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Can these TV Licence inspectors actually tell if a person is watching TV in their home? They even claim to tell what channel a person is watching. If so, then how exactly do they do it?

Lead AN 82 and gold AN 79 are fairly close to one an other on the Periodic Table - so maybe the alchemists of the middle ages were on to something. In fact it was already done: There are reports that Glenn Seaborg, 1951 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry, succeeded in transmuting a minute quantity of...

Dynamo the street magician has a show on Watch TV. Some of the things he has done is hown to walk on water, go through panes of glass, change bank note numbers and the lettering on a cinema sign by blowing on it from the other side of the street...

All the matter and engery making up the Universe could not up just appeared at a 'singularity' out of nowhere. It must have existed before the BB in a different format. Can anyone recommend a list of good books which explores this topic?

The angle of impact along with the mass and speed/acceletation have been claimed to be factors responsible for the depth of a crator. How importat a factor is the angle of impact? are the mass and speed/acceleration more important factors? How much influence will the Earth's rotation have on...

All of a sudden the picture on my Panasonic CRT television disappeared, but the sound remained. The most common cause of the picture disappearing is a faulty tube and the warning sign of this can be seen for some while. So it can't be the tube. There was a funny burning type smell from the...

What happens if re-chargable batteries are left too long on their chargers? is there a fire risk? do some of them such as the ones used for moble phones and chordless power tools have some sort of cut-off safety mechanism?

LOL yes I see how the battery would have a higher resistance and even tried an experiment with a battery and the keys. The funny thing is that it is hard to imagine due to me walking, how the keys and/or coins could have made a connection with the battery long enough for the heat to occur.

If I was high, then why were the metalic items in my pocket not hot?

It was a 1.5v battery. The only things that could have caused the conductive path were my keys and my coins. How did the battery get so hot though?

I put a AAA alkaline battery in my pocket and later detected warmth. I took the battery out of my pocket and it was very hot. The only other items that I had in my pocket were a few coins and a key ring with keys and one of these plastic security fobs. I can only presume that some kind of...

So if you are saying that if a specific observation is made, then there is still the potential for other observations and hence outcomes to be made. This reminds of Paul Davis conclusion that quantum theory implied the existence of parallel universes. So if certain instrumentation is...

Yes, but if this were done to electrons it would be an act of observing and would therefore collapse the waveform.

What about the CRT's anode - would its pull on the electrons collapse them?

If according to quantum theory electrons are in superposition until their waveforms collapse by the observer observing them, does this mean that there are more than one image on a CRT such as a TV or PC screen when nobody is looking at it?