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- Fri Dec 14, 2007 3:36 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes from Hubble Space Telescope (APOD 28 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9539
- Thu Dec 13, 2007 4:44 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
That is exactly why quantum mechanics states there are a finite number of units between 1 and 3, in both time and space. The imagination can perceive an infinite amount of units, the science of quantum cannot. I can't speak to the limitations of your imagination, but I assure you that quantum mecha...
- Thu Dec 13, 2007 2:38 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
- Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:59 pm
- Forum: The Asterisk Café: Discuss Anything Astronomy Related
- Topic: What's seen by the naked eye?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1849
Re: What's seen by the naked eye?
Hello I'm wondering if all the stars we see with the naked eye are within our Milky Way Galaxy. Just to clarify Case's answer, you are correct that all the individual stars you can see with the naked eye are in our own galaxy, and in fact, are in our local region of the Galaxy. Any more distant lig...
- Wed Dec 12, 2007 7:04 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
Then I would like you to explain to me the mechanics on how you can increase the limit on a limitless value - I can't see it. I don't know what to say, except that you need to review a first year calculus text. You don't seem to understand either limits, nor the mathematical meaning of infinity. Th...
- Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:06 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
- Tue Dec 11, 2007 2:43 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
- Mon Dec 10, 2007 6:38 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
- Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:29 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
Sorry, I do understand the non-limit of Infinity. Your response contradicts itself, if a non-limit of infinity is reached it cannot expand. Limitless cannot expand, that is exactly what I mean when stating the limit infinity x 2 does not change its value. You are trying to use language to describe ...
- Sat Dec 08, 2007 7:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Photo of Mars from France (APOD 06 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3308
- Sat Dec 08, 2007 2:39 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
If the universe is infinite it cannot grow, infinity +1 still equals the same number. Do you see why infinity is a hard limit to grasp? Your use of ∞ is trying to state that 2∞≻∞, that is incorrect, a false statement. Sorry, but you don't understand infinity. It isn't a number . You can't apply mat...
- Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:35 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Photo of Mars from France (APOD 06 Dec 2007)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3308
- Fri Dec 07, 2007 7:16 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes from Hubble Space Telescope (APOD 28 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9539
Gosh this is beginning to take on the appearance that space is all in the imagination of mathematicians. Calculations of wobbles and strobes that indicate something is there. It seems to take trick photography, artist renditions, and graphic designers to convince us. ... I am truly let down, crushe...
- Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:57 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
Infinity is a conceptual limit, it does not exist passed our imaginations. I disagree. As a language construct, it is generally vague and ill-defined. But mathematically, it is rigorous, and there is no reason to think that in its mathematical senses it doesn't act as a proxy for something that exi...
- Thu Dec 06, 2007 2:53 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Extent of space (APOD 23 Mar 2006)
- Replies: 103
- Views: 27429
- Thu Dec 06, 2007 3:38 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes from Hubble Space Telescope (APOD 28 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9539
I have agreed earlier that the coma light is sunlight. Very nice picture. Are you saying the bright light in the HST coming from the core is sunlight too? That bright? Yes. The core, or pseudonucleus, is part of the coma as well. It consists of the same dust, just in higher concentration because of...
- Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:15 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes from Hubble Space Telescope (APOD 28 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9539
Is it really far fetched to think a very large thing like Jupiter could influence the orbit of a 2.2 mile wide piece of rock like Holmes? Holmes is orbiting in a region of the Solar System where orbits are not very stable. It probably began as a long period comet that was perturbed into a short per...
- Wed Dec 05, 2007 5:09 am
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Comet Holmes from Hubble Space Telescope (APOD 28 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 32
- Views: 9539
Re: HOlmes light
However, lending it some credibility by virtue of your knowledge, in the reference it states that dust etc keeps us from seeing the light from the galactic center. Dust completely blocks out the light of billions of suns. More correctly, thousands of light years of dust is able to block out virtual...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:31 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Aurora in the Distance (APOD 19 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13153
Chris, the lens flare around the moon is white and red and large, but I doubt that the white flare is because this is a low quality lens. That isn't the kind of flare I'm talking about. I'm referring to internal reflections between elements that produce secondary images of bright sources. They are ...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 7:27 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Aurora in the Distance (APOD 19 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13153
Would you like to share an example of one of your flares with us that you think demonstrates this effect. And don't forget, the flare needs to point 'away' from the light source with its brightest point furthest from the moon. Getting the same kind of flare means using the same kind of lens. Why no...
- Tue Nov 27, 2007 4:25 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Aurora in the Distance (APOD 19 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 13153
Undoubtedly, that lens open as it is on F4 is flaring quite badly from the moonlight, you can see the huge flare halo and its numerous flare spikes radiating out from the moons light source. But they are all WHITE - as they should be for a white source. However, this single spike is green and almos...
- Sat Nov 24, 2007 8:27 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Galaxies in Pegasus (APOD 24 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3048
- Sat Nov 24, 2007 3:40 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Galaxies in Pegasus (APOD 24 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3048
- Wed Nov 21, 2007 10:39 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: More on the size of Holmes (APOD 21 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1907
Are you talking about the inflection point at about 1000 arcseconds on the newest measurement or the one at about 500 arcseconds? The outer one, at 1000 arcsec. This is a little above the noise floor of the image. Each profile was taken the same way, perpendicular to the tail/spreading pseudonucleu...
- Wed Nov 21, 2007 7:40 pm
- Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Topic: Size of Holmes's Coma (APOD 17 Nov 2007)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3452
In terms of Electric Theory, they would hypothesize that Holmes, in its northernmost venturing in its orbit, would possibly be encountering a different area of the solar e-field, and that is the reason Holmes became active. The idea that the Sun's weak electric field has any significant influence o...