Duros001

Duros001 t1_j66m2rq wrote

I don’t know if there is a marked difference in density, but I would presume the air is colder (and therefor denser) at night, so a 15mph breeze of denser air has more mass than 15mph of warmer air. That coupled with the sun heating the ground and causing Eddys and other disruptions during the daytime could all be contributing factors

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Duros001 t1_j2vp2y3 wrote

True, but the interstitial pressure of a compound or emulsion is also dependent of the presence of micelles, as I presume tar is made up of various length hydrocarbons, some of which will be relatively short chain oils, among a soup of other organic compounds

Plus there are several types of “Tar” Pitch/Coal Tar are even lumped together on databases: 1.1-1.4 g/cm^3 (https://echa.europa.eu/registration-dossier/-/registered-dossier/15300/4/5) The water content, hydrocarbon lengths etc will depend on so many factors, temp it was refined at, local or actual source of “tar” (pine, coal, peat etc)

It’s almost like we’re trying to generalise a cake mix, made by thousands of different bakers, it contains mostly the same stuff, but will cook totally different :)

Edit: But yes, you are correct that viscosity is greatly affected by particle/molecular size :D thanks for the correction :)

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Duros001 t1_j2r5d2h wrote

Multiple factors all work in concert to make materials sticky, two main ones are Adhesion and Cohesion

Cohesion is the force that causes similar things to stick together, whereas adhesion causes different things to stick together.

Materials like pine tar (pitch etc) have high cohesion and adhesion. Water sticks to other materials (seen as surface tension in droplets on glass for example) so has a slightly high adhesion, but it is easy to pull water away from other water molecules.

Let’s use your fingers stuck together as an example. Pitch tar molecules don’t want to pull away from each other, and are quite closely packed together. This increased viscosity, density and cohesion makes it difficult when mechanically separated for air to be able to get into the material to displace the tar that coating your fingers, so as your fingers separate, it also causes a suction effect, as the air cannot get in to regulate pressure.

All these factors add together to apply mild forces that work together; Viscosity, Density, Adhesion, Cohesion and Suction

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Duros001 t1_j1i6tn4 wrote

You’re talking about time dilation

Almost an imperceptible time difference, but time is relative so a second will still “feel” like a second, you won’t feel different in the moment. If you start two stop watches and send one to the ISS for 1-2 years and bring it back to earth to compare to the “twin stopwatch”, we’re talking maybe a fraction of a second difference.

Send that stop watch to the very edge of a black holes event horizon and bring it back, we could be talking seconds, days or years, depends on a lot of factors.

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Duros001 t1_irp5q5v wrote

When the cones get over stimulated/saturated with red and green (or should I say when the red cones and green cones get over saturated/stimulated) (after being in the sun out in he garden say) and we come inside and it seems a blue hue, is it a similar nerve impulse “numbing” that we experience when we chew gum? (As in after a while the flavour wears off, but take it out, have a drink of water, then put it back in and chew it the flavour comes back)? I understand one is to protect the nerves (cone situation) am the other is to detect flavours behind overwhelming ones (mint gum), but I wonder if the impulse is blocked at the eye/olfactory, or the brain itself that actually blocks them out?

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Duros001 t1_ir9vg5p wrote

…we are sort of (exactly) made from cells…they have very important key jobs, and if they stop doing that it’s bad enough, let alone when they screw up, start doing their own thing and refuse to die.

Imagine in a city if a random building just started filling with solid foam, then the buildings next to it did the same (terrible analogy ofc, lol) how long until that street is useless? The section of the city? The whole city? The whole district?

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