if the evolution makes the species better then why the leaf and trees are not black??  black colour absorbs more ligth than simply the green color so a black plant should make photosinthesis better then why aren't the plants black ?
I know plants are green due to chlorophyll.  Surely it would be more beneficial for plants to be red than green as by being green they reflect green light and do not absorb it even though green light has more energy than red light.  Is there no alternative to chlorophyll? Or is it something else?
Why can we use sample variance of the treatment group to estimate population variance of the controls? This plant was found growing in Germany. I have never seen it before, reverse Google image search did not help either. Can you help me identify what type of plant this is?      Thanks, looks like it is something like this:    Related question: story on forest timescale I'm looking for the title of a short story by Ursula Le Guin about a scientist (?) who is given a drug that slows the timescale of his perception enormously, so that he can perceive that an alien (?) forest is actually behaving as a sentient being, reacting to current events, but at an enormously slow (from a normal human point of view) timescale. It might be in , but I don't remember the title (and it doesn't jump out at me from the list of titles) and don't have access to that collection right now. It is not &quot;The Word for World is Forest&quot;, nor &quot;Direction of the Road&quot; (from ), nor &quot;Vaster than Empires and More Slow&quot;, the latter two of which look at similar plant perception/time-scale issues. Update: it turns out that the description was right, but I had most of the details wrong: not Le Guin, not alien, not a scientist ... Alternatives to Shapefiles as open-source, cross platform dataset types So far I've proved the following:   $2n \geq \ln(2n) &gt; \ln(n+2)$   for $n \geq 3 $  The proof must be without the use of calculus but I have no idea on how to proceed. Suppose $K \subset L$ is a finite field extension of degree $m$. Is it true that there exists some natural $n$ such that $L$ is isomorphic to a subfield of $M^{n\times n}(K)$, the ring of $n\times n$ matrices with entries in $K$? What is the smallest dimension (as a function of $m$) for which an isomorphism exists?  The example I had in mind was the 2-dimensional extension $\mathbb{R} \subset \mathbb{C}$ with $\mathbb{C}$ being isomorphic to $\{ \begin{pmatrix}a&amp;-b\\b&amp;a\end{pmatrix} : a, b \in \mathbb{R}\}$. In C++/CLI, what does the hat character ^ do? I was reading Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++ 2008 and many of its CLR examples have this definition for main:  int main(array&lt;System::String ^&gt; ^args)   I went back, page by page, to the beginning of the book to find the first such instance with an explanation what it really means, but couldn't find one.  Obviously it means the same as the standard int main(int argc, char *argv[]), but I'd like to know when and why that ^ is really used, and why it even exists (does it do something that pointers * and references &amp; cannot represent)? The meaning of imaginary time What is imaginary (or complex) time? I was reading about Hawking's wave function of the universe and this topic came up. If imaginary mass and similar imaginary quantities do not make sense in physics, why should imaginary (or complex) time make sense?    By imaginary I mean a multiple of $i$, and by complex I mean having a real and an imaginary part, i.e., $\alpha + i\beta$, where $\alpha, \beta \in {\mathbb R}$. Fibonacci sequence emerging from integer partitioning How to find Oracle's installed version and release from a program? How to animate multiple lines I wonder what would be the best way of animating multiple 2 dimensional lines in blender.  Lets say I have lots of line, that are parallel and have some sort of rule, kind of like a PCB board with hundreds of circuits.  The starting frame would be when nothing is visible and during the animation the lines would slowly build up from nothing all the way to the end forming the finished lines.  I have a couple of ideas that might work, but all include heavy hand animation, like:   grease pencil animation, drawing them one by one, converting to curve, then build up modifier some dynamic paint hack   There maybe other more efficient methods that I don't know of and if so, please let me know. public class doublePrecision {     public static void main(String[] args) {          double total = 0;         total += 5.6;         total += 5.8;         System.out.println(total);     } }   The above code prints:  11.399999999999   How would I get this to just print (or be able to use it as) 11.4? Is there a way to disable access to certain Settings components? In s08e03 we see Melisandre and Arya meet for the second time after Season 3 when Melisandre said to Arya back then:     "I see a darkness in you. And in that darkness, eyes staring back at me. Brown eyes, blue eyes, green eyes. Eyes you'll shut forever. We will meet again. "   I think Blue Eyes referred to the Night King and the White Walkers since we saw Arya killing the Night King in s08e03.   I also believe that Brown Eyes referred to Walder Frey who was also killed by Arya back in Season 6.    But where do the Green Eyes reffer to? I don't remember her executing any important character with green eyes. My guess is that:       they reffer to Cersei. Do you think that  the prophecy implies that she is going to bring her hateful enemy down somehow? Suppose a gambler starts with one dollar and plays a game in which he or she wins one dollar with probability $p$ and loses one dollar with probability $1 - p$. Let $f_{n}$ be the probability that he or she first becomes broke at time $n$ for $n = 0, 1, 2\ldots$. Find a generating function for these probabilities.  Is it binomial distribution $?$ and then use the $\operatorname{mx}\left(s\right) = rx\left(\mathrm{e}^{s}\right)$ of the binomial distribution $?$. Help$\ldots!$. I am correcting my quiz. Why does $\sqrt{n\sqrt{n\sqrt{n \ldots}}} = n$? Ok, so I've been playing around with radical graphs and such lately, and I discovered that if the   nth x = √(1st x √ 2nd x ... √nth x);   Then  $$\text{the "infinith" } x = x$$  Example:   $$\sqrt{4\sqrt{4\sqrt{4\sqrt{4\ldots}}}}=4$$ Try it yourself, type calc in Google search, hit  then a number, such as $4$, and repeat, ending with $4$, (or press the buttons instead).  I'm a math-head, not big enough though, I think this sequence is divergent or convergent or whatever, too lazy to search up the difference.  However, can this be explained to me? Like how the Pythagorean Theorem can be explained visually. I would like to know if it is possible to not get penalised by google for changing the subject of a category entirely. I would like to swap a category that I have built on a webpage, for one with a more relevant (as of now) topic. Changing description, content and title etc... would this destroy my SEO? It has amassed backlinks of great quantity and quality over the course of time and I seriously would not like to have them wasted or passed with internal links as the page itself is invaluable. Assume anchors to my webpage were all &quot;&lt;empty&gt;&quot; for convenience purposes. They are nothing particularly descriptive. Does text in brackets invoke the "an" vs. "a" rule? Shortcut to view wireless networks in Windows 7 Does anyone know how to create a shortcut which opens the wireless networks dialog box in Windows 7?  I'm looking for a shortcut that takes me directly to the window which shows you the available wireless networks around you. Within, between or overall R-square for random effects in Stata