Earth and even the sun are puny compared to a mighty, hulking source of gamma-rays.
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Dec 19, 2022
The tangled tale of how physicists built a groundbreaking wormhole in a lab
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: cosmology, quantum physics
How a century of research culminated in the first lab-built wormhole linking classical physics and the quantum world.
Dec 19, 2022
Astronomers discover irregularities in the cores of red giants
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: cosmology
Red giants are dying stars, in advanced stages of stellar evolution, which have depleted the hydrogen in their cores. In a study published today in Nature Communications, a team of astronomers mainly from Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA), have found new evidence that red giant stars experience “glitches”—sharp structural variations—in their inner core.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to look directly inside a star. However, a technique dubbed asteroseismology, which measures oscillations similar to “earthquakes” in stars, can provide indirect glimpses of stellar interiors. The “glitches” can affect these oscillations, or the frequencies and paths of gravity and sound waves traveling through the stellar interior.
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We are aware of how skewed our perception of reality is. How we see the world is shaped by our senses, our societies, and our knowledge.
And you may want to rethink your belief that science will always provide you with an objective reality.
Dec 19, 2022
How Isaac Newton Discovered the Binomial Power Series
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: energy
Rethinking questions and chasing patterns led Newton to find the connection between curves and infinite sums.
Dec 19, 2022
Science Confirms Our Life Really Does Flash Before Your Eyes Before Death
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, science
Death is perhaps one of the most universally discussed topics across the board, and at least once in our lives, the vast majority of us wonder what happens during our final moments. For a long time, we haven’t had many answers, well, that is until now.
One of the most common ‘rumors’ about death is that right before our final moment, our life flashes before our eyes. And recent research may offer some interesting answers that indicate this theory isn’t far from the truth.
The research was carried out by accident, as they had intended to study the brainwaves of an 87-year-old patient with epilepsy. However, during their research, the patient ended up suffering from a fatal heart attack. During the death of the patient, their brainwaves were recorded up until the moment of death.
Dec 19, 2022
A 107-year-old Einstein theory about how the universe began, Which is 100% correct
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: space
Read more about A 107-year-old Einstein theory about how the universe began, Which is 100% correct.
Dec 19, 2022
Scientists discover what was on the menu of the first dinosaurs
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: computing, existential risks, food
The earliest dinosaurs included carnivorous, omnivorous and herbivorous species, according to a team of University of Bristol paleobiologists.
By looking at the tooth shapes of the earliest dinosaurs and simulating their tooth function with computational modeling, experts were able to compare them to living reptiles and their diets. Their findings, published December 16 in Science Advances, show that many groups of plant-eating dinosaurs were ancestrally omnivorous and that the ancestors of our famous long-necked herbivores, such as Diplodocus, ate meat. This ability to diversify their diets early in their evolution likely explains their evolutionary and ecological success.
The earliest dinosaurs are enigmatic: they were much smaller than their later relatives and for most of the Triassic they were in the shadow of the crocodile-like reptiles. It is unknown how diverse they were in terms of diets and ecology, but scientists know something must have happened in the Triassic that allowed dinosaurs to endure the Triassic–Jurassic mass extinction and adapt in its aftermath, becoming the dominant group for the rest of the Mesozoic.
Dec 19, 2022
Discovery of “impossible” superconductor promises 100x faster electronics
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: electronics, materials
In a major advance, scientists have found a new and groundbreaking way to force electrons to flow only in one direction in a superconductor.
Dec 19, 2022
Perturbation theory of large scale structure in the $ LambdaCDM Universe: Exact time evolution and the two-loop power spectrum
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: energy, space
The large-scale structure (LSS) of the Universe is obviously nonlinear and very complicated. However, the scale of onset of nonlinearity is well separated from the size of the Universe which makes a large portion of the structure formation modes accessible to perturbation theory (PT). The latter is itself complicated by the time dependence of the lambdaCDM background. The authors provide an exact all-order recursive solution for the PT kernels, which allows them to go beyond the Einstein-de Sitter approximation for the time dependence, and quantify the deviation at the two-loop level in the 10% range, a deviation detectible with upcoming observations.