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    Helio replied to the thread A multi-faceted legend....
    Best wishes Brian May!
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    Helio replied to the thread Books of interest.
    The Spanish Inquisition was the most brutal, AFAIK. The Pope was under pressure by Spain to be “more righteous” with the Italian...
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    Helio replied to the thread Books of interest.
    Yes. His Dialogue book ended in making Simplicio look foolish. This more than ended their long term friendship. Galileo was...
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    Gallileo was under house arrest the last few years of his life. Pope Urban did it because Gallileo wrote as fact, not theory, that the...
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    Helio replied to the thread Books of interest.
    That Socialist site has many errors... Bruno had some great ideas, some, in fact, were held by a few cardinals, including, the Cardinal...
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    Helio replied to the thread Books of interest.
    Intersting novel. SPOILER Alert... In Sphereland (1957), per Wiki, a surveyor measures a triangle whose angles exceed a total of 180...
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    Helio reacted to Catastrophe's post in the thread Books of interest with Like Like.
    There is "a continuing speculation on an expanding universe" (as a follow up to Flatland) entitled Sphereland by Dionys Burger. Although...
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    Y'all might enjoy this from Dan Hooper's (CERN) book ... "...I am talking about a machine [collider] that collides 700 million protons...
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    FWIW, I'm fine with or without quotes. It is both clear and simple what is meant either way. It is often used to help delineate...
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    Helio replied to the thread Roads on Mars?.
    Yes and it has a name... pareidolia. The "face of Mars" is a great example.
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    That's actually my question. I haven't seen where the tension is explained with acceleration, but I only ask at times when I see an...
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    There could be a paper using accurate expansion rates as a function of spherical angle, but there is a chance there are none, as well...
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    Google the CMB dipole and you'll have hundreds of articles on this. The motions of the Earth/Sun/galaxy/local cluster became somewhat...