Time Dilation

A quick update.  Due to some horrible time constraints caused by work; I have had to ditch S383 and just study S382 until October.

It's one of those risks that you tend to run, as a full time employee and a part-time student.  It is a transient situation, which I hope will be sorted out before October comes, as I am planning in two modules then.

I decided to stick with the Astrophysics over the Cosmology, simply because it appears to me, to hold the best hope of obtaining a grade 1 pass overall.  Also, it looks so damn interesting!

The only way that I could have held on to two modules this summer, would have been for me to find a way to make the rest of the world move at a velocity that was near to the speed of light, relative to my house.  I might then have stood a chance of finding the time.

If anyone reading this, doesn't understand the last paragraph; I now have a book for sale, that will bring you right up to speed.

Checking with the OU

In the interests of good scholarship, I will remove the previous post and ask an ou tutor to check through the points made, before re-posting it with any updates.

I think that as Duncan and I have begun to debate this subject, that we may have strayed from the original premise of 'why the sun is hot' and entered into a broader discussion of how that heat is sustained over a long period.

A discussion that has opened up complexities that depend on many different factors such as mass, temperature, luminosity, etc... and one in which I am not yet qualified to argue successfully.

Anyway, I will post any update, as soon as I have approached one of the course academics.