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NosyNed
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Message 4 of 84 (508926)
05-17-2009 9:16 AM
Reply to: Message 3 by Coragyps
05-17-2009 9:11 AM


Trig?
measured by trigonometry to be 25,000,000 light years away from us,
Impossible!

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NosyNed
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Message 8 of 84 (508941)
05-17-2009 11:49 AM
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05-17-2009 9:38 AM


Re: Trig?
Well, neat indeed.
What is that quote? If a great scientist says something is possible then he is probably right but if he says something is impossible he is probably wrong.
I guess it doesn't work in reverse right?
Thanks for the education Percy and CaveDiver.
Supplemental:
Using the earth's orbit as a base we know it's length. How do we know the length of something when we know the angle subtended but not it's distance?

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Message 33 of 84 (509411)
05-21-2009 10:48 AM
Reply to: Message 31 by lyx2no
05-20-2009 11:05 PM


Thanks for the Education
This is kind of fun for me because it as one of the first bits of physics I distinctly figured out for myself. The doppler shift of sound is detectable to the ear because the emitter of the sound; i.e., a horn, emits only a narrow band of the frequencies that we can perceive, while the red and blue shifting of light is not detectable because the emitter of light; i.e. a star, emits a much wider band than the eye can perceive. As a bit of blue light moves toward the violet, and beyond our perception, a bit of green moves toward the blue. This same fill in effect applies all the way down the line where red moving to orange is replaced by infrared moving to red, and into our perception. A horn emitting a range of frequencies between 500-750 Hz can shift a long way in either direction before it moves beyond the ears normal range of 20-20,000 Hz.
Hey, thanks lyx2no, I'd never thought about that. I'm happy to have learned a little something.

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