"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." What did Albert Einstein mean by this statement?

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04 May 2019 3,493 5 View

What is consciousness ... its physical processes?

Please note my question does not ask about human psychology, philosophy, sociology or theology! It's primarily a physics question ...

03 April 2019 6,409 72 View

Is it true that science is 'only another religion' ?

Is science tantamount to being only another religion (a system of beliefs that is not predicated on justifiable physical facts)? Or, is it more? Can science accurately interpret the meaning of...

03 April 2019 1,066 7 View

Is the 'slime mold' Physarum polycephalum conscious?

The incredible thing about Physarum polycephalum is that whilst being completely devoid of any nervous system whatsoever (not possessing a single neuron) it exhibits intelligent behaviours. Does...

03 April 2019 6,593 29 View

What percentage of the total putative global warming would you estimate to be artificial (i.e., due to mankind's activities)??

I am interested in hearing the scientifically-based opinions of any-and-all scientists (not just professional climatologists) ... please cite sources for your estimates/assertions ...

01 February 2019 3,705 8 View

Do you think the smarter a person is the fewer friends s/he tends to have?

"A study published in the British Journal of Psychology says smarter people do better with a smaller number of friends. Lead researchers, Satoshi Kanazawa and Norman Li, evolutionary psychologists...

02 March 2018 8,861 89 View

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Truth can be interpreted as only information with the highest measure of (infinite ?) fitness (i.e., indelibility ... or resistance to corruption and deletion)? If so, is truth the same as...

11 December 2016 5,180 27 View

Do the "rules" of evolution still apply to intelligent species (like modern humans)?

After a species (say, like humans) achieves a certain level of intelligence (say, being able to control and direct the course of its own genetics), do the "rules" of evolution (say, for...

11 December 2016 1,776 57 View

Exactly how is digital data encoded into DNA?

06 July 2016 1,002 10 View

Would Cicero consider Donald Trump a traitor?

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error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

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error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

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MGL tools

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what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

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what is the simplest definition of ion exchange capacity

What this unit identifies for the ion exchange capacity ca. 0.92 meq. g-1. I am a newcomer in the membrane area. I just started. I highly appreciate your help

08 May 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

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Can we classify HV and LV lines based on line length?

I have dataset which shows the length of power lines. I need to classify the lines based on the line length. Is there a rule to classify the High voltage (HV) and low voltage (LV) lines based on...

03 March 2021 4,116 4 View

Why does blocking with my immunogenic peptide cause nuclear fluorescence in ICC?

Hi all, I am validating a polyclonal antibody raised against human ANT4, through WB and ICC. In most of my controls, the antibody shows very little off-target binding, but when I pre-incubate the...

03 March 2021 5,999 3 View

Why can't make aluminum nitride film successfully by use sputter?

We use reactive sputtering process to make aluminum nitride film, and want to make c-axis aluminum nitride film on a silicon substrate, but the crystal orientation cannot be seen with...

03 March 2021 7,975 3 View

Irradiation data for JAPAN?

Hi, Could you help me to get the latest (2019, 2020) solar resource data for a particular site in JAPAN? PV GIS and NSRDB data are not in reach to JAPAN, I'm looking for some other database for...

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