Most visible mass emerges from QCD, while elementary masses involve Higgs couplings.
Claim:
Mass is an emergent phenomenon rather than an intrinsic property of fundamental entities.
SOME BS
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Newtonian physics treated mass, time, and momentum as physical fundamentals.
Claim:
Core properties invoked in physicalist or materialist metaphysics, including mass, time, momentum, and color, cannot be ontologically reduced to an underlying substrate that would count as traditionally physical under Newtonian or…
MOSTLY BS
BPI guarantees a point in every product of nonempty compact Hausdorff spaces.
Claim:
In set theory without the axiom of choice but assuming the Boolean prime ideal theorem, every product of nonempty compact Hausdorff spaces is nonempty.
NOT BS
In ZF, compact Hausdorff Tychonoff equals the Boolean prime ideal theorem.
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The Boolean prime ideal theorem is equivalent, in Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory without the axiom of choice, to Tychonoff's theorem for compact Hausdorff spaces.
NOT BS
The abc conjecture remains unproven and disputed among mathematicians.
Claim:
The abc conjecture in number theory is true.
TOTAL BS
Single-trait models can miss joint changes in body shape and condition.
Claim:
Standard univariate linear models analyze traits separately and can fail to detect multivariate changes in body shape or somatic condition, including changes in mass-to-girth ratios.
HARDLY BS
Robbins algebras satisfy the axioms of Boolean algebra.
Claim:
Every Robbins algebra is a Boolean algebra.
NOT BS
Green eyes occur in approximately 2% of the global population.
Claim:
Approximately 2% of the global population has green eyes.
HARDLY BS
A tabloid report recast speculative UFO observations as a possible lunar base.
Claim:
Scientists warned that there is a secret base on the Moon after a giant fleet of UFOs was spotted on the Moon's surface, as reported by the Daily Mail.
HARDLY BS
The Dead Sea shoreline is Earth’s lowest exposed land surface point.
Claim:
The Dead Sea is the lowest point on Earth's land surface.
NOT BS
Dolphins descend from terrestrial mammals whose lineage later became fully aquatic.
Claim:
Dolphins evolved from terrestrial (land-dwelling) mammals whose ancestors later returned to living in the water.
NOT BS
Solder wetting primarily depends on flux-driven oxide removal, not sodium silicate.
Claim:
Sodium silicate solution (water glass), used in glass bonding, can help tin-based solder (solder wire or solder paste) bond during soldering because high temperature increases molecular motion and directly lowers the surface tension of tin.
MOSTLY BS
At full buildout, 24 hours of waste heat equals about 23 Hiroshima bombs.
Claim:
A new data center in Utah will release waste heat and energy into the atmosphere each day equivalent to the energy of 23 atomic bombs.
HARDLY BS
Most estimates put adult T. rex food needs at roughly 17–140 kg daily.
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An adult Tyrannosaurus rex needed to eat about 700 kilograms of meat per day to avoid starvation.
TOTAL BS
Fairbairn (1997) is widely cited as a methodological framework for sexual size dimorphism analyses.
Claim:
Fairbairn (1997) is a widely cited methodological reference for measuring sexual size dimorphism.
NOT BS
Lovich and Gibbons (1992) is a classic starting point for sexual size dimorphism metrics.
Claim:
The publication by Lovich and Gibbons from 1992 is the best reference for analyzing sexual size dimorphism.
MOSTLY BS
Twee Rivieren station data show about 0.040°C per year warming (1960–2009).
Claim:
Station-based observations from the Kgalagadi/Kalahari Gemsbok National Park area show that the mean annual maximum temperature in the Kgalagadi region increased by about 0.039°C per year (about 1.6°C over 40 years).
HARDLY BS
Large-bodied animals face higher energy and heat-management costs in low-resource environments.
Claim:
As prey biomass declines with vegetation productivity and thermal load increases, the energetic cost of maintaining a large body mass in a low-resource environment increases.
HARDLY BS
Some sexually selected traits reduce heat tolerance, survival, or performance under thermal stress.
Claim:
Thermal selection and sexual selection can act in opposite directions in shaping organismal phenotypes.
NOT BS
Thermal stress generally suppresses testosterone and impairs male reproductive physiology.
Claim:
In males living in the Kalahari environment, elevated circulating testosterone indicates that a sexual-selection-related physiological axis remains active in the population despite thermal stressors.
TOTAL BS
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