Sunday, January 27, 2019

cosmology - Doesn't dating the universe violate the concept of spacetime's inseparability?


It would seem that measuring an age of the universe from the big bang requires separating spacetime into a 3D coordinate system and a time track. I fail to understand why it is appropriate to take the reference of a comoving observer as being stationary to the cosmic microwave background when this seems to be a choice based upon our subsequent detection of that entity.




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classical mechanics - Moment of a force about a given axis (Torque) - Scalar or vectorial?

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