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Posts by Canina‭

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Meta 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 o...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Canina‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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Meta 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 ...

posted 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 substa...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 or...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&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 indicati...

posted 3y ago by Canina‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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