Albedo One

Albedo One

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Albedo One episodes

  • 3 – Olbers’ Paradox
    Cosmic Microwave Background: A Brief History of its Discovery
    Music
    Night Owl – Broke for Free
    Super Sloppy Space Junk – Milkshake Daddy
    Sources


    1.
    Where is the centre of the universe?(ucr.edu)



    2.
    Where is the center of the universe?(wtamu.edu)



    3.
    The Early History of the Universe(man.ac.uk)



    4.
    The Big Bang(ucsd.edu)



    5.
    Early Universe II(fnal.gov)



    6.
    Photon-Baryon Fluid(uchicago.edu)


    7.
    An Introduction to the CMB(uchicago.edu)



    8.
    Eddington’s Temperature of Space(ucla.edu)



    9.
    Re-interpreting the Significance of the Cosmic Microwave Background(unimelb.edu.uk)



    10.
    The History and Philosophy of Astronomy(utexas.edu)



    11.
    How a Wrong Theory Brought Good Results(arizona.edu)



    12.
    Hans Bethe and the Theory of Nuclear Matter(scitation.org)



    13.
    Modern Cosmology Introduction(wisc.edu)



    14.
    Development of cosmology: From a static universe to accelerated expansion(uni-heidelberg.de)



    15.
    Stoic alternatives to Aristotelian cosmology(cairn.info)



    16.
    Newton and the Infinite Universe(scitation.org)



    17.
    Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology: A Basic Introduction(google.com)
    22 min
  • 2 – Sunshine Mechanism

    A transcript is available on scibent.com

    Kelvin-Helmholtz: Instability, Mechanism, and Timescale

    Music
    “Generic Blox” – Mathgrant

    Suggested Readings:

    Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability
    Instability Mechanism
    Reynold’s Number
    Turbulence
    Stellar Instability
    Convection
    Kelvin-Helmholtz Mechanism
    Sunshine
    Quasi-Static Contraction 1
    Quasi-Static Contraction 2
    Timescales
    Stellar Models
    Hydrostatic Equilibrium
    Einstein Timescale
    Stellar Evolution
    7 min
  • 1 – Gravitational Waves
    Gravity waves are ripples in the atmosphere, whereas gravitational waves are ripples in the space-time fabric.
    References
    Music
    “Generic Blox” – Mathgrant
    “Payload” – Metre
    Gravity Waves
    Gravity Wave Description: berkeley.edu and flightsafety.org
    Air parcel definition: fas.org
    Physical laws governing atmospheric motion: uni-muenchen.de
    Gravity wave study: ann-geophys.net
    Gravitational Waves
    Gravitational Wave Description: caltech.edu and black-holes.org
    Electromagnetic theory: archive.org
    Gravitational wave history: mdpi.com
    Caltech.edu: Interferometer description, Collaborations Between Observatories, and Behind LIGO
    Canceled space interferometer: nasa.gov
    Ligo.org: Burst wave description, and The New Era
    8 min

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Albedo is the ratio of reflected to received light. A surface that reflects perfectly diffusely has what's known as Lambertian reflectance. We'll strive to achieve that property while exploring and…