Einstein Vindicated

Albert Einstein’s prediction about how gravity behaves has been tested on a cosmic scale. Albert Einstein’s prediction about how gravity behaves has been supported by an international team of researchers who studied how the force acts on cosmic scales.

Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) researchers found that the way galaxies cluster is consistent with our standard model of gravity and the predictions from Einstein’s theory of General Relativity.

A complex analysis of the first year of data from DESI provides one of the most stringent tests yet of General Relativity and how gravity behaves at cosmic scales.

Looking at galaxies and how they cluster throughout time reveals how cosmic structure grows, which lets DESI test theories of modified gravity – an alternative explanation for our universe’s accelerating expansion.

DESI is managed by the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). UK involvement in DESI includes the University of Portsmouth, Durham University, and UCL as full member institutions, together with individual researchers at the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, St Andrews, Sussex, and Warwick.    READ MORE...

THE HOLLIES - LONG COOL WOMEN

Against

 

Rumble

 

Apology

 

Putin

 

Our Children

 

Chocolate Chef

 

Don't Know

 

I don't know what I don't know or do I?

On the first day of my business classes, I ask the students to write an essay, answering these two questions:

WHO ARE YOU?

WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

First of all, they could not understand why BUSINESS STUDENTS were writing papers like in an English class, and second, they were not really sure how to answer either question, and begged for more guidance.

Their concerns were exactly why I had assigned the exercise in the first place.  Business leaders need to know how to communicate both verbally and written...  AND, they need to know WHO THEY ARE through introspection.

Without these characteristics, they typically fail as a leader of people.

But, more importantly is this question:

DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW?

<OR>

DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T KNOW?

Somewhat Political

 

Habitable Planets out There

There Are More Planets Like Earth in Habitable Zones



Discovering several thousand planets beyond the solar system or exoplanets is a eureka moment for humans. In just twenty years of exploration, space-based and ground observations have turned up above 4,100 confirmed exoplanets in only some parts of the galaxy we searched until now. 

If you add unconfirmed planetary candidates, this number jumps to cross 9,000. But the biggest payoff would be capturing evidence of a world, some light-years far away, hospitable to life. To find a planet like Earth, astronomers need to look for habitable zones around stars, and these habitable zones should not be too cold or too hot for liquid water to be present on the surface. But do they exist?    READ MORE...

Barry McGuire - Eve Of Destruction

In The NEWS

Vito the pug wins National Dog Show.

The "very compact" canine took the top prize in the toy category as well as best in show, becoming the first of its breed to ever win the competition. Vito was complimented on his sympathetic eyes and a muscly stature.



Stanford professor nominated to lead National Institutes of Health.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya was tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to oversee the organization that funds medical research with its nearly $48B budget. Bhattacharya, who holds an MD and PhD and is a professor of economics and health policy, argued against widespread lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic. See his bio here.



Australia passes social media ban for users under 16 years old.

The new law is the first of its kind worldwide and goes into effect in 12 months. Large platforms like X, Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, and others will face fines of up to $33M for failure to comply.



OpenAI's video generation model Sora leaks.

The AI-powered text-to-video generator has been in a private beta mode and is not open to the public. An unidentified group that had access to the model accused OpenAI of exploiting artists' work and "artwashing." An application granting open access to Sora was posted to the developer community Hugging Face.



British lawmakers vote in favor of assisted dying bill.

The law would allow terminally ill adults in England and Wales to end their lives in certain circumstances. Those eligible must be expected to have six months to live or less and must be capable of taking the life-ending drugs themselves.



Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral reveals renovated interior.

The iconic church, built in the 12th century, was nearly completely destroyed by a fire five years ago. French President Emmanuel Macron toured the renovated space, with an official reopening slated for next Saturday.



Three Americans freed in US-China prisoner swap.

The trio—Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung—had been imprisoned separately on different drug and espionage charges, with negotiators working for years to secure their release. Three Chinese detainees being held in the US were returned to China in the deal.

SOURCE:  1440 NEWS

Politics

 

I am too old to worry about the politics of the USA and the rest of the world...  This is no longer my generation; it is time for someone else to take control.

I have no regrets in how I lived my life, nor do I regret how the world treated me.  Life is what it is for me and nothing more.

The younger generation is always going to be perceived as making mistakes, that is simply the nature of old age...  but the USA always seems to come out from under everything that has been thrown in her way.

My concern of politics and my disagreements have always been unfounded, since I have never been appointed or elected to make decisions on behalf of this country.  It's always been someone else.

And that fact should have told me something, but it never did because I kept complaining year after year.  Clearly, no one ever listened to me.

Somewhat Political

 

An Anti-Universe Twin

Our universe has an anti-universe twin moving backwards in time, study finds

Seconds after the Big Bang, the Universe exhibited an astonishing simplicity. Observations reveal a spatially flat, radiation-dominated cosmos described by a Friedmann–Robertson–Walker (FRW) metric. This early state included small, Gaussian, and nearly scale-invariant scalar perturbations.

However, there is no evidence for primordial vector or tensor perturbations, nor for cosmic defects. These observations align with the prevailing inflationary model, which suggests that an era of rapid expansion preceded the Universe's observable state.


Despite its utility, inflation theory introduces complexities and arbitrary parameters, which many physicists view as unnecessary. A team led by Neil Turok and Latham Boyle challenges this conventional framework, offering an alternative grounded in the symmetry of the Universe itself.         READ MORE...

Steppenwolf - "Born To Be Wild"

Sailing

 

End of NOVEMBER

 

We say goodbye to November 2024, never to be seen again unless we are fortunate enough to live long enough to experience time travel.

For me, November 2024 brought THANKSGIVING as well as COLDER WEATHER, at least for East TN.  Some of the country is COLDER, some of it is WARMER.

For all of us, November 2024 brought the Presidential election and 76 million American voters to the amazement of 74 million American voters, ELECTED DONALD TRUMP to a second term as POTUS.

Those who lost, cannot understand HOW THEY LOST and have been blaming others, instead of themselves, blatantly accusing the other side of being RACIST, FACIST, TOO IGNORANT TO UNDERSTAND POLITICS, or JUST PLAIN STUPID IN GENERAL.

To me, their response has been a little childish but expected considering what they believe or chose not to believe.

What is more scary, at least to me, is the fact that the USA IS NOT UNITED and it will be a long time before a LEADER comes along that will UNITE US ALL.

Until then we will just continue to fight among ourselves, and allowing ourselves to look foolish to the rest of the world, that we are TRYING TO IGNORE.

Somewhat Political