Mathematics "makes sense" at our scope of view. For example, gravity seems to obey the fact that it accelerates at a rate of 9.8 meters a second^2. However, when an object drops, the force of gravity is too weak to overcome the electrostatic force - so it never reaches 0.   Could we say then, we "discover physics"? We describe certain equations for the physical phenomena that is happening? Couloub discovered his equations that led to the above conclusion.  Also, why don't we see a bright sky at "night"? Because of physics (universe expansion, etc).  My question is, how can we depend on mathematics 100% in physics if it leads to obstacles like these? Instead, if we took it with a large grain of salt, it could work.
Suppose we view fluids classically, i.e., as a collection of molecules (with some finite size) interacting via e&amp;m and gravitational forces. Presumably we model fluids as continuous objects that satisfy some differential equation. What mathematical result says that modeling fluids as continuous objects can accurately predict the discrete behavior of the particles? I don't know anything about fluid mechanics, so my initial assumption may in itself be wrong.
According to , the SE chat sites may have individual Easter eggs, depending on the site. If you find them, please post. Because it's so easy to make this stuff up, a screenshot as proof would be nice. (Although Photoshop isn't that hard either...) This story was in one of the first SF anthologies I ever read, in the mid-1960s. A meteor lands near to a house. The householder finds it and carries it into his house (meteor is grapefruit/football sized). It’s actually a crashed spaceship, crewed by beings the size of beetles or cockroaches. They emerge, and are spotted by the householder, who of course thinks they’re insects, but notices one seems to be holding a tiny tube. He reaches towards it and the alien shoots his hand (the tube being a gun, of course), stinging him. I can’t recall how the story ends, but I’d love to know what the story was called, and who its author was, as I’m trying to assemble a list of the early SF that fired my enthusiasm for the genre. Make it possible to retract comment flags I misread the content of a comment, and flagged it. Then I realized that the comment wasn't what I had initially thought. Would it be possible to have the ability to retract comment flags, just like we have the ability to retract flags on questions and answers?  I'm aware of this &#32;. But the answer there is just that it's not possible. At the time it was not possible to retract any flags.   This is a separate  which requests that it may become possible to retract comment flags.  If I've realized a flag was a mistake, I think it's unnecessary to keep it in the queue of content the moderators have to look at. Also, it would add an unnecessary "rejected" to the flaggers statistics. Sure, people should think before they flag. But everyone makes mistakes sometimes. I'm having serious problems installing the Broadcom drivers for Ubuntu. It worked perfectly on my previous version, but now, it is impossible.   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Redirect non-www requests to www on Amazon Route 53 I want to redirect all requests from example.com to www.example.com.   Preferably, this should happen at DNS level. I tried using PTR records, but that simply fails, returning a 404.  wwww.example.com is an ALIAS for an Elastic Load Balancer.  What’s the simplest way to achieve this? How can I force SQL Server Management Studio to update the IntelliSense cache? IntelliSense in SSMS isn't updating unless I shut it down and restart. I've tried disconnecting from the server and reconnecting while the SSMS session is active, but that isn't working.  Steps to recreate:    Create a table  Select something from that table SSMS displays squiggly red lines under it with the tip "invalid object name" Execute the query   How can I force IntelliSense to update without restarting SSMS? In Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (the one from 1982, not the recent remake), Khan yells "This is Ceti Alpha V!" and they're all like this is a big surprise, we didn't know.  If they had previously charted the planet, wouldn't the computer have told them the planets weren't quite where they should be based on earlier visits? I mean, we can predict the next hundred transits of Venus, shouldn't 23rd century explorers be able to predict where the Ceti planets are less than twenty years after their first visit? Make Firefox save new bookmarks in the Bookmarks Menu (not Other Bookmarks) Recently, Firefox has changed the default folder for newly created bookmarks (using Ctrl+D) from the Bookmarks Menu to "Other Bookmarks".  Is there some way to change that back? Or some alternate method instead of Ctrl+D?  EDIT  A native way to do this (without an add-on) would be best. Is there a way to get new dwellers with higher than normal stats? How can I "group by" and sum a column in excel? I'm trying to figure out how to "group by" values in an Excel spreadsheet.  Given the following example (this is an inventory sheet I use at my restaurant:)    At the far right of the spreadsheet there is a column named Cost of Goods Sold.  I would like to be able to come up with a total COGS figure for each Category.  Is this possible in excel? Moreover, I'd like to do it in a separate worksheet so that the first worksheet (what is pictured) isn't affected.  Any ideas?  Thanks! As most of you know, in the Microsoft Store, there are . This means that on Windows I can emulate Ubuntu and have the Ubuntu command line directly on Windows.  The question is very easy: what can’t I do from the Ubuntu command line emulated in Windows that I can do on a proper Linux-based Ubuntu? Is it useful to download this Ubuntu application, install it, and work just with it instead of the real OS? Is it possible to install all the development libraries? Can I write (or not) device drivers? 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I am being lead to believe this is possible:  A URL on the Force.Com Sidebar Menu which references data from the currently open page.  i.e., /{!recordId}?nooverride=1    However, this does not work.  The brackets simply turn into percent encoded references on the resultant page.  Is it possible to pass information onto a URL on the Force.Com sidebar? DateTime.TryParse century control C#