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Answer A: What should this community's policy on "explain like I'm five" and similar statements be?
My opinion is that such qualifiers, especially when combined with very general questions about specialized subjects, are not helpful. Generally, the tone of the question will be indicative of the level of expertise of the person asking the question. For example, if a question asks about quantum ph...
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over 1 year ago
Question What should this community's policy on "explain like I'm five" and similar statements be?
Several questions have been posted recently where the user asking the question points to an extremely limited knowledge of the relevant field by asking of others to "explain like I'm five" (years old). How does the community feel about such qualifiers on questions? What should a community policy o...
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over 1 year ago
Answer A: May it be that there are more than 8/9 planets in our solar system?
Scientists rarely rule anything out completely. That said, I expect it to be highly unlikely. Recall that Pluto was hypothesized in the late 1800s as the source of perturbations observed in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune. Our measurements of the orbits of even the outer planets are almost cer...
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about 2 years ago
Answer A: What is Ether theory? (I think the book I read is misinterpreting Ether)
Modern physics has pretty much dismissed the concept of the ether. Any modern claim that something like the luminiferous aether exists would be up against mountains of experimental results indicating that it doesn't, and mountains of experimental results indicating that theories based on the very con...
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over 2 years ago
Answer A: Natural ways to acquire gravity for a colony on earth's moon
Since you specify in the title that you're asking about ways to "aquire gravity", I'm going to assume that by "natural gravity" in the question body you refer to a gravitational acceleration substantially closer to Earth's 9.8 m/s2 than Earth's Moon's 1.6 m/s2. (Neither value is any more "natural" th...
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almost 3 years ago