Science Journalists; Neil Degrasse Tyson claims dead pixels may actually be Mercury sized planets!
this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2025
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Proof that light is a particle and not a wave?
Yes, but also both. (a simple example follows)
Think of it like you being at work or home. If I check your house, either you're there, or you aren't. If you're there, you're at home, simple. If not at home, you're at work.
Same with your work: either you're there when I check - or you aren't, therefore at home.
But before I check either location (it's understood that you are only in 1 of those 2 places), you are effectively in both places, and neither place, all at once.
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How is the next transit of Venus not until 2117? That blows my socks’ mind. Seems like that should be happening very regularly.
Same reasons for any eclipses :
.1- plane of orbits (the one for Venus and the one for the Earth) do not exactly coincide and
.2- because distances between objects are much larger than objects, including size of the sun.
I believe you. Still seems wild that I will never see another one in my lifetime.
It's probably more about how often it's visible in your part of the world than it happening at all if I had to guess.
So conditioned that NDT is talking bullshit and people dunking on him that I had to read it a couple of times to understand it.
Praise the sun!
I mean it would but I’ve known the scale of the universe since i still threw myself birthday parties…lol
My socks were appropriately blown off but I still didn't get invited.
Imagine what the sun would look like standing on Mercury.
I tried wiping the dust off my screen 😭
The morning of my birthday party I hung out with my physics teacher (it was a Holiday from high school) who's also an astronomer and we watched mercy transit the sun.