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    Our Beautiful Universe - Photos and Videos

    It has been an unexpected and pleasant gift at my birthday. :smile: Teleskop: William Optics RedCat 51 Montierung: Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro SynScan GoTo Guiding: MGEN-3 Kamera: Sony A7III modifiziert Bearbeitung: Siril: Crop - photometrische Farbkalibrierung-Graxpert Background...
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    High School Long rod in orbit

    So it doesn't matter that the tidal forces aren't symmetric along the rod? They are increasing downwards. To exaggerate it, imagine an extremely long rod with its lower end close to a black hole and its upper end very far away where the hole's gravity is almost zero.
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    High School Long rod in orbit

    A question aside. Tidal forces would try to stretchen the rod. So there should be one point on the rod where these forces cancel each other. Where is this point? In the middle of the rod, or elsewhere?
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    Undergrad MOND disproved at large scales

    So is MOND a theoretical framework which makes predictions? If yes, should this framework hold scale independent? In other words would you agree that either Gravity is modified or it isn't?
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    Undergrad MOND disproved at large scales

    https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.14327 Fig.1 and Fig.2 seem to show that MOND is disproved at large scales due to measurements of galaxy cluster velocities. Supposed this holds, is it thinkable at all that MOND could be still true at galaxy scales?
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    High School Do Dark Energy and the Casimir effect indicate Exotic Matter could exist?

    See also Jaffe 2005 https://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0503158 The Casimir force is simply the (relativistic, retarded) van der Waals force between the metal plates.
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    Undergrad Are Alternative Dark Energy Models Treated More Favorably Than MOND?

    https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.15143 We compare the standard homogeneous cosmological model, i.e., spatially flat ΛCDM, and the timescape cosmology which invokes backreaction of inhomogeneities. Timescape, while statistically homogeneous and isotropic, departs from average...
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    Undergrad Converting the Hubble constant to everyday speed units

    That's just natural, nothing paradox or unexpected.
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    Undergrad Converting the Hubble constant to everyday speed units

    If we talk about cosmological distances, aren't these spacelike? So, we would need the knowledge of the expansion history to know them if I see it correctly.
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    Is the quantum wave function a real object or a mathematical tool?

    What exactly is the difference between the wave function being an object and being ontic in case it is ontic according to a certain interpretation?
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    Is the quantum wave function a real object or a mathematical tool?

    Whether or not the wave function real is in the sense of ontic is interpretation dependent.
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    Undergrad Black hole questions

    Isn't this in contradiction to ? We don't distinguish infalling mass from mass of the black hole.* So, either the "mass" of the hole isn't "due to any remnant of stress-energy" or "most" (means not all und thus there is still stress-energy) of the interior is still vacuum. * Thereby assuming a...
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    Undergrad Black hole questions

    Is this true regarding infalling mass too? If stress-energy of infalling mass doesn't disappear then how would this fit with contributing to the geometric property of the spacetime"?
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    High School Infinite universe, infinite volume from the beginning?

    Just to add a forth point, that's because we will never be able to to measure spacial flatness zero in the strict euclidean sense.
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    Our Beautiful Universe - Photos and Videos

    Orionnebel M42 mit Pferdekopfnebel IC 434 und Flammennebel NGC 2024 Unexpectedly I could capture these nebulae at my birthday after a very long starless period. Teleskop: William Optics RedCat 51 Montierung: Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro SynScan GoTo Guiding: MGEN-3 Kamera: Sony A7III modifiziert...