If they're the worms I'm thinking of, you can actually identify the exact family tree of every single cell! Dawkins wrote about them in his latest book, so it must be true.C elegans worms are made up of exactly 959 or 1031 (somatic) cells, depending on the sex.
Kent Hovind calls himself 'Dr' because of this. If anyone can read page by page to beyond page 30, I'll be impressed. That's all I managed before giving up in despair and running out into the street screaming.
C elegans worms are made up of exactly 959 or 1031 (somatic) cells, depending on the sex.
The best thing about that whole thing is that the last page number looks like "LOL", which is pretty much my reaction to it.
Hey, weren't auks originally called penguins? I can't even remember where I read that (one of the BBC/Attenborough books???), so I'm sure I'm totally rightIt would require a very long journey for a polar bear to be able to eat a penguin.
Positive integers are so darned cool.9^2 = 81
99^2 = 9801
999^2 = 998001
9999^2 = 99980001
The result of a number comprised of X 9s squared is (X-1) 9s, an 8, (X-1) 0s and a 1
This also holds true in bases other than 10 for the largest digit. In base 8:
7777^2 = 77760001
Thus in base N with X digits of N-1 the square is (X-1) "N-1"s, a single N-2, (X-1) 0s and a single 1, for N>2
If they're the worms I'm thinking of, you can actually identify the exact family tree of every single cell! Dawkins wrote about them in his latest book, so it must be true.
I'm not sure that's true. Einstein did a lot of things, but I don't think he proved the existence of atoms. Atoms were known to exist about a century and a half before Einstein's time: chemists were honing in on atomic theory by as early as 1750CE. The idea of atoms itself dates back to Ancient Greece.At the beginning of the twentieth century it was still a hotly contested issue whether or not atoms existed. Until a little known physicist, by the name of Albert Einstein, settled the question.
I'm not sure that's true. Einstein did a lot of things, but I don't think he proved the existence of atoms. Atoms were known to exist about a century and a half before Einstein's time: chemists were honing in on atomic theory by as early as 1750CE. The idea of atoms itself dates back to Ancient Greece.
Exactly, and not for scientific reasons. It was no more contestable then than evolution is now. The atomic nature of matter was known in the 1800s, and research into atoms thereafter wasn't to see if atoms exist, but how they exist. In 1909, for instance, research wasn't going into trying to disprove atomic theory, but in disproving one model of atomic physics in favour of another - specifically, Rutherford's model over the 'plum pudding' model.Einstein showed that Brownian motion is exactly what you would expect if atoms existed. Up until then there were scientists who rejected the idea for philosophical reasons, as much as anything else.
Exactly, and not for scientific reasons. It was no more contestable then than evolution is now.
I'd ask by whom, but individual names aren't that helpful.It was contestible and contested.
True, but, both atomic theory and evolution were accepted by 1910, and the former had a 100 year head start on the latter.So was the theory of evolution in 1859, and not for obscurantist reasons, or, in the case of evolution, even for unscientific ones.
As I said, atomic theory had been demonstrated before Einstein's time. Richard Lambing was postulating on the structure of the atom in the 1830s, and the flow of subatomic particles was the prevalent theory of electricity in the 1870s. Hittorf was well aware of atoms and molecules when he conducted his experiments into electricity - in 1879, he was explaining the curvature of electron beams by way of negatively-charged molecules. If atomic theory was widly contested in the early 1900s, what were all these physicists doing experimenting on things that, according to you, were unproven to even exist?Until the atomic theory of matter had been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt, which it hadn't until Einstein came along, people were free to doubt it for whatever reason they liked, without being accused of obscurantism.
If atomic theory was widly contested in the early 1900s, what were all these physicists doing experimenting on things that, according to you, were unproven to even exist?
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