User talk:Christopher Thomas/Archive07

Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox pseudoscience

Template:Infobox pseudoscience has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. Uzma Gamal (talk) 15:27, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

WP Physics in the Signpost

"WikiProject Report" would like to focus on WikiProject Physics for a Signpost article. This is an excellent opportunity to draw attention to your efforts and attract new members to the project. Would you be willing to participate in an interview? If so, here are the questions for the interview. Just add your response below each question and feel free to skip any questions that you don't feel comfortable answering. Other editors will also have an opportunity to respond to the interview questions. If you know anyone else who would like to participate in the interview, please share this with them. Have a great day. -Mabeenot (talk) 02:45, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done; thanks for the interesting diversion!
Editors who've been showing up on WT:PHYS recently might be good people to ping. There's a full list at WP:PHYS, but it's hard to tell who's active. The talk page is probably a bit more useful for that. --Christopher Thomas (talk) 04:04, 26 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Higgs mechanism

Hi. You said,

"(Tweaked archiving time; at over a year, I'm not sure I see the point. Minthreadsleft will guarantee it doesn't go empty.)"

The point was to archive all pre-2010 threads on the first pass, then reset the bot.
—WWoods (talk) 17:24, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I see; that's certainly valid (I assume you were going to manually update the counter between passes as well). By all means change it back temporarily, then; Mizsabot hasn't made its archiving pass as of this writing. --Christopher Thomas (talk) 21:14, 4 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Tback

[1] reply please Pass a Method talk 20:19, 3 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Dark Matter as molecular hydrogen

Hi Christopher,

Rather than continuing on the Dark Matter thread I will further isolate the conversation here. I did look at the most recent references on the "Interstellar Medium" page, however even the newest only mentioned that results from FUSE where expected soon. Most of the rest of the references on that page are ancient. I did read somewhere that someone (I know, I should have recorded details) seemed to think that FUSE laid to rest any possibility that H2 is the major component of mass in the universe. It's been rather frustrating trying to find recent estimates of H2 based on direct absorption measurements by FUSE. (I suppose however even a negative result from FUSE would not finally close the issue if the H2 exists in some highly condensed form.)

Back around 1999 Edwin A. Valentijn reported finding large amounts of warm H2 in an edge-on galaxy NGC 891. He estimated that the amount was sufficient to explain the missing mass. Do you happen to know if this result has since been firmly contradicted?

By the way, I'm not putting forth "my theory" but rather just trying to determine how the most obvious solution was eliminated. This has puzzled me for some time. My research continues. Carl Hitchon (talk) 22:46, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest asking either at WP:RD/S (the science reference desk) or at WT:AST (the Astronomy wikiproject talk-page). I do not have access to or detailed familiarity with the most recent publications, but editors at the Astronomy wikiproject likely will. --Christopher Thomas (talk) 23:09, 1 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Heliosynchronous orbit

Hi CT. I saw your edits from last June on Heliosynchronous orbit.

I just looked into the status of that deletion/merger discussion and found it rather a mess. I have made an attempt to clean up both the Talk page where the discussion has been (sort of) happening, as well as fix the link in the article-level Merge tag on Heliosynchronous orbit so that all interested editors get to the right place for the discussion.

Would appreciate you weighing in once again. Cheers. N2e (talk) 17:03, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I've commented, but I'm on the fence voting-wise, and no longer in a position to devote substantial time to cleanup. --Christopher Thomas (talk) 18:36, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks CT. Cheers. N2e (talk) 23:27, 3 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Talkback

Hello, Christopher Thomas. You have new messages at Materialscientist's talk page.
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