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  1. Are you making it yourself? What's the starting temperature of the water? The best insulator is vacuum. So if you're able to make a container with double walls with vacuum in between, that would probably be the best you can get. Second best is probably some kind of gas, but regular air actually works all right. Three hours is a long time though, so not sure how advanced a thermos would be required to keep the water warm for that long.
  2. With the risk of this being homework, here are the definitions I could find. Try and work the other questions out from them, and ask more questions if you run into problems. Genotype-phenotype correlation Variable Expressivity
  3. Interesting. I also found more speculation on the subject: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceratopsia#Ecological_role We probably won't be able to say for sure one way or another for quite a while, if ever, but it makes for an interesting topic.
  4. But you did suggest experiments in section 5.2. I have no idea if that has anything to do with your theory (and if it doesn't, why include it?), but I assume it does. In what way would doing what you suggest in that section support your ideas? Reading through it, you make a lot of claims without backing any of it up with anything other than "I observed this, ergo it's true". Also, it seems your third source isn't referenced anywhere in your text?
  5. If the doctors who have actually seen and examined her aren't sure, don't expect random people on an online forum, few if any of which have a medical degree, to come up with a miracle cure. From my understanding, comas in themselves aren't fully understood. And while some people swear to playing the patient's favorite music or putting a certain smell in the room helps, the only thing anyone here can really recommend at this point is to listen to the doctors, wait, and hope for the best.
  6. Can't find anything about them being anything other than herbivores, so I would say no.
  7. Actually, I believe the answer to that is related to what Ringer wrote here, homologous and analogous traits. Bats and birds both evolved flight, but in different ways. Both manners are perfectly good ways of flying, but they're different from one another. While one could imagine bats having feathers, I think birds would be pretty scrubby flyers if they had none. It's really the same with most animals - why do some have fur and some don't, or why do some run on all four and some skip about on their hind legs?
  8. You're not making any effort whatsoever to answer any questions though, are you? Is that the part where you shake it 30 times north, 30 times south? Shake it back and forth, then shake it all about? Do the Macarena! Not even joking. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeopathy#section_2
  9. What, according to you, would relativity predict? And what would be the actual result?
  10. How big is the garden? How much space have you got for plants?
  11. I'm sorry if this is an uneducated question, but what, exactly, are you trying to "fit"?
  12. Short answer: maybe. Long answer: We don't really know for sure. Tyrannosaurus hasn't been conclusively proven to have had feathers, although it's possible it had a light coat of some kind. Two ancestors of it has been found to have had feathers; Dilong and Yutyrannosaurus, so it's not an impossibility. Also worth noting is that the feathers back then were somewhat different than what we would today consider feathers. http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/lost-worlds/2012/oct/17/dinosaurs-fossils http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-did-t-rex-have-feathers-too-new-discoveries-may-tell-us http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yutyrannus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilong_(dinosaur) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feather#Evolution
  13. Try again, the link was cut off.
  14. I haven't done this since back in school. But if my memory serves me, the values of entropy in this case is the minimum amount of bits needed to encode one piece of information in a message. So if you say the English language has an entropy of 2.5 (which sounds high btw), that means a perfectly encoded message will have the length in bits of n*2.5, where n is the length in number of characters. Again, I'm pulling all this from memory and could be wrong. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_(information_theory)
  15. It doesn't matter whether you're talking about loans or the speed of light, none of this makes any sense no matter how many times you post it. And none of this is revolutionary for anyone who has started doing basic addition. I really wish you can some day get the help you need.
  16. You had to post the exact post twice, not answering a single question in either thread?
  17. Am I reading this right? You're giving something that will increase the symptoms in an already sick person, and you're surprised when the symptoms increase? And this is "astonishing evidence of homeopathy" how exactly? If I had a cut on my finger and repeatedly stabbed myself with a knife, would that also prove homeopathy, since that wOuld increase bleeding?
  18. I can't really see any limitations on such an experiment. It's such a simple and straight-forward one, there's not a lot that can go wrong. Improvements could be a more accurate ruler, for example, or placing it on smaller pivot point for a more accurate reading. I also see no need to do this in a proper lab, especially since you're not allowed to use any other equipment.
  19. Your whole hypothesis is based on something you call "SuperExistence". You describe a lot about what it does, but what, exactly, is it? And how would you go about to show it actually exists?
  20. That's not the first, nor last, time he's done that either. The guy must be suicidal! Going back to the OP, can you specify which cases?
  21. Felines were no closer to reptiles than other mammals, and belong on the branch that split from the reptile line a little over 300 million years ago. While some reptilian eyes are very similar to a cat's eyes, I would think the similarity is mostly visual, and the underlying structures are quite different. http://en.wikivet.net/Lizard_Eye http://www.earthlife.net/mammals/vision.html
  22. Well, atoms are something in the scale of 10^-15 m. A Higgs boson, which is what they're looking for, is an elementary particle, so would be a few orders of magnitude smaller still. According to this informative flash thingy (which shouldn't be taken as gospel), the biggest elementary particles are something like 10^-18. So I guess we can "safely" assume the Higgs boson would be no bigger than that. http://htwins.net/scale2/ However, at that scale, the concept of size has very little meaning, so saying they're working on that particular scale might be very wrong anyway.
  23. This medicine is more commonly known as water. No, that's wrong. I'm not at a computer right now, but if this thread is still open when I am, I can link to a video of someone "overdosing" on homeopathic pills. If you don't feel like waiting, search Youtube for something like "james randi homeopathy". The only way to kill yourself with homeopathic remedies would be to drown. Edited for spelling
  24. My picture is a red panda. Guess who I'm related to. Perhaps it's time to land and take a long, good look at the world.
  25. Pleasure is all mine. Anecdotal. Not only is there an explanation for the whole "molecules have memory" nonsense, there have also been no independent studies showing homeopathy to be any better than random chance. What have you mostly cured? The common cold? Also, if homeopathy is so powerful, why can't you overdose on it?
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