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The rule that "nothing can travel faster than light" is a local rule. Nothing will ever overtake a pulse of light, that is true. But...

There is a difference, not necessarily a total contradiction. Based on genetic analysis of European skeletons older than 5000 years...

I haven't had a professional view on anything physics related for decades. There is a lot of stellar modelling in that, and I don't...

Yes, the paper concludes that the age of the universe is: ##T_U \geq 13.8 \pm 1.0## (stat) ##\pm 1.4## (syst) Gyr According to the...

Frankly, I don't see where the mess is supposed to be here. The pronunciation is consistent across the main accents, with only slight...

What's important here, I think, is that they're dusty. That is, they're already evolved, having experienced enough bouts of star...

From the wiki's main list I recognise X+Y and Gifted. Both are about gifted children, with interpersonal drama as the focus and maths...

Oh, lordy. It's Avi Loeb's brainchild. I'm not touching this.

The paper provided doesn't support any of the statements in the OP. Can you provide a different source or sources as the basis for a...

Is this another one of these threads wherein everything was better when I was young and impressionable?

The voids, like all large scale structure, are subject to expansion as they evolve, especially rapid early on. Numerical simulations...

Don't read too much into an analogy. The expansion isn't a force pulling at galaxies and trying to stretch them - the galaxies are all...

The raisin bread, like all analogies, suffers many ills. But this ain't one of those. In an expanding universe structures bound by...

Good afternoon, This is not Paul, but rather his son Robert. I am very sad to write here that my dad passed away on Saturday...

Just reinforcing post #2 here. If the Moon is out of the picture, by the virtue of it being held in place by magic, then there are no...