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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

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1 posted on 05/14/2009 2:03:47 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: Hawthorn

ping for later.


2 posted on 05/14/2009 2:07:21 PM PDT by thefactor (yes, as a matter of fact, i DID only read the excerpt)
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To: KoRn

/mark


3 posted on 05/14/2009 2:10:00 PM PDT by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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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!

4 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!)
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To: Hawthorn

bump for later


5 posted on 05/14/2009 2:11:12 PM PDT by Hegemony Cricket (The emperor has no pedigree.)
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To: Hawthorn

pee ping


6 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.)
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To: Hawthorn

I see from the topics covered they still have no clue what makes liberals tick,or is that subject too difficult??

:-)


7 posted on 05/14/2009 2:14:28 PM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32 (I'm a Patriot Guard Rider..www.patriotguard.org for info..)
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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?

8 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!)
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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.

9 posted on 05/14/2009 2:20:51 PM PDT by TC Rider (The United States Constitution - 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: TexGuy
Nope, the atom isn't the smallest thing ... it's the smitherene
10 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)
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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... ;)

11 posted on 05/14/2009 2:23:48 PM PDT by Darth Dan
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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?!

12 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!)
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13 posted on 05/14/2009 2:26:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/____________________ Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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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 ....


14 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)
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15 posted on 05/14/2009 2:31:05 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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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.

16 posted on 05/14/2009 2:37:18 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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To: buccaneer81
Hardly. They're straight up rock.

Ooops, you are correct. I was thinking of the "The Smiths". Sorry ...

17 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!)
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To: TexGuy
I was thinking of the "The Smiths". Sorry ...

I agree with you on The Smiths. They are horrible.

18 posted on 05/14/2009 2:45:54 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (Bob Taft has soiled the family name for the next century.)
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The only bands I’m familiar with from that time is The Stray Cats and The Eagles because my brothers played them constantly .....


19 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)
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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.

20 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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