Stars

Twinkle, twinkle little star
I don't wonder what you are,
For by spectroscopic ken,
I know that you are hydrogen.

- Ian D. Bush


Concepts:
Big Bang
Primeval fireball
Spacetime
Special Theory of Relativity
as you near the speed of light
Time dilation
length contraction
relativistic momentum
E = mc2




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