Perhaps you should ask Zager and Evans? 😛
Yes, not Scottish by nationality.
The magazine writers must have picked up on the fact that Higgs is Emeritus Professor at the University of Edinburgh.
Green comet Nishimura, mentioned back on page 82, survived its closest approach to the Sun, but was then buffeted by a potential coronal mass ejection that briefly blew its tail away.
NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO-A) spacecraft captured the event on the video included in this link:
https://www.livescience.com/space/c...l-solar-storm-as-it-slingshots-around-the-sun
Comet Nishimura reached its closest point to Earth on the 12th of September (2023!) and some braw foties were taken around that time.
This one was taken by Petr Horalek in Slovakia on September the 9th when Nishimura and Venus were in the morning sky:
NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO-A) spacecraft captured the event on the video included in this link:
https://www.livescience.com/space/c...l-solar-storm-as-it-slingshots-around-the-sun
Comet Nishimura reached its closest point to Earth on the 12th of September (2023!) and some braw foties were taken around that time.
This one was taken by Petr Horalek in Slovakia on September the 9th when Nishimura and Venus were in the morning sky:
Scientists have now found direct evidence that black holes spin!
The supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy Messier 87 has been found to wobble like a top.
The wobble is revealed by observations of M87's jets made over 22 years, which suggest a rotational period of about 11 years.
https://www.livescience.com/space/b...ing-confirming-einsteins-relativity-yet-again
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...3lbrk0=&tracking_referrer=www.livescience.com
The supermassive black hole at the centre of galaxy Messier 87 has been found to wobble like a top.
The wobble is revealed by observations of M87's jets made over 22 years, which suggest a rotational period of about 11 years.
https://www.livescience.com/space/b...ing-confirming-einsteins-relativity-yet-again
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41...3lbrk0=&tracking_referrer=www.livescience.com
@Galu. I fear you have infracted Forum Rules here!
I am well familiar with Black Holes:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotating_black_hole
And so on.
We speak English here, not Scottish. But one was amused. 😀
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I've heard it said by comedians (was it good old Frankie Boyle?) but never fact checked it... Not that I follow any sport... 🙂
Not comedians, gpauk, but commentators.
I've heard it with my own lugs and seen it with my own een. 😉
I've heard it with my own lugs and seen it with my own een. 😉
My mother always said to me, "Ye have a guid Scots tongue in yer heid", meaning I should speak up and let my opinions be known.
I generally speak England Standard English (ESE) rather than Scottish Standard English (SSE), but will occasionally dabble in the language that is Scots.
That rock isn't far from here...
Ah well, I don't watch any sport so... But I don't doubt it!
British media is biased as hell. Sancho rashford maguire the slabhead are all protected so much. Casemiro fred dalot degea all trown under the bus all the time. I cannot tell you enough how biased english media is. Its so anoying sometimes . Cant watch epl without torture these day with manunited as your team you support.
Thanks TNT.
Nobel Prize awarded to: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier, “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”
Attophysics is a branch of Physics new to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attosecond_physics
The scientists have generated attosecond (10^-18 s) photon pulses with which to study the rapid movements of electrons inside atoms and molecules.
P.S. I liked this explanation: "An attosecond is so short that there are as many in one second as there have been seconds since the birth of the universe."
Nobel Prize awarded to: Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, Anne L’Huillier, “for experimental methods that generate attosecond pulses of light for the study of electron dynamics in matter”
Attophysics is a branch of Physics new to me: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attosecond_physics
The scientists have generated attosecond (10^-18 s) photon pulses with which to study the rapid movements of electrons inside atoms and molecules.
P.S. I liked this explanation: "An attosecond is so short that there are as many in one second as there have been seconds since the birth of the universe."
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I didn't think it was a very interesting line of Research TBH. Maybe just me...
I am taking a break from High Energy Physics for the moment. W and Z bosons and Photon Electroweak Symmetry breaking? The whole thing is incomprehensible.
Special Relativity and General Relativity seem soluble.
This freebie download is EXCELLENT!
https://www.eftaylor.com/spacetimephysics/
Horrible to read blurry PDFs, but the book is a whopping £80. Just the right amount of straightforward calculus and he avoids Tensors since it is aimed at 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates.
Every chapter knocks a new way of looking at things into you. I now know all about Momenergy (Chapter 7) as the Invariant that unifies mass, energy and momentum.
There is one about Black Holes too, but little baby steps first for me. It looks more difficult.
https://www.physlets.org/grorbits/GROrbitsApp.html
Fearsome looking homework involved. 🙁
I am taking a break from High Energy Physics for the moment. W and Z bosons and Photon Electroweak Symmetry breaking? The whole thing is incomprehensible.
Special Relativity and General Relativity seem soluble.
This freebie download is EXCELLENT!
https://www.eftaylor.com/spacetimephysics/
Horrible to read blurry PDFs, but the book is a whopping £80. Just the right amount of straightforward calculus and he avoids Tensors since it is aimed at 2nd and 3rd year undergraduates.
Every chapter knocks a new way of looking at things into you. I now know all about Momenergy (Chapter 7) as the Invariant that unifies mass, energy and momentum.
There is one about Black Holes too, but little baby steps first for me. It looks more difficult.
https://www.physlets.org/grorbits/GROrbitsApp.html
Fearsome looking homework involved. 🙁
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But, but... I've just recommended you to @wchang 🙁
Momenergy is better known as four-momentum to us spacetime experts - a generalisation of the classical 3-dimension momentum to 4-dimensional spacetime. https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshe...eeler)/07:_Momenergy/7.6:_Momenergy_(Summary)
Looks simple enough! 😉
As a mathematically challenged Applied Physicist, I've been experimentally simulating black hole orbits on my record player turntable:
Attoway... 130as... thats really 0,13 femtoseconds... well, thats the territory and at least what one should require of a clock for digital audio or it will sound cr@p... 😉
As usual everything is boosted and bragged... whats wrong with reality?
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