Tuesday, May 17, 2022
A dark age looms/rev V
Identical in every way ...
Einstein's right yet again. Black holes scale in universal fashion thanks to Sagittarius A* black hole proving to be identical to M87*s monster.
One of the leading scientists behind the new breakthrough, Dimitrios Psaltis, professor of astronomy and physics at the University of Arizona, has revealed how the new image proved one of Einstein's predictions from his theory of gravity.
It's all down to the striking similarity between Sgr A* and MH7*, despite their massive difference in size — Sgr A*, which has a mass 4 million times greater than that of our Sun, is more than one thousand times smaller than M87*.
The new image of Sgr A* has proved one of the most fundamental predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity, Psaltis explained in a statement from the University of Arizona. Namely, the new data proves that the image of a black hole scales only with its mass. So, in other words, a black hole 1,000 times smaller in mass will look very similar; the only really discernible difference will be the size.
Scale invarience rules.
A sense of wonder/rev II
“Ice Age” by Alvin Wu. Location: Tibet
“This is a blue ice lake, Pumoungcuo, at an altitude of 5.070 meters (16,600 feet).
Words not needed.
“Nookampa Reflections” by Will Godward. Location: Lake Bonney, South Australia
Check out all the art on this amazing page from My Moderon Met, Rachel Carson would be proud.
A sense of wonder
When looking at this photograph, one sees how nature works at grand scale, a reality we will never fully understand. At the same time, nature's inherently beautiful and without judgment. It simply is, a concept Rachel Carson instinctively understood at deep level.
Monday, May 16, 2022
National sovereignty ...
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro, the poster child for ecological collapse by burning up the Amazonian rainforest, portends a dark future where the notion of sovereignty no longer applies when the environment collapses as it will if nothing is done to ameliorate the ever increasing impact GW is having as man moves further into the 21st century. As long as capitalism and its objective of placing profit over the environment continues unabated, collapse becomes a certainty.
A concept no longer viable ...
Pledges are but words, meaning nothing. If gw is left unabated, Splinterlands, awaits.
Armageddon in various sizes ...
amazing graphic from Visual Capitalist.
50%
50% may be our half of a pair of interactive worlds if researcher theories prove to be correct. In this instance, investigating properties of graphene may explain how reality works.
It's all about the magic angle and the moire patterns it produces.
Sunday, May 15, 2022
The wild west equation ...
AI's everywhere but you already know that, right? Well, the EU is trying to reign in the nasty part of the tech in writing up laws designed to protect the public from an open ended technology already evolving at rates boggling the mind. The question to ask is, will this attempt to regulate AI actually work? From this perspective, it's questionable at best but worth a shot nevertheless.
As someone somewhat well versed in tech and knowing how grossly inefficient government tends to be, a grain of salt applies as we haven't gotten rid of spam on our smart phones so how will this initiative fly regarding deep fakes and other such niceties residing on open ended code forever remaining opaque due to the fact real time programs require real time machine driven software able to modify said code to evolve as needs warrant, something this well intentioned law cannot address in any way, shape or fashion.
Saturday, May 14, 2022
The energy equation
Military spending in the world continues to increase as states and the elites who run them intend to keep things the way they are until nature decides the status quo no longer applies. Estimated expiration date for the status quo, 2040-50 if the climate change trajectory continues to rise as it has for the past 100+ years.
Their denial has been a thorn in the side of anyone pursuing meaningful climate action, to be sure.
And despite all the hollow pledges at COP26, they still don’t.
The reason? Fossil fuels remain the lodestone of geopolitical power.
By looking at the chart above, one sees the US as a prime driver in its ability to apply violence in ways defying the imagination.
End game ...
In essence, you gotta have a catastrophe before real change happens. For yours truly, a web bulb moment in Pakistan/India comes to mind as the temps there hit 121.1 degrees on May 4th.
To be continued.