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[–] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Baby formula is not as good as mothers milk this gets debunked like every two years and then they change the formula and claim that bs again.

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[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

String theory always smelled funny to me. Don't know if it's still actively researched or if it fell by the wayside. Couldn't care less! Lol

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That somehow the dozens of microphones all around us aren't listening at all.

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[–] rockandsock@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I don't think that we currently know enough about physics to say for sure that faster than light travel is impossible.

I think it's likely that there are still scientific breakthroughs to be discovered that will make currently impossible things possible.

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[–] hawgietonight@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Quantum entanglement. Having two particles latched in the same state even if separated by light years distance is something I currently cannot believe. Maybe too dumb, but my belief is that it 'has' to be some experiment error.

[–] naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

An incomplete but better than most pop science explanations is as follows: Suppose I have 2 envelopes and 2 letters. We have a stamp that has A and B on it next to each other. Without looking we put the letters next to each other, randomly Orient the stamp and apply it. Then we fold the letters up and put them in the envelops. Now we look at the stamp as see it has A and B on it.

We know that one letter contains A and the other B but not which, you take one and fly to Siberia while I enjoy a nice holiday in Tasmania (sorry but this is the sacrifice of science). I open my letter and see a B, instantly I know that in Siberia there is a letter containing A.

Light speed etc isn't violated here because we travelled below light speed when setting it all up, I haven't affected your letter just gained some insight about the overall system by inspecting one part of it.

Now there are a lot of things I've glossed over but it's much closer to opening letters than psychic woo particles.

edit: as to keeping them latched it's hard. The coupling is like conservative laws (e.g. spin up and spin down so no net overall spin) but any interactions destroy the coupling (or rather extend it to whatever just might've swapped spin with a particle). AFAIK nobody has maintained a system over lightyears for that reason among many, but like shipping pineapples to England the barrier appears practical rather than theoretical.

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[–] wabafee@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It took me awhile to accept it. But apparently planting trees on the wrong area could actually contribute to global warming. E.g. Planting on areas, traditionally has no trees, while reforesting would contribute to lowering temperature.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-021-00233-0

I learned that from a recent documentary of the https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park from Vice.

[–] cloud_herder@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (9 children)
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[–] ani@endlesstalk.org 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Psychiatry and psychiatric drugs. But it is hardly scientific anyway

[–] them@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The problem with psychiatry is that it's expected to have quick fixes like other schools of medicine. Often the conditions are chronic and the treatment is long term at best which makes it slow and expensive. Drugs can help in the short term but they're often not able to be replaced by correct treatment due to funding.

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a statistical science. While other branches can be all like "splitting atoms will definitely give you an energetic reaction" psychology is like "this helps in 60% of cases so we're gonna try it on you ".

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[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

It’s got to be Dark Matter. So many astrophysicists have spent so much time thinking about this stuff and all they’re really sure about is that there must be much more matter in the Universe than we can see, and yet we never actually seem any closer to knowing what it is. In conjunction with Dark Energy it just leaves the layman with the awkward possibility that maybe our model of The Universe is just fundamentally flawed somehow.

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