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Pindar praises Theia in his Fifth Isthmian ode [say that 5 times fast - ACN]: Thanks Art. Now I'll be able to sleep tonight. :wink: After assimilating that Fifth Isthmian Ode I might tackle Hesiod's Theogony - "to organize a narrative to tell how they came to be and how they established perman...

Theia? Why didn't it get named Thera? We don't live on Eaith! Enough to make one Moan

Other languages - have to fend for yourselves.

Zeno's paradox really doesn't work with black hole evaporation because when the hole gets half as small it's radius decreases at a rate four times as fast (i.e., eight times as fast relative to it's size). Radioactive material is only half as radioactive after a half life and would, in fact, (Zeno-...

Zeno's paradox really doesn't work with black hole evaporation because when the hole gets half as small it's radius decreases at a rate four times as fast (i.e., eight times as fast relative to it's size). Radioactive material is only half as radioactive after a half life and would, in fact, (Zeno-...

I'm too lazy to look it up now, but I'm sure Hawking said that the bigger a black hole is, the longer it takes for it to annihilate itself. For a black hole of a few million solar masses, we are certainly talking about trillions of years. And since the universe is only ~14 billion years, the chance...

I happened to run across a copy of this when a teacher at my wife's school found one and knew I'd be interested. It shows "Proposed Apollo Landing Site 1" in Mare Tranquillitatis and many of the others places which became famous. Copies seem available pretty cheaply for those interested in...

Speak of the devil... Now if I could find a Math to Ron translator that spoke in "Fiz"ese.

If size is a separate dimension the force carrier between the scalar Higgs field and the vector graviton field should called a "demon"? :twisted: I was attempted to suggest a "rovon" but that might be too self-satisfying. :wink: Fun but need to learn more about physics too. Been ...

http://background.uchicago.edu/~whu/intermediate/Polarization/m0r_trans.gif I find it a strange coincidence that the nebula around this star resembles one of the d-orbitals of an atom. Anyone any comments? It is the classical shape of an axially symmetric quadrupole moment :arrow: Does anyone know ...

I don't suppose they could change the title to: Wessel Transits APOD?

(A transit is the astronomical event that occurs when one [celestial] body appears to move across the face of another [celestial] body)

Ann wrote:Awwww!

(It's almost cuter than a kitty, but don't tell the kitty...)

Ann

That would be a catastrophe!

I suspect they''ll get an Acatemy award

How do you kill a black hole? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiFJ4sKFbs&index=43&list=WL Beyond - I thought there was going to be a punch line. :?: whiteout1.jpg Good idea Ron, but where are you going to be able to get a bottle that's big enough? Hmmm. That will be a problem. Maybe we'll ...

The coral waves like an Elkorn Fan from Sea to Sky too.
Beautiful APOD!!

Beyond wrote:How do you kill a black hole?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHiFJ4s ... 43&list=WL

Beyond - I thought there was going to be a punch line.

Why aren't photonic molecules shown on your table? http://phys.org/news/2013-09-scientists-never-before-seen.html Because they aren't elements. I thought photons were bosons that easily interacted. What's up with the statement in that link, ""...Most of the properties of light we know abo...

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Be careful who you let babysit your kids. Though he probably deserved an Oscar. Is that spaghettification or pancakeification in practice? Looks closer to mushification.

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I we can't even begin to guess what comes out the other end. http://www.universetoday.com/14068/what ... lack-hole/

Depends on your imagination.

I like Jin Ma's illustration and hope better days are ahead for their economic situation for everyone's sake. After things settle maybe the biggest boom is yet to come. It's interesting how astronomy interests have filtered to other facets of life. I seems like, as in physics, probability plays a bi...

Weighing our elements might be another matter. Not as straightforward as one might think.

I couldn't figure out why our helium supply seemed -all of a sudden- better. It's not like we are going to start making it helium from fusion any time soon.

Then I read this.

But then again maybe there's a new source?
Those Canucks are ambitious!!

Quite a thought provoking APOD ultimately featuring the elements , the energy and the glue that holds everything together. I chose to omit the Oxford comma out of " "gratitude to matter's parents " – energy and glue. It kind of reminds me of Einstein's famous equation E = mc2 though I...

Accuse me of “panda-ing” but “You in Snow Trench” look to be having fun despite the troubles!
Keep up the good work!

I think I'd need that unknown force to go "Beyond" and prove some "seccentricisms". :yes: Be careful! IF you go too far "Beyond", you may find that time runs very slow, or is even non-existent, which will defeat your proving any "seccentricisms". Yes. I would...

Beyond wrote:

Ron-Astro Pharmacist wrote:Careful

Beyond wrote: Time to time?? I thought that was pretty much your normal state of being.

Careful or I'll turn you into Darth Matter.

May the unknown force be with you.

I think I'd need that unknown force to go "Beyond" and prove some "seccentricisms".

Moonlady wrote:

bystander wrote:I support the Oxford comma.

Why? Maybe because:

Or "I only trust people who use the Oxford comma such as my parents, Mother Teresa and the Pope."

There are some good reasons as others have pointed out.