#Astrophysics #TheoreticalPhysics #YearInScience: Scientists led by Yan-Fei Jiang at the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) built a computer model that helps to explains the weird, wild behavior of rare, so-called luminous blue variable stars.

The team's 3-D model provided key insights that former 1-D models couldn't offer. One such key insight is how a light-blocking effect of the element helium in part determines the temperature of the stars during one of their characteristically bright outbursts.

Researchers are keen to study luminous blue variable stars to gain a deeper understanding of the physics behind the explosive death of massive stars as a kind of supernova.

Read more here: http://ow.ly/Mbej30n4Q4H

Waves (WAVES) Blockchain Project Launches Explorer 2.0 #blockchain #distributedledger #applicationprogramminginterface #theoreticalphysics #initialcoinoffering #bitsmart

New Theory: The Universe is a Bubble, Inflated by Dark Energy
"Very mathematical work, its translation is that our universe may be an expanding bubble in an extra dimension."
1) https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-theory-universe-bubble-inflated-dark-energy
2) https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uu-oua122818.php

It's 2:20 AM, January 1st, 2018+1, I'm re-reading now "The Ego and Its Own"
by Max Stirner in my den in Marseille, France. I will post some interesting passages from it about Christianity and Religion on my Philosophy and Religion page later on.
However, I'm still thinking about the universe, space-time, dark energy, and cosmology related topics. Check out my last post:
https://plus.google.com/u/1/+AmineBenaichouche/posts/AEifKap7GCh

#TheoreticalPhysics #Cosmology #AstroPhysics #Inflation #DarkEnergy

Theoretical Explanation on the Existence of Dark Matter

#TheoreticalPhysics #Astrophysics #AstroParticlePhysics #Cosmology #DarkMatter

The Missing Universe: CERN Has Started Searching for “Dark Photons” - We, Particle & Theoretical Physics community, Have Been Skeptical and Careful but in The Same Time Studying and Taking Seriously The Possibility of A "Fifth Fundamental Force" of Nature For Two Years

In brief:

Dark matter seems to outweigh visible matter roughly six to one, making up about 27% of the universe.

Physicists from CERN now believe there's a fifth universal force that rules the behavior of dark matter, and is transmitted by a particle called the dark photon.

#ParticlePhysics #TheoreticalPhysics #CERN #FifthForce #FifthInteraction #DarkPhoton #DarkPhotons

The brilliant and enigmatic Paul Dirac, a pioneer of quantum mechanics, was born 114 years ago today. Dirac studied engineering at Bristol University and then, thanks to scholarships, mathematics and physics at Cambridge University. For his PhD thesis, he developed a form of Erwin Schrodinger's wave equation that is consistent with Albert Einstein's special relativity. Among the equation's implications is the existence of antimatter, which was identified in 1932 by Carl Anderson soon after Dirac's prediction. Dirac's quantization of the electromagnetic field as a collection of harmonic oscillators amid particles that can be created and annihilated was the first step toward quantum electrodynamics and, more generally, toward quantum field theories. In an essay published two years before he died in 1984, Dirac recounted his approach to theoretical physics: "A good deal of my research work in physics has consisted in not setting out to solve some particular problems, but simply examining mathematical quantities of a kind that physicists use and trying to get them together in an interesting way regardless of any application that the work may have. It is simply a search for pretty mathematics. It may turn out later that the work does have an application. Then one has had good luck."

To know a bit more and more about him go through the following links:

Dirac's Nobel Prize Lecture: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1933/dirac-lecture.pdf

A Good website on Dirac : http://www.dirac.ch/PaulDirac.html

Free online access to Dirac's classic 1920s papers: http://bit.ly/1cM9C7N

Letters from Dirac (1932–36) and other papers: http://bit.ly/11O8rAa

Interview with P. A. M. Dirac
By Thomas S. Kuhn and Eugene Paul Wigner
At Wigner’s home, Princeton, New Jersey
April 1, l962: http://bit.ly/5rgQYD

"The Relation between Mathematics and Physics", by Paul A. M. Dirac: http://bit.ly/sHGwbc

Dirac's Ph.D thesis: http://bit.ly/18cxHRQ

Quantum field theory is our best current understanding of the physical world. Paul Dirac invented it in this paper: http://t.co/W4i9eLTQCx

Dirac's paper on Magnetic Monopoles: http://bit.ly/1bevY01

The Strangest Man: the Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius: http://on.fb.me/V7Pp7B

And, last but not the least, Video lectures by Paul Dirac himself: http://bit.ly/1cePw8F

Text Courtesy: Physics Today

Image Courtesy: Perimeter Institute - Outreach

#PaulDirac #Dirac #DiracEquation #QuantumMechanics #SpecialRelativity #TheoreticalPhysics #Physics

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) Could Detect Extra Dimensions

A recent paper published in Physics Letters B has raised the prospect that the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) could mark a discovery that would put its earlier achievements with the #HiggsBoson in the shade. The authors of the recent published paper propose it could spot mini black holes. Such a discovery would be a matter of massive importance on its own, but might be a sign of even more significant things. Few notions from theoretical physics capture the public imagination as much as the “many-worlds theory,” which suggests an infinite number of universes that vary from our own in ways large and small. The notion has delivered great fodder for science fiction novelists and comedians. Nevertheless, according to Professor Mir Faizal from the University of Waterloo, "Normally, when people think of the multiverse, they think of the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, where every possibility is actualized," he told Phys.org. "This cannot be tested and so it is philosophy and not science." Nonetheless, Faizal reflects the test for a different type of parallel universes nearly within our reach. Faizal says “What we mean is real universes in extra dimensions. As gravity can flow out of our universe into the extra dimensions, such a model can be tested by the detection of mini black holes at the LHC.”

#ParticlePhysics #Extradimensions #LHC #CERN #TheoreticalPhysics #BlackHoles

Newsflash: I've Studied the Paper and It Seems That The Results Are Confirmed: The Biggest Technological Breakthrough and The Greatest News in Physics in 2016-2017: After 80 years Of Waiting for The Theoretical Prediction Called "The Wigner-Huntington Transition to Solid Metallic Hydrogen", We Have Now "Solid Metallic Hydrogen", which means: "The Super Perfect Conductor of Electricity".

Producing metallic hydrogen has been a great challenge to condensed matter physics. Metallic hydrogen may be a room temperature superconductor and metastable when the pressure is released and could have an important impact on energy and rocketry. We have studied solid molecular hydrogen under pressure at low temperatures. At a pressure of 495 GPa hydrogen becomes metallic with reflectivity as high as 0.91. We fit the reflectance using a Drude free electron model to determine the plasma frequency of 32.5 ± 2.1 eV at T = 5.5 K, with a corresponding electron carrier density of 7.7 ± 1.1 × 10^23 particles/cm3, consistent with theoretical estimates of the atomic density. The properties are those of an atomic metal. We have produced the Wigner-Huntington dissociative transition to atomic metallic hydrogen in the laboratory

The technical paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1610.01634.pdf

#AppliedPhysics #CondesedMatterPhysics #AtomicPhysics #TheoreticalPhysics #MaterialsScience #Science #Technology #WignerHuntingtonTransition #SolidHydrogen #MetallicHydrogen

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#Michigan , #GreatLakes , " #Mystery / #Mysteries ", #Ghosts . .... Djinn ? Unlikely unless Shapeshifters morph into water ships (even "they" are laughing at That). #TheoreticalPhysics , #DimensionalAwareness , #Religion , #Theology , #LucidDreams . " #NewAge " (nothing New about it hahahahaha). HOW are they filming at THAT distance ? #FlatEarth hahahaha ... :-D ... ... #ShowUsTheCurve without a "GoPro" camera / Fisheye lens. And #Chicago (skeptic? Search : "chicago skyline seen from michigan". It is WELL KNOWN in SW Michigan that we can). #Truth .

* Note : Haven't read the K.J.V. Bible, and, all the texts the "council" of Nicea decided to hide (like Enoch) ? .... DO THAT before getting into "Flat Earth" too far.

Peace be with you,
~ Reverend Shane