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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: "Name That Moon"
« on: 22/03/2006 20:13:14 »
Are you certain it's not our moon? That pic looks a lot like some that I've seen of the far side of our own moon, taken during the Apollo Missions.
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quote:Photons are affected by the warping of space-time and the warping of space-time is due to gravity.
Originally posted by qpan
Photons are not affected by gravity...
quote:A footnote in my 1st edition CRC refers to an exchange student from Alabama named Al UmLmUm, et al. []
Originally posted by gsmollin
...he later agreed to change it to aluminum." It begs the question, who did he agree with? I'm guessing it was his graduate assistant...
quote:It was Sir Humphry Davy, an Englishman, who named the element "aluminum". The "ium" ending was adopted later.
Originally posted by gsmollin
Well, even though the metal was found in "alum" and there was that "ium" ending for all those metals, they didn't name it "alumium" for some reason either. Its good that the Americans had the sense to choose a name that wasn't a jawbreaker.