delta_x = spot_x - width / 2; delta_y = spot_y - height / 2; If delta_x > 0, servo X, must rotate one direction e.g. 0...+90 If delta_x < 0, servo X, must rotate opposite direction 0...-90 If delta_y > 0, servo Y, must rotate one direction e.g. 0...+90 If delta_y < 0, servo Y, must rotate opposite direction 0...-90 4) convert delta_x and delta_y to corresponding servo rotation servo_x_angle = delta_x * 90 / ( width / 2 ) * tolerance; servo_y_angle = delta_y * 90 / ( height / 2 ) * tolerance; 5) couple milliseconds delay 6) go to 1) If object is flying from higher altitude to the ground, it does not require engines. You can see how to program Arduino micro servo (probably it has 9 grams, if I recall correctly), watch f.e. this video: They are widely used to make remote controlled airplanes, robots and stuff like that. Single one costed me 2.7 USD, the last time I bought. If intended to be used in remote controlled object, better replace Arduino by Arduino Nano. It will reduce mass of object quite considerably.

Even if you will put thread to trashcan, even if you will close it, Internet crawlers will find them (posts) there anyway. BTW, crawler/bot is gathering data. Data are put in databases. Keywords are just filters for end-users. Crawlers don't visit website attracted by some keyword. They visit website regularly, regardless of anything. Google bot at least one time per day. If Google bot detects website changes regularly, starts visiting it more often. Google bot sees new threads on this website quicker than moderators.. If somebody managed to brainwash them, persuaded them to believe in these nonsenses, it's possible to undo it too... It is an opportunity to learn new skills in erudition.

They belong to speculation forum. Nobody is forced to reply in every thread made on this forum. Not interesting you subject? That's simple. Don't reply. By banning crackpots, deleting their posts, you disallow other the more determined members of the forum to persuade these people that they are mistaken. ..but at least you (or somebody else) tried.. If somebody is reading our explanations of science to crackpots, these people, not being crackpots at all, are learning something new too..

Swansont. Not only I think, that in this particular case, reaction was too hasty, therefor entire @studiot thread about prematurity of closing it (and couple others shared this point of view by upvoting his post).. Going such way of moderation, threads about "flat Earth", "hollow Earth", "anti-vaxxers", etc. etc. should be immediately closed down after the first post, because they might (and will!) attract supporters of these controversial ideas. That's ridiculous and silly. This way you won't be able to learn what are their arguments from the first hand. And you won't be able to teach these people how science is actually working and teach them scientific method used to measure something.

@swansont You're talking about completely different kind of threads. Threads which are immediately deleted are made by people who are e.g. seeking for help making explosives or drugs, obvious spam, insulting, made by sockpuppets etc. etc.

Sound wave after reaching window in the room is causing shaking of the glass accordingly to power and frequency of the sound. Laser pointed at window from outside is disturbed accordingly by movement of the glass.

When you add energy (obviously in form of photons, accelerated electrons or other particles) to neutral atom e.g.: 1123Na + E -> 1123Na+ + e- You ionize atom. Atom has now 11 protons, 12 neutrons, and 10 electrons. Then you add even more energy. 1123Na+ + E -> 1123Na2+ + e- Repeat it as many times as you have electrons bound to specific atom. To fully ionize Sodium atom, you need a lot of energy per single atom (in contrary to Hydrogen which requires 13.6 eV). To eject the last electron from Sodium there is needed ~1.65 keV: 1123Na10+ + 1.65 keV -> 1123Na11+ + e- Reminding you, just ejected electrons will be recaptured! So you need to add even more energy again, to reionize them. When you have free nucleus without any electrons, it can fuse with something else, after going through Coulomb's barrier. What are paths in which Sodium could fuse with other Sodium atom? Let's see: FusionEnergyCalculator.exe 11 23 11 23 Na-23 + Na-23 -> Ti-46 + y + 25.0637 MeV Na-23 + Na-23 -> Sc-45 + p+ + 14.7192 MeV Na-23 + Na-23 -> Ti-45 + n0 + 11.8751 MeV Na-23 + Na-23 -> Sc-46 + e+ + Ve + 21.6754 MeV ..and there is a lot of more problems.. Sodium core will eject electrons in photoelectric effect, and newly created electrons cloud will disallow photons to get to the surface of core.. Photons will scatter with electrons..

The main point of OP is about premature closure of other thread. i.e. there have been just 3 hours when thread was started, to closure. User who started thread reached post limit per day and could not reply. IMHO closure of said thread should be considered after at least 48-72 hours, when user continued to avoid even the simplest questions even like area of operation of power plant (revealing source of energy for it, certainly would not break his IP rights).

You missed essential information. Fixed version is: "Free neutrons decay into protons, electrons and antineutrino with mean-life approximately 15 minutes." ..and bound neutrons.. Sometimes they are ejected. And this feature is useful in nuclear physics, nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons.. External electric field and external magnetic field have specific influences on e.g. charged particles, and atoms and molecules with unpaired electrons, and other magnetized particles. Observation of this influence is essential tool in learning internal properties of particles. After shutting down external electric/magnetic fields (by e.g. shutting down electromagnet), we are observing normal gravitational influence (like in example oil drop experiment).

Water is polar solvent. Polar liquid has non-uniformly distributed charges e.g. protons and electrons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_polarity Because of this property, water molecule can attach to other water molecules and other polar liquids, or other charged particles.