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Lyndeead t1_j2zrs0f wrote

Do you mean antibodies? Antibodies are the proteins that mark antigens (foreign material) as non self and tag it for destruction.

Everyone has a different library of antibodies/immunoglobulins. If you are comparing two people, one may have antibodies to antigens the other does not have (think vaccinated vs non vaccinated unexposed.) The two may also have structurally distinct antibodies but target the same antigen (like two people who get the same illness and develop an immune response and recover. There are also some antibodies that are the same between people, (like between a mother and neonate with antibodies that cross the placenta or are carried in breast milk.)

That’s my simplest explanation.

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Clean-Economics-8900 t1_j2zp5fw wrote

"The bass" is not separately encoded Ion it's own channel. However it is true that the signal pressed onto a vinyl record is not the original source signal, but it's pre-filtered with the RIAA response curve, effectively dampening low frequencies. During playback, a preamplifier stage reverts that filtering to reconstruct the original waveform.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIAA_equalization

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Redbelly98 t1_j2zg3bh wrote

Not quite. There is no law that says the energy must be zero. That was just a starting assumption in order to arrive at some kind of answer.

What Conservation of Energy says is that the total energy (potential + kinetic) does not change as the body moves toward Earth. If it starts at zero energy, then the energy remains zero. But the energy could have started with some other value too.

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