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Uh oh. Looks like Robert is about to "Reap the Whirlwind"!There are plenty of folk here up to the task of understanding advanced math
Dr traveler a Mathematician ,
Xsisted1 A designer of integrated circuits ,
a couple of Amateur astronomers A horse asterike(sic)
Myself with a back ground in nuclear physics from the Navy.
There are also several teachers here.
Im certain we can muster up the brain power to follow your explanation of the equation if you can come up with one.
There are plenty of folk here up to the task of understanding advanced math
Dr traveler a Mathematician ,
Xsisted1 A designer of integrated circuits ,
a couple of Amateur astronomers A horse asterike(sic)
Myself with a back ground in nuclear physics from the Navy.
There are also several teachers here.
Im certain we can muster up the brain power to follow your explanation of the equation if you can come up with one.
Uh oh. Looks like Robert is about to "Reap the Whirlwind"!There are plenty of folk here up to the task of understanding advanced math
Dr traveler a Mathematician ,
Xsisted1 A designer of integrated circuits ,
a couple of Amateur astronomers A horse asterike(sic)
Myself with a back ground in nuclear physics from the Navy.
There are also several teachers here.
Im certain we can muster up the brain power to follow your explanation of the equation if you can come up with one.
A bit of interesting trivia; If Jupiter were about sixty times more massive it would begin fusion reactions making it a star. More mass would not make Jupiter's size grow rather it would cause the planet to fall in upon itself and compress under its own gravity. At this point, thermonuclear reactions would ignite and Jupiter would become a luminous star with a diameter of about 100,000 miles (161,000 km.). Cool eh?
~RB~
With a 1x4x9 monolith, the extra mass would not be necessary.
A bit of interesting trivia; If Jupiter were about sixty times more massive it would begin fusion reactions making it a star. More mass would not make Jupiter's size grow rather it would cause the planet to fall in upon itself and compress under its own gravity. At this point, thermonuclear reactions would ignite and Jupiter would become a luminous star with a diameter of about 100,000 miles (161,000 km.). Cool eh?
~RB~
With a 1x4x9 monolith, the extra mass would not be necessary.
I can see this is not a serious forum! If the monolith were of alien design it may be weightless.
RevBig
There are plenty of folk here up to the task of understanding advanced math
Dr traveler a Mathematician ,
Xsisted1 A designer of integrated circuits ,
a couple of Amateur astronomers A horse asterike(sic)
Myself with a back ground in nuclear physics from the Navy.
There are also several teachers here.
Im certain we can muster up the brain power to follow your explanation of the equation if you can come up with one.
Plato's quote in your signature is superb. True as well. Did you see the launch today?
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With a 1x4x9 monolith, the extra mass would not be necessary.
I can see this is not a serious forum! If the monolith were of alien design it may be weightless.
RevBig
It could be weightless, but still have mass.
You're not gonna' get one either because in addition to all his other self professed medical maladies, it appears Robert suffers from Adult Attention Deficit Disorder as well.That is not an explanation of the equation.lPlato's quote in your signature is superb. True as well. Did you see the launch today? RThere are plenty of folk here up to the task of understanding advanced math
Dr traveler a Mathematician ,
Xsisted1 A designer of integrated circuits ,
a couple of Amateur astronomers A horse asterike(sic)
Myself with a back ground in nuclear physics from the Navy.
There are also several teachers here.
Im certain we can muster up the brain power to follow your explanation of the equation if you can come up with one.
A bit of interesting trivia; If Jupiter were about sixty times more massive it would begin fusion reactions making it a star. More mass would not make Jupiter's size grow rather it would cause the planet to fall in upon itself and compress under its own gravity. At this point, thermonuclear reactions would ignite and Jupiter would become a luminous star with a diameter of about 100,000 miles (161,000 km.). Cool eh?
~RB~
With a 1x4x9 monolith, the extra mass would not be necessary.
I can see this is not a serious forum! If the monolith were of alien design it may be weightless. In any case, I think I may not be long here, I was looking for something with a bit more ummm' science and less playing, even though I am a rank amateur. However have fun, I am going to check out a few more threads and if they are all like this one (more about science) I may be looking for another home ~
RevBig
With a 1x4x9 monolith, the extra mass would not be necessary.
I can see this is not a serious forum! If the monolith were of alien design it may be weightless. In any case, I think I may not be long here, I was looking for something with a bit more ummm' science and less playing, even though I am a rank amateur. However have fun, I am going to check out a few more threads and if they are all like this one (more about science) I may be looking for another home ~
RevBig
You funny! Mr "Take yourself too seriously" Party of one...your table is ready.
I can see this is not a serious forum! If the monolith were of alien design it may be weightless. In any case, I think I may not be long here, I was looking for something with a bit more ummm' science and less playing, even though I am a rank amateur. However have fun, I am going to check out a few more threads and if they are all like this one (more about science) I may be looking for another home ~
RevBig
You funny! Mr "Take yourself too seriously" Party of one...your table is ready.
Why are you inserting false words into his reply to my post?
The new image shows a region of space less than 4.2 light-years across at the heart of Centaurus A, 12 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus (of course). The galaxy, also known as NGC 5128 is anchored by a black hole as massive as 55 million suns. It's a huge radio source. In fact, if our eyes could see radio waves, Centaurus A would look nearly 20 times as big as the full moon, due to the giant lobes of radio-emitting matter spreading out from the galaxy itself. The matter is streaming into the lobes via the particle jets that emanate from the black hole.
"These jets arise as infalling matter approaches the black hole, but we don't yet know the details of how they form and maintain themselves," Cornelia Müller, a doctoral student at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, said in a NASA image advisory released today. Müller is the lead author of a study about the jets, appearing in the June issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She and her colleagues targeted Centaurus A with a network of nine radio telescopes in Africa, South America and Australia, known collectively as the Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry project, or TANAMI. The telescopes joined forces to zoom in on the heart of the galaxy.
"Advanced computer techniques allow us to combine data from the individual telescopes to yield images with the sharpness of a single giant telescope, one nearly as large as Earth itself," Roopesh Ojha of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explained. The radio image shows features as small as 15 light-days across, which makes it the highest-resolution view of galactic jets ever made. Studying the jets in such detail should help astronomers figure out how they form which would make Müller very happy.
More about Centaurus A and black hole jets:
Only 12 million light years away...
Snapshot reveals a black hole's jets
20 May`11 - A network of radio telescopes scattered around the Southern Hemisphere has produced the best-ever view of cosmic jets erupting from a supermassive black hole at the center of another galaxy.
The new image shows a region of space less than 4.2 light-years across at the heart of Centaurus A, 12 million light-years away in the constellation Centaurus (of course). The galaxy, also known as NGC 5128 is anchored by a black hole as massive as 55 million suns. It's a huge radio source. In fact, if our eyes could see radio waves, Centaurus A would look nearly 20 times as big as the full moon, due to the giant lobes of radio-emitting matter spreading out from the galaxy itself. The matter is streaming into the lobes via the particle jets that emanate from the black hole.
"These jets arise as infalling matter approaches the black hole, but we don't yet know the details of how they form and maintain themselves," Cornelia Müller, a doctoral student at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany, said in a NASA image advisory released today. Müller is the lead author of a study about the jets, appearing in the June issue of Astronomy and Astrophysics. She and her colleagues targeted Centaurus A with a network of nine radio telescopes in Africa, South America and Australia, known collectively as the Tracking Active Galactic Nuclei with Austral Milliarcsecond Interferometry project, or TANAMI. The telescopes joined forces to zoom in on the heart of the galaxy.
"Advanced computer techniques allow us to combine data from the individual telescopes to yield images with the sharpness of a single giant telescope, one nearly as large as Earth itself," Roopesh Ojha of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center explained. The radio image shows features as small as 15 light-days across, which makes it the highest-resolution view of galactic jets ever made. Studying the jets in such detail should help astronomers figure out how they form which would make Müller very happy.
More about Centaurus A and black hole jets:
The bolded text is confusing because it cannot be accurate. Does it mean that these planet sized bodies are detected through gravitational lensing, and that the lense stars (perhaps in the galactic bulge) made their observation possible? If that is so then are these bodies somewhere near the center of the galaxy, perhaps 25,000 light years or between there and here?Well, this certainly seems appropriate to this thread. Opens up many cans of worms.
10 Jupiter sized 'Orphan' planets found by researchers | NEWSWARPED.COMThe objects revealed themselves by bending the light of more distant stars, an effect called “gravitational microlensing”.
Einstein correctly predicted that objects of large enough mass can bend light. If a large object passes in front of a more distant background star, it may act as a lens, bending and distorting the light of that star so that it may appear to brighten significantly.
The researchers have examined data collected from microlensing surveys of what is called the Galactic Bulge, the central area of our own Milky Way.
They detected evidence of 10 Jupiter-sized objects with no parent star found within 10 Astronomical Units (AU). One AU is equivalent to the distance between our Earth and Sun. Further analysis led them to the conclusion that most of these objects did not have parent stars. <SNIP>
Well, whatever you wish to call them, and no matter what their origin, if one were to come through our solar system, it would definately be a case of there goes the neighborhood.
