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orin stepanek wrote:is there a movie called Flesh Gordon? Sounds kind of risque.

There is, and it is. It's also awful and absolutely hilarious.

Heh, it's kind of funny, I wasn't even trying to suggest that neutrinos make up dark matter. Rather, that they played a role similar to dark matter in the past, ie. a (then) unobserved particle that was proposed to account for observations of missing energy. I'd always thought that neutrinos were di...

Centrifugal force is not just like the Coriolis force a force experienced and noticeble in a rotating frame. The centrifugal force for an observer at rest is: Real: since the object (e.g. the moon) does not fall on the earth, the centrifugal force must be in equilibrium with the gravitational force...

The Rules: read these before posting ... 1. All posts must be in English. No exceptions. I cannot read any other language well enough to moderate non-English posts. It appears to me that there's a lot of non-English between the English passages. Perhaps it says the same thing as the English. Perhap...

When was the last time "non-baryonic particles" were needed to explain an observed phenomenon? Has any non-baryonic matter ever been observed else where in our universe? Just thought I'd point out, leptons, photons, W and Z bosons, and neutrinos are all non-baryonic matter. There doesn't ...

They do have that image backwards, because it looks like the HiRISE page also has this particular image backwards. The text is correct for the full-scale image, here: http://hirise-pds.lpl.arizona.edu/PDS/EXTRAS/RDR/PSP/ORB_008200_008299/PSP_008244_2645/PSP_008244_2645_RED.abrowse.jpg The region sho...

Here's a Wikipedia article that summarizes the possible fates of an expanding universe:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_of_ ... g_universe

I've always been fond of the term "Stelliferous Era".

I think Henk meant to type 'slower', since 3e-90 seconds is six orders of magnitude longer than 3e-96 seconds. Ie. a more massive black hole evaporates more slowly.

Also, LHC webcams!

http://www.cyriak.co.uk/lhc/lhc-webcams.html

Nevertheless your thoughts triggered a philosophical question. On earth, the moon, Venus, Mercury, Mars and the moons of the gas giants Silicon seems to the the abundant element. Si is one of the elements in the nuclear fusion chain of stars. Fe (Iron) is the last one. So there must be somewhat mor...

the Long Bar going thru the galactic center has a sudden brightening of stars where it touches the spiral arms. You do realize that the illustration on which you base your interesting analysis is an "Artist's Concept", not a photograph. The bright areas to which you refer may not exist. h...

Actually, I think the situation you've just described was the foundation of the 'black hole information paradox', if I'm reading the wiki article right.

Hmmmmmm. Well then that only leaves the obvious- gravity. it seem to be the only logical force/wave that permeates the event horizon in either direction (directionless?) without questioning any laws or creating any serious breakdowns of physics. Actually, any of the forces would be able to 'permeat...

Ahhhh, I guess that clears up things then. The last step would probably (to the external observer) take an inordinately long time, though. I guess this rules out black holes being possible pathways to antigravity universes, since it really -would- lead to information loss.

Something that's bothered me recently about the black hole information paradox: why is it a paradox at all? Due to relativity, from the point of view of a distant observer nothing ever actually falls into a black hole in the first place, but rather objects approach asymptotically close to the event ...

What hapens inside the event horizon, well, 20 years ago i read something about that, can't remember it exactly and now i'm trying (already a few weeks) to find the chapter in one of my books. Did not succeed yet. The GR explanation I always encounter, or at least an approximation of an explanation...

"Conservation of Information" is, I think, a consequence of quantum field theory, but I only have the most basic of layperson's understanding of anything quantum-mechanical. :lol: From what I can tell from reading various sources, Hawking radiation is an offshoot of the Unruh effect, but t...

There are motion-blurred people in the image, btw. You can see faint ghosting of them near the waterline.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080704.html Well, this is a beauty isn't it. Looks like a cheerleader's pom-pom. Save the cheerleader.... :lol: Can anybody identify the white/yellow line that runs along the outer edge of this 'bubble' at top right? Is it just a thickening of matter that is highl...

Here's a closer view of the 'snail's head'. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap071226.html The shorter-looking stalk is a gas pillar, apparently with a new star forming at its tip, formed as the energetic light from the massive stars illuminating the nebula erode the gas clouds. The longer, thinner ...

I was always under the impression that GR gave a fairly decent description of what goes on inside an event horizon, as long as it stays away from the singularity itself (where those pesky infinities crop up)? I think the difference (again, in GR) between a universe and a black hole is that the unive...

Is it just me, or does it look like the stellar remnant is tracing out an hourglass shape in the nebula with a pair of polar jets, sweeping about as the star's poles precess?

If I were in space, and hurled a spinnng gyroscope in such a way that I caused it to tumble as it flew, I make a guess that it's anybody's guess as to when it becomes "free falling". I don't think it quite works like that. You can't "set a gyroscope tumbling" without applying a ...

Why were insects so large 100 million years ago? The paleontological record suggests that the oxygen content of the atmosphere was as high as 30% during some periods (instead of the 21% we have now), which would support much larger insects than we have today. Why does the Earth go through ice ages?...

http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2005/01/image/a The relevant text from the page I suppose would be: "Only galaxies with large-scale bars appear to have these grand-design inner disks — a spiral within a spiral. Models suggest that the gas in a bar can be funneled inwards, and...