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    What caused the physical laws we have?

    Wow. Those are grand and ambitious questions. - There are different theories on how physical laws came into being. None have been proven. As far as we know, these physical laws that govern us today are the same laws that have been in existence since the Big Bang. - It is true that we may...
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    Could a Neutron Star's Color be Rayleigh-Jeans Blue?

    As I understand it, at the surface of a neutron star, most light is emitted in the X-ray range. In the visible range, red is emitted at about the same as blue and the other colors, so it would appear white to human eyes. Your human eyes and body should not orbit too closely, or else tidal...
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    A Star's Life, (Full Explanation)

    I might suggest breaking up your questions into separate topics. You are asking approximately 15 questions about stellar life. The proper way to answer your question is to write you a book on the subject. Break up the questions, and it will be easier to solve your riddles. Cheers, --Jake
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    Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

    I'm an alumni - BS in CompSci in '96. Highly recommended school, especially for engineering. Hired right away, and made bank in the dot com boom. My main issue with RPI was too much theory, too little application. I didn't have my own computer, and we used Unix workstations - I barely had...
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    Astrophysicist Jobs: What's Available?

    University faculty, professor, scholar, researcher, planetariums positions. Industries include education, government, space science, nuclear engineering, optics, and photography. Backup plans may include patent office clerk, trolling physicsforums.com, and pole dancing.
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    Sun's Corona Paradox: Temperature Defying Laws of Thermodynamics

    This could be due to the moving magnetic fields of the Sun. I've always thought of it as a lot of magnetic 'whips' inside the Sun, bursting out into the corona, and when so many whips come together at that altitude, the temperature rises. Or, when new loops form and collapse, this will raise...
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    Exploring Beyond the Oort Cloud: Resonance Orbits at 80 AU & 100,000 AU

    The Titus-Bode law (and Dermott's Law) hypothesizes resonances in certain orbits. In general, in our solar system, each planet is roughly twice as far out as the previous planet. This also seems to hold true for moons around their parent planets. 5.2 AU - Jupiter 9.5 AU - Saturn 19.2 AU...
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    Observing antiquark annihilation

    When looking for antimatter, we generally look for the electron vs. positron signature of 511 keV. It is my understanding that quarks are always confined in hadrons, and that they are held together by gluons. My questions: - Can quarks be removed from their confinement so that they may...
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    Stargazing Kepler Telescope is so productive?

    And remember, Kepler is just the viewing tool. There are Earth-bound computers that go through the difficult task of reviewing every one of those stars. So while Kepler is working for 3.5 years, it will keep scientists busy for years afterwards.
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    Can Aliens Observe Plato Lecturing in Academia?

    No one has mentioned atmospheric effects yet. An extremely, extremely large telescope could image the Earth, but atmospheric changes would still keep the image too fuzzy to see individual humans. So, where Nabeshin mentions you get 100 photon per second, you still haven't accounted for...
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    Black Holes effect on each other

    Now we're getting into something that interests me more. What does happen as the magnetic forces of two black holes approach each other? If the relativistic jets are caused by these great magnetic forces, what fireworks would be created as two jets from two great magnetic forces started to...
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    When did H2O develop during the last 13.5 b y?

    Yeah. I think I'm pretty cool too, baywax. So the question is now: When did the first atmospheric planets form? The first atmospheric planets could have formed around the first Population III stars, so that would be t=100 to 300 million years. We haven't found those Pop III stars yet, so...
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    Black Holes effect on each other

    I agree with Clanoth regarding the "no hair" theorems, but I would like to add another useful item. Black holes generally have accretion disks and polar jets, both which can be observed. From an observational POV, having two accretion disks, two sets of polar jets, two magnetic fields, etc...
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    When did H2O develop during the last 13.5 b y?

    As I understand it: t=0.1 seconds - primordial nucleosynthesis of ionized H t=300,000 years - universe cools to 3000K and allows electron capture; H atoms formed t=100 million years to 300 million years - universe cools to 30K; a Population III star allows the triple-alpha process and (CNO...
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    Mystery Roar from Faraway Space detected

    So, what is the followup project to ARCADE? We've got space observatories for all of the other wavelengths - except radio. We need something chilled down to 2.7K, and I don't think any of the space/VLBI plans have liquid helium. I would expect another balloon experiment to look at another...
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