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2021-Mar-05, 09:45 PM

Shaula replied to a thread When does a protoscience become a science? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

I thought the generally accepted definition was that it becomes a science once the majority of people in the field are constructing and testing...

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2021-Mar-03, 11:09 PM

Shaula replied to a thread Is Dark Matter Equivocal in Science and Technology

If the are WIMPs then they interact via the weak force. Hence the scintillation detectors work the same way as for neutrinos. The difference is in...

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2021-Feb-25, 03:19 AM

Shaula replied to a thread Is Dark Matter Equivocal in Science and Technology

No problems. The size of the available parameter space is only large if you cherry pick what kinds of observations you will accept. But I'm not...

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2021-Feb-23, 10:20 PM

Shaula replied to a thread Is Dark Matter Equivocal in Science and Technology

It is easiest to spot from orbit because the main features we look for (associated with electronic excitations) are in the UV. These are blocked by...

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2021-Feb-23, 06:30 AM

Shaula replied to a thread Arkham Horror: The Card Game thread (anyone else play it?) in Fun-n-Games

I've got it - it is on my list of games I should get around to playing one of these days. Unfortunately thanks to Kickstarter, impulse buying and...

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2021-Feb-22, 09:23 PM

Shaula replied to a thread How to shop for a 3-D printer in Science and Technology

No, superglue is not an acrylic glue. It does work (really quite well) on most printed materials but it is a different mechanism of action. ...

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2021-Feb-20, 05:23 PM

grapes replied to a thread Question about Earth tides in Science and Technology

Those earthquakes are huge, but not large enough to explain the change in earth's rotation. But, the rotation has changed a lot, that's the activity...

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2021-Feb-19, 03:10 PM

grapes replied to a thread Question about Earth tides in Science and Technology

Yes, in the long run. Pretty much the reason for leap seconds--the defining of the day as of a length from a century before meant that we would...

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2021-Feb-17, 11:48 PM

Shaula replied to a thread Is Dark Matter Equivocal in Science and Technology

I don't doubt that there is material there, however the consensus seems to be that there isn't enough based on observational evidence. Yes, you can...

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2021-Feb-17, 01:01 AM

Shaula replied to a thread Is mass a thing? Or is it just a function of how much spacetime something warps? in Space/Astronomy Questions and Answers

Gravity is tied to the stress energy momentum tensor. Mass is only a part of what is responsible for gravitational effects.

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2021-Feb-17, 12:59 AM

Shaula replied to a thread US Navy Patent: Really?? in Conspiracy Theories

Then why did you mention them? So if there a huge warps of time and space going on all the time I assume LIGO and any other similar scientific...

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2021-Feb-17, 12:54 AM

Shaula replied to a thread Is Dark Matter Equivocal in Science and Technology

They also need to be non-collisional, difficult to ionise, have completely different composition to the rest of the universe and mysteriously stable....

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2021-Feb-11, 04:09 PM

Shaula replied to a thread Is Dark Matter Equivocal in Science and Technology

You can mine arxiv for pre-prints of just about any topic you like and find something. It just shows that there are still people looking into it -...

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2021-Feb-11, 07:01 AM

Shaula replied to a thread Is Dark Matter Equivocal in Science and Technology

They were not forgotten or ignored. They were an important part of the debate and still are. However they don't fit the evidence - these signals...

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