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13 things that do not make sense
New Scientist ^
| April 14, 2009
| Michael Brooks
Posted on 05/14/2009 2:03:46 PM PDT by Hawthorn
Don't try this at home. Several times a day, for several days, you induce pain in someone. You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away.
(Excerpt) Read more at newscientist.com ...
TOPICS: Astronomy; Health/Medicine; Science; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: cosmology; einstein; homeopathy; placebo; stringtheory
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:03:47 PM PDT
by
Hawthorn
To: Hawthorn
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:07:21 PM PDT
by
thefactor
(yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
To: KoRn
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:10:00 PM PDT
by
KoRn
(Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
To: Hawthorn
You can solve the horizon problem by having the universe expand ultra-fast for a time, just after the big bang, blowing up by a factor of 10^50 in 10^(-33) seconds. But wait ... Then the speed of light wouldn't be constant and the Earth wouldn't be 14 Billion years old ... Then we would have to come up with new models ... and then we would have to admit we were wrong on several fronts ... So that can't be right. I'm mean, We're Scientists! Next!
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:10:22 PM PDT
by
TexGuy
(If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
To: Hawthorn
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:11:12 PM PDT
by
Hegemony Cricket
(The emperor has no pedigree.)
To: Hawthorn
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:13:22 PM PDT
by
Old Professer
(The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, then writes again.)
To: Hawthorn
I see from the topics covered they still have no clue what makes liberals tick,or is that subject too difficult??
:-)
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:14:28 PM PDT
by
GeorgiaDawg32
(I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
To: Hawthorn
FOUR years ago, a particle accelerator in France detected six particles that should not exist (see Ghost in the atom). They are called tetraneutrons: four neutrons that are bound together in a way that defies the laws of physics. And 100 years ago the atom was the smallest thing in the universe until it broke open and all this tiny crap came flying out. Why should think that the scientists are fully correct now? They were not correct then and they won't be correct in 50 years. What else is new?
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:17:02 PM PDT
by
TexGuy
(If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
To: Hawthorn
You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. Placebo effect. Good in about 65% of cases. Many drugs tested don't meet the same level of effectiveness.
Nothing new.
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:20:51 PM PDT
by
TC Rider
(The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
To: TexGuy
Nope, the atom isn't the smallest thing ... it's the smitherene
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:22:55 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Hawthorn
You control the pain with morphine until the final day of the experiment, when you replace the morphine with saline solution. Guess what? The saline takes the pain away. I wonder if this works with lethal injection too... ;)
To: SkyDancer
Nope, the atom isn't the smallest thing ... it's the smitherene You mean that awful 80's new wave punk band is the smallest thing in the Universe?!
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:24:50 PM PDT
by
TexGuy
(If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:26:15 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: TexGuy
Hmmm - didn’t know there was a rock band called the Smithereens .... me born in 1985 wouldn’t know that ... but my brothers, scientists all when we were growing up would blow things to smithereens ....
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:30:28 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: Hawthorn
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:31:05 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: TexGuy; SkyDancer
You mean that awful 80's new wave punk band Hardly. They're straight up rock. One of the best live bands out there, still active after 28 years, collaborating with acts like Graham Parker and The Kinks.
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:37:18 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
Hardly. They're straight up rock. Ooops, you are correct. I was thinking of the "The Smiths". Sorry ...
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:41:43 PM PDT
by
TexGuy
(If it has the slimmest of chances of being considered sarcasm ... IT IS!)
To: TexGuy
I was thinking of the "The Smiths". Sorry ... I agree with you on The Smiths. They are horrible.
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posted on
05/14/2009 2:45:54 PM PDT
by
buccaneer81
(Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
To: buccaneer81
The only bands I’m familiar with from that time is The Stray Cats and The Eagles because my brothers played them constantly .....
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posted on
05/14/2009 3:00:35 PM PDT
by
SkyDancer
('Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not..' ~ Thomas Jefferson)
To: TexGuy
Then the speed of light wouldn't be constant During those first 10^(-33) seconds.
and the Earth wouldn't be 14 Billion years old ...
You're not as smart as you think you are.
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posted on
05/14/2009 3:04:22 PM PDT
by
Moonman62
(The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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