Recent content by Simon Peach
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B An explosion under a pile of timber and rocks
There is a pile of rocks and timber, all the same weight, under it is an explosive device after the explosion the pile is ejected in the atmosphere, which timber or rock will land first?- Simon Peach
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- Forum: Classical Physics
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B What is the building block of maths?
Sets are called the building block of maths, but why? To me sets are a collection of 'things'. Were as numbers are what give the 'things' a meaning. Myself I think that addition is the building block and maybe subtraction, all the other processes, addition and division are only quick ways of...- Simon Peach
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- Block Building
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- Forum: General Math
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B Question about this Lesson on Square Roots
In a lesson on square roots this came up (Root) 27 simplifies too 3(root)3 ok. when I work that out it's = 5.196... or if I say 3squard (root)3 this works out to 15.588.... What am I missing?- Simon Peach
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- Roots Square
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- Forum: General Math
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B Question about photons and neutrinos
while the photon travels at light speed and a neutrino travel at just below light speed why then are photons stopped by an object and the neutrino can past through?- Simon Peach
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- Neutrinos Photons
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- Forum: High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics
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B Bound Systems in an Expanding Universe: How Can Galaxies Merge?
As the universe expands all objects are moving away from us, so how is it posible that the Andromeda galaxy is on a path to merge with our galaxy?- Simon Peach
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- Expansion Universe
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- Forum: Cosmology
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B Muons: How Particles "Pop In and Out of Existence
This a quote from Nature of the 30 of june 2022 'Like the electron, the muon has a magnetic field that makes it act like a tiny bar magnet. As muons travel, they generate various particles that briefly pop in and out of existence." Now I would like to know how 'various particles' pop in and out...- Simon Peach
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- Operator
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- Forum: High Energy, Nuclear, Particle Physics
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Space and time -- Is the term "light year" really correct?
When something is described as say 7 billion light years away would't it be more accurate to 7 billoin years ago?- Simon Peach
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- light year Space Space and time Term Time Year
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- Forum: General Discussion
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B How Old is the Milky Way Galaxy?
It seem incredulous to me that the Milky Way was formed just 13.775 million years after the start of the universe. If this is correct was it in the form that it is today?- Simon Peach
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- Age Galaxy Milky way
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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B When light arrives at the end of space, what happens?
Light is red shifted further into the red as the object recedes from our viewpoint. So when the object gets so far away that the red shift goes into the infer-red it then disappears from our view at the same time it will be going at a very large percentage of light speed (99.999...%). So light...- Simon Peach
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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I NGC7741 Imaging: Should I Stack Images Through IRAF?
PIxinsight: in Star alignment go to Star Detection and try these settings:- Detection scales try 8 Log Sensitivity try -3 All the rest in star detection leave at default- Simon Peach
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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I Red Dwarfs: Is 100% Hydrogen Conversion Practically True?
you can still get it on DVD!- Simon Peach
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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B Why is the gravity of a neutron star stronger than that of its original star?
Thank you all for explaining- Simon Peach
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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B Why is the gravity of a neutron star stronger than that of its original star?
So I was right in my thoughts that for a given mass regardless of it's compaction the gravity is the same. This brings up another query: Why is it only black holes colliding that is produce gravity waves that are detected? Is it because the said B/H have such a high density?- Simon Peach
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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B Why is the gravity of a neutron star stronger than that of its original star?
I've just watched a vid about jets of matter and neutron stars. It was stated in it that a neutron star is a star that's been compressed from say a sun sized star to the size of a city, every thing OK upto now. Then it goes on to say that it has, the neutron star, enormous gravity, this is were...- Simon Peach
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- Gravity Neutron Neutron stars Stars
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics
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B Discussing Sterile Neutrino Candidacy as Dark Matter
No not a mass. Was just reading that they may have been found by the Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector and it seemed that if they are so hard to detect here on Earth then they may be a candidate for Dark Matter.- Simon Peach
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- Forum: Astronomy and Astrophysics