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Bandersnatch replied to the thread High School Contradictions in the Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts.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...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread High School Expansion and raisin bread.The raisin bread, like all analogies, suffers many ills. But this ain't one of those. In an expanding universe structures bound by...
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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...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread How would a Machine at the Heart of the World tidally lock the Earth?.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...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread High School Is it a meteor or a meteorite when it makes moonfall?.Down with the entrenched atmosphericist terminology. There's no weather on the Moon, innit? It should be an ameteorite.
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Bandersnatch reacted to Sam Six's post in the thread Insights Thinking Outside The Box Versus Knowing What’s In The Box with
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As someone coming from systems thinking rather than physics, I find this distinction interesting. In complex systems work, ‘thinking... -
Bandersnatch replied to the thread Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college?.*cough* It's gramm ar. *runs away*
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Bandersnatch reacted to Rick16's post in the thread Undergrad The rocket equation, one more time with Like.
I just came across a post in another thread, “Some thoughts about self-education“, where gleem wrote the following: “Sometimes, after...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread High School Red shifted tired light doubts.Wright's tutorial pages list issues with tired light. https://www.astro.ucla.edu/~wright/tiredlit.htm It's good to keep those in mind as...
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Bandersnatch reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Graduate Strong Progenitor Age Bias in Supernova Cosmology with Like.
The thread title is the first part of the title of a paper published just today [1]. Here is the abstract: [1]...
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread High School Why would an atmosphere without greenhouse gasses be colder than with them?.The OP thinks that only GHGs can radiate heat. - is the issue here.
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Bandersnatch replied to the thread Writing: Input Wanted How would an Earth-like Planet fair with a Uranus like moon system?.For this you can use the small angle approximation, which makes it a simple proportionality - if you start with the size, distance and...
