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“A hundred years ago, Auguste Comte, … a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that's the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they're so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: "Hydrogen!" Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we'll never know what stars are made of.”

PhilosophyScienceStarsKnowledgeAstronomySpectroscopyAuguste Comte
Author:Michio Kaku
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“After the discovery of spectral analysis no one trained in physics could doubt the problem of the atom would be solved when physicists had learned to understand the language of spectra. So manifold was the enormous amount of material that has been accumulated in sixty years of spectroscopic research that it seemed at first beyond the possibility of disentanglement. An almost greater enlightenment has resulted from the seven years of Röntgen spectroscopy, inasmuch as it has attacked the problem of the atom at its very root, and illuminates the interior. What we are nowadays hearing of the language of spectra is a true 'music of the spheres' in order and harmony that becomes ever more perfect in spite of the manifold variety. The theory of spectral lines will bear the name of Bohr for all time. But yet another name will be permanently associated with it, that of Planck. All integral laws of spectral lines and of atomic theory spring originally from the quantum theory. It is the mysterious organon on which Nature plays her music of the spectra, and according to the rhythm of which she regulates the structure of the atoms and nuclei.”

SciencePhysicsAtomsNucleusPlanckSpectroscopyAtomic StructureAtomic TheoryBohrMax PlanckNiels BohrWilhelm RöntgenNobel LaureatesRöntgenSpectraWilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Book:Atombau und Spektrallinien.
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“I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number.”

YearsWaterResultsCommonNumbersSunEffectsPercentIncreaseBillionsCommon SenseAtmosphereContributionGlobal WarmingGasConcentrationRadiationCarbonEmissionsGreenhousesCarbon DioxideAbsorptionGreenhouse GasesSmall NumbersCo2Carbon Dioxide EmissionsLack Of Common SenseSpectroscopy
Author:Michael Myers
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“In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [υ Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.”

WayYearsFirstsMadeStillsDifferentScienceCertainStarsUnderstandingDifferencesSunFiveToo MuchMysterySixLateUnderstoodAreasEnormousFascinatingChemicalsCompositionHydrogenNeonNitrogenHeliumSpectroscopy
Author:Jesse L. Greenstein
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