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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...

Down with the entrenched atmosphericist terminology. There's no weather on the Moon, innit? It should be an ameteorite.

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...