Nod2003

The Shapiro delay then is due to a curved path rather than a straight path and not a slowing of light itself then. That’s interesting. And studiot, I am specifically referring to light in a vacuum. I am aware that it’s speed is slower in other mediums.

Sure I get isotopes, but all isotopes of both radium and radon are radioactive, so I’m not sure what point you were going for here.

Is it just me, or has Turkey been the problem child lately in NATO? Does NATO have any tools to punish bad behavior of its members, short of outright expulsion? Does each country get an equal vote in decision making, such as tiny little Iceland, which has almost no military or economy compared to the US or UK gets the same influence in decisions?

Is it just me, or have politics in the US become more polarized? It seems to me to have started in the late 1990s and has been increasing on an exponential curve, though I doubt that it would be possible to quantify that stipulation. Has a similar thing happened to democratic politics globally? What are your opinions on the root cause of this?

How do we know that the speed of light is a universal constant? I struggle to see how the speed of light would be measured any significant distance from earth, so could it be possible that the speed of light might be different in different galaxies or in the vicinity of high gravity objects like black holes?

Radon doesn’t form many compounds. I think it will bond with fluorine but not much else that we know of. Radium will bond with nitrogen to make Ra3N2. Radium decays into radon, so what happens when the radium attached to nitrogen does that? I assume extra energy is released from breaking the bonds with the nitrogen, as radon can’t bond that way?

Sorry you are right, I misremembered which acid that made.

If you dump water directly on the magma, you will get steam, but there is a good amount of sulphuric dioxide in a volcanic eruption, so I assume it is generally outgassing SO2 from exposed magma. Anyways. Mix that with water and you will get some sulphuric acid steam. Highly corrosive to your turbine.

I think the idea has potential, but before introducing a gene to eliminate a species, one needs to consider all the consequences. 1. Ensure that the gene can’t jump to other species. 2. That eliminating the species won’t unintentionally eliminate species that depend on eating or otherwise benefiting from the target species. 3. Be ready to handle any unintended species filling the vacuum left by eliminating the target species which may cause deleterious side effects. 4. Be ready to handle the target species mutating in a way that renders it more resilient to genetic attack.

That makes sense. I’m guessing it has improved a lot from back when I first took a look at it more then 10 years ago. Maybe I’ll give it another chance.

Ah, so it causes neuron issues in some people then. So why does it get added to so many foods?

I really struggle with Wikipedia. Because anyone can change it, it’s hard to know if it was accurate. It also seems like gluten is a bigger problem then just for intolerant people, because that wouldn’t be very many people so would only be a small market. Instead it’s a pretty significant market, there must be a reason why.

One thing to consider is that it’s not at all rare for a car to be usable for 20+ years, so the many of the new petrol powered cars being made today would still conceivably be on the road by 2040.

What is in gluten that is bad for humans, and why is it found in so many food products?

are there any species on earth that would survive in an ammonia, chlorine or SO2 atmosphere that could be a “template” for biology on other planets?

I’m suspecting that even in a perfect vacuum lead would still remain liquid at 300C and has no triple point?

Interesting. So then it would seem that the issue is their particle accelerators are unable to impart sufficiently high energy to run the experiment with the more closely weighted particles?

What is the triple point of lead? At what external pressure could it be a vapor at 300C?

Scientists are still searching for the island of stability when it comes to synthesis of new super heavy elements. My general understanding is that they “shoot” streams of a lighter element at a heavy element target. I think to create element 117, they used Ca-48 and an isotope of Bk. I expect that given shorter half lives for elements beyond Bk, it might not be feasible to use a heavier target, but what about heavier elements from the other side, such as Cu or Fe instead of Ca? Couldn’t there be some combination that could get to the magic number of protons and neutrons, or is current equipment incapable of utilizing those elements for some reason?