Scientific Saturday!
I have plenty of time before my college football team,
the
play for the
in a conference called the
that has
Fourteen Teams
in it.
Somehow,
it has to be some kind of new math
or there are
Ten
really good teams in the conference
and
Four
really bad ones!
You do the math.
Speaking of math,
New Prime Number Discovered
by
Asteroid Impacts could Create Niches for Life, suggests Chicxulub Crater Study.
on phys.org
"Scientists studying the Chicxulub crater have shown how large asteroid impacts deform rocks in a way that may produce habitats for early life. Around 65 million years ago a massive asteroid crashed into the Gulf of Mexico causing an impact so huge that the blast and subsequent knock-on effects wiped out around 75 per cent of all life on Earth, including most of the dinosaurs. This is known as the Chicxulub impact. In April and May 2016, an international team of scientists undertook an offshore expedition and drilled into part of the Chicxulub impact crater. Their mission was to retrieve samples from the rocky inner ridges of the crater - known as the 'peak ring' - drilling 506 to 1335 metres below the modern day sea floor to understand more about the ancient cataclysmic event. Now, the researchers have carried out the first analysis of the core samples. They found that the impact millions of years ago deformed the peak ring rocks in such a way that it made them more porous, and less dense, than any models had previously predicted."
Theory that Challenges Einstein's Physics could soon be put to the Test.
"Einstein observed that the speed of light remains the same in any situation, and this meant that space and time could be different in different situations. The assumption that the speed of light is constant, and always has been, underpins many theories in physics, such as Einstein's theory of general relativity. In particular, it plays a role in models of what happened in the very early universe, seconds after the Big Bang. But some researchers have suggested that the speed of light could have been much higher in this early universe. Now, one of this theory's originators, Professor João Magueijo from Imperial College London, working with Dr Niayesh Afshordi at the Perimeter Institute in Canada, has made a prediction that could be used to test the theory's validity. Structures in the universe, for example galaxies, all formed from fluctuations in the early universe -- tiny differences in density in certain regions. A record of these early fluctuations is imprinted on the cosmic microwave background -- a map of the oldest light in the universe -- in the form of a 'spectral index'. Working with their theory that the fluctuations were influenced by a varying speed of light in the early universe, Professor Magueijo and Dr Afshordi have now used a model to put an exact figure on the spectral index. The predicted figure and the model it is based on are published in the journal Physical Review D."
Wow,
New Prime Number
for
Cryptography,
Niches for Life,
and variable
Light
speed.
Now that is a
Saturday
full of
Discoveries!
This is,
Wondering How The Effect Of Light Moving At Different Speeds Will Affect Mathematics And Astronomy,
Jim Hauenstein,
And,
“So Einstein was wrong when he said, "God does not play dice." Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen.”
- Stephen Hawking -
- Stephen Hawking -
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