Starship Asterisk*

As usual, Harry is ignoring all the evidence that is less than convenient for his cause. See previous posts in this thread by ckam - time dilation has been measured, and conforms to the expectations of SR within the limits of experimental error (and necessary corrections for GR effects). Also, if yo...

Nereid wrote:The link in this post crashed my browser.
Can you please check it, Michael?

I'm not Michael, but the link is working fine for me

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Hello All Wadsworth said what makes the rate of decay decrease as speed/motion increase!? Does it? Gawd Harry! The experiments that prove this are too mumerous to mention. They involve things like cosmic ray obsevations, synchronised (atomic) clocks, even the corrections required for the GPS system...

NeoEspiritus wrote:Why is is that we can get crystal-clear images of galaxies millions of light-years away and nebulae hundreds of light years away, but all the images of something a couple hundred million miles away come back looking like sonogram pictures? Someone please enlighten me!!

See this thread

The bit about spaghettification is not necessarily correct either. Spaghettification is a result of the force of Gravity being stronger at you toes than your head (your toes are closer the the centre of the Earth - or the black hole). If the black hole is sufficiently large, this difference is negli...

To suggest that the universe has a shape implies that it has boundaries/limitations. This, in turn, implies that there exists something beyond the shape that “it” is not part of :!: Er - no. This is difficult to discuss because it is outside our normal perceptions, and our vocabulary cannot cope wi...

If the universe is expanding like a balloon; we should still be able to see beyond that with good enough telescopes. I don't see why not. :? My post was very poorly written. Sorry about that. Qev's post is much better. Have a look at this article . The explanation is about the same as that which Qe...

Thanks for your input astro_uk. I wish the JWST was now. If there was a BB; we should be able to see the edge of our universe. You're assuming the universe has an edge. That would be true if it was shaped like an expanding sphere (3D object). However, if it is shaped more like the expanindg skin of...

craterchains wrote:From a real astronomer.
http://www.lpod.org/?m=20060915

And this is significant...
..how?
I see impact events that happen to be separated in time, but not in space.

Do your own research work astro.

astro's response says it all.

It would seem that "mass less" particle would be bound to gain infinite velocity and always travel along straight lines in that theory.... That's why yez gotta use limits :wink: The Gravitational force on a massless particle is zero a=F/m=0/0=??? I mean different thing. Suppose there's ma...

Hi ckam, I would like to re-iterate my "newtonian" equation: hv (or any amount of photon kinetic energy) = mc^2/2. I don't like this approach. Not because it is any less valid than mine (or indeed the rest of the discussion). But for purely aesthetic reasons: Classically KE=mv^2/2 and p=mv...

But how would you explain it if you didn't know about relativity? How could Newton have explained it? and later But I don't think we can make an argument about it using relativity-talk. This is more of an historical question. You don't need to invoke relativity to get an (albeit incorrect) explanat...

thus by mistake we also learned that electricity flows from - to +, an exact oposite of what all the previous text books said This is true only in materials that conduct electricity with electrons or negatively charged ions - such as metals and n-type semiconductors . In materials that conduct elec...

Theories have been proven wrong (including Harry's, he just doesn't know it yet)... I've been trying to figure Harry out - and can't. He doesn't seem to have a religious agenda, so I'm inclined to think that he tries to understand the information presented using an intuitive or common sense approac...

mybluecowboy wrote:Is there any one formula, theory, hypothesis, or observation about the begining (or lack therof) of the universe that is unequivicably absolute?

(My emphasis)
That would be Faith or Religion. It is not astronomy, cosmology or Physics.

johnnyc8 wrote:....methane is an outrageously flammable substance...

In a methane atmosphere, free oxygen is by necessity rare. So to a native of Titan Oxygen is the flammable substance (since Oxygen burns in a methane atmosphere).

I agree. (It's easy to say "they ought to....") Once the existing mess is cleaned up, there are ways to keep on top of it. Of course, it needs someone with Moderator rights to do this (no, I'm not volunteering - just offering up ideas for consideration). I believe there is a phpBB hack ava...

Except maybe this one and this one which were named clouds.
On a clear night in the right place they are spectacular - even to the naked eye.

Dunno if anyone's posted this link (I've only skimmed the thread):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed_of_gravity
According to wikipedia spd of Gravity = c

It is unnerving just how many pass so close to earth! (though, they cant be *that* close because i notice their paths of travel are not visibly altered by Earth's gravity) Not close at all. The scale is such that there is a noticeable curve in the Earth's orbit. [Opinion-guess]At this scale the Ear...

dcmcp wrote:[I can't give you any references....

I can now give you a place to start: Today's APOD


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...is if there is some study on whether could be any kind of life form known to us that could survive under harsh environmental conditions, as the conditions found in Capella System (for example I discovered that their stars are much more brighter than our sun and that their x-ray emmisions are ver...

IAround 6am (Pacific Standard Time) in southern California, where I live. I saw a star that looked like a planet move from left to right and then get brighter and smaller 3 times. I've seen this sort of thing once or twice. Usually close to the horizon. The most likely explanation is atmospheric ef...

These occur regularly on the Australian Gulf of Carpentaria, where thye are called the Morning Glory. Those crazy Aussies take switch back rides on them, in microlights! See: http://home.iprimus.com.au/budmartin/frank/Aerial%20Worx%20Morning%20Glory.htm Jon More on the Morning Glory and other (Aust...