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Seeking Guidance & Tips for Collaboration on a Cosmological Project Involving Potential Energy Variation Due to Cosmic Expansion
If you are a student at an academic institution, the first step should be to speak to faculty members there. If you are not, you might find helpful advice in How to find an academic mentor as a ...
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What was FJM Stratton doing during Kamishari Expedition 1936, linked to Pearl Harbor intelligence?
Inspection of the publication record of Stratton in the 1920s and 1930s shows that he specialized in optical emission-line spectroscopy, especially of novae, as well as on reporting solar-eclipse ...
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What was FJM Stratton doing during Kamishari Expedition 1936, linked to Pearl Harbor intelligence?
Since I have access to the article in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society I think I can add some info. It starts with:
An expedition to observe the total solar eclipse of 1936 June ...
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Are liquids the rarest state of matter in the universe?
No, by far the rarest state of matter in the universe is Bose-Einstein Condensate. As far as we know BECs do not naturally occur anywhere in the Universe, and have only been realized under lab ...
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Are liquids the rarest state of matter in the universe?
If protons do not decay, ALL atomic matter behaves like a liquid and becomes spherical for a certain period of time under its own gravity – until the cold liquid spheres of stuff decay to cold spheres ...
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Which coordinate system should one use for simulating a spacecraft trajectory to the moon?
If your simulation is starting from the Earth's surface, or from somewhere close to the Earth (e.g., orbit insertion), you want to use some kind of Earth-centered inertial (ECI) frame initially. At ...
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