i have only some elementary knowledge of linear algebra, but I'd be interested on learning about the metric tensor. Would it be correct to say that...
For me the most intriguing result is the asymmetry between the 2 hemispheres in the CMB. It seems that in one part of the sky the amplitude of the...
The thing is nobody knows how big the entire Universe is, maybe it will never be known, it may even have infinite volume. Is possible to know how big...
I wonder if then they dicussed and got divorced :bugeye:
I figure that people will come up with monikers for that bubble, my proposal is the "Cosmic Sahara".:cool:
Possibly COROT (anagram of Orcot?) will find interesting things before the kicking off of the Darwin mission.
Let's first hope the LHC starts indeed operating, and doesn't get entangled in a jungle of delays, it's start-up has just been delayed until April'08...
My personal opinion is that the Universe has a finite volume, but there's no exterior to it. It's geometry is such that you cannot get out of it,...
It seems that Jack comes from adding a french diminutive (-kin), to Jean (John). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_%28name%29 Rather, it is...
There's this story about this supernova that has been described as "intrinsically two to three times brighter than any previously recorded"...
Nah, his latest book is not State of fear, but one titled "Next", which I finished a couple of weeks ago. Is about the possibility of animals...
<img src="http://www.forkosh.com/mimetex.cgi?\Gamma^l_{ki} = \frac{1}{2} g^{lj} (\partial_k g_{ij} + \partial_i g_{jk} - \partial_j g_{ki})"> I...
Nobody got it right, as the the body has been named Eris http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5344892.stm Eris is a greek goddess of...
Hey welcome, only want to point out that the pluton designation has been ditched, now Pluto and co go by the unimaginative name of "dwarf planets"
New Order - World in motion I love football!
The definition is a bit ambiguous, cause in fact no planet is perfectly "round". Earth is not round, and if you look pictures of Vesta: [img]...
I somehow find hard to believe that scientists had err in a so obvious way to mismeasure the universe and now give a cipher practically the double of...
One should wonder why magazines are constantly bent on publishing that "actually is believed that the universe is 156 billion ly wide". This is not...
Actually Pluto is considered a planet with full rights by the IAU (against my will..). This can be changed in September 2006, when an official...
There're near 200 extrasolar planets known, and some of these are larger than Jupiter. There's this list from 2005...
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