These piggy-backing telescopes would of course have to be relatively inexpensive, disposable and replaceable as the Starlink orbitals (I am told,) only have a three year operational lifetime before they break up on re-entry.
On an aside, was musing on the aspect individual use, allowing...
Elon Musk's Starlink orbital internet communication system is presently seen as a detriment for observing the cosmos by ground observers, but have astronomers thought asking Elon Musk if he would consider mounting compact low-energy telescopes on the back of his orbitals, facing away from Earth...
So how should one think of of a universe where every inch of it is something rather than nothing?
Are falling balls magically maintained by a Universe that does not consist of absolute vacuum? Where there is always inertia - no matter how small - working on the two balls falling towards a...
Galileo, Newton and Einstein were working with incomplete data, and it is truly amazing what they accomplished in spite of that.
When it came to two different weight masses, they all proceeded - as done today - on the assumption that these masses fell at the same fall-rate towards the Earth...
Now the ball and feather, given enough time to be observed, will not fall at the same rate anywhere in the Universe. Masses of different weight falling at the same speed towards a strong gravitational field is a useful rule-of-the-thumb approximation, but as a law it is incorrect.
Confirmed to generate work? Then the 2020 paper must be no big deal.
And if all space, including hard vacuum in the Universe follows suit, then the notion that balls and feathers fall at the same rate can be observed not to be true. Given sufficient time of travel for observation, the greater...
So my question is, if there is no such thing as a true vacuum in space, doesn't space interfere with the motion of two bodies of of different mass attracted to a powerful gravitational force, observationally measurable if allowed given the limitations of time and distance?
What I am suggesting...
My question is rather basic, and does not necessarily pertain to any particular property, be it virtual particles, vacuum foam or background radiation passing through a given quantity of space. What I want to know: Do absolute vacuums exist?
The pulling of plates together in the Casimir Experiment. Is that not an example of work performed? Would the experiment be any different if performed in intergalactic space?
Doesn't that suggest the a hard vacuum is something rather than nothing?
That, if it is something, it would set...
OK, let's forget virtual particles (I don't believe I mentioned them.)
Doesn't every cubic centimeter of deep intergalactic space have at the very least, background radiation passing through it?
If one was to perform the Casimir experiment in this sparse volume, would it not echo the same...
It is not a localized Casimir Effect that is important; it is that, according to quantum mechanics, all space - no matter how hard a vacuum is - it is not empty. So no matter how inconsequential it may seem to some, all objects falling towards a strong gravitational field do so depending on...