Was the  "Zero Factor"  just a myth?
345835
From 1840 to 2000, every President of the United States elected in a year ending in zero has died in office [or had an attempt made on his life]. "Astrologers theorize that the 'zero factor' has to do with the conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn which meet every twenty years on the same degree of the zodiac.\nWilliam Henry Harrison 1840 - April 4, 1841 pneumonia ;\nAbraham Lincoln 1860 - April 15, 1865 assassinated; \nJames Abram Garfield 1880 - September 19,1881 assassinated ;\nWilliam McKinley 1900 -  September 14, 1901 assassinated; \nWarren Gamaliel Harding 1920 - August 2, 1923 stroke ;\nFranklin Delano Roosevelt 1940 - April 12, 1945 cerebral hemorrhage; \nJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy 1960 - November 22, 1963 assassinated.\n\nPresident Ronald Wilson Reagan, elected in 1980, survived an assassination attempt on 3-30-81\n\ni dont know. I studied about that in history class. In our class it wasn't a myth. Just a theory . It is kinda weird though.
523398
yes it is.\n\ni forget why, though.\n\nfactorials is basically taking the number that they give (i.e. 5!) and just multiplying it by every positive integer below it (5*4*3*2*1)\n\ni guess 0! is 1 because you never multiply 0, so it has to be 1?
462646
I have heard it as oughts. Which is the term for zeros.\nIt's a tough one to name, along with the tens. All the other decades are easy.\nI suppose the tens decade might work, but that's not that great. How about the first decade then the second? Then happily we go into the thirties.
198829
THANK GOD SOMEBODY FINALLY SAID IT!\n\nFear Factor is the worst... these reality shows are such crap in my opinion. They "dumb down" the art that was once television.
124492
nope, just an urban legend. Same as people with pickup trucks driving with the tailgate down to reduce wind resistance (that one was actually proven to take more gas by the guys on Mythbusters)
1161949
In a cascading gravity-driven collapse (the "pancake theory"), each floor of the building should have offered at least a modicum of resistance before giving way, with the inertia of the increasing debris forcing itself through less and less resistance as the towers fell.\n\nThe WTC buildings falling at free-fall speed can only be explained by a lack of resistance in any intervening floors all the way to the foundation, meaning complete simultaneous (or rapidly sequential) instant failure of most support and core columns.  Before and after 9/11, this has only been achieved in a controlled demolition environment.\n\nTesting of metal samples of the core columns with supporting evidence of molten metal found at the site 3 weeks AFTER 9/11 have shown large quantities of thermate by-products, an acid-like cutting agent where a very small amount can be used to cut cleanly through metal.  This analysis has been conducted using WTC steel samples provided for WTC memorials at 3 separate universities and is quite conclusive, moreso than DNA evidence.\n\nWith the scientific evidence clearly stacked on the side of "controlled demolition", the greatest obstacle to any 9/11 Truth movement is the psychological factor.  Most people just don't understand science and are quite afraid of it, easily able to dismiss it when any fast-talking pundit counters with a senseless 15-second sound bite.  Most Americans have been thoroughly conditioned to this "hard science is just another opinion" mentality that is making us a joke in the rest of the world, and thoroughly helping our business competitors in the world to import our jobs.
1040908
Zero is not that intuitive and was ‘invented’ for at least two reasons (and not at the same time). It is a place holder like in 10 but we cam also say that 10 is X in which case we do not need a place holder. It other application it represents 'nothing'. What is nothing? cayou imagine 0 pencils? What color are they, what shape? If you think carefully it becomes an uncomfortable concept. It took zero to appear before mankind for quite sometime.
386420
No! That is absolute bunk. Check out the highly entertaining Myth Busters episode on this subject.
780820
NO it is NOT true\nThis is a very common misconception and urban legend.\nsee:\n\nhttp://pomonahistorical.org/12times.htm\n\nhttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/Folding.html
1143349
No, it is an urban myth.\n\nWhile for the people who repeat that myth, it's probably true, the rest of us happily use all of our brains.
469511
To quote dilbert: "Early Civilisations never had a concept of zero" (hey, you wanted it thorough right?) And they started the number system at one. .... Hmm, pretty much the panel cuts out... \nRemember, the ones and zeros are really the positive and negative polaritys on a magnetic disk. That is the key to your computer informations. Do not take a magnet to your computer.
251506
of your choices, the one "no heat engine can be 100% efficient" is most correct, isn't it? But doesn't it primarily derive from second law, and the third law is that "absolute zero" is unattainable? [though in a tiny space, the University of Florida is testing a theory that a random tiny state would be possible, at "no motion", hence, absolute zero]
72303
The short answer is no. \n\nIn science, it is important that results be repeatable. This is especially true when dealing with some phenomenon like cold fusion which appears to violate all the principles that we understand. \n\nPons and Fleishman and others tried to reproduce the observations, and were unable to do so reliably. A recent review by the Department of Energy of 15 years of research and efforts in the field reached the conclusion that this phenomenon does not exist, or at least cannot be verified.
517258
No.\nThere is none.\nBut there are a bunch of reasons to believe it as fiction.
1108553
I believe it is false.  You can go onto Snopes.com and check it out.  They debunk many of these urban legends.
1041749
Not as far as I know. I'm currently studying Physics at Uni and  studied thermodynamics last year. Negative Kelvins don't really make sense - 0 degrees Kelvin is a sort of absolute zero in terms of temperature.\n\nScientists still aren't able to cool anything down to 0 degrees Kelvin (approx. -273.15 degrees Centigrade) and have only come as far as about one hundredth of a degree, if I recall correctly.\n\nIf anyone gets a negative result in Kelvins, they most likely have done something very wrong. Either that or the person has miraculously solved one of science's biggest problems. :D If so, I suggest you go on to discovering the United Theory.
214995
I think the explanation you quote is accurate. It isn't as "romantic" or mysterious as the ones you hear discussed on shows like Coast To Coast with Art Bell/George Nori, but it makes a whole lot more sense.\n\nSorry kids, reality and scientifc explanations aren't much fun are they?