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March 1[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 1

  1. Neanderthal speech
  2. Manually igniting a star

March 2[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 2

  1. Why aren't we allowed to use the formula of relativistic momentum, for calculating the positive momentum of slow light not moving in a vacuum?

March 3[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 3

  1. Gravitational constant in terms of energy

March 4[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 4

  1. Accelerating (massless) gluons by the strong force
  2. Gravitational lensing
  3. Do you have in mind examples, of an exceedingly weak gravitational field (if not the weakest one), ever measured?
  4. Regardless of the following four formulas, is there any other way (whether an empirical one or a theoretical one) to prove that light has no mass?
  5. When an electron and a positron collide - annihilating each other, does the gravitational field - having been created by them - disappear?

March 5[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 5

  1. Gravitational lens

March 6[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 6

  1. Pathogens that increase crop yields
  2. Has the cubic correction to redshift versus luminosity been tested, or is it likely to be?

March 9[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 9

  1. Scientists Thought Only Humans Learn Complex Behaviors from Others. They Were Wrong

March 10[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 10

  1. Could humans and any kind of farm herbivore live on the same diet for a year?
  2. Unicode CLDR for filtering mixed scripts

March 12[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 12

  1. Hydrogen balloon safety
  2. Fail-safety of the air brakes in the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster
  3. Penetrating the time-space continuum

March 13[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 13

  1. Lake Kakhovka
  2. Two beams of light start moving perpendicular to the initial distance between them. Will it become shorter, because of any gravitational curvature caused by them in spacetime?
  3. Hump
  4. arrest, dearrest / de-arrest, arrested

March 15[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 15

  1. Can't remember the name of this organic chemistry phenomenon where conjugation "extends" a functional group
  2. Fictitious force. Is the opposite phenomenon called a: "Real" force? "Physical" force? "External" force? "Natural" force?

March 16[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 16

  1. Weld; Syren
  2. Length of a photon

March 18[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 18

  1. Special Relativity. Is it possible to calculate the velocity of a system, composed of two bodies, we given their different inertial masses and velocities?
  2. Aliens: from cavemen to NASA

March 20[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 20

  1. Removing air from water to reduce your water bill

March 22[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 22

  1. 2 related questions about thought
  2. Lapse rate between sub-adiabatic and inversion
  3. Chemical X real or not?
  4. Personality of science deniers

March 23[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 23

  1. Why do Blattella germanica cerci point up then out?
  2. Hours of daylight vs latitude vs day of year
  3. British physician who debunked Lourdes miracles
  4. The definition of relativistic momentum

March 24[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 24

  1. Smallest electric current intensity

March 26[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 26

  1. If Neptune was named Janus, what will be the name of element 93?
  2. Copper IUD end of life

March 27[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 27

  1. No-signaling and the infinite hat game
  2. A red photon and a blue photon are approaching each other in opposite directions. Is the whole system at rest?

March 28[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 28

  1. Magnet affecting resonance.

March 29[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 29

  1. Looking for Map with Eclipse Path and Actual Weather Conditions
  2. How much carbon could there be in a planetary system?
  3. Lorentz transform question
  4. Mirror radiation pressure and energy conservation

March 30[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 30

  1. Visualisation of angular diameter turnaround
  2. A pair of physical properties, linearly related to each other by a physical constant only.

March 31[edit]

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Science/2024 March 31

  1. Berries ID