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I've looked up various articles about Doppler online and I haven't really found much that I can use. I can't find enough detail about why his theory was resisted , nor the effect it had on him. (It appears being a teacher had more negative effect on him than opponents to his theory). I...

Thanks Chronos, this may be the break I was hoping for.

Thanks for your responses, however I hope that you can continue to offer more suggestions. I will be more specific about what I am after. The article I am writing is actually for comedy website http://www.cracked.com so I need an example of a backlash that was particularly rude or unsettling...

Thanks a tonne... before I start reading, which of the above would have been most profoundly disregarded? I am guessing zwicky because he was particularly loopy?

Hello folks... I am writing an article where I discuss discoveries in astronomy that were intially disregarded in rude or violent fashion. I have so far written about: Chandrasekhar and black holes Aristarchus and heliocentrism Galileo and heliocentrism Glen Penfield and the...

My question is regarding time spent scanning the system, not time traveling there or back. I am asking that if the probe is given a month to scan the system, is it possible that, because of relative time, it may require less or more than an Earth month to complete the scan, because the same...

Hello folks, I was wondering about a possible probe sent to alpha centauri which would be able to do a deep scan of the system, maybe for a month, and then send back results. I then wondered, that if the probe was exposed to different gravitational conditions, let's say favourbly, would...

You see what I mean now? ByDavies brought up the exact point that made me want to never try to understand time dilation - the suggestion that the clock moving faster at the top of the tower is only an illusion and no difference would be observable when the clocks are brought together again...

Ok thanks... that all makes sense to me... Now I feel like reading more =)

I have a problem more related to GR. I read that if you have a stop-watch on the ground and another on a very high tower the one at the top, from the perspective of an observer on the ground, would move slower. I can deal with that. But then I read, I think, that if the stopwatch was...

ha ha ha ha... This reminds me of a lecturer I had whilst studying Genetics at Wollongong University in Australia. His name was Ted Steele and he wrote a book called "Lamarck's Signature". It's regarding his research into lamarckian inheritance of immune responses: i.e. antibodies that we...

I've recently purchased Tipler's physics of immortality book over Amazon and am currently waiting for it. I hope that I do get something from reading it as I haven't seen anything but criticism of it since pressing the "confirm order" button. All I want is a good book which will enlighten me...

Asian Sensation, It always bothered me that books about deep subjects somehow need to be written in a way that requires one to re-read many of the sentences just to understand what's going on. I have a decent grasp of the english language and am quite intelligent, so I hereby accuse the...

I posted this after reading about multiverses and the anhtropic principle... Would you consider these topics Cosmology? I thought that cosmology had an element of philosophy to it, or is it ALL practical?

Someone replied to this but it has since vanished... What's with that? I didn't even get to visit the link they posted... It's not very inviting for a newbie to have replies to their threads just vanish!