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- Thu May 24, 2012 12:29 pm
- Forum: Starship Asterisk: Handbook
- Topic: APOD assessment poll #2
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Re: APOD assessment poll #2
When APOD began in 1995, the subject matter was pure astronomy and it was aimed largely at professional astronomers. APOD's remit now is far wider, in terms of both the material included and the intended audience. This makes for a very interesting and diverse set of images that I otherwise would nev...
- Sun Oct 09, 2011 11:51 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: APOD: Nobels for a Strange Universe (2011 Oct 09)
- Replies: 13
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Re: APOD: Nobels for a Strange Universe (2011 Oct 09)
I hate to put the dampers on the recent Nobel Prize announcement, but let's not forget that supernova studies of cosmology are all based on a theory (Einstein's General Relativity) that has huge problems - as demonstrated by Zwicky in the 1930s, Rubin et al in the 1970s, and continually since. Inste...