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‘Supercharged rhino’ black holes may have formed and died a second after the Big Bang

Related: If the Big Bang created miniature black holes, where are they?

The research team thinks that super-color-charged black holes may have impacted the balance of fusing nuclei in the infant universe. Though the exotic objects ceased to exist in the first moments of the cosmos, future astronomers could potentially still detect this influence.

“Even though these short-lived, exotic creatures are not around today, they could have affected cosmic history in ways that could show up in subtle signals today,” study co-author David Kaiser, a professor of physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), said in a statement.

QStr Talk by Makiko Yamada: A neuroimaging dataset during sequential color qualia similarity

This is a talk on our recent preprint & database paper A neuroimaging dataset during sequential color qualia similarity judgments with and without reports By Takahiro Hirao, Mitsuhiro Miyamae, Daisuke Matsuyoshi, Ryuto Inoue, Yuhei Takado, Takayuki Obata, Makoto Higuchi, Naotsugu Tsuchiya, Makiko Yamada bioRxiv 2024.05.16.594267; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.16.59…

It’s Official: The Rotation of Earth’s Inner Core Really Is Slowing Down

The rotation of Earth’s inner core really has slowed down, a new study has confirmed, opening up questions about what’s happening in the center of the planet and how we might be affected.

Led by a team from the University of Southern California (USC), the researchers behind the finding think this change in the core’s rotation could change the length of our days – albeit only by a few fractions of a second, so you won’t need to reset your watches just yet.

“When I first saw the seismograms that hinted at this change, I was stumped,” says Earth scientist John Vidale from USC. “But when we found two dozen more observations signaling the same pattern, the result was inescapable.

Graphics Archive — Special Topics: Hyperbolic Geometry

“Every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere.” — The Poincaré Conjecture.

“Every simply connected, closed 3-manifold is homeomorphic to the 3-sphere.”

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Retrocausality and Quantum Mechanics

The exact empirical evidence for retrocausality does not exist yet, but the existing empirical data as those from Bell tests may be interpreted in a way to support the retrocausal framework.

Have you ever thought that future states could affect the events that have occurred in the past? Although this idea sounds quite bizarre, it is indeed possible according to a quantum mechanical effect called retrocausality. According to the concept, causality and time do not work in the conventional sense and remarkably, an effect can predate its cause, thus reversing the directionality of time as well.

Usually, in the classical world, this is not what we actually experience. For every cause, there is a corresponding effect, but they work sequentially rather than in the reverse way. Conventional thought process suggests that once a particular event has occurred, there’s almost zero probability that it can be reversed. The physical reason is simple, and it has to do with the arrow of time. In general, the arrow of time points in a single forward direction and this is one of the major unsolved challenges of the foundations of physics because physicists are uncertain of why the nature of time is such.

Map of the Day: Central African Fires

Most of the fires detected in this map are burning in grass or cropland areas. Reports assert the fires are the result of both large and small-scale farmers attempting to manage the land in the most cost-effective way possible. However, in Angola, 80% percent of farmers are smallholders, which could explain the extensive use of burning practices in the country.

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