Recent content by Bandersnatch

Do note, you have the lunar orbit going the wrong way. The only way in which it is retrograde, is in the context of its apparent motion on the sky as seen from Earth, w/r to the background stars. The orbit itself is prograde. Also, can you provide a reference using pro/retrograde to describe the...

While I'd take issue with your characterisation of local H0 measurements - they reach out to roughly z=1, so way farther than the scale of superclusters or the distances between them, i.e. reaching across the voids - and am not sure what line of thought have made you conclude the H0 should be...

As I read it, the OP doesn't want to reverse the orbit, just to identify a direction. As in e.g. a spaceship making a burn along or against the instantaneous orbital velocity vector when performing a Hohmann transfer. It would burn posigrade when raising the orbit, or retrograde to lower it...

You probably want the term 'posigrade', but you'd likely need to add some qualifiers to make it clear which orbit you mean. The opposite is also retrograde.

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*