category: cosmology
The Postulates of Relativity and Their Implications 1
Many physicists, including both Lorentz and Michelson, were reluctant to abandon the ether. Although Lorentz quickly accepted Einstein's relativity, he continued to maintain that a medium of some kind is needed as the carrier of …
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GALILEAN RELATIVITY 1
Special relativity implies that moving clocks run slow. That is itself a strange result, but clocks running backward would be too much to swallow. No such disaster arises, however. In the case of the moths, …
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A Brief History of Cosmology and Galaxy Formation 1
Newton agreed with Bentley that providence had designed a universe of infinite extent in which uniformly distributed stars stand poised in unstable equilibrium like needles on their points (Harrison, 1987).
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Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.
---William Shakespeare
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---Barack Obama