The h Bar

3:00 AM

@ChrisWhite Sorry, I am not blaming you. I have no problem with the number of retagging everyday, and it indeed show interesting questions in front page. But you two should avoid posting at the same time.

hwlau

3:11 AM

@DavidZaslavsky wow, three people down votes that question after retagging (I havent), people here seems not like that question.

David Zaslavsky

4:07 AM

@hwlau wait, you mean it went from +2 to -1?

The one about astrophotography that you linked?

That only shows one downvote and no upvotes

hwlau

4:31 AM

Yes, it did show +2. I leave for four hours and then open a new one. In comparison, the only difference are the the vote go from +2 to -1, an new comment and close message. Probably someone retract their votes later???

The astro data dump also show that the score is 2. It seems like a bug

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David Zaslavsky

@hwlau Yeah, that is weird

I thought I was just imagining the +2 that was there before

Maybe when the question was migrated, the score field was just copied over directly, but then when it got the automatic downvote from being closed, the system recalculated the votes, and since the two people who had upvoted it on astro.SE don't have accounts on Physics (I'm guessing), it realized those votes didn't actually exist

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Q: Parallel universe and Infinite monkey theorem

Is the Infinite monkey theorem helpful for determining the existence of the very same our universe somewhere else?

There's one that can use actual close votes, if people think it should be closed (it already has flags)

The-Ever-Kid

5:00 AM

This is a trivial query so I didn't want to ask it on the main site : Which one of these represents the Atomic mass and which one the Nuclear mass : m(X^A_Z) or m(X^A) , is there a reason for this ?

hwlau

@DavidZaslavsky What it asks is more like a philosophy question. Will they accept this migration?

David Zaslavsky

I dunno, I can check

But first we need to decide whether it's on topic here

hwlau

I think no, but lets see the other people rsponse

@The-Ever-Kid Usually Z means proton number, and A means mass

David Zaslavsky

@The-Ever-Kid The atomic mass number is the same as nuclear mass number (confusingly, neither of them is the actual mass)

The-Ever-Kid

5:20 AM

@DavidZaslavsky actually i had two questions as an assignment one over the other the first one had data with the m(X^a_z) notation the other had data with m(x^a) notation . I got both of them wrong . Some trials later i found that m(X^a) was giving me the Atoms mass in amu and the m(X^a_z) was giving me the nucleus' mass in amu so all i wanted to know was which notation is for which . as the atomic mass in amu includes the electrons so .....

David Zaslavsky

The numbers that are written as superscripts and subscripts are always integers, at least as far as I've ever seen

If you're talking about non-integers, then this might be something to ask on the chemistry site. I suspect that it would be on topic there, but @Manishearth could tell you for sure.