Gary O'Reilly
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Yes.
In the English Midlands.
Yes.
So good.
So good of you to chime in from the Stafford in the Midlands.
The Shires.
I say.
Hmm.
Indeed.
I believe that's somewhere near... Do they make good whiskey there?
Here we go, here we go.
He says, anyway, I understand that a star's color is determined by its age and composition.
I also know that its velocity relative to our collective selves can redshift its light.
How do you resolve between the two?
In other words, how do you know
a star is made of something and traveling at a certain velocity isn't really made of something else and traveling at a different velocity.
So what you're saying is you're looking through this dust cloud at the star, but basically you don't know it.
They were wrong.
I was going to say, it's like the tear function on a scale.
That is pretty awesome, but I will also say when you were talking about the discovery that the paper had to be retracted, at first I was just like, God, man, these guys really screwed up.