Dord

As omnivores, humans have eaten all manner of things throughout history and across the globe. Modern incarnations include bush-meat, cats, pet rabbits, all the various bits of an animal's genitalia and even bat soup. They may not sound appealing to some, but others regard them as nutritious delicacies - It's just a matter of taste! As for catching insects for food, are you aware of the Mali lake flies? Not exactly on an industrial scale but the kids love it and the biscuits are pretty tasty. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qs33k1b6N_A

Today, I learned this from @Strange +1

Thank you @swansont I've found this online: https://web.stanford.edu/group/kasevich/cgi-bin/wordpress/?page_id=11 It looks very interesting, and seems a natural progression from Galileo dropping his balls to the famous photo- op on the moon.

Hello everybody. Here is my entry for dumbest question of the day, and I assume replies will include most of the Greek alphabet and squiggly lines that I won't understand but here goes anyway... Q: Do particles experience gravitational time dilation? If I've got this right, gravitational time dilation occurs when two synchronised "clocks" are seperated and exposed to different levels of gravitational force resulting with thier times being no longer synchronised. And if I've also got this right, particles etc can occupy two places at once - as in the double slit experiment where a single photon passes through both slits at once. So... if there is a way to make each slit experience a significant difference in gravitational force* would this have any affect on the two "parts" of the photon which are both travelling at c but one seemingly slower than the other? Thanks, and my apologies for any incorrect terminology or assumptions. (*I assume that they do anyway but on a very, very small scale.)

Just to echo what others have said, and to add my thoughts as I have some (limited) experience of garden-shed inventing. First, your experiences are not new. This is the process that most (all?) inventions and new products have to go through - a sort of rites of passage for want of a better phrase. Apparently WD40 is so called because it was the 40th formula for a water displacement product, after 39 failed attempts to come up with something viable. Successful inventors need to be customer, not product, focussed by identifying thier (the customer's) need and wants, gaps, and ambitions. This is achieved best by targetted market research. If your unsolicited emails are not working then as others have said you need to put in some legwork and invest time, energy and most definitely money. ie speculate to accumulate. Once you have a foot in the door, not only do you need to sell your ideas and concepts you need also to sell yourself - build up your CV to give yourself credibility and added value. You should also consider that those you approach may have contractual obligations or strict procurement processes that may prevent them from direct engagement. And most importantly: learn from your "failures" then try, try and try again. Good luck

This reminds me of a misattributed quote of (and injustice to) Lord Kelvin: If the ant could "think" then IMHO it's not a tremendously large leap to assume it might become inquisitive and start exploring, questioning and developing theories to try and understand it's observations. In the same way humans (and potentially kindred species) have done since prehistory.

Ah, a nicely put. Thank you. It just goes to show the difficulties with context and meaning when using common-or-garden words or phrases that are not always sufficiently precise for their intended purpose.

Interesting. Would this also apply to the addition of negative values? (-1) + (-1)= -2

I'm not entirely sure if this is relevant but we get quite a lot of "multiple truths" in law enforcement such as independent witnesses giving conflicting accounts of the same event, potentially false memories of childhood trauma, or the weapon-focus effect. All these are influenced, in varying degrees, by an observers' unconscious bias, their (flawed?) perception or outside influences. The knack it to test the observations and piece together the most likely "truth" then let a jury decide. A bit like peer review, I suppose.

Hello everybody I'm Dord I've been around the block, and would say that I'm worldly-wise and inquisitive but lack the abilty to grasp fully the concepts outside of my 3D world. I've been reading this forum for a while and 99% of what's said goes over my head but is very interesting nonetheless. (When I Google what people are saying, more often than not I have to re-Google the results to try and dumb it down to my level.) All this may go towards explaining some of my future posts which will probably end up in the Trash Can! Anyway, nice to meet you all and I will try not to interfere too much.