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I did some cursory searching, and I couldn't find this idea being discussed, so I thought it would be a good idea to bring it up here. Is there any reason why a valid explanation for baryon asymmetry isn't that we happen to live in a world branch where there was a significant asymmetry in the...

I'm working on an animated short, and want to find ways to quickly calculate the positions of objects on the drawing plane from their changing positions in the imaginary 3D space. The thing that has me slightly stuck at the moment is figuring out how to creata a 'moving forward' loop in...

Can a reaction like the diels alder reaction occur if the diene is not conjugated, but can have the proper geometric configuration for the same electron transfer? http://i.imgur.com/sFhLg.jpg Image of example. If my question is unclear, I can clarify further if necessary.

Davenn I tested both of your ideas, the first by moving my head in a cricle, creating a ring of 'center breath'. This did not seem to affect the evaporation, as if your first conjecture were true, the center of the foggy area would also evaporate quickly, which it did not. Upon breathing at a...

In thought experiments, things tend to happen forever if you take away all the factors that would impede them. That statement is basically just a generalization of Newton...

Entropy is the fact that, in a system, there tend to be many more states we call 'uninteresting' than states we call 'interesting'.

Everyone who lives in a region that gets cold knows that if you exhale onto a window, the water vapor in your breath condenses onto the surface. Because the air is dry, this condensation evaporates. What puzzles me about it is why it does so from the edge of the fogged region to the center, as...

To see whether something dissociates to a large extent, we must see whether the initial state or the dissociated state is more stable. In the case of water, HCl and H2O ends up being less stable than chloride and hydronium. However in the case of ethanol, a protonated alcohol has a VERY low pKa...

Look at the stability of the conjugate. The more stable the conjugate, the stronger the acid or base.

He means that for a given energy level the orbitals of hydrogen are the largest. Chlorine is only bigger because it has more electrons in higher shells, 2s for example. However, if you could excite the electrons in the hydrogen atom, promoting them to 2s and higher, then hydrogen's 2s orbital...

If you're talking about pyrrole, then the nitrogen would be sp2 hybridized because it is part of an aromatic pi system. An aromatic ring gives enormous stability because it creates (in the case of pyrrole) 3 bonding orbitals, all of which are of lower energy than the p orbitals. This is...

I would say the nitro compound is more polar because NO2 is a very strong electron drawing group.

Ahh: the old 'shut up and calculate'... Well, what I have to say is that while the point that was trying to be made was that eventually our current understanding reaches an end. There is a place where our theories are no longer adequate explanations to the things we find. You go deeper and...

Heres a link to a neutron article. Not the best article, but it was what I could dig up. http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/3525

So ultimately the bottom line with the photoelectric effect is that while it did not require a corpuscular-like explanation, it is what led scientists to consider it.