April 2012
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thesmolderingscreen asked: You mentioned your interest in the bases of consciousness and this is something that I too am fascinated by. Do you have any interest in philosophy of mind? I would recommend reading writers like Nagel and Searle, who have proposed some hard-to-dispute ideas about the inaccessibility of consciousness/subjectivity to science. E.g. even if we knew exactly which neurons lead to seeing the color red,...
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…to the 13 people that wished me luck with my exam. It went quite well… apart from the question that was like ‘draw a triple-axis neutron spectrometer’. I’m more of a theory guy so find stuff like this a bit uninteresting and so I just drew something from imagination and called it a triple-axis neutron spectrometer. Maybe I’ll get marks for creativity?
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gothboygirlhorror asked: what are you going to study in grad school
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centralscience asked: in regards to olber's paradox: as I understood it, the reason why the sky is black is that even though there are stars at any point in the night sky, the light coming from them has been redshifted out of the visible range and into the IR or microwave range. I don't know if you were implying that, but I'm just curious =]
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Anonymous asked: About "why is the sky dark?": First, I disagree that the star density would remain relatively constant. That seems to assume a finite universe before you proved it. But, my main point is that in an infinite universe, there would be an infinite amount of both stars and black holes. Since black holes by their nature appear as an area void of light, wouldn't they account for dark...
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Pics or GTFO: Why we haven't found life on Mars.
Over the past couple of days the internet has been buzzing with its perennial excitement over a new ‘discovery’ of life on Mars. Yesterday came reports that a team of researchers retro-analysing data from NASA’s 1976 Viking missions concluded that the landers did indeed find microbial life in martian soil.
A little background: In 1976 Viking 1 and 2, conducted four biological...
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