Physicist. Data Scientist. ADHD. Aspie. Wanting answers to questions I don't yet know need asking. We're all normal, this is only my version. Stay curious.
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13 Nov 2024
Good morning everyone. We have arrived in the middle of the week. Haha. I have some news. Over the next few weeks until the end of the year I will be moving over to @bluesky and leaving @twitter. You may have noticed that I don't tweet nearly as much as I used to, and that is
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31 Dec 2024
The speed of light is 299,792,458 metres per second. The metre is officially defined as the length of the path travelled by light in vacuum during a time interval of 1/299,792,458α΅Κ° of a second
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31 Dec 2024
Happy New Year's Eve everyone. I hope you have made those new years resolutions. Haha. Get to the gym more, eat healthier, lose weight, learn a new language, get that promotion at work, or read a book. Whatever it is, you should always aim to be a better person than you were
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31 Dec 2024
someone. There is help if you ask for it. The hardest step is asking for it. As this is my last day here, I want to wish each and every one of you a very happy new year. I hope that you all live out your dreams and that you get everything you want and deserve. I wish you all the
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31 Dec 2024
very best for the future and I hope it is a happy one. I will only be on @bluesky from now on. It was fun while it lasted. Whatever you want to do today remember to stay safe, stay curious and as always be kind to each other always. #aspie #ADHD #BlueskySocial #NewYear2025
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31 Dec 2024
"I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
β Albert Einstein
From 'The Einstein Theory of Living,' New York Times, March 12, 1944: nyti.ms/2BfmRlD (via @phalpern)
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30 Dec 2024
Two types of waves traverse the Universe, enabling astronomers to observe distant phenomena: electromagnetic waves and gravitational waves. Both propagate at the speed of light
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29 Dec 2024
The giant impact hypothesis proposes that the Moon formed as a result of a colossal collision between the early Earth and a Mars-sized celestial body named Theia, about 4.5 billion years ago, during the early stages of the Solar System's formation
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28 Dec 2024
Antarctica is the coldest place on planet Earth, with an average temperature of β 34.4Β°C. The lowest temperature recorded there is -98.6Β°C
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27 Dec 2024
While free protons are stable and can exist indefinitely, free neutrons are unstable and survive for only about 15 minutes. After that, they undergo radioactive beta decay, transforming into a proton, an electron, and a neutrino
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26 Dec 2024
Our Sun is increasing its luminosity, the total power output radiated to space, by about 1% every 100 million years
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25 Dec 2024
On a day like today, many years ago, a baby was born, his destiny was to change the world and he did. Isaac Newton: extraordinary intellect, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. One of the most influential scientists of all time
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25 Dec 2024
Merry Christmas everyone. I hope you all have a brilliant day with friends and family. If you are feeling down, low, alone or anything else, please reach out. There is help out there. Don't be afraid to reach out and talk to someone. YOU ARE NOT ALONE.
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24 Dec 2024
Definitely need this in the UK.
23 Dec 2024
BREAKING: Australia has introduced a new bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $20,000
This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.
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23 Dec 2024
BREAKING: Australia has introduced a new bill that will limit the total spending on a party by billionaires like Elon Musk to Just $20,000
This will ban billionaires from single-handedly buying Elections in Australia.
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23 Dec 2024
Of the 681 people from 47 countries that so far have gone into space, just 24 travelled beyond low Earth orbit and had the opportunity to see the entire globe of our planet directly with their eyes
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23 Dec 2024
Cosmologists, how seriously should we take this? I admit I havenβt looked into it yet - this is just an initial reaction to Andrewβs thread. It reminds me of MOND theories to replace dark matter (which of course fail to reproduce CMB spectrum).
23 Dec 2024
This could be an incredible revolution in Cosmology.
The Dark Energy model of the universe, which won a Nobel Prize in 2011, may be completely wrong.
The accelerating expansion instead is simply because time runs faster in the voids between galaxies.
Let me explain:
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