Wrong tense.... May have already gone supernova, it is hundreds of light years away...
Spotted Betelgeuse maybe at 5 AM EDT. East, about 2 hands north. About half as bright as Venus. Fairly yellow. One other bright star visible in my floodlit city, at same angle below & to the right as blue one shown in post #613. Rigel maybe?
I own a fairly dark country property 27 miles northeast but road construction keeps me from bicycling out there now. No internet service out there either.
I own a fairly dark country property 27 miles northeast but road construction keeps me from bicycling out there now. No internet service out there either.
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0203466
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/25323369.pdf
"Matter" "falls" "into" "bended" "spacetime" and "matter" "bends" "spacetime";-)
Or better: redshift because expansion, and expansion because redshift;-?
Ida and Dactyl.
Let us simple bend ideas;-)
Dark Matter, and even Dark Energy;-)
Neither "science" nor "philosophy"-)
When I (A Born Londoner) was sent to a relative outlying outcrop in the West Country (Bath, Somerset) the new "Boss" informed me thatt you are either a Scientist or an Artist.
I mumbled this quietly. I can do Both! They weren't familiar with New Paradigms.
It either Works or it Doesn't...
A superb bit of Engineering. This what I do:
How it is.
😎
I mumbled this quietly. I can do Both! They weren't familiar with New Paradigms.
It either Works or it Doesn't...
A superb bit of Engineering. This what I do:
How it is.
😎
You can use Stellarium to identify sky objects. It is free software, well designed, no business junk, no brainer.
Sheldon Cooper.
An actor playing a caricature of a JPL'er. A character (assassination) written by script writers than flunked their 6th grade "science" class and need an Alexa to do arithmetic.
Trust me, it's wrong. I know of no one like that.
BTW: Your boss was wrong. Most people are neither scientists nor artists... most people use deductive logic... or none at all. QED.
Well, er, "The Big Bang Theory" is a comedy sitcom after all! 😉
Incidentally, the science in the show was fact-checked by David Saltzberg, who has a bachelor's in physics from Princeton University, where he worked on the Cyclotron. He has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. His post-doc was done at CERN and he's worked on the Large Hadrom Collider.
However, I watched Big Bang, not for the science, but for Penny! 😍
May be, ALL watched Big Bang, not for the "science", but for Penny! 😉
To be honest, I like the Big Bang (*). I love watching their white boards, their book shelves and their toys. And I love the tension between Sheldon, the theoretical "hard" science guy and those around him that are experimental, "soft" science or just "engineers"... he is so blind that it can be comical.
BTW: all theoretical "hard" science guys I know... drive cars, drink beer, are married, have kids, do not get divorced... Back in the 90s I was shooting the breeze at lunch and two of us were comparing notes about setting up our home LANs ( home made routers, NAS, DMZs, Firewalls etc....) when he asked me: "Where do you keep your liquor cabinet?". I answered, "in the closet hallway right outside of my home office." He laughed, he did too. You see, in the 90s, what we were doing was the kind of stuff Sheldon's character would consider "uber hard" science. ;-) It literally drove you to drink. Have you ever tried to set up a Windows 95 to be a dual homed host with a routing layer?
Oh, the guy I was talking to... he has more PhDs than the writers of that show can ever imagine.
I think that if it weren't for my wife, my house would look like that.
(*) Even is as a theory... The Big Bang Is An Exploding Myth.
BTW: all theoretical "hard" science guys I know... drive cars, drink beer, are married, have kids, do not get divorced... Back in the 90s I was shooting the breeze at lunch and two of us were comparing notes about setting up our home LANs ( home made routers, NAS, DMZs, Firewalls etc....) when he asked me: "Where do you keep your liquor cabinet?". I answered, "in the closet hallway right outside of my home office." He laughed, he did too. You see, in the 90s, what we were doing was the kind of stuff Sheldon's character would consider "uber hard" science. ;-) It literally drove you to drink. Have you ever tried to set up a Windows 95 to be a dual homed host with a routing layer?
Oh, the guy I was talking to... he has more PhDs than the writers of that show can ever imagine.
I think that if it weren't for my wife, my house would look like that.
(*) Even is as a theory... The Big Bang Is An Exploding Myth.
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The big bang thesis did not start with the discovery of redshift of objects and "interpretation" - also interpretations are dependent on the present knowledge - as "Doppler Effect". It has its origin in "faith", in the belief of the creation of world. I lead back the belief in a creation (of world) to our cut-out perception, which can be - or is - "cause" for an interpretation of "cause";-) Besides: also other mis-theories, that is at most theses, can be traced back to our cut-out perception. E.g. the theories of action, so theories of creation, of "cause" too, in sociology, psychology, political science, jurisprudence, law...-) So they all are everyday theories;-)
Cut-out perception in turn is due to complexity of "world", and to "process": This goes in the direction Heisenberg, would explain his described "uncertainty principle" also.
I'll leave this here for now;-)
Cut-out perception in turn is due to complexity of "world", and to "process": This goes in the direction Heisenberg, would explain his described "uncertainty principle" also.
I'll leave this here for now;-)
The calculations in the 1930's that most star velocities pointed to one point of origin certainly provided some evidence of some unusual occurance at that point of origin 13.6 billion years ago. You personally make any counter evidential observations?
Plus explosions performed on earth, from firecrackers on up, provide a similar debris field pattern. Trails point back to the point where the explosion occurred, with some tracks on the ground from the debris rubbing. Debris field limited to a half sphere by the very high resistance of the ground ("earth"). You think maybe the little green men driving all those stars & galaxies in the sky shouted "cheeze it, the cops!" before their big exit from the scene of the crime?
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I'm sure you must be aware that the term Big Bang is a misnomer because it conjures up the image of an explosion.
The term was coined by Fred Hoyle to belittle a hypothesis he very much disliked because he believed in the "Steady-State" theory of the universe.
https://www.thoughtco.com/steady-state-theory-2699310
It would a mistake to say about the Big Bang that matter is expanding into space as it does in an explosion.
What is actually the case is that it is space itself that is expanding, and that is the difficult thing to get one's head around! 😵
The first to put forward a proper hypothesis on the origins of the Universe was Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian mathematician, astronomer and priest.
It was he who, in 1927, came up with the idea of a Universe which had originated from a single point.
He called this the hypothesis of the primeval atom - with the primeval atom referring to what we now call the singularity.
Read more here: https://www.theoryofknowledge.info/who-came-up-with-the-big-bang-theory.html
What is actually the case is that it is space itself that is expanding, and that is the difficult thing to get one's head around! 😵
The first to put forward a proper hypothesis on the origins of the Universe was Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian mathematician, astronomer and priest.
It was he who, in 1927, came up with the idea of a Universe which had originated from a single point.
He called this the hypothesis of the primeval atom - with the primeval atom referring to what we now call the singularity.
Read more here: https://www.theoryofknowledge.info/who-came-up-with-the-big-bang-theory.html
;-)
When the term universe became part of the universe, the terms and concepts space and time were not identical with today's in astrophysics and theoretical (soft) physics. Universe is only Totality (of things): All.
Universe, Totality, All does also comprise the concepts of space and time, and also space-time. But Universe, All and space-time are not synonymous, not identical.
Universe, Totality, All does not expand, does not contain things. Does comprise only;-)
When the term universe became part of the universe, the terms and concepts space and time were not identical with today's in astrophysics and theoretical (soft) physics. Universe is only Totality (of things): All.
Universe, Totality, All does also comprise the concepts of space and time, and also space-time. But Universe, All and space-time are not synonymous, not identical.
Universe, Totality, All does not expand, does not contain things. Does comprise only;-)