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October 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 2

1. Aspartame
2. When and how did people notice that trovants grow?

October 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 4

1. Lens
2. Physical Conditions where childhood development is essential to diagnosis

October 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 5

1. Polygenism

October 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 6

1. Undissected in Geological Terms
2. Watching the gulls eat

October 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 7

1. Naming of gorgonin

October 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 8

1. What percentage of a ship is under water?

October 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 9

1. A spacewalk odyssey

October 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 12

1. Space iceberg?
2. Pollen mites

October 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 13

1. Chicken's ancestors vs. ours

October 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 14

1. Does the Minkowski space (or the Min. metric) add, any empirically verifiable information, to Einstein's original Special Relativity theory?
2. Violation of the conservation of energy by virtual particles, vs violation of the formula E=mc^2

October 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 15

1. Audio Engineer vs. Music Engineer
2. Electron energy level in atoms

October 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 16

1. Total global river discharge rate
2. Daylight saving time - why change on different dates?

October 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 18

1. Gruesome question about injury

October 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 19

1. Falling into Jupiter
2. Since neutrinos (and dark matter) don't interact with light, so what should happen when light comes across them?

October 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 20

1. Soap bubbles and flatulence
2. Must every moving [accelerating] body lose energy, namely the energy of the gravitational waves emitted by that body while moving [accelerating]?

October 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 21

1. datetime for cub birth
2. Why do we use 12 o'clock to represent midnight and noon?

October 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 22

1. Although neutrinos can't interact with photons, can photons deliver momentum to neutrinos, via electrons as intermediaries which receive it from photons and deliver it to neutrinos?

October 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 24

1. Default multiplication tables in schools worldwide

October 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 26

1. Launch site identification

October 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 27

1. Can sterile neutrinos (if exist) decay, if there don't really exist virtual particles?
2. Global deforestation runoff
3. Is Big Bang nucleosynthesis backwards?
4. 1934–35 North American drought

October 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 28

1. According to the common theory, is the mechanical equilibrium a necessary sufficient condition, for not emitting gravitational waves?

October 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 29

1. Which ones (if any) of the following seven bodies, have both a [mechanical] equilibrium and a varying quadrupole moment?
2. Aardvark cucumbers and Madagascar
3. Why aren't bone balls big enough that they can't leave the socket without cracking bone?

October 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 October 31

1. Does an accelerated body at (instantaneous) rest, emit gravitational waves?
2. The multiverse of science
3. Is there a common term indicating that the current value of every derivative (of any order) of the position over time is zero?