Month: September 2022

THE TRUTH. “These creatures you call mice, you see, they are not quite as they appear. They are merely the protrusion into our dimension of vast hyperintelligent pandimensional beings. The whole business with the cheese and the squeaking is just a front. They've been experimenting on you, I'm afraid.”(Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy). https://lnkd.in/dYuf8mi View in LinkedIn

Traditional Easter Sunday cake baked by Katrina. View in LinkedIn

SEARCH GOAL. “Another predicted but as yet unobserved phenomenon which would unveil IMBHs is a tidal disruption event (TDE). The tidal disruption of a star by a SMBH gives an easily identifiable signature, and allows one to estimate the mass of the SMBH.” (IMBHs = intermediate mass black holes; SMBH = supermassive black holes). https://lnkd.in/dYX7TQV View in LinkedIn

MISSING FOSSIL RECORD. “Intermediate mass black holes are not only the missing link between stellar mass and super-massive black holes, but are a key prediction of seed SMBH formation that should exist as relics to this day.” (SMBH = supermassive black holes). https://lnkd.in/dYX7TQV View in LinkedIn

POWERFUL TOOL. “Overall, IMBHs are a fundamental key to understanding the formation, growth, and evolution of SMBHs and of the overall black hole population in the universe. LISA’s ability to detect IMBH mergers across most of cosmic time, combined with the prowess of EM observations, will be sure to answer crucial questions as well as pose new ones.” (IMBHs = intermediate mass black holes; SMBH = supermassive black holes; LISA = The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna; EM = electromagnetic). https://lnkd.in/dYX7TQV View in LinkedIn

WHERE MATH FAILS. “Classical GR governs the evolution of black holes for a long time, but at some exponentially large time it must break down. The breakdown, and what comes after it, is not well understood.” (GR = General Relativity). https://lnkd.in/d3Fw6gf View in LinkedIn

THE END OF SPACETIME. “The meaning of the spacetime behind the horizon of a black hole has often been a subject of controversy. One extreme view is that the world simply ends at the horizon; everything else is an unphysical figment. This view leaves unanswered the question of why classical general relativity predicts a smooth global continuation past the horizon.” https://lnkd.in/d3Fw6gf View in LinkedIn

ACCESSING THE INTERIOR. “Moreover, during the last few years we have gathered evidence that quantum mechanics allows some access to a black hole’s interior. Ignoring the spacetime behind the horizon is not an option and we have to understand how it emerges holographically.” https://lnkd.in/d3Fw6gf View in LinkedIn

FOSSILIZED IMPACT DEBRIS. “Two gigantic blobs of dense rock hundreds of miles tall sit deep inside Earth. New research suggests these blobs are remnants of a planet that hit Earth 4.5 billion years ago. The collision of Earth and this ancient planet, called Theia, may have helped create the moon. Those pieces are millions of times larger than Mount Everest in terms of volume.” https://lnkd.in/d-Hsyqs View in LinkedIn

Deconstructing the rose. View in LinkedIn