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I have some solemn news to report. Many in the community had been wondering where the prolific @Vanadium 50 has been. V50 hasn't posted... -
pinball1970 reacted to PeterDonis's post in the thread Graduate Strong Progenitor Age Bias in Supernova Cosmology with
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Moderator's note: A question about the assumptions of the 1970 Hawking-Penrose singularity theorem has been spun off into its own thread... -
pinball1970 reacted to BillTre's post in the thread Iceland has found its first mosquitoes with
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Yesterday I read about a species of mosquito that evolved to live in the London underground (subway). It is derived from a much more... -
pinball1970 reacted to Laroxe's post in the thread Iceland has found its first mosquitoes with Like.
I think thats the major question, climate change is already being blamed, but the climate and flora of Iceland is particularly hostile...
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pinball1970 posted the thread Undergrad Population 3 star (Pop III) candidate LAP1 in Astronomy and Astrophysics."Pop III stars are thought to be composed entirely of helium and hydrogen with trace amounts of lithium, the ingredients left over after...
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Specifically for US borders: You could travel between US <==> Mexico or US <==> Canada with just a drivers license (no passport...
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pinball1970 reacted to mitchell porter's post in the thread Graduate Strong Progenitor Age Bias in Supernova Cosmology with Like.
I think the summary in Sabine Hossenfelder's new video is excellent. Many important points made, I have bolded two at the end that...
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pinball1970 reacted to timmdeeg's post in the thread Graduate Strong Progenitor Age Bias in Supernova Cosmology with Like.
And another point, wouldn't this result change the expansion history significantly? The temperature of the plasma at recombination is...
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pinball1970 reacted to Ibix's post in the thread Graduate Strong Progenitor Age Bias in Supernova Cosmology with Informative.
Yes. Figure 9 in the paper in the OP shows the acceleration parameter, ##-\ddot{a}a/\dot{a}^2##, as a function of time under several...
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pinball1970 replied to the thread TV Series Based On Schrödinger Superposition.The film "Sliding Doors," has this as a premise.
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pinball1970 replied to the thread Today I Learned.Reminds me a little of the use Mercury in hat making which over time damaged the CNS of the workers, hence the term as mad as a hatter...
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That looks like the arrival of the ship in Independence Day. :olduhh:
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pinball1970 replied to the thread Random Photos.That time of year. View from the office C.O. Katie B
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At a model-train show yesterday I saw a nontraditional layout built with Lego bricks. Are there any real triple-decker buses out...
