ohwilleke: Thanks for the input. Because I haven't done any formal study of GR and the Friedmann equations I decided not to use them on a formal basis. From knowing nothing about cosmology a week ago, I think I've done reasonably ok!
hellfire: Thanks for the reference, I'm fairly sure I have...
I am writing a 2nd year essay for my Physics degree, and have chosen dark energy as my topic. I've been reading papers and material for around a week now, and would like some reassurance that I am heading in the right direction and have made no major blunders or omissions. Here's the general...
I am at the moment in the middle of the classic "determining the mass of Jupiter by the motion of the moons" experiment. I have, however ground to a halt at a certain point, and am unsure as how to proceed.
I have a series of photographs of the moons. We have a beautiful 14" in our University...