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- Sun Dec 02, 2007 5:31 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Gibbous Europa (APOD 02 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5993
A lack of craters, that hadn't hit my consciousness. Perhaps Jupiter protects it? All the cracks, cooled off or dried out, or tectonic stress? The one crater looks like our Moon's Tycho, with the same light color material streaking a long ways out from it. Would that make both moons the same underly...
- Thu Nov 29, 2007 1:41 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 28679
How deep is the ocean? (can you cry me a river)
1. Is the universe infinite or finite? 2. Where does the space come from that the universe is expanding into, if it is indeed expanding, and if not expanding, where did it come from to begin with? 3. How did the universe start and how will it end? 1. In Western Philosophy 'either/or' is a favorite p...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:53 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: 'Hole in the Universe'? - Possible Explanation (27 Aug 2007)
- Replies: 72
- Views: 34126
A Voiding another problem in cosmological creationism theory
I can see the newspaper headlines now; Scientists Prove Universe is Swiss Cheese Was God really suffering from an acute case of swiss-cheese-mind when he created everything? Or are these supervoids simply the wavefunction nodes where particles recycle back into the awareable universe from when they ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 6:30 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Time
- Replies: 72
- Views: 19660
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:39 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: how fast do we need to go
- Replies: 59
- Views: 15334
What is the true nature of our Universe and Reality ? . . .
. . . It is all Energy ! Hey Harry, Nice post, great quotes. Since a teenager I have been enamored in thinking about black holes and neutron stars, it's been 40 years, then I read 'The Electric Sky' and it turned me around. The data from observations is falling into a completely different picture, a...
- Mon Nov 26, 2007 6:51 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Moon Over Pigeon Point Lighthouse (APOD 26 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2107
Great photo, and something I knew nothing about in present time. Huell Howser did a PBS California's Gold program on this lighthouse, which I watched, tho I didn't know (or forgot) they did a once a year 'keep it in operating condition' run with the original style light! It sure looks great!!! Perha...
- Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:57 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Time
- Replies: 72
- Views: 19660
If you ask a tree 'What time is it', the reply will be, NOW.
The Time is NOW, . . . the actual time is always NOW. We are always in the eternal NOW. Past and future are constructs by definition, by us. We invented the past and the future, and in thought we'd like to go there. Memory can remember the past, but we can't go there bodily. Imagination can comprehe...
- Sun Nov 25, 2007 9:22 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: how fast do we need to go
- Replies: 59
- Views: 15334
Speed of Light = Ratio of Space to Time for Radiative Energy
To go a little bit out on a limb, I am willing to state the following: Anything containing protons, because of Inertia/Momentum, can never go at the speed of light, or better to call that - the Ratio of Space to Time. Because the Space Field and the Time Field overlap to make the SpaceTime Field, th...
- Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Size of Holmes's Coma (APOD 17 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3609
Many thanks Chris, In terms of Electric Theory, they would hypothesize that Holmes, in its northernmost venturing in its orbit, would possibly be encountering a different area of the solar e-field, and that is the reason Holmes became active. I understand that you, and most of us, have the standard ...
- Wed Nov 21, 2007 6:26 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Size of Holmes's Coma (APOD 17 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3609
Comet Holmes, the asteroid that suddenly became a comet !
Thanks Chris for all the info and your work to gather it. I didn't realize Holmes, (and I appreciate your calling it Holmes and not Comet Holmes) only orbited the Sun between the orbits of Jupiter and Mars, so it therefore does not qualify to be called a Comet, like all the media is calling it. (mor...
- Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:34 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Mainstream Journal "Science" Debunking DarkMatter
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8818
Craterchains, Personally I find the alien weapons concept 'less likely' rather than 'more probable', but that doesn't mean it is 'impossible' or 'it can't happen here'. So, personal intuitions aside, what are these 'weapons' firing? Is it a physical projectile, or is it more of an 'energy weapon'? W...
- Mon Nov 19, 2007 1:07 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Size of Holmes's Coma (APOD 17 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3609
- Mon Nov 19, 2007 3:14 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Size of Holmes's Coma (APOD 17 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3609
- Sun Nov 18, 2007 4:49 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: how fast do we need to go
- Replies: 59
- Views: 15334
To get to the next star quickly, we must shed our protons. It's not so much the speed; its the acceleration, the temperature, pressure, radiation, food, air etc. The human body is not outer space compatible, it's outer space challenged. When we can be free of the body, we will be ready to venture of...
- Fri Nov 16, 2007 5:59 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Tunguska: The Largest Recent Impact ... (2007 Nov 14)
- Replies: 22
- Views: 13147
Tunguska , still a contentious mystery 100 years later.
In searching for some recent pictures of Tunguska this arrived. http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060202tunguska.htm http://www.thunderbolts.info/tpod/2006/arch06/060203tunguska2.htm It's a good read and worthy of consideration, as heinously disallowed as APOD regards it notwithstanding....
- Tue May 29, 2007 11:16 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Dark Matter
- Replies: 113
- Views: 24315
If, as Michael's ideas run to, the bulk of our sun is an iron mix in a rather static form and occupying over 90% of the diameter of the sun (correct me if I have some things wrong here Michael, I'm dropping in on this conversation from the library in Canada) ; and all stars are basically this kind o...
- Wed May 09, 2007 3:59 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Black Hole Information Paradox
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3323
I guess I got in the habit of hanging around here, as after a while relationships develop and the daily photos are so great. Maddad, For 5 years Dobson was my focus of study. I tried to say too much too fast. Information isn't the same as mass, but it is connected to it somehow, hadn't thought of it...
- Wed May 09, 2007 10:06 am
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Astronomy and "controlled scientific tests"
- Replies: 86
- Views: 31123
Nice topic Neried ! And a good unfolding of the subject as well. How do we know what we think we know? That is the basis and method of science. I hadn't thought about it for a while, but yes I do accept spectroscopy as valid, even tho I don't believe in photons ! LOL It's funny how religion and scie...
- Mon May 07, 2007 3:32 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Black Hole Information Paradox
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3323
<<I have been trying to understand why physicists do not like information being destroyed when a black hole evaporates. The limit of what I have gleaned so far is that quantum mechanics forbids it. The logic is not much above saying that the ball is red because light reflected by it has that color. ...
- Thu May 03, 2007 7:30 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: An Historical Overview of our perspective on the Universe
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1953
An Historical Overview of our perspective on the Universe
Once Upon A Time: The earth was the center of the universe, http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/aristotle.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemaic_system It was flat, http://home1.gte.net/deleyd/religion/galileo/flatearth.html http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/fe-scidi.htm Then it was ...
- Wed May 02, 2007 6:02 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Origins of the UNIVERSE
- Replies: 829
- Views: 151605
- Wed May 02, 2007 5:50 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: M81, galaxy spin direction? (APOD 27 April 2007)
- Replies: 14
- Views: 5704
Article titles aside; they present some interesting ideas, tho they do not prove their premise, they are worth considering and pursuing for more data. Correlating anomalies of the microwave sky: The Good, the Evil and the Axis Authors: Aleksandar Rakic, Dominik J. Schwarz http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 9:34 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Origins of the UNIVERSE
- Replies: 829
- Views: 151605
Neried, I apologize for irritating/frustrating you. I'm sorry. Yes, I don't know the same things you do. I appreciate your effort to enlighten me. I do like it when you explain things. It helps me understand what you know, and what is. Yes, I am the same Kovil who does all the posts under that ID. W...
- Mon Apr 30, 2007 3:05 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Origins of the UNIVERSE
- Replies: 829
- Views: 151605
Ok, even tho we speak a different language and have ourselves oriented to different conceptualizations, we can still speak of 'what is out there', based on observations. I subscribe to the idea that 'space-time' is NOT expanding like the Cosmological Constant implies. I believe we are mis-interpreti...
- Sun Apr 29, 2007 4:52 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: Dark Matter
- Replies: 113
- Views: 24315
Based on observations of galactic behaviour, and using the our calculations from the visible light and other spectrums to estimate what the mass of a galaxy would be, there seems to be too much gravity energy present to be accounted for by the visible matter we think we are seeing. Dark Matter and D...