My sincere thanks to both of you.
And I am am not kidding. We were debating for a half an hour before I whipped out my "Atlas of the Universe" in hopes of showing him that mass for ojects beyond our solar system can be measured, but he wasn't having any of it. So...on to the internet I...
My husband and I frequestly have arguements about physics when we are both intoxicated. Needless to say neither of us really have anything but a basic, basic, basic, understanding of physics much less astro-physics and the nature of the way things work.
That said, may I introduce my husband...