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May 13

Fluid in vagina upon sexual arousal

When you finger a girl's vagina and it becomes wet, what is the name for the fluid that you feel in there? 2601:18A:C500:E830:DDE4:FB37:5AA9:F249 (talk) 04:15, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Vaginal lubrication is a naturally produced fluid during sexual arousal. It is produced by the Bartholin's gland and/or Skene's gland. Adding the comfort of a Personal lubricant is often appreciated particularly by women affected by vaginal dryness. Philvoids (talk) 08:32, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Physics and category theory

Would Category theory help explain relativity and quantum mechanics?Rich (talk) 04:54, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The articles Theory of relativity and Introduction to quantum mechanics give well-written introductions to present knowledge and its history. No final consensus has been reached on Interpretations of quantum mechanics or the sought-after Theory of everything to unify general relativity and quantum mechanics. Category theory offers math tools to frame the problem but is not helpful to a newcomer. Philvoids (talk) 08:51, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

John C. Baez and Aaron Lauda have applied category theory to these topics:

John C. Baez, Aaron Lauda. "A Prehistory of n-Categorical Physics", Chapter 1 of Deep Beauty, pp. 13–128, Cambridge University Press, 2011.

A preprint on arXiv can be accessed here.  ​‑‑Lambiam 10:12, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hawthorne Math and Science Academy

Is there any evidence that the Hawthorne Math and Science Academy really had a founding principal named Pete Zahut? It sounds like a bad pun based on Pizza Hut, and I can't find any more references to him on the Web, through googling. 2601:644:4301:D1B0:9CFA:E37B:87FE:E7A7 (talk) 18:09, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Looks like the name was changed by an IP editor in This 2018 edit claimed as a typo correction. Seems likely to me that it's simple vandalism. I've gone ahead and corrected the name to the one included prior to that user's edit. Amstrad00 (talk) 18:49, 13 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Just...wow. I checked out that IP, and in this edit, they claim "Fixed grammar", when in reality it's straight-out vandalism. 2601:644:4301:D1B0:9CFA:E37B:87FE:E7A7 (talk) 08:41, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I like your metaphor! 2A02:C7C:3764:A900:9029:B30E:9054:574 (talk) 13:06, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

"Pete Zahut", eh? Sounds like a cousin of Jabba. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 16:45, 14 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]