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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 5:43 am |
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Finnish physicists have developed “unified gravity,” a new theory that describes gravity using the same mathematical framework as the other fundamental forces, potentially solving a century-old physics problem.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-may-have-just-solved-physics-holy-grail-problem/ar-AA1El595
Maybe the Finns are on to something, maybe not.
Interesting how the most obvious and basic elements of physics -- time, mass, gravity -- have proven the most difficult to understand.
While our understanding of physics and quantum physics are irreconcilable.
And the current model of the universe is mostly composed of invisible matter and energy which might not exist.
A reminder that modern science is just a bit over 100 years. |
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| Posted: Sat May 24, 2025 11:59 pm |
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| Whenever I see flamboyant claims like this, I wait for other papers to confirm the results. |
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Hot fusion! Always thirty years in the future! (commercial fusion, anyway)
Quote: Whenever I see flamboyant claims like this, I wait for other papers to confirm the results.
Indeed. Sagan's Law would seem to apply.
I've noticed science journalists seem to overhype pretty much anything new these days. It's like they're all fighting to win the click-bait battle for eyeballs. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2025 2:40 pm |
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| I'm going to try to get the domain updated, so I need to contact Marty. I've paid the site up until September. |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2025 10:41 am |
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Marty took care of the domain through the year.
I think we should bring back duelling for Musk and Trump. Bazookas from five feet away. |
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2025 5:23 am |
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A new theory is that the Big Bang theory is wrong and the universe is sitting inside a black hole named Black Hole Universe.
This suggests that the edge of our universe is the event horizon of a black hole, from which light cannot escape, making it impossible for us to see beyond into our parent universe. And it implies other black holes may also contain unseen universes.
Physicists such as Roger Penrose and Prof Stephen Hawking suggested that gravitational collapse inside a black hole must lead to a singularity, but under the new model gravitational collapse does not have to end in a singularity and found that a collapsing cloud of matter can reach a high-density state and then bounce, rebounding outward into a new expanding phase.
The Big Bang theory was based on classic physics, but scientists have struggled to make it fit with the known effects of quantum mechanics, which sets a limit on how much matter can be compressed.
Unlike the Big Bang theory, the new theory model aligns with both the general theory of relativity and quantum physics.
The theory that the universe might exist inside a black hole was first proposed in 1972 by Raj Kumar Pathria, an Indian theoretical physicist, but gained little traction. I visualize it as the opening of The Little Prince where everyone ignores the Turkish scientist because he dresses differently. But really, never underestimate the power and extent of racism.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/06/10/big-bang-theory-is-wrong-claim-scientists/
What I like is that the BHU provides a viable pathway for other universes to exist. Multiverses always seemed like conjecture and fantasy. But if we are within a black hole, suddenly multiverses are highly plausible with other such universes similarly situated. There's no reason that all we can observe is all there is (is a single universe).
Really the BHU theory sounds a lot like a Big Bang within a black hole. And if a singularity isn't required within a black hole, the same would seem true for a non black hole expansion.
I've never read up on black holes, only to discover I might be in one. I wonder about the concept of black holes within a larger black hole. Also if black holes have such intense gravity that light can't escape, can't imagine our universe could expand for long.
And what exactly happens to light within a black hole. Or when it nears a BH event horizon from within? I've never understood light/electromagnetic radiation or its properties and origin. |
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I like to watch "Words Unravelled" with Rob Watts (RobWords) and Jess Zafarris, and today was Movie Words. I'm learning a lot of things I took for granted were wrong, such that a melodrama was a really dark drama, which I guess would be a melanodrama. Melodrama means melodic drama. Similarly, I thought gaffer was a British term for grandfather, but it's more like a master or someone highly respected. The Gaffer was Sam Gamgee's father which makes Sam's outrage at seeing the Gaffer turned out of his house a lot more powerful.
Also the word "dolly" comes from old devices having moving arms and legs like a dumb dolly, which was a device for doing laundry. This comes from a resemblance to a children's doll. The word came to be applied to other things that moved, including a cart.
If the word had gone in another direction, we'd be calling robots dolls (and sometimes do). |
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| RIP Robert Redford, damn it, who I liked in so many movies, including some he directed, such as Sneakers, The Milagro Beanfield War, Quiz Show, The Horse Whisperer. The Electric Horseman, The Way We Were, The Great Waldo Pepper, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Oddly, I've never seen "Ordinary People", which he won his lone competitive Oscar. To me, his is a great example of a life well lived and the world is poorer for our loss of this outstanding human. |
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Syd wrote: RIP Robert Redford, damn it, who I liked in so many movies, including some he directed, such as Sneakers, The Milagro Beanfield War, Quiz Show, The Horse Whisperer. (I don't think he directed) The Electric Horseman, The Way We Were, The Great Waldo Pepper, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Oddly, I've never seen "Ordinary People", which he won his lone competitive Oscar. To me, his is a great example of a life well lived and the world is poorer for our loss of this outstanding human. |
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From McGill Media: Quote: "The US Coast Guard on Friday released video of its forces shooting out the engines of a suspected smuggling boat and arresting the crew, a successful interdiction that raises fresh questions about why the Pentagon is carrying out lethal strikes on drug smugglers in the same region.
The footage, reported by Fox News, shows a Coast Guard sniper disabling a “go-fast” vessel during Operation Pacific Viper before officers board and detain those on board. The service said more than 20,000 pounds of cocaine were seized — the largest at-sea haul in over 18 years.
The mission occurred in the eastern Pacific, where a Pentagon strike earlier this week killed four suspected smugglers. The Coast Guard’s ability to stop traffickers without deadly force is fueling scrutiny over the necessity and legality of the Pentagon’s lethal operations."
Actually the lethal operations are war crimes, especially when you murder people who have abandoned ship. and Hengest at least, and probably Trump. should be indicted as war criminals. (Hengest more, since he is more directly involved. When the Democrats regain control of Congress next November, they'll probably impeach Trump, but it's even more urgent to impeach Hengest.)
And also, the war on drugs began something like 50 years ago and we still don't know that it's a total failure? |
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