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| | [AI summary] The post explores the implications of traveling faster than the speed of light in special relativity, demonstrating that such an action would result in time travel backwards according to another observer's frame of reference.
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| | Old stellar flashers will be caught in the act in the not-so-distant future, whether they like it or not. [Smithsonian] While we have a pretty good idea about how stars like our Sun work, observing all the details that unfold over millions to billions of years of stellar evolution can be difficult, especially if the...
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| | There are five sweet spots where a spacecraft can keep pace with Earth as both orbit the Sun. They are called the Lagrange points, after the brilliant French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange who found special solutions to what is called the "three-body problem". To locate the second Lagrange point, L2, draw a line 150 million km...
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| I can't remember where I came across mention of this book, but it was obviously enough to get me to buy it and read it. Of course, that happens a lot,...