Loop Quantum Gravity suggests that spacetime is quantized.  Given that, what is the mechanism of expansion?  Do more quanta appear out of nowhere or do the quanta grow larger?
To explain the expansion of space I have often heard people saying that space is continuously created. This picture is usually applied to cosmological scales but I`m nevertheless curious if some microscopic description of this process could be found (or probably is already available?).  The first thing which comes into my mind by thinking about this is that in theories like loop quantum gravity, there is an idea that space is quantized. Would space expansion then be explained as the creation of new quanta in loop quantum cosmology? Or are there other different ideas, such as the quanta themselves changing properties? Do people actually working on this already have some interesting results?
Analysing Bounce Rate and Time on Page I'm working on an eCommerce site and there's a perceived problem with the bounce rates on product pages. The best performing page (in terms of views), tends to have a very high bounce rate, at about 80%. This page is also targeted with Ads, but in both non-paid and paid traffic, the bounce rate stays high.  What's weird about it is that the time on this page is about 2 and a half minutes. The others pages have a slightly lower bounce rate (between 50% and 75%) with visit times between 1 minute and 2 minutes.  I'm not entirely sure about how to analyse this data. I've checked all the possible technical problems (faulty GA code, JS race conditions, breaks in the chain), and whilst there were some things that need improving, no technical fix budged the bounce rate at all.  The other thing we noticed was that the product pages were getting lots of traffic for very generic and brand based search terms. In these cases the pages come up as sitelinks, could this explain a high bounce rate too?  So in short :  If the page view time is so high, should I be worrying about the bounce rate at all? What's the chances of someone visiting the page and then leaving to compare prices? And how do sitelinks affect bounce rate on eCommerce sites? Global setting of spacing between items in itemize environment for beamer How can I change the umask for one command only? How can I interactively execute a command in Linux (zsh, if it matters) with a different umask from the default, for one command only? Perhaps a combination of commands combined in a single line? The new umask should apply only to that command and return to its default value for the next command entered.  Ideally the command would be agnostic to the default umask in force before its entered (in other words, the default umask doesn't have to specified). Integrals of Pullbacks How can I make an application automatically start when I have logged in? How to strike through obliquely, e.g. to indicate cancellation? How can I strike through an expression (e.g. "2x") obliquely, e.g. from bottom left to top right, so as to indicate cancellation? With the \sout command from the ulem package, I can only strike horizontally. What Happens to electrons after Alpha Decay and Nuclear Fission? Edit answer draft is broken The Edit Answer Draft button is broken.    Press Back with text in an answer box. The Edit answer draft bar does not appear.     Seems like an onBackPressed() issue.  Also:   Press ← with text in the answer box The bar appears. Click the bar The answer box is blank.   Seems like the answer isn't properly carried between the Fragments.  Either way, you lost everything you wrote.  Can somebody test this? And especially without a confirm dialog, it is a brush of the finger to lose a long post of code or something.   I hope this report will help because I like the app (I'd say 4/5 stars) but the bugs are preventing a solid 5 stars.   Stack Exchange 1.0.73 Samsung Galaxy S II Skyrocket I727 Android 4.1.2 How do I install OpenStack? Proof of Convergence: Babylonian Method $x_{n+1}=\frac{1}{2}(x_n + \frac{a}{x_n})$ How to add home directory path to be discovered by Unix which command? I've been wondering, what is the difference between seek and search? When should one be preferred over the other? I have upgraded 14.04 to 16.04 . Now I am trying to open the gedit from terminal by passing the command:    sudo gedit /some/where/file.txt   but it is throwing an error stating that:    (gedit:2090): Gtk-WARNING : Calling Inhibit failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown:   The name org.gnome.SessionManager was not provided by any .service files**   However, it is opening the file. When I try to save any modification then it is showing this error after saving the file:    (gedit:2090): WARNING : Set document metadata failed: Setting attribute metadata::gedit-position not supported   I am not getting why this is happening in 16.04 only; it was not on 14.04. .NET Attributes: Why does GetCustomAttributes() make a new attribute instance every time? So I was playing around a little more with attributes in .NET, and realized that every call to Type.GetCustomAttributes() creates a new instance of my attribute. Why is that? I would think that the attribute instance would basically be a singleton-per-MemberInfo, with 1 instance bound to the Type, PropertyInfo, etc...  Here is my test code:  using System;  namespace AttribTest { [AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Class)] class MyAttribAttribute : Attribute {     public string Value { get; set; }      public MyAttribAttribute()         : base()     {         Console.WriteLine("Created MyAttrib instance");     } }  [MyAttrib(Value = "SetOnClass")] class MyClass { }  class Program {     static void Main(string[] args)     {         Console.WriteLine("Getting attributes for MyClass.");         object[] a = typeof(MyClass).GetCustomAttributes(false);         ((MyAttribAttribute)a[0]).Value = "a1";          Console.WriteLine("Getting attributes for MyClass.");         a = typeof(MyClass).GetCustomAttributes(false);         Console.WriteLine(((MyAttribAttribute)a[0]).Value);          Console.ReadKey();     } } }   Now if I were to implement attributes, I would expect the output to be:  Created MyAttrib instance Getting attributes for MyClass. Getting attributes for MyClass. a1   Where the "class loader" (sorry, I have more of a Java background, not 100% sure how .net loads its types) would compile MyClass, and create an instance of MyAttribAttribute, and store them together somewhere. (probably the Perm Gen in the heap if this were Java) The 2 calls to GetCustomAttributes() would then just return the same earlier created instance.  But the actual output is:  Getting attributes for MyClass. Created MyAttrib instance Getting attributes for MyClass. Created MyAttrib instance SetOnClass   So... why? It seems like creating a new instance of all these objects for every call is a bit excessive, and not good for performance/memory management.  Is there any way to always get the same instance over and over?  Anyone have any ideas why it was designed this way?  The reason I care at all is because I made a custom attribute that internally holds some validation information, so in the Attribute I basically have a "private bool Validated" that I set to true. The validation stuff takes a while, so I don't want to run it every time. Now the problem is that since it creates a new instance of the attribute each time I get the attributes, Validated is always "false". How does Austria's suspension of Schengen affect travellers (both EU and non-EU)? I'm an Italian citizen. Next Sunday I'm going to Austria. I have a national ID card but no passport. Recently Austria suspended Schengen. So can I enter Austria? Is "singular noun + and + singular noun" singular or plural? When I type "[singular noun] and [singular noun]" in Word 2010, I find some interesting things.        Bread and butter is essential. (the auto-correction warns me of subject-verb disagreement.)   Bread and butter are essential. (OK)   A knife and fork is on the table. (OK)   A knife and fork are on the table. (OK)   The needle and thread is new. (OK)   The needle and thread are new. (OK)   Cost and revenue is directly linked. (OK)   Cost and revenue are directly linked. (OK)      I wonder how a native speaker would consider this phenomenon. I'm an elected diamond moderator on one site, and a user of several others. I think it would be extremely helpful for our flagging process if users had the option to enter freeform text explaining their flag on types of flags other than the "in need of moderator attention" flag.  An example of when this is relevant: Sometimes posts have had rude/abusive flags, but the rude/abusive part might be difficult to notice, or it might be a single word or sentence buried somewhere in the middle of the post. Users have to choose between "flag it as rude with no explanation" or "flag it as misc and explain what's going on". Often they'll pick the first because of course it seems like what they should do (e.g. they know the system has special handling attached to rude/abusive flags) but it means they can't explain what's going on to us, so we have to reach out directly in private to find out.  Sometimes it also helps to be able to explain why a comment is no longer needed, because past experience tells me the "no longer needed" flag on its own might be declined on a particular site -- so I pick the custom reason instead of "no longer needed" just so I can provide explanation.  I'd prefer users be able to understand they can pick the appropriate reason and be able to attach any explanation they deem necessary to further direct moderators to the issue. If not for all kinds of flags, then at least for spam or rude/abusive flags. I have seen many questions like:      My question is: what happens if you receive this money (without doing anything or giving your bank account number) but do not do anything scammer wants?  I especially want to know about what happens with the money you got and possible legal consequences.    Is it considered yours because scammer transfered it to you? Do you have to return it? If yes, to whom and in what form? And finally, how is it that scammers are just sending money to random people? Aren't they scared that someone will simply not return it? I understand that this may be stolen money, but it surely took some effort (cash/time) to "acquire" it, so why are they just sending it away? Do you know a good way to compare PDF files side-by-side and show the modifications between the two?  I'm looking for Windows software to accomplish this. It would be great if you can post both free and not-free products. How to prove the set $S$ is closed under the binary operation $a*b=a+b+kab$? Let $k$ be any nonzero real number and let $S$ be all real numbers except ${-1\over k}$. Let $a,b \in S$. Define * on S by $a*b=a+b+kab$. Prove that $S$ is closed under *.  All I can think to do is set $a*b$ equal to ${-1\over k}$, but I don't know where to go from there. Is that the extent of the proof?