Browsing Archive: July, 2022

The First Images Are Out...

Posted by on Tuesday, July 12, 2022, In : Astronomy 
After many years of planning and preparation, today the first images from the James Webb Space Telescope were released today, showing some of the most distant galaxies in the visible Universe. 

Today's image is the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe ever taken. This image is of the galactic cluster SMACS 0723, and displays several thousand galaxies in a single image (hence the title "Webb Deep Field"). For scale, all of these galaxies fit into a section of the sky eq...
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A Brief Comment On The LHC And "Portals to Hell"

Posted by on Thursday, July 7, 2022,
There are days when I despair at the state of scientific education and knowledge in the world. This is one of them.

In my wildest imaginings I never thought that I would have to say this, but the particle physics community has not opened a portal to hell.

For those who have not read about this odd theory yet, let me explain. As many of you are aware, on July 5 the Large Hadron Collider restarted after a break, and set a record for the highest energy particle collisions in a manmade experiment. ...
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Dr. Chris Bird I am a theoretical physicist & mathematician, with training in electronics, programming, robotics, and a number of other related fields.

   


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