SteamyTea

To a certain extent yes. Enquiry starts very young. But no conspiracy, there is enough ignorance to not need to look for anything else.

If you have an arguement in science, you have to be able to falsify it. It is not science otherwise. Look up the work if Karl Popper.

Not annoyed at all. Just don't think it is appropriate to apply scientific methods to the arts and then claim it as 'fact'.

No. I am very suprised you wrote that sentence. Why are you surprised, at undergrad level that is all you need initially. If a 12 year old has not learnt to add, subtract, multiply and divide, then that is a worse scandal than the Post Office locking up people. Shocked at the one above..... Why, has it never occurred to you why I don't have telly. Sometimes people just have to remember facts, like BIDMAS. You cannot pass English Language courses with text speak, even though they impart knowledge and understanding. And stunned at this one. Why, if you teach, as we both have, we should go home distraught that we have failed, not accept it. You do like using that, but is just a distraction and an irrelevance. Go back to my Volta quote.

Indeed it does, but But how often does @ToughButterCup go out and buy apopularr science book? seems to me to presume that science isn't messy, full of complexity, and shrouded in various scales of grey, particularly at the forefront of knowledge. That is because the liberal arts who run publishing and media insist 'on a narrative'. It has made the whole presentation messy and complicated. As I said earlier, most science uses pre-GCSE levels. Yup, a vast number of people really don't want to look at an equation as it usually means they also need to know what the components parts are of that equation - pandora's box. That is the fault of our education system that rewards the wrong things. Education has not been dumbed down, just that different things are assessed these days. Also, mathematics is not science. It is just the language used. So claiming that equations puts people off, should be liked to people disliking red wine and cheese 'because it can be French'. Richard Feynman was asked to explain, in 3 minutes, what was involved in him being awarded a Noble Prize. "If I could explain it is 3 minutes, it would not be worth a Noble" was his reply. Worth spending 1/718,812 of your life watching this.

Brilliant.

But it is only using tools and language learnt by 12 to 14 year olds at school. The Learning Style (mine is auditory) has little, if anything to do with it at this level. Claiming it does, is just accepting that failure get a point across is acceptable. "Those that can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities" Volta.

I like to look out a window when working. I am a first class daydreamer. https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23431260-200-how-to-daydream-your-way-to-better-learning-and-concentration/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428691-900-daydream-your-way-to-creativity/

That is a brilliant device. Is it compulsory? We have changeover regulators at work, may see if they do that as well.

My laptop has batteries. In my experience, electrical sockets are never, ever, in the right place.

If you stick a fridge, freezer, A/C unit in a room, plug it in, switch it on, it will heat the room. It cannot cool the room. So the 'running in reverse' is just wrong. If you replumbed it so the cold part was outside the fridge, and the hot part was inside the fridge, it would still heat the room. What a HP does is draw on an secondary energy source, in the case of an ASHP, external air, a GSHP on moisture in the ground. Then, though the magic of science, or science as I prefer to call it, it captures the higher energy molecules and uses that energy. James Clerk Maxwell had a Daemon opening and closing a door between two compartments in a box. The Daemon did not use any extra energy. When it saw a fast moving, and therefore high energy, particle heading towards the door, it opened it and let it through, if it saw a slow moving particle traveling in the opposite direction, it let that though as well. This had the effect of increasing the temperature on one side, and reducing it on the other. This was a thought experiment to show the limitation of Second Law of Thermodynamics. No one has shown it to work at the 100% efficiency level because of entropy. Now this is all getting quite complicated and hard to explain. So just use PV/T=C and explain it with a bicycle pump, or compressor. As you compress the gas it gets hotter, as you release that compressed gas it gets cooler.

But it is not a scientific description, it is a description said by lay people, to lay people. And wrong. Here is the Scientific description. PV/T = C where: P = Pressure V = Volume T = Temperature in kelvin C = A Constant. The scientific description is shorter, easier to say and more correct. Why complicate things.

Here is the one in my Mother's back door. Not had a cat for years now.

And emojis as well

He is a brave GasSafe man then.

Are you going to just jigsaw it in place. Video it for us all.

Move in and shuffle things around until you feel comfortable. I worked in an office where we all had our backs to each other. I put silly pictures on my screen saver, then got told off as it 'lowered the tone of a professional office'.

You are not typical though, you try your hardest not to export. How much would you have got if you had exported half your generation. And how much more would that have been if you lived in Cornwall, or East Anglia.

That is a bit sexiest, there are female gods as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_goddesses

Just draw a picture of a person on the foot. The big toe is the head, heel is the feet. Then claim that bruising the tendons is 'breaking down the crystals'. Still, I bedded a blonde by massaging her feet on a first date.

Read this https://www.degreedays.net/ Fairly simple to DIY it all.

Well don't, because it is a misleading description. It works just like a fridge, except the cold part is 'the outside' and the warm part 'is the back'.

Too true, they think it is a 'religion' and all disciplines are basically the same. Good example of a scientist arguing back on this weeks Now Show. 6 minutes and 8 seconds in.

Why not buy another door of similar design.

Sadly not, there are a few on here that struggle to understand it. (and yes, I do see the pun)