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ssinff t1_j88lhib wrote

Not necessarily. Historically, a ploy it government funded research originated in academia where "pure" research is available in the public domain. If course research with specific applications may exist behind a classification system, but our knowledge of space travel drives from the years and years of publicly funded research.

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Buggy3D t1_j88cldy wrote

Yeah. It was hard to explain, but the idea is to bring the picture close enough to your face that you see it in double.

You can then adjust your eyes focus and the distance from your face so as to form a central optical illusion.

Similar to when you raise one horizontal finger in front of each eye. If you bring both fingers close to each eye. You can form an optical illusion whereby the tips of each finger appear like they have merged on opposite ends of each other.

Doing the same here with the picture can let you see a 3D optical illusion of the Earth and moon, albeit unfocused.

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Idman799 t1_j886ytc wrote

Can you explain this one more time? Aren't there already 4 sets of moons with two on each side? When you say "unfocus" your eyes, I assume you mean cross your eyes? And finally, when you say they converge into a single one in the middle, do you mean I'll see only one earth and one moon? I don't see how that can happen when they're not all on the same height on the screen.

Sorry to spam you with questions, but I'd love to see this work and I don't really get it from what you said here.

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space-ModTeam t1_j884w9j wrote

Hello u/freeniechan, your submission "-10000 degrees?" has been removed from r/space because:

  • Such questions should be asked in the "All space questions" thread stickied at the top of the sub.

Please read the rules in the sidebar and check r/space for duplicate submissions before posting. If you have any questions about this removal please message the r/space moderators. Thank you.

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Tdshimo t1_j880ajm wrote

Reply to comment by freeniechan in -10000 degrees? by [deleted]

What would have to happen? Advances in quantum physics that cause us to adjust our temperature scales. Quantum states do allow for temperatures below the floors for K/C/F scales. But quantum conditions don’t extend to the majority of matter that we observe as our physical universe.

So it’s possible to go lower than the floors of our temp scales very specific, extreme, and limited circumstances* that don’t apply to the whole of our physical universe; therefore, from a practical perspective, they don’t matter when measuring temperature of the physical systems we know.

*As far as we’re now aware, and can measure. This may change as we learn more.

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Bon_Bon8977 OP t1_j87y9m1 wrote

I've had this telescope for about a week, I'm still figuring out a lot of the aligning part of the telescope but what i do is I find my object and try my best to center it in the red dot finder, and then I use my phone and phone mount, but if you want to get better quality id get a camera for the telescope, and honestly if you want good photos, here's the thing, you don't take a photo at all, since I'm using my phone i record a video for about 30 seconds in alignment of the object, then importing it to my PC and using 2 programs, one called pipp for centering the object in the video, and the other called AutoStakkert. I recommend searching up some tutorials on how to use those.

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ShyElf t1_j87y1l0 wrote

Negative temperatures show up in systems with limited numbers of states, which rules out things with normal translational or vibrational freedom. Sometimes it happens with spin states in a magnetic field. Negative temperatures are hotter than infinite temperature, with states with more energy being more likely, where at infinite temperature all states would be equally likely. If it had unlimited energy states, it would have infinite energy, which is impossible.

Zero absolute temperature means it's in the lowest energy state, so you can't get colder. It appears in the thermodynamics as the change of the number of states with energy going as 1/T, so you can't smoothly go below zero. Lower temperatures allow more large-scale coherence, such as superfluidty and superconductivity, so at many orders of magnitude lower temperature than previously observed, it's reasonable to think new pheonomena like this might arise.

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