If you measure the cosmic background radiation you will find that in any direction it is roughly the same. However, if you were to travel near the speed of light relative to the Earth in a particular direction then the cosmic background radiation would be observed to have different values based on what direction you measure it from. So, does the cosmic background radiation imply a standard of rest in the universe?
It seems that we are . This is the speed of our galaxy relative to the cosmic microwave background. Where does this rest frame come from? Is this special in any way (i.e., an absolute frame)? EDIT: I think the more important question is &quot;where does the CMB rest frame come from?&quot;.
Update to latest version of java after ppa is discontinued I have been trying to install the latest version of java-8. However, I found out that the  due to changes in the java licence.  How should I update my java to 8.0_201 or 8.0_211 now?  Thanks! Is this correct? "One of the things that makes him great is..." One of the things that makes him great is he brings it every night.   I'm pretty sure it should be that make him in the plural, because one of the things is referring to a lot of things and a lot of things should take a plural verb. But I always hear native speakers in America say it in the singular, so with an s.  Another example:     This is one of the responsibilities that comes with greatness and he understands that.   Native speakers always use the verb in the singular (here, comes) even though [I believe] it is grammatically incorrect to use the singular form of the verb there. Is there a "win64" identifier in Qmake project files?  documentation does not mention other than unix / macx / win32.  So far I've tried using:  win32:message("using win32") win64:message("using win64") amd64:message("using amd64")   The result is always "using win32".  Must I use a separate project-file for x32 and x64 projects, so they would compile against correct libraries? Is there any other way to identify between 32-bit and 64-bit environments? How should I phrase an important question that I need to ask a professor? When needing to ask a professor about something important and potentially delicate, what is an appropriate way to phrase the question or write the email?  Examples include:   Requesting a recommendation letter Asking for exceptions to policy (e.g., ignoring a course prerequisite, rescheduling an exam) Asking if you can do research with them, join a group, get into a program Scheduling a meeting, exam, or defense Letting them know about a change of plans Letting them know about a life event affecting your work or studies (e.g., wedding, funeral, sickness, vacation) Youtube video lag on 18.04 I just upgrade from Ubuntu 17.10 to Ubuntu 18.04, there is an issue when playing youtube video.The video stops play but audio playing, then I move the cursor &amp; video is playing...... What should I do?? Root of continuous function using Rolle's Theorem $$f(x)= 1 + e^x\cos(x)$$   $$g(x)= 1 + e^x\sin(x)$$      Show that there is at least one root of $g$ between two roots of $f$   How do I start to answer this question and do I need to use Intermediate Value Theorem? On main and in the old mobile site (iirc) the username of the OP is highlighted in the comments.  This is no longer the case after the new design/theme was rolled out yesterday.  Can we get this back? Intersecting transparent object causing artifacts in cycles When two objects -one of them transparent- intersects it creates some artifacts visible even in the alpha channel. Even with 1024 transparent bounces the artifacts remain.    In the example file there are two cubes in the same position, one transparent and one emission.    What is causing this? Any way to get rid of this artifacts? How can I keep multiple live/bootable ISO images on a single USB drive? I am looking to create a USB flash drive that I can put multiple  ISO images on and select which boots from startup. The ideal candidate supports Linux and Windows-based ISO images, and is relatively simple. It also must have some reasonable process for adding and removing an ISO image from the drive/list.    Things that I'm not looking for in this specific question:    or other swiss-army knife live CDs. The point is to boot any one of multiple CDs, not to boot a (certainly useful) utility CD. Installing a single live CD to a USB drive. I'd like to have multiple ISO images, selectable at startup.   I don't have a specific purpose in mind, possibilties include a single drive with a  variant, Ubuntu desktop, UBCD4Win for DOS, the Offline NT Password Cracker, etc.  Flexible and easy to use are the name of the game! After reading of:  I wonder if the  also applies to flagging of old questions.  I have the subjective feeling the longer the time between the question and the flagging is, the longer it takes to become reviewed.   Is flagging of old posts a waste of moderator time? Should I avoid that? Does photon have size measurement because of its particle nature Does photon have size measurement because of its particle nature like electron's 3.86*10^-13m etc.. Suppose I know that I can find the $\gcd$ of two integers with the Euclidean algorithm. What is the 'extension' so I can use this method also for polynomials?  Edit: I found an easy answer with less rigor which is approachable without knowledge of matrices:    also the first 3 subchapters of The Fourier transform of a "comb function" is a comb function? Let $f(x) = \sum_{n=-\infty}^{\infty} \delta(x - n)$, where $\delta$ is the Dirac delta function. This function $f$ (a "comb function") is important in signal processing because evenly sampling a function $g$ can be viewed as multiplying $g$ pointwise with $f$. This idea is the first step towards understanding how to approximate the Fourier transform of $g$, given evenly spaced samples of $g$. The next step is to note that $\hat{gf} = \hat{g}*\hat{f}$, where $\hat{f}$ is the Fourier transform of $f$ and $*$ denotes convolution.  Is it true that $\hat f$ is also a comb function? If that statement isn't quite right, what is the correct statement?  I would like to see: 1) an informal, intuitive, nonrigorous but easy derivation of the Fourier transform of $f$ . 2) A rigorous version of the same calculation.  (How would you even define $f$ rigorously, is it a distribution?)  (I'd also be interested in recommendations of math textbooks that cover this topic, including the Nyquist sampling theorem, even if it's only an exercise or series of exercises in an analysis textbook.) Calculations in quotient rings Sci-Fi Movie/Show Where a Soul is Captured in a Glass Vessel Sequence of tenses for facts irrelevant of the moment of speech Let's consider two sentences:     (1) I suggested that the word zeitgeist was of German origin.   (2) The lecturer said the Pluto's orbital period is more than 200 years.   In both cases, the facts are always valid and  irrelevant of the moment of speech and context. I've heard sequence of tenses is not required in such cases. Are past and present tenses interchangeable in both of them? Would it be correct to say:     (1) I suggested that the word zeitgeist is of German origin.   (2) The lecturer said the Pluto's orbital period was more than 200 years. Are there any organised resources available from where I can begin my quantum computing studies? I am trying to calculate the force of impact of a falling object. I did my egg drop project. I dropped the egg from 10m with a mass of 126kg and with the velocity of 14.1 m/s. Which formula should I use to calculate the force of impact? I found the kinetic energy first and later I used the following formula: $W=Fs$ to find the force of impact. Is that the right formula? Q&A blank in Stack Exchange Android app v1.0.95 - S10e/Android 10 Recently upgraded to a Samsung S10e and Android 10, but all Q&amp;A in the Stack Exchange app v1.0.95 are blank.  The title and comments are visible, but question/answer posts are just white space. Accessing the About page in the app is also blank.  I tried clearing data, cache and re-installing the app, but I still get the same behaviour. How can I escape white space in a bash loop list? I have a bash shell script that loops through all child directories (but not files) of a certain directory.  The problem is that some of the directory names contain spaces.    Here are the contents of my test directory:  $ls -F test Baltimore/  Cherry Hill/  Edison/  New York City/  Philadelphia/  cities.txt   And the code that loops through the directories:  for f in `find test/* -type d`; do   echo $f done   Here's the output:   test/Baltimore test/Cherry Hill test/Edison  test/New York City test/Philadelphia   Cherry Hill and New York City are treated as 2 or 3 separate entries.  I tried quoting the filenames, like so:  for f in `find test/* -type d | sed -e 's/^/\"/' | sed -e 's/$/\"/'`; do   echo $f done   but to no avail.  There's got to be a simple way to do this.    The answers below are great.  But to make this more complicated - I don't always want to use the directories listed in my test directory.  Sometimes I want to pass in the directory names as command-line parameters instead.  I took Charles' suggestion of setting the IFS and came up with the following:  dirlist="${@}" (   [[ -z "$dirlist" ]] &amp;&amp; dirlist=`find test -mindepth 1 -type d` &amp;&amp; IFS=$'\n'   for d in $dirlist; do     echo $d   done )   and this works just fine unless there are spaces in the command line arguments (even if those arguments are quoted).  For example, calling the script like this: test.sh "Cherry Hill" "New York City" produces the following output:   Cherry Hill New York City