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Science and space exploration
Gamma-ray bursts reveal largest structure in the universe is bigger and closer to Earth than we knew: 'The jury is still…
The largest structure in space is >10 billion light years across - it's too large to have formed in the time the the universe has existed.
NASA Simulation’s Plunge Into a Black Hole: Explained
This new, immersive visualization produced on a NASA supercomputer represents a scenario where a camera — a stand-in for a daring astronaut — enters the event horizon, sealing its fate.
Goddard scientists created the visualizations on the Discover supercomputer at the NASA Center for Climate Simulation.
The destination is a supermassive black hole with 4.3 million times the mass of our Sun, equivalent to the monster located at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. To simplify the complex calculations, the black hole is not rotating.
A flat, swirling cloud of hot, glowing gas called an accretion disk surrounds the black hole and serves as a visual reference during the fall. So do glowing structures called photon rings, which form closer to the black hole from light that has orbited it one or more times. A backdrop of the starry sky as seen from Earth completes the scene.
The project generated about 10 terabytes of data — equivalent to roughly half of the estimated text content in the Library of Congress — and took about 5 days running on just 0.3% of Discover’s 129,000 processors. The same feat would take more than a decade on a typical laptop.
Read more: https://science.nasa.gov/supermassive-black-holes/new-nasa-black-hole-visualization-takes-viewers-beyond-the-brink/
Music credit: “Tidal Force,” Thomas Daniel Bellingham [PRS], Universal Production Music
“Memories” from Digital Juice
“Path Finder,” Eric Jacobsen [TONO] and Lorenzo Castellarin [BMI], Universal Production Music
Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center /J. Schnittman and B. Powell
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Visualizer:Jeremy Schnittman (NASA/GSFC)
Science writer: Francis Reddy (University of Maryland College Park)
Computer support: Brian Powell (NASA/GSFC)
Editor: Scott Wiessinger (KBR Wyle Services, LLC)
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Telescope Array detects second-highest-energy cosmic ray ever
Good explanation of the mystery of ultra-high-energy particles (like the Oh-My-God particle)
The universe is expanding faster than theory predicts—physicists are trying to explain the mismatch
Astronomers have known for decades that the universe is expanding. When they use telescopes to observe faraway galaxies, they see that these galaxies are moving away from Earth.
JWST Spots Giant Black Holes All Over the Early Universe | Quanta Magazine
Giant black holes were supposed to be bit players in the early cosmic story. But recent James Webb Space Telescope observations are finding an unexpected abundance of the beasts.
Mission: Interplanetary Podcast Season One - Mission: Interplanetary Podcast
All episodes from season one of the Mission: Interplanetary podcast -- groundbreaking conversations about the future of humans in space
A meta-prediction as to what the James Webb Space Telescope will see, and not see
We're about to discover that the energy which flows through the universe acts to organise the universe
Chapter 1-4: Rethinking General Relativity as 5 Dimensions of Physics - A Unifying Theory of Gravity
Many scientists have postulated that we need more dimensions to explain our observations in physics. The problem has been "Where are they?" This is my proposal of a different way of thinking about dimensions so we can perceive them, measure them, and incorporate them into our understanding of physics.
For this video, I focus on a fifth dimension of space and General Relativity. Below is a chapter outline of the video so you can skip around as needed, and at the bottom here is a list of videos I reference for further education.
A special "thank you" to my daughter who has spent the last 8 months diligently helping me put this together with editing, animations, and a lot of insight and feedback (she makes a few cameo appearances).
00:00:00 Teaser
00:00:27 Introduction
00:02:32 - Current Theories of Extra Dimensions
00:04:20 - My Proposal
00:05:36 - Setting Expectations
00:07:03 - "Thank You" to YouTube Science Content Creators
00:08:35 Chapter 1: Dimensional Concepts
00:09:38 - Dimensional Concept 1: Dimensional Stacking
00:10:11 - Dimensional Concept 2: Distance Difference
00:10:37 - Dimensional Concept 3: Dimensional Observation
00:11:21 - Dimensional Concept 4: Dimensional Geometry
00:11:59 - Dimensional Concept 5: Space vs Objects
00:12:36 - Dimensional Concept 6: Limited Dimensions
00:13:45 - Dimensional Concept 7: Distribution of Energy
00:15:11 Chapter 2: Gravity Misconceptions
00:17:50 - Misconception 1: "Gravity is a force"
00:19:25 - Misconception 2: "We 'fall' towards the Earth"
00:22:23 - Misconception 3: "The speed of light is always constant"
00:25:42 Chapter 3: The Fifth Dimension
00:26:52 - A 2D Example of Extra Dimensional Space
00:29:09 - Gravity as a 4th Dimension of Space
00:30:16 - A Bowling Ball in a Box of Jello
00:31:57 - Using 3D Space to Measure the 4th
00:33:14 - Killing "Space-Time"
00:34:12 - How to Perceive Five Dimensions
00:35:30 - The "Shape" of the 4th Spatial Dimension
00:38:39 Chapter 4: Rethinking General Relativity
00:41:20 - Counting Five Dimensions with Spatial Geometry
00:50:03 - Relating 5D to General Relativity
00:51:23 - Gabriel's Hole and the Problems with Math
00:54:34 - No More "Curved Space"
00:55:02 - Rethinking Black Holes
00:55:37 - What the Gravitational Constant Actually Represents
00:58:19 - Ramifications of Five-Dimensional Space
00:59:05 - Conclusion and What Comes Next
01:01:43 Outtakes
Some Great Science Content Creators on YouTube:
3Blue1Brown - @3blue1brown
Fermilab - @fermilab
Minute Physics - @MinutePhysics
Parth G - @ParthGChannel
Sabine Hossenfelder - @SabineHossenfelder
Science Asylum - @ScienceAsylum
Up and Atom - @upandatom
Veritasium - @veritasium
Catch Up or "Refresh" Yourself on Special and General Relativity:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScdLqAA_64E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNhJY-R3Gwg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdWMM6aXpYE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a205YJsbBSQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB1QFUCga0I
Understanding Why General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics Don't Get Along:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5foUTeRdqII
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbPWYjnQIO8
Veritasium Explains Why Gravity is Not a Force
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr1kaXKBsU
Fermilab Explains Gravitational Lensing (Light and Gravity)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Z71RtwoOas
Science Asylum Explains C vs Speed of Light
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPi1lyAx4ws
Minkowski Space-Time (Special Relativity) Explained:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFAEHKAR5hU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcZyJ7yXebQ
Up and Atom Explains The Painter's Paradox (Gabrielle's Horn):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WVpOXUXNXQ