/u/danger_mcboom's posts in /r/askscience
If that NJ mom who is addicted to tanning were to completely stop today, would her skin or body suffer from any "withdrawal" symptoms?
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What happens to a photon once it enters your eye and stimulates your rods and cones to produce a vision?
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With all due respect to him, is Stephen Hawking truly renowned for having in intellect above most others, or is it because he happens to be smart AND in a wheelchair?
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Does light and sound truly travel in a wave-like manner as we draw it (sine wave), or is the pattern of travel misrepresented by our pictures of the sine wave and the actual travel motion something different?
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Do archaeologists have any sort of date limitation as to how old a grave or body must be before it can be dug up, researched, and possibly displayed for science?
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Regarding the metric versus imperial units debate...has it ever been proposed, and would it even be useful, for everyone to adopt a system using units based on the speed of light?
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Is it possible for a black hole, through the incredible pressure exerted on mass at the singularity, to actually spark some sort of fusion process like we see in our sun?
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