No kidding. My posts were never about any sort of natural explanation for the observed light curve. Nor are they meant as a serious argument for an unnatural explanation.
Hence my original reference to a Black Monolith.
Which is a reference to the movie 2001, where a spinning alien structure...
Actually, the cross sectional area of a spinning disk could be said to have the "general" shape of the light curve, and that for only a single rotation.
The light curve from a star with such a spun disk in front of it would actually look like the inverse of what was observed from KIC 8462852...
"4] We can send people to Mars and they will have resources to live."
Not just live; with the presence of a wide variety of perchlorates, it raises the possibility of making solid rocket fuel for a return trip, or further deeper exploration without bringing fuel from home (Earth that is)...
From the Insights post:
"The speed of sound in diamond is about 12000 m/s which is about 25 thousand times slower than the speed of light (299792458 m/s). But what about some hypothetical “unobtainium”? Why couldn’t unobtainium’s speed of sound be faster than the speed of light?"
I suppose...
In Griffiths, it seems that the conceptual introduction of the magnetic vector potential to electrodynamics was justified based on the fact that the divergence of a curl is zero; so we can define a magnetic field as the curl of another vector A and still maintain consistency with Maxwell's...
Laser action by definition requires the presence of stimulated emission in the laser medium. The typical way of treating this semi-classically is to introduce the Einstein coefficients, in essentially an ad hoc way, then derive the Einstein equations for the various level population transitions...