Comments on: The Sun Is The Center Of The Universe (And The Hottest Star, Too) http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too grep understanding Sun, 29 Jan 2012 20:44:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: zxheila http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-244604 zxheila Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:23:26 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-244604 <p>hi,,,, i need an explaination,,, sorry didn't like what you did...<br><br><br>,,,wasted,,,.</p> hi,,,, i need an explaination,,, sorry didn't like what you did…


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]]> By: zxheila http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-243858 zxheila Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:23:26 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-243858 <p>hi,,,, i need an explaination,,, sorry didn't like what you did...<br><br><br>,,,wasted,,,.</p> hi,,,, i need an explaination,,, sorry didn't like what you did…


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]]> By: faye http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-243786 faye Wed, 06 Jan 2010 02:03:32 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-243786 <p>wow. the sun is the center of OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.</p> wow. the sun is the center of OUR SOLAR SYSTEM.

]]> By: Guess What . . http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-78027 Guess What . . Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:32:55 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-78027 <p>If you think about it, the current theory of cosmology still says that the Sun is the center of the Universe. That's what the big bang and the microwave radiation thing is all about. The remnants of the big bang are equal in every direction. That makes the Sun the center of the Universe. I personally don't agree with this interpetation, but a lot of scientists do. Someday they will get it right. Galileo and Corpernicus are rollling in their graves!</p> If you think about it, the current theory of cosmology still says that the Sun is the center of the Universe. That’s what the big bang and the microwave radiation thing is all about. The remnants of the big bang are equal in every direction. That makes the Sun the center of the Universe. I personally don’t agree with this interpetation, but a lot of scientists do. Someday they will get it right. Galileo and Corpernicus are rollling in their graves!

]]> By: Guess What . . http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-247446 Guess What . . Thu, 30 Aug 2007 06:32:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-247446 <p>If you think about it, the current theory of cosmology still says that the Sun is the center of the Universe. That's what the big bang and the microwave radiation thing is all about. The remnants of the big bang are equal in every direction. That makes the Sun the center of the Universe. I personally don't agree with this interpetation, but a lot of scientists do. Someday they will get it right. Galileo and Corpernicus are rollling in their graves!</p> If you think about it, the current theory of cosmology still says that the Sun is the center of the Universe. That’s what the big bang and the microwave radiation thing is all about. The remnants of the big bang are equal in every direction. That makes the Sun the center of the Universe. I personally don’t agree with this interpetation, but a lot of scientists do. Someday they will get it right. Galileo and Corpernicus are rollling in their graves!

]]> By: FlMom http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-50787 FlMom Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:23:38 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-50787 <p>shy boy,</p> <p>Teachers are not objectively evaluated and replaced as needed, because it is hard to get ANYONE to do the work in many school systems. Teaching is a pretty difficult, draining, culturally (and in many places financially) under-rewarded job. They can't afford to fire the ones who don't do such a good job (or the ones who sometimes screw up), because unless there were other significant changes, we would end up with classes with 50 kids in them, and no elementary school teacher no matter how good, is going to be able to do great things under those circumstances.</p> <p>Yes, the teacher was pathetically wrong, but just firing her isn't going to solve anything.</p> shy boy,

Teachers are not objectively evaluated and replaced as needed, because it is hard to get ANYONE to do the work in many school systems. Teaching is a pretty difficult, draining, culturally (and in many places financially) under-rewarded job. They can’t afford to fire the ones who don’t do such a good job (or the ones who sometimes screw up), because unless there were other significant changes, we would end up with classes with 50 kids in them, and no elementary school teacher no matter how good, is going to be able to do great things under those circumstances.

Yes, the teacher was pathetically wrong, but just firing her isn’t going to solve anything.

]]> By: FlMom http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-247445 FlMom Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:23:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-247445 <p>shy boy,</p> <p>Teachers are not objectively evaluated and replaced as needed, because it is hard to get ANYONE to do the work in many school systems. Teaching is a pretty difficult, draining, culturally (and in many places financially) under-rewarded job. They can't afford to fire the ones who don't do such a good job (or the ones who sometimes screw up), because unless there were other significant changes, we would end up with classes with 50 kids in them, and no elementary school teacher no matter how good, is going to be able to do great things under those circumstances.</p> <p>Yes, the teacher was pathetically wrong, but just firing her isn't going to solve anything.</p> shy boy,

Teachers are not objectively evaluated and replaced as needed, because it is hard to get ANYONE to do the work in many school systems. Teaching is a pretty difficult, draining, culturally (and in many places financially) under-rewarded job. They can’t afford to fire the ones who don’t do such a good job (or the ones who sometimes screw up), because unless there were other significant changes, we would end up with classes with 50 kids in them, and no elementary school teacher no matter how good, is going to be able to do great things under those circumstances.

Yes, the teacher was pathetically wrong, but just firing her isn’t going to solve anything.

]]> By: Carl M http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-50778 Carl M Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:03:05 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-50778 <p>Suppose she was thinking of the solar system and was thinking of Jupiter as a failed star?</p> <p>http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/jupiter/interior.html</p> <p>(Somehow I don't think that someone who pondered the fact that Jupiter is in some sense a failed star [off by "only" a factor of 100 or so] would confuse the solar system with the universe.)</p> Suppose she was thinking of the solar system and was thinking of Jupiter as a failed star?

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/jupiter/interior.html

(Somehow I don’t think that someone who pondered the fact that Jupiter is in some sense a failed star [off by "only" a factor of 100 or so] would confuse the solar system with the universe.)

]]> By: Carl M http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-247444 Carl M Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:03:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-247444 <p>Suppose she was thinking of the solar system and was thinking of Jupiter as a failed star?</p> <p>http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/jupiter/interior.html</p> <p>(Somehow I don't think that someone who pondered the fact that Jupiter is in some sense a failed star [off by "only" a factor of 100 or so] would confuse the solar system with the universe.)</p> Suppose she was thinking of the solar system and was thinking of Jupiter as a failed star?

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/jupiter/interior.html

(Somehow I don’t think that someone who pondered the fact that Jupiter is in some sense a failed star [off by "only" a factor of 100 or so] would confuse the solar system with the universe.)

]]> By: steve http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-50741 steve Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:26:35 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-50741 <p>How can a teacher in this day and age possibly believe that? She is obviously wrong. I am the center of the universe.</p> <p>Our sun is a G2 for surface temperature rating, around 6,000k and in theory the scale goes to O1 33,000k and up.</p> <p>Now some actual smart people out there may know if there is a if it is possible that a surface temperature of a given star may be lower than another, but the core temperature may be higher due to size and density.</p> <p>I like Ken's comment on this. Maybe she meant that the sun is the hottest star in the solar system, lol.</p> How can a teacher in this day and age possibly believe that? She is obviously wrong. I am the center of the universe.

Our sun is a G2 for surface temperature rating, around 6,000k and in theory the scale goes to O1 33,000k and up.

Now some actual smart people out there may know if there is a if it is possible that a surface temperature of a given star may be lower than another, but the core temperature may be higher due to size and density.

I like Ken’s comment on this. Maybe she meant that the sun is the hottest star in the solar system, lol.

]]> By: steve http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-247443 steve Thu, 26 Apr 2007 16:26:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-247443 <p>How can a teacher in this day and age possibly believe that? She is obviously wrong. I am the center of the universe.</p> <p>Our sun is a G2 for surface temperature rating, around 6,000k and in theory the scale goes to O1 33,000k and up.</p> <p>Now some actual smart people out there may know if there is a if it is possible that a surface temperature of a given star may be lower than another, but the core temperature may be higher due to size and density.</p> <p>I like Ken's comment on this. Maybe she meant that the sun is the hottest star in the solar system, lol.</p> How can a teacher in this day and age possibly believe that? She is obviously wrong. I am the center of the universe.

Our sun is a G2 for surface temperature rating, around 6,000k and in theory the scale goes to O1 33,000k and up.

Now some actual smart people out there may know if there is a if it is possible that a surface temperature of a given star may be lower than another, but the core temperature may be higher due to size and density.

I like Ken’s comment on this. Maybe she meant that the sun is the hottest star in the solar system, lol.

]]> By: David http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-50670 David Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:06:16 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-50670 <p>Tim -- if the universe is finite but unbounded, there's no CoM.</p> <p>And in more general terms, I'd dispute the existence of entities that can't be observed.</p> Tim — if the universe is finite but unbounded, there’s no CoM.

And in more general terms, I’d dispute the existence of entities that can’t be observed.

]]> By: David http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-247442 David Thu, 26 Apr 2007 12:06:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-247442 <p>Tim -- if the universe is finite but unbounded, there's no CoM.</p> <p>And in more general terms, I'd dispute the existence of entities that can't be observed.</p> Tim — if the universe is finite but unbounded, there’s no CoM.

And in more general terms, I’d dispute the existence of entities that can’t be observed.

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-50608 Tim McCormack Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:47:37 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-50608 <p>Depends on how you are defining center. While it is true there is no center of expansion, there <em>is</em> a center of mass. (We just don't know where it is, and we can't know either, due to hyper-inflation.)</p> Depends on how you are defining center. While it is true there is no center of expansion, there is a center of mass. (We just don’t know where it is, and we can’t know either, due to hyper-inflation.)

]]> By: Tim McCormack http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-247441 Tim McCormack Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:47:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-247441 <p>Depends on how you are defining center. While it is true there is no center of expansion, there <em>is</em> a center of mass. (We just don't know where it is, and we can't know either, due to hyper-inflation.)</p> Depends on how you are defining center. While it is true there is no center of expansion, there is a center of mass. (We just don’t know where it is, and we can’t know either, due to hyper-inflation.)

]]> By: Ken Davies http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-50589 Ken Davies Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:06:37 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-50589 <p>Well, she was partly right -- the sun IS the hottest star in the Universe -- and it's easy to prove!</p> <p>Walk outside at noon on a sunny day. Notice the tremendous amount of heat coming from the sun. Now walk outside on a clear night and notice how little heat is coming from a whole bunch of stars. Out-numbered kazillions to one and the sun still produces more heat! Therefore it is the hottest star in the Universe. QED</p> Well, she was partly right — the sun IS the hottest star in the Universe — and it’s easy to prove!

Walk outside at noon on a sunny day. Notice the tremendous amount of heat coming from the sun. Now walk outside on a clear night and notice how little heat is coming from a whole bunch of stars. Out-numbered kazillions to one and the sun still produces more heat! Therefore it is the hottest star in the Universe. QED

]]> By: Ken Davies http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-247440 Ken Davies Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:06:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-247440 <p>Well, she was partly right -- the sun IS the hottest star in the Universe -- and it's easy to prove!</p> <p>Walk outside at noon on a sunny day. Notice the tremendous amount of heat coming from the sun. Now walk outside on a clear night and notice how little heat is coming from a whole bunch of stars. Out-numbered kazillions to one and the sun still produces more heat! Therefore it is the hottest star in the Universe. QED</p> Well, she was partly right — the sun IS the hottest star in the Universe — and it’s easy to prove!

Walk outside at noon on a sunny day. Notice the tremendous amount of heat coming from the sun. Now walk outside on a clear night and notice how little heat is coming from a whole bunch of stars. Out-numbered kazillions to one and the sun still produces more heat! Therefore it is the hottest star in the Universe. QED

]]> By: !politician http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-50582 !politician Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:14:33 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-50582 <p>We all know that the poor teachers are underpaid! When in doubt you need to find wikipedia same goes for the teachers.</p> We all know that the poor teachers are underpaid! When in doubt you need to find wikipedia same goes for the teachers.

]]> By: !politician http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-247439 !politician Wed, 25 Apr 2007 21:14:00 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-247439 <p>We all know that the poor teachers are underpaid! When in doubt you need to find wikipedia same goes for the teachers.</p> We all know that the poor teachers are underpaid! When in doubt you need to find wikipedia same goes for the teachers.

]]> By: Nick Douglas http://danielmiessler.com/blog/the-sun-is-the-center-of-the-universe-and-the-hottest-star-too/comment-page-1#comment-50578 Nick Douglas Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:44:53 +0000 http://dmiessler.com/archives/1296#comment-50578 <p>And since you're the center of the universe, and the it is always expanding, the entire universe is moving as fast as possible to get away from you.</p> And since you’re the center of the universe, and the it is always expanding, the entire universe is moving as fast as possible to get away from you.

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