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The strange Universe around us
Topic Started: Jan 6 2010, 01:38 AM (610 Views)
Mike
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/04/nasa-kepler-telescope-dis_n_410899.html

The more scientists discover, the more amazing it is.
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Brewster
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There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.


I sometimes wonder just how much we don't know about Shakespeare's background...
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ngc1514
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Every time we open up a new window on the universe, fascinating new things are seen. Each just add a tiny bit more to our picture of the universe around us.

"Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine."
-- Sir Arthur Eddington
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AZFlyFisher
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I am amazed by how much more we now now than we did when I was in school.
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AZFlyFisher
Jan 26 2010, 04:51 PM
I am amazed by how much more we now now than we did when I was in school.
Back when I first started reading about astronomy - mid 50's, I guess - Fred Hoyle's Steady State Theory was the reigning cosmological theory.

It was a lovely theory destroyed by that single unexpected fact: the discovery of the Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation (CMBR).

The whole field of high-energy astrophysics that includes quasars, pulsars, gamma ray bursters, black holes and so many of the other oddities of the universe had not yet even been thought of until the first quasar radio source - 3C48 - was tied to a faint, blue star-like object in the early 60s.

It's been a lot of fun to watch from the sidelines!
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BUCK
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I had the good fortune to meet him around 1954 when he was giving a lecture at Los Angeles city college. A friend of mine was a student of his at Cal Tech in Pasadena Ca. At the one hour break he said that students who had classes could leave to attend class, and not one person left. He was known to be a real party timer and his students always called him by his first name.

Note his quotations and meet the famous...I think you will have to scroll up to get to the beginning.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Richard_Feynman#Six_Easy_Pieces_.281995.29
Edited by BUCK, Feb 1 2010, 09:04 AM.
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