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The same is true of the metre. And the second. And the year. I assume you have made up this number because it "works" as well.

"He has a face completely unmarked by the ravages of intelligence" (unknown)

See, I told you it didn't matter. Numerologists always ignore numbers that don't fit an replace it with one that does. That is why numerology always "works".

All the examples you have given appear to relate to things finding a minimum energy: water flows downhill, electricity flows from a higher potential to a lower, etc. Ultimately, this is a principle that underlies all physical processes.

It definitely wasn't just a phobia; she had severe physical symptoms. But as far as I remember, they were unable to find any "physical" cause so it was, presumably, a conversion disorder (i.e. psychologically based). There are a quite a few disorders which can produce unusual sensitivity to light/UV. Some of these do require people to avoid UV almost completely, and in some cases be in complete darkness for a recovery period. Some, such as xeroderma pigmentosum, can be fatal.

I think the answer to all those is: no.

Whether I or anyone else will do it is not the point. It could be done and the odds could be calculated. And in fact you have done it. Despite your claims it is impossible and you couldn't do it. So what was your point in saying it is "widely believed"? Is it relevant that you believe it is not infinite, but not relevant that others believe it is? When we have no evidence either way. The person who started this thread, perhaps.

I can't answer your questions but oddly (or maybe not) I came across a very similar representation when reading about modular functions: https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150312-mathematicians-chase-moonshines-shadow/

Depending how fussy you are, this might need some sort of soft/squishy edging to make sure nothing leaks around the outside. Not sure if this is relevant but I heard a radio program a while ago about a woman who developed extreme photosensitivity. It started out as being irritated by sunlight and fluorescents and then progressed to pretty much any source of light. This seems to have been triggered by stress. It pretty much destroyed her life: she was unable to work or socialize. But she did eventually and very slowly recover, to some degree at least.

I'm not sure that it is a sign of "good thinking" to tell us something we all know on the basis that we don't know it. And yet you have just done it. This is just more incoherent nonsense. It can't be shown by experiment that it doesn't exist either, and yet that is also widely believed. People are odd that way. You can find any number of people insisting that it is impossible for the universe to be infinite and others that it is impossible for it to be finite. Next time one of those idiots pops up, maybe you can ask them. (I put it down to ignorance, myself. So it is, potentially, curable.)

Cladking is very fond of telling us what we think.

I think your dad just has to get over the idea that if something "makes sense" it must be right. Until he does that I don't think he is going to find any explanations acceptable. But the thing is, it doesn't matter what our common sense tells us. When we make measurements, we find that time and space are related and that time varies depending on speed and gravity. This allows technology like GPS to work. (Sorry, that wasn't very helpful was it...)

Vampires?

You won't see much. (See what I did there?)

The boy who cried wolf.

I think what he meant was: When computers started out the entire user interface was a terminal, similar to the command-line prompt in Windows or the terminal in Linux. Of course, even that isn't accurate as the first computers I programmed had user interface which was a person you handed a stack of punched cards to, and then got back a printout a week later. A few years later we progressed to having terminals which were a keyboard and a printer. This made playing star trek very slow and wasteful of paper... So, I think the OP should do his essay on paper tape, punched cards and teletypes. Guaranteed to be different from all the other students and to give everyone a good insight into how technology has evolved. (Not actually on paper tape ... but about paper tape etc ...)

Very interesting. I didn't know the origin of that picture. There is more about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_of_Progress The "Original Intent" section nicely summarises why the OPs comments are irrelevant and based on total misunderstanding of what was represented:

Mouse, keyboard, touchpad, touch screen, 2D graphics, 3D graphics, voice recognition, voice synthesis, gesture recognition, handwriting recognition, Braille input and output, eyeball tracking, ...

Architects have tools to model these effects.

It would be a breach of copyright unless you have permission.

You mean trial by trail[er].

More on that fish here: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/walking-fish-1.3507464 And here is the weirdest walking fish I have seen: http://aequoreusvita.weebly.com/red-lipped-batfish.html (in fact, possibly just the weirdest fish) Maybe this is what the OP had in mind:

Not exactly news.

What do you mean by "net momentum"? The only thing that will push down is air pressure (balanced by pressure inside the pyramid). And why a pyramid?