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https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/11/rss-parrot/
Published: November 20, 2024 00:00
I have been thinking about sharing posts from this blog to Mastodon, but I did not want to share them from my personal Mastodon account. I would rather keep blog updates separate from content that I toot directly to Mastodon. A “sub-timeline” for my…
Elementary physics: reductionism or holism?
https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/11/elementary-physics/
Published: November 16, 2024 00:00
To learn how the universe works at a fundamental level, is it better to take a reductionistic approach or a holistic approach to elementary physics? xkcd says it best: it’s hard no matter what! Paths for elementary physics; from xkcd
Merging supermassive black holes
https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/11/merging-blackholes/
Published: November 15, 2024 00:00
There may be two supermassive black holes in a distant galaxy on the verge of merging. A high-energy burst of light first observed in 2021 was not consistent with being a supernova, but it did fit with what would be expected when two supermassive black…
Skipping directly into a black hole
https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/11/blackhole/
Published: November 11, 2024 00:00
Most giant stars which collapse into a black hole explode in a supernova first. However, some skip the supernova explosion and collapse directly into a black hole, which is observed as the star simply disappearing. The second such star has been confirmed…
The singularity is not coming
https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/11/singularity/
Published: November 2, 2024 00:00
There is a concept called the Singularity which some think will happen in the near future. The idea is that there will be artificial intelligences that will be able to create smarter artificial intelligences, which in turn will create even smarter…
Vengeful crows
https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/10/31/crows/
Published: October 31, 2024 00:00
I knew that crows were smart, but I had no idea that they are so smart that they could hold grudges for over 15 years. Not only can an individual crow hold a grudge against specific people, communication among crows is sophisticated enough that a group of…
Old sharks
https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/09/old-sharks/
Published: September 23, 2024 00:00
Something I learned recently was that Greenland sharks can live up to 400 years. That goes far above the 100 year mark that I thought would be around the limit for even the most long-lived vertebrates. Some of these sharks are older than the United States…
A private walk in space
https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/09/spacewalk/
Published: September 12, 2024 00:00
It is one thing to put humans into a vehicle, launch them into space, and return in the vehicle to Earth. It is another to let out all the air in the vehicle while in space, then leave the vehicle to float in space on purpose. It is not something I would…
Mystery car rental
https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/08/mystery-car/
Published: August 30, 2024 00:00
When recently renting a car, there was an option to rent a mystery car. It was an option to rent an unspecified type of car that would be cheaper than they would otherwise be. It was suggested that it would be either a hybrid or electric car, and that was…
Air disasters
https://blog.chungyc.org/2024/05/air-disasters/
Published: May 27, 2024 00:00
I have been binging on Air Disasters on the Smithosonian Channel. The show is also known as Mayday.1 As should be obvious from the name of the show, it is mostly about disasters involving airplanes. It’s like a true disaster or true crime show mixed with…