From amr w astro.uni.torun.pl  Tue Apr  1 10:00:32 2003
From: amr w astro.uni.torun.pl (Andrzej Marecki)
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 10:00:32 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: "projective sphere" (fwd)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0303311931040.30259-100000@semuramat.camk.edu.pl>
Message-ID: <200304010800.KAA07782@galileo.astro.uni.torun.pl>

> > enlighten me with Polish term for "projective sphere" ?

Hmmm. At first sight it's a trivial task: one has to look up a dictionary
and... here comes a difficulty. Having learnt Polish equivalents of
"projective" and "sphere" doesn't mean you know the equivalent of
"projective sphere". 

There are many Anglo-Polish jokes what happens if one translates a phrase
word by word. Here's one: In Polish we say "dziękuję z góry", "płacę z góry"
etc. (where "z góry" means "in advance"). However, lame translators would
write "thank you from the mountain", "I pay from the mountain". :-)))

What I'm saying here is that I simply have never heard "projective sphere"
in Polish. So I would be very cautious here. Maybe it *is* actually "sfera
rzutowana" but it's just my guess and it may happen that "sfera rzutowana"
is something like "thank you from the mountain".

--
Andrzej

 


From amr w astro.uni.torun.pl  Mon Apr 28 08:32:23 2003
From: amr w astro.uni.torun.pl (Andrzej Marecki)
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2003 08:32:23 +0200 (MET DST)
Subject: The Extragalactic Distance Scale
Message-ID: <200304280632.IAA29193@galileo.astro.uni.torun.pl>

Paper: astro-ph/0304427
From: Joseph B. Jensen <jjensen w gemini.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2003 23:52:07 GMT   (67kb)

Title: The Extragalactic Distance Scale
Authors: Joseph B. Jensen (Gemini), John L. Tonry (Hawaii), John P. Blakeslee
  (JHU)
Comments: 18 pages, 1 figure; contribution to Measuring and Modeling the
  Universe, Carnegie Observatories Astrophysics Series Vol. 2, ed. W. L.
  Freedman
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  Significant progress has been made during the last 10 years toward
resolving the debate over the expansion rate of the Universe. [...] 
We discuss remaining systematic uncertainties, particularly related to the
Cepheid calibration, and identify where improvements are likely to be made
in the next few years.

\\ ( http://de.arXiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304427 ,  67kb)
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