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    B Exoplanets - Suspicious evidence and fantastical conclusions

    Let me guess, old, cold, brown dwarfs? Although are red dwarfs not the most common?
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    B Exoplanets - Suspicious evidence and fantastical conclusions

    This is fair. I would never claim to be an astro-physicist. Doubt I would ever have come close to being one. I would call myself, in reference to science, "Qualitatively curious". In that beyond about a high school level I don't do or even attempt the mathematics. However in my 44 years of...
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    B Exoplanets - Suspicious evidence and fantastical conclusions

    Surely a hot Jupiter would have it's atmosphere stripped off it. I mean I know I could calculate the distance from a star for a 5 day orbit (or even faster) but it's certainly less than half of mercury, so the gaseous atmosphere must be exposed to massive temperatures and solar winds. That's...
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    B Exoplanets - Suspicious evidence and fantastical conclusions

    Hi, I thought I would come and ask here as something has been bugging me for quite a while. Exoplanets. I'm not being bugged by the fact we are looking for them or that they exist. I am a bit suspicious of some of the evidence and how it's interpreted. While the adage is "Extraordinary...
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    B Space Curvature & Potential Energy

    So I'm an Software Engineer, not a physicist, nor a mathematician. So I like to work in the qualitative, not the quantitative. Today I hit on a problem. I've been trying to remove the concept of "down" or "inward" from my thinking of gravity and GR. When people show the concept of space/time...
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