Sunday, October 13, 2024

Of course she is

 

Nina Agdal very recently gave birth to her child (a girl) with Logan Paul just a couple of days ago

But before that, she posed nude and pregnant. Being a supermodel, that seems a requirement.

If you want to see that picture (actually a couple of them), check the article below.

Logan Paul's pregnant fiancée Nina Agdal, 32, poses nude on a rock as she shows off her blossoming bump

Here's two other less revealing pictures of her in the midst of being pregnant.



Bepi-Colombo's fourth flyby

 

There's so much space news these days -- back in early September, the Bepi-Colombo mission from the European Space Agency made its fourth of sixth flybys of Mercury, with the eventual goal of going into orbit around Mercury in November 2026 and then performing lots of measurements.

There's a fun video from the flyby below. 




Lighthouse of the Week, October 6-12, 2024: Main Duck Island Lighthouse, Ontario, Canada

 

Back in the Great Lakes region for this week's lighthouse, which is at the eastern end of Lake Ontario. There's both a Main Duck and False Duck Island in that area, which both have lighthouses.

Maybe next week I'll take a look at the lighthouse on False Duck Island, but this week, it's the Main Duck.

Here is the location of that lighthouse, zoomed way way out for geographical navigation.

The Lighthouse Directory tells us the following about it:

"1914. Active; focal plane 23.5 m (77 ft); white flash every 6 s. 24.5 m (80 ft) octagonal concrete tower with lantern and gallery, painted white; lantern and gallery are red. Abandoned fog signal building and other structures in poor condition. ... Owned by U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles from 1941 to 1959, the island has been owned by Parks Canada since 1977 and was added to Thousand Islands National Park in 1998. Located at the western end of the island."

Another website is Main Duck Island, ON (Lighthouse Friends)

Pictures are below.






WHAM! (a long time ago)

 

While we've currently got a comet in the skies, a new space probe going to visit where NASA slammed a little asteroid to see what would happen, a short-term mini-moon, and hopefully a launch to Europa coming up -- this article describes a big hit on the Jovian Galilean moon Ganymede.

Colossal Asteroid, 20 Times the Size of Dinosaur-Killer, Struck Solar System’s Largest Moon 4 Billion Years Ago

"The researcher [planetologist Naoyuki Hirata] found the collision didn’t just reorient the moon; it likely also had a lasting effect on Ganymede’s internal structure. The heat generated by the crash could have influenced the development of the moon’s subsurface ocean, a body of water hidden beneath its icy shell. This ocean is thought to contain more water than all of Earth’s oceans combined, making Ganymede an intriguing target for future exploration.

“The giant impact must have had a significant impact on the early evolution of Ganymede, but the thermal and structural effects of the impact on the interior of Ganymede have not yet been investigated at all,” Hirata said."
The impact is posited as the cause of the mysterious furrows on part of the moon's surface, some of which are shown below.





Ganymede from the Juno probe




Aren't we done now?

 

By what it says in this article, physics should be over.  After all, isn't the "Theory of Everything" what they've been seeking for decades?

Magical equation unites quantum physics, Einstein’s general relativity in a first

" “We proved that the Einstein field equation from general relativity is actually a relativistic quantum mechanical equation,” the researchers note in their study.

In simple words, this new framework connects the science that governs the macroscopic world with that of the microscopic world.

Therefore, it has the potential to explain every physical phenomenon known to humanity ranging from the mysterious dark matter in space to the photons emitted by your phone’s flashlight." "
See, I told you so. It's all over. Take down the party decorations.

But let's see what they actually did.
“The obtained equation is covariant in space-time and invariant with respect to any Planck scale. Therefore, the constants of the universe can be reduced to only two quantities: Planck length and Planck time,” the researchers note."

Of course, that should be obvious.

If you want to do the reading, here's the article.

On the same origin of quantum physics and general relativity from Riemannian geometry and Planck scale formalism








Schematic illustration of the Riemannian manifold of positive definite matrices (but that's pretty obvious, too)

Young and beautiful and talented

 

Daisy Edgar-Jones got noticed (which is a mild statement) for her role in Normal People, which required nudity and intimate scenes, but she's more than that, as she showed in Twisters

On a recent red carpet at the Toronto Film Festival, she showed she's got a lot of what it takes to get noticed in show business.

Daisy Edgar-Jones flashes her cleavage in a plunging sheer baby blue gown as she attends On Swift Horses premiere at Toronto Film Festival



Sunday, October 6, 2024

The Perseverance rover is going to climb

 

As the scientific rewards from the Mars Perseverance Rover (yes, it's still roving Mars) continue to accrue, this Gizmodo article indicates that the going is going to get tougher and rougher -- and the rewards could become greater.

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Is Finally Getting to the Main Event on Mars 

The rover is set to tackle Mars' ancient hydrothermal sites, searching for clues to the planet's watery past and potential ancient life.

"In the upcoming science campaign, Perseverance will have to overcome slopes of up to 23 degrees and a climb of about 1,000 feet (300 meters) to summit the rim of Jezero, which billions of years ago contained a massive lake."

NASA’s Perseverance Rover to Begin Long Climb Up Martian Crater Rim

That article provided the image below, which shows where the rover is going. First stop is Dox Castle. Then it apparently exits the crater at Aurora Park, and ensuing goals are Pico Turquino and Witch Hazel Hill.

(And since I'm posting this a few weeks after it was published, I went to the Mars Perseverance Rover website and looked at the image that shows where the rover is now. And it looks to me like it's nearly to Aurora Park already.)