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This is a hypothesis and probably fits more into the ‘Non-Mainstream Science and Controversial Science’ forum but given some of the outrageous threads there this is far more mainstream like by comparison. First of all some preliminaries, when a seismic event occurs such as an earthquake seismic...

Professional scientists have relied on the average person in the street who have an interest in science but are not qualified to participate in research activities. The activity is known as citizen science and in fields such as astronomy the research from citizen scientists is at times of such...

The psychologist Robert Gifford summarized this denial. On this site I see the following dragons of inaction as being the most prevalent, limited cognition, ideological (including religious) worldviews, comparisons with other key people (e.g. Tucker Carlson) and discordance toward experts and...

Instead of the lights going out they literally turn on.

Sabine's videos have been used to support various opinions on this site, in this video she talks about how academia has treated her. This inside account holds far more water than the opinionated and ignorant academic bashing which goes on here. In private industry as opposed to academia my...

For the Dr Becky fan club her summation of the story.

I've decided to post this thread in the Physical and Life Science forum instead of the Creationism and Evolution forum as it deals with debunking YEC when it presents itself as a "science" (creation science) rather than a purely literal interpretation of the Bible. A typical YEC argument is...

In a thread which was shut down by moderators, the subject of the Chicxulub crater was raised with the tired old creationist argument one needed a time machine to prove such a crater existed and caused by an asteroid impact. The oldest impact structure found on Earth is the Yarrabubba impact...

A video which includes interesting scenarios such as what to do if your accidently drop your mobile phone into the reactor. The reactor has a SCRAM button if the reactor goes out of control, the origin of the acronym SCRAM dates back to the first reactor built by Enrico Fermi at the...

In April of this year I asked Bing this applied mathematics question. Explain how the Schwarzschild metric when expressed in Droste-Hilbert coordinates results in the speed of light being anisotropic. Calculate the difference Δv between the radial and peripheral velocity of light at the Earth’s...

Amazing image. General view also showing some of its moons. Note the background galaxies in the image as well.

Evidently Albert was a bit of a slacker.

First of all some geography, Bass Strait which separates the Australian continent from Tasmania. I have never been trusting of AI chatbots particularly with complex scientific questions but I read somewhere if you ask truly incoherent and illogical questions AI chatbots will "hallucinate"...

With the 2023 Nobel Prizes winners to be announced commencing from Oct 2nd, the Ig-Nobel Prize winners were revealed in September. THE 2023 IG NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS CHEMISTRY and GEOLOGY PRIZE: Jan Zalasiewicz, for explaining why many scientists like to lick rocks. LITERATURE PRIZE: Chris...

There are approximately seven stages of AI development. In the mid-2020s, we are at Stages 3 and 4. See AI. Stage 1 - Rule Based AI Tasks have clearcut rules. Expert systems were the first AI. See expert system. Stage 2 - Context Awareness System learns from past interactions. Examples are...

This has been doing the rounds over the internet for years, intuition tells us the equation is rubbish as the sum should be infinitely large but was given traction in the early 20th century by perhaps the greatest mathematician in history Srinivasa Ramanujan. This equation has found its way...

Hnndreds literally danced themselves to death.

A thirty minute long video which also describes the science behind each pretty picture.

With all the chatbot posts in this forum, I decided to test Bing with science and maths questions of various difficulty. (1) Explain how the Schwarzschild metric when expressed in Droste-Hilbert coordinates results in the speed of light being anisotropic. Calculate the difference Δv between the...

The fourteenth-century bubonic plague pandemic known as the Black Death was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and killed up to half the population in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa. The pandemic was more likely to kill those who did not have the genetic variants that protected...