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Alien Superweapons: The Reality Flattener | 3 Body Problem

This is the weapon that will destroy our solar system in Season 3 of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem: the Dual-Vector Foil. It’s a Dimensional Strike deployed by a super advanced alien civilization called the Singers. Once activated, it expands at light speed, consuming everything in its path. It’s expected to be featured in Season 3 of Netflix’s 3 Body Problem series.

Music:
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There’s Life Out There — Cooper Cannell.
Jungle — Aakash Gandhi.
Atlantis by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Chapters:
00:00 Dimension Strike.
01:55 Dimensional Decay In Sci-Fi.
02:27 Bunker Era.
03:05 Dual-Vector Foil.
04:34 Why Use Dimension Weapons?
06:05 Nature of the Collapsing Universe.

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Some 3D models are from NASA: https://nasa3d.arc.nasa.gov/models.

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How sci-fi writer Larry Niven came up with the idea for Ringworld

Ringworld, by sci-fi author Larry Niven is based on hypothetical megastructures in space called Dyson Spheres but, says Niven, “I took just the equator… the poor man’s Dyson sphere!”

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Studying the physics of sci-fi novel Ringworld by Larry Niven

Science students and academics wrote papers about the mathematics and physics of Ringworld after it was published. Larry Niven discusses whether this would happen if Ringworld was published today.
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SPHEREx space telescope begins capturing entire sky

Launched on March 11, NASA’s SPHEREx space observatory has spent the last six weeks undergoing checkouts, calibrations, and other activities to ensure it is working as it should. Now it’s mapping the entire sky—not just a large part of it—to chart the positions of hundreds of millions of galaxies in 3D to answer some big questions about the universe.

On May 1, the spacecraft began regular science operations, which consist of taking about 3,600 images per day for the next two years to provide new insights about the origins of the universe, galaxies, and the ingredients for life in the Milky Way.

“Thanks to the hard work of teams across NASA, industry, and academia that built this mission, SPHEREx is operating just as we’d expected and will produce maps of the full sky unlike any we’ve had before,” said Shawn Domagal-Goldman, acting director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.

An interview with Larry Niven — Ringworld author and sci-fi legend

Larry Niven is one of the biggest names in the history of science fiction. His 1970 novel Ringworld is the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, but he has also written a whole space-fleet-load of novels and short stories over the years, including A World Out of Time.

New Scientist sci-fi reviewer Emily H. Wilson caught up with him via Zoom at his home in Los Angeles recently, where he discussed Ringworld, his start in sci-fi, his favourite work over the years, his current projects, and whether he thinks humankind will ever leave this solar system.
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In search of gravitons, the particle that could unify physics

We know that all the other forces governed by quantum mechanics are transmitted by indivisible particles: photons for the electromagnetic force, which governs light and the basic chemistry of matter; gluons for the strong force, which sticks together protons and neutrons inside atoms; and W and Z bosons for the weak force, which enables certain particles to radioactively decay. If gravity has the same underlying theory as these forces, it should also be carried by its own particle: a graviton. Now researchers, including Claudia Du Rham at Imperial in London, are in the hunt for these mysterious and vanishingly weak particles.
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