...Are you me? And don't forget, the Supreme Court can always get worse........It's all going to get worse - except for the rich. 🎉
I just hope if he loses, it’s by a wide margin so there’s no challenge. Just decisive victory and we can all move on….
Mods maybe? 🤔
One of the best battles ever. The pace, atmosphere, music, everything was just perfect. No game had executed a battle quite like it. And uh, she has a great “design.”
Vote, just vote.
Dude, as a casual science consumer….wth? Just last week I read we’re not likely to collide with Andromeda, and if we do, it’s going to be an extremely long time; they claimed there’s simply more galaxy influences than just calculating the Milky Way and Andromeda interactions.
ADHD, great for exploring, hunting and making it back home. Not so great for cubicle work…
Your concerns are valid but all the Rs coming out like this is more about how terrible Trump is and less about anything else. Don’t underestimate how many moderates there are in both parties and these Rs help there - progressives need their votes. After Trump is gone, we can hopefully go back to trying to improve the voting system, pushing Dems more left and hope that anyone on the right exchanges some of their selfinterests for social interests - but that’s best we can dream for.
Nighttime skateboarding down at the street light was good times with the friends…
Came here to find this comment - it's simply true.
Agreed. It's was very entertaining and sometimes, went far deeper than necessary - the drama was done so well.
Roll back to 2013-2015. If he would have maintained this period’s façade, he’d be rich, influential and perhaps, a positive legacy. But he had to join the ultra wealthy club and in turn, push their agenda/interests and watch the momentum he had from those few years, crumble. He’s a meme more than ever and he doesn’t care. He had a chance to do better things, but joined the wrong cult…
Best I can do is, QFT...
Wait, what was I going to write?!
Don’t care - vote. 🗳️
I need more Warhammer in my politics, please. I mean, what are any of these yahoos going to do about the Skaven invading under our borders, or those elitist Elvin 1%, or about how the Undead or Orcs looking to start a war overseas?
He’s fairly moderate too, so he’d help a little there, given his record. That aside, I’d have to take a look, but he has voted more progressively of late. I really hope he’s picked as VP.
Scientists are a step closer to unraveling the mysterious forces of the universe after working out how to measure gravity on a microscopic level.
Scientists are a step closer to unraveling the mysterious forces of the universe after working out how to measure gravity on a microscopic level.
The science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke selected his own seven wonders of the world in a BBC television series in 1997. The only astronomical object he included was SS 433. It had attracted attention already in the late 1970s due to its X-ray emission and was later discovered to be at the center...
The video in this article brings me joy; it's just so good and fun to watch.
The discovery of superconductivity more than a century ago has significantly changed our world.
The general theory of relativity is based on the concept of curved space–time. To describe how the energy and momentum of fields are distributed in space–time, as well as how they interact with the gravitational field, a special mathematical construct is used—the energy–momentum tensor. This is a ki...
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I tried finding some research and found lots about freezing matter or putting it under extreme pressure, but not trying both.
My thought experiment involved taking a small portion of ideal of matter (not sure what), artificially applying extreme pressure to it and than attempt to lower its temperature and if possible, apply even more pressure before trying to lower its temperature - taking it as low as possible under the highest pressure you could.
I assumed there's likely to be a conflict between pressure - thus increasing vibration/wave properties of the material - and how it would be possible to reduce those energetic wave properties.
Thanks for any insight.
Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities reached in our present-day universe, with as much as two solar masses of matter compressed inside a sphere of 25 km in diameter. These astrophysical objects can indeed be thought of as giant atomic nuclei, with gravity compressing their core...
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/19422551
> "In a new article published in Nature Communications, a team centered at the University of Helsinki provided a first-ever quantitative estimate for the likelihood of quark-matter cores inside massive neutron stars. They showed that, based on current astrophysical observations, quark matter is almost inevitable in the most massive neutron stars: a quantitative estimate that the team extracted placed the likelihood in the range of 80–90%."
edit: found this research just today on nucleon liquid Vs quark liquid - very interesting and very much related to this original post.
Neutron-star cores contain matter at the highest densities reached in our present-day universe, with as much as two solar masses of matter compressed inside a sphere of 25 km in diameter. These astrophysical objects can indeed be thought of as giant atomic nuclei, with gravity compressing their core...
"In a new article published in Nature Communications, a team centered at the University of Helsinki provided a first-ever quantitative estimate for the likelihood of quark-matter cores inside massive neutron stars. They showed that, based on current astrophysical observations, quark matter is almost inevitable in the most massive neutron stars: a quantitative estimate that the team extracted placed the likelihood in the range of 80–90%."
edit: removed my personal crackpot musings surrounding the subject. I do however, still suggest for those interested on the subject to study/brush up on quantum chromodynamics (focusing on the quark sea) and zero-point energy - never neglecting Relativity, of course. They're all very much connected and I believe the ZPE field will be a focus of continuous, real experimental science, with significant ramifications in cosmology.
edit 2: Found this research just today on nucleon liquid Vs quark liquid - very interesting and very much related to this original post.
Neutron stars are the end products of massive stars and gather together a large part of the original stellar mass in a super-dense star with a diameter of only around ten kilometers. On 17 August 2017, researchers observed the manifold signatures of an explosive merger of two orbiting neutron stars ...
Found this very useful Youtube video about How do Magnets & Magnetic Fields Work? and within it I finally found someone willing to explain greater details about how same poles repel in laymen terms. The link above takes you to the section where the Presenter explains how (as I understand him) potential energy forms between the same poles and that energy ultimately causes the repulsion. I like his thermodynamic(?) description and haven't ever come across a better laymen explanation. That said, I was hoping to get some opinions about them. I've also read about the exchange of virtual photons but even that wasn't intuitively explained.
Thank you for any additional insight.
Supernovae -- stellar explosions as bright as an entire galaxy -- have fascinated us since time immemorial. Yet, there are more hydrogen-poor supernovae than astrophysicists can explain. Now, scientists may have found the missing precursor star population.
Language of any kind has always been hard for me, as most languages aren't intuitive and require your brain to be forced into learning often odd and unnecessary rules. My brain hates math, the only language I actually respect and a lot of science is built on complex math and non-intuitive nomenclature. I've been increasingly frustrated by it lately and just need to get this off my chest.
I'm a non-professional and have been studying physics for a long time - Quantum Color Dynamics of late - and almost everything I read and listen to requires my brain to constantly process almost every bit of information from non-intuitive nomenclature to personal made ones. It's frustrating that the most challenging aspect of science (besides the complex math) isn't the concepts (I honestly don't find quantum mechanics to be weird) but rather the scientific community's self-imposed nomenclature made of scientist names or hodgepodge of words.
Worst of all, I've only been able to process science like this as an adult because as a younger student, the subject matter seemed too hard because it was weighed down by both non-intuitive nomenclature and often teachers who barely understood the concepts they were teaching to the extent that they could translate that nomenclature beyond a book's presentation (obviously my own learning experience).
Since I could remember I've loved science and wonder if I might have sought a career in physics, if not for frustrating hurdles like nomenclature, thrown on top of truly beautiful but complex subjects. At least I can enjoy it non-professionally - if only slowly, as I have to process its nomenclature.
Thank you. And with that, back to my particle zoo...
An entirely new way to probe how active black holes behave when they eat has been discovered by an international team of astronomers.
Astronomers have observed, for the first time in three dimensions, that gas from spiral galaxies is blown upward and downward at high velocity, far out of the galaxy. The observations confirm the prevailing theory of galaxy evolution that says that star-forming galaxies drive intergalactic winds by ...
"Until now, observations have been difficult to interpret, but thanks to this study we can no longer ignore bipolar winds."
Curious non-professional here.
Thought experiment that led me to the question: If we assume that at any given time there's an extreme level of EM and gravitational waves propagating through some point within a cosmic void (a seemingly homogeneous "vacuum"): do the transient emissions form any kind of emergent field?
I understand the ever-present zero-point energy but that should be in absence of all else. I'm contemplating an emergent field formed by EM/gravitational traffic. Obviously this field is only as present or strong as the transient fields passing through this point under consideration.
Thank you.
One of the biggest mysteries in cosmology is the rate at which the universe is expanding. This can be predicted using the standard model of cosmology, also known as Lambda-cold dark matter (ΛCDM). This model is based on detailed observations of the light left over from the Big Bang—the so-called cos...
Since I've started studying cosmology as a non-professional, I've found myself rather convinced that there's so much dark matter but with a little "d" - since JWST has started giving us incredible data we've been finding more and more dense regions of dust, ice and gas where we've never thought, or previously seen before - but not new Dark Matter particles, regardless of claims of their influences. To be clear, both models should be studied and MOND continues to develop, however slowly it might be.
As for those who've been keeping score between MOND vs DM (with a big "D") many have pointed to the recent wide binary as "proof" that MOND is falsified. I honestly believe space is so much more nuanced than we've observed so far and future discoveries will certainly reveal as much. At any rate, I'd like to link Stacy McGaugh's recent entry into the debate for consideration.
Edit: Found this Youtube video that does a good job explaining the basics of this paper.
Here's a direct link to their paper (also found in the phys.org).
And a link to a post I've already made about Prof Kroupa - a large proponent for MOND. There's a link for another post I made for Prof Stacy McGaugh there too; another great source for those interested.