Recent content by biggiekjac

Yeah that's the one, thanks. Jim Graber's link in that thread, George, to the animation of the formation of the acoustic peak is good. I'm not familiar with the comoving coordinate system that the page references, though. Does anyone know when this comoving coordinate system was first used? Is...

Lovely! I can't wait for more pictures of exoplanets to be taken. Does anyone know if we can expect more of these to be taken of other planets in the near future?

Haha I'm with WarP - eigenvalues and eigenvectors are pretty much the most important thing I took away from my linear algebra class. My professor for QM2 always made us repeat the mantra "The business of Quantum Mechanics is diagonalizing hamiltonians!" Hehehe

Things get really cool when you start checking out far field proportionalities in systems of multipoles!

Very nice, thanks for the heads up on these. I saw the first one somewhere - do you know if it was referenced in a news article?

I recently read an article about whether the http://dailyphysics.com/" and/or isotropic. (the story is at the top - sorry I couldn't get the link to the permanent article to work here) “gargantuan ripples in the density of matter across the universe, known as baryon acoustic oscillations” is...