Albedo One Scibent
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Albedo is the ratio of reflected to received light. A surface that reflects diffusely perfectly has what’s known as Lambertian reflectance. Host Paul Kogan will strive to achieve that property while exploring and discussing cool natural phenomena.
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3 – Olbers’ Paradox
Cosmic Microwave Background: A Brief History of its Discovery
Music
Night Owl – Broke for Free
Super Sloppy Space Junk – Milkshake Daddy
Sources
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Where is the centre of the universe?(ucr.edu)
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Where is the center of the universe?(wtamu.edu)
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The Early History of the Universe(man.ac.uk)
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The Big Bang(ucsd.edu)
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Early Universe II(fnal.gov)
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Photon-Baryon Fluid(uchicago.edu)
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An Introduction to the CMB(uchicago.edu)
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Eddington’s Temperature of Space(ucla.edu)
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Re-interpreting the Significance of the Cosmic Microwave Background(unimelb.edu.uk)
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The History and Philosophy of Astronomy(utexas.edu)
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How a Wrong Theory Brought Good Results(arizona.edu)
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Hans Bethe and the Theory of Nuclear Matter(scitation.org)
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Modern Cosmology Introduction(wisc.edu)
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Development of cosmology: From a static universe to accelerated expansion(uni-heidelberg.de)
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Stoic alternatives to Aristotelian cosmology(cairn.info)
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Newton and the Infinite Universe(scitation.org)
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Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology: A Basic Introduction(google.com) -
2 – Sunshine Mechanism
A transcript is available on scibent.com
Kelvin-Helmholtz: Instability, Mechanism, and Timescale
Music
“Generic Blox” – Mathgrant
Suggested Readings:
Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
Instability Mechanism
Reynold’s Number
Turbulence
Stellar Instability
Convection
Kelvin-Helmholtz Mechanism
Sunshine
Quasi-Static Contraction 1
Quasi-Static Contraction 2
Timescales
Stellar Models
Hydrostatic Equilibrium
Einstein Timescale
Stellar Evolution -
1 – Gravitational Waves
Gravity waves are ripples in the atmosphere, whereas gravitational waves are ripples in the space-time fabric.
References
Music
“Generic Blox” – Mathgrant
“Payload” – Metre
Gravity Waves
Gravity Wave Description: berkeley.edu and flightsafety.org
Air parcel definition: fas.org
Physical laws governing atmospheric motion: uni-muenchen.de
Gravity wave study: ann-geophys.net
Gravitational Waves
Gravitational Wave Description: caltech.edu and black-holes.org
Electromagnetic theory: archive.org
Gravitational wave history: mdpi.com
Caltech.edu: Interferometer description, Collaborations Between Observatories, and Behind LIGO
Canceled space interferometer: nasa.gov
Ligo.org: Burst wave description, and The New Era