StringJunky

You are thinking of radiation pressure where the pressure would be higher on the lighter side. The prevailing theory about this object seems to be that it is actually a comet and it is the outgassing as it neared the sun that caused the anomaly.

We need it because the adverts tell us we do and it drives the economy.

A freefalling person accelerates yet feels no force, therefore, it follows gravity is not a force; it''s curved spacetime. Don''t get hung up about not understanding it, scientists have been trying to nail it down for a long time without complete success; it still wont tie in nicely with the other forces.

If he has nerve-based deafness, cochlear to brain, there is as yet no on-stream surgical solution. Connecting individual nerves is still some way off. If it's the hearing bones, that can sometimes be fixed. Assuming he's getting the necessary medical attention, I would be paying particular attention to his communication and reading skills... help him find the best way that suits him to learn things and interact. Reading is very important because it may be his richest and most easily accessible resource for learning things throughout his life. Encourage him and get him comfortable with it; patient persistence. The internet is a godsend for deaf people, so teach him to use it to his best advantage.

It wants to wield the biggest stick.

Last universal common ancestor

It's quite a simple idea he mentioned. There are some 150 million spematazoa, if we assume a single mating act, then the chances of a particular spermatozoa making the child that is you is 150 million to 1. About the same as winning the Euromillions.

I would research archival storage products. Most paper is acidic. https://www.preservationequipment.com/Catalogue/Archival-Storage/Envelopes/Archival-Envelopes-Perma-Dur

Are we feeling mortal? Eat properly, keep your stress down, engage in plenty of moderate cardiovascular exercise and hope you've got the genes for long-living. Or is that too hard?

We were just mildly speculating with a concept that doesn't involve infinite regression or infinities, buy hey, this is in "Physics" and we shouldn't, so I'll shut up.

We are in an epoch of the universe where the clock ticks as we know it and you can count as you do.

You'd never get to this point in time because it is at the other end of the infinite past, therefore an infinite past composed of linear time as we know it is not logical... Captain.

What I've read, the universe may eventually go into heat death which means basically everything will decay to the point of there being no more interactions or reactions

Yes, a finite amount of time from the BB.

To my way of thinking, and in cosmology generally it seems, infinities are bad and the idea of no time or non-linear time seems to remove that problem. There may be other ways to make them disappear, of course, that I haven't come across yet.

Or possibly things didn't happen in the temporally linear way that we know pre-BB.

The universe may have manifested in some state before time and space emerged with the BB. It's all guessing but it didn't pop out of nothing. Best to look at the BB as the beginning of a new epoch in its evolution.

Women omit the "stupid" and just say "Men!".

i read that members of both sides were disturbed at his departure and that he is an 'island of stability' in an erratic administration. He was a general, so couldn't be that mad.

Yes, it's very disturbing that Mattis has stepped down, given that he has all round partisan support in the position, because Trump won't take his advice.

There might be, it's just that we probably volunteered to send a ship to start the process. I can see us taking the lead on this, with Trump not wanting upset his Russian friend.

I forgot you are American, so yeah, you might not have heard it.

I bet you've heard a woman say "stupid man" or "stupid boy".

I'm 56.

Quite possibly, some negs are off-the-cuff reactions by lurkers passing through.