Re: A Question for Zeus About Galactic Rotation
Bob Angstrom,
This is unbelievable!
They have had spectographic evidence of binary stars spinning spin
up - spin down for quite some time now.
Here's a group that noticed it recently.
http://www.citebase.org/fulltext?format=application%2Fpdf&identifier=oai%3AarXiv.org%3Aastro-ph%2F0305283.
This is unbelievable!
They have had spectographic evidence of binary stars spinning spin
up - spin down for quite some time now.
Here's a group that noticed it recently.
http://www.citebase.org/fulltext?format=application%2Fpdf&identifier=oai%3AarXiv.org%3Aastro-ph%2F0305283.
But guess what?
They decided not to believe it and quoted another astronomer who had
the same evidence in 2003 and also chose not to believe it.
Here are their exact words.
"If we interpret that the observed period
is the spin period of the white dwarf in an intermediate
polar, both spin up and down is possible. However, we con-
sider that the spin-interpretation is unlikely (Cropper et al.
2003)."
This is hard for me to believe that these people would do such a
thing Bob.
Their loss -- my gain.
You have heard it here first, gang.
Binary stars (5% to 10% of the stars) of the same mass will have
their closest sides going in the same direction.
To do this one will have to be spinning opposite to the other.
One will be spin up and the other spin down.
Or one will be going clockwise and the other counter-clockwise.
Of the other 90% to 95% of the stars, none of these will have their
closest sides going in the same direction.
You heard it here first.
z
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