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Thank you jtbell and arivero for your inputs. Much appreciated.

No,I genuinely did not know. When and where were this discoveries made? Could you give some references. It looks like I need an awful lot of catching up! Thanks for the response,dextecioby.

Could someone tell me if the quark has been experimentally proved to exist? I mean in a particle accelerator. Or indirectly inferred.

Water divining is the common method used to detect an underground source of water. This has no scientific basis. Are there purely scientific methods for detecting subterranean water?

1)If our moon did not exist in the precise configuration it has now would intelligent life have failed to evolve on earth? (There might have been slight differences but I feel the absence of a moon would not have prevented intelligent life evolving on this earth.) 2)The Anthrorpic...

I am not too sure where to post this,and so have decided on the general category. My question is on the Chaos theory. A very basic question as I have only recently come across this subject. Am I right in assuming that: The future of a system is not predictable if the initial variables(that...

A simple question,but to which I can't find a ready answer. What is the nature of this rotational force that affects all celestial bodies? What was the initial impetus? How does physics explain it? Thank you, ion