This weekend’s stories include The Universe Is Not Locally Real to Largest Asteroid to Hit Earth was Twice as Big as the Rock that Killed off the Dinosaurs to Dormant Bacterial Cells Might Help Us Wake Up Extraterrestrial Life, and much more.
The Physics Nobel Prize Winners have proven that the Universe is not locally real.Scientific American reports. Amazing experiments using entangled light revealed a deep mystery about the nature of reality. “the evidence shows objects are not influenced solely by their surroundings and they may also lack definite properties prior to measurement. As Albert Einstein famously bemoaned to a friend, “Do you really believe the moon is not there when you are not looking at it?”
A Black Hole’s Orbiting Ring of Light Could Encrypt Its Inner Secrets–Physicists have discovered that the ring of photons orbiting a black hole exhibits a special kind of symmetry, hinting at a deeper meaning, reports Thomas Lewton for Quanta.com. “The photon ring, which glows orange in this visualization of light flowing around a black hole, contains a succession of images of the entire universe.”
Eerie Implications of Hawking Points –“Corpses of Black Holes from Before the Big Bang”
The Universe May Now Have Evidence of The First StarsScience Alert reports. “The very first stars might have appeared when the Universe was only 100 million years old, or less than 1 percent of its current age. Since then, the rapid expansion of space has stretched their light into oblivion, leaving us to seek clues about their existence in cosmic sources closer to home.”
The largest asteroid to ever hit Earth was twice the size of the rock that killed the dinosaursLive Science reporter Harry Baker reports that the rock was a destructive space rock. “The destructive space rock was somewhere between 12.4 and 15.5 miles wide.”
The Chicxulub Impact -Did an ‘Impossible’ Magnitude-12 Earthquake Change Our World?
Are extraterrestrials allowed to visit ancient Sumer?Big Think. “Astrophysicist Carl Sagan considered the possibility that ancient humans may have recorded visitations from extraterrestrials. One account from ancient Sumer, of the fish-like creature Oannes,” deserves more careful study,” he wrote.
Political Repercussions of Detecting Alien IntelligenceAccording to IFL Science, “In 2020, a paper by Kenneth Wisian and John Traphagan suggested that a risk existed regarding a SETI detection that had not been previously investigated enough. Wisian and Traphagen argued that the danger of discovery was not from the aliens but that the real or perceived advantage of having access to this message would lead to Earthly issues such as espionage, escalating conflicts between nations, and could even end up in all-out war.”
Quantum physics makes it impossible to make normal choices.Big Think reports that Einstein always loses when it comes to quantum realm. “Reality really is “spooky,” as Einstein feared. What is this spookiness telling you? We don’t know. Quantum mechanics forces every interpretation to accept something about reality which seems very, very strange. “
The Thinking Undead: How Dormant Bacteria Calculate their Return to Life, reports UC San Diego. The unexpected activity of dormant bacteria cells can provide lessons that could help us understand life on Earth and other planets. “When conditions become favorable, spores that may have been dormant for years can wake up in minutes and spring back to life.
These Undead Bacterial Zells Could Help Us Wake up Extraterrestrial LifeThe Daily Beast reports. “Dormant spores can exist for thousands of years and “count” without using any energy.”
A physicist explains the science of Einstein’s ‘spooky action at a distance’The Conversation reports that this is the case. “The 2022 Nobel Prize in physics recognized three scientists who made groundbreaking contributions in understanding one of the most mysterious of all natural phenomena: quantum entanglement.”
Chinese scientists call for plan to destroy Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites,Ben Turner reports on Live Science “Chinese military researchers say Starlink could threaten China’s national security.”
The multiverse is the film fantasy of our time. –Highly-disputed quantum physics theories rarely receive airtime. CNN reports that movie theatres around the world have adopted the notion that multiple universes exist, and even infinite.
This article was curated by the Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff
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