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That is not a citation, it is a video (and therefore of no value). Do you have any scientific evidence that yoga can cure "various diseases like cancer , and also various phobias releated to mental issues"?
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This doesn't seem much more helpful than Einstein's quip that, "an hour sitting with a pretty girl on a park bench passes like a minute, but a minute sitting on a hot stove seems like an hour."
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Why are they artificial? Many of them are (or are based on) naturally occurring compounds. Such as?
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So if I understand your equation correctly (I am always a little confused by repeated division) we have [math]\frac{time}{distance \times speed \times size} = perception[/math] That means that perception has units of time2 / distance5 which is an interesting concept. (That assumes by "size" you mean volume. You could mean length or area or mass or something else, I suppose.) But does this tell us anything? What can you calculate with this equation? Can you calculate the decay energy of tritium, as suggested? Or the height of a geostationary orbit? Or the radius of a black hole? Can you tell us the nature of the singularity at the centre of a black hole? Can you tell us what dark energy is?
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Maxwell's demon and the second law of thermodynamics
Strange replied to Moreno's topic in Classical Physics
Interesting. Why do you think that? -
definitions required for solving the rubix cube?
Strange replied to TestingTuring's topic in Computer Science
Or rather, side-tracked because we didn't have an answer! -
definitions required for solving the rubix cube?
Strange replied to TestingTuring's topic in Computer Science
So you also write a Logo program that generates a shell script to convert the text file to binary ... -
Exactly. Which is why it wasn't relevant.
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definitions required for solving the rubix cube?
Strange replied to TestingTuring's topic in Computer Science
Logo has file I/O. As such, anything you can write in C you can write in Logo. (In the worst case, you can write a C interpreter or compiler in Logo and use that! Not that it would be a sane thing to do...) -
definitions required for solving the rubix cube?
Strange replied to TestingTuring's topic in Computer Science
Why not? Are you saying it is not Turing complete? -
Can something come from nothing? Yes or no?
Strange replied to seriously disabled's topic in Physics
I don't think you can assert that as a fact. It is has been a topic of debate among mathematicians and philosophers for thousands of years. It is still unresolved. -
There was a girl at my school who had one completely blue eye and one completely brown. I think that is pretty rare. But having slightly mixed up coloring is not uncommon (and always interesting ). It can, very occasionally, be a symptom of some underlying medical problem so I think there are may be things they test for if they see it in babies. But usually it is purely cosmetic.
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Time Travel is Impossible and if not Impractical
Strange replied to HPositive's topic in Modern and Theoretical Physics
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It is not common, but not rare either. Slightly less than 1% of the population, I think. So an optometrist might see it every week. I don't think you should think that. I'm sure most people (if they noticed) would go "wow, what amazing eyes you have!" Unfortunately, it does look like nearly all the websites about it are generic medical sites and so they describe it in the same terms they use for diseases or disabilities, which is a bit weird.
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I don't know the current state of the science related to this. I have heard suggestions that black holes might have "seeded" the formation of the galaxy (and then grown) or it might have been created after the galaxy formed. So what is unknown is how black holes can grow to be so massive. But it doesn't seem to be very relevant to the formation of galaxies.
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Can something come from nothing? Yes or no?
Strange replied to seriously disabled's topic in Physics
Previously, you seemed to agree with your father: -
A remote control will not have enough electricity running through it to hurt you.You should worry about your electricity frying it though so make sure to ground your hand. I was more concerned with accidentally shorting a circuit and damaging components. A small risk but a real one. And even if a 1.5V battery can't hurt you, it is very good practice to get into the habit of always removing power beforehand.
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I have had to take a remote apart and clean underneath the rubber sheet of buttons. I just used soap and water (very carefully, using a small brush or Q-tips) then dried it with kitchen paper, left it open for a while and reassembled it. It all worked (and better than before). If that is what we call "surgical spirit" then this too can leave an oily residue.
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That seems to be the general consensus. A period of chemical evolution that gave rise to the various components (membranes, RNA, proteins, etc) that were required. I don't know why you think that. I have never requested such a thing (for you or anyone else).
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Before cleaning electronic devices, you should remove the batteries or other power source. Then you don't need to worry about whether the cleaner is conductive or not. Things I would be worried about: The solvent may attack some plastic parts in the remote control (after all, if it can dissolve nail varnish ...) My understanding is that most nail-varnish removers also contain oils to try and restore those to the nail. These could interfere with the operation of the switches (by putting a non-conducting layer between the contacts) Back when I used to work in electronic maintenance, we used to use isopropyl alcohol. You used to be able to buy it over the counter. I don't know if you still can (depends where you are, I guess). That is good for oil/grease type contamination. Other things (we used to get large amounts of milk, orange juice, jam, tea, beer, etc spilled on the equipment) might just need water (distilled / deionized) with perhaps a small amount of detergent. Then make sure the device is completely dry before reinserting batteries; leave it somewhere warm (not hot) for several hours and/or use a cool hairdryer.
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I don't think anyone knows.
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I think you are trying to say that energy is not absolute, but is observer dependent. This is correct but your description is rather unclear (to say the least).
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I haven't really understood what exactly you are objecting to, but there are several tests of Bell's Theorem described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_test_experiments https://scholar.google.co.uk/scholar?q=experimental+tests+bell's+theorem
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The only (known) mechanism for black holes to lose mass is via Hawking radiation. This is thermal radiation. But, for any realistic sized black hole, this is insignificant and far less than the amount of mass and energy that the black hole gains.
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I'm not sure what the definition of an "ethnic group" is but Papua New Guinea has over 850 different languages and this is thought to be because small groups are isolated by the mountainous countryside.