I heard in a YouTube short that the laws of physics limit how fast anything can move in our universe to the speed of light. Which laws are we talking about exactly and how?

It seems like no matter how good or bad a book is, it manages to have that infamous “New York Times Bestseller” sticker. Why? How?

I'm not very tech savvy, so forgive me if this is dumb, but I've been wondering about this. If I'm playing an RTS game, say Starcraft or something, does everything not in front of me on my screen still "exist?" is every unit and building still being processed by my computer just the same? Or in an FPS game is everything in the level, every part of the map, every enemy always there?

This bag of Orville Redenbacher microwave says it is "non-GMO" popcorn. But like, how is that possible? Haven't we changed corn a lot over the last few hundred years to make it better? Through literally modifying its genetics?

I don't understand how purely electronic markets "close" but still are open after hours and prices move?

I've seen several videos over the internet about how people manipulate hex codes of video game files to add extra lives, powerups, maybe even discover a hidden song or sound effect that wasn't present in the actual game's build

From what I understand, hex codes are just the binary machine code of a game or program converted to base16 or hexadecimal so that they're more readable

A game when built might be compressed down by the compiler or assembler, turned into messy stuff that only the computer can understand, especially when it strips away important debug symbols

Not to mention, each cpu has its own microcode. So the hex code is essentially a large dump of the game's code and memory state

How do people even begin to know that a particular hex value at a particular row corresponds to, say, the character's health to apply a cheat? Even if we're modest with snes games, that's atleast 1-4MB of ROM data, many kilo bytes of ram data all to sift through in the form of hex

Heck, I even know modders who tapped into Gran turismo 4's hex code on the damn ps2 to implement a better car-following camera. Now that's beyond impossible to even think, considering just how advanced the ps2 is in comparison

Isn't this like looking for a needle in a haystack?

When I delete a photo or document off my phone/computer, what is the process that is occurring? If I’m thinking of the computer like a “brain” how can I just tell it to forget something?

I understand that by 'observation' we mean the interacting of a measurement device with the experiment, but, the example of the double slit experiment is "macro-logical", ie. we can also in a way, SEE it without a device, but what about the ones which are very small in size and can only be seen with sensitive intruments?

I am relatively savvy with my money but feel like I can do so much more if I were to be focused on it every day. As an example, I keep a large sum of cash for just in case situations whereas I could be earning interest over it or invest it while the market is crashing.

I am 28 - never met or even spoke to a financial advisor. Sounded a bit scary always to pay someone a portion of my wealth - my net worth around 100k to 250k. Let alone most advisors (I found out recently) don't even take you in as a client if you are below $1MM or $500k at least.

Has anyone used a financial advisor/wealth manager? Are you satisfied with the services? What kind of services did you get? Do you have any recommendation who to hire or where to find one?

I know that water gets evaporated and precipitated through rain and snow, and that the salt gets left behind in the ocean, and that some organisms in the ocean use the salt. But considering all the remaining minerals in earth to be washed up into the ocean by rain and snow, will there be a time when the ocean will get too salty for living organisms and human?

I hear all the time “correlation does not equal causation.”

Well what proves causation? If there’s a well-designed study of people who smoke tobacco, and there’s a strong correlation between smoking and lung cancer, when is there enough evidence to say “smoking causes lung cancer”?

I assume it has something to do with the size of the fire, but in what way?

Alright everytime i search something like a product, game items, electronics, jobs, health, life, technology, pets, etc. I always see pros and cons whenever i'm searching something useful, information and other things i like including hobbies, foods, games that there are plenty of information about pros and cons about them and how is this useful in many ways?

Many companies have "humanoid robot carrying a box" or "dog with an arm and "fingers" to open doors and press buttons".
Isn't it easier, less complex, more efficient, less energy consuming, etc to make a box-like robot with forks to carry boxes instead of a humanoid?

Is the dog-version more efficient running than a tank-like robot? If that's the case wouldn't a spider-like be even better, specially for steep hills?

Silicon chips are just transistors that are fundamentally switches. But with a transistor it's set the moment you make them. So when you send a signal it outputs a predetermined signal. Kinda like a read only chip?

Like if you make a water slide a certain path with certain loops, when you ride down it everything is predetermined. You can't remodel the slide without tearing it all down.

How can sending a signal "program" a chip without tearing it all down and reshuffling the "switches"?

If a dog's sense of smell is so sensitive, and smell is so closely linked to taste, why does dog food smell so strongly? Wouldn't it be overwhelming? Shouldn't it be a milder smell/taste?

My partner and I are starting the process of buying a house and have spoken with a couple of lenders. They each have mentioned doing a "soft" hit on our credit now and a "hard" hit later on. What is the difference? What is the impact to our credit scores? What information does the lender gain from each?

Can someone explain how can one country make such a big impact on the stock markets of rest of the world? How did they become so powerful?Do we have any such examples of super economies impacting the trades of the rest of the world by implenting similiar trade rules?

Why is every other country connected to and dependant on USA market? Can any other country like China make such a big impact on the world in near future using similiar tactics?