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As someone coming from systems thinking rather than physics, I find this distinction interesting. In complex systems work, ‘thinking...

*cough* It's gramm ar. *runs away*

I just came across a post in another thread, “Some thoughts about self-education“, where gleem wrote the following: “Sometimes, after...

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...

The thread title is the first part of the title of a paper published just today [1]. Here is the abstract: [1]...

The OP thinks that only GHGs can radiate heat. - is the issue here.

For this you can use the small angle approximation, which makes it a simple proportionality - if you start with the size, distance and...

Looks like 'sun dogs' with the '22° halo'. Maybe the '46° halo' or the 'supralateral arc' as well, seeing how there is a secondary ring...

It was. We are supposed to be an educational site. That is our stated goal and mission. I hope my colleagues here can look at your...

This ape lived long and had fun talking to other apes. It was a good ape, worth aping.

By conflicting claims I am talking about your OP. These are indeed genuinely conflicting claims. But the thing is that they are not...

Thanks. I'm not familiar with it, so won't be able to help you. Unless you're looking for more general pointers, in which case you'd...

The argument here is that without rotation there could be sufficient difference in temperature between the two sides to either boil off...

Late to the party, but I can offer some intuitions. Re.: a&d, these are not questions about physics, but alien biology and...

Can you point to the software you're talking about?