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To expand on this a bit: suppose we try to model the planetary motions in order to try to understand what determines the apparent size...

Wikipedia, referencing a dictionary, not a scientific textbook or paper. Note here that the term "ecliptic longitude" is used, not...

Please give a source for this definition. "East-west" does not properly capture the actual motion of the planet in the sky--the actual...

But he doesn't give any new "conception of causality" to replace the classical one. Perhaps he thinks that isn't required. But that...

@Sylvain9595 you mentioned JPL Horizons, and I was able to find that app here: https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/horizons/app.html#/ I pulled...

@Sylvain9595 where are you getting your figures for the retrograde arc covered? Your numbers seem too small by roughly an order of...

No.

Yes. In this case, the deceleration phase is just the time-reverse of the acceleration phase, and the return leg is the same as the...

In other words, violations of the Bell inequalities don't require "communication" between the systems according to his definition. Which...

They may be "geometrically distinct", but they are not independent. You seem to be assuming that they are, which is a wrong assumption...

You are just cheating yourself out of essential background understanding (which is the really fun part) if you've skipped chapters 1-3...

"Science" as it relates to thread discussions here does not mean "something that I can plausibly argue is possible based on our current...

Sure you have, just not under that name. The Hermite functions are Gaussians with polynomial prefactors--indeed, the zero-order Hermite...

Um, sci-fi stories are about "the context of possible engineering" that doesn't currently exist. In our actual science forums like the...

@DaveC426913 did not move this thread to the sci-fi forum. The moderators did, for the reason I gave in post #227 just now. That reason...