Planet Vulcan(en.wikipedia.org)

12 pointsby robinwarren2 anni fa3 comments

en.wikipedia.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(hypothetical_planet)

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Wow for the last sentence. So relativity distortions (sorry, I might be using wrong term here) are observable by fairly simple things. Mercury's orbit is probably measurable by an amateur telescope these days, right?

I always thought this is some lab/collider/expensive science thing.

tristramb2 anni fa

The yellow colour of gold is one of the best known relativistic effects: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_quantum_chemistry

B1FF_PSUVM2 anni fa

A good read, thank you.

The "Spectral reflectance curves for aluminum (Al), silver (Ag), and gold (Au) metal mirrors" graph is neat - hmmm, silver has a 0% notch at ~320 nm (near UV) ...

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