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Recent content by just another skeptic

  1. J

    No wonder no one understands Biology/Evolution!

    Maybe he talked about produced proteins. Each protein coding sequence has about three alternate splicings so we get roughly 60,000 proteins out of 20,000 sequences.
  2. J

    Defining the term "evidence" in religion/science

    Hi, if you allow me to answer:What you call evidence in science about the "effect" of something on other things (gravitational pull, EM fields on charged particles) would rather be a fact or an observation. It would be evidence, if you have a theory which explains a mechanism and predicts...
  3. J

    Human DNA 8% Viral

    Thats just another example of quoting an article by some journalists who don´t understand what they are reading. If you look into the original scientific article you can read that the 8% amount comes from the whole endogenous retroviral remnants there are in the genome. Only a very small part...
  4. J

    Anyone familiar with Mass Spec?

    Hi, I work with a HPLC-MS-MS almost daily. I tried to get an answer for your last question but your question was vague as could be. Same here. what kind of compounds do you have? If you don´t have a chromophore, maybe you could use an ELSD? In an MS you could get almost anything...
  5. J

    Hoping for a little help from lab scientists, chemists, etc

    Hi, it might be late but i try to help. There are different titration methods. iodometric, argentometric, potentiometric, with phenylarsenic oxide an maybe some more. It would be helpful if you could tell me which buffer you have. You are right 10M seems a bit high and i guess its a stock...
  6. J

    Man Didn't Descend from Apes..

    poe? :confused: please
  7. J

    Proof against abiogenesis/evolution -- affirmative proof of God

    For the "simple" to "complex" part: With "life" are dealing with far-from-equilibrium Thermodynamics, since the sun has a lot of energy to give away and the earth is far from thermodynamical equilibrium. I recommend some good reads about this: nobel price winner Ilya Prigogine has done some work...
  8. J

    Proof against abiogenesis/evolution -- affirmative proof of God

    Nice discussion you all have. Sadly I only discover these discussions when they are already dozens of pages long. Well I´m a biochemist and I worked a long time in finding a cure for BSE, Alzheimer, nvCJD and diseases alike. The prion theory is surely true, but I have to say prion proteins are...
  9. J

    Complexity Theory Takes Evolution to Another Level

    Well, this is actually not very new. Ilya Prigogine got his nobel price 1977 for his work on dissipative structures. These are structures far from thermodynamic equilibrium. He showed that these structures behave like complex systems in chaos theory with strange attractors, self-similarity and...
  10. J

    Life Evolving from Non-Life!

    Well, thats a very good question and a very controversial disputed one. Depends on the definition of Life. There is no undisputed line that differs life from non life.
  11. J

    vacuum energy and zero energy state

    yes, it is a sum of positive and negative energy and that sum is zero. If you look at it in thermodynamic thinking there is no difference. Before this event there was nothing with zero energy and after it there was something with the sum of zero => no change happened! counter intuitive but never...
  12. J

    vacuum energy and zero energy state

    potential energy is in no way a negative energy. The negative energy which is hypothesized to cancel out the positive energy in the universe might lie in some Higgs-field or in the Inflaton field (also known as the "cosmological constant"). If the negative and positive energies cancel each...
  13. J

    the speed of light...

    sorry but this is not quite right. approaching the speed of light makes the object gaining more mass. The energy you would use to accelerate is making the object "heavier" and you need more energy to accelerate. This is reaching an infinite at the speed of light. So you never could reach speed...
  14. J

    the speed of light...

    No, Light in a vacuum has always the same velocity. In a gravity well the space (and time) gets bend so light from an outside observer doesnt go slower but the time goes slower. That effect is miniscule except for very heavy objects like black holes. And to guzman: the effect of gravity spreads...
  15. J

    Fact for creationists

    Metaresearch and the like sites are completely hogwash and pseudo-scientific mumbojumbo. Dont believe texts to which the names setterfield or van flandern are attached. Gravity propagates at the speed of light. At least in GR and theres no indication that this could be otherwise. look here for...
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