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    Is It Insulting to Girls That There Are Fewer Women in Physics?

    No-one believes that you are making simple arguments against so-called sexism. Every argument that is made like this is based on some previous experience or missed goals that one attributes to a so-called unfair policy, that is why the OP missive is wandering, full of personal opinion, and...
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    Is It Insulting to Girls That There Are Fewer Women in Physics?

    Here's some data: world population is ~50% male and 50% female, as there is no known difference in capabilities between the sexes they should be equally represented. Any discrepancy is an artefact of the social conditions in each society. http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.POP.TOTL.FE.ZS
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    Is It Insulting to Girls That There Are Fewer Women in Physics?

    Can you please clarify your argument into one or two lines. You are simply using reductio ad absurdum to deny any grey areas that others may contribute. http://www.logicallyfallacious.com/index.php/logical-fallacies/152-reductio-ad-absurdum
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    Is It Insulting to Girls That There Are Fewer Women in Physics?

    Never heard that this is not considered an issue. How does one know that these fields will not be improved by having a 50% balance. We all know what has been achieved with the status quo, it is great possibilities that inspires everyone to balance the playing field.
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    Realistic fluids simulation and animations

    Robert Bridson has published much research in this area. http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rbridson/
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    Why no (QM) philosophy section?

    The real paradox is that it's actually great fun to go back and get to know the maths intimately at the most basic level , for only then you begin to appreciate that there is no way to even start to understand QM without the solid foundations! This is much more powerful than any so-called...
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    Why no (QM) philosophy section?

    Don't you find that people whom are taken by the woo have only maybe pre-algebra level mathematics anyways? It's quite simply impossible for them to form logical and deductive reasoning at any level.
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    Why no (QM) philosophy section?

    Nope - think of Physics Forums as a site to disabuse you of the notion that philosophy is a substitute for mathematical rigour :)
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    Why no (QM) philosophy section?

    Just look at the links below this thread under 'Similar discussion for...: i.e. https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/what-happened-to-the-philosophy-section.657424/
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    Plasma and Earthquakes: Exploring the Connection in Geophysics

    To clarify, it's part of the ice cloud halos, on the same side of the sun, opposite side to a rainbow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_(optical_phenomenon)
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    What decides the colour of light?

    This seems similar to Edwin Land's Retinex theory: "The Retinex Theory of Color Vision Λ retina-and-cortex system (retinex) may treat a color as a code for a three-part report from the retina, independent of the flux of radiant energy but correlated with the reflectance of objects " The...
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    Is it just me or is PF dying?

    Since finding PF, I never visit SE or others. After 10+ years on any forum you should have seen it all. Not sure why anyone would think it should be as interesting after all that time.
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    What are the problems on human powered aircraft?

    You want to read up on the Gossamer Condor. Flight of the Gossamer Condor
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    Realism of modern digital special effects

    What will help date the current effects shots is a lot to do with the available software and computing power. Some of the latest rendering research is looking at using neutron transport, which should help with realism: http://www.fxguide.com/featured/its-not-rocket-science-oh-wait/ "But d'Eon...
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    Is Distance Just an Illusion? The Philosophical Perspective

    6 feet would take light approx. 6 nanoseconds to travel. What's your thinking on why it would take 1/4 l.y.?
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