swansont
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Would breaking up an asteroid before it hit Earth reduce the damage if all of its mass still hit?
You wouldn’t have all the energy deposited in the same place. Dispersing it would likely reduce the overall damage. Energy deposited in the both the atmosphere and ground over a wider area, less energy at the primary impact point.
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Is the problem of Hell actually a problem?
This is a version of the argument that people who don’t believe in a supreme being have no reason to be good, which is absurd. Not everyone is motivated by the same things.
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Transhumanism
I think you need to more narrowly define this, since prosthetics and hip replacement surgery arguably fall into the category of transhumanism.
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Why is scientific testing or rigor necessary when it doesn't affect the truth value of a thing?
We wouldn’t have known it to be true without rigor, and that has consequences. Theories have predictive value; wrong theories make wrong predictions, and no theory means no predictions. Can’t land on the moon without Newton.
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Emergence and Unification in Hybrid Polar-Cartesian Dynamics: A Novel Framework
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Lichtman's 13 Keys to the 2024 Election
So a candidate that had more “keys” steps aside for another who polls better and has raised a boatload of cash, and the new candidate has fewer “keys”?
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Double Slit Experiment Rethought
! Moderator Note There’s nothing here that comes remotely close to what we expect in speculations
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Double Slit Experiment Rethought
Of what use is analyzing an incorrect model?
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Optimum scan resolution for 18"x 12"
It’s a factor of 2 smaller, so scanning at 150 dpi will translate directly to 300 dpi printing.
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Comments on Moderation
Pointing out that some of your post didn’t violate the rules isn’t going to make us overlook the part that did.
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hijack from Dark matter ....
! Moderator Note If you have your own thoughts, they belong in their own thread. Posting them in someone else’s thread is hijacking.
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Need to edit post. It posted multiple times.
An FYI to anyone reading this: it’s helpful to include a link to the post in question when asking for assistance like this.
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Why don't we hear these Bible verses in the news?
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A Theory of Everything
You do understand that this is a thought experiment, right? To work out the math? That there is no actual situation where the electron and proton are infinitely far apart? It’s just that if they could ever get infinitely far apart, there would be no KE. At any separation, KE + PE = 0, so KE = -PE In any physically realizable situation, there is an attractive force. That’s the source of the energy. In the bound state, KE = -PE/2, which is why a photon is required to ionize the atom, or why a photon (or photons) would be emitted when forming the atom.
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A Theory of Everything
It has no KE or PE when at infinite separation. But there’s an attractive electrostatic force, so KE increases and PE decreases as they move toward each other. In a bound state, energy must be released; the Bohr model predicts the KE is half of the magnitude of the PE The Hydrogen spectrum is easily found, confirming the correctness of the energy predictions of QM and the Bohr model. Don’t overestimate how much protection you will get from criticism. From section 2.7 of the rules you agreed to follow when you joined “members should be able to participate in the discussion without clicking any links or watching any videos. Videos and pictures should be accompanied by enough text to set the tone for the discussion, and should not be posted alone. Users advertising commercial sites will be banned. Attached documents should be for support material only; material for discussion must be posted” It’s an anti-spam measure, so that clueless crackpots can’t just post a huge document and expect others to expend effort addressing it. We want them to have some skin in the game. A much better approach is to pick some area and post the details, but a cursory look at your Bohr model section shows that your ideas are flawed, and were you to make predictions based on them, there would be contradictions with experiment. You can stick around and learn some physics, but if you’re looking for a credulous audience, this is indeed not the forum for you.
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A Theory of Everything
If any substantive math were a prerequisite we’d see very few of them.
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A Theory of Everything
New customer.
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A Theory of Everything
As Mordred says, the Bohr model is superseded, but the negative energy in it is fully explained; it’s from the convention of saying the electrostatic potential energy of particles at infinite separation is zero. There aren’t different laws. The terms in any equation might be negligible at a particular scale but not at another.
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many Iranian user replaced owning accounts
This isn’t an app. It’s a website, owned by someone in the US, with hardware located in the UK. Staff are located in multiple countries.
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Banned/Suspended Users
graybear13 has been banned for an unsustainably low signal/noise ratio from repeated soapboxing and bad-faith arguments
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Txtarea is not exist in other sub-forums in this site
What device are you using? What OS, and which browser? This is the first mention of the issue, which suggests that it’s an issue with your device.
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minimum energy for fusion
That’s average energy per particle. Since you have a Maxwell-Boltzmann distribution, this will mean some fraction of the particles will have much higher energy, and can undergo fusion. If you simply had two beams of protons with a few keV undergoing collisions, you wouldn’t get fusion.
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Txtarea is not exist in other sub-forums in this site
You posted this topic. The text box has no label, but has icons across the top for text modification (bold, italics, etc.) and other actions (link, quote, etc)
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Why are Christian's very reactionary in the US? And so anti far left?
The same as what? Your accusations are both vague and unsupported.
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Naturally Climate Change
Yes, of course there is. Ice cores. “as the ice compacts over time, tiny bubbles of the atmosphere—including greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane—press inside the ice” https://science.nasa.gov/science-research/earth-science/climate-science/core-questions-an-introduction-to-ice-cores/ But how could there not be, considering that animals produce both CO2 and methane. Suggesting that these didn’t exist is not a serious proposal How much? Where is the energy stored that’s not converted to heat? I can only think of potential energy stored in the trees, and that number should be something you can estimate, and I suspect isn’t going to be all that much, relative to the total solar power that hits the earth.