Brian Cox's Honest Opinion Of Oppenheimer


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MflmUTx0hlM

Is it particle physics or a fairytale? PART 1 | Sabine Hossenfelder, Gavin Salam, Bjørn Ekeberg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSKlQaGx-Q8



Is it particle physics or a fairytale? PART 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuh9S0_4guc

Why do Transition Metals Have Variable Oxidation States?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPYIB9_fPY

The Fascinating World of Neutron Stars and Pulsars.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auWMGe3Hpzg

Climate Scientists are Very Confused.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6EMJlt_Dsw

Why do "Useless" Neutrinos Exist?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xW5QV9zwGs

How the Higgs Mechanism Give Things Mass.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0Q4UAiKacw

How do Electron Microscopes Work? 🔬🛠🔬 Taking Pictures of Atoms


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DnnxvS6BBQ

Why is All Life Carbon Based, Not Silicon? Three Startling Reasons!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAFC4RY1cKQ

chemistry -

I was watching Hybridization of atomic orbitals YouTube videos and one
mentioned the time independent Schrodinger equation and Hamiltonian mechanics used to derive them –
Here at  5:21   and  5:35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azI-_S6g8C8

Then I went to here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian_mechanics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger_equation

and realised I was way out of my depth. LOL
At least some videos tried to simplify it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewtgUFSMsnY

I’m glad I didn’t try to study chemistry any more than I did at Uni –
I did some papers in organic and inorganic chemistry.
I never would have passed at the higher levels
as Chemistry is often regarded as the hardest of subjects.
I find it remarkable that any human being was
able to work out all the equations and models themselves.

We Were Wrong About Gold's Origin.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX7Uzgv8yPU

Why Dark Matter Likely Exists! And It "Looks" Like...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRMR7eMKLz0

A Better Way To Picture Atoms

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2Xb2GFK2yc

Visualizing the Nucleus


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ach9JLGs2Yc

Quantum Hype Goes Crazy. But Why?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOYwGttVRDQ

https://www.privatdozent.co/p/the-golden-age-of-quantum-physics-ff7

The Golden Age of Quantum Physics (1927)

Jørgen Veisdal

Sep 03, 2021




https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F039e8c19-4b94-46c8-9204-5c31902ef50e_1746x956.png
The remarkable group photograph from the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons in 1927 (Colorized by Marina Amaral)


The “most intelligent photograph ever taken”, as it is sometimes known,
was captured during the Fifth Solvay International Conference on Electrons and Photons held in 1927 in Brussels, Belgium. The photograph is famous because it was captured at the outset of what would later be known as the “debate of the century” over the non-deterministic nature of quantum physics. The central discussion of the debate is covered in the May 25th newsletter ‘The Bohr-Einstein Debate’.


Fifth Conference, 1927. 1st row :
Langmuir, Planck, Madame Curie, Lorentz, Einstein, Langevin, Guye, Wilson, Richardson.

2nd row :
Debye, Knudsen, W. L. Bragg, Kramers, Dirac, Compton, de Broglie, Born, Bohr.

3rd row :
Piccard, Henriot, Ehrenfest, Herzen, de Donder, Schrödinger, Verschaffelt, Pauli, Heisenberg, Fowler, Brillouin.

The science behind top fuel dragsters:


Ever wondered how top fuel dragsters can be the fastest accelerating vehicles in the world
with up to 12,000 hp and make it from 0-330mph in 3.65 seconds
well wonder no more as we look a the rather amazing engineering of top fuel dragsters.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0KTGHGXqsQ

Science news.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-sources-say-bidens-new-ai-chip-export-rules-a-major-blow-to-industry/

Israeli sources say Biden’s new AI chip export rules a ‘major blow’ to industry
Experts quoted saying framework, which tries to balance US national security concerns with economic interests, could prevent 120 countries, including Israel, from competing in AI.

https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2021/04/iStock-870578342-e1618215572500-1024x640.jpg



Under the framework, roughly 20 key allies and partners would face no restrictions on accessing chips, but other countries would face caps on the chips they could import, according to a fact sheet provided by the White House.

The allies without restrictions include
Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany,
Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand,
Norway, the Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.

Magnetars: Neutron Stars but Scarier!

There are many extreme objects in the universe we live in, but today I’m going to look at a dead star that would literally rip you apart. Welcome to the strange and deadly world of magnetars, neutron stars but scarier. Let’s find out more.
Magnetars are neutron stars which have immense magnetic fields. These are similar to other neutron stars but there are some significant differences that we’ll have a look at today.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRPjgKs-aw4

The Planck Density: The Density of the Early Universe


I’ve looked at quite a few of the Planck base units, and I’ve even worked them out mathematically, but today I’m going to look at one of the derived units and I’ll compare it to some other things to see how big or small this is. Today then I’m going to be looking at the Planck Density. Let’s find out more.
Before we start, we need to know what density is. Density is a measure of how tightly packed a material is. In other words, how much stuff is packed into a certain volume of space.

To work out density then we need a formula, and units. To work out density we use the following formula, density and that is denoted by the greek letter rho equals mass divided by volume. The SI unit of density is kilograms per metre cubed. So now that we know what density is and we have our units, time to see how dense different materials are and then compare that to the Planck density, which is very dense indeed. At the end I’ll show you where the numbers come from. We’ll start off by looking at some very un dense things and work our way up.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkXqg0VAVUA

I never understood why too many neutrons cause instability - until now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqgmKzRneic



Why Does Everything Decay Into Lead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhkvihpdkRE

Gravity. It's a heavy metal.

Physics of Nuclear Weapons.

by Dr. Jorge S. Diaz.

11 videos.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_UV-wQj1lvUhNttvv4_KsYrQxHygj3Ey

Why Einstein Couldn’t Get a Job for 9 Years


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MXhYpmRlqQ

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7vd1zjlr5lo


Asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists

16 hours ago

The chemical building blocks of life have been found in the grainy dust of an asteroid called Bennu, an analysis reveals.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/4283/live/85215210-dca6-11ef-8d55-c509ea2c94a9.jpg
Asteroid Bennu is a 500m-wide pile of boulders, rocks and rubble


Samples of the space rock, which were scooped up by a Nasa spacecraft and brought to Earth, contain a rich array of minerals and thousands of organic compounds.

These include amino acids, which are the molecules that make up proteins, as well as nucleobases - the fundamental components of DNA.

This doesn't mean there was ever life on Bennu, but it supports the theory that asteroids delivered these vital ingredients to Earth when they crashed into our planet billions of years ago.

Scientists think those same compounds could also have been brought to other worlds in our Solar System.

"What we've learned from it is amazing," said Prof Sara Russell, a cosmic mineralogist from the Natural History Museum in London.

"It's telling us about our own origins, and it enables us to answer these really, really big questions about where life began. And who doesn't want to know about how life started?"

The findings are published in two papers in the journal Nature.

The new research has shown that the space rock is packed full of nitrogen and carbon-rich compounds.

These include 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to build proteins
and all four of the ring-shaped molecules that make up DNA - adenine, guanine, cytosine and thymine.

The study has also found an array of minerals and salts, suggesting water was once present on the asteroid. Ammonia, which is important for biochemical reactions, was discovered in the sample too.

If you want to understand the basics of physical laws... watch this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEx-gRfuhhk

If Feynman were alive, he would probably be labelled "denier". ::)

It's more than just physics and chemistry to start life on a planet.
Our moon is what gives this planet life.

Jasin wrote on Jan 31^st, 2025 at 3:41pm:

It's more than just physics and chemistry to start life on a planet. Our moon is what gives this planet life.

I don't know if "gives this planet life" considering we believe that life originated in the deep sea around vents however I think it has played a major role for life to move to land. The tides forced some animals and plants to survive in tidal regions, forcing them to survive in and out of the sea. This provided the environment for evolution to have a stepping stone to the land.

Just a thought.

Super Nova wrote on Jan 30^th, 2025 at 10:17pm:

If you want to understand the basics of physical laws... watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEx-gRfuhhk

6 hours of blurry video?

I'll give that a miss but I have seen many videos from him before.

Bobby. wrote on Jan 31^st, 2025 at 4:18pm:

Super Nova wrote on Jan 30th, 2025 at 10:17pm: If you want to understand the basics of physical laws... watch this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEx-gRfuhhk 6 hours of blurry video? I'll give that a miss but I have seen many videos from him before.

Really, a little blurry, it is not a movie, it is the education that is the content. Try listening to what he has to say. The images are not what is important. 90% of the time in a lecture all, I cannot see the blackboard.

Super Nova wrote on Jan 31^st, 2025 at 5:13pm:

Really, a little blurry, it is not a movie, it is the education that is the content. Try listening to what he has to say. The images are not what is important. 90% of the time in a lecture all, I cannot see the blackboard.

Maybe you need to visit an optician for an eye test?

Bobby. wrote on Jan 31^st, 2025 at 5:15pm:

Super Nova wrote on Jan 31st, 2025 at 5:13pm: Really, a little blurry, it is not a movie, it is the education that is the content. Try listening to what he has to say. The images are not what is important. 90% of the time in a lecture all, I cannot see the blackboard. Maybe you need to visit an optician for an eye test?

Maybe you shouldn't disregard one of the best series of lectures on science ever if you are really interested in science.

Super Nova wrote on Jan 31^st, 2025 at 6:01pm:

Bobby. wrote on Jan 31st, 2025 at 5:15pm: Super Nova wrote on Jan 31st, 2025 at 5:13pm: Really, a little blurry, it is not a movie, it is the education that is the content. Try listening to what he has to say. The images are not what is important. 90% of the time in a lecture all, I cannot see the blackboard. Maybe you need to visit an optician for an eye test? Maybe you shouldn't disregard one of the best series of lectures on science ever if you are really interested in science.

I have already watched hours of his videos.

I recently came across a paper Jones et al 2023, which cites increased temperatures per Gt of GHG's.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-023-02041-1#Sec16

Excerpt - "According to our estimates, 2,471 Pg CO2 were emitted globally during 1851–2021 (Figs. 3, 4) leading to a CO2-induced increase in GMST of 1.11 °C (Fig. 5, Table 1)."

https://ourworldindata.org/co2-emissions


The usual calculation is Warming vs Cumulative CO2 emissions in Gtonne. To convert Pg to Gt multiply by 10.

So having done the necessary calculations, we come to the following -

So dividing the temperature change by the CO2 emissions data -

1.11ºC/24710 or 0.000045ºC/Gt Globally.

Australia's emissions are of course smaller.  In the order of 19.66Gt cumulative. So we multiply the global change per Gt by Australia's Cumulative emissions and we get 0.0008847ºC since 1850.

I didn't take out the start figure as it amounts to little more than a rounding error.

Now the fun part -

"The latest report from Net Zero Australia (University of Melbourne, the University of Queensland, Princeton University and management consultancies Nous and Evolved Energy) puts the cost at $1.5 trillion by the end of the decade, with the need for $7 trillion to $9 trillion of capital by 2060 to meet Australia’s aspiration of net zero by 2050."

https://creinsurance.com.au/blog/the-9-trillion-solution-to-our-1-problem-australias-net-zero-cost/

$60 trillion to reach "Net Zero" for about 9 ten thousandsth of a degree change.

Cheap innit? ::)

Another study citing the IPCC said the change was .0008ºC/GT

.0008*19.6 or 0.01568ºC. Still cheap innit? ::)

How Is Inconel Made and Where Did It Come From?

Feb 3, 2025

How It's Made

Discover the incredible story behind Inconel, the high-performance superalloy that thrives in extreme conditions! In this video, we’ll explore how Inconel is made, its origins, and why it’s used in industries like aerospace, energy, and deep-sea exploration. Learn what makes this material so special and how it continues to shape the world of advanced engineering.

If you’ve ever wondered what’s behind the durability of jet engines or the resilience of deep-sea drilling equipment, this is the video for you!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pkevbUUgZs

Bobby. wrote on Feb 7^th, 2025 at 9:35pm:

How Is Inconel Made and Where Did It Come From? Feb 3, 2025 How It's Made Discover the incredible story behind Inconel, the high-performance superalloy that thrives in extreme conditions! In this video, we’ll explore how Inconel is made, its origins, and why it’s used in industries like aerospace, energy, and deep-sea exploration. Learn what makes this material so special and how it continues to shape the world of advanced engineering. If you’ve ever wondered what’s behind the durability of jet engines or the resilience of deep-sea drilling equipment, this is the video for you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pkevbUUgZs

I think inconel is used in exhaust systems for RX7 cars

Sprintcyclist wrote on Feb 7^th, 2025 at 9:48pm:

I think inconel is used in exhaust systems for RX7 cars

None of the RX7s i worked on had inconel exhaust

It's expensive
https://hinzmotorsport.com/products/kline-innovation-competition-inconel-exhaust-system-porsche-992-gt3-touring-rs?srsltid=AfmBOop45-Gs3FK1p9h8Q6mX7KAGWHzNKisN23YEk_1SV-EhavY0KZMB

Yes Lee. I've always believed that cities contribute the most heat

I was asked to keep this confidential.

Will DOGE be on to them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg

She's good.
Saw an older clip of hers blasting this sort of SCAM SCIENCE getting about.
The biggest SCAM going about at the moment is the Mars Colonisation to get $$$$.

Jasin wrote on Feb 16^th, 2025 at 9:00am:

She's good. Saw an older clip of hers blasting this sort of SCAM SCIENCE getting about. The biggest SCAM going about at the moment is the Mars Colonisation to get $$$$.

Yeah - too much money being wasted on science that leads nowhere.

Science used in motor vehicle engines.

Here is a fascinating video about rebuilding engines and the coatings used instead of cast iron cylinder sleeves.
It's also about the environment.

29 minutes long.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kp108x4tQA

Does Bobby's science level extend to vinegar and bicarb mixtures or just putting food dye in water?

Dear boy do keep trying

bubbles wrote on Feb 17^th, 2025 at 9:33am:

Does Bobby's science level extend to vinegar and bicarb mixtures or just putting food dye in water? Dear boy do keep trying

LTYC says    "dear boy"           :-/

Protein Folding and AI (Nobel Prize 2024)

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded for breakthroughs in protein design and structure.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMfgV2QSlns

HUGE Microchip Breakthrough

1nm resolution required to make the chips:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLLty2GoAuU

How Many Neutrons Can You Stack Before Reality Breaks?

Jul 6, 2025


What happens if you keep adding neutrons—forever? Is there a limit? And what does quantum mechanics and relativity have to do with it?

This video explores the surprising physics of nuclear forces, quantum mechanics, and gravity to find out. We use back-of-the-envelope reasoning to estimate the mass limits of neutron stars and uncover why these strange objects are essential to the existence of elements, planets, and life itself.

From the structure of the atomic nucleus to the death of massive stars, this is the story of how neutrons shape our universe.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEyS7-OK57I

How does Gold form nuggets in Quartz veins?


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/QgRToy1lGVE




https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-024-01514-1

Article

Published: 02 September 2024

Gold nugget formation from earthquake-induced piezoelectricity in quartz

Christopher R. Voisey, Nicholas J. R. Hunter, Andrew G. Tomkins, Joël Brugger, Weihua Liu, Yang Liu & Vladimir Luzin
Nature Geoscience volume 17, pages920–925 (2024)Cite this article


Abstract
Gold nuggets occur predominantly in quartz veins, and the current paradigm posits that gold precipitates from dilute (<1 mg kg−1 gold), hot, water ± carbon dioxide-rich fluids owing to changes in temperature, pressure and/or fluid chemistry. However, the widespread occurrence of large gold nuggets is at odds with the dilute nature of these fluids and the chemical inertness of quartz. Quartz is the only abundant piezoelectric mineral on Earth, and the cyclical nature of earthquake activity that drives orogenic gold deposit formation means that quartz crystals in veins will experience thousands of episodes of deviatoric stress. Here we use quartz deformation experiments and piezoelectric modelling to investigate whether piezoelectric discharge from quartz can explain the ubiquitous gold–quartz association and the formation of gold nuggets. We find that stress on quartz crystals can generate enough voltage to electrochemically deposit aqueous gold from solution as well as accumulate gold nanoparticles. Nucleation of gold via piezo-driven reactions is rate-limiting because quartz is an insulator; however, since gold is a conductor, our results show that existing gold grains are the focus of ongoing growth. We suggest this mechanism can help explain the creation of large nuggets and the commonly observed highly interconnected gold networks within quartz vein fractures.

thanks Bobby.
Science is amazing

Sprintcyclist wrote on Jul 12^th, 2025 at 4:26pm:

thanks Bobby. Science is amazing

Yep - and I'm keeping you all up to date on it.   ;)

Such good Christians.  ;D

The Man Who Should Be As Famous As Einstein

Claude Shannon is the father of Information Theory.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wlmzvf8_gI



Chapters:

00:00 How Computers Understand 1s and 0s
0:35 Growing Up in Michigan
1:20 Boolean Logic: The Language of Computers
1:57 Building Circuits with Math
3:09 Working on the Differential Analyzer at MIT
4:15 The 1937 Master’s Thesis That Changed the World
5:15 Dabbling in Genetics
6:06 Building War Machines (SIGSALY)
7:25 Shannon Bell Labs
8:22 The Birth of Information Theory (1948 Paper)
9:07 Becoming a Celebrity Scientist
10:20 Building Theseus, an Electronic Mouse That Learned
11:01 Chess and Artificial Intelligence
11:28 Juggling, Stocks, and Curiosity
11:54 The Final Years: A Mind Lost to Alzheimer’s

Lithography of 2nm integrated circuits are being planned by Japan:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ja5Z3IHXu8



Timestamps:

00:00 - Japan Huge Comeback
04:56 - New Semiconductor Fab
10:36 - Japan’s Plan to Win Semiconductors and First Wafer
17:03 - New 2nm Chip and New Materials

What did Teller say about Einstein?
This will surprise all of you:



Edward Teller - Going to see Einstein give a lecture (31/147)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3gIPxzTP9Y

Monk is trying to steal my science thread -
he has no content - only his mutterings.    ::)

Will chip making succeed in the USA?


Timestamps:
00:00 - New Semiconductor Fab
10:35 - Fab 2
13:45 - Fab 3
16:03 - Fab 4
18:58 - Breakthrough and Warning
23:37 - The biggest challenge



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VX3jNJmbcI

Oct 19, 2025

The $30 Billion Betrayal: Britain's Atom Bomb Mistake


In March 1940, two British scientists calculated that an atomic bomb only needed 20 pounds of uranium - not tons. It could fit in a plane and level a city. And Nazi Germany might already be working on one.
By July 1941, Britain's MAUD Committee had proven the bomb was achievable and created a detailed roadmap. There was just one problem: Britain was broke and couldn't afford to build it.
So in August 1943, Churchill and Roosevelt signed the Quebec Agreement. Britain would share everything - all research, scientists, and breakthroughs. America would build it. After the war, they'd remain partners.
British scientists joined the Manhattan Project. Made crucial contributions. The bomb worked. War ended.
Then on August 1, 1946, the McMahon Act made sharing atomic information with ANY nation - including allies - a federal crime. Britain was cut off completely from their own invention.
Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin: "We've got to have this thing over here whatever it costs... We've got to have the bloody Union Jack on top of it."
Britain spent the next six years and hundreds of millions of pounds rebuilding from scratch what they'd already invented and given away. While rationing bread and living under the worst peacetime austerity in history.
Was this a betrayal or justified security? The broken promise that cost Britain billions.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN1s4DgMziE

Good video above -
it shows how the Yanks can't be trusted to do deals with science knowledge.

It doesn't look good for our submarine deal.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2509/WaterlessEarth2_woodshole_960.jpg


https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250907.html

Explanation: How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius. The featured illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers, less than half the radius of the Earth's Moon, and slightly smaller than Saturn's moon Rhea which, like many moons in our outer Solar System, is mostly water ice. The next smallest ball depicts all of Earth's liquid fresh water, while the tiniest ball shows the volume of all of Earth's fresh-water lakes and rivers. How any of this water came to be on the Earth and whether any significant amount is trapped far beneath Earth's surface remain topics of research.

Quick! Use it all up first, before someone else does.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/image/2509/WaterlessEarth2_woodshole_960.jpg


https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap250907.html

Explanation: How much of planet Earth is made of water? Very little, actually. Although oceans of water cover about 70 percent of Earth's surface, these oceans are shallow compared to the Earth's radius. The featured illustration shows what would happen if all of the water on or near the surface of the Earth were bunched up into a ball. The radius of this ball would be only about 700 kilometers, less than half the radius of the Earth's Moon, and slightly smaller than Saturn's moon Rhea which, like many moons in our outer Solar System, is mostly water ice. The next smallest ball depicts all of Earth's liquid fresh water, while the tiniest ball shows the volume of all of Earth's fresh-water lakes and rivers. How any of this water came to be on the Earth and whether any significant amount is trapped far beneath Earth's surface remain topics of research.

The main scientific reasoning is all that water came from comets and meteors billions of years ago and unlike Mars, was retained by our protective magnetic sphere and primordial atmosphere.
It's not really calculated, nor can be, regarding all the crystallised water and liquid water that is deep in the crust.

Jasin wrote on Oct 24^th, 2025 at 3:13pm:

The main scientific reasoning is all that water came from comets and meteors billions of years ago and unlike Mars, was retained by our protective magnetic sphere and primordial atmosphere. It's not really calculated, nor can be, regarding all the crystallised water and liquid water that is deep in the crust.

Mars has a lot of water too -
it's mostly frozen and beneath the surface.

Mars will always be a dead stillborn of a planet.
The concept and belief of a Mars colony even in 50 years time is insane! More a money making funding gimmick currently and that's the only thing working for it. A NASA scam.
Until we can do a self sufficient colony in the middle of the Antarctic, the Mars colony will be a catastrophe to put it mildly.
Even the Astro-Cosmological idea of planets having life because of an earth related Goldilocks zone is short sighted.
What they need to look for is planets with a sizable satellite moon relationship.
Mars needs something like Ceres pushed into orbit around it, to jumpstart it's magnetosphere as a first step entirely towards Retaining any semblance of micro life to begin with.
It's our moon that has given life the stimulus to evolve here.
The Pluto-Charon binary system is our best bet to discovering life here and it's not in any Goldilocks zone. Water (liquid) moons like Enceladus or Europa doesn't guarantee life. I reckon they too are sterile.
The gravitational effect of our moon stimulates movement in and on earth and movement provides change and change means evolutions.

Hi JaSin,

Google AI:


Water on Mars is polluted with perchlorates,

which are toxic salts that lower the freezing point of water, allowing it to remain liquid on the Martian surface. This salty, briny water can also contain other salts like chlorides and sulfates of sodium, magnesium, and calcium. Before use, this water would require significant detoxification to remove these contaminants for both human health and equipment corrosion prevention. 


Perchlorates: The primary contaminant, perchlorates are toxic salts that are also corrosive to equipment. They are abundant on Mars and can absorb water from the atmosphere, forming liquid brines.
Other salts: The water also contains other salts like sulfates and chlorides of elements such as sodium, magnesium, and calcium.


Why it's liquid: The high concentration of these salts lowers the freezing point of the water, allowing it to exist as a liquid even at Mars' very low temperatures, in a process similar to how salt is used to de-ice roads on Earth.
Health and equipment concerns: Because these perchlorates are toxic to humans and corrosive to equipment, the water would need to be purified before it could be used for drinking, food production, or propellant manufacturing.

Water on Mars is polluted with perchlorates.

So what is going on?

Just as we have plenty of seawater that we can't drink -
Mars also has water we can't drink -
however - perchlorates are much worse than NaCl in our sea water.

It makes ideas of going to Mars a whole lot more complicated.

It makes the whole 'mars colony' thing just a funding scam.
ScoMo gave NASA $350m towards the Mars Project, just because an Australian citizen was involved in the 'colony' side of things.

Personally, I would like to see probes go to Uranus, Neptune and Pluto-Charon.

Some good science here.

Why is normal RF co-ax 50 ohms impedance but your TV or satellite co-ax is 75 ohms?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-OnQZJv35I

Nov 2, 2025

When we talk about neutron stars, it’s easy to focus on the numbers: masses heavier than the Sun, squeezed into a sphere only a few kilometers wide, densities so extreme that a spoonful would outweigh a mountain. But the real fascination lies in what those numbers mean. They point us to an environment where matter behaves in ways we can barely predict.

At the center of these stars is a place we cannot see directly, yet everything we do observe depends on it. The way pulsars spin, the way neutron stars merge, the way they cool, and the way they resist collapse into black holes all trace back to what is happening deep inside the core.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceQpGjXwLj4

Jasin wrote on Oct 25^th, 2025 at 8:31am:

Personally, I would like to see probes go to Uranus.

We could send Karnal.

Setanta wrote on Nov 7^th, 2025 at 10:18pm:

Jasin wrote on Oct 25th, 2025 at 8:31am: Personally, I would like to see probes go to Uranus. We could send Karnal.

Yes. He would be very qualified. He would find out why Uranus is bent over and farting plasma into space. 🌌

Btw: Ever notice how Physicists and Scientists who focus on Black Holes 🕳️ and Dark Matter are looking more like Sith Lords these days?

The invention of the transistor gets a Nobel prize:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRJZtuqCoMw


In the late 1940s, Bell Laboratories scientists John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, and William Shockley invented the transistor, the first solid-state amplifier or switch, and in doing so laid the foundation for all modern electronics and circuitry. The three shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956 for the achievement. It may be the most important invention of the 20th century.

The future of chips:


Inside the Secret Microchip Fab – What I Saw Changes Everything


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS5FovPfvf0

There are more if you take into account Dark Matter/ Energy

Jasin wrote on Nov 28^th, 2025 at 12:40pm:

There are more if you take into account Dark Matter/ Energy

That should be answered in the video before at -

3:10 - The Debate: Dark Matter vs. "Dark Gravity"

Did you know that the percentage % of known (visible) matter in relation to the Dark matter is the same as the percentage of whitey population to darkies on this planet.

Funny how science works.

Jasin wrote on Nov 29^th, 2025 at 6:12am:

Did you know that the percentage % of known (visible) matter in relation to the Dark matter is the same as the percentage of whitey population to darkies on this planet. Funny how science works.

Very funny - ha ha.

There's a good scene in the movie Young Guns where Emilio Estevez's character says to the Negro "We fear what we can't see".

Yep. The White consciousness can't see what's within the Yellow man's Forbidden City or the Black Man's Dark Continent.

The Darkies have plans for you Whities since your very young emergence in Europe like a big bang.

1 Dec  2025

Small modular nuclear reactors are supposed to fix the problem of conventional nuclear reactors being too expensive and time-consuming to build. But we’ve been hearing about how promising they are for 15 years now. So where are they? A report that just appeared sheds light on what happened.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1r_WPtqLp0

Australia based scientist gets joint Nobel prize.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Robson_(chemist)

Early life and education
Robson was born in Glusburn, West Yorkshire (now North Yorkshire), England, on 4 June 1937.[6][7] He read chemistry at Brasenose College, Oxford,[8] earning a BA in 1959 and a DPhil in 1962.[9][6] His doctoral research, supervised by John A. Barltrop at the Dyson Perrins Laboratory, focused on the photochemistry of organic molecules.[10][11]

He conducted postdoctoral research at the California Institute of Technology (1962–64) and Stanford University (1964–65) under Henry Taube before accepting a lectureship in chemistry at the University of Melbourne in 1966, where he remained for the rest of his career.[9][12]


https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/

The 2025 chemistry laureates

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2025 to Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar M. Yaghi “for the development of metal–organic frameworks.”

The laureates developed a new type of molecular architecture. The constructions they created – metal–organic frameworks – contain large cavities in which molecules can flow in and out. Researchers have used them to harvest water from desert air, extract pollutants from water, capture carbon dioxide and store hydrogen

64 Terabit data speed with photonics.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTyNig7enkQ

I'm waiting until someone in biology engineering created Xenomorphs.

Jasin wrote on Dec 23^rd, 2025 at 7:32pm:

I'm waiting until someone in biology engineering created Xenomorphs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomorph

The xenomorph (also known as a XX121 xenomorph, Internecivus raptus, or simply the Alien or the creature[a])[2][3][4][5] is a fictional endoparasitoid extraterrestrial species that serves as the main antagonist of the Alien and Alien vs. Predator franchises, and a minor antagonist in Predator: Concrete Jungle.

The species made its debut in the film Alien (1979) and reappeared in the sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), Alien Resurrection (1997), and Alien: Romulus (2024).

https://spectrum.ieee.org/fiber-optic-cable-record

New Fiber Optics Tech Smashes Data Rate Record Expanded bandwidth
yields a transmission rate of 402 terabits per second.

Margo Anderson        08 Jul 2024


An international team of researchers have smashed the world record for fiber optic communications through commercial-grade fiber. By broadening fiber’s communication bandwidth, the team has produced data rates four times as fast as existing commercial systems—and 33 percent better than the previous world record.

The researchers’ success derives in part from their innovative use of optical amplifiers to boost signals across communications bands that conventional fiber optics technology today less-frequently uses. “It’s just more spectrum, more or less,” says Ben Puttnam, chief senior researcher at the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) in Koganei, Japan.

Puttnam says the researchers have built their communications hardware stack from optical amplifiers and other equipment developed, in part, by Nokia Bell Labs and the Hong Kong-based company Amonics. The assembled tech comprises six separate optical amplifiers that can squeeze optical signals through C-band wavelengths—the standard, workhorse communications band today—plus the less-popular U-, L-, S-, E-, and O-bands. (E- and O- bands are in the near-infrared; while S-band, C-band, L-, and O-bands are in what’s called short-wavelength infrared.)

All together, the combination of O, E, S, C, L, and U bands enables the new technology to push a staggering 402 terabits per second (Tbps) through the kinds of fiber optic cables that are already in the ground and underneath the oceans. Which is impressive when compared to the competition.

“The world’s best commercial systems are 100 terabits per second,” Puttnam says. “So we’re already doing about four times better.” Then, earlier this year, a team of researchers at Aston University in the Birmingham, England boasted what at the time was a record-setting 301 Tbps using much the same tech as the joint Japanese-British work—plus sharing a number of researchers between the two groups.

What a Gluon Really Is… And Why It Refuses to Behave -

in 2 hours and 18 minutes - you'll find out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LANVtHaHyJo


You are 99% energy. Not matter. Energy.

The quarks inside your body weigh less than 700 grams. The rest of you is the energy of a particle you've never heard of. A particle with no mass. A particle no one has ever seen. A particle that is permanently locked inside the protons and neutrons of your atoms and can never get out.

It's called the gluon. And it breaks every rule in physics.

Every other force carrier in the universe is neutral - it transmits a force but doesn't feel it. The gluon is different. It carries the charge of the strong force AND feels that force itself. It pulls on its own kind. It interacts with itself. And because of that single property, it creates the most powerful prison in nature - one that no quark has ever escaped from. Not once. Not in 13.8 billion years.

Science is really running on vapours with this one.

Jasin wrote on Feb 15^th, 2026 at 9:15pm:

Science is really running on vapours with this one.

Roger that.

True science is stranger than science fiction:


Physicist Publishes Method For Communicating With Parallel Universes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zx3Elz554ZM

40% of Astro/Cosmo papers produced last year were pure fictional for financial gain. If you can't make it, fake it.

Jasin wrote on Feb 16^th, 2026 at 9:40am:

40% of Astro/Cosmo papers produced last year were pure fictional for financial gain. If you can't make it, fake it.

Sure - roger that -
I must admit I got lost with the Gluon video after about 40 minutes.
I don't think you can ever know what is happening at the fundamental level.
As for multiple universes? - it's a bit too way out there for me.  :-[

The multi verse papers are probably the best example of Sci-fying real Science outputs.
As one real scientist said "The whole multiverse thing was to mass production more fake science for money"

Bobby. wrote on Feb 15^th, 2026 at 9:31am:

What a Gluon Really Is… And Why It Refuses to Behave - in 2 hours and 18 minutes - you'll find out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LANVtHaHyJo You are 99% energy. Not matter. Energy. The quarks inside your body weigh less than 700 grams. The rest of you is the energy of a particle you've never heard of. A particle with no mass. A particle no one has ever seen. A particle that is permanently locked inside the protons and neutrons of your atoms and can never get out. It's called the gluon. And it breaks every rule in physics. Every other force carrier in the universe is neutral - it transmits a force but doesn't feel it. The gluon is different. It carries the charge of the strong force AND feels that force itself. It pulls on its own kind. It interacts with itself. And because of that single property, it creates the most powerful prison in nature - one that no quark has ever escaped from. Not once. Not in 13.8 billion years.

I asked Google AI:
how can Gluons move at nearly the speed of light and change directions without giving off energy?


AI Overview

Gluons can move at the speed of light, change direction constantly, and remain confined within a proton without "giving off energy" (radiating) because they are massless force carriers operating within the unique, non-linear environment of Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) rather than free space.

Here is how they achieve this behavior:
1. Massless Nature Dictates Speed
Like photons, gluons have zero rest mass. According to the theory of relativity, any massless particle is required to travel at the speed of light (
) in a vacuum.


2. Confinement, Not Radiation
Unlike light in open space, gluons are trapped inside hadrons (like protons) by the strong force.


The "Glue" Analogy: Gluons act as the exchange particles for the strong interaction. Instead of spreading out, they are constrained into "flux tubes" or "strings" between quarks.
Constant Force, No Radiation: Because of color confinement, the energy of the flux tube between quarks does not decrease over distance; it stays consistent. When a gluon changes direction to pull a quark back, it is not "scattering" in free space and losing energy; it is operating within a closed system where it is constantly being emitted and absorbed.


3. "Off-Shell" Nature (Virtual Particles)
The gluons that bind quarks together are not "real" (on-shell) particles that travel long distances, but rather "virtual" particles.

Virtual Particles are a mathematical way of describing the interaction between quantum fields. They can exist for only a brief time and do not need to follow the same energy-momentum rules as free particles.
Because they are "off-shell," they can change direction and momentum without radiating energy in the same way a charged electron would.

4. Self-Interaction (Non-Abelian Gauge Theory)
Unlike photons, gluons carry color charge themselves. This allows them to interact with other gluons. This constant, messy interaction means they are constantly changing directions, but this is a exchange of force, not a loss of energy to the external environment.

Gluons sound like Lefties in politics

Jasin wrote on Feb 16^th, 2026 at 9:53am:

The multi verse papers are probably the best example of Sci-fying real Science outputs. As one real scientist said "The whole multiverse thing was to mass production more fake science for money"

Maybe there is nothing more we can know so
they have to make money somehow?

Jasin wrote on Feb 16^th, 2026 at 9:57am:

Gluons sound like Lefties in politics

The thing is that most of the mass of ourselves - for instance -
is made of Gluons - probably 99% of us -
yet Gluons are also massless particles - go figure.

Another case of "We know it's there, we just can't prove or really see it. But hey, just another thing that's floating around like UFOs and Bigfoots"

Jasin wrote on Feb 16^th, 2026 at 10:04am:

Another case of "We know it's there, we just can't prove or really see it. But hey, just another thing that's floating around like UFOs and Bigfoots"

Well - the next time you're at a party -
you can impress everyone -
when someone says - we are made of atoms -
you can say - no we're not -
we're made of Gluons.

If I was at a party and told someone I was a glue-on. I'm sure they would move away quickly for fear of me being sticky like a stalker. Lol

Jasin wrote on Feb 16^th, 2026 at 10:08am:

If I was at a party and told someone I was a glue-on. I'm sure they would move away quickly for fear of me being sticky like a stalker. Lol

You need to go to parties where you find intellectuals not bogans with tattoos.   ;D

15th Feb  2026

Jupiter’s moon Io is more alive than any other body in our solar system.
Its rocky surface is caught up in a raging battle between fire and ice -
meanwhile scientists on Earth have only just begun to uncover the hidden forces that are driving this chaos.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0mNlXGd2Bc

"    The rapid expansion of renewable energy is being used to meet rising electricity demands rather than displacing fossil fuels, according to new research by the University of Sussex. 

    Energy-hungry artificial intelligence data centres and greater use of air conditioning in a fast-heating world are among several factors threatening to undermine the climate gains made by renewables, according to the paper published in Nature Reviews Clean Technology.

    Researchers from Sussex and Vienna’s Central European University found record growth in solar power in the first three quarters of 2025. For the first time this rise in clean electricity outpaced global growth in electricity demand, yet the researchers warn this fragile balance is now starting to tip back the other way. 

    Since the 2015 Paris Agreement, which aims to limit global temperature rises, global wind and solar power generation has grown rapidly, yet emissions from the power sector have continued to rise as electricity demand has grown even faster. Analysis of global energy demand in 2025 found artificial-intelligence data centres are a major driver, alongside increased use of air conditioning as people struggle to cope with hotter temperatures.

    Electrification of transport and consumer trends such as bigger cars were also highlighted as culprits. The report found these pressures are eroding efficiency gains made by individual countries. Projections to 2030 warn that increases in electricity use could consume most new renewable supply unless proactive measures are taken to limit demand.

    “Renewables are scaling at record speed, but demand growth from data centres, cooling and transport is running just as fast,” said Professor Felix Creutzig, Bennett Institute Chair at the University of Sussex. “We need policies that curb unnecessary energy use and shape demand so that clean electricity can have the intended effect of cutting emissions from fossil fuels.”

    The report cites evidence from the European Union and major cities showing that demand reduction isn’t necessarily a matter of human hardship, and can coincide with economic growth and wellbeing for citizens through efficiency measures and urban planning that reduces dependence on cars. The authors conclude that aligning renewables with demand-side strategies is now central to meaningful decarbonisation.

    The University of Sussex’s Bennett Institute for Innovation and Policy is hosting its annual Research Symposium on 19 February. Under the theme Zero Hour for Energy Policy: Researching the Race to Net Zero delegates will explore pressing issues that underpin the acceleration of climate change policies. Attendance is free, but registration is required. "

https://www.sussex.ac.uk/broadcast/read/70094

So two things to note -

1. Apparently there have been "climate gains" due to renewables, even though they say it is getting worse in other studies. Claims of more tornadoes, more cyclones. more heatwaves, more excessive rainfall.

2. But it is not all good, too many AC's and to many AI hubs are killing renewables.

I guess we just need to plant more and more. Rip out the trees to save the planet. ::)

meanwhile University  East Anglia-

"Temperature of some cities could rise faster than expected under 2°C warming
New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) shows how many tropical cities are predicted to warm faster than expected under 2°C of global warming."

UEA discovers Urban Heat Island effect - after so many years. ::)

"In response to anthropogenic forcing, the Earth’s surface generally warms as greenhouse gases trap outgoing longwave radiation. Counterintuitively, however, some regions exhibit surface cooling against this global warming background—a phenomenon known as a warming hole. Beyond the well-documented warming holes over the North Atlantic and southeastern United States, here we show that increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations can also induce summertime cooling over India. Due to the direct radiative effect of CO2, warming of the Eurasian continent relative to surrounding oceans, low-level moisture transport and vertical motion are enhanced over India. Combined with abundant summer-monsoon moisture and the topographic blocking effects of the Himalayas and Hindu Kush Mountains, these circulation changes increase cloud cover. The resulting cloud enhancement reduces incoming solar radiation at the surface, producing the observed regional cooling. These results reveal a previously underappreciated mechanism whereby greenhouse gas forcing can paradoxically induce regional cooling through atmospheric dynamical pathways.
"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-026-69875-2

Is trhere nothing CO2 can't do? it warms, it cools, it causes more rain, it causes more drought, snow will be a thing of the past. ::)

More -

"A large body of observational evidence and model simulations consistently indicates that anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions are the dominant driver of this warming"

"Against this backdrop, some regions have exhibited significantly weaker warming, or even surface cooling, during the global warming era—a counterintuitive phenomenon commonly referred to as the “warming hole.” "

"Here, using multi-model ensembles of both atmosphere-only and atmosphere-ocean coupled simulations, we present evidence for a previously underappreciated mechanism: CO2 forcing itself, in the absence of ocean-associated processes, can induce a summer cooling over India (Fig. 1)."

It really is funny. Models are not evidence of anything.

They use CMIP 6 models that still run too hot. Nowhere is there a suggestion of model assumptions. ;)

AAnd a final one  - " The projected decline in CO2 concentration aimed at curbing global warming may, counterintuitively, contribute to warming over India."

" Brewing protein from greenhouse gases: A greener, more profitable alternative to farming

Engineers at Beijing University of Chemical Technology prove that feeding methane to bacteria outperforms traditional soy and fish meal in both ecological savings and financial returns "

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1121285

They are talking specifically about methane, that GHG that is measured in parts per billion. Nothing about how to capture it, unfortunately.

Be still my beating heart. ;)

Interesting

What if humanity is the galaxy’s only advanced civilization?

Brian Cox examines why, despite billions of stars and trillions of planets,
we have found no evidence of other intelligent life.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfFACs24zU

Bobby. wrote on Apr 7^th, 2026 at 6:04am:

What if humanity is the galaxy’s only advanced civilization? Brian Cox examines why, despite billions of stars and trillions of planets, we have found no evidence of other intelligent life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfFACs24zU

May be they are too advanced for humanity to find?

Bobby. wrote on Apr 7^th, 2026 at 6:04am:

What if humanity is the galaxy’s only advanced civilization?

There is no guarantee in life except death. Even civilisations.

There is not enough time from one big bang to another.

https://images.newscientist.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/03110332/art2.jpg

There probably were other civilizations but they have long since gone extinct.

One could have existed say a billion years ago,
say - 1,000 light years from us and all that is left are fossils.

The chances of 2 advanced civilizations existing at the same time are very small.
We've only had radio communications for about 130 years -
a brief moment in time compared to the 13 billion years
of history of the Milky Way galaxy.

Quantum Computers Just Got Much More Dangerous


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qV7hQEtr3ic

"The international committee responsible for the official scenarios that feed into climate modeling, which are the basis for most projective climate research and the assessments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has just published the next generation of climate scenarios. [some emphasis, links added]

Big news: The new framework has eliminated the most extreme scenarios that have dominated climate research over much of the past several decades — specifically, RCP8.5, SSP5-8.5, and SSP3-7.0.

This is an absolutely huge development in climate science that will have lasting impacts across research and policy."

https://climatechangedispatch.com/rcp85-dead-ipcc-climate-scenarios/

That should spell the end of the doom and gloom AGW/CC predictions. :)