Hubble images have utterly changed the way we think of the cosmos, from a dark, cold and empty place to a vibrant, dynamic habitat. https://lnkd.in/eWq3Y_st View in LinkedIn
SECOND COMET FINGERPRINT. “The Zhamanshin crater, the largest confirmed impact crater on Earth formed in the last ~ Myr (an order of magnitude smaller in radius than Chicxulub), shows evidence that the impactor may have had a carbonaceous chondritc composition, providing support to our model.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn
GOLDFISH THAT DRIVE. “These results demonstrate how a fish was able to transfer its space representation and navigation skills to a wholly different terrestrial environment, thus supporting the hypothesis that the former possess a universal quality that is species-independent.” https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432821005994?dgcid=author View in LinkedIn
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INHOMOGENEITIES. “The initial small density fluctuations from which structures form lead to fluctuations in the temperature of the CMB.” (CMB = cosmic microwave background). https://lnkd.in/e6ifiQMn View in LinkedIn
A LITTLE LATER. “The Universe becomes neutral and photons stop scattering and subsequently free-stream through the Universe. This process is known as decoupling and occurs at t ∼ 0.37Myr. The resulting Cosmic Microwave Background has a black body spectrum with present day temperature.” https://lnkd.in/e6ifiQMn View in LinkedIn
PARTIAL INTERCONNECTEDNESS. Systemism (“everything hangs together with some other thing or things”) steers a middle course between holism (“all things hang together”) and atomism (“everything goes its own way”). No part of the universe is completely isolated but every thing is isolated in some respect from other things.” https://lnkd.in/eZVUsMdz View in LinkedIn
Early cosmos. “The Universe is composed of nuclei and electrons, and photons scatter frequently off these charged particles. As the Universe expands and cools the energy of the photons drops and atoms form. This process is known as recombination and occurs at t ∼ 0.25 Myr.” https://lnkd.in/e6ifiQMn View in LinkedIn
OTHER CANDIDATES. “Our hypothesis predicts that other Chicxulub-size craters on Earth are more likely to correspond to an impactor with a carbonaceous chondritc composition than expected from the carbonaceous chondritc composition fraction of MBAs.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82320-2 View in LinkedIn