The Universe is expanding, cooling, and dark. It started with a bang, and I'm here to bring it all to you!
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Last Notes npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Energy is conserved in all GR solutions that possess a time-like Killing vector. (I.e., in static, non-expanding, non-contracting spacetimes.) npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Claims that “the Universe will end sooner than expected” are false npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Another key test of Wiltshire's cosmological model comes from direct measurement of the time dilation effects that are actually observed within these cosmic void regions of space. npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang I would say that the big challenge in "converting" people away from their common line of thinking, from a communications perspective, is the longstanding connection to physical properties of: npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang You're asking why _I_ drew these lines where I drew them: about states of matter? npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang So, let's pretend we lived in a world where instead of me being an astrophysicist who became a science communicator, I (or someone like me) was a condensed matter physicist who became a science communicator. npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang If he had said "phase of matter" I wouldn't have objected. npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang There are 7 states of matter; “topoconductor” isn’t one of them npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Could dark matter be “normal stuff” we can’t see? npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang The Ring Nebula’s true structure revealed at last npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Cosmic first: supermassive black hole caught “turning on” in real-time npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang How large is the biggest galaxy in the Universe? npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Will everything eventually succumb to Hawking Radiation? npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Lovely! I am a big fan of creative cooking and this is the opposite of the turducken I made 16 years ago: reducing the turkey to its constituent parts instead of adding additional birds inside of it! npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang What happens if you deep fry a frozen turkey? npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang How do scientists color the Universe? npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang A new origin story for supernovae after 94 years npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Why isn’t Richard Feynman your personal hero? npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Mars could have lived, even without a magnetic field npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Why is the Big Bang shown as a tube? npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang How ideas from physics drive AI: the 2024 Nobel Prize npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Hidden variable alternative to quantum spookiness fails npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Consider the recent, "there is no dark matter and dark energy, but instead I invoke tired light plus evolving fundamental constants, and ignore a whole slew of lab constraints to conclude the Universe is 26.7 Gyr old." npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang It has many negatives for me. npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Do you not encounter tasks in your life that are easy to do, but that you loathe doing? npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang To all of those asking me what I think of <insert wild, untrue assertion>, consider this. npub10lrmkc8f3n0weck6scz3eene9d38nvz6hefdmmm06ef40qsgv0jsfnnszn StartsWithABang Why the electron’s mass is vital to life in the Universe
