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    Undergrad How close must the wavelength of a photon be for an atom to absorb it?

    Exact, photons arise from complementary quantization phenomena
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    (at the most fundamental level) why does energy release upon chemical reactions?

    It's not at the most fundamental level, but.. There exist an optimum level of bonding between two atoms, similar to the noble gas' rule, if they are pushed further together they become strained, likewise, the further apart they get the more strained. It's all a consequence of the electronic...
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    Would you eat brainless animals?

    In a heartbeat, factory-conditions are animal cruelty.
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    News When will China overtake the U.S, economically?

    If you want to compare per capacity rate, USA isn't the king pin anymore
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    News Is Overpopulation an Important Issue? Examining Solutions

    Wait, are you saying that net immigration is zero because the immigrants return or that successful people exit UK?
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    Solving the Infinite Time Paradox: Zeno's Argument Explained

    But we define time in movement. For example per " 299 792 458m a photon in vacuum travels", more generally: t =1/"lenght traveled by uniform constant motion" or pr xx rays of a cesium atom, or more old school, a time glass. When we measure motion we just compare it to other form of motions we...
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    Solving the Infinite Time Paradox: Zeno's Argument Explained

    What difference is there then? Educate me. I'm not saying I'm right, just that at my current level of physics knowledge I don't see a difference. I don't see the basis for saying that.
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    Solving the Infinite Time Paradox: Zeno's Argument Explained

    If there's no way in telling, what actual need is there to differentiate it from motion? Isn't that just the chicken and the egg? EG a meaningless debate. Whether movement creates time, or time creates movement, I don't see any difference.
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    News Is America Coddling the Super-Rich?

    He got his wealth from investing into other companies - companies from whose share price the corporate tax was already deducted when he bought them! Those who derive their main income from investment can't claim they are being taxed by the corporate tax!
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    Why can't we totally ban smoking?

    I'm not convinced it would be the same, if starters it's would be a lot harder to hide the smoking. It would also make cigarettes a lot pricier.
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    Graduate Is the Supremum Proof of 0.999... = 1 Flawed?

    It hinges on the definition of limit.
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    Solving the Infinite Time Paradox: Zeno's Argument Explained

    The devil is in the framing. Let's say time is infinite. Let's divide it into the past and future which are also infinite. They can both be infinite because infinite + infinite = infinite
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    News Crimes against humanity possible charge against Breivik

    People's notion of when you are children is inconsistent. If you can have sex with people that are between 15-18 years, that perfectly acceptable and in no way pedophilia. But when you incarcerate or murder someone between 15-18 then they are children all sudden.
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    Is Mathematics Really Platonic or a Human Invention?

    Have you ever seen a perfect right-angled triangle? A perfect sphere? Have you ever had an accurate measure of anything? Mathematics is simply a tool we create to model reality. The concept of quantities and shapes are ingrained in us, but they are merely evolutionary products. My 4 cents...
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    News Is Overpopulation an Important Issue? Examining Solutions

    Mr Simon is just as bad as Ray kurzweil, extrapolating a trend forever, while ignoring the evidence to the contrary. You forgot Nigeria and Pakistan