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The Nature of the Universe, Time Travel and More...
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i still wonder if the time travel theory from back to the future is true
a flux compassator and 1 21 jiggawats of electricity is what makes time travel
a flux compassator and 1 21 jiggawats of electricity is what makes time travel
In this scenario, wouldn't it be incorrect to call it artificial? I mean, considering this nascent intelligence is fundamental to the Universe.
-Will
You are correct but in my view if that was the case we can't detect or know of this presence so we think we are creating something artificial via code. We don't know that we are being influenced by an external force to create the physical form that it wants.
The pills are very small of course.
Reactors on the internet think Father Merrin (THE EXORCIST) had a tin of mints.
The Moon may have been hit:
This can be simulated, however:
The hidden danger of lunar micrometeoroid storms
The moon has no significant atmosphere, no weather, and no wind. Yet it faces an invisible bombardment more relentless than any terrestrial storm, a constant rain of micrometeoroids, tiny fragments of rock and metal traveling at speeds up to 70 kilometers per second. As NASA's Artemis program...
What should you do if you find a meteorite? Space rock experts explain
On Sunday November 2, people in eastern Victoria witnessed a bright streak across the sky followed by a loud sonic boom that felt like an earthquake. The event was captured by security cameras and mobile phones.
Pole flip of Earth
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Not so standard candles
If the supernova standard candle is wrong, it could solve the Hubble tension
Last time I wrote about new data that overturns the standard cosmological model. Before anyone starts dusting off their fringe cosmological models, we should note what this new study doesn't overturn. It doesn't say the Big Bang model is wrong, nor does it say that the universe isn't expanding...
Our solar system is moving faster than expected
How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the key tests of our cosmological understanding. A research team led by astrophysicist Lukas Böhme at Bielefeld University has now found new answers, ones that challenge the...
Robot
Image: A robotic helping hand at the ISS
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim took this photo on July 23, 2025, as the International Space Station orbited 259 miles above a cloudy Pacific Ocean southwest of Mexico. Visible in the image is the 57.7-foot-long Canadarm2 robotic arm, which extends from a data grapple fixture on the International Space...
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This conflicts with a older 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics Winner's hypothesis that the Expansion of the Universe is accelerating & introduced Dark Matter as one of the reasonings.
It seems that data proves that there WAS a acceleration to the speed of the Expansion of the Universe in the past.
But now it's mostly petered out and flat-lined so far & even has a ever so slight rate of deceleration to the Rate of Universe Expansion.
We won't know if the deceleration to the Rate of Universe Expansion will increase moving foreward or stay at it's slight down-ward slope, that will require more time to tell and figure out.
Those are some interesting findings IMO, that should generally change many findings & conclusions, especially about Dark Matter & Dark Energy's relevance to the cosmos and how it affected Universe Expansion rates.
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It was when I fell down the steps.
Of interest
phys.org
Faraday update
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Of interest
When superfluids collide, physicists find a mix of old and new behavior
Physics is often about recognizing patterns, sometimes repeated across vastly different scales. For instance, moons orbit planets in the same way planets orbit stars, which in turn orbit the center of a galaxy.
Faraday update
New magnetic component discovered in the Faraday effect after nearly two centuries
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem discovered that the magnetic component of light plays a direct role in the Faraday effect, overturning a 180-year-old assumption that only its electric field mattered.
Novel method for controlling Faraday rotation in conductive polymers
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba have developed a novel method for controlling the optical rotation of conductive polymer polythiophene in a magnetic field at low voltage. This method combines the "Faraday rotation" phenomenon, in which a polarizing plane rotates in response to a...
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So have I.
-Will
-Will
I never did buy into the whole supernova-as-standard-camera deal.
Humans built nukes from the Davy Crockett up to the Czar Bomb.
Exploding stars likely have variable yields as well:
en.wikipedia.org
Not the band-
We all remember this:
www.trekbbs.com
Guess what
spacenews.com
One of the arguments tech-brahs make to justify clogging LEO with megaconstellations that make amateur NEO hunting difficult) is how telescopes need to be put in space. But space science is being cut by Russell Vought types, while private launches increase.
Speaking of big space telescopes
www.space.com
Goddard and Marshall pushed for these.
Guess which two NASA Centers NewSpace/Vought types in the current administration want to kill?
Humans built nukes from the Davy Crockett up to the Czar Bomb.
Exploding stars likely have variable yields as well:
SN 2003fg - Wikipedia
We all remember this:
Arecibo Observatory on Possible Brink of Collapse
Another thing for 2020- The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has one of its main cables snapped back on 6NOV, putting the entire structure at risk. A secondary cable had slipped out of it socket in August and engineers were preparing to make repairs when the main cable failed. When that...
www.trekbbs.com
Guess what
Key antenna in NASA’s Deep Space Network damaged
One of the largest antennas in NASA’s Deep Space Network was damaged in September and may be out of service for an extended period.
spacenews.com
One of the arguments tech-brahs make to justify clogging LEO with megaconstellations that make amateur NEO hunting difficult) is how telescopes need to be put in space. But space science is being cut by Russell Vought types, while private launches increase.
Speaking of big space telescopes
New Moon Rocket Could Launch Giant Space Telescopes
NASA's Ares V moon rocket could launch giant space telescopes in the future.
Goddard and Marshall pushed for these.
Guess which two NASA Centers NewSpace/Vought types in the current administration want to kill?
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https://scitechdaily.com/a-180-year-assumption-about-light-was-just-proven-wrong/
Now I'm not deeply educated in this subject, but I do have a passing familiarity with electromagnetic theory. I took both high school physics and university physics along with several electronics courses as part of my computer science degree programs. What I wonder here, is why the original assumption that a phenomenon with a strong electrical effect, wouldn't also have a proportionate magnetic effect upon matter? I had even wondered why magnetic field induction wasn't used to capture energy from passing photons. Solar panels are not suppose to work by electromagnetic induction, as I understand it.
-Will
Now I'm not deeply educated in this subject, but I do have a passing familiarity with electromagnetic theory. I took both high school physics and university physics along with several electronics courses as part of my computer science degree programs. What I wonder here, is why the original assumption that a phenomenon with a strong electrical effect, wouldn't also have a proportionate magnetic effect upon matter? I had even wondered why magnetic field induction wasn't used to capture energy from passing photons. Solar panels are not suppose to work by electromagnetic induction, as I understand it.
-Will
^ I recall a lecturer at university nearly 50 years ago mentioning that very thing when he was describing how to shield electronics from EM interference. Basically, one has to consider both the E and M components.
This article talks about electrical energy translating into motion
techxplore.com
On anti-matter production
home.cern
Turning polarization into motion: Ferroelectric fluids redefine electrostatic actuators
Researchers have discovered that ferroelectric fluids can harness an overlooked transverse electrostatic force (TEF) to rise over 80 mm, without magnets or high voltages. By exploiting the fluid's spontaneous polarization and exceptionally high dielectric constant, they achieved a strong TEF...
On anti-matter production
Breakthrough in antimatter production
In a paper published today in Nature Communications, researchers at the ALPHA experiment at CERN’s Antimatter Factory report a new technique that allows them to produce over 15 000 antihydrogen atoms – the simplest form of atomic antimatter – in a matter of hours. “These numbers would have been...
Another take on why we might be the only life
Very interesting video.
I don't agree with the logic in much of it. For example, no astronomical miracles? Dark matter, dark energy, all those other mathematical fillers that we come up with to model the inexplicable. We cannot rely on our own objective interpretations to know we are not witnessing some intellect induced astronomical miracles. When we measure something that our models can't explain, we tweek the models and then claim we understand. When we start with the reasonable assumption that what we witness is not intelligently affected, nothing will appear to be a miracle, only a lack of understanding.
Panspermia is a non-starter since it just shifts the location and moves the timeline for the origins of life to a much much earlier, and therefore more unlikely era. It may explain the origins of life on Earth, but it does not make life both more likely and less likely in the Universe.
Galactic colonization. Just like the New World was originally colonized by Europe, at least once before, Columbus. Colonization is not necessarily a smooth and constant growth. Perhapse two or more colonizing civilizations began, clashed, and died out, resetting colonizing growth several times.
As was pointed out at the beginning of the video, Earth started developing life almost the moment it cooled off. Perhapse, given the one example of cosmic life we have, we are the most advanced of many other life supporting systems. Someone has to be first. As unlikely as it would be, that someone might be us.
The advancement of colonization based on sublight travel. That would mean that a colonizing space-faring civilization would still have to commit decades, even centuries to single flight star hopping. As was mentioned, the cost of colonizing a new star system may be prohibitive. Almost two decades to get to Alpha Centauri at 0.25 the speed of light. That's a whole generation of Earthlings.
Perhapse another galaxy, where a much earlier start may have happened. Well, If we are then looking at galaxy hopping, that is an almost insurmountable obstacle. To get to Earth from Andromeda, for example, at the speed of light, takes about 2.5 million years. No conventional space travel is bringing intelligent life to Earth from outside the Milkyway.
Being alone in the universe, even in the galaxy, seems much more unlikely.
-Will
I don't agree with the logic in much of it. For example, no astronomical miracles? Dark matter, dark energy, all those other mathematical fillers that we come up with to model the inexplicable. We cannot rely on our own objective interpretations to know we are not witnessing some intellect induced astronomical miracles. When we measure something that our models can't explain, we tweek the models and then claim we understand. When we start with the reasonable assumption that what we witness is not intelligently affected, nothing will appear to be a miracle, only a lack of understanding.
Panspermia is a non-starter since it just shifts the location and moves the timeline for the origins of life to a much much earlier, and therefore more unlikely era. It may explain the origins of life on Earth, but it does not make life both more likely and less likely in the Universe.
Galactic colonization. Just like the New World was originally colonized by Europe, at least once before, Columbus. Colonization is not necessarily a smooth and constant growth. Perhapse two or more colonizing civilizations began, clashed, and died out, resetting colonizing growth several times.
As was pointed out at the beginning of the video, Earth started developing life almost the moment it cooled off. Perhapse, given the one example of cosmic life we have, we are the most advanced of many other life supporting systems. Someone has to be first. As unlikely as it would be, that someone might be us.
The advancement of colonization based on sublight travel. That would mean that a colonizing space-faring civilization would still have to commit decades, even centuries to single flight star hopping. As was mentioned, the cost of colonizing a new star system may be prohibitive. Almost two decades to get to Alpha Centauri at 0.25 the speed of light. That's a whole generation of Earthlings.
Perhapse another galaxy, where a much earlier start may have happened. Well, If we are then looking at galaxy hopping, that is an almost insurmountable obstacle. To get to Earth from Andromeda, for example, at the speed of light, takes about 2.5 million years. No conventional space travel is bringing intelligent life to Earth from outside the Milkyway.
Being alone in the universe, even in the galaxy, seems much more unlikely.
-Will
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Maybe by design if you will for want of a better word galaxies are such that they can't be hopped across each a separate habitat containing whatever is in there. The Milky Way contains us and whatever else is in our galaxy and so on and so forth.
Perhapse.
So, if there is logic that suggests we are the only life in the Milkyway, the very existence of life in our galaxy makes life in other galaxies likely, as well.
How would we ever identify proof of that? Even intelligence on a cosmic scale is unlikely to leave a fingerprint large enough to be measurable beyond our galaxy. Certainly we don't have the technology to leave any signs of our existence past the endlessly weakening radio signals we send out into Space. The larger the radius of the transmission, the more space dust that deflects and disperses it. By the time a focused signal gets a hundred light years out, there isn't much strength left to filter it out from all the rest of the cosmic radiation rippling across the galactic pond. The recognize a signal from another galaxy would be close enough to impossible to be impossible.
Here's a map of stars within 20 light years away. Much more than I thought.
(http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/20lys.html)
http://www.atlasoftheuniverse.com/20lys.gif
Another one of stars 30 LY away.
-Will
