Strange

Presumably southern Africa is lower UV than, say, equatorial Africa. So perhaps it isn't surprising that would see some variation - especially among groups such as the San. But without the single point change that appears to be common to northern / white populations.

"Telomerase activity is extinguished during embryonic differentiation in most somatic cells but remains active in some tissues, such as male germ cells" https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC120798/ "Telomerase activity was detected in fetal, newborn, and adult testes and ovaries, but not in mature spermatozoa or oocytes." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8934879 "Only in theory" ? You do know that "theory" is the strongest case science can make?

In other words, if you have inadequate information.

I think it means in an area with a fairly high level of UV.

I am quite sure I would never have said that because I don't believe it is true. All the great scientists I am aware of studied at university. Or, in a few cases, by working with other scientists. Remember what Newton said about "standing on the shoulders of giants".

Yes. I got the figures from here: http://nathangeffen.webfactional.com/spacetravel/spacetravel.php

That is observer dependent.

You can't get a patent for exploring or researching something. You need to have a specific device or mechanism (or, in some jurisdictions, a procedure or bit of software) that is novel, involves an "inventive step" and is non-obvious. So you might get something patentable out of your research. But I assume that will be some time away.

Assuming you don't want to pay for Mathematica or MATLAB there are open source options: https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ http://www.scilab.org/ http://jwork.org/dmelt/ http://www.sagemath.org/ http://web.monroecc.edu/calcNSF/ Then there are some online tools: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+sin+x+cos+y&lk=3 https://academo.org/demos/3d-surface-plotter/ http://www.math.uri.edu/~bkaskosz/flashmo/graph3d/ And many more I haven't used any of these though, so I can't recommend one.

I would guess that the majority of applications get rejected (at least, for popular / important conferences). Just because of the number of people who apply and the limited time available. The organisers will choose papers based on what they think will be interesting or newsworthy. So if there is something particularly novel (either in theory or application) for example. Conferences are a good place to meet such people, informally, even if you are not giving a presentation.

Ah, I see. It was meditations on his bookshelf.

I was dealing with the company's patents, not mine. Then I am not sure why you are interested in patents.

It is simpler than that. You don't need to use magic, just use time dilation due to your velocity. If you travel to a star 400 light years away with an acceleration of 1g (which would give you a comfortable artificial gravity) then the journey would take 401 years from the point of view of Earth. But for you, only 12 years would pass.

You were concerned about copyright previously. One thing to note in that document is that the IEEE owns the copyright in anything you publish with them.

I know something about patents because I spent many years working with patent agents to help them understand the company's inventions, helping to write responses to the patent office's rejections of patent applications, etc. I can't remember exactly. Maybe 5 years. Something like that. No, I am in Europe. (But speak Japanese.) Not sure what else to say. Most of my work on patents (and related intellectual property) has been in electronics - computer hardware, etc. I was never the inventor just the go-between or "translator" (between engineers speaking English and patent agents speaking a different sort of English).

No. See previous posts for the rational reasons. Apart from that it is just deeply offensive.

His "meditations on your bookshelf" ?

Do you?

I assume they would be made by people who don't know anything about the subject. Why do you ask?

If you can do it slowly, like firing a jet engine rather than throwing a single object, then you can slow down gradually and survive.

Now calculate the force you experienced when you threw the bag.

The math is just a description of what happens (what we observe happening).. It is just a more accurate version of "space-time is curved by the presence of mass". So much more accurate that it becomes useful. Whether that description describes something real or not is a matter of personal opinion (which depends, mainly, on what that person means by the word "real"). So it is irrelevant whether a tensor is a real "object" (that is just a bit of mathematical terminology that could be equally well applied to variable called "x" or the number 5 - they are both "objects" in mathematics). What is important (to you) is whether the thing that the tensors describe is real. Just say "yes" so we can all go home!

You can't says modern science is wrong just because you find the math scary. Tensors can be used in pure mathematics. Or they can be used in applied mathematics. They are applied in many areas. One of which is describing mass, energy, etc. and how they produce the effects we call gravity.

Indeed. Stopping your motion suddenly by some other means would be just as destructive by hitting the ground.

Interesting question. I assume it would vibrate for longer, but I have no idea how much energy goes into moving the air versus dissipated other ways.