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Keep in mind I already used the word 'ideal'.

(For recreation) Assuming (from Wikipedia) that the mass of the Sun is 2 x 10^{30} Kg, I wondered what would be the size of an equivalently-massed ideal ball of water at STP with uniform density? I read there the Sun is about 109 Earth diameters. My water ball model calculation is ~123...

Whoa! I didn't go that far. I'd say, all the observed ones so far are approximately the same. As for the other particles, there might be only one each. Just as a 'stickman' in a cartoon strip can not understand (prove) how 2D-drawn objects in his Universe can appear and then disappear, as...

I don't have enough fundamental background to judge their hypotheses, that ended up agreeing with their observations. It would be so interesting for me to participate in recreations of all the classic experiments, discussing results, so I could better know the backgrounds of today's physics...

I'll be in that forum soon to ask about first principles of QED. Of all the explanations I've read to justify the first steps - they don't seem right to me. I'm missing too much formal background to go with the flow. I hope to improve my understanding in the other QED forum. Some of you can...

My motives are being misunderstood. How about if you reconsider my postings as "Has anybody studied or proposed... (zforgetaboutit's musings)?" When a prof suggests a research topic to the grad student, the grad student doesn't (usually) say "First you prove it then I'll consider it." or...

My reference frame is the only one I care about.

http://www.yfiles.com/4th.htm quotes the velocity as being (just to mention a number) In relation to the background heat of the Universe (our wall paper of the Universe for lack of a better term) called cosmic microwave background radiation (CBR) the Earth is moving at 872,400 Miles per Hour...

Wow - such jingoism from you. Is that a nice way to behave? You contributed nothing with your Cosmic Forum Posting Background fanboy noise. Apparently you feel you have the right to insult Einstein also. I'm not here to refute anything. My posts on this topic are not things I believe...

No problem with that.

Alas, I cannot comply because of the many resources I don't have, the least of which are mental. :-p My intuition tells me that if dark matter exists, then CMBR might be caused by dark matter resonating due to energies impinging it (dark matter) energetic particles colliding with it...

I want to point out the analogy of visible light passing through water. Somebody measuring the blue wavelengths would say "water is transparent to light". I would counter that with "yes, to a certain extent, but the red wavelengths are severely limited in the distance they travel before being...

Well, first the paper declares A follow-up post will explore this idea. I believe this with as much conviction as earlier papers that confidently stated the universe is steady-state. Others said contracting. Back then they also had observational evidence. Yes, science continuosly...

Can anybody please explain the following statement from here The WMAP spacecraft can measure the basic parameters of the Big Bang theory including the geometry of the universe. If the universe were open, the brightest microwave background fluctuations (or "spots") would be about half a...

Yes it does, because it's a statement made by me based on my study of the physical world and its manifestations. Maybe not so with your science, Horatio. When was the last time you created a Big Bang in the lab and witnessed/published the resulting isotropic CBR? Where's your fudge-free...