minneapolisgenius said:

did anyone notice dan doing it too? it might have been some other "ight" word but he did it too!

emm said:

but Dan doesn't do that intentionally.....

minneapolisgenius said:

Yes, another fact, for the, who the hell really cares about that though, category.



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Expanding Universe

Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, which established the relationship between matter, space, time and gravity, governs modern cosmology's view of the universe. But when Einstein began to apply his theory to the structure of the universe, he was dismayed to find that it predicted either an expanding or contracting universe--something entirely incompatible with the prevailing notion of a static universe. In what he would later call "the greatest blunder of my life," Einstein added a term called the cosmological constant to his equations that would make his calculations consistent with a static universe.

Einstein admitted his mistake in 1929 when Edwin Hubble showed that distant galaxies were, indeed, receding from the earth, and the further away they were,the faster they were moving. That discovery changed cosmology.
Enter Hubble's Law.
The familiar sound of a train whistle as it recedes into the distance is a consequence of the Doppler Effect. As the train moves away from the listener, the crests of the sound waves are stretched out or shifted, resulting in a lower pitch. The faster the train recedes, the more stretched out the waves become. The same holds true for any wave-emitting object--whether they be sound waves, light waves, or radio waves. Conversely, the wavelength of objects that are moving toward us are shorter than those emitted by an object at rest.

Atoms emit or absorb light in characteristic wavelengths: hydrogen, helium, and all the other atomic elements have their own spectrum signatures. In the early part of this century, Vesto Slipher was studying the spectra of light emitted from nearby galaxies. He noticed that the light coming from many galaxies was shifted toward the red, or longer wavelength, end of the spectrum. The simplest interpretation of this "redshift" was that the galaxies were moving away from us.

Hubbles's Law

Hubble, who had been the first to establish that the universe included many other galaxies outside of our own, noticed something else: the galaxies were receding from us at a velocity proportional to their distance. The more distant the galaxy, the greater its redshift, and therefore the higher the velocity, a relation known as Hubble's Law.
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The velocity v could be determined by multiplying the distance R by H, the Hubble constant, given by the slope of the line in the above graph, in units of kilometers per second per million light years. The Hubble constant describes the universe's rate of expansion.

The apparent linearity of Hubble's Law implies that the universe is uniformly expanding. What does that actually mean?

For one thing, it means that no matter which galaxy we happen to be in, virtually all of the other galaxies are moving away from us (the exceptions are at the local level: gravitational attraction pulls neighboring galaxies, such as Andromeda and the Milky Way, closer together). In other words, it's not as though we here on earth are at the center of the universe and everything else is receding from us. The universe has no "edge" as such.

purplerein said:

Actually, he was referring the the idea of the "Cosmic Constant" or what Newton called "The Ether" as the greatest blunder of his life.

There are actually theories out there that seem to support the idea of the ether, though I'm not smart enough to understand their explanations.

Isn't hubble the guy from The Way we Were?

Baby steps dan, baby steps. I opened her up to the world of politics earlier this month!

SupaFunkyOrgangrinderSexy said:

define "opened"

IrresistibleB1tch said:

I totally tryed to make political posts over there IB in your little forum, and I was completley ignored by the people there.

luv4all7 said:

stick with Paris and underwear threads in GD...

luv4all7 said:

I will submit:




And, before you ask...

Ace said:

marry me, will ya?!

IrresistibleB1tch said:

luv4all7, I keed! I keed!

Ace said:

Bernstein, Leonard

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(bûrn´stīn, —stēn) , 1918—90, American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. Lawrence, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1939, and Curtis Institute of Music, 1941. A highly versatile musician, he was the composer of symphonic works (the Jeremiah Symphony, 1944; Age of Anxiety, 1949; Kaddish Symphony, 1963), song cycles, chamber music, ballets (Fancy Free, 1944), musicals (On the Town, 1944; Wonderful Town, 1953; Candide, 1956; West Side Story, 1957), opera (Trouble in Tahiti, 1952), and choral music (Chichester Psalms, 1965). His Mass (1971), a "theater piece for dancers, singers, and players," was performed at the opening of the John F. Kennedy Cultural Center in Washington, D.C. From 1951 to 1956 he taught at Brandeis Univ. He was a soloist and conductor with many orchestras in the United States and abroad. He first conducted the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra in 1943, and from 1958 to 1970 was its musical director. Upon his retirement he was named laureate conductor and frequently appeared with the Vienna Philharmonic and the Israel Philharmonic.

See his The Joy of Music (1959) and The Infinite

sextonseven said:

Pretty much NOT the indie queen anymore.

kookoo2U said:

Does she need the money?

luv4all7 said:

sextonseven said:

She's in all of the Christopher Guest films. That's about as indie as the mainstream gets.

live4lust said:

yes, but those are pretty much the only indie movies she's been involved with lately.

kookoo2U said:

I saw her in a movie once, Henry Fool(?) a Hal Hartley film