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Originally Posted by Suzy
You hit the nail on the head, Craig. Well said.
It's difficult trying to learn this stuff when theories are constantly changing and variations appear from different sources.
I understand a lot of this stuff is based on theories and information is always changing, but it's very hard trying to learn even the most basic of things.  |
Well .. y'know, the
theory, as such, may not change so much .. but the observation technologies are revealing much more, in much shorter timeframes than most of us would have imagined. This then may result in 'challenges' to the standing theory, but one of the virtues of Science is that established theory is usually built on very sound physics and observations, so 'theory' is usually built upon, rather than demolished and rebuilt.
.. Some folk may prefer the demolition technique, but sometimes babies
are actually worth more than the bathwater !! (Chuckle, chuckle
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Originally Posted by Suzy
A couple of days ago, I was reading in one of my astro mags about that super massive star that was recently discovered in the LMC (around 320 solar masses). What they think now (as per this article) it could be in fact a double star.
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Sounds like an interesting topic for a new thread there, Suzy !
Cheers