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After doing some reading, I've found that Electromagnetic radiation travels at the speed of light in a vacuum. EMR also travels in the path of a wave. Whereas, light and/or light photons travel in the path of a straight line.
Having said...
I didn't use the advanced reply, so I never knew where the spell checker was. I found it and will now use it. Thanks.
Your triangle example holds true for something being seen in the same spot in the sky, but if this is what really occurs, they also will look smaller over time. Are we...
When I look up at the moon here from earth, the moon has a certain size. It may vary from time to time, but I have a good picture in my mind of how big it looks and/or how the smallest it will look. Based on the smallest the moon can look, if the Earth is bigger than the moon (4x), then the...
I'm sorry about the Earth being 49 times bigger than the moon. I looked it up last night and for whatever reason, that's what came back. I may have interpreted the Earth having 49 times more volume as being 49 times bigger. It was late and I apologize.
Thanks for the pics. However, the sun sure doesn't look like it's high in the sky. If the sun was high in the sky, there wouldn't be long shadows.
If the Earth is 49 times bigger than the moon, how can the Earth look so far away as seen in picture AS17-134-20387..? The Earth should always...
My educated guess is that you can see the sun if you were standing on the moon. Having said that, why isn't there any pictures of the sun taken by astronauts who've "supposedly" walked on the moon..? This seems odd to me.
dedwarmo, I'm with you 100%. I'm no physisist, but think just like you. Maybe you can say we use common sense..?
Your triangle example holds true for something being seen in the same spot in the sky, but if this is what really occurs, they also will look smaller over time. Are we experiencing...
I understand your point Ryan. Sometimes you come up with an idea first, then the physics and numbers put it to the test afterwards. I see things in the future, then try to explain it coming backwards. It's a different way of thinking, and with all the knowledge here, I thought this was the place...
I'm not here to spout off, I'm here to learn and sorry that I have some different thoughts. The knowledge everyone here has (besides me) is really amazing and I appreciate the interaction. I've learned that with computers, even though numbers are the same, you can have two distinct differences...
I'm sorry Chronos, but Mars does not give off light or is burning at extreme temperatures. Planets reflect light and are cold. Therefore, Mars and the other planets in our solar system are not brighter than stars..!
Nice try. Do you wish to comment on my other two paragraphs..?
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OK Tim, thanks for the link. But, I've checked some images out and deduced that the Hubble space images are not real.
They show pictures of galaxies billions of light years away, outside of our galaxy, but there are no pictures that focus on a star in our galaxy. Why is that..? If Hubble can...
What I am getting at is, because measuring distance of so vast a scale is physically impossible, are we really outside our galaxy when we're supposedly seeing other stars and/or galaxies?
Space is made up of something, it's called magnetism. Everything in space is moving back and forth, bending and warping, pulsating like a beating heart,
The universe expands and contracts, albeit bound together by magnetic force. It's that simple, or complicated, however you want to make it.
Space is made up of magnetism. That's what holds the universe together. Magnetic forces bend and warp due to the constant motion of the objects in the universe. The whole universe pulsates back and forth, expanding and contracting, bound all together by magnetism. Its that simple, or...