StringJunky

Philosophy is really the root of all science because you have to start from premises, but I don't think anybody can really do it effectively now, that is also pertinent to math's and physics, from what I have gathered over the years reading these boards and others.

The egg...this is where the mutation of the genes occurs leading to the evolution of the chicken. Bear in mind it didn't occur in one go but many little changes occurred over many generations.

Unless one has an impossibly difficult circumstance I would tend to concur with you...life is often punctuated with journeys through long dark tunnels with no apparent light at the end of them, but light there is if one sits tight long enough.

Is Juangra trying to impose a substantial description or reality upon something which it is not possible to verify either way? As very much a noob on physics, he has left me somewhat confused with regard to the current position on wave-particle duality in the physics community as a whole.

Try this, you are going to do full clean install: 1. Backup FF profile with Mozbackup So you can go back if what follows doesn't work. This will put all your customisations bookmarks etc back. 2. Backup just your bookmarks like THIS (Manual Backup) 3. Download the free version (down page) of Revouninstaller .Install it and select the Mozilla icon then Uninstall. Choose Advanced. Follow the prompts. The firefox unstaller will start first where you will choose to remove user data as well. After this Revo will do its own search where you will delete everything it finds. Reboot computer. Reinstall FF. If the problem has gone the problem lies in the profile folder and really I would say start again with all your extensions and customisations but you can put your bookmarks back with the restore option mentioned in step 2 above. If the problem hasn't gone away you can go back to the beginning by using the restore option in Mozbackup which will put everything back as it was when you started.

In terms of effects on intellectual ability, I think, limited sensory input can force a person to use their 'mind's eye' a lot more, to compensate for the damaged/disabled sense, which causes them to learn to extrapolate meaningful information from limited and disparate data input...this action over a long period can give them a powerful and useful imagination. I've a feeling a person with a severe sensory disability develops a kind of Synaethesia to cope and engage with the world around them. Necessity forces them to think 'out of the box' which may have the fortunate effect of giving them novel ways of thinking that is ultimately beneficial to the species. I am a severely deaf person that uses lip-reading and my prior thoughts are based on this experience accumulated over the last fifty years of my life. I can 'hear' people speak with all the apparent sounds/words complete yet I know I can't when tested or they are out of sight. ................................................................................................................................. The greater the degree of separation between two pieces of information and yet still be able to connect or correlate them defines genius.

Have you tried another browser to eliminate if it's Internet Explorer related?

Thanks...it's just of academic note then.

Interesting. What would the percentage increase be on an Earthbound object's weight if the Earth wasn't spinning?

Thanks for the clarification.

I was trying to make sense of your answer which, clearly, I got wrong.

Are you saying they are equal in potential harm?

Even Leonardo Da Vinci nailed this 500 years ago: "In Leonardo's day there were several hypotheses of how it was that shells and other living creatures were found in rocks on the tops of mountans. Some believed the shells to have been carried there by the Biblical Flood; others thought that these shells had grown in the rocks. Leonardo had no patience with either hypothesis, and refuted both using his careful observations. Concerning the second hypothesis, he wrote that "such an opinion cannot exist in a brain of much reason; because here are the years of their growth, numbered on their shells, and there are large and small ones to be seen which could not have grown without food, and could not have fed without motion -- and here they could not move." There was every sign that these shells had once been living organisms. What about the Great Flood mentioned in the Bible? Leonardo doubted the existence of a single worldwide flood, noting that there would have been no place for the water to go when it receded. He also noted that "if the shells had been carried by the muddy deluge they would have been mixed up, and separated from each other amidst the mud, and not in regular steps and layers -- as we see them now in our time." He noted that rain falling on mountains rushed downhill, not uphill, and suggested that any Great Flood would have carried fossils away from the land, not towards it. He described sessile fossils such as oysters and corals, and considered it impossible that one flood could have carried them 300 miles inland, or that they could have crawled 300 miles in the forty days and nights of the Biblical flood. How did those shells come to lie at the tops of mountains? Leonardo's answer was remarkably close to the modern one: fossils were once-living organisms that had been buried at a time before the mountains were raised: "it must be presumed that in those places there were sea coasts, where all the shells were thrown up, broken, and divided. . ." Where there is now land, there was once ocean. It was possible, Leonardo thought, that some fossils were buried by floods -- this idea probably came from his observations of the floods of the Arno River and other rivers of north Italy -- but these floods had been repeated, local catastrophes, not a single Great Flood. To Leonardo da Vinci, as to modern paleontologists, fossils indicated the history of the Earth, which extends far beyond human records." http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/vinci.html

No laws are violated because space is being created between non-gravitationally bound objects ie the objects themselves are not actually experiencing any acceleration due to the expansion.

I don't think anyone gets a bad score for just being logically or factually wrong but being bad tempered, stubborn or ill-mannered in some way as well. I would say "yes", the final decider to give someone a demerit is an emotional one...but that's ok. Regardless of how logical we are, we are still emotional beings and when logicality and civility are transgressed the neg rep is the means by which to show that disapproval. If a poster doesn't know why they were repped negatively they can ask but 99% of the time it's clear why...usually because they are being intransigent and/or uncivil.

I understand that the Observable Universe has a radius but the whole universe, not necessarily so...if it has the topology of a Torus , for example, it doesn't have one. Even the example I first gave doesn't have one because only the surface should be considered.

The universe can be finite and unbounded; analogous to the surface of a sphere which has finite area but no edge.

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Note: In their mother-tongue and English....we sassenachs don't need to learn Gaelic. Seriously, English is a massively 'mongrel' language, evolved from and still evolving to incorporate language elements from all over the world. There must be something in this flexibility that makes it a good candidate as a global language. Are there other languages with such diverse roots? I find it ironic that because we were militarily overwhelmed, raped and pillaged by so many nations throughout history, we have integrated and consolidated the genes of many nations to be the strong force that we are now...how's that for evolution by natural selection.

The name "England" is derived from the Old English name Englaland, which means "land of the Angles".[15] The Angles were one of the Germanic tribes that settled in Great Britain during the Early Middle Ages. The Angles came from the Angeln peninsula in the Bay of Kiel area of the Baltic Sea.[16] According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the first known use of "England" to refer to the southern part of the island of Great Britain occurs in 897, and its modern spelling was first used in 1538.[17] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England

It seems to be a combination of several effects that contribute to upright-stability: A bike remains upright when it is steered so that the ground reaction forces exactly balance all the other internal and external forces it experiences, such as gravitational if leaning, inertial or centrifugal if in a turn, gyroscopic if being steered, and aerodynamic if in a crosswind.[15] Steering may be supplied by a rider or, under certain circumstances, by the bike itself. This self-stability is generated by a combination of several effects that depend on the geometry, mass distribution, and forward speed of the bike. Tires, suspension, steering damping, and frame flex can also influence it, especially in motorcycles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle_and_motorcycle_dynamics The above link is worth a read.

Biological specimen stains, sunglasses, cutting oils, fluorescent dyes, plastics, wood stains.

Yeah, thanks. Didn't know hiccough can be pronounced 'hiccup' as well...learn summat new every everyday. Lough - it's got a couple of pronunciations.

Slow, with the -ow as in sow (female pig), which is a UK town and sluff which means to shed something, like skin. It got me thinking John that poem...nice one. I can only find 6 sounds for the suffix -ough: oh, uff, ow, ooh, uh, off. What's the others?

In my probable ignorance, I have seen the two as synonymous.