calling all science geeks!

[Bill McBlueState]

Okay, I fear this thread will sink like a stone, but I need some input.

I'm giving a talk to my department next week about the angular momentum evolution of young stars. In other words, newborn stars don't spin as fast as they should, and astronomers are trying to figure out why.

What I want to do is make a reference to *political* spin in my title.

The best I've been able to do is

"Putting a Different Spin on it: The Angular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars"

or

"The Angular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars: The Latest Spin on the Issue"

Does anyone with a better sense of humor have other ideas? (I will credit you in my talk. ;))

[thom1102]

1. The "Slow" Spin Zone?

Can I get a "whu whu"?

[kmla]

2. Are you working on your doctorate?

Then by all accounts, you would then be able to call yourself a "spin doctor"...

Or not.

[Bill McBlueState]

8. yep

I could be a spin doctor... :o

[felonious thunk]

3. here's a couple

The Angular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars: The Low Spin Zone

Do Young Stars need Spin Doctors? Or will they learn as they age?

Young stars tire of spin. Do so with less momentum.

[benburch]

4. Hmmm... How about...

"Take this baby for a spin!: The Angular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars."

[damnraddem]

17. Ooh, the best I've seen so far.

But there must be a political metaphor: spinning bags of gas, and so on.

[Warren Stuart]

5. As stars spin their mass gets more concentrated

Their radius decreases and angular velocity increases. Sort of like when a skater is spinning and pulls in his/her arms the skater spins faster.

The greater the concentration the more spin is needed.

[Bill McBlueState]

7. you would think...

And that happens, but not as much as expected. By the time they reach the main sequence, these stars should be spinning so fast they almost fly apart, but they're only rotating at about a tenth of that speed on average.

A magnetic interaction with the accretion disk (which is where planets are later made) is thought to put the brakes on the star's rotation, but there's some controversy over that idea.

Thanks for the ideas, everyone! Keep 'em coming!

[pmbryant]

6. I kind of like your first title

It uses the political pun in an effective way while still concisely getting across the main subject of your talk. I never really appreciated it when people got so clever with their talk titles that I couldn't figure out what they were really going to be talking about.

Good luck!
Peter

[DS1]

9. Childish Stars and the No-Spin-Zone

/obvious

[Mattforclark]

11. I vote for that one

[redqueen]

10. I love threads like this

Learning is fun, and knowlege is so sexy! :)

[Don_G]

12. It Takes A While For The Physics To Work

And the momentum of the universe to affect your neighborhood.

[Merrick]

13. baby star's tummies get upset

or
baby stars are dumb.

[TXlib]

14. I'd like a copy of your paper, if you don't mind

Will it show up on arxiv.org?

I'm out of creative ideas for your title. The second one you came up with strikes me as perfect.

[Bill McBlueState]

20. the talk is for our journal seminar

So it's based on some existing papers, rather than my own research. (My own stuff is related to this, though.)

The main papers I'm using are

Rebull, Wolff, and Strom 2004, Astronomical Journal 127, 1029

and

Wolff, Strom, and Hillenbrand 2004, Astrophysical Journal 601, 979

And since you gave me a doorway, my first (and only, so far) paper as a grad student is at http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0311289

:)

[Lisa]

15. if you study rapidly-spinning objects, can we call you a "top scientist"?

Okay, okay -- I have to credit my ex-boyfriend on that one (an astronomer).

I'm glad you're willing to inject some humor into your talk. I merely suggested to some geologists at U of W that they call their project on plant macrofossil deposition on the continental shelf "20,000 Leaves under the Sea", and they became abusive.

I like both your titles -- straightforward and not too technical. How about "News from the Spin Machine: The Angular Momentum Evolution of Young Stars"?

[damnraddem]

18. This thread is making me dizzy.

Is a supernova a form of orbituary?

[damnraddem]

16. Young stars and old pols -- only the latter like the spin.

Young stars aren't spinsters.

[Endangered Specie]

19. "A REAL no-spin zone: THe Angular Mom..... Stars"

[kodi]

21. stars are like politicians, the older they are the more they spin

that's because as both grow older, they have burned off most of their gas and begin to work from a densier center of gravity.