The only problem there is that the gamma rays produced are extremely high energy. As soon as they hit a nucleus, these rays would easily be able to knock several nucleons out, possibly even splitting the atom altogether. And these nucleons would likely have high kinetic energies, and thus be...
Hi everyone! Apologies to those annoyed by my starting one of those .999'=1 threads :)
This is a little reductio ad absurdum proof that .999'=1 that I came up with, and I'm just wondering what everyone thinks with regards to the soundness of it.
Assume .999' < 1
Now, for any 2 real...
Liquid HCl will probably be a poor conductor of electricity owing to the fact that it is a covalent compound and doesn't have terribly many ions floating about. Pure water will conduct electricity as a result of ions created by the reaction 2H2O <-> H3O+ + OH-, and there is probably an analagous...
Unfortunately, you would most likely get partial annihilation between the antiproton and the neutron. An antiproton is comprised of 3 antiquarks; 2 up antiquarks and 1 down. A neutron is comprised of one up quark and two down quarks. As a result, the up quark of the neutron would annihilate with...
Nice of them to finally admit that they would have attacked Iraq even if they did know there were no WMD, blatantly contradicting the pre-war lie that the whole reason for invading was about WMD.
I'm very much in favour of gravity, owing to the fact that without it we'd all suffocate, because the Earth would be unable to hold onto an atmosphere, and then be incinerated, because there would be nothing stopping the sun from exploding.
Boric oxide's acidic, so you aren't likely to get any reaction, and even if you did the product would be unstable and would easily decompose back to boric oxide and carbon dioxide.
Mercury has a rather high affinity for sulphur, and tends to react with sulphur-containing organic compounds like this: Hg + 2RSH -> R-S-Hg-S-R +2H+ +2e-. As all enzymes contain SH groups, addition of mercury will hence join onto them and alter their shape, rendering them useless. As a result of...
In Australia the system is slightly hampered by the way that the parties produce "how to vote" cards, which basically tell people giving their first preference to that party how to distribute the rest of their preferences. Of course, you can just ignore the how to vote cards, but most people...
We've used the preferential system in Australia since about 1926 or so, and I'm pretty sure New Zealand also uses it. I'm not too sure about elsewhere though.
Basically, you number all the candidates in order of preference, and then they count all the first preference votes. Then the guy with the least votes gets eliminated, and everyone who voted for that person has their vote transferred to the candidate to who they gave their second preference and...