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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad "Scientists have measured space to be flat to high accuracy".The most widely accepted cosmological model today is based on General Relativity (GR) and the cosmological principle that assumes that... -
Jaime Rudas replied to the thread High School Anyone come across this new YouTube channel?.Yes, I understand now. The title is correct, and I, once again, am wrong.
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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread High School Anyone come across this new YouTube channel?.Yes, I understand now. The title is correct, and I, once again, am wrong.
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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread High School Anyone come across this new YouTube channel?.Yes, that's why I stated "only if the universe is finite."
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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread High School Anyone come across this new YouTube channel?.Yes, its density can decrease, but this doesn't mean the (infinite) universe as a whole will become vaster
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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread High School Anyone come across this new YouTube channel?.If the universe is infinite, can it become even vaster?
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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread High School Anyone come across this new YouTube channel?.Only if the universe is finite
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Jaime Rudas reacted to PAllen's post in the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances? with
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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances?.Regarding the D&L paper, I think there might be an error in footnote 11 on page 19. Shouldn't it be ##v_{rec}(t_{em}) =\dot...
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Jaime Rudas reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Undergrad Are Alternative Dark Energy Models Treated More Favorably Than MOND? with Like.
Agreed. I would say that how the proponents describe it is a very significant contribution to how the community perceives it.
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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Are Alternative Dark Energy Models Treated More Favorably Than MOND?.I think it's more about how the scientific community perceives it. In other words, the question in the OP is whether or not the...
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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Are Alternative Dark Energy Models Treated More Favorably Than MOND?.Yes, what I wanted to emphasize is that the level of skepticism is more related to whether or not the model deviates from General...
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Jaime Rudas reacted to Ibix's post in the thread Undergrad Are Alternative Dark Energy Models Treated More Favorably Than MOND? with Like.
IIRC, Vanadium 50 used to comment that MOND (or at least some variations thereof) works almost embarrassingly well at the scale of...
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Jaime Rudas replied to the thread Undergrad Are Alternative Dark Energy Models Treated More Favorably Than MOND?.I think the issue has to do with the fact that General Relativity is one of the most successful theories in history, so any model that...
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Jaime Rudas reacted to Dale's post in the thread Undergrad Does the Alcubierre drive shorten distances? with
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The best rule of thumb is to think of an experiment whose actual measured outcome depends on the thing in question.