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To: weegee

how in hell do they know there are 18 billion?

fuzzy math ?


14 posted on 01/10/2008 1:05:47 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: advertising guy
how in hell do they know there are 18 billion?
Good questions. Also, why is the more "massive" black hole illustrated as a larger black cirlce and the smaller black hole as a smaller black circle. The way I understood black holes, all accretion goes into a singularity that is by all indications, smaller than an atom. So, shouldn't both black holes be illustrated as being the same size? Perhaps they need a different way of illustrating weight for celestial bodies.
34 posted on 01/10/2008 1:15:01 PM PST by adorno
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To: advertising guy

No, not fuzzy at all. There are non-fuzzy equations in physics that allow you to calculate the masses if you know the period, etc.


52 posted on 01/10/2008 1:29:08 PM PST by LibWhacker (Democrats are phony Americans)
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