Cold Definition and 381 Threads

  1. A

    Reason of hot water 'float' on the cold water

    i think that the reason of hot water 'float' on the cold water is not becuase of diffrent density. i make a model of a container containing a higher energy particle (hot water) and lower energy particle (cold water) using action script in flash and uploaded it in geocities...
  2. M

    Indian scientist who claimed to have caused cold fusion in a lab

    Hey, I remember watching a program (Horizon - UK) on an indian scientist who claimed to have caused cold fusion in a lab. The program tried to recreate it (the procedures were not actually the same - but some big name scientists advised them which equipment would be used), and failed. I...
  3. M

    What Are the Origins of Flu and Cold Viruses?

    Every year we hear about the flu season and the cold season without fail. Everybody is always so riled up about the flu. With good reason too. Now they have patented a vaccine that is supposed to prevent you from getting the virus. Makes sense to me. Vaccinate high risk people who could...
  4. S

    How does extreme cold weather affect speech and coherence?

    Hi. I recently went paintballing in muddy and snowy conditions (at the same time). I found a really curious thing happened to me. My words would get stuck in my mouth more often, I'd make pronuciation errors and I'd generally mess up words. For example, when I wanted to say: "Let's go!"...
  5. M

    Inverted the pipet into cold water

    ok in this lab, we heated a plastic pipet in water so that it expandes. then we covered the top so that the gases are trapped inside the pipet. then we inverted the pipet into cold water, and releases our thunb that covered the hole of the pipet. thus water got sucked in...but why? :rolleyes...
  6. Mk

    Skydiving Temperature: The Impact of Air Resistance on Body Heat

    I've never gone skydiving, but, if you jump off an airplane, will it be hot or cold, or neither? I was thinking, ram pressure and friction from the air would heat you up, though wind cools you off by carrying away heat... hot or cold?
  7. R

    Is Moisture Harmful to Telescope Lenses in Cold Weather?

    i just bought a telescope and i am in Canada it iz really cold outside and i want to take it outside to look at the stars but someone told me that moisture would get stuck in the lens and it would be ruined can somebody tell me if this is true personally i don't think it would but i don't want...
  8. T

    Is Cold Plasma a Reality in Physics?

    I thought plasma was the most energetic state of matter, and that heat is proportional to energy levels? How is it possible for cold plasma then?
  9. D

    Laser Inquiry: What are Cold Lasers?

    Cold Lasers? Hi, I was overheard one of my profs talking and he was talking about cold lasers. I googled it but I could not find anything worth while. Does the laser "slow" down the electrons in the obitals? I don't really know how to approach this one... Does anyone know anything about this...
  10. R

    Could hot dark matter be cold dark matter?

    Could hot dark matter be cold dark matter? In other words did hdm cool and become cdm? And could hdm moving at or close to the speed of light exist beyond the most distant detected galaxies?
  11. W

    Cold Fusion Questions: Answers to Common Questions

    I am very ignorant on this subject and was just wondering a few things. What exactly is it (how do they do it), I am having trouble finding information on it. Why can't it be recreated, or was it really done at all? Also I was wondering what resources it uses to create the energy. Thanks
  12. M

    Was the Iraq War Justified by Its Outcomes?

    In a brainstorming exercise in my English 151 class a few weeks ago, my teacher told us to write down all of the things that we feel strongly about on a sheet of paper. I couldn’t write anything. As she requested our papers I hastily wrote down a few things, but none of them I truly felt strong...
  13. T

    Why is my bum itching after washing my jeans with cheap soap and cold water?

    I think I've figured out why I've been so grumpy lately. My bum has been itching like crazy. I don't think all the soap rinsed out of that last batch of Levi's I washed. I couldn't figure out why I had a rash on my bum and inner thighs, I hadn't switched brands of adult diapers recently, but I...
  14. brewnog

    The Cold Beer Dilemma: The Ultimate Conundrum

    Right! I don't actually have an answer here, so don't get your hopes up, but your thoughts please! I buy two bottles of cold beer at the bar, they're both taken out of the fridge and opened at the same time. I'm holding one in each hand. I can only down a few before my stomach gets full...
  15. X

    Ethyl ether can react with cold concentrated H2SO4?

    I wonder if ethyl ether can react with cold concentrated H2SO4. I think that it cannot react but I still not sure because my books don't say anything about temperature condition. What about heated concentrated H2SO4, can it react without water or alcohol just only conc. sulfuric acid. Thank you...
  16. marcus

    Is Avoiding the Central Issue Dishonest? The Truth About Cold Fusion's Return

    you decide the headline is something about Back from the Dead http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/sep04/0904nfus.html
  17. P

    How do the Casimir force and cold welds relate?

    What is Friction? Making contact amounts to the mutual repulsion of electrons on each body's surface. So is friction the lateral repulsion experienced as a result of surfaces not being smooth? In other words, the surfaces have roughness and so 'fit' into each other whereupon the electrons can...
  18. PFanalog57

    Reigniting the Cold Fusion Debate: MIT Professor's Quest

    http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2004/07/27/heating_up_a_cold_theory/ QUOTE: COLD FUSION Heating up a cold theory MIT professor risks career to reenergize discredited [...] So over time, cold fusion scientists have become members of a small...
  19. F

    Questions on the common cold virus

    1) How long can this virus last between hosts? 2) When you "get better", what is actually happening? has your body overcome the virus's replicating abilities? evicted it? "killed" it? 3) Can the same virus re-infect one right away? like, say you've just had a cold, gotten better, and then you...
  20. K

    Is Cold Fusion Possible with Palladium and Heavy Water?

    how about cold fusion? I know it's got avid supporters as well as those who say it's total B.S. last I heard, it had something to do with the way Palladium acts in hard water... I'm going to go look some of that up. I want input! anyway, i hear it's possible. edit: thanks...didn't even notice...
  21. O

    Haarp Weapon, and Europe's Cold Summer

    The cod have moved off the coast of Sweden, due to fluctuations in the jet stream. Five miles of nets producing ten pounds of fish. A summer that is the coldest since 1847, and if it doesn't warm up soon, it will be the coldest since the 1700's. The Butterfly Theory talked about even minute...
  22. shintashi

    Is Cold Fusion a Feasible Energy Source or a Dangerous Concept?

    Over the past year, I've evaluated my own research and observations and matched them up with some statements from a pair of friends. One worked on a nuclear sub, and the other worked on an aircraft carrier. Both worked in the nuclear engine rooms. As I've been refining the concept of...
  23. R

    Is photosynthesis a form of cold fusion?

    Well Dr. Kaku?
  24. Z

    How Does Surface Roughness Influence Cold Welding and Friction?

    If I'm understanding it correctly, my book says that frictional forces are the result of cold welds - that when two surfaces are in contact with one another, the highest points on the surfaces on an atomic scale weld together to form a single object, and these welds are what resists movement...
  25. Antonio Lao

    Hot & Cold: Understanding the Universe

    If scientists understand hot and cold completely then high temperature superconductivity will become a reality and cold fusion is just child play. Until then, we can do all the theorizing we want but to really understand the universe we must understand what is hotness and what is coldness...
  26. wasteofo2

    Water evaporating from my hand in the cold.

    Recently I was playing in the snow without gloves. I made a snowball and the residual water on my hand began evaporating and was visible, much the way your breath is in the cold. Why did the water do this?
  27. R

    Do cold blooded animals do best in cold weather? or hotblooded?

    i wasnt sure where to post this... but I've been really curious about this since i am always the one that isn't cold... I was wondering if the animals that live in cold weather are hotblooded or cold blooded... like penguins for example and if there really is a pattern. also i was...
  28. F

    Uncovering the Truth Behind Cold Fusion: Separating Fact from Fiction

    So what is the deal with cold fusion these days what is hindering the progress of an ubundace of energy? Please Explain [?]
  29. Z

    Why Not Use Low-Energy Deuteron Collisions for Cold Fusion?

    why they don't use good ol' accelerator smashing? bring two deutrons to couple of KeV (witch is not a particular problem) and collide them in some vacuum chamber. same charge repulsive force will be couple of magnitudes smaller than force on paticle under acceleration, so where's the problem?
  30. V

    Is Cold Fusion a Viable Energy Source for the Future?

    Having read my Command and Conquer Generals book I have seen that the USA use Cold Fusion. Is this theoretically possible and could it be done in the future and if so how would it work?
  31. J

    The Possibility and Potential Implications of Cold Fusion

    Do you think that cold fusion is posible? Also, if it is what would some of the implications of this be, how would it change our world?
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