Recent content by Bandersnatch

Frankly, I don't see where the mess is supposed to be here. The pronunciation is consistent across the main accents, with only slight difference in the length of the first vowel. Where have you been looking that it gave you such an impression? And how is spelling at all an issue?

What's important here, I think, is that they're dusty. That is, they're already evolved, having experienced enough bouts of star formation and death to enrich the environment.

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 as background. The first one attempts to show the kind of thinking mathematics may involve, in one or two scenes, as the kids prepare for the olympiad. The...

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 discussion?

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 were run (eg. Illustris, Millenium) and the formation of structure under the LCDM tracks what is observed. One can only view the steady state as a contender for...

The raisin bread, like all analogies, suffers many ills. But this ain't one of those. In an expanding universe structures bound by gravity - like galaxies - don't expand. So the raisins staying the same as the bread raises in the oven is actually ok. You've referenced an empty thread template, btw.

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 non-negligible forces in play. The Moon-less, tidally locked to the Sun state is the equilibrium the system is currently evolving towards. The only reason it...

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

*cough* It's gramm ar. *runs away*

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 one talks to, uh, a proponent.

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 apparent size of the Moon, then anything e.g. twice the distance looks half as small while anything twice the size looks twice as large. In terms of angular...

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. They're all, in general, the effect of sunlight being reflected off of ice crystals in the atmosphere. Wikipedia has articles on those terms, with pictures and...