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- The Eddington Luminosity in Spherical Accretion and Beyond
- How a Molecular Cloud Collapses Into a Star
- Why $R_{\mu\nu}=0$ does not imply $R_{\mu\nu\rho\sigma}=0$
- Derivation of the Cosmic-Ray Diffusion Coefficient from Pitch-Angle Scattering
- The rubber sheet gets the geometry right and the mechanism wrong!
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Derivation of the Cosmic-Ray Diffusion Coefficient from Pitch-Angle Scattering
Cosmic rays arrive at Earth from every direction almost perfectly evenly, to about one part in a thousand. That’s a disaster if you wanted to know where they came from, because they’re charged and the Galaxy is magnetised, so whatever … Continue reading
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Tagged astronomy, Astrophysics, Mathematical Physics, physics, science, theoretical physics
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Vega Through 600 Frames of Starlight
Tonight I pointed the Seestar S50 toward Vega and let it run for a while. Vega is one of those stars that almost feels too bright to photograph properly. It dominates the frame immediately, and after only a few exposures … Continue reading
The Kerr Trisector Closure: A project on internal consistency tests of General Relativity
General Relativity describes gravity as the curvature of spacetime. Mass and energy determine this curvature, and physical phenomena such as orbital motion, gravitational radiation, and the propagation of light are governed by the resulting geometry. In this framework gravity is … Continue reading
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Tagged consistency tests, general relativity, gravitational waves, KTC
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