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Relativity Errata for Gravitation and Cosmology book by Steven Weinberg
On the very first page, footnote 2: "The Sloan Digital Sky Survey provides evidence that the distribution of galaxies is homogeneous on scales larger than about 300 light years[FONT=-apple-system][...]" Of course, he meant Mly. Checking the reference (Yadav et al. 2005), it's indeed 60− 70h-1 Mpc.- AboveSky
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- Forum: Science and Math Textbooks
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What is the life of an independent astrophysicist like?
Cheers mate! 😊- AboveSky
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- Forum: New Member Introductions
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Graduate Model for Gravity -- What mechanism distorts space in the real case?
A trick explaining some physics we don't have access to in terms our homo sapiens day to day experience so that it would make sense to our poor brains, like someone secretly bending space-time with his hands, or a magician's trick creating an invisible supranatural thread between two entangled...- AboveSky
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- Forum: Special and General Relativity
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Graduate Problems with the interpretation of the Torsion tensor and the Lie Bracket
I would even reserve this name for the specific connection implied by the metric.- AboveSky
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- Forum: Differential Geometry
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What is the life of an independent astrophysicist like?
Hi there, I have both an engineer diploma and a PhD in astrophysics. After having worked as an engineer in many fields, I had the opportunity to stop working 10 years ago, when I was still 40. 🥳 I then took the opportunity to spend 2 years in a full-time professional music school, then started...- AboveSky
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