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The age of the Methuselah star (HD 140283) ? ?
Surely the age of the Methuselah star (HD 140283) cannot be greater than the age of the universe widely accepted as 13.787 ± 0.020 billion years ?
Yet calculations for Methuselah quote the age estimate as 14.27 ± 0.38
billion years and those two error ranges do not quite overlap.
Should the age of the Methuselah star be quoted as close to 13.89 billion years
with an error bar not clear yet ?
What does NASA say about the dilemma?
3 個解答Astronomy & Space3 月前A DIVERSION for your entertainment?
We know that the harmonic series diverges
H = 1/1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/4 + 1/5 + ... = inf
The sum of reciprocals of square roots, namely
S = 1/√(1) + 1/√(2) + 1/√(3) + 1/√(4) + 1/√(5) + 1/√(6) + 1/√(7) + 1/√(8)
must also diverge, (because the denominators are all smaller).
But suppose we divide the inf sum S into two parts, like this
Let O be the inf sum with odd terms, O = 1/√(1) + 1/√(3) + 1/√(5) + 1/√(7)
and let E be the sum with even terms, E = 1/√(2) + 1/√(4) + 1/√(6) + 1/√(8)
We have arranged that O + E = S, term by term, but consider the series √(2)E
√(2)E = √(2)/√(2) + √(2)/√(4) + √(2)/√(6) + √(2)/√(8) + ...
√(2)E = 1/√(1) + 1/√(2) + 1/√(3) + 1/√(4) = S = E + O, so now we have
O = [√(2) – 1]E ~ 0.4142E
This result tells us that the odd sum is less than the even sum! But odd terms of the form 1/√(2n - 1) are larger than corresponding even terms 1/√(2n) which means that this is impossible. They both diverge of course, but which sum to n terms is larger? Jacob Bernoulli remarked on this apparent paradox.
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A quick calculation comparing 1000 terms resolves the issue.
Σ1/√(2n) ~ 43.6999
Σ1/√(2n - 1) ~ 44.2936
Although they both head off to infinity, comparable odd terms are always larger, so that series O is always slightly ahead at any intermediate stage.
The apparent result O ~ 0.4142E was just wrong.
But can you explain why?
1 個解答Mathematics6 月前Series paradox question?
Consider the infinite series S
S = 1/√(1) + 1/√(2) + 1/√(3) + 1/√(4) + 1/√(5) + 1/√(6) + 1/√(7) + ......
Jacob Bernoulli knew that this sum of reciprocals of square roots, must
diverge since the denominators were all smaller than the harmonic series.
Let the inf sum of odd terms, O = 1/√(1) + 1/√(3) + 1/√(5) + 1/√(7) + .....
and the inf sum of even terms, E = 1/√(2) + 1/√(4) + 1/√(6) + 1/√(8) + ...
By inspection O + E = S, but we may also write √(2)E = S, so we have
O + E = √(2)E, or,
O = [√(2) – 1]E ~ 0.4142E
Bernoulli remarked on the apparent paradox that the odd sum seems less than the even sum, but this is impossible because term by term odd terms are larger
Can you resolve the paradox with a clear explanation?
2 個解答Mathematics11 月前Complex integral around unit circle at origin for 1/z is 2𝛑i, For 1/z^n it is zero as per Cauchy s first even though pole there. Why?
The function f(z) = 1/z, is
not analytic at the origin; it has a type of singularity there called a pole.
Accepting that result and the reason given, it seemed reasonable that
if f(z) = 1/z^n, around a unit circle, then ∮(1/z^n)dz would also NOT be zero.
But the result of calculation is that ∮(1/z^n)dz = 0, (unless n = 1)
4 個解答Mathematics2 年前