Cosmic Catastrophe

[aerohead]

[QUOTE=freebeard;674439]The theory as I understand it is that for a short time atoms didn't exist, let alone galaxies. How you can parse out what was happening then IDK.[/QUOTES
Since they don't have all the mathematics yet, it's still hypotheses.
Some have been whittled away as experiments and tests now performed have demonstrated the impossibility of some candidate philosophies, leaving what remains, plus any 'progress.'
For me, the 'Big-Bang' is just our view of one 'positive' phase of a natural dual-mode resonance emerging from the inflexion point of a limited-size portal on this side of a equal, but opposite 'negative' mode, chimeral universe.
Over it's natural frequency, it just moves back and forth, emerging through the portal, with one instant, where all time, space, mass, entropy, and spherical field potential constitute a binary singularity.
It can't be 'observed' from 'outside' the system, as there is nothing that is not 'system.'
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But yes, there is an instant at which there is no time, no mass, no space. Just potential energy, with entropy designed in. Enough to create a heterogeneous universe with. And it's just an instant away. It's beginnings, anyway.
It's evolution is governed by all the coherent rules yet to be discovered. The most beautiful thing ever understood, if that were to ever happen.
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What the brainiacs and experimentalists have figured out so far, is where we're at.
It's their mathematics and computer modelling which inform their best guesses. Heady stuff!

[freebeard]

It's the unknown unkowns. They'll get you every time.

edit: This was an open tab from yesterday [via Hacker News]:

aeon.co/essays: A sliver of reality
Science and mathematics may never fully capture the physical universe. Are there hard limits to human intelligence?

[Piotrsko]

Using his dog analogy, we can't know because we are limited by our mind's experiences and current capabilities
got it.

So in order to beat FTL paradox we need to understand the apparent speed of light limit and why we cant go faster, something we now cant do possibly because we dont understand the fourth (?) force

[aerohead]

I ran across something which might apply to 'seeing beyond the Big-Bang'.
And it has to do with quasars ( quasi-steller objects ).
Astronomical distances and velocities have been inferred from 'color' and 'size' of a light source.
Thousands of quasars have been observed, some at the 'edge' of the Universe.
And since 'space' is created by 'matter,' quasars actually manufacture the space that's near them.
From these inferred distances and velocities, quasars upset the cosmological apple cart for theorists and their models.
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It turns out that astronomers may have wrongly associated galaxies in the foreground with quasars in the background, far behind.
And the 'brightness' of the quasar or galaxy may be affected by heated intersteller gas being accelerated into a black hole before it crosses the event horizon, 'skewing' the luminosity, and with it, assumptions about size and velocity.
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To accurately determine the size and location of an object requires triangulation from three simultaneous vantage points, as NASA does at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico; where at least three theodolites simultaneously perform radar-tracking observations of airborne objects.
From trigonometry, position and velocity can be pin-pointed.
Or from a calibrated laser rangefinders ( UFOs at Area-51 ).
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As new satellites, at Lagrange Points orbit, while performing precision time-stamped scanning of specific objects on and off, later on, that data can be be reassembled by celestial mechanics to provide 'triangulated' views of distant objects, nailing down their actual size and location.

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by Piotrsko

So in order to beat FTL paradox we need to understand the apparent speed of light limit and why we cant go faster, something we now cant do possibly because we dont understand the fourth (?) force

May the fourth be with you.

Just as the personal computer is a Jobsian 'bicycle for the mind', generalized artificial intelligence will serve as a force multiplier.

[oil pan 4]

Another near by star did a super flare.
https://youtu.be/wrk80nsGGAc
Problem is its 5 parsecs away. It may have flared more and we wouldn't know it.
Was that the main show or is there more to come.

[freebeard]

First page of the paper:

Astronomy and Astrophysics manuscript --September 13, 2022
Paper title -- 2021 November 19
subhead -- 30-July-2022, accepted 8-September-2022

Is there any hope for humankind?

[Piotrsko]

If youre oblique to the radiation, you can only measure effects on some other object. If you aren't looking at the proper object anything you measure is suspect to be incorrect.

[freebeard]

When it's time, it's time...

Magnetic Pole Shift | When It's Time, It's Time

Allegedly that time is the late 2020s -- 2040 and this is as good as it's gotten.

[aerohead]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

Another near by star did a super flare.
https://youtu.be/wrk80nsGGAc
Problem is its 5 parsecs away. It may have flared more and we wouldn't know it.
Was that the main show or is there more to come.

On our Sun, the parent sunspot which created the initial flare can go on producing lesser flares for 'several' days.
If the spot remains visible within the 27-day Carrington rotational period, observers will just continue to monitor it until it finally rotates out of sight.
We have solar observatories scattered all around Earth, and the Sun is always under continuous watch, recording, and archiving.
And a number of space-based observatories, looking at all frequencies.
Warnings are better than ever. Industries most affected have advance information with which to protect their assets ( tornado sirens for space weather ).