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The hormone melatonin helps regulate sleep and wake cycles. It's often used by people with insomnia or that just want to sleep 'better'. What does melatonin do on a biochemical level with skeletal muscles so they feel 'sleepy'?

What happens when you apply electricity on one amino acid. And what happens when you apply the same electricity on a tripeptide?

Is it known how amino-acids, dipeptides, tripeptides and larger peptides react on heat/electricity ? Is an amino acid more prone to survive heat/electricity then a tripeptide? The same question for carbohydrates.

How can you define this speed? What reference do you use?

Today I learned that plants have a way to use the entire visible spectrum. The literature and our present examinations indicate that the intra-leaf light absorption profile is in most cases steeper than the photosynthetic capacity profile. In strong white light, therefore, the quantum yield of photosynthesis would be lower in the upper chloroplasts, located near the illuminated surface, than that in the lower chloroplasts. Because green light can penetrate further into the leaf than red or blue light, in strong white light, any additional green light absorbed by the lower chloroplasts would increase leaf photosynthesis to a greater extent than would additional red or blue light. Based on the assessment of effects of the additional monochromatic light on leaf photosynthesis, we developed the differential quantum yield method that quantifies efficiency of any monochromatic light in white light. Application of this method to sunflower leaves clearly showed that, in moderate to strong white light, green light drove photosynthesis more effectively than red light.https://academic.oup.com/pcp/article/50/4/684/1908367

We do that because we (not everyone of course) have sufficient food, food is no longer a way to survive like it used to be. Many animals (domestic and wild) store food to eat later. This is called hoarding.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_(animal_behavior There is evidence that some amount of caching or hoarding is done in order to ripen the food.

You probably all know Banana Ray Comfort. It's hilarious.

Because people that believe because of Pascal's supposed rationality can easily make the step to being a full-blown Christian. And I think many people that claim to believe in God due to Pascal are 100% theists and give the Pascal's Wager to act interesting. I'm not really an ietsist, I believe in whatever science finds. I have The Big Bang Theory trivia quiz book. I'm sorry for those neg reps and the ones I gave before. It was uncalled for.

A calcium channel is an ion channel which shows selective permeability to calcium ions. What is the role of the Ca ions? According to this paper deranged Ca(2+) signaling may play an important role in SCA3 pathology . SCA 3 is called Machado joseph disease...I have SCA7. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19036964

I've heard several people here in Belgium that agree with this...it was on the radio a couple days ago. They consider believing in God the rational choice, regardless if he exists or not. My problem with Pascal's wager is that that implies believing in a personal God.(a deity who can be related to as a person) I deny the existence of a personal god since it rise countless more questions. I do think the belief in an impersonal force which can be called Ietsism (Somethingism)i is more a rational choice.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ietsism

I think the videos of darkmatter2525 on YouTube are pretty good to turn believers.https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/DarkMatter2525 .

I don't deny doppler shift. I've never denied science.But the current explanation only deals with macroscopic behavior. I want to know the microscopic behavior. I want to explain the doppler effect.This explanation gives extra info. The extinction theorem doesn't deny refraction, it explains it. The holographic principle doesn't deny our 3D-reality, it explains it. Also for sound. When an ambulance drives, it has an effect on te concentration of air-molecules(aerodynamics)...those air-molecules form the transmission medium for sound. When a duck swims in a lake you also see doppler shift. The momentum of a duck causes a difference in watermolecule concentration The interaction photon-plasma(corona) alters the energy of the photons and expansion of the universe causes a shift in the plasma-concentration which causes the redshift. A corona of a star is an aura of plasma. When is redshift =doppler redshift? In order to test blueshift, I have to throw a tomato in someone's face and he then has to check to color of the tomato before it enters his face. Not really. Many people thought refraction/diffraction/reflection was explained without particles interaction...people invented there own Occam's razor results. Whether gravit lensing is due to particle interaction we will know if the existence of gravitons gets proven. You are very wrong. Here a bh-corona is mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_scattering#Inverse_Compton_scattering https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0907 https://arxiv.org/abs/1511.02890 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0004158

Culture refers to social behavior and norms you find in a society. A new religion implants seeds which cause the culture to develop/evolve in a certain way. It's a slow process. The current culture/beliefs and the geographic location of a population where the cause for the possibility of a new religion to have made its entry.

You said: "every new major religion spread far and wide despite indigenous culture/belief. " Where did you give examples to backup that idea?

Can you give an example?

Apologies accepted...my responses always come late Yes, that was me. A different horizon indeed doesn't change much for it being an object or not. I just thought it was interesting to point out that a black hole can have a different horizon then described in general relativity. True but the fact that it's explained without particle interaction doesn't mean the interaction of particles isn't there. The same goes for refraction. It's IMO due to interaction of photons with electrons( inelastic scattering) in the corona of a star. In our sun the K-corona is created by sunlight scatteing off free electrons. (Relative) speed shifts the conc. of electrons in the corona which causes red and blue shift. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona Something related is presumed to happen in the corona of black holes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_scattering#Inverse_Compton_scattering Exactly. The idea that the properties of light can change without interacting of photons is not based on observations, experiments, or known facts ..it's based on misinterpretations and faith. There is no evidence that doppler shift and gravit. lensing happen without interacting/scattering of photons but many scientists believe it anyway. But then how do you 'proof' the validity of a philosophical study? With logic? Who's logic? "Objectivity is simply a consensus of subjective opinions."Not really. This depends on the context. I have to disagree on this. My tomatoes I'm sowing this evening are imo more important. I don't know I just want to categorize all the interpretations in science. philosophical science seems like a good word. Ok, but why don't we call those interpretations of physical theories, Philosophy?

Do old earth creationists believe that also?

Why do people think there is no God because there is a lot of suffering?

Really? Increase your understanding/knowledge of evolution and rewrite your 'story' using better language

Yes but the chance a religion is correct is extremely small. A religion is not just the believe in something supernatural. Many religions (like christiannity and islam)give properties/actions to deities...in order for such a religion to be correct, the deity and its properties/actions need to be proven.

Why? If we do find evidence for a god then that doesn't imply that any of the supernatural beliefs is correct. Those beliefs (like the creation story in the bible)concern human ideas about the properties and actions of god. Agnosticism is the view that the existence of God, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable...this implies we cant make valid assumptions concerning his actions or properties.

Ok. I just think it's important to point to the 'relativity' of their beliefsystem. Whatever religion you are in, there are billions of people that believe in something else.

If many people believe in different things which are not based on any empirical evidence, isn't it then logical they are all wrong?

To turn a believer, I would say the following: There is a huge amount of religions and they all think their believe is the correct one.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_religions_and_spiritual_traditions#Bábism % Logic dictates they are all wrong.