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Les trous noirs fascinent, intriguent et défient notre compréhension de l'univers, depuis plus d'une centaine d'année... On va explorer l'origine des trous noirs, leur formation, leur évolution, et les différents types de trous noirs : trous noirs stellaires, supermassifs, voire primordiaux; mais aussi et surtout : Comment est-ce qu'ils se forment ? Grâce au télescope James Webb, des petits points rouges à plus de 13 milliards d'années-lumière pourraient bien révéler la naissance de jeunes trous noirs supermassifs ! Est-ce que les trous noirs primordiaux pourraient expliquer l'existence des plus gros monstres de gravité de l'univers ? Peut-on observer directement un trou noir ? Quelle est la différence entre un trou noir de Kerr et un trou noir de Schwarzschild ? Et surtout… comment un objet aussi extrême peut-il exister ?
In this episode, we try to wrap our minds around recent scientific and ancient philosophical questions regarding the nature of reality and infinity through the theory of nesting-doll black hole universes.
We're experimenting and would love to hear from you!In this episode of 'Discover Daily', we explore China's quantum computing breakthrough with Zuchongzhi 3.0, a 105-qubit processor that dramatically outperforms classical supercomputers. This remarkable machine completed in minutes what would take the world's fastest supercomputer billions of years, showcasing a quantum advantage 10 quadrillion times faster than traditional computing methods. The Chinese quantum processor goes head-to-head with Google's Willow chip in the ongoing global quantum race.We also dive into the emerging trend of 'vibe coding' - a revolutionary approach to software development where AI generates code based on natural language descriptions. This shift is transforming the industry, reducing developer burnout, democratizing software creation, and reshaping computer science education as developers evolve from code writers to AI collaborators and system architects.Our main story examines a stunning discovery from the James Webb Space Telescope that could support the theory that our universe exists inside a black hole. The telescope revealed that approximately 66% of early galaxies rotate clockwise - a pattern that challenges our understanding of cosmic structure. We explore 'Schwarzschild cosmology,' which proposes that our observable universe exists within a black hole in a larger universe, and discuss alternative explanations for this unexpected galactic rotation pattern.From Perplexity's Discover Feed:https://www.perplexity.ai/page/chinese-quantum-chip-rivals-wi-Q2Ff3OkQQU6oarXoYWkr2whttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/vibe-coding-s-rise-in-software-.OYRvZGhSlGYIqjRND04fAhttps://www.perplexity.ai/page/universe-may-exist-in-black-ho-8smVpPnEQjCmmvsfihoOsA**Introducing Perplexity Deep Research:**https://www.perplexity.ai/hub/blog/introducing-perplexity-deep-research Perplexity is the fastest and most powerful way to search the web. Perplexity crawls the web and curates the most relevant and up-to-date sources (from academic papers to Reddit threads) to create the perfect response to any question or topic you're interested in. Take the world's knowledge with you anywhere. Available on iOS and Android Join our growing Discord community for the latest updates and exclusive content. Follow us on: Instagram Threads X (Twitter) YouTube Linkedin
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https://www.astronomycast.com/archive/ From January 8, 2007. We're finally ready to deal with the topic you've all been waiting for: Schwarzschild swirlers, Chandrasekhar crushers, ol' matter manglers, sucking singularities… You might know them as black holes. Join us as we examine how black holes form, what they consume, and just how massive they can get. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
How much more physics is out there to be discovered? Neil deGrasse Tyson sits down with physicist, professor, and rockstar Brian Cox, to discuss everything from the Higgs boson, life beyond our planet, and the fundamental forces that guide our universe.NOTE: StarTalk+ Patrons can listen to this entire episode commercial-free here: https://startalkmedia.com/show/our-world-of-particles-with-brian-cox/Thanks to our Patrons Anthony Sclafani, Alejandro Arriola-Flores, Brian Christensen, Allen Baker, Atlanta Gamer, Nigel Gandy, Gene, Lisa Mettler, Daniel Johansson, Sunny Malhotra, Omar Marcelino, yoyodave, Mo TheRain, William Wilson, ChrissyK, David, Prabakar Venkataraman, PiaThanos22, BlackPiano, Radak Bence, Obaid Mohammadi, the1eagleman1, Scott Openlander, Brandon Micucci, Anastasios Kotoros, Thomas Ha, Phillip Thompson, Bojemo, Kenan Brooks, jmamblat@duck.com, TartarXO, Trinnie Schley, Davidson Zetrenne, and William Kramer for supporting us this week. Subscribe to SiriusXM Podcasts+ on Apple Podcasts to listen to new episodes ad-free and a whole week early.
L'étude du mouvement orbital des étoiles autour de Sagittarius A au centre de la Galaxie offre une opportunité unique de sonder le potentiel gravitationnel à proximité du trou noir supermassif au cœur de notre Galaxie. Les données interférométriques obtenues avec l'instrument GRAVITY du Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) depuis 2016 ont permis d'atteindre une précision sans précédent dans le suivi des orbites de ces étoiles. Les données de GRAVITY ont notamment été essentielles pour détecter la précession de Schwarzschild prograde dans le plan de l'orbite de l'étoile S2, qui était prédite par la relativité générale. En combinant les données astrométriques et spectroscopiques de plusieurs étoiles, dont S2, S29, S38 et S55, pour lesquelles on dispose de données sur leur temps de passage au péricentre avec GRAVITY, on peut désormais renforcer la signification statistique de cette détection à un niveau de confiance d'environ 10σ...Et la précession prograde de l'orbite de S2 fournit des informations précieuses sur la présence potentielle d'une distribution de masse qui serait étendue autour de Sagittarius A, et qui pourrait consister en une population stellaire dynamiquement détendue comprenant de vieilles étoiles et des restes stellaires, ainsi qu'un éventuel pic de matière noire. La collaboration GRAVITY a effectuée de nouvelles mesures ultra-précises des orbites de plusieurs étoiles autour de Sgr A pour déterminer des contraintes sur cette masse encore invisible qui se situerait entre le trou noir supermassif et l'étoile S2, la plus proche de Sgr A. Ils publient leurs résultats dans Astronomy&Astrophysics. Source Improving constraints on the extended mass distribution in the Galactic center with stellar orbitsGRAVITY CollaborationAstronomy&Astrophysics 692, A242 (17 December 2024)https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202452274 Illustrations Image du centre galactique et localisation de l'étoile S2 par rapport à Sgr A* (ESO) Groupe des étoiles S en orbite autour d'un point invisible (John Kormendy) Trajectoire des 11 étoiles S utilisées par la collaboration GRAVITY (GRAVITY Collaboration)
Abbonati a questo canale per accedere ai vantaggi: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-LnXkuCFTPEQn-owYDa3KA/join Il motore a buchi neri è una teoria avanzata di propulsione spaziale che sfrutta le proprietà di un buco nero per generare energia. Secondo questa ipotesi, un minuscolo buco nero creato artificialmente potrebbe essere utilizzato per alimentare un'astronave. Il concetto si basa sulla radiazione di Hawking, un fenomeno teorizzato da Stephen Hawking, in cui i buchi neri emettono particelle energetiche a causa delle fluttuazioni quantistiche vicino alla singolarità. Questa radiazione potrebbe essere convertita in energia per il motore a razzo. Il raggio di Schwarzschild definisce il confine del buco nero oltre il quale niente può sfuggire, nemmeno la luce. Tuttavia, se il buco nero fosse abbastanza piccolo, la sua radiazione di Hawking sarebbe più intensa, rendendolo una potenziale fonte di energia. Il motore a buchi neri potrebbe superare i limiti dei propulsori ionici, della propulsione nucleare o al plasma, aprendo la strada alla propulsione a curvatura, consentendo viaggi interstellari. Questo concetto di propulsione spaziale va oltre le tecnologie attuali come la propulsione aerospaziale e il motore antimateria, che sfrutta l'interazione tra antimateria e materia. Sebbene ancora teorico, scienziati come Amedeo Balbi stanno esplorando le possibilità di queste idee visionarie. __________________
Chris Lehto explores groundbreaking ideas in physics that suggest a deep connection between everything in the universe. From Einstein's forgotten theories to Dirac's Large Number Hypothesis, he breaks down complex concepts like the Schwarzschild metric, Hubble's law, and Mach's principle to argue that the universe is a unified system. Discover how these "coincidences" in physics reveal that we are all connected through fundamental forces, offering new insights into the nature of consciousness and the cosmos.Podcast published on 17 Sept 2024.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/lehto-files-investigating-uaps--5990774/support.
Ivette Fuentes is a leading theoretical physicist specializing in quantum information and quantum gravity, holding a PhD from Imperial College London. Ivette is currently collaborating with Sir Roger Penrose on groundbreaking research exploring the intersection of quantum mechanics and general relativity, particularly focusing on the role of quantum effects in the nature of spacetime. Get a 20% discount on The Economist's annual digital subscriptions at https://www.economist.com/TOE YouTube Link: https://youtu.be/cUj2TcZSlZc Become a YouTube Member Here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) Join TOEmail at https://www.curtjaimungal.org Episode Links: - Curt on Julian Dorey's podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1mKNGo9JLQ - Ivette's first paper on Seyfert galaxies: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/311925/pdf - Ivette's paper (Alice falls into a black hole): https://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/0410172 - Part 1 of Ivette's papers on confined quantum scalar fields: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.10507 - Multiverse Ivette Fuentes: Roger Penrose on LIGO controversy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoR_WbACfPo - Women in Maths - Ivette Fuentes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5ASV7NWn38 Presentation Links: - Spacetime effects on satellite-based quantum communications: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.3088 - Testing the effects of gravity and motion on quantum entanglement in space-based experiments: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.1933 - Resolving the gravitational redshift within a millimeter atomic sample: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.12238 - Motion and gravity effects in the precision of quantum clocks: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.4235 - Gravitational time dilation in extended quantum systems: the case of light clocks in Schwarzschild spacetime: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2204.07869 - Exploring the unification of quantum theory and general relativity with a Bose-Einstein condensate: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.04630 - A trapped atom interferometer with ultracold Sr atoms: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.06092 Quantum Frequency Interferometry: with applications ranging from gravitational wave detection to dark matter searches: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.02618 Timestamps: 00:00 - Intro 01:20 - Unification in Physics 04:15 - Ivette's Background 21:00 - Fundamental Questions Unanswered 23:54 - Quantum Theory and Relativity 30:17 - Superpositions 33:49 - Using Technology to Develop New Theories 39:08 - Exploring Large and Small Scales 48:32 - Long Range Experiments / Quantum Teleportation 57:36 - Quantum Clocks 01:06:46 - Relativistic Quantum Clock Model 01:13:57 - Does Gravity Collapse the Superposition? 01:17:18 - Where the Field is Now 01:22:04 - Bose-Einstein Condenstate 01:26:11 - New Device: Atom Interferometer 01:37:38 - Testing Ivette's Predictions 01:38:53 - Outro / Support TOE Support TOE: - Patreon: https://patreon.com/curtjaimungal (early access to ad-free audio episodes!) - Crypto: https://tinyurl.com/cryptoTOE - PayPal: https://tinyurl.com/paypalTOE - TOE Merch: https://tinyurl.com/TOEmerch Follow TOE: - NEW Get my 'Top 10 TOEs' PDF + Weekly Personal Updates: https://www.curtjaimungal.org - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theoriesofeverythingpod - TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@theoriesofeverything_ - Twitter: https://twitter.com/TOEwithCurt - Discord Invite: https://discord.com/invite/kBcnfNVwqs - iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/better-left-unsaid-with-curt-jaimungal/id1521758802 - Pandora: https://pdora.co/33b9lfP - Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/4gL14b92xAErofYQA7bU4e - Subreddit r/TheoriesOfEverything: https://reddit.com/r/theoriesofeverything Join this channel to get access to perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdWIQh9DGG6uhJk8eyIFl1w/join #science Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The 365 Days of Astronomy, the daily podcast of the International Year of Astronomy 2009
From Jan 8, 2007. We're finally ready to deal with the topic you've all been waiting for: Schwarzschild swirlers, Chandrasekhar crushers, ol' matter manglers, sucking singularities… You might know them as black holes. Join as we examine how black holes form, what they consume, and just how massive they can get. We've added a new way to donate to 365 Days of Astronomy to support editing, hosting, and production costs. Just visit: https://www.patreon.com/365DaysOfAstronomy and donate as much as you can! Share the podcast with your friends and send the Patreon link to them too! Every bit helps! Thank you! ------------------------------------ Do go visit http://www.redbubble.com/people/CosmoQuestX/shop for cool Astronomy Cast and CosmoQuest t-shirts, coffee mugs and other awesomeness! http://cosmoquest.org/Donate This show is made possible through your donations. Thank you! (Haven't donated? It's not too late! Just click!) ------------------------------------ The 365 Days of Astronomy Podcast is produced by the Planetary Science Institute. http://www.psi.edu Visit us on the web at 365DaysOfAstronomy.org or email us at info@365DaysOfAstronomy.org.
Continuing our series on General Relativity, we discuss the derivation of the Schwarzschild metric as a vacuum solution to Einstein's Field Equations, and analyse the physical meaning of this solution, including the properties of the singularity, event horizon, and effects of time dilation and length compression. We then consider how solutions like the Schwarzschild metric yield testable predictions such as gravitational lensing and graviational redshift, which serve as important evidence in support of General Relativity. We conclude with a discussion about some of the more exotic aspects of black holes, including Hawking radiation, the no hair theorem, and the black hole information loss paradox. Recommended pre-listening is Episode 136: Introduction to General Relativity. If you enjoyed the podcast please consider supporting the show by making a PayPal donation or becoming a Patreon supporter. https://www.patreon.com/jamesfodor https://www.paypal.me/ScienceofEverything
Karl Schwarzschild musste nicht erst als Mathe- und Physiktalent entdeckt werden! Schon in der Schule wurde er der "Kleine-Gauß" genannt und veröffentlichte seine erste Wissenschaftliche Arbeit als Teenager. Als Student wusste er allerdings, nicht nur zu forschen, sondern auch zu feiern, was zu manch lustiger Anekdote führte. Seine wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten erklärten Schwarze Löcher und bezogen sich auf die Relativitätstheorie von Albert Einstein. Doch dieser Erfolg fand während des ersten Weltkrieges ein bitteres Ende. Hier erfahrt ihr mehr zu Schwarzschilds Leben und seinen Forschungen: bit.ly/3w9nVGh Unser Werbepartner ist heute die Universität des Saarlandes: Forschung für alle – mach mit und studiere an der UdS! Starte schon während des Studiums deine Karriere in der Forschung. Wähle aus über 100 Studienfächern und profitiere von vielen Zusatzangeboten, die deine wissenschaftlichen Skills nach vorne bringen: www.uni-saarland.de/zukunft/forschung Willkommen zu unserem True Science-Podcast! Wir reden über die absurden, irren, romantischen und verworrenen Geschichten hinter Entdeckungen und Erfindungen. Denn in der Wissenschaft gibt es jede Menge Gossip! Wir erzählen zum Beispiel, wie die Erfinderin des heutigen Schwangerschaftstests mit Hilfe einer Büroklammerbox den Durchbruch schaffte, oder wie eine Hollywood-Schauspielerin den Grundstein für unser heutiges WLAN legte. Immer samstags - am Science-Samstag. Wir, das sind Marie Eickhoff und Luisa Pfeiffenschneider. Wir haben Wissenschaftsjournalismus studiert und die Zeit im Labor schon immer lieber zum Quatschen genutzt. Schreibt uns: podcast@behindscience.de I Instagram: @behindscience.podcast Wir sind übrigens ein offizieller #WissPod, gelistet im Reiseführer für Wissenschaftspodcasts: https://bitly.ws/3eGBW Hinweis: Werbespots in dieser Folge erfolgen automatisiert. Wir haben keinen Einfluss auf die Auswahl. Vermarktung: Julep Media GmbH | Grafikdesign: Mara Strieder | Sprecherin: Madeleine Sabel | Fotos: Fatima Talalini
La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy:Cara A:-Aclaraciones: colapso de la AMOC; transformación entre Kerr y Schwarzschild (4:00)-Amautas cumple 3 años (12:00)-Premios Fronteras del Conocimiento: Claire Voisin y Yakov Eliashberg (22:00)-Un transistor neuromórfico basado en materiales de moiré (35:00)Este episodio continúa en la Cara B.Contertulios: Jose Edelstein, Francis Villatoro, Héctor Socas. Imagen de portada realizada con Midjourney. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace... y a veces ni eso Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Heute geht es um die mögliche Existenz von schwarzen Löchern, aber komplett ohne Ereignishorizont. Sogenannte nackte Singularitäten, die eine kosmische Zensur durch Ereignishorizonte verhindern würden. Wie immer überall, wo es Podcasts gibt. Viel Vergnügen! #cosmiccensorship #schwarzesloch #blackhole #hawkings #einstein #schwarzschild ********** Anmerkungen, Fragen, Kritik oder interessante Themenvorschläge bitte an physikgeplaenkel@gmail.com ********** Unsere Instragram Seite: https://www.instagram.com/physikgeplaenkel/ Unsere Facebook Seite: https://www.facebook.com/Physik-Geplänkel-1153934681433003/ Unser Youtube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCD1CT-nTdEagwMF16P6gIKQ/ Folgt uns unter "Physik-Geplänkel" auf Spotify, iTunes, Deezer, PocketCasts oder als Amazon Alexa Skill. Oder am besten direkt unter https://physik-geplaenkel.podigee.io/
In dieser Folge widmen wir uns dem faszinierenden und gleichzeitig kopfzerbrechenden Thema der Schwarzen Löcher. Begleite uns auf einer spannenden Reise durch die bahnbrechenden Theorien und Beobachtungen, die unser Verständnis von Schwarzen Löchern revolutioniert haben. Tauche ein in die skurrilen Konzepte von Raumzeitkrümmung, Singularitäten und Ereignishorizonten und entdecke, wie diese extremen Bedingungen die Naturgesetze auf die Probe stellen und unsere Vorstellungskraft herausfordern.Erfahre mehr über die verschiedenen Kategorien von Schwarzen Löchern, angefangen von den stellaren Schwarzen Löchern bis hin zu den gigantischen supermassiven Schwarzen Löchern, die das Zentrum von Galaxien dominieren. Wir werfen auch einen Blick auf die berühmte Hawking-Strahlung, ein faszinierendes Konzept, das von Stephen Hawking entwickelt wurde.
Die Sternwarte in Göttingen gehörte rund zwei Jahrhunderte lang zu den führenden der Welt. Ihre ruhmreiche Geschichte ist vor allem mit drei Personen verbunden: Tobias Mayer, Carl Friedrich Gauß und Karl Schwarzschild.Lorenzen, Dirkwww.deutschlandfunk.de, SternzeitDirekter Link zur Audiodatei
Several dozen years ago, even science fiction couldn't imagine the existence of black holes in the Universe, and now their presence is recognized by the scientific community. Black holes are so good at producing energy that some scientists want to power spaceships with them. Super-dense stellar black holes can squeeze several times the mass of the Sun into a city-sized area. Sometimes black holes ‘spit out' planet-sized objects at 20 million miles per hour! Interested? How about learning some cool facts about black holes and, by the way, look at how small or large they can be? Well, scientists measure black holes by their Schwarzschild radius – the distance from where its gravity starts and the 'hole' itself. Our smallest black hole has a 7-mile radius. Number 2 is just 8 miles. Little black holes like this one can only be spotted when they 'eat' the material of passing stars. Big black holes can produce enough material to create new stars, which form outside their parent galaxy. And guys, black holes can be really, really big... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Constraints on Yukawa gravity parameters from observations of bright stars by P. Jovanović et al. on Thursday 24 November In this paper we investigate a Yukawa gravity modification of the Newtonian gravitational potential in a weak field approximation. For that purpose we derived the corresponding equations of motion and used them to perform two-body simulations of the stellar orbits. In 2020 the GRAVITY Collaboration detected the orbital precession of the S2 star around the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the Galactic Center (GC) and showed that it is close to the general relativity (GR) prediction. Using this observational fact, we evaluated parameters of the Yukawa gravity (the range of Yukawa interaction $Lambda$ and universal constant $delta$) with the Schwarzschild precession of the S-stars assuming that the observed Schwarzschild precession will be equal to their GR estimates. GR provides the most natural way to fit observational data for S-star orbits, however, their precessions can be fitted by Yukawa gravity. Our main goal was to study the possible influence of the strength of Yukawa interaction, i.e. the universal constant $delta$, on the precessions of S-star orbits. We analyze S-star orbits assuming different strength of Yukawa interaction $delta$ and find that this parameter has strong influence on range of Yukawa interaction $Lambda$. Using MCMC simulations we obtain the best-fit values and uncertanties of Yukawa gravity parameters for S-stars. Also, we introduce a new criterion which can be used for classification of gravitational systems in this type of gravity, according to their scales. We demonstrated that performed analysis of the observed S-stars orbits around the GC in the frame of the Yukawa gravity represent a tool for constraining the Yukawa gravity parameters and probing the predictions of gravity theories. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12951v1
Constraints on Yukawa gravity parameters from observations of bright stars by P. Jovanović et al. on Wednesday 23 November In this paper we investigate a Yukawa gravity modification of the Newtonian gravitational potential in a weak field approximation. For that purpose we derived the corresponding equations of motion and used them to perform two-body simulations of the stellar orbits. In 2020 the GRAVITY Collaboration detected the orbital precession of the S2 star around the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the Galactic Center (GC) and showed that it is close to the general relativity (GR) prediction. Using this observational fact, we evaluated parameters of the Yukawa gravity (the range of Yukawa interaction $Lambda$ and universal constant $delta$) with the Schwarzschild precession of the S-stars assuming that the observed Schwarzschild precession will be equal to their GR estimates. GR provides the most natural way to fit observational data for S-star orbits, however, their precessions can be fitted by Yukawa gravity. Our main goal was to study the possible influence of the strength of Yukawa interaction, i.e. the universal constant $delta$, on the precessions of S-star orbits. We analyze S-star orbits assuming different strength of Yukawa interaction $delta$ and find that this parameter has strong influence on range of Yukawa interaction $Lambda$. Using MCMC simulations we obtain the best-fit values and uncertanties of Yukawa gravity parameters for S-stars. Also, we introduce a new criterion which can be used for classification of gravitational systems in this type of gravity, according to their scales. We demonstrated that performed analysis of the observed S-stars orbits around the GC in the frame of the Yukawa gravity represent a tool for constraining the Yukawa gravity parameters and probing the predictions of gravity theories. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12951v1
Modelling the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole binaries in gas-rich galaxy mergers by Shihong Liao et al. on Wednesday 23 November We introduce a new model for the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries to the KETJU code, which enables us to resolve the evolution of SMBH binaries down to separations of tens of Schwarzschild radii in gas-rich galaxy mergers. Our subgrid binary accretion model extends the widely used Bondi--Hoyle--Lyttleton accretion into the binary phase and incorporates preferential mass accretion onto the secondary SMBH, which is motivated by results from small-scale hydrodynamical circumbinary disc simulations. We perform idealised gas-rich disc galaxy merger simulations using pure thermal or pure kinetic active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback. Our binary accretion model provides more physically motivated SMBH mass ratios, which are one of the key parameters for computing gravitational wave (GW) induced recoil velocities. The merger time-scales of our simulated SMBH binaries are in the range $t_{rm merge}{sim} 10$--$400$ Myr. Prograde in-plane equal-mass galaxy mergers lead to the shortest merger time-scales, as they experience the strongest starbursts, with the ensuing high stellar density resulting in a rapid SMBH coalescence. Compared to the thermal AGN feedback, the kinetic AGN feedback predicts longer merger time-scales and results in more core-like stellar profiles, as it is more effective in removing gas from the galaxy centre and quenching star formation. This suggests that the AGN feedback implementation plays a critical role in modelling SMBH coalescences. Our model will be useful for improving the modelling of SMBH mergers in gas-rich galaxies, the prime targets for the upcoming LISA GW observatory. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11788v1
Modelling the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole binaries in gas-rich galaxy mergers by Shihong Liao et al. on Tuesday 22 November We introduce a new model for the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries to the KETJU code, which enables us to resolve the evolution of SMBH binaries down to separations of tens of Schwarzschild radii in gas-rich galaxy mergers. Our subgrid binary accretion model extends the widely used Bondi--Hoyle--Lyttleton accretion into the binary phase and incorporates preferential mass accretion onto the secondary SMBH, which is motivated by results from small-scale hydrodynamical circumbinary disc simulations. We perform idealised gas-rich disc galaxy merger simulations using pure thermal or pure kinetic active galactic nuclei (AGN) feedback. Our binary accretion model provides more physically motivated SMBH mass ratios, which are one of the key parameters for computing gravitational wave (GW) induced recoil velocities. The merger time-scales of our simulated SMBH binaries are in the range $t_{rm merge}{sim} 10$--$400$ Myr. Prograde in-plane equal-mass galaxy mergers lead to the shortest merger time-scales, as they experience the strongest starbursts, with the ensuing high stellar density resulting in a rapid SMBH coalescence. Compared to the thermal AGN feedback, the kinetic AGN feedback predicts longer merger time-scales and results in more core-like stellar profiles, as it is more effective in removing gas from the galaxy centre and quenching star formation. This suggests that the AGN feedback implementation plays a critical role in modelling SMBH coalescences. Our model will be useful for improving the modelling of SMBH mergers in gas-rich galaxies, the prime targets for the upcoming LISA GW observatory. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.11788v1
Gravitational lensing of pulsars as a probe of dark matter halos by Francesca von Braun-Bates. on Wednesday 12 October A particular open problem in cosmology is whether dark matter on small scales is clumpy, forming gravitationally-bound halos distributed within the Galaxy. The practical difficulties inherent in testing this hypothesis stem from the fact that, on astrophysical scales, dark matter is solely observable via its gravitational interaction with other objects. This thesis presents a gravitational-lensing-based solution for the mapping and characterisation of low-mass, dark matter halos via their signature in millisecond pulsar observations. This involves: first, determining the time delay and magnification surfaces generated in the frame of reference of the halo; second, obtaining the corresponding pulsar signature in the reference frame of the observer; and last, generalising the method to multiple halos at varying distances. We discuss whether the delay is observationally detectable for both single and multiple lenses. The key dependency of the time delay is the density profile adopted for the halo. I utilise a variety of proposed halo mass profiles -- elliptical, Schwarzschild, horizontal-disc lenses and the Navarro-Frenk-White (NFW) density profile -- which are applicable over a broad range of halo masses. I demonstrate the use of Hankel transforms to increase the efficiency of the relativistic time delay calculation. The observational signatures of such halos are best identified using millisecond pulsars due to their high rotational frequencies and period stability. My method does not require major adjustments when searching for signs of lensing, thus it is unnecessary to implement specialist data reduction pipelines. Thus we can leverage data from both existing and future surveys easily. This method is readily extensible to nearby globular clusters and galaxies, pending improvements in pulsar detection at such distances. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.06151v1
Collimation of the relativistic jet in the quasar 3C 273 by Hiroki Okino et al. on Monday 10 October The collimation of relativistic jets launched from the vicinity of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of active galactic nuclei (AGN) is one of the key questions to understand the nature of AGN jets. However, little is known about the detailed jet structure for AGN like quasars since very high angular resolutions are required to resolve these objects. We present very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the archetypical quasar 3C 273 at 86 GHz, performed with the Global Millimeter VLBI Array, for the first time including the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array. Our observations achieve a high angular resolution down to $sim$60 ${rm mu}$as, resolving the innermost part of the jet ever on scales of $sim 10^5$ Schwarzschild radii. Our observations, including close-in-time High Sensitivity Array observations of 3C 273 at 15, 22, and 43 GHz, suggest that the inner jet collimates parabolically, while the outer jet expands conically, similar to jets from other nearby low luminosity AGN. We discovered the jet collimation break around $10^{7}$ Schwarzschild radii, providing the first compelling evidence for structural transition in a quasar jet. The location of the collimation break for 3C 273 is farther downstream the sphere of gravitational influence (SGI) from the central SMBH. With the results for other AGN jets, our results show that the end of the collimation zone in AGN jets is governed not only by the SGI of the SMBH but also by the more diverse properties of the central nuclei. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2112.12233v2
Orbital motion near Sagittarius A* -- Constraints from polarimetric ALMA observations by Maciek Wielgus et al. on Wednesday 21 September We report on the polarized light curves of the Galactic Center supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, obtained at millimeter wavelength with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). The observations took place as a part of the Event Horizon Telescope campaign. We compare the observations taken during the low variability source state on 2017 Apr 6 and 7 with those taken immediately after the X-ray flare on 2017 Apr 11. For the latter case, we observe rotation of the electric vector position angle with a timescale of $sim 70$ min. We interpret this rotation as a signature of the equatorial clockwise orbital motion of a hot spot embedded in a magnetic field dominated by a dynamically important vertical component, observed at a low inclination $sim20^circ$. The hot spot radiates strongly polarized synchrotron emission, briefly dominating the linear polarization measured by ALMA in the unresolved source. Our simple emission model captures the overall features of the polarized light curves remarkably well. Assuming a Keplerian orbit, we find the hot spot orbital radius to be $sim$ 5 Schwarzschild radii. We observe hints of a positive black hole spin, that is, a prograde hot spot motion. Accounting for the rapidly varying rotation measure, we estimate the projected on-sky axis of the angular momentum of the hot spot to be $sim 60^circ$ east of north, with a 180$^circ$ ambiguity. These results suggest that the accretion structure in Sgr A* is a magnetically arrested disk rotating clockwise. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09926v1
Samuil Kaplan and the development of astrophysical research at the Lviv University dedicated to the 100th anniversary of his birth by Bohdan Novosyadlyj et al. on Tuesday 20 September Samuil Kaplan (1921-1978) was a productive and famous astrophysicist. He was affiliated with a number of scientific centers in different cities of former Soviet Union. The earliest 13 years of his career, namely in the 1948-1961 years, he worked in Lviv University in Ukraine (then it was called the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic). In the present paper, the Lviv period of his life and scientific activity is described on the basis of archival materials and his published studies. Kaplan arrived in Lviv in June 1948, at the same month when he obtained the degree of Candidate of science. He was a head of the astrophysics sector at the Astronomical Observatory of the University, was a professor of department for theoretical physics as well as the founder and head of a station for optical observations of artificial satellites of Earth. He was active in the organization of the astronomical observational site outside of the city. During the years in Lviv, Kaplan wrote more than 80 articles and 3 monographs in 9 areas. The focus of his interests at that time was on stability of circular orbits in the Schwarzschild field, on white dwarf theory, on space gas dynamics, and cosmic plasma physics, and turbulence, on acceleration of cosmic rays, on physics of interstellar medium, on physics and evolution of stars, on cosmology and gravitation, and on optical observations of Earth artificial satellites. Some of his results are fundamental for development of theory in these fields as well as of observational techniques. The complete bibliography of his works published during the Lviv period is presented. Respective scientific achievements of Samuil Kaplan are reviewed in the light of the current state of research in these areas. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.09494v1
“Rejoice with me for I have found my sheep that was lost” (Lk. 15). Jeremiah 4:11-12, 22-28 Psalm 14 1 Timothy 1:12-17 Luke 15:1-10 Mark Johnson and George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By is one of my favorite books. These authors point out that simple unexamined metaphors lie behind the very structure of our thought. The idea of “argument as war” is an example. We talk about winning an argument, an indefensible position, being right on target, shooting down an assumption, etc. We could imagine another culture regarding argument as being more like a kind of dance.[i] Today Jesus addresses two primal understandings of religion that deeply influenced the people of his society and our own. The first is the idea of a spiritual quest, a search for God. The second idea is that of church as a community of saints set apart from the world. Jesus upsets assumptions that lie so deep in our consciousness that we simply assume that this is just what life in God means. The spiritual quest. On December 24, 1915 Albert Einstein was drinking tea in his Berlin apartment when he received a crumpled, muddy, blood-stained letter from the trenches of World War I. It contained a message from the great genius and astronomer Karl Schwarzschild (1873-1916). Let me quote the letter's final words. “As you see, the war treated me kindly enough, in spite of heavy gunfire, to allow me to get away from it all and take this walk in the land of your ideas.”[ii] The letter astounded Einstein not simply because one of the most respected scientists in Germany was commanding an artillery unit on the Russian front, or because of the author's fear of a coming catastrophe. In tiny print on the back page, only legible through the use of a magnifying glass, Schwarzschild had sent him the first exact solution to the Einstein field equations of general relativity. Schwarzschild's approach worked well on a normal star which you might imagine as being like a bowling ball sitting on your bed and gently compressing the space around it. The problem arises when a large star exhausts its fuel and collapses. That star would keep compressing until the force of gravity grew to be so great that space would become infinitely curved and closed in on itself. The result would be, “an inescapable abyss permanently cut off from the rest of the universe.” Out of a sense of duty and perhaps also to show that a faithful Jew could be a good German, Schwarzschild volunteered to serve in the war. During a mustard gas attack he helped two of his men put on masks. Slow to put on his own, this exposure may have been what initiated an autoimmune disorder that painfully covered his body with sores and killed him months later. At first Schwarzschild dismissed his discovery as a kind of mathematical anomaly, but over time it began to really frighten him. In his last letter from Russia to his wife he wrote that this idea, “has an irrepressible force and darkens all my thoughts. It is a void without form or dimension, a shadow I can't see, but one that I can feel with the entirety of my soul.” A young man named Richard Courant stayed up talking with Schwarzschild on the night before he died. Schwarzschild told him that this concentration of mass would distort space and causality.[iii] The true horror was that since light would never escape from it, this singularity was unknowable, utterly unchanging, entirely isolated from everything else. Schwarzschild was one of the first people to contemplate the meaning of a black hole.[iv] But all of us are quite capable of imagining a place completely cut off from God. In fact most of us have been there. Isolation can feel terrifying. Perhaps you feel misunderstood, or set apart by a secret, or by experiences that makes you different from the people around you. Maybe you believe that something that you did in the past simply cannot be forgiven or that you have been harmed and cannot be healed. Perhaps just the busyness of your life, or the loneliness of it, makes real connection with another person impossible. Or maybe you just feel that you are missing something that others have, that you are cut off from God. The religious leaders of Jesus' time see him sharing meals with deplorable, notoriously immoral people, with prostitutes and the tax collectors who collaborate with the Roman army. They often point out that these people haven't really changed or repented. They wonder if Jesus is incurably naïve. They argue that someone who was from God would have the wisdom to realize how bad these people really are. In response Jesus tells three stories. One is about a wealthy shepherd who leaves ninety-nine sheep to find one in the wilderness. “When he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders and rejoices” (Lk. 15). Another is about a woman sweeping the whole house to find a coin and concludes saying, “There is joy in the presence of the angels over one sinner who repents.” The last is the story of the Prodigal Son. In other words Jesus takes our dominant metaphor of a spiritual quest and turns it on its head. Religion is not about seeking God. It is about God's persistence in finding us. It is about overcoming separation and the joy of reunion. As a young management consultant one of my closest friends in our Santa Monica office was a young engineer named Walid Iskandar. Walid had grown up in Lebanon during the 1970's. He was a deeply sincere, thoughtful and fun person with a kind of mischievous smile that I can still see in my mind's eye. In college I played rugby with a young freshman who was still trying to figure out the game. His name was Mark Bingham. What these two friends of mine share in common is that they both lost their lives twenty one years ago today when terrorists hijacked their airplanes. In my imagination they are perpetually young. In their last moments, despite the confusion and fear, I believe that God was with them. In 2018 twelve boys on a soccer team with their coach found themselves trapped deep below the earth in a labyrinthine network of flooded caves in Thailand. As the monsoon season progressed it seemed impossible to nearly everyone in the world that they would be saved. Cave divers from England talked about not being able to see their hands in front of their masks, of wriggling through impossibly narrow spaces again and again unsure of the way out. I will never forget that image of the diver emerging from the water and the amazement on the boys' faces that they had been found. This joy at being discovered lies at the heart of faith. The second idea that Jesus overturns is that the church exists as a community of holy people set apart from the world. You see this in the conviction that you must first think, say, or do something before you can be acceptable to God. A few weeks ago a very close friend went to the funeral of her father. At the end of the service, the very last words that the pastor spoke went something like this. “Pat was a great husband, father, lawyer and community leader. But until Pat found Jesus and accepted him in his heart, he was a sinner. Only through the sacrifice of Jesus are we cleansed from sin. No matter how hard you might try to be good, until you have accepted Jesus you are a sinner.” Jesus completely overturns this picture of how to be in God. It's not that you become good and then God helps you. Instead, God helps us so that we can be healed. The critics of Jesus feel offended by his connection to the people who break the rules. And Jesus tells them, “these are exactly the people I came to help. God's love is abundant and overflowing. God will always persist in finding those who are lost.” The point is that God's love and mercy always comes before anything else. We do not first accept Jesus in our heart and then become free from sin. The church is not a community of former sinners, but of actively sinning sinners. God does not reward us for living well or believing something, God makes living well and faith itself possible by loving us back to life. Today we celebrate Congregation Sunday and our calling as a unique people of God. There is no other community quite like this one and I love who we are. But let me be perfectly clear, we have not stopped screwing up. And yet we are loved by God anyway. Although we continue to slip up, we keep encountering God's grace. This makes us a joyful community of people who against all odds God has found in the way that God is finding all people. Let me close with a poem by Denise Levertov about this peace that passes all understanding. It's called “The Avowal.” “As swimmers dare / to lie face to the sky / and water bears them, / as hawks rest upon air / and air sustains them, / so would I learn to attain / freefall, and float / into Creator Spirit's deep embrace, / knowing no effort earns / that all-surrounding grace.”[v] In the face of isolation, everyday cruelty and sudden death what metaphor are we going to live by? Will we choose to see our life as a spiritual quest or as the experience of being found by God? Are we the holy ones or lost souls grateful every day to be found by God. My friends rejoice with me. [i] George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980) 3-7. [ii] Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World tr. Adrian Nathan West (New York: The New York Review of Books, 2020) 34ff. See also “Karl Schwarzschild” on Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Schwarzschild [iii] A hypothetical traveler capable of surviving a journey into a black hole would receive light and information from the future. [iv] And the frightening question asked by this dying man was that if such a thing exists in nature, could there be something like this in the human psyche. Could a concentration of human will cause millions to be exploited so that the laws of human relations no longer held? Schwarzschild feared that this was already happening in Germany. [v] Denise Levertov, “The Avowal.” https://allpoetry.com/The-Avowal
Gravitational Lensing in a Universe with matter and Cosmological Constant by Pedro Bessa et al. on Sunday 11 September We extend the results obtained in cite{Piattella_2016, mcvittie_2015} for gravitational lensing in the McVittie metric by including the effect of the transition from the matter-dominated epoch of the Universe to the $Lambda$-dominated era. We derive a formula that agrees with the previous results for the McVittie metric at lowest order, and compare the lensing angle predictions obtained from the Schwarzschild approximation, the McVittie model and higher order corrections to the McVittie model. In doing this, we test if, beyond the correction from the accelerated expansion of the Universe, there is a need for including the matter content of the Universe in modeling lens systems at the redshifts observerd in lens systems. We investigate if there is a need for a modification of the lens equation from these corrections, and if so, to which order and whether it is measurable. We find that while the effect is of the same order as the one calculated previously, there is no significant contribution to the bending angle, as the 1st order effect is already of order $mathcal{O}(theta_O^4)$ in the observed angle. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.04063v1
Design and upgrade of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope by Leslie Taylor. on Wednesday 07 September The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times faster than current arrays, enabling valuable multiwavelength and multimessenger observations. The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a candidate for the Medium-Sized telescope in CTA. A prototype SCT (pSCT) has been constructed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona USA. Its camera is currently partially instrumented with 1600 pixels (2.7 degree FOV). The small plate scale of the optical system allows densely packed silicon photomultipliers to be used, which combined with high-density trigger and waveform readout electronics enable the high-resolution camera. The camera's electronics are capable of imaging air shower development with waveform readout with nanosecond resolution. The pSCT was inaugurated in January 2019, with commissioning continuing throughout that year. The first campaign of observations with the pSCT was conducted in January and February of 2020. Gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula was detected with a significance of 8.6 sigma. An upgrade to the pSCT camera is currently underway. The upgrade will fully populate the focal plane, increasing the field of view to 8 degrees diameter, and lower the front-end electronics noise, enabling a lower trigger threshold and improved reconstruction and background rejection. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02680v1
Design and upgrade of the prototype Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope by Leslie Taylor. on Wednesday 07 September The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) is the next-generation ground-based observatory for very-high energy gamma-ray astronomy. CTA will have unparalleled sensitivity and angular resolution and will detect gamma-ray sources nearly 100 times faster than current arrays, enabling valuable multiwavelength and multimessenger observations. The Schwarzschild-Couder Telescope (SCT) is a candidate for the Medium-Sized telescope in CTA. A prototype SCT (pSCT) has been constructed at the Fred Lawrence Whipple Observatory in Arizona USA. Its camera is currently partially instrumented with 1600 pixels (2.7 degree FOV). The small plate scale of the optical system allows densely packed silicon photomultipliers to be used, which combined with high-density trigger and waveform readout electronics enable the high-resolution camera. The camera's electronics are capable of imaging air shower development with waveform readout with nanosecond resolution. The pSCT was inaugurated in January 2019, with commissioning continuing throughout that year. The first campaign of observations with the pSCT was conducted in January and February of 2020. Gamma-ray emission from the Crab Nebula was detected with a significance of 8.6 sigma. An upgrade to the pSCT camera is currently underway. The upgrade will fully populate the focal plane, increasing the field of view to 8 degrees diameter, and lower the front-end electronics noise, enabling a lower trigger threshold and improved reconstruction and background rejection. arXiv: http://arxiv.org/abs/http://arxiv.org/abs/2209.02680v1
Richard Easther is a scientist, teacher, and communicator. He has been a Professor of Physics at the University of Auckland for over the last 10 years and was previously a professor of physics at Yale University. As a scientist, Richard covers ground that crosses particle physics, cosmology, astrophysics and astronomy, and in particular, focuses on the physics of the very early universe and the ways in which the universe changes between the Big Bang and the present day. In this episode, Richard and I discuss the details of cosmology at large, both technically and historically. We dive into Einstein's equations from general relativity and see what implications they have for an expanding universe alongside a discussion of the cast of characters involved in 20th century cosmology (Einstein, Hubble, Friedmann, Lemaitre, and others). We also discuss inflation, gravitational waves, the story behind Brian Keating's book Losing the Nobel Prize, and the current state of experiments and cosmology as a field. Originally published on May 3, 2022 on YouTube: https://youtu.be/DiXyZgukRmE Timestamps: 00:00:00 : Introduction 00:02:42 : Astronomy must have been one of the earliest sciences 00:03:57 : Eric Weinstein and Geometric Unity 00:13:47 : Outline of podcast 00:15:10 : Brian Keating, Losing the Nobel Prize, Geometric Unity 00:16:38 : Big Bang and General Relativity 00:21:07 : Einstein's equations 00:26:27 : Einstein and Hilbert 00:27:47 : Schwarzschild solution (typo in video) 00:33:07 : Hubble 00:35:54 : One galaxy versus infinitely many 00:36:16 : Olbers' paradox 00:39:55 : Friedmann and FRLW metric 00:41:53 : Friedmann metric was audacious? 00:46:05 : Friedmann equation 00:48:36 : How to start a fight in physics: West coast vs East coast metric and sign conventions. 00:50:05 : Flat vs spherical vs hyperbolic space 00:51:40 : Stress energy tensor terms 00:54:15 : Conversation laws and stress energy tensor 00:58:28 : Acceleration of the universe 01:05:12 : Derivation of a(t) ~ t^2/3 from preceding computations 01:05:37 : a = 0 is the Big Bang. How seriously can we take this? 01:07:09 : Lemaitre 01:11:51 : Was Hubble's observation of an expanding universe in 1929 a fresh observation? 01:13:45 : Without Einstein, no General Relativity? 01:14:45 : Two questions: General Relativity vs Quantum Mechanics and how to understand time and universe's expansion velocity (which can exceed the speed of light!) 01:17:58 : How much of the universe is observable 01:24:54 : Planck length 01:26:33 : Physics down to the Big Bang singularity 01:28:07 : Density of photons vs matter 01:33:41 : Inflation and Alan Guth 01:36:49 : No magnetic monopoles? 01:38:30 : Constant density requires negative pressure 01:42:42 : Is negative pressure contrived? 01:49:29 : Marrying General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics 01:51:58 : Symmetry breaking 01:53:50 : How to corroborate inflation? 01:56:21 : Sabine Hossenfelder's criticisms 02:00:19 : Gravitational waves 02:01:31 : LIGO 02:04:13 : CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) 02:11:27 : Relationship between detecting gravitational waves and inflation 02:16:37 : BICEP2 02:19:06 : Brian Keating's Losing the Nobel Prize and the problem of dust 02:24:40 : BICEP3 02:26:26 : Wrap up: current state of cosmology Notes: Easther's blogpost on Eric Weinstein: http://excursionset.com/blog/2013/5/25/trainwrecks-i-have-seen Vice article on Eric Weinstein and Geometric Unity: https://www.vice.com/en/article/z3xbz4/eric-weinstein-says-he-solved-the-universes-mysteries-scientists-disagree Further learning: Matts Roos. "Introduction to Cosmology" Barbara Ryden. "Introduction to Cosmology" Our Cosmic Mistake About Gravitational Waves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0D-COVodzY
Diese Episode erschien bereits am 22. Mai 2022 in Textform, wir reichen hier die Audioversion nach.Der Abgrund zwischen meiner Liebe zur Mathematik und meiner kompletten, absoluten Unfähigkeit diese Auszuüben könnte tiefer nicht sein.So erschuf ich, schulpflichtig, bei der Kalkulation einfachster chemischer Formeln, bei der man im Grunde nur die kleinen Zahlen am Fuß der chemischen Elemente im Kopf addieren muss, die phantastisch-unmöglichsten Verbindungen zum kopfschüttelnden Spott des gestrengen Herrn Chemielehrer, gleichzeitig gab es nichts faszinierenderes für mich, als wenn man mir versuchte zu erklären wie man mittels einer mathematischen Berechnung namens Fouriertransformation Uropas Stimme auf dem nahezu abgeschliffenen Wachszylinder hörbar machen kann.Heute, älter, nicht schlauer, ist für mich die zweitgeilste Erfindung nach dem Schnittbrot die Möglichkeit ins Google-Suchfeld 12+14 einzugeben und augenblicklich, achtund.. sechsunddreißig angezeigt zu bekommen. Schau ich dann auf vom Notebook steht im Bücherregal prominent der sechs Zentimeter breite Buchrücken des fantastischsten Kompendiums der Mathematik ever “Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers”, des schwedischen Kinderarztes Jan Gullberg, ein irres Werk, welches von “What’s a number?” bis zum Kolmogoroffschen Dreireihensatz das komplette Menschheitswissen über die Mathematik hält und didaktisch und ästhetisch so grandios ist, dass ich stundenlang wie ein Kind darin blättern kann, um mich einfach nur am Buchsatz zu ergötzen.Diese Faszination an der Mathematik erklärt mir der innere Küchenpsychologe mit einem heftigen Streben danach, den Dingen auf den Grund zu gehen. Ein paradoxerweise in der Schulmathematik kontraproduktives Verlangen, bestand ich meine Mathe-Abiprüfung doch nur weil ich die absolute Mindestanzahl an Punkten, die mich vom Durchfallen retten sollte, einzig und ausschließlich durch das absolvieren der Geometrieübungen erreichte. Das, weil die Geometrie an sich nur Malen nach Zahlen ist, aber man beim Lösen von Gleichungen oder gar dem Absolvieren von mathematischen Beweisen schulweise gezwungen wurde betrügerische Abkürzungen, euphemistisch “Merksätze” genannt, zu benutzen und Beweisführungen mit “Definitionen” begannen, unumstößlichen, ewig wahren gar, denen ich regelmäßig mit einem “Wirklich? Warum?” begegnete und ich so von 90 Minuten Prüfungszeit 80 mit dem durchgrübeln mathematisch-philosophischen Fragen zugebracht hätte, die, zugegeben, die alten Griechen vor zweieinhalbtausend Jahren schon alle für mich gelöst hatten.Nun, nicht alle, aber die Basics standen. Die Mathematik, ursprünglich als praktische Hilfestellung zur Bewältigung alltäglicher Probleme gefunden, war mit a2+b2=c2 im Zenit ihrer Praktischheit, wenn es darum ging, einen Baum zu fällen oder eine Pyramide zu bauen. Das reine Zählen beherrschte man schon länger, weil, was ist wichtiger als zu wissen, ob der alte Papadakis dich beim letzten Schweineschlachten wieder beschissen hat und er dir jetzt vier Scheffel Gyros schuldet - oder Du ihm, weil du das Gymnasium beim gestrengen Papadopoulos, der, der noch beim Pythagoras in die Schule gegangen war, nur mit Hilfe von Kreisemalen bestanden hattest.So einfach und praktisch war die Welt der Mathematik und ihrer handfesten Schwester, der Physik, im Grunde bis ans Ende des 19. Jahrhunderts, Zahlen waren real, Planetenumlaufbahnen waren rund, die Uhr tickte in nur eine Richtung, im ewig gleichen Takt. Was Newton im Jahr 1666, per Apfelfall auf den Kopf, über unsere Welt in Erfahrung gebracht und in Gleichungen gepackt hatte, galt augenscheinlich, und mit ein bisschen Mühe konnte das jeder verstehen und überprüfen.Dann, auf einmal, kam der Herr E. aus U. und mit diesem wurde im Jahr 1905 aus absolut auf einmal relativ und aus einer wohldefinierten Welt eine Theorie, zunächst eine spezielle und bald eine allgemeine. Diese Relativitätstheorien erklärten dem interessierten Laien wie Gelehrten nun unter anderem, dass der Apfel keineswegs auf den Kopf fällt, vorausgesetzt er ist groß und die Erde schnell genug, plus ein paar andere Umstände, die zunächst in Gedankenexperimenten theoretisch und später mit Beginn des Raumfahrzeitalters praktisch belegbar waren; Schweinezüchter, Forstarbeiter und Pyramidenmaurer weltweit jedoch waren am Ende ihres Verständnis für derlei Entrücktes und Enthobenes und sprachen weise “so what?”, bevor sie ihre Drachmen weiterzählten.Ganz anders ging es ob des Unerhörten Allem, was in der Mathematik des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts Rang und Namen hatte. Ein gewöhnlicher Roman über die Grenzen des menschlichen Verständnis, und das ist titelgebend im Englischen der hier besprochene von Benjamin Labatut, würde mit genau diesen Mathematikern und Physikern beginnen, aber Labatut macht das und noch sehr vieles Andere anders. “When we cease to understand the world” heißt sein Buch oder vom deutschen Verlagswesen “übersetzt”, ja, wen wunderts, “Das blinde Licht: Irrfahrten der Wissenschaft”.Statt also von bass erstaunten Wissenschaftlern zu berichten werden wir von Labatut zunächst in das düsterste Kapitel des 20. Jahrhunderts geworfen und lernen wie es über ein halbes dutzend Umwege zu Zyklon B kam, dem Gift, mit dem in deutschen KZs Millionen von Menschen umgebracht wurden. Das passiert in einer Mischung aus Kuriosität und Lakonie ohne respektlos den Opfern gegenüber zu sein. Es liest sich im Grunde wie ein dichter, gut recherchierter Artikel in einem angesehenen Magazin, stellenweise wie ein, sehr kurzer, Thomas Pynchon, man staunt und lernt über Textilfärber und Alchemisten am preußischen Hof Friedrich des I. auf der Suche nach der perfekten Farbe für dessen Armeeuniformen und landet über den Umweg der Giftgastoten des ersten Weltkrieges mit Entsetzen an den Mauern der Gaskammern von Auschwitz und weiß nun warum diese Preußisch-Blau schimmern. Innen.Labatut zeigt hier, fast bevor das Buch überhaupt beginnt, ominös und clever, in beiläufigem Storytelling, dass, wenn wir über das Unverständnis gegenüber der Welt reden, wir nicht in die hinteren Kapitel Mathematischer Enzyklopädien schauen müssen. Das liegt näher. Viel näher.Ok. Ein Geständnis. Ich lese nie Klappentexte und höre bei mich interessierenden Büchern über die ich per Rezension stolpere augenblicklich auf, diese zu lesen. Aber hier war es zu spät, ich schnappte eine entscheidende Aussage über “When we cease to understand the world” auf: Labatut bezeichnet das Buch als “non-fiction novel”, alles basiere auf tatsächlichen Begebenheiten, um die er eine bestimmte Menge Fiktion geschrieben habe. Im ersten Kapitel sei es ein lausiger Absatz gewesen, der ausgedacht sei, später wäre er großzügiger geworden. Seltsamerweise, hat mir das als Spoilernazi nicht im geringsten das Vergnügen am Buch gemindert, im Gegenteil, es war der Beginn einer Schnitzeljagd nach dem Fiktiven, bewaffnet mit Google und Wikipedia hinterfrug ich zunächst jedes mir suspekte Detail - und gab alsbald auf. Es spielte irgendwie keine Rolle. Wer das Selbstvertrauen hat, einen Roman im Graubereich zwischen Realität und Fiktion mit dem Holocaust zu beginnen und nicht auf einer deutschen Anklagebank sitzt hat mein Vertrauen.Aber nur fast. Im zweiten Kapitel schreibt ein Mann namens Schwarzschild aus den Schützengräben des ersten Weltkrieges einen Brief an Albert Einstein, so erfahren wir, in dem er diesem in winziger Handschrift eine Lösung der in seiner allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie nur aufgestellten Gleichungen präsentiert. Ein ganz ungeheuerlicher Vorgang, von dem Einstein angab, ihn nicht in seiner Lebzeit erwartet zu haben, so komplex erschien der Wissenschaft die allgemeine Theorie von der Relativität. Hah! “Fakenews” grummelnd tippte ich triumphierend den Namen Schwarzschild in www.wikipedia.de - alas! - 1:0 Labatut, stimmt alles! Schwarzschild gab es, er war ein Genie, der mit seiner Lösung die Existenz Schwarzer Löcher bewiesen hatte - und fünf Monate nach dem Absenden des Briefes an Albert Einstein an den Folgen des Einatmens von Senfgas starb. Mit dieser Tatsache macht das erste Kapitel nun noch mehr Sinn und es ist nicht der letze Loop, den Labatut hier tut (ich kann nicht anders 🙄). Der Autor, geboren 1980, ist kulturell sozialisiert wie wir alle, er kennt die Mechanismen guter Netflixserien oder cleverer Comedians, die uns mit zunächst zusammenhanglosen Details verwirren, um irgendwann wieder auf diese zurück zu kommen und uns erstaunt den Kopf zu schütteln. Er konstruiert seinen Roman um zahlreiche dieser konkreten oder abstrakten, fiktiven oder nur scheinbar fiktiven Tatsachen und Begebenheiten. Er beginnt das alles in einem Stil, der oft mehr an Reportage denn Roman denken lässt und damit unserem ergebnisorientierten, oder positiv “wissbegierigen”, modernen Leseverhalten scheinbar entgegen kommt. Doch bringt er uns immer wieder ins stolpern und träumen und er wird anders enden und wir werden den Übergang nicht gemerkt haben.Im dritten Kapitel war ich mir so sicher, Labatut erwischt zu haben. Es geht um einen Japaner mit einem in Japan eher Dutzendnamen der die mathematische Vermutung a+b=c beweisen will. Verarschen kann ich mich alleine.Das Kapitel erklärt faszinierend lebendig was für eine verflixte Frage diese unscheinbaren fünf mathematischen Symbole aufwerfen, wie sich verschiedene andere japanische Mathematiker mit genauso generischen Nachnamen damit herumgeschlagen haben und dabei dem, na klar, “Grothendieck’s Fluch” erlegen seien. “Jetzt kommen noch die deutschen Fakenamen dazu”, denkt der Rezensent, der genau dieses Kapitel im Funkloch las, no wikipedia no more, in dem es um einen fantastischen Mathematiker geht, Alexander Grothendieck, der in den Sechzigern der marottigste Star des wissenschaftlichen Feldes war; jeder wollte sein wie er oder auch nur ihn lehren hören, er hatte alle am kleinen Finger. Ein Genie welches schon im Kindesalter jahrhundertealte mathematische Probleme löste und in der Hochzeit seiner Karriere das Feld revolutionierte - um sich 1973 als nahezu kleiderloser Eremit zurückzuziehen, weil er begriff, dass seine Wissenschaft und damit seine Erfolge in dieser aber auch sowas von irrelevant für die Menschen dieser Welt seien, den ökologischen Verfall des Planeten nicht aufhielten, keine Bombe weniger gebaut noch geworfen würde, nur weil er sich in homologischer Algebra auskennt. Grothendieck verstand 99% der Mathematik - und die Welt nicht mehr.Krasse Story, Herr Labatut, gut geschmiedet. Als ich wieder Empfang hatte wurde mir meine mathematische Ignoranz von Google und Wiki erwartbar um die Ohren gehauen. Alles war grundlegend wahr, das so trivial klingende Theorem a+b=c beschäftigt Mathematiker seit Jahrzehnten, alle handelnden Personen sind real und haben in etwa die erzählte Geschichte. Die Welt der Mathematiker ist eine wahnwitzige und eine der Wahnsinnigen, wer hätte das gedacht.Aber ist das verwunderlich? Während Maurermeister Muhammad in seinem Garten Pyramiden baut und den Satz des Pythagoras beherrscht, weswegen die Dinger, unter Wasser, in Jahrtausenden noch stehen werden, schreibt der Mathematiker László Lovász Perfekte-Graphen-Sätze und muss dann zugeben, dass die nur schwach sind. Die Sätze? Die Graphen? Who knows. Wozu sind die gut? Für Strukturen, wie sie bei der Eckenfärbung auftreten. Auch in Preußisch-Blau?Muhammad tangiert solch abgehobener Unsinn nicht, nicht beim Pyramidenbau. Aber abends, wenn er sich die Tabulé abwischt und sich über die Welt Gedanken macht, kommt er unweigerlich im Jahr 1926 an.War Albert Einsteins allgemeine Relativitätstheorie mit ihren scheinbaren Paradoxen im miteinander von Raum und Zeit für Muhammad verstehbar, trat in diesem Jahr der ambivalente Katzenliebhaber S. auf und sperrte das Objekt seiner Liebe in eine Kiste, deren Beobachtung er zunächst verbot.Einstein war aufgefallen, dass an Newtons Mechanik nicht alles rund lief und kam mit der Einbeziehung der vierten Dimension - der Zeit - der Sache so nahe, dass selbst hundert Jahre später die Theorie für die Praxis, von A wie Atombombe über G wie GPS bis zum Z auf dem Panzer im Donbass exakt tut, was sie soll. Schrödinger auf einem Kongress in München im Jahr 1926 jedoch fand ein Problem. Wenn man die Bewegungen von Atomen und deren Bestandteile berechnen will - und wer will das nicht? - funktionieren die aktuellen mathematischen Modell nicht. Ein neues muss her!“Teilchen”, so Schrödinger, “sind eigentlich Wellen!”“Und meine Pyramide im Garten ist Gott”, frevelt Muhammad in seinen Bart, “Blumen sind Tiere, Menschen sind Bücher, Schöne hässlich und Reiche arm”, rieb er sich verzweifelt die Augen und geht zu Bett.Wie Schrödinger seine Theorie auf der Bühne des Mathematikerkongress mit Gleichungen unterlegte kam ein junger Student mit Namen Heisenberg auf dieselbe und machte einen Will Smith, wischte buchstäblich Schrödingers Formeln von der Tafel und sprach, sinngemäß: “Nimm nie wieder das Wort Realität in dem Mund! Dein Modell is all b******t, man kann sich die Welt der Atome nicht vorstellen wie sie ist! Man kann sie sich gar nicht vorstellen!” (Und wurde, anders als Herr Smith, prompt rausgeworfen.)Waren es bei Newton noch Steine oder, gottlob Äpfel, die die Welt formten und bei Einstein noch greifbare Atome plus ein wenig Zeit, bei Schrödinger wenigstens noch Wellen und Teilchen, blieb bei Heisenberg nur noch Unschärfe. Nicht nur kann man Atome nicht beobachten, man kann sie noch nicht mal beschreiben, ja man solle sie sich noch nicht einmal vorstellen. Sobald man begänne, sich ein Elektron vorzustellen, dass um ein Proton kreist liege man schon falsch. Alles was man von der Welt wissen könne sind Wahrscheinlichkeiten. Erst wenn man diese messe erscheinen sie, wie von Gott geschaffen, durch die Messung selbst. Man könne sogar entscheiden, was erschaffen würde. Messe man die Eigenschaften einer Welle, so erscheine eine Welle - messe man die Eigenschaften eines Teilchens, so erscheine dieses. Wo und in welcher Geschwindigkeit dieses existiert ist dann jedoch auch wieder nicht feststellbar, man muss sich entscheiden, misst man die Masse des Teilchens, verliert man die Möglichkeit dessen Geschwindigkeit zu messen und umgekehrt. Misst man dann die Masse bekommt man jedoch keine eindeutige Zahl, zwei Kilo Kartoffeln, man bekomme eine Wahrscheinlichkeit, wie auf einem Wiener Biomarkt sind es am Ende nur drei Pfund Erdäpfel, die Hälfte wahrscheinlich schon verschimmelt!Labatut beschreibt, dass Schrödinger wie Heisenberg ob ihrer Erkentnisse hilflos verrückt geworden seien, zumindest zeitweise, und obwohl diese Episoden belegt sind, findet hier die Fiktion im Buch ihr zuhause: Schrödinger kommt der Kindschändung verdammt nahe und Heisinger trinkt Absynth, phantasiert und masturbiert. Labatut findet auch hier eine beeindruckende Sicherheit dem Leser die Krassheit der Entrückung nahezubringen, den Blick in den Abgrund, den beide Männer warfen und was das mit einem macht. Es ist geradeso düster, dass man die Konsequenz versteht, geradeso aushaltbar, dass man zurück findet zum Thema, wie die beiden Wissenschaftler zu ihrem.Das Thema ist: Muss das alles sein?Der Mensch sucht nach Sinn in der Welt, das unterscheidet ihn vom Tier. Es hält ihn bei der Stange, das kleine Menschchen, so unterlegen er körperlich auch ist, diese Suche nach dem Sinn macht ihn zum Überlebenden. Wenn Du etwas hast, wofür du lebst, bist du schneller als der Tiger der aus dem Busch springt, klüger als ein Virus, dass Du dir beim Fledermausemahl eingefangen hast und brutaler in deinem Vernichtungswillen als jeder Dodo und jedes Mammut. Du magst falsch liegen mit dem lustigen Gott mit dem Elefantenkopf, mit dem beeindruckenden Gott mit den Blitzen, mit dem eher lamen Gott, der sich an ein Holzkreuz tackern ließ, aber alle drei gaben dir die Kraft deinen Brüdern im Zweifel den Schädel einzuschlagen, wenn Sie dir den Hummus aus der Pita klauen.Dann kam die Renaissance und die Aufklärung und obwohl etwas prosaisch und abstrakt und nicht mehr ganz so funny gab sie dir ein klareres Bild von der Welt. Und Kohle! Und Fortschritt! Und etwas gegen die Pusteln nach dem Besuch im Puff! Und Speed! Und die Mutter, die sich beklagt, dass Du Sie zu selten anrufst! Dafür lohnte es sich den Giftgaskanister in die richtige Windrichtung zu öffnen. Abwurf der H-Bomb nicht unter 9000m! Ist der Virenscanner aktuell?Was passiert, ist die latente Frage, wenn wir zwei Wissenschaftler haben, Bohr und Heisenberg, die nicht nur eine Theorie entwickeln, dass alles was wir sehen inherent unwahr ist, schlimmer, nicht erkennbar und, schlimmer, diese Theorie belegen, so klar und eindeutig, dass nicht nur Einstein darob verzweifelte, schlimmer, die uns über diese Theorie sagen: “Wir betrachten die Quantenmechanik als eine geschlossene Theorie. Die ihr zugrunde liegende Mathematik und Physik sind nicht mehr veränderbar”. Ein Kopfschuss für jeden, der nach Erkenntnis sucht.Darum geht es in Benjamin Labatuts Buch “When we cease to understand the world”. “Wenn wir aufhören die Welt zu verstehen” ist dabei ein zu schwacher Titel, denn verstanden haben wir diese noch nie. Aber wir haben es versucht. Manchmal dumm, manchmal lustig, in der Rückschau oft brutal und nicht in deren oder unserem bestem Interesse. Aber was wir seit Bohr und Heisenberg tun, ist uns zu beweisen, dass wir diese nicht verstehen können werden. (Dass dieser Satz im Deutschen die grammatikalische Form “Futur II” hat, beendet die Diskussion darüber, ob die Deutschen Humor haben.)Wie und ob wir, die Menschheit, damit leben können ist die offensichtlichste Frage und dass uns Benjamin Labatut in “When we cease to understand the world” in brillanter Art und Weise darob aufrüttelt, ist dieses Buch zu lesen wert. Und mit dem Fakt, dass alle dem Wahn und der Depression verfallenen Protagonisten zumindest in der Fiktion des Buches wieder und klüger aus dieser entstiegen, will uns vielleicht etwas sagen, sage ich leise hoffnungsvoll. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit lobundverriss.substack.com
Morgen vor 110 Jahren kam in Potsdam Martin Schwarzschild zur Welt. Er trat in die Fußstapfen seines Vaters Karl, der einer der größten Astronomen des vergangenen Jahrhunderts war.Von Dirk Lorenzenwww.deutschlandfunk.de, SternzeitDirekter Link zur Audiodatei
Edición Limitada - 2 de Mayo del 2022 (Partes 1 y 2). Producción, realización y conducción: Gustavo Verduzco. Presentando música de MORE, Matthias & Marss, The Mystic Underground, Machine Made Pleasure, Kapitalet, Social Ambitions, X Marks The Pedwalk, Dark-O-Matic, Provision, Nórdika, Reflection, Vogon Poetry, Book Of Love, Channel 69 con Dania Morales, Duran Duran, The Rude Awakening, Front 242, Leaether Strip, Alien Skin, J:Dead, Ashbury Heights con Madil Hardis, Orange Sector, Electronic Frequency, Holocoder, Schwarzschild, Kim Lunner, ES23, Cold Connection, Solitary Experiments, Sacred Skin, Corlyx con Massive Ego, Beyond Border, Beyond Border, Beyond Border, Technolorgy, Eric C. Powell & Andrea Powell, LAU, The Midnight, Michael Oakley, Fused, Purwien & Kowa, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Eminent Sol, Pet Shop Boys, T-4-2, h/p, Positronic, Raindancer, Alanas Chosnau & Mark Reeder, Current One, Dani Tamayo, Apres La Nuit, Esoterik, X Marks The Pedwalk, Am Tierpark, Tempers, Sonar 4, SDH (Semiotics Department Of Heteronyms), Simon Carter and Fabsi, Minuit Machine, Aesthetische, Tension Control y Suicide Commando.
Monday, Mar 28, 2022: Communion After Dark -- featuring the latest and best in alternative-electronic music -- with music from Stabbing Westward, Schwarzschild, Auger, Skinny Puppy and more.
Black holes are one of the unsolved mysteries of our universe. Here are all the essentials you need to know about black holes.Keywords: Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, Hawking Radiation, Chandrasekhar Limit, Kip Thorne, Interstellar, John Michell, Lemaitre, Laplace, Oppenheimer, Schwarzschild radius.Highlights: (01:36) Books,(02:23) Introduction to black holes,(03:37) History of black holes,(07:56) Image of a black hole,(11:07) Types of black holes,(13:27) Primordial black holes,(15:42) Hawking Radiation,(16:56) Energy extraction,(18:57) No-hair Theorem,(19:57) Collision of two black holes.SUPPORT: **Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ScienceWeSpeakSOCIAL MEDIA: *Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sciencewespeak/*Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ScienceWeSpeak*Telegram: https://t.me/sciencewespeak
Sarah Schwarzschild, Managing Director and Co-Head of BGO Strategic Capital Partners at BentallGreenOak, discusses trends in the primary, secondary and co-investing real estate space. The information in this podcast is not intended to provide specific financial, tax, investment, insurance, legal or accounting advice and should not be relied upon and does not constitute a specific offer to buy and/or sell securities, insurance or investment services. Investors should consult with their professional advisors before acting upon any information contained in this podcast. To review the transcript and disclosure for this podcast, please visit: https://www.slcmanagement.com/en/insights/podcasts/three-in-five-episode-36-sarah-schwarzschild
Há muito material sobre RG (Relatividade Geral) em português na internet. Selecionei alguns que considero mais simples para entendimento: * Excelente texto sobre a teoria do Big Bang e os 100 anos da RG pelo prof. Roberto Covolan: https://www.cristaosnaciencia.org.br/a-teoria-do-big-bang-e-os-100-anos-da-relatividade-geral/ * Texto da Brasil Escola: https://brasilescola.uol.com.br/fisica/teoria-relatividade-geral.htm * Texto da Revista A Física na Escola sobre os 100 anos da RG: http://www1.fisica.org.br/fne/phocadownload/Vol14-Num1/fne-14-1-a081.pdf * Artigo da Revista Brasileira de Ensino de Física: https://www.scielo.br/j/rbef/a/G5zC7L9qcKg6vZdTXmmWyGm/?format=pdf&lang=pt * Artigo da Revista A Física na Escola: http://www1.fisica.org.br/fne/phocadownload/Vol19-Num2/FNE-19-1-201205.pdf * Um pouco de história da Relatividade Especial: https://www.if.ufrgs.br/public/tapf/v24_n2_melina.pdf * Um livro gratuito, em português e muito bom sobre astronomia a cosmologia (usarei-o em diversos episódios): http://astro.if.ufrgs.br/livro.pdf Para saber mais sobre buraco negro, veja na Wikipédia em português. Está relativamente boa e sem grandes problemas: * Toda a história: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buraco_negro#Propriedades_e_estrutura * Raio de Schwarzschild: https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raio_de_Schwarzschild Não deixe de acompanhar os artigos do CosmoTeo no Hora de Berear: https://horadeberear.com.br/category/cosmologia-e-teologia/ Contato comigo pelo Instagram: @alexandre.fernandes.df Ou pelo linktree: https://linktr.ee/alexandre.fernandes.df --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/alexandre-fernandes-df/message
Mi afirmación de que "todos los agujeros negros, rotan" estaba referida a los agujeros negros supermasivos que se supone existen en los núcleos galácticos de muchas galaxias. Creo que no lo expresé así, por lo que añado aquí la aclaración: Según su carga y momento angular, los agujeros negros pueden ser de varios tipos: El agujero negro más sencillo posible es el agujero negro de Schwarzschild, que no rota ni tiene carga. Si no gira pero posee carga eléctrica, tenemos el llamado agujero negro de Reissner-Nordstrøm. Si rota pero no tiene carga es un agujero negro de Kerr. Y si posee rotación y carga, hablamos de un agujero negro de Kerr-Newman. Gracias por hacer el comentario!!!
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Sci-Fi short THE SCHWARZSCHILD RADIUS is the poignant story of an astronaut whose ship is trapped by the gravity of a black hole. Knowing his demise is imminent, he records a final message for his young son on earth. This film is the latest offering by director Pete Majarich.EPISODE LINKSTHE SCHWARZSCHILD RADIUS - The 7th Matrix Spotlight: https://www.the7thmatrix.com/blog/2021/6/27/the-schwarzschild-radius-pete-majarichOther Sci-Fi Shorts By Pete Majarich: INVASION https://www.the7thmatrix.com/blog/2020/7/26/stunning-sci-fi-short-invasion-pete-majarichTHE VISITOR https://www.the7thmatrix.com/blog/2018/11/11/mars-sci-fi-short-film-the-visitorSupport the EYE ON SCI-FI Podcast & The 7th Matrix: https://the7thmatrix.com/support or directly via PayPal: https://paypal.me/the7thmatrixor Cash App: https://cash.app/$The7thMatrixSignup For The 7th Matrix Newsletter: http://bit.ly/31QnInnFollow The 7th Matrix On Twitter: https://twitter.com/the7thMatrixFollow The 7th Matrix On Instagram: https://instagram.com/the7thMatrixPodcast Intro music: "I Succumb" by António Bizarrohttps://freemusicarchive.org/music/Antnio_Bizarro/City_of_Industry_Slow_Gun/Member of the WhatPods podcasting community: https://whatpods.com.
This week is another great example of why Weird Summer is so fun! Today we'll be talking about how the Earth was sucked into a black hole and the world actually ended in 2012. Let's get into it! FOLLOW US https://twitter.com/tinfoil_radio https://www.facebook.com/tinfoilradio MERCH https://www.teepublic.com/user/tinfoilradio TYLER'S MUSIC https://theamazingt-bird.bandcamp.com JAKE'S MUSIC https://open.spotify.com/artist/442gQadsmNitWpSSrwYGpv SOURCES https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a34166354/black-hole-center-of-earth-fake-study/ https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/g29365567/conspiracy-theories/?utm_campaign=arb_%20parameter https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6910781/ https://home.cern/science/physics/higgs-boson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2v4I6-sE_Cg https://medium.com/conspiracy-custard/the-world-ended-in-2012-ca344c629462 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This week, Jess is chatting with one of her best friends, Sarah Schwarzschild, about peaking through major life changes - which, for both of them, hit an all-time high in 2019. They discuss all things from breakups to exploring your sexual identity to the elusive concept of a "happiness plateau." Also, astrology. Sarah is a licensed Family Nurse Practitioner working in the community health space. She cares for patients of all ages and backgrounds, and is particularly passionate about LGBTQ+ health. Peaking is honored to have her as our first guest to kick off Pride Month! www.peakingpodcast.com IG: @peakingpodcast Intro/Outro Music: "Have Mercy On Us" by Air Kid --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/peakingpodcast/message
This week, Jess is chatting with one of her best friends, Sarah Schwarzschild, about peaking through major life changes - which, for both of them, hit an all-time high in 2019. They discuss all things from breakups to exploring your sexual identity to the elusive concept of a "happiness plateau." Also, astrology. Sarah is a licensed Family Nurse Practitioner working in the community health space. She cares for patients of all ages and backgrounds, and is particularly passionate about LGBTQ+ health. Peaking is honored to have her as our first guest to kick off Pride Month! www.peakingpodcast.com IG: @peakingpodcast Intro/Outro Music: "Have Mercy On Us" by Air Kid --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/peakingpodcast/message
Shimon "Bert" Schwarzschild (born 1925) is an environmental activist and humanitarian. His work contributed to the establishment of a nature preserve in Assisi, Italy. Schwarzschild founded the Assisi Bird Campaign and helped organize the Assisi Nature Council and Action for Nature. He has also been active on many other environmental and neighborhood issues.Schwarzschild's activism has received news coverage regionally, nationally, and internationally. He is listed in the World Who's who and Does what in Environment & Conservation.· www.shimonschwarzschild.com· www.creativeprocess.info
“I witnessed being totally rejected and not only witnessed, I remembered as a ten-year old all the children would go to a class in eugenics that I was not allowed to go to. I remember the insults that children learned against Jews while I was still in Germany. And I'm one of the lucky Jews who managed to leave.”Shimon "Bert" Schwarzschild (born 1925) is an environmental activist and humanitarian. His work contributed to the establishment of a nature preserve in Assisi, Italy. Schwarzschild founded the Assisi Bird Campaign and helped organize the Assisi Nature Council and Action for Nature. He has also been active on many other environmental and neighborhood issues.Schwarzschild's activism has received news coverage regionally, nationally, and internationally. He is listed in the World Who's who and Does what in Environment & Conservation.· www.shimonschwarzschild.com· www.creativeprocess.info
Ces deux dernières années, des effets relativistes à proximité immédiate de Sgr A* - redshift gravitationnel et précession de Schwarzschild- ont été mesurés grâce à une étoile qui s'en approche de près, l'étoile S2. Aujourd'hui, la collaboration GRAVITY publie la détection d'une étoile très faible et extrêmement proche du trou noir supermassif, faisant d'elle un potentiel outil fondamental pour son étude détaillée. L'étude est publiée dans Astronomy & Astrophysics.
“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.” – Proverbs 31:8-9 In his article in the Encyclopedia Judaica on justice, Rabbi Steven S. Schwarzschild contrasts the Jewish approach to justice with dominant Western definitions, which are primarily retributive or distributive — that is, systems for how to do things. In contrast, Jewish justice is a substantive vision of what human life should be. “The substantive view of justice is concerned with the full enhancement of human and, above all, social life,” Schwarzschild wrote. “Thus it suffuses all human relations and social institutions.”
Edición Limitada - 26 de Octubre del 2020. Producción, realización y conducción: Gustavo Verduzco. Presentando música de The Outfield, X-Perience, Alvarez & Heppner, Unheilig, Renard, Daniel Hall, Zoodrake, Schwarzschild, Fonohead, Rupesh Cartel, Janosch Moldau, darwinmcd con Mark Bebb, Mr.Kitty, Scheuber con Wollank, Transcendent 7, Aeronaut V, Les Anges De La Nuit, Korine, Priest, New Order, N-Frequency, Uncreated con Dennis Schober, Reichsfeind, Sea Of Sin, Digital Energy y Endzustand.
New Tunesday: new releases from the last week! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Watch their live streams! Today's episode features new releases by She's Got Claws, Klonavenus, Dissonance, Misfortunes, Negant, Slow Danse With The Dead, Panther Modern, Capsules Of Energy, Deadlife (feat. Tessa Hedrick), Ashbury Heights, London Sadness, Schwarzschild, Train To Spain, Kontrollenhet, Black Needle Noise (feat. John Fryer & Tom Berger), Delphine Coma, PreEmptive Strike 0.1, Moonrunner83 (feat. Kyle Craig), Twist Helix, Uncreated, Dimitri Berzerk, Das Mörtal, Monsieur Desastreux, Don't Get Lemon, Twitch, Michael Kross (feat. The Last Years), Brutalist Architecture In The Sun, We The North, 11Grams, and Les Anges De La Nuit!
New Tunesday: new releases from the last week! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Watch their live streams! Today's episode features new releases by She's Got Claws, Klonavenus, Dissonance, Misfortunes, Negant, Slow Danse With The Dead, Panther Modern, Capsules Of Energy, Deadlife (feat. Tessa Hedrick), Ashbury Heights, London Sadness, Schwarzschild, Train To Spain, Kontrollenhet, Black Needle Noise (feat. John Fryer & Tom Berger), Delphine Coma, PreEmptive Strike 0.1, Moonrunner83 (feat. Kyle Craig), Twist Helix, Uncreated, Dimitri Berzerk, Das Mörtal, Monsieur Desastreux, Don't Get Lemon, Twitch, Michael Kross (feat. The Last Years), Brutalist Architecture In The Sun, We The North, 11Grams, and Les Anges De La Nuit!
New Tunesday: new releases from the last week! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Watch their live streams! Today's episode features new releases by She's Got Claws, Klonavenus, Dissonance, Misfortunes, Negant, Slow Danse With The Dead, Panther Modern, Capsules Of Energy, Deadlife (feat. Tessa Hedrick), Ashbury Heights, London Sadness, Schwarzschild, Train To Spain, Kontrollenhet, Black Needle Noise (feat. John Fryer & Tom Berger), Delphine Coma, PreEmptive Strike 0.1, Moonrunner83 (feat. Kyle Craig), Twist Helix, Uncreated, Dimitri Berzerk, Das Mörtal, Monsieur Desastreux, Don't Get Lemon, Twitch, Michael Kross (feat. The Last Years), Brutalist Architecture In The Sun, We The North, 11Grams, and Les Anges De La Nuit!
Leopold Schwarzschild hatte das "Dritte Reich" früh kommen sehen und warnte in seiner Zeitschrift "Das Tage-Buch" vehement. Nach der Machtergreifung Hitlers arbeitete er aus dem Exil und wurde auch im Ausland geschätzt - unter anderem von Winston Churchill. Von Brigitte Baetz www.deutschlandfunk.de, @mediasres Hören bis: 19.01.2038 04:14 Direkter Link zur Audiodatei
Edición Limitada - 18 de Mayo del 2020. Producción, realización y conducción: Gustavo Verduzco. Presentando música de The Stranglers, Nina con Lau, The Midnight, Fused, Church of Trees, Nation of Language, Italoconnection, Eurotix, Humans Can't Reboot, Radiohimlen, Neekoh, Vandal Moon, Synthax Xtructure, Lemonade Kid con Ortense Blue, Celluloide, Jigsaw Sequence, Black Nail Cabaret, Avoid-A-Void, She Past Away, Spray, ETH, Schwarzschild, Uncreated con Robert Enforsen, Panic Priest, Saigon Blue Rain, Costume, She Hates Emotions, Technolorgy, Cyferdyne, Nine Seconds, Menschdefekt, Pandoria, Ginger Snap5 y Robert Görl & DAF.
New Tunesday: new releases from the last week! Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM, Industrial, Post-Punk, Darkwave, Dark Electro, Synthwave, and more! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Go see them on tour! Today's episode features new releases by Schwarzschild, Acid Fader, Formato Negativo, Rayne Reznor, smilegroup, skimode, The Grey Disorder, Jigsaw Sequence, VDevil, Cassetter, Carpenter Brut & Yann Ligner, Vandal Moon, Matthias & Marss, Avoid-A-Void, ReveLever, Neon Nox, GlitterWølf, She Hates Emotions, Comaduster, DI_ove & Leæther Strip, Analogue Electronic Whatever, Daniel Deluxe, Auger, Positronic, Egoist, Crystalline Stricture, Meteor, CZARINA & Straplocked, Conscience, Batch ID, Mari Kattman, and Terrordyne!
New Tunesday: new releases from the last week! Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM, Industrial, Post-Punk, Darkwave, Dark Electro, Synthwave, and more! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Go see them on tour! Today's episode features new releases by Schwarzschild, Acid Fader, Formato Negativo, Rayne Reznor, smilegroup, skimode, The Grey Disorder, Jigsaw Sequence, VDevil, Cassetter, Carpenter Brut & Yann Ligner, Vandal Moon, Matthias & Marss, Avoid-A-Void, ReveLever, Neon Nox, GlitterWølf, She Hates Emotions, Comaduster, DI_ove & Leæther Strip, Analogue Electronic Whatever, Daniel Deluxe, Auger, Positronic, Egoist, Crystalline Stricture, Meteor, CZARINA & Straplocked, Conscience, Batch ID, Mari Kattman, and Terrordyne!
New Tunesday: new releases from the last week! Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM, Industrial, Post-Punk, Darkwave, Dark Electro, Synthwave, and more! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Go see them on tour! Today's episode features new releases by Schwarzschild, Acid Fader, Formato Negativo, Rayne Reznor, smilegroup, skimode, The Grey Disorder, Jigsaw Sequence, VDevil, Cassetter, Carpenter Brut & Yann Ligner, Vandal Moon, Matthias & Marss, Avoid-A-Void, ReveLever, Neon Nox, GlitterWølf, She Hates Emotions, Comaduster, DI_ove & Leæther Strip, Analogue Electronic Whatever, Daniel Deluxe, Auger, Positronic, Egoist, Crystalline Stricture, Meteor, CZARINA & Straplocked, Conscience, Batch ID, Mari Kattman, and Terrordyne!
La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy: Cumplimos 5 años (min 5:00); Precesión de Schwarzschild y el agujero negro supermasivo de nuestra galaxia (12:00); Enfermedad de Parkinson (32:30); El esqueleto del espinoforosaurio (1:18:00); Adiós a Teresa Rodrigo (1:38:00); Violación de simetría CP en neutrinos (1:46:00); La física de Stephen Wolfram (2:19:00). En la foto, de arriba a abajo y de izquierda a derecha: Sara Robisco, Héctor Socas, Alberto Aparici, Ignacio Crespo, Francis Villatoro. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace... y a veces ni eso. CB:SyR es una colaboración del Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos de Tenerife con el Área de Investigación y la UC3 del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
La tertulia semanal en la que repasamos las últimas noticias de la actualidad científica. En el episodio de hoy: Cumplimos 5 años (min 5:00); Precesión de Schwarzschild y el agujero negro supermasivo de nuestra galaxia (12:00); Enfermedad de Parkinson (32:30); El esqueleto del espinoforosaurio (1:18:00); Adiós a Teresa Rodrigo (1:38:00); Violación de simetría CP en neutrinos (1:46:00); La física de Stephen Wolfram (2:19:00). En la foto, de arriba a abajo y de izquierda a derecha: Sara Robisco, Héctor Socas, Alberto Aparici, Ignacio Crespo, Francis Villatoro. Todos los comentarios vertidos durante la tertulia representan únicamente la opinión de quien los hace... y a veces ni eso. CB:SyR es una colaboración del Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos de Tenerife con el Área de Investigación y la UC3 del Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
Bulunduğumuz haftanın bilim dünyasından önemli gelişmeleri sizler için derledik. Hydroxychloroquine: small effects in mild disease. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41577-020-0315-4 How COVID-19 could ruin weather forecasts and climate records. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00924-6 The projected timing of abrupt ecological disruption from climate change. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2189-9 An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2149-4 Deep CO2 in the end Triassic Central Atlantic Magmatic Province. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15325-6 Neutrinos could shed light on why the Universe has so much more matter than antimatter. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01022-3 Detection of the Schwarzschild precession in the orbit of the star S2 near the Galactic centre massive black hole. https://www.eso.org/public/archives/releases/sciencepapers/eso2006/eso2006a.pdf An extremely energetic supernova from a very massive star in a dense medium. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-020-1066-7 Intracranial effects of microgravity: A prospective longitudinal MRI study. https://pubs.rsna.org/doi/10.1148/radiol.2020191413 The gut brain axis mediates sugar preference. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2199-7 The gut microbiome: an unexpected player in cancer immunity. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0959438819301096?via%3Dihub Injured adult neurons regress to an embryonic transcriptional growth state. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2200-5 White matter hyperintensities mediate the association of nocturnal blood pressure with cognition. https://n.neurology.org/content/early/2020/04/15/WNL.0000000000009316 An in vivo platform to select and evolve aggregation resistant proteins. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15667-1 Minimum epistasis interpolation for sequence function relationships. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15512-5 This might be the longest creature ever seen in the ocean. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/science/longest-animal-ocean.html Bize 101.podcast.info@gmail.com adresinden ulaşabilirsiniz.
Synthentral 20200207 Flashback Friday Flashback Friday: songs anywhere from 1978 to 2018! Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM, Industrial, Darkwave, Synthwave, and so much more! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Go see them on tour! Today's episode features music by Schwarzschild, Position Parallèle, Noise Resistance, Synths Versus Me, Zone Tripper, Technoid, Invisible Limits, Rector Scanner, Holm/Mirland, Libra, Mental Minority, Shadows & Mirrors, CONFORMCO, Raindancer, Electronic, Haberdashery, Nitzer Ebb, Empty, Vox Celesta, New Order, Code 64, GlitterWølf, Gradual Hate, Wave In Head, Cosmicity, The Girl & The Robot, and Client!
Synthentral 20200207 Flashback Friday Flashback Friday: songs anywhere from 1978 to 2018! Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM, Industrial, Darkwave, Synthwave, and so much more! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Go see them on tour! Today's episode features music by Schwarzschild, Position Parallèle, Noise Resistance, Synths Versus Me, Zone Tripper, Technoid, Invisible Limits, Rector Scanner, Holm/Mirland, Libra, Mental Minority, Shadows & Mirrors, CONFORMCO, Raindancer, Electronic, Haberdashery, Nitzer Ebb, Empty, Vox Celesta, New Order, Code 64, GlitterWølf, Gradual Hate, Wave In Head, Cosmicity, The Girl & The Robot, and Client!
Synthentral 20200207 Flashback Friday Flashback Friday: songs anywhere from 1978 to 2018! Futurepop, Synthpop, EBM, Industrial, Darkwave, Synthwave, and so much more! Give the bands a listen and if you like what you hear then support the bands! Buy their music! Like their social media pages! Go see them on tour! Today's episode features music by Schwarzschild, Position Parallèle, Noise Resistance, Synths Versus Me, Zone Tripper, Technoid, Invisible Limits, Rector Scanner, Holm/Mirland, Libra, Mental Minority, Shadows & Mirrors, CONFORMCO, Raindancer, Electronic, Haberdashery, Nitzer Ebb, Empty, Vox Celesta, New Order, Code 64, GlitterWølf, Gradual Hate, Wave In Head, Cosmicity, The Girl & The Robot, and Client!
A brief interview with Living Legend Shimon Schwartzchild. He is a famous environmentalist who has been fighting for Earth and its inhabitants healthy living for decades. Look him up. Google him he is extraordinary. What a gift to spend time with him. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/SupaTea/support
A photographer and a writer, both who grew up in military families, are collaborating to examine the growth industry of homeland security in the United States for an upcoming book.Danny Goodwin, a photographer and an associate professor of art, and Edward Schwarzschild, an associate professor of English, have conducted dozens of interviews with current and former DHS and intelligence personnel over the course of two years.The book, tentatively titled Job Security, will feature interviews edited by Schwarzschild as well as portraits and other photographic works by Goodwin.On this episode, Schwarzschild shares about his time working for the TSA. He also wrote about his experience as an airport security guard for The Guardian in 2017. Learn more about Schwarzschild's work.Photo credit: “Claymore (Inert)”, 2017. 44 x 54” Pigment Print by Danny Goodwin. View more of Goodwin's recent work.The UAlbany News Podcast is hosted and produced by Sarah O'Carroll, a Communications Specialist at the University at Albany, State University of New York, with production assistance by Patrick Dodson and Scott Freedman.Have a comment or question about one of our episodes? You can email us at mediarelations@albany.edu, and you can find us on Twitter @UAlbanyNews.
Chris und Moni reden über die analogen Dinge. Von schönen Kameras über Prozesse bei der Arbeit mit Film bis zu analogen Kuriositäten. Die Reise wird spannend und vielfältig.
Dominio Digital | 19 de abril de 2019 1:00 No todo es bitcoin en el mundo de las criptomonedas: la BNB (Binance Coin) supera su valor nominal y está a punto de convertirse en criptomoneda de referencia. 5:30 Qué puede y podrá hacer la tecnología por la reconstrucción de la catedral de Notre Dame. La empresa de videojuegos Ubisoft ayudará a la restauración gracias a que uno de sus juegos, el Assasin's Creed, posee la digitalización de toda la catedral tanto por fuera como por dentro. 8:13 Script realizado por Fernando para calcular cual debería ser el tamaño de un telescopio para poder llegar a observar, por ejemplo, la bandera estadounidense en la luna y además para calcular el radio de Schwarzschild. 9:34 Fernando analiza una teoría sobre fotones compartida por un oyente: "el achanchamiento de los fotones". 12:33 Luego del 512K en 2014, ahora nos acercamos al 768K que marca el límite de tamaño de las tablas de ruteo en algunos routers. 16:30 El 7 de mayo se lanza la XBOX S que ya no tiene lector de blu-ray. Cuál es el futuro de la consola como tal. 20:43 Invitado: Maximiliano Firtman, director de ITMaster. Amazon pierde el 1% de ventas si tarda 100 ms. de más en cargar su página web. Cómo y por qué mejorar la web performance de un sitio. Charla online organizada por LatinCloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb__cEIdfh8 36:10 Ejemplos de mala web performance: citar recursos externos, scripts de db mal hechos. Pruebas de stress de un servidor. Joel: "Los sitios también envejecen". 41:10 Discusión de antaño: ¿por qué la gente no migra a Linux? Fernando analiza el enfoque de la premisa en base a dos artículos. 43:37 Alejandro le hace una mosqueta matemática de 3 cartas a Claudio. El problema de Monty Hall. Probabilidad y estadística. 50:42 ¿Cual es el circuito para obtener Bitcoins y poder utilizarlos como medio de compra? ¡Gracias Cristian Kirk por armar el índice!
Edición Limitada - 11 de Marzo del 2019. Producción, realización y conducción: Gustavo Verduzco. Presentando música de Frozen Plasma, Sea of Sin, Heliophile, Mind Machine, Howard Jones, TR/ST, Future Lied To Us, Scheuber, Mental Discipline, AD:Key con Die Robo Sapiens, Komor Kommando con Lis Van Den Akker, Love?, Aïboforcen, Wort-Ton, VNV Nation, Blutengel, Unity One, Dark-O-Matic, Dunkelwerk, Schwarzschild, Noisuf-X, Front Line Assembly y Covenant.
Monday, Feb 18, 2019: Communion After Dark -- featuring the latest and best in alternative-electronic music -- spins new music from Blutengel, Front Line Assembly, Mr.Kitty, Xeno and Oaklander, Die Selektion, Schwarzschild, ESC, Cold Cave and more!
Monday, Feb 18, 2019: Communion After Dark -- featuring the latest and best in alternative-electronic music -- spins new music from Blutengel, Front Line Assembly, Mr.Kitty, Xeno and Oaklander, Die Selektion, Schwarzschild, ESC, Cold Cave and more!
In terms of sheer hostility to human life, this remote and little-known range is second to none. One unlucky climber finds out why a third of all who summit The Mountain do not return to tell the tale. Credits: Narrated by Marissa Chin Written and produced by Doryen Chin Sensitivity Reader: Auden Granger "Deep Horrors" "Deep Noise" "Departure Ghostpocalypse" "Echoes of Time v2" "Medusa" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ "Spirit of the Dead" by Aakash Gandhi The Beacon Jar - Copyright 2018 Doryen Chin Transcript and Content Warnings under the cut: ----more---- [content warning: gaslighting, descriptions of corpses, descriptions of mental illness] Note: The audio you will hear is slightly altered from the text below, but the transcript is accurate for most purposes. MOUNTAIN Written by Doryen Chin My name is Agatha Bembridge, and it is by pure, dumb, terrible luck that I am alive. So that no one will go seeking to verify my account for themselves, I will keep the name of The Mountain a secret. Some of my peers may be able to guess its identity by deduction through any clues I unintentionally provide. But, it is my sincere hope that my reputation and this warning alone will be enough to give them pause. The two-week hike up to Base Camp was as slow and arduous as I'd heard, even after eighteen months of training and planning. I was traveling with a handful of guides who were native to the region, as well as a wealthy European couple making their second attempt at the summit. We had to stop several times along the way to visit various temples and villages, so that our guides could pray for safe passage into these barren lands. On the evening of the twelfth day, we arrived. Normally, the first night at Base Camp is spent in relatively good spirits. Just getting here is a small miracle in its own right, and it's rightly celebrated by most who make the trip in one piece. However on the night of our arrival, we were greeted by ashen, solemn faces. News from a party descending the summit had just come in. One of their climbers had died. The party leader, Helen Schwarzschild, had lost her son, William, shortly after they began their downward climb from the peak. We sat in relative silence, our dinners growing cold on our plates as the remaining survivors emerged from the darkness. The fact is, nearly a third of all climbers who reach the summit of The Mountain do not return. In terms of difficulty, there are several more challenging peaks in the world. But in terms of sheer hostility to human life, this remote and little-known range is second to none. The thing which makes the mountain so deadly is a subject of contention, however. You see, most deaths which occur on The Mountain aren't the result of a bad fall, or an avalanche, or an injury of any kind. Though, that does happen on occasion. No, most people who die on The Mountain, simply stop climbing, sit down, and never get back up again. They call it, “Mountain Sickness.” According to Captain Schwarzschild, the manner of her son's demise was congruous with the others. He was tied to her life line when he perished, and she had to cut him loose with her own knife. There's a saying, popular among many mountaineers and alpinists familiar with the perils of high-altitude climbing. “Those who die on The Mountain, stay on The Mountain.” Despite the best efforts of the local government, most who perish near the summit must remain there indefinitely. Too costly to find, or too inaccessible to reach. But, the attempt must be made. The European couple offered to cover the cost of the extra climbing and retrieval gear for the guides, as well as any incidentals incurred along the way. At first, the grieving mother was reluctant to accept their charity, insisting that the insurance would cover it. But it didn't. The only indignity it spared her that day was the “littering” fee imposed by the local government, for leaving the boy's corpse on the mountainside. In the morning, it was decided that our local guides would accompany us up the mountain to assess the possibility of retrieving the boy's body, and, if it was feasible, bring him back down. After a light breakfast, while the weight of the evening's tragedy still hung on our hearts, we were given the go by the Weather Team to set out on the first leg of our expedition. Due to the extreme altitude, we could not actually attempt to summit the peak for several more days. The first week of our climb would be spent between Camp One and Camp Two as our bodies acclimatized to the low oxygen environment. Like many of the world's highest peaks, Camp One on The Mountain lies nearly a thousand meters above Base Camp, on a narrow ledge accessible only by ascending a treacherous ice fall. For those who don't know, an ice fall is basically a river of solid ice, running down the mountain like a glacier at a rate of about six feet per day. It can calve without warning, sending boulders of ice the size of houses, weighing twelve-hundred tons each, crashing down on you. If you're lucky, you die instantly. We reached the ice fall as the sun was beginning to rise over the eastern range, and began our ascent once we had checked in with the Weather Team. There are no fixed ropes on the ice fall. It's a six-hundred-meter free-climb over ever-shifting terrain, across crevasses up to thirty feet wide and immeasurably deep. In order to cross, several steel ladders must be lashed together and laid over the chasm. Then a guide may carefully traverse this makeshift “bridge” and anchor a rope to the other side. Our guides had done it so many times, they simply walked across. The ladder jostled and creaked under their feet as they did so. Watching them, I could not help but imagine how easy it would be to slip into that crushing abyss. Unable to climb out again. Unable to be rescued. Sliding helplessly down razor sharp ice walls and disappearing into darkness. I actually don't remember crossing that first time. I know I must have. I just remember being afraid and then, around mid-afternoon, we arrived at Camp One. Memory is a strange thing. We don't get to choose what sticks. Forced to remember things we wish we could forget, yet somehow always forgetting where we put our keys. While the rest of the team prepared Camp One, the guides continued to climb to Camp Two to see if they could spot William's remains from that clearer vantage. Several hours later, just after the sun had disappeared below the western horizon, they returned. We had dinner waiting for them, and as they sat down to eat, one of the Europeans asked the question nobody else wanted to ask. Had they seen him? The head guide, who I'll call Tam (though that was not his name), shook his head and explained that high winds had ruined visibility on the upper mountain. They would have to continue up with us to Camp Three and then decide if it was worth it for them to carry the cumbersome rescue supplies any further. Under that pall of uncertainty, we tucked into our tents to sleep. I was awakened in the middle of the night by the sudden howling of frozen wind. Bewildered, I clicked on my flashlight and found myself staring out the open entry of my tent. The outer flap whipped around like a flag against the darkness. My sleep-dull mind struggled to comprehend what I was seeing until I realized, with mounting shock, someone had zipped open my tent while I was sleeping. My heart pounding, I scrambled to the front of my tent and reached outside to pull the flap closed again. Idiot. It was like dunking my hand in a freezing river. The bitter wind burned as I fumbled with the zipper. Once I had finally re-sealed the tent I collapsed, cradling it. I must have sat there for ages, replaying the evening over and over in my head. I knew that I had secured my tent. Someone must have opened it, either on purpose or by accident, and left the flap open, exposing me to hypothermia, frostbite, or worse. I got on the radio and demanded to know if anyone else was awake, if anyone else had heard anything. After a minute, one of the Europeans came on and asked if I needed help, if they should contact Base Camp. I told them what happened, and to their credit, they took the situation seriously. Within an hour, they had awakened the entire team, and the guides, and demanded an explanation. As we sat shivering in our own tents, huddled over our radios, some folks became understandably defensive. No one would admit to leaving their tents after dark, and all happened to have a credible witness to their whereabouts. Then the questions were turned on me. Was anything missing? Was I touched inappropriately? Was there any evidence that anyone had actually been in the tent? I explained that no, nothing was missing, the only thing that was violated was my privacy and safety from the cold. One of the other members of the team suggested that perhaps I hadn't properly secured my tent that night, and it was my fault that it came open. We didn't speak much after that. The following morning was tense and uncomfortable, our optimism dampened by interrupted sleep and accusations of impropriety. In light of... what happened later, I struggled over whether I should have apologized. In the end, I came to the conclusion that no matter the true perpetrator of the infraction, I was well justified in my actions and behavior. It's bad enough to be endangered in such a way, much less to have my own competency questioned rather than the intentions of others. I simply wish that the others gave my experience as much credit as they did their own professions of innocence. It was made clear, not in words but in actions and the silences, that I would from now on be treated only with kid gloves and polite tolerance. That is, except for the European couple, who seemed to genuinely sympathize, and offered to let me share their tent. I regret that I declined. Though if it might've done any good in the end, I really can't say. We spent the next week, climbing back and forth between Camps One and Two, until we were given the all-clear to proceed to Camp Three. As they had done before, our guides - who were still committed to retrieving the remains of young William Schwarzschild, climbed on ahead of us on the first day to see if they could determine his location. Again, they failed. As a means of boosting morale, the European couple broke out the special food they had been saving for Summit Day, and shared it among the rest of the camp. We spent the evening singing songs and telling old climbing stories until we had nearly forgotten the emotional challenges we had faced so far on our journey. For that brief moment, the mountain was just a mountain, and we were all just good friends. To say that the climb from Camp Three to Camp Four is challenging is less of an understatement and more of an outright lie. There is only one passable route, and only one climber at a time can negotiate it safely. It involves twenty feet of inverted free-climb, and the fixed ropes have a tendency to bunch and tangle there, which slows progress to a crawl. It is understood that the most experienced climbers always go up first. This, of course, meant the guides, followed by the European couple, then me, then the rest of the team. Dangling by your hands from frozen rock, with only half an inch of slack nylon between you and certain death, is an enlightening experience. You're so high up that the sky seems to be all around you in almost every direction. It's easy to get confused, lose track of “up and down.” At one point my brain panicked and insisted that I was falling into that blue-black abyss, and that I should turn around and climb back to safety. A nano-second later, my training kicked in and I froze in place, clutching my life line in a death grip, realizing that I had just nearly let myself fall. My heart pounding in my ears, I slowly and deliberately ascended the remainder of the climb to Camp Four. With all climbers present and safely inside Camp Four, we proudly radio'd to Base Camp that we had completed the first half of our expedition to the summit. From there on out, the summit attempt was broken into smaller teams. For obvious reasons, I had already decided to partner with the European couple, and when it came time to break into teams I made my preference known. This was when the friendly facade of the group finally began to crack, because it would mean that the most experienced climbers were all grouped together, while the lesser experienced ones would be left to fend for themselves. The guides tried to explain that they would do their best to spread themselves evenly between all teams, but for one climber in particular, this was not a satisfactory solution. This was the same man who had suggested that it was my own fault that my tent had come open on our first night on the mountain. It was eventually decided that he would be partnered with the European couple, and that I would help lead one of the lower experience teams. Finally, under a tense peace, we turned in for the evening. I couldn't sleep. Between the stress of the climb, the worsening social friction, and the decreasing prospects of retrieving the boy's remains, my mind was a whirlwind of doubt. I was lonely and desperate for company, perhaps that's why at around 1:30 in the morning I found myself clutching my radio in my lap. The channel open. Just listening to the static. I had just nearly began to drift off when the radio emitted a sharp, piercing squeal. I was so startled I reflexively threw it across my tent where it landed behind my pack with a soft thud. The squeal continued, now muffled, and I don't know if it was just my mind playing tricks on me or not, but, I swear it sounded like someone screaming. Feeling immediately foolish, I nevertheless couldn't bring myself to retrieve it. In the back of my mind, I suppose part of me hoped that someone else would hear it and respond, but no one did. It got louder and louder until I couldn't stand it and had to cover my ears and squeeze my eyes shut. The screeching went on for over a minute and then, without any drama whatsoever, it stopped. Cautiously, I opened my eyes and leaned forward, afraid that it might start up again any moment, but it didn't. When I finally worked up the courage to crawl over to it, I found that it was dead and would not turn on again. I pulled open the battery compartment and checked the internals, but everything seemed to be fine. No sign of a blown fuse, no melted plastic. Aside from a faint whiff of ozone, there seemed to be absolutely no sign at all of anything wrong with it. The adrenaline wore off pretty quickly after that, and in the ensuing lethargy I finally found sleep. In the morning, I quietly asked one of the Europeans if their radios were working okay. They said that as far as they knew, they were working fine. I asked if they had heard anything or been woken up by any loud noises, but they again said they'd experienced nothing of the sort. When I saw the barely hidden worried look they gave to their partner, I stopped pressing and just asked if they had any extra batteries I might borrow. They kindly obliged, and when I told them not to mention it to the other climbers, they silently agreed. With clearance from the Weather Team, we were given the go-ahead to ascend to Camp Five, which would be the staging point for our summit attempts. Each team would go up and come down in turns while the rest of us waited behind in order to keep the lanes clear. Everything above Camp Five exists entirely within the Death Zone, where the oxygen content of the atmosphere is around 30% of that at sea level. Most folks bring their own oxygen regulators, which can be heavy and cumbersome. Many more “adventurous” climbers choose to do without. I was halfway up the nearly vertical rock face when out of the corner of my eye, I saw him. I knew exactly what he looked like. That young man's face was burned into my memory ever since my first night at Base Camp. And now there he was. Crouched in the snow, eighty feet above me was William Schwarzschild. I screamed. I couldn't help it. I had seen the bodies of fallen climbers before. It's an occupational hazard. But something about seeing him there, out in the open like that. It turned me inside out. Hearing my scream, the other climbers halted to check if I was alright. My arm tight around my support rope, I pointed with my free hand toward William's body. However, it would seem that due to the awkward angle of the slope, surrounded as it was by jutting crags and uneven ice, I was the only person in the entire team who had a clear line of sight to the corpse. And, since I was the last one up, there was no-one behind me to corroborate. Tam, the head guide, agreed to climb down and check for himself once I had pulled myself up to Camp Five. Not wanting to wait behind and miss their summit window, the first two teams embarked on their run while my team and I waited for Tam to verify what I had seen. After nearly an hour had gone by, I began to worry. The other two members of my team sat huddled together by their tent, whispering to each other while I waited at the edge of the ridge for Tam to return. The first team had already summited the peak and were on their way back down by the time he finally appeared again. He explained that he had taken a long time because about a quarter of the way down, his ropes had gotten tangled and he had to stop to sort them out. By the time he had reached the point where I was able to spot William's body, the sun's position had shifted and made it difficult to discern it from the surrounding rock and snow. He said he had no way of being sure whether it really was William's body, and if it was, it was much further from Camp Five than he had expected it to be. According to Mrs. Schwarzschild, William died close to the camp, and therefore his body should have been much more accessible. He explained that if it truly was William's body, the likelihood of retrieving him was, he was sorry to say, slim to none. We waited patiently for the first two teams to return from their summit attempt. When the first team arrived the guides that came with them conferred with Tam and confirmed his assessment of the situation. It simply was not worth the risk to attempt to retrieve William's body from the place where it had come to rest. As the second team trickled into the camp, Tam radioed down to Base Camp to relay the news and offer his apologies. The mother was inconsolable. She flew into a rage and demanded that Tam and his team perform another, more thorough search. She was absolutely adamant that William had perished not fifty feet from Camp Five, and could not have moved or fallen in the intervening days since. Somehow my name was dragged into the ensuing dispute, as I was the first person who spotted the body, and she got it into her head that it was my testimony alone that informed the decision not to attempt the retrieval. Ultimately she handed off the radio and refused to continue talking to us after insisting that she'd put together her own rescue team and bring him down herself. By the time the situation had been thoroughly deliberated, and my team was preparing to make our summit attempt, we got word from Base Camp that a weather system was moving in and the mountain would be impassable within a few hours. Sure enough, a thick haze had enveloped the entire eastern face and the winds were growing fiercer by the minute. We decided to hunker down and make our summit attempt in the morning while the other two teams were descending back to Camp Four. We each took our dinners alone in our tents, listening to the wind moan and scream through the camp. I read while I ate, grateful for the dog-eared copy of We Have Always Lived in the Castle that I always kept in my bag. Knowing I would need to be well-rested for my summit run in the morning, I took a sleep-aid with dinner and kept my lantern as dim as I could read by. I went to bed not long after I finished dinner and fell fast asleep. From deep within the well of sleep, I slowly became aware of the sound of a deliberate, rhythmic scraping, somewhere nearby. Do you know what somnambulance is? It's the scientific word for walking in your sleep, and a known but rare side-effect of the particular sleep-aid which I had taken that night with my dinner. A sleep-aid that I have personally used for years, without any problems, complications, or issues whatsoever. I don't remember exactly why I woke up, only that I when I did, I found myself inexplicably outside in the dark, about thirty feet away from the safety of the camp. It was such a surreal feeling that at first, I thought I must have been dreaming. Then I became aware of my hands, tightly gripping a fixed rope. After a moment's examination, I realized that somehow I had gotten dressed, laced my boots, strapped on my headlamp, left my tent, and was preparing to rappel down the mountainside when I awoke. Or at least, that's what I thought. But then, that sound came back to me. The odd, rhythmic scraping. I turned to look and found myself facing the edge of the ridge, beyond which was the 90 degree rock face between camps Four and Five, not twenty feet away. Then I felt it. A gentle tug on the rope in my hand. I stared down, watching it. With every little soft scrape in the distance, the rope tugged a little at my clenched hands. I immediately dropped the rope and fell against the icy slope. The scrapes were growing louder, nearer. Suddenly the rope became taut and creaked liked it was supporting something heavy. I couldn't look away. I just sat there, watching and listening as the rope creaked and twisted. Something was climbing the rope, that was the only explanation. And all I knew in that moment was that whoever it was... whatever it was... I did not want to see it. Panic knotted my gut, and I began to fearfully pat myself all over, searching my pockets and belt, until finally, as the taste of bile rose in my mouth, I produced my pocket knife. The thing was barely a few feet from the edge of the ridge as I once again took hold of the rope in my trembling hands and began to saw through it. I squeezed my eyes closed tight against the freezing wind and the fear of even catching a single glimpse of what was coming, and worked through the sturdy cord for what felt like an eternity until finally, with a soft snap, it gave. The rope slipped from my hands and slithered quickly over the edge and disappeared into the endless void beyond. Sitting there in the snow and wind and darkness, thousands and thousands of feet above the rest of the world, I listened hard for the sound of impact. For a scream. For anything. But there was nothing. Only the wind. I struggled to push myself out of bed the following morning, the possible ramifications of what I'd done weighed heavy on my mind. What if I'd made a mistake? What if it wasn't... Then I remembered. The two teams who had made the summit yesterday were descending this morning. Whatever I had cut loose in the night would be discovered within the hour. I hastily threw on my gear and joined my team outside, wanting to appear as calm and unassuming as possible. My teammates were already agitated, and asked me why I wasn't responding to my radio. I told them that I had unintentionally slept-in and that my radio had been on the fritz for the last few days. As we knelt down to discuss our plan of attack, Tam the guide came over and quietly asked if he could speak with me alone for a moment. My blood ran cold, but I did not let my anxiety show. I nodded and stood to join him. Walking away, I could feel the eyes of my teammates burning a hole in my back as they stared. Once we were alone, Tam gave a wary glance back at the camp and I could see the exhaustion in his face. Something was bothering him. He looked back and me and he held my gaze and told me that, I shouldn't blame myself. It wasn't my fault. I must have looked confused, because he asked, hadn't I heard? And I responded, hadn't I heard what? His expression turned grim, and said, he thought I knew. Apparently, sometime in the night, Helen Schwartzschild, William's mother, had disappeared from Basecamp. I was gutted. The world turned under me and Tam caught me as I fell. I was sick in the snow, and began to weep openly, in ugly coughing sobs. Everyone nearby immediately went silent and turned to watch my humiliating breakdown. After several minutes, I realized that someone had brought me toilet paper and tea. As I blew the snot from my nose, Tam sat beside me and told me that, it would be okay if I didn't want to attempt the summit today. I could go back down with the first two teams and he would lead my team for me. I wanted to. God. I wish I had. But I didn't. I shook my head, “no” and told him that I had come this far already. I told him that I owed it to William and to Helen and myself to keep moving forward. In reality, it was cowardice that made me do it. In the end, I simply did not want to face whatever was waiting at the bottom of that fall. If only I'd known. We began our summit attempt before the first two teams had even finished packing their gear. I took lead, and Tam brought up the rear. There are a few different routes which one can take to reach the summit from Camp Five. Each has their own benefits and drawbacks, though only one is significantly more challenging than the rest. More challenging, but not necessarily more dangerous. This was the route I had logged in my flight plan, and I saw no convincing reason why I should've changed my mind so late in the game. So that was the one we took. Perhaps it was pride, or perhaps it was just the simple fact that it's difficult to dwell on other things, while your life is hanging on the strength of your fingers and toes, as you cling to a steep wall of wind-blasted ice and stone a over a mile high. As we approached the peak, breathing heavy into our O2 regulators, I began to feel a sharp pain in my chest. It spread slowly and made me shiver in a way that had nothing to do with the frozen air around me. I could see the summit. And beyond it was... absolutely nothing for miles and miles. That sensation akin to vertigo gripped me again, and I fought to maintain my grasp on perceiving up from down as gravity itself seemed to become confused. I heard a muffled voice call out and realized that it was Tam. I turned and saw him behind me, and he was scared. Seeing his fear, I took a deep breath from my regulator and gave him a thumbs up. We were almost there. Have you ever been so exhausted, so relentlessly tired, that your body somehow takes over for you? Puts you on autopilot? That's how it felt, scaling those last few dozen feet toward the final precipice at the top of the mountain. At precisely 1:37 PM, I set foot on the summit of The Mountain. Being the first up, I helped the others one by one as they joined me at the summit. Remarkably, it was Tam's first time. I only found that out after he had joined me there. There was cheers and shouts and celebration from everyone, and for a moment I forgot my fear. I forgot the cold sharp pain that continued to grow under my ribs. Everyone posed for a few photos and I guess I must have as well, though I don't remember it. No, the next thing I remember is the call. Tam's radio chirped and he answered it, still cheesing from the rush of his achievement. As he shouted back and forth into the radio, I felt that the hairs on the very back of my neck had begun to prickle and stand up. Who was he talking to? I couldn't make it out over the roar of wind in my ears as it rushed over my parka. I saw him look at me. He nodded and shouted into the radio, then leaned over to ask me something. I looked at him, saw that his lips were moving, but I couldn't make out a single word. I just frowned and shook my head. I've forgotten so much. They say that happens when your brain is exposed to a low-oxygen environment for too long. You get gaps in your memory, develop behavioral problems. Over time, through therapy, they can reverse most of it. Of all the things I've forgotten from the expedition, I wish I could forget what happened next. Within moments, the others had begun to descend from the summit, and Tam helped me to follow him. But after a few feet I stopped. For the first time since reaching the summit, I did the one thing I dreaded more than anything since we set out that morning. But I had do. There was no avoiding it. I looked down. And there, beyond Tam, beyond the other climbers of my team, on a bare outcropping of rock amongst the sea of snow and ice, she stood. Unable to look away, I croaked, “Mrs. Schwarzschild.” Tam, who was reaching out to take my hand, froze as I spoke, and said, “Aggie, it's not your fault.” “What?” I asked, blinking hard against the blinding sun and the tears stinging my eyes. “There was nothing you could have done.” He said. As I stared at Mrs. Schwarzschild, I saw that her skin was rough and taut. Her hair was tangled and matted with ice. Chapped lips framed her mouth which hung dully open. Tam seized my hand and coaxed me forward, but I froze. “She's there.” I said. He looked around at the other climbers, exasperated. “Aggie, they found her body. Didn't you hear?” That did it. I looked at him as he indicated his radio. “She froze to death on the ice-fall, a few hundred feet from Basecamp.” My heart dropped as I turned back to where I had seen her and saw that somehow, while I had averted my gaze, she had halved the distance between us and now stood only a hundred feet below us. Not only her. Over her shoulder, crouched in the snow as I had first seen him, was William. But they were not alone. All over the mountainside I perceived them. Dozens. Hundreds. Twisted, desiccated corpses with yawning mouths and sun-yellowed teeth. Staring helplessly out of shrunken, dried sockets. But they weren't truly dead. They were still here. All of them, trapped here. Trapped inside. I couldn't breathe. I couldn't move. My body was dying. The terrible icy pain in my chest had spread throughout my entire body and I was paralyzed. Tam watched me sink to my knees and reflexively reached out to catch me, and in doing so he lost his own balance and tumbled down onto the icy slope below us. The slack ran out on his lifeline and I was immediately yanked down behind him, and somehow, in the rush of falling, I felt my hand take hold of my pick. My training, the countless hours of purposefully sliding and falling took over, and it was pure instinct that dug my pick into the rapidly passing ice and slowed our fall enough for Tam to regain control. It's been almost a year since it happened. a take medication for the nightmares, and these days I don't dream at all. But the thing I long for most is solitude. I cannot remember the last time that I was alone. Unable to visit me in my dreams, I am forced to endure them in broad daylight. They say that what dies on the mountain, stays on the mountain. God. I wish that was true.
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2013 Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation: Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference
Emmy Noether, matemática y física teórica, nació en Erlangen (Alemania) el 23 de Marzo de 1882. Venciendo las barreras que impedían cursar estudios universitarios a las mujeres, en 1903, Emmy asistió en Gottingen a las clases de grandes físicos y matemáticos como Schwarzschild , Minkowski y principalmente Hilbert. Hilbert, reconociendo su talento e ideas, invitó a Emmy para trabajar en Gottingen, en contra de la opinión de determinados sectores del estamento universitario. Cierto tiempo después, a pesar de la carga de las clases y de no cobrar por ellas, Emmy Noether estableció y probó el teorema de la Física Teórica que lleva su nombre.
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Fakultät für Physik - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU - Teil 05/05
We formulate a quantum theory of classical solutions in gravity and field theory in terms of a large number of constituent degrees of freedom. The description is realized in two different ways. In the first part we introduce the so-called auxiliary current description. The basic idea is to represent the true quantum state of the solution one considers in terms of a multi- local composite operator of the fields of the microscopic theory. Although the approach is completely general, we will be mostly interested in representing black holes as bound states of a large number of gravitons. We show how the mass of the black hole arises microscopically as a collective effect of N gravitons composing the bound state. For that purpose we compute observables associated to the black hole interior such as the constituent density of gravitons and their energy density, respectively. As a next step, it is shown how these observables can be embedded within S-matrix processes. In particular, it is demonstrated that an outside observer has access to the black hole interior doing scattering experiments. Measuring the cross section for the scattering of particles on black holes, the outside observer is sensitive to the distribution of gravitons in the black hole. Possible implications concerning the information paradox are discussed. Finally, we show how geometric concepts, and in particular the Schwarzschild solution emerge as an effective description derived from our construction. In the second part, an alternative approach based on coherent states in presented. First, we apply our reasoning to solitons in field theory. In particular, we explicitly show how well-known properties of solitons such as interactions, false vacuum decay or conservation of topological charge follow easily from the basic properties of coherent states. Secondly, we develop in detail a similar quantum picture of instantons. Since instantons can be understood in terms of solitons in one more spatial dimension evolving in Euclidean time, a coherent state description of the latter implies a similar description of the former. Using the coherent state picture we develop a novel quantum mechanical understanding of the physics of instanton-induced transitions and the concept of resurgence. Finally, we consider solitons in supersymmetric theories. It is shown that the corpuscular effects lead to a novel mechanism of supersymmetry breaking which can never be accounted for in the semi- classical approach. In the last part of the thesis we resolve anti-de Sitter (AdS) space-time as a coherent state. On the one hand, we explain how well-known holographic and geometric properties can easily be understood in terms of the occupation number of gravitons in the state. On the other hand, we explicitly compute corpuscular corrections to the scalar propagator in AdS. Furthermore, it is shown that corpuscular effects lead to deviations from thermality an Unruh observer in AdS measures.
Fakultät für Physik - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU - Teil 05/05
In this thesis we introduce a novel approach viewing spacetime geometry as an emergent phenomenon based on the condensation of a large number of quanta on a distinguished flat background. We advertise this idea with regard to investigations of spacetime singularities within a quantum field theoretical framework and semiclassical considerations of black holes. Given that in any physical theory apart from General Relativity the metric background is determined in advance, singularities are only associated with observables and can either be removed by renormalization techniques or are otherwise regarded as unphysical. The appearance of singularities in the spacetime structure itself, however, is pathological. The prediction of said singularities in the sense of geodesic incompleteness culminated in the famous singularity theorems established by Hawking and Penrose. Though these theorems are based on rather general assumptions we argue their physical relevance. Using the example of a black hole we show that any classical detector theory breaks down far before geodesic incompleteness can set in. Apart from that, we point out that the employment of point particles as diagnostic tools for spacetime anomalies is an oversimplification that is no longer valid in high curvature regimes. In view of these results the question arises to what extent quantum objects are affected by spacetime singularities. Based on the definition of geodesic incompleteness customized for quantum mechanical test particles we collect ideas for completeness concepts in dynamical spacetimes. As it turns out, a further development of these ideas has shown that Schwarzschild black holes, in particular, allow for a evolution of quantum probes that is well-defined all over. This fact, however, must not distract from such semiclassical considerations being accompanied by many so far unresolved paradoxes. We are therefore compelled to take steps towards a full quantum resolution of geometrical backgrounds. First steps towards such a microscopic description are made by means of a non-relativistic scalar toy model mimicking properties of General Relativity. In particular, we model black holes as quantum bound states of a large number N of soft quanta subject to a strong collective potential. Operating at the verge of a quantum phase transition perturbation theory naturally breaks down and a numerical analysis of the model becomes inevitable. Though indicating 1/N corrections as advertised in the underlying so-called Quantum-N portrait relevant for a possible purification of Hawking radiation and henceforth a resolution of the long-standing information paradox we recognize that such a non-relativistic model is simply not capable of capturing all relevant requirements of a proper black hole treatment. We therefore seek a relativistic framework mapping spacetime geometry to large-N quantum bound states. Given a non-trivial vacuum structure supporting graviton condensation this is achieved via in-medium modifications that can be linked to a collective binding potential. Viewing Minkowski spacetime as fundamental, the classical notion of any other spacetime geometry is recovered in the limit of an infinite constituent number of the corresponding bound state living on Minkowski. This construction works in analogy to the description of hadrons in quantum chromodynamics and, in particular, also uses non-perturbative methods like the auxiliary current description and the operator product expansion. Concentrating on black holes we develop a bound state description in accordance with the isometries of Schwarzschild spacetime. Subsequently, expressions for the constituent number density and the energy density are reviewed. With their help, it can be concluded that the mass of a black hole at parton level is proportional to its constituent number. Going beyond this level we then consider the scattering of a massless scalar particle off a black hole. Using previous results we can explicitly show that the constituent distribution represents an observable and therefore might ultimately be measured in experiments to confirm our approach. We furthermore suggest how the formation of black holes or Hawking radiation can be understood within this framework. After all, the gained insights, capable of depriving their mysteries, highlights the dubiety of treating black holes by means of classical tools. Since our setup allows to view other, non-black-hole geometries, as bound states as well, we point out that our formalism could also shed light on the cosmological constant problem by computing the vacuum energy in a de Sitter state. In addition, we point our that even quantum chromodynamics, and, in fact, any theory comprising bound states, can profit from our formalism. Apart from this, we discuss an alternative proposal describing classical solutions in terms of coherent states in the limit of an infinite occupation number of so-called corpuscles. Here, we will focus on the coherent state description of Anti-de Sitter spacetime. Since most parts of this thesis are directed to find a constituent description of black holes we will exclude this corpuscular description from the main part and introduce it in the appendix.
Er heiratete eine Christin, die zum Judentum konvertierte. Die Familie wurde nach Gurs deportiert, er kam in Auschwitz um.
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Fakultät für Physik - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU - Teil 04/05
The work presented here focuses on the investigation and further development of simple mass estimators for early-type galaxies which are suitable for large optical galaxy surveys with poor and/or noisy data. We consider simple and robust methods that provide an anisotropy-independent estimate of the galaxy mass relying on the stellar surface brightness and projected velocity dispersion profiles. Under reasonable assumptions a fundamental mass-anisotropy degeneracy can be circumvented without invoking any additional observational data, although at a special (characteristic) radius only, i.e these approaches do not recover the radial mass distribution. Reliable simple mass estimates at a single radius could be used (i) to cross-calibrate other mass determination methods; (ii) to estimate a non-thermal contribution to the total gas pressure when compared with the X-ray mass estimate at the same radius; (iii) to evaluate a dark matter fraction when compared with the luminous mass estimate; (iv) to derive the slope of the mass profile when combined with the mass estimate from strong lensing; (v) or as a virial mass proxy. Two simple mass estimators have been suggested recently - the local (Churazov et al. 2010) and the global (Wolf et al. 2010) methods - which evaluate mass at a particular radius and are claimed to be weakly dependent on the anisotropy of stellar orbits. One approach (Wolf et al. 2010) uses the total luminosity-weighted velocity dispersion and evaluates the mass at a deprojected half-light radius, i.e. relies on the global properties of a galaxy. In contrast, the Churazov et al. technique uses local properties: logarithmic slopes of the surface brightness and velocity dispersion profiles, and recovers the mass at a radius where the surface brightness declines as R^{-2} (see also Richstone and Tremaine 1984, Gerhard 1993). To test the robustness and accuracy of the methods I applied them to analytic models and to simulated galaxies from a sample of cosmological zoom-simulations which are similar in properties to nearby early-type galaxies. Both local and global simple mass estimates are found to be in good agreement with the true mass at the corresponding characteristic radius. Particularly, for slowly rotating simulated galaxies the local method gives an almost unbiased mass-estimate (when averaged over the sample) with a modest RMS-scatter of 12% (Chapter 2). When applied to massive simulated galaxies with a roughly flat velocity dispersion profile, the global approach on average also provides the almost unbiased mass-estimate, although the RMS-scatter is slightly larger (14-20 %) than for the local estimator (Chapter 4). A noticeable scatter in the determination of the characteristic radius is also expected since the half-light radius depends on the radial range used for the analysis and applied methodology. Next I tested the simple mass estimators on a sample of real early-type galaxies which had previously been analyzed in detail using state-of-the-art dynamical modeling. For this set of galaxies the simple mass estimates are in remarkable agreement with the results of the Schwarzschild modeling despite the fact that some of the considered galaxies are flattened and mildly rotating. When averaged over the sample the simple local method overestimates the best-fit mass from dynamical modeling by 10% with the RMS-scatter 13% between different galaxies. The bias is comparable to measurement uncertainties. Moreover, it is mainly driven by a single galaxy which has been found to be the most compact one in the sample. When this galaxy is excluded from the sample, the bias and the RMS-scatter are both reduced to 6%. The global estimator for the same sample gives the mean deviation 4% with the slightly larger RMS-scatter of 15% (Chapter 4). Given the encouraging results of the tests I apply the local mass estimation method to a sample of five X-ray bright early-type galaxies observed with the 6-m telescope BTA in Russia. Using publicly available Chandra data I derived the X-ray mass profile assuming spherical symmetry and hydrostatic equilibrium of hot gas. A comparison between the X-ray and optical mass estimates allowed me to put constraints on the non-thermal contribution (sample averaged value is 4%) to the total gas pressure arising from, for instance, microturbulent gas motions. Once the X-ray derived circular speed is corrected for the non-thermal contribution, the mismatch between the X-ray circular speed V_c^X and the optical circular velocity for isotropic stellar orbits V_c^{iso} provides a clue to the orbital structure of the galaxy. E.g., at small radii V_c^X > V_c^{iso} would suggest more circular orbits, while at larger radii this would correspond to more radial orbits. For two galaxies in our sample there is a clear indication that at radii larger than the half-light radius stellar orbits become predominantly radial. Finally, the difference between the optical mass-estimate at the characteristic radius and the stellar contribution to the total mass permitted the derivation of a dark-matter fraction. A typical dark matter fraction for our sample of early-type galaxies is 50% for Salpeter IMF and 70% for Kroupa IMF at the radius which is close to the half-light radius (Chapter 3).
2013 Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation: Originalism Works-in-Progress Conference
One last key concept in Special Relativity is introduced before discussion turns again to black celestial bodies (black holes in particular) that manifest the relativistic effects students have learned about in the previous lectures. The new concept deals with describing events in a coordinate system of space and time. A mathematical explanation is given for how space and time reverse inside the Schwarzschild radius through sign changes in the metric. Evidence for General Relativity is offered from astronomical objects. The predicted presence and subsequent discovery of Neptune as proof of General Relativity are discussed, and stellar mass black holes are introduced.
Transcript: An accretion disk is a hallmark of an active galactic nucleus. Supermassive black holes accrete gas from the surrounding galaxy mostly coming from normal mass loss from stellar processes or from infall from the intergalactic medium. When this gas eventually works its way to within the central parsec, it forms a hot, dense, thick disk which shares the rotation of the embedded black hole. The characteristic temperature of this gas mixed with dust is a few tens of thousands of degrees Kelvin which means that its thermal radiation peaks in the far ultraviolet. This peak radiation is not visible from the ground and so must be observed from space. Astronomers have seen the characteristic hallmark of accretion disks in a number of AGN. The UV emission emerges from a distance of ten to a thousand times the Schwarzschild radius of the supermassive black hole.
Transcript: Stellar mass black holes are a natural anticipated consequence of stellar evolution. Evidence for their existence is strong but not beyond doubt, so most people are surprised when they hear astronomers routinely talking about the existence of supermassive black holes millions or billions of times more massive than the Sun. Yet the existence of supermassive black holes is also anticipated theoretically. A dense star cluster will naturally evolve to form a black hole with perhaps a seed mass of a hundred times the mass of the Sun. Over a billion years or so this black hole can grow by accretion and by devouring stars whole to a mass of millions of times the mass of the Sun. The dense center parts of galaxies are good environments for the growth of supermassive black holes. The Schwarzschild radius of a supermassive black hole like that in M87 is about forty astronomical units. Imagine three billion times the mass of the Sun crushed into a region the size of the solar system. Yet the density of material inside a supermassive black hole is not extraordinary. The density is only about a hundred times less than that of water, so the physical state in a supermassive black hole is not that extraordinary.
Transcript: Contrary to common belief, black holes are not vacuum cleaners that suck up everything in sight. If the Sun were instantly replaced by a black hole of the same mass, life on Earth would of course die because there would be no energy coming from the star, but the orbit of the Earth would continue essentially uninterrupted. A parsec away from a black hole the mass of the Sun, the escape velocity is a mere 94 meters per second. Forty AU away from such a black hole, the escape velocity is four kilometers per second. At the Earth’s orbit distance, one AU, the escape velocity is forty-two kilometers per second. At a distance of the Earth radius from the black hole, 6,300 kilometers, the escape velocity rises to 6,500 kilometers per second. But all the extreme effects of General Relativity on time and space occur relatively close to the event horizon. Within 1.5 Schwarzschild radii, 4.5 kilometers, the distance called the photon sphere, half the light is trapped, and at the event horizon, 1 Schwarzschild radius or 3 kilometers, all light and radiation is trapped.
Transcript: The radius corresponding to the event horizon is called the Schwarzschild radius after the first theorist who solved Einstein’s equations of General Relativity for the situation of a collapsed object. Mathematically, the Schwarzschild radius is given by twice the gravitational constant times the mass of the star divided by the velocity of light squared. This is a fairly simple relationship which means that the Schwarzschild radius scales proportionally to the mass of the star. If the Sun were turned into a black hole it would have to be compressed to three kilometers in radius, the size of a small town, but a more realistic situation is a star with a core mass of three times the mass of the Sun where the Schwarzschild radius is nine kilometers. In the theory of General Relativity any star that ends its life with a core mass of three solar masses or larger must become a black hole because no known force can prevent its collapse to within the event horizon.
One last key concept in Special Relativity is introduced before discussion turns again to black celestial bodies (black holes in particular) that manifest the relativistic effects students have learned about in the previous lectures. The new concept deals with describing events in a coordinate system of space and time. A mathematical explanation is given for how space and time reverse inside the Schwarzschild radius through sign changes in the metric. Evidence for General Relativity is offered from astronomical objects. The predicted presence and subsequent discovery of Neptune as proof of General Relativity are discussed, and stellar mass black holes are introduced.
Fakultät für Physik - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU - Teil 03/05
This thesis reports on the measurement of the masses of supermassive black holes in the centres of four galaxies using stellar dynamics. It is based on observations in the near-infrared (1.9-2.5mum) with the integral-field spectrograph SINFONI at the Very Large Telescope (VLT). These data were used to determine the motions of stars in the very centre of the galaxies, which then were modelled to derive the mass of the central black hole using the Schwarzschild method. Such measurements were until now restricted to massive and dust-free galaxies, observed with the Hubble Space Telescope in the optical wavelength range. With SINFONI and the technique of adaptive optics it is now possible to measure the mass of supermassive black holes also in dusty, low-mass and faint galaxies. This is essential in order to understand the correlations between the evolution of galaxies and the growth of central black holes. The faint elliptical galaxy NGC4486a contains a nuclear disc of dust and stars. With a velocity dispersion of 110km/s it belongs to the class of low-mass galaxies. The mass of the central black hole is M_BH=1.26x10^7 M_sun. Fornax A, a radio galaxy located in the outskirts of the Fornax galaxy cluster, experienced a recent major merger. A mass of M_BH=1.5x10^8 M_sun was derived for the central supermassive black hole. NGC3368 and NGC3489 are both galaxies which host a composite pseudobulge, i.e. a central disclike component grown via secular evolution and an additional small classical bulge. The derived masses of the central black holes are M_BH=7.5x10^6 M_sun for NGC3368 and M_BH=6.00x10^6 M_sun for NGC3489. The tight correlation between M_BH and the velocity dispersion of the galaxy bulge, which is mainly based on elliptical galaxies, seems to be also a good indicator of the black hole mass for other galaxy types. All black hole masses derived here are in agreement with this relation. The correlation between M_BH and bulge mass, however, only seems to be valid for old classical bulges. It predicts several times larger black hole masses for the merger remnant Fornax A and for the two pseudobulge galaxies. The masses of the small classical bulge components in NGC3368 and NGC3489 seem to be a much better indicator of M_BH.
Fakultät für Physik - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU - Teil 02/05
In this thesis we study two quantum aspects of black holes, their entropy and the Hawking effect. First, we present a model for the statistical interpretation of black hole entropy and show that this entropy emerges as a result of missing information about the exact state of the matter from which the black hole was formed. We demonstrate that this idea can be applied to black holes made from both ultra-relativistic and nonrelativistic particles. In the second part we focus our attention on several features of black hole evaporation. We discuss the dependence of the Hawking radiation on the vacuum definition of different observers. It becomes evident that in certain cases the choice of observer has an influence on the particle spectrum. In particular, we study the meaning of the Kruskal vacuum on the horizon. After that we determine the Hawking flux for nonstationary black holes. We find approximate coordinates which are regular on the time dependent horizon and calculate the particle density measured by an observer at infinity. Finally, we derive the response of a particle detector in curved background. In our approach we use the Unruh detector to quantify the spectrum of radiation seen by general observers in Minkowski, Schwarzschild and Vaidya space-times. We find that an arbitrarily accelerated detector in flat space-time registers a particle flux with a temperature proportional to a time dependent acceleration parameter. A detector moving in Schwarzschild space-time will register a predominantly thermal spectrum with the exact temperature depending on the observer's trajectory. If the detector is located at constant distance from the black hole it measures a shifted temperature which diverges on the horizon. On the other hand, a detector in free fall towards the black hole does not register a thermal particle flux when it crosses the horizon. In this framework corrections to the temperature measured by a detector moving in Vaidya space-time are obtained as well. We argue that our result also clarifies the role of horizons in black hole radiation.
Marianna pins her hopes of building a case against Grishin on a man with a past, an unconventional analyst for the Archon Consulting Group named Jonathan Knox. Meanwhile, half a world away, maverick cosmologist Jack Adler tries prove that the true cause of the Tunguska Event was - a submicroscopic black hole!
Fakultät für Physik - Digitale Hochschulschriften der LMU - Teil 02/05
The X-ray properties of five Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1) are analysed and presented in this dissertation. The data were collected with XMM-Newton, and to date, are of the highest quality ever obtained. Themes which have evolved and appear fundamental in understanding NLS1 are: near- or super-Eddington accretion by a "small" supermassive black hole, partial covering, and reflection. Most of the objects presented in this dissertation can adopt these principles. The main results of this work are as follow. Two observations of 1H0707-495 and one observation of IRAS 13224-3809 show sharp, spectral drops above ~7 keV (Chapters 2 and 4). The sharpness of the features, and absence of iron fluorescent emission and Kbeta UTA absorption, challenge the possibility that the drops originate from photonionisation. If partial covering from a neutral absorber is adopted then outflows on the order of 0.05-0.15 c are required. On the other hand, if the sharp drops are associated with the blue wings of relativistically broadened Fe Kalpha lines (Chapters 2 and 5) then the interpretation requires light bending close to the black hole to explain the large equivalent widths and variability properties. Both interpretations require an iron overabundance (3-10 times solar), suggesting that supersolar metallicities may simply be characteristic of NLS1, probably due to strong starburst activity close to the nucleus. The general variability properties of NLS1 remain elusive, but advances have been made. All of the Seyferts and quasars discussed here showed rapid and extreme variability at some point during the observations. IRAS 13224-3809 exhibited some of the most remarkable variability (Chapter 3). Lags between the hard and soft energy bands were detected, suggesting that fluctuations at low energies instigated variability at higher energies. However, closer inspection revealed that the lags alternate: sometimes the hard band follows, while at other times it leads. Spectral variability was determined to be correlated with flux variations, but more interestingly was the finding that the spectral variability also lagged flux variations, resulting in flux-induced spectral variability. For over 120 ks (spread over two observations), 1H0707-495 persistently displayed flux variations by at least a factor of four. During the first observation, when 1H0707-495 was in its lowest flux state ever recorded, there was no significant spectral variability. The second observation, when the source was in a higher flux state, revealed strong spectral variability. Flux and spectral fluctuation were never found to be significantly correlated (Chapter 4). The quasar, PHL 1092, exhibited some of the most striking variability considering its high luminosity (Chapter 7). Indeed, an estimate of its radiative efficiency was in excess of that expected from a Schwarzschild black hole. Interestingly, the variability appeared to be entirely concentrated in the soft-excess, with the power-law component appearing quiescent. The closest example of class behaviour seen in the variability of the group was displayed by the two quasars I Zw 1 and NAB 0205+024 (Chapters 6 and 8, respectively). Both objects exhibited a hard X-ray flare which was concentrated at energies higher than ~2 keV and accompanied by spectral variability. A scenario in which the hard X-ray flare originates in the accretion disc corona, and then irradiates the disc itself seem most applicable here. I Zw 1 has been defined as the prototype NLS1 based on its optical properties. In the X-rays it appears anything but prototypical. Significant low-energy intrinsic absorption, a weak soft-excess, and evidence for multiple iron emission lines suggest that other processes are at work (Chapter 6). PHL 1092 exhibited deviations from a power-law fit in the 2-10 keV band (Chapter 7). The difference could be interpreted as an emission line enhanced by light bending close to a Kerr black hole. The complex variability could also be understood in terms of light bending; however, partial covering could not be definitively dismissed due to the modest-quality data. NAB 0205+024 portrayed a broad emission feature at ~5.8 keV which was inconsistent with expected emission from elements in that spectral region. The feature could be described as neutral iron emitted from a narrow annulus on the disc (Chapter 8). The presence of the hard X-ray flare, steep power-law slope, and redshifted iron line provide circumstantial support for the "thundercloud model" proposed by Merloni & Fabian (2001).