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RIP Robert Redford (89)
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Less that a week ago, I caught him playing a handsome Death on the Twilight Zone episode "Nothing in the Dark".
Sep 16, 2025
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Describing the Big Bang
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Been there, done that.
Sep 16, 2025
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Describing the Big Bang
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Or, if the universe really is topologically flat (or otherwise spatially infinite): ##f(x,y,z,t) = \frac{-1}{t^2}## for ##t \ne 0##.
Sep 16, 2025
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The NG article is not worth reading. According to Introduction to Modern Cosmology by Liddle: The Big Bang model is reliable back to...
Sep 16, 2025
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Describing the Big Bang
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I started reading a National Geographic article related to the Big Bang. It starts these statements: Gazing up at the stars at night...
Sep 16, 2025
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What qualities does time have other than linearity, motion, and speed?
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Our passage through time goes unhindered. Unless you're Phil the weatherman, you can't stop and redo today over and over. I would...
Sep 12, 2025
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What qualities does time have other than linearity, motion, and speed?
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It's tied to the speed of light - so, in that sense, it "has speed". It has an apparent cause-effect directionality. You can use a clock...
Sep 12, 2025
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Question about the voltage between two charged capacitors
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Any atomic material can carry an electrostatic charge. Each side of the capacitors you described will have charge - so there are four...
Sep 11, 2025
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Question about the voltage between two charged capacitors
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Let me make sure you have some of the basics. Let's say that instead of two capacitors, you have two metal bars A and B, each with...
Sep 10, 2025
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Question about the voltage between two charged capacitors
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Are you also connecting A1 and B2 together? If it's not a full electrical circuit, the voltmeter will likely read zero. Also, this...
Sep 10, 2025
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Explain this asphalt sheen
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Did it say in the Reddit post what kind of vehicle that is and what kind of window treatment it has? Also, if you can still see the...
Sep 8, 2025
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Explain this asphalt sheen
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So, given these new observations posted above (and some related to the details of the window polarization), here's my heavily revised...
Sep 8, 2025
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Entropy and configurations of microstates
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The particles are indistinguishable - but that doesn't help to explain the use of x^n - in fact, it gives another reason why x^n is not...
Sep 8, 2025
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Entropy and configurations of microstates
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You are, of course, presuming that it's the same 'x' states for every particle. But given the context, that assumption is acceptable...
Sep 8, 2025
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Explain this asphalt sheen
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I have more info: Now that I have polarized glasses and there are cars in the lot, I can see something else: The windshields on many...
Sep 8, 2025
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