Re: << >>

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From: "Brian Bilderback" <bbilderback@hotmail.com>
> >In the paper it says:
> >
> >R << d << D
> >where R is the radius of the warp bubble, d is the distance from the
> >starting star, D is the distance to the second star.
> >
>
> what does  << mean?  I'm not a physicist or mathemetician. I know <
and >
as
> less than and greater than, but not <<.

 "Much bigger than" or "much smaller than" rather than the "smaller
than" or
"gigger than" of < >

Greetings