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Strange 'Methuselah' Star Looks Older Than the Universe
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| 3-7-2013
| Mike Wall
Posted on 03/08/2013 5:17:11 AM PST by Sir Napsalot
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To: ZX12R
Like an atom, takes up space, but most of the space is made up of nothing. But....if it is 'space' then it is not 'nothing'. Space is a something.
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posted on
03/08/2013 6:23:10 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
To: ArrogantBustard
Excellent retort! It seems MestaMachine would make a good radical Green Party kook. Let’s all live in caves and eat twigs and berries.
To: Michael Barnes
The Milky Way and Andromeda are going to collide and during that collision, not much is going to touch one and other. Space is vast. True, but the gravitational effects are huge, especially the cores of each galaxy. Of course the time scale of the event puts even the longest slo-mo to shame, but I've seen modeled predictions of the interaction, and it's pretty cool. The merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda will pretty much double the size of our home galaxy as far as mass is concerned.
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posted on
03/08/2013 7:12:18 AM PST
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zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Wow. If those sizes are accurate, HD140283 is beyond huge.Betelgeuse is almost a million times the size of our sun.
If you haven't ever done so, I strobngly recommend you download Celestia (free, with Linux, Mac and Win versions available). It is extraordinarily cool to see what Betelgeuse looks like from various distances. For instance, if you go to Pluto, and look at the Sun and note how many AU Pluto is from the Sun. (this varies significantly during its orbit) Then go to Betelgeuse and see what it looks like in the sky from the same distance. Zooming in to Jupiter's orbit yeilds surprising results, and I think it give a pretty good feel for the size of that monster star.
Celestia is the coolest program on the planet IMO.
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posted on
03/08/2013 7:18:22 AM PST
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zeugma
(Those of us who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living.)
To: Boonie
What was there before the so-called Big Bang????The Big Dinner and a couple of drinks.
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
But....if it is 'space' then it is not 'nothing'. Space is a something.
Okay, then we'll say it's absence of stuff, other than space.
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posted on
03/08/2013 7:34:46 AM PST
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ZX12R
To: zeugma
I have it on my home PC. Haven’t touched it in a while. I’ll have to play with it when I get home next week.
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posted on
03/08/2013 8:43:29 AM PST
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Here once the embattled farmers stood... And fired the shot heard round the world.)
To: Cboldt
Which is a conundrum wrapped in a riddle within an enigma for those who don’t believe in creation because one of the rules is you can’t create or destory energy and/or mass you may only convert them between.
Or so this physics major was taught...
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posted on
03/08/2013 12:59:30 PM PST
by
reed13k
(For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
To: Sir Napsalot
First I've heard about this, they gots some *splaining* to do.
Love these types of little anomalies, keeps science interesting.
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posted on
03/08/2013 1:07:21 PM PST
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The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
To: The Cajun
>>> Love these types of little anomalies, keeps science interesting.
Isn't it though? When experts think they have a neat theory to explain most things, and out pops some knuckle ball.
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posted on
03/08/2013 1:53:54 PM PST
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Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: Sir Napsalot
Maybe they have found God’s desk light......
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posted on
03/08/2013 4:07:11 PM PST
by
Some Fat Guy in L.A.
(Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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