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These are excellent analyses. I'm wondering about applications to astronomy.

I guestimated the population growth as if the cats procreated by mitosis, leaving the parents unable to contribute to the population...

If our star produced such a deep gravity well that time dilation were significant, then you'd see all velocities speed up, at all...

I suppose the significance could manifest when you're in a spaceship and Houston tells you to rotate the craft for a retrograde burn. It...

You're thinking of 'apparent retrograde motion', on the celestial sphere. Where this thread talks about retrograde, it's in the context...

I'm not sure why you're framing this as an objection. Yes, that's what you do, and that's what makes it unambiguous. Wasn't the...

Why wouldn't it be? The direction of the pseudovector in whatever reference frame we pick provides all the information about the...

Yet, the right-hand rule provides an unambiguous direction towards the rotational north pole. This isn't as much of a problem as you...

As has been said, you can't get a velocity out of the Hubble constant, because its dimension is that of a frequency. I can appreciate...

I feel like I should maybe be more constructive with my comments. Do you need the apocalypse to be caused by the tides? I understand...

Look, with some rounding of the numbers, at 200 km/s the body is covering 0.1 AU in a day. So to trigger an earthquake a day before...

I don't think that's possible. It'd have to be another star passing by, and a sizeable one too. In which case earthquakes would be the...

At 200km/s and 3600 seconds in an hour, the planet traverses the entire diameter of the lunar orbit in one hour. If it's a small body...

So, back of an envelope, that's approx. 250 times the tidal forces of the Moon, at its closest approach, which would rapidly decrease on...

Eyeballing the uppermost graph in figure 1 of Davis and Lineweaver, which has proper distance on the horizontal scale, the lightcone...