Recent content by havonasun

That's exactly what I thought. But the articulation agreement for the other schools only includes the 4 credit course. Putting the two syllabi side by side, the course description for the 4 credit course and the topics covered are large paragraphs, while the 5 credit course has merely lip...

I work full-time, so evening or online classes are all I can do. I need to take calculus from the community college I've been attending, but it is not offered in the evening. In fact, none of the local colleges or universities offer it in the evening, so I must do it online. So I go to register...

From what I can interpret, the graph I would be using would be 'rotating w/star.' The field is densest at the center because of law of squares, and weakest horizontally from the center. It shows another dense region outside the disk radially. So, yes?

I am curious to know if the gravitic field of a rotating, disk-shaped mass is denser along its ecliptic. I'm referring to rotating bodies such as stellar systems, galaxies, etc. I would like to know if a second mass, passing through the ecliptic, would experience a difference such as tidal...

And this is the hard truth. I have considered these scenarios, and I am left feeling frustrated every time. Age shouldn't matter, but generation gaps have a way of putting the other person in a different world that is somewhat imaginary. And there is so much focus on profit and 'what can you do...

I should probably mention that I am 45, and have been a telecommunications technician for 20 years. I've seen literally hundreds of different industries and cube farms and cool jobs and crappy jobs. So some of where I'm coming from is knowing what i don't want. Wherever i end up at the end of...

These are both very helpful answers. And, yes, my desires are unrealistic, but if I shoot for the moon, I might land in orbit. I want to love what I do, not just put in my eight hours and go home. To me, academia feels more romantic than practical, and the idea of begging for money does not...

I'm having a difficult time trying to discover which academic pathway to pursue. At first, the difficulty came from having broad interests, which I narrowed to a toss-up between space, science and engineering. I found space (astronomy, astrophysics) to be too specialized, physics (pure science)...

Yep, that's what I meant. I love the mental visuals from paraphrase you gave. I think I'm going to look that book up.

Stalon, that's where I got tripped up. It's a real paradox, its a boundary that is there but doesn't exist. The void or nothingness, by definition, can't be pointed to; you just end up pointing at the back of your head. Until the following year when the Pro version comes out and then we...

Finite, yet boundless. I think the confusion comes from trying to wrap a 3d brain around a tesseract. A point is flat. A line is flat. A plane is flat. By extension, we are flat. The 3d being rejects this because experience dictates otherwise. There is a certain quantity of universe; that...

I live in the midwest, but have always drooled westward. The only thing that keeps me from moving out there is the hazard map I once saw if the caldera explodes. Even the midwest might be too close. My question isn't about where to live, I'm just emphasizing the enormous potential this...

Ok, I agree with that. I found this quote... Is the universe finite or infinite? "The observable universe is finite," Sweitzer said, which is to say that it had boundaries -- physical limits. Sort of. "It's a boundary to the events we can see directly, but not a boundary in the sense that...

Ok, I'm really trying to grasp what is being said here and I appreciate your comments. But, we're not 2d beings. How does this model apply in reality?

Okay, I have reread the thread. The balloon analogy is a theory. One person said the balloon was a 2d object with no edges. That seems to support the boundless theory. One person says that light traverses between objects along the surface of the balloon. Why not away? Expansion implies...