{"id":116410,"date":"2020-11-28T08:22:44","date_gmt":"2020-11-28T16:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/arches-of-chaos-in-the-solar-system-luxury-watch-has-bits-of-stephen-hawkings-desk"},"modified":"2020-11-28T08:22:44","modified_gmt":"2020-11-28T16:22:44","slug":"arches-of-chaos-in-the-solar-system-luxury-watch-has-bits-of-stephen-hawkings-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/arches-of-chaos-in-the-solar-system-luxury-watch-has-bits-of-stephen-hawkings-desk","title":{"rendered":"Arches of chaos in the solar system, luxury watch has bits of Stephen Hawking\u2019s desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/arches-of-chaos-in-the-solar-system-luxury-watch-has-bits-of-stephen-hawkings-desk.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from the Red Folder.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>If we had a \u201cPhysics paper title of the year award\u201d, the 2020 winner would surely have to be \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/advances.sciencemag.org\/content\/6\/48\/eabd1313\">The arches of chaos in the solar system<\/a>\u201d, which was published this week in <em><i>Science Advances<\/i><\/em> by Nata\u0161a Todorovi\u0107, Di Wu and Aaron Rosengren. In their paper, the trio \u201creveal a notable and hitherto undetected ornamental structure of manifolds, connected in a series of arches that spread from the asteroid belt to Uranus and beyond\u201d. These manifolds are structures that arise from the gravitational interactions between the Sun and planets. They play an important role in spacecraft navigation and also explain the erratic nature of comets.<\/p>\n<p>The paper is beautifully written, describing the manifolds as \u201ca true celestial autobahn,\u201d and going on to say that they \u201cenable \u2018Le Petit Prince\u2019 grand tour of the solar system\u201d. And if that has not piqued your curiosity, the figures are wonderful as well \u2013 with the above image being \u201cJovian-minimum-distance maps for the Greek and Trojan orbital configurations\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The luxury watchmaker Bremont has released the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bremont.com\/collections\/the-bremont-hawking-collection\">Hawking Limited Edition<\/a> watch that contains bits of a wooden desk once used by the late Stephen Hawking. The \u201cexquisite chromometer\u201d also contains pieces of a meteorite and is etched with a view of the night sky as seen from Oxford on 8 January 1942, Hawking\u2019s place and date of birth. What is more, the serial number of the watch is printed on paper from a 1979 paper by Hawking that was cowritten by Gary Gibbons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpts from the Red Folder. If we had a \u201cPhysics paper title of the year award\u201d, the 2020 winner would surely have to be \u201cThe arches of chaos in the solar system\u201d, which was published this week in Science Advances by Nata\u0161a Todorovi\u0107, Di Wu and Aaron Rosengren. In their paper, the trio \u201creveal a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1965,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapping","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}