Tag: definitions
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Atomic weights, measurements, fixed points...
New atomic weights. New measurements. (1) More "correct" this time. In a world where everything is changing, we are desperately trying to find fixed points...
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Medicine, SADS and our "I know everything" mania...
A teenager girl collapsed and died minutes after she was kissed for the first time. Scientists claim that she suffered from sudden adult death syndrome (SADS), without her knowing so. (1) Oh, how teffiried are we to admit that we do not know something. Tagging the death as "SADS" does not solve the mystery of…
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Relativity Theory and Light - The fake "limit"...
What is the Relativity Theory? What does it really say? The major misconceptions are related to the speed of light as a universal speed limit. A limit which... limits us in almost everything - from interspace journeys to information transmission and time travels (yes, Godel proved they are possible). But how is that limit derived?…
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Eagle "natural" beak...
An eagle gets a new artificial beak, with the help of 3D printing technology. [1] Is it "natural"? Who defines "artificial"? Isn't everything we do, as humans, part of Nature and - thus - natural?
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Absolute temperatures, efficiency > 100%, definitions, “limits”…
What is normal to most people in winter has so far been impossible in physics: a minus temperature. On the Celsius scale minus temperatures are only surprising in summer. On the absolute temperature scale, which is used by physicists and is also called the Kelvin scale, it is not possible to go below zero. Physicists…
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