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Actually, my comment was only a general comment, on the fact that 'real values' are not necessarily what are defined by such things as 'color codes' or 'standard values' of components .. I am not concerned here with particular devices, etc, only with the issue that real values can be...

This might interest you (synthetic, yes, but perhaps a pathway to the nature of nature) : http://phys.org/news/2014-01-physicists-synthetic-magnetic-monopole-years.html

But what is the 'scope itself using for calibration? On how warm a day? with what effect on it's 'truth component' due to the scope's calibrating source being affected by temp fluctuations? ... Perfection is a nice thought ...

Rarely do components actually possesses the value the engineer wishes it to have .. So, consider tolerances, including wire/connection/temperature/position/proximities/etc .. If a DM says 5.14v , its nearly always processed as being 5.0

You've presented for cosmology an extremely easy-to-imagine model ... But as we all know here, being imaginably logically clear does not mean it is correct. It all goes back to the very logical (at the time!) voyage of the sun around our Earth ;) But i do like sitting here finally able to imagine !

As the question is stated, you can drive as fast or as slowly as you wish , on a dry day ... Solving problems requires that the real problem be recognized and clearly stated .. which I feel has not been done in the instance ... Care to be more-specific ?

mrspeedy "The 1 exception that I can think of is the GPS system which must take gravitational time dilation into account in order to achieve the extreme accuracy of time keeping necessary to make it work." There does exist another significant exception: in the case of nuclear submarines...

yes, thanks tnx for your crystal-clear explanation

yes, good comprehensive reply .. and: all i would add is that no definition of any such entity that involves 'length' can not possibly be 'fundamental' .. There is nothing sacred about a 'meter' or 'cm', now, is there ... The same logic would apply to 'time', too, no? (yes i know there...

it merely means that there is a relationship between the effect that the Higgs field has on a mass is directly proportional to a force applied to it and indirectly proportional to the accelleration the mass might experience due to a force, and that the 'constant of proportionality' is equal to "...

Actually, it is an 'observation' .. not really a definition: and the observation is simply : what features of an object are directly proportional to the 'force needed to move it'... and what features, if any, are found to be INVERSEly proportional to that force ... So, experiment shows that...

'Death' actually evolved as a consequence of sexual reproduction. Note that the dividing amobae never must die, and so it is with every asexually-reproducing organism. All sexually-reproducing organisms have a typical 'life span', which is not true for asexually-reproducing species. ref...

Yes, semen glows under UV light; No: luminol is used to discover blood stains; and Yes: wash your sheets much more often!

aWhy not just use the standart 'p-v-t' relationships?? in one second, yoiu have a known volume of gas at a known temperature and pressure. That volume is then released to occupy a much larger (unknown) volume at a different pressure-volume-temperature condition... simple calculations ought to...

Re: "It's actually four, not five (since there are four reactions going on, a reaction linking amino acids 1 and 2, linking 2 and 3, linking 3 and 4 and linking 4 and 5). I should also note that releasing the protein from the ribosome requires a water molecule." So, net gain is 3 H2O's ;)