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Unfortunately for Lyric and luckily for Kairi, the raggedy test was abruptly cut short. It was not looking good for our new friend. Hopefully Kai can redeem himself the rest of the weekend. That’s if he ever agrees to hang out with Jayce and the Squad again 😅
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/06/28/gravitational-wave-background-nanograv
The mind-bending finding suggests that everything around us is constantly being roiled by low-frequency gravitational waves
By Joel Achenbach and 
Victoria Jaggard
June 28, 2023 at 8:00 p.m. EDT
The very fabric of the cosmos is constantly being roiled and rumpled all around us, according to multiple international teams of scientists that have independently found compelling evidence for long-theorized space-time waves.
The claim that telescopes across the planet have seen signs of a “gravitational wave background” has sent a thrill through the astrophysics community, which has been buzzing for days in anticipation of the papers that were unveiled late Wednesday. The discovery seems to affirm an astounding implication of Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity that until now has been far too subtle to detect.
In Einstein’s reimagined universe, space is not serenely empty, and time does not march smoothly forward. Instead, the powerful gravitational interactions of massive objects — including supermassive black holes — regularly ripple the fabric of space and time. The picture that emerges is a universe that looks like a choppy sea, churned by violent events that happened over the course of the past 13 billion-plus years.
The gravitational wave background, as described by the astrophysicists, does not put any torque on everyday human existence. There is not a weight-loss discovery in here somewhere. A burble of gravitational waves cannot explain why some days you feel out of sorts. But it does offer potential insight into the physical reality we all inhabit.
“What we measure is the Earth kind of moving in this sea. It’s bobbing around — and it’s not just bobbing up and down, its bobbing in all directions,” said Michael Lam, an astrophysicist at the SETI Institute and a member of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav), a team largely based in North America. The NANOGrav team released the findings in five papers that were published Wednesday in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.
Teams in Europe, India, Australia and China also observed the phenomenon and planned to post their studies at the same time. The simultaneous release of papers from far-flung and competitive teams using similar methodology came only after some scientific diplomacy that ensured no group tried to scoop the rest of the astrophysical community.
“We’ve been on a mission for the last 15 years to find a low-pitch hum of gravitational waves resounding throughout the universe and washing through our galaxy to warp space-time in a measurable way,” NANOGrav chair Stephen Taylor of Vanderbilt University said at a news briefing Tuesday.
“We’re very happy to announce that our hard work has paid off.”
Discovery from dead stars
The feat builds on previous discoveries of things in the universe that are invisible to the naked eye — pulsars. A pulsar is a type of neutron star, the ultradense remnant of a dead star. It is called a pulsar because it spins rapidly, hundredsof revolutions per second, and emits radio waves in a steady pulse. Pulsars were discovered only in the 1960s, not long after the invention of large radio telescopes.
NANOGrav gathered data from 68 pulsars using the Green Bank Telescope in rural West Virginia, the 27 telescopes of the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array in New Mexico, and the now-defunctArecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.
The pulses from these bizarre objects reach telescopes on Earth at such predictable frequencies that they serve as cosmic timepieces, nearly as accurate as today’s most advanced atomic clocks, said Chiara Mingarelli, an astrophysicist at Yale and a member of the NANOGrav team.
Theorists believed that low-frequency gravitational waves could throw off the arrival of pulsar signals. Such low-frequency ripples can have crests separated by years, so the search for subtle swells in the sea of space-timerequired patience. The deviation in the pulsar data is so slight that it took 15 years of observations to come up with solid evidence of these gravitational waves, Mingarelli said.
The NANOGrav team had previously published reports with preliminary suggestions that the background exists, but had said more time was necessary to boost confidence that the signal was real and not just noise.
“Even devising the experiment was a huge mental leap,” Mingarelli said.
The existence of gravitational waves is not in dispute. In 2016, scientists announced that their ambitious four-decade experiment called LIGO, for Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, had detected waves from the merger of two black holes. But the newly announced waves are not one-shot wonders, and theorists are noodling the many potential explanations for why the cosmic sea ripples in such a fashion.
Supermassive black holes are the favored explanation.
Most galaxies are home to supermassive black holes in or near their central region. These black holes certainly deserve the “supermassive” label: They typically have the equivalent mass of millions or even billions of suns. By contrast, “stellar mass” black holes are pipsqueaks, with masses akin to 10 or 20 or 30 suns.
Galaxies rarely collide, but the universe is vast, there are many billions of galaxies, and they have had plenty of time to drift into one another. During a galactic meetup, theorists say, the supermassive black holesat the cores of the two galaxiesfirst will do a gravitational dance. They can orbit each other for millions of years, Lam said. This pairing is known as a supermassive black hole binary.
The swirling dance disturbs the fabric of space-time sufficiently to generate very low-frequency gravitational waves that travel across the universe at the speed of light, scientists believe. Over time, energy leaks from the dance party, as it were, and the supermassive black holes ease closer together, their orbital period shortening to just a few decades. At that point, the wavelengths begin to reach the frequencies detectable by NANOGrav, Lam said.
“So at this point in our measurements, we cannot definitively state what sources are producing the gravitational wave background signal,” NANOGrav team member Luke Kelley, an astrophysicist at the University of California at Berkeley, said at the Tuesday news briefing. However, he said, the data is a compelling match for theoretical predictions.
Theorists are “having fun” coming up with other possible sources for the low-frequency signal, he added. But “if it’s not coming from supermassive black hole binaries, we would need to come up with some explanation of where those supermassive black holes are hiding, and why we’re not seeing their gravitational waves.”
A new astronomical era
No matter the signal’s source, the announcement of a gravitational wave background represents a milestone in the embryonic field of gravitational wave astronomy.
Just as some astronomers use different wavelengths of light to probe the cosmos, they can now look for different types of gravitational waves. The low-frequency waves announced Wednesday wouldn’t be detectable by LIGO, and the opposite is also true: NANOGrav and similar efforts using pulsars could not detect the kind ofhigh-frequency waves from the unimaginably violent stellar-mass black hole mergers seen by LIGO.
Lam said the next goal is to pair specific gravitational waves with potential supermassive black hole binaries detected through more traditional forms of astronomy. In other words, rather than just saying we’re picking up signs of lots of waves, the astronomers could say this particular wave right here came from that place over there.
The announcement carries an echo of another milestone in the history of cosmology. In 1965, two physicists at Bell Labsreported that they had detected the signal of something previously theorized: the cosmic microwave background radiation. That residual glow offered landmark evidence that the universe was created by the big bang.
Maura McLaughlin, co-director of the NANOGrav Physics Frontiers Center, said at the Tuesday briefing that the next step will be for the international teams to combine their independent data into one “uber data set” that should show an even clearer signal of the gravitational wave background — and maybe even the first detection of a supermassive black hole binary.
“We’re opening up a completely new window … on the gravitational wave universe,” she said.
The work, she said,should offer deeper insight into the ways galaxies form and evolve. It might even reveal exotic new physics that would alter our fundamental understanding of the cosmos: “It should be really, really exciting.”
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dutybcrne · 4 months
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Forever love the idea of Kae being an absolute nerd once you get to know him. Dude acts all suave and charming, then upon getting home, his time is most preferred spent reading the latest rec Jean’s given him with a cup of tea in hand and a plushy tucked under his chin. Or is constantly abt .5 seconds away from infodumping or smth, esp the more he gets attached to sb.
#hc; kaeya#//Sb in the knights brings up an obscure fact & Kae has to restrain himself from dumping MORE on the subject#//And/or giddily making plans to investigate it with Lisa later first chance he gets#//I love the idea of him Immediately after finding out Jean loves romance stories; he tries his hand at penning one under an alias#//Then subtly suggests it to her; and just Anxiously awaits what she thinks#//It’s canon that he does love making up stories so; so much#//Dude loves learning things; and the more he likes the person sharing/is intrigued by them; the more he’d wanna#//Love the idea of him specifically learning all abt things his favorite like just to have the connection with them#//Only to genuinely end up interested in the subject for himself and his own whims too; sometimes obsessing more than them initially#//Also loves collecting things; if I remember correct#//Has a lil stash of things he would LOVE to ramble on and in abt given the chance#//In my mind; it’s either collected feathers of birds he’s found over the years#//Or it’s dried/pressed flowers he’s managed to acquire through various means#//Maybe even both#//Do like the latter tho#//Maybe the feathers thing was something he started with Luc as kids; then kept to it out of nostalgia#//Then the plants was just his own interest throughout his journey with his dad before being left at Dawn Winery#//Everything he had collected in a little bag or hastily pressed in a book before an showed him to properly#//Wants to go back and get new flowers so they look prettier now that he actually knows how to preserve them#//And to learn abt them from people who ACTUALLY know them best; not just from books
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blujayonthewing · 4 months
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reflecting on how all of my other DMs have gone above and beyond to lovingly weave my and my friends' backstory elements into the larger worldbuilding of the campaign by contrast to all of the ways Elyss' DM has gone out of his way to suppress or excise any influences her family may have ever had on anything and I'm genuinely near tears over it
#'I'm so surprised that Elyss wasn't more interested in going to her mom's hometown now that you're in her homelands!'#YOU! CHANGED Nami's backstory so that she never traveled anywhere before having Elyss#and YOU decided that she never tells Elyss literally anything even when directly asked#because you're so desperate to make sure your players never know literally anything about whatever might happen to them ever#YOU made it feel not only unrewarding but as if it was actively unwelcome for you if I even talked to my mother!!#'we're making this very dangerous journey (that you've been retconned not to have made yourself so you can't spoil it)--#--assuming we survive can you please tell us anything at all about what to expect the other country to be like?'#'well. it is different than here. it may not be what you expect.'#'oooh why didn't you go to hometown' SUCK MY DICK I ASSUMED YOU'D BE ANNOYED IF I WENT THERE HOPING TO FIND ANYTHING#of course ELYSS wants to try to touch any part of her own heritage she can!!#do you think she doesn't wonder whether she has family there? do you think maybe it's weird that she doesn't already know??#when *I* built Elyss' mother I made her a traveler from a far-off land so neither of us had to worry about it#YOU decided to send us to THAT far-off land specifically and then REFUSE to let Nami actually TELL me anything about it!!#feels very much like you don't want me to engage with that! feels very much like you ACTIVELY don't want me to explore that connection!#and if it felt like *Nami* was being secretive about it then Elyss would be even more keen to investigate herself--#but it's just part of a well-established pattern of NPCs going 'it's a secret teehee' for very obviously no other reason than that--#the DM just doesn't ever want us to have information even if NPCs have that information and have no reason not to share it#anyway. tl;dr grief over elyss yearning her whole life for somewhere to belong#but not going to her mother's birthplace because she has no reason to believe there's anything there for her.#for purely stupid empty meta reasons.#'I'm surprised you didn't go there 👀' so maybe he had something!#but my mother-- through you-- was so cagey about whether her parents even exist that I kind of just figured you didn't! so!!#about me#my OCs#elyss
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ivy-saurs · 1 year
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OHHHH MY GOD, i've just finished the second case of ace attorney investigations 2 and it ends with ray trying to convince edgeworth to become a defense attorney and edgeworth is actually considering it
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nativeyoga · 8 months
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A year ago today my friend and I set off on what was supposed to be a short day trip to get a copy of Ace Attorney Investigations but due to a series of mishaps instead turned into a 32 hour long nightmare that included a hospital trip, a state trooper lying about listening to Mamma Mia, a dirty hotel room, and a detour through a different state.
And now, looking back with all my hindsight… it was a pretty good game. I’d probably do it again.
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rabbitproduce · 11 months
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worst part about making my incredibly niche dnd campaign setting is that i don't have anyone to bounce ideas off of without spoiling them :/
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gardenssystem · 10 months
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My housemates and I finally ordered equipment for paranormal investigation and it arrives tomorrow! We've been wanting to do this and start a YouTube channel for it for years now. Once it gets here, we're gonna get everything working and go investigate a local place that we've been to multiple times for investigation. But this will be our first time having actual equipment.
Full list of equipment on the way:
- EMF
- SBox spirit box (also records EVP)
- motion balls
- video camera (obviously lol)
We will also be bringing things for protection and trying to learn what is holding the spirits or energies there rather than just provoking them like most people do. Once we get our first video uploaded I'll post a link here ^~^
-Toge
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thompsborn · 1 year
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head empty only homeward bound 💐
HEAD EMPTY ONLY HOMEWARD BOUND
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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years
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“ARE IN GREAT DANGER,” Daily British Whig (Kingston). December 18, 1911. Page 2. ----  A GRAVE CHARGE RE LAKE NAVIGATION. --- Government Official Says Sailors Are Careless and Endanger Lives of Passengers. ---- Montreal, Dec. 16 - "The lives of thousands of passengers are being endangered yearly, not so much by defects in our navigation laws as because these laws are not enforced. I sometimes wonder how many passengers there would be on the great lakes and on our inland waters generally if only they had the least idea of the risks they run." 
This was the statement made by Captain Charles Moller, compass adjuster and marine surveyor to the dominion government, in discussing the finding of the wreck commissioner recently relation to the stranding of the Canadian Lake Line's steam ship Coruna last summer. 
In this particular case it was stated by officers of the vessel that the vessel went aground owing to the fact that while lying at a wharf in Montreal previous to the voyage on which she stranded, she was struck , by an outgoing steamer, the -impact destroying the accuracy of  the compass.
Captain Moller stated that the.law required that a second compass be carried by all vessels. but that the law was not enforced. In his opinion owners in many cases would promptly supersede a captain who insisted on the extra expenditure. In cases where a second compass was carried it was generally stored away and never referred to, much less adjusted. 
Lookout men, according to Captain Moller, are habitually careless and seldom make reports on lights or on other matters that do not seem to them to be of much importance.'
The reason, according to Captain Moller, that the law is not enforced, is that there are too few inspectors and consequently. the Canadian system is defective and compares most unfavorably with that of the United States. 
Captain Holler intends going to Ottawa to lay the matter before the authorities.
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hauntingmiser · 4 days
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MERMAY XXVI
( maybe this is the final piece of the puzzle ? we may never know the core of the fog awaits you friend )
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Fun fact : ever since she helped kanji just getting rid of the crystals to protective gear she also however had the flu and next week she stayed at home
after getting better she was having a stroll until she was kidnapped and was thrown into the TV by someone
and when she got into the TV world she looked around for several hours locating a lab cave filled with test tubes and many equipment until she found the room and she went in it
when she was near the experimentation table, she heard crying then she hid and when she poked her head out to see they were sitting on a chair near the experiment table so she swam to the person that was crying and it looked like....her? but they had a lab coat with her hat still intact and they're wearing overalls with a sweater underneath
"that can't be me...right?" and then it looked at her with beaming gold-eyes staring at her and then, it gets up and gets closer to her while she backs off away from it
"hello there naoto....heheheahahaheha!...."
She screamed and swam away from it while it laughed in the background and then she was now at a dead end and her shadow self closing into her holding a comically large knife so she closed her eyes waiting for her doom
this is naoto's shadow self, and it was about to kill her and gut her like a fish
until it gets shocked and falls down to the ground getting paralyzed
when she opened her eyes, it was yu with his gang smiling at her knowing she's okay
shocked she didn't know help was going to arrive soon but it did after her shadow self was chasing her...."are you alright naoto?" said yosuke
and with him saying that question, she cried crocodile tears hugging him in the process until her shadow got up and started shit talking so yosuke had to shut it up by beating it with the mace without hurting naoto
shadow naoto got pissed off so bad that they straight up transformed into their final form and bonked yosuke then he was lightly unconscious for several minutes
and after fighting naoto's shadow she joined the investigation team and got a persona before that she had a power nap during the fight
( also she's a royal blue double tail betta and she used to be not afraid of dead bodies and now she is lol )
#naoto shirogane#shirogane naoto#anime and manga#persona 4#persona 4 golden#she investigated several amounts of cases over people dying of the fog#and she has found several context clues that were probably burned when she was taking a stroll#and when she found out her evidence was burned by the culprit she was pissed#so the investigation team now having naoto go on a journey into the TV world and what they saw was shocking at least#when she was arguing about use care about bottle caps and how they should be treated good#and most importantly carrying the team she heard whispers and disgusting smells that she never smelt before#until the bones moved they shaked and shiver and pointed at the main core of the fog#as she swam last she realized something the bone rattling had stopped in the fog smelling disgusting turned into nothing#it body moved in a skeletal way it's fine and ribs were open with rotten seaweed it's tail reeks of rotten tomatoes and poultry#their teeth creeks whlie their voice is sore#their bones are blackened to look like obsidian and the most like Dread#while their body smells like perfume mixed with rotten flesh and whale#when she was curious about get frightened she realized something they look familiar... like this is someone from class that she met#some months ago before the murder.#wait a minute....this wasn't 'mother nature' at all or the fog this was someone's vengeful spirit mixed with this curse of nuclear dread#so she screamed in horror and said ''GUYS I DON'T THINK THAT'S MOTHER NATURE''#''THAT'S THE SISTER OF KONISHI-KUN!!!!!!''#they looked at her with horror in their eyes and they looked at the corpse spirit#they were right if she was the patient one of this fog#then who was patient zero? 'mother nature' herself#looks like we got to fuck around and find out#also I meant it's brittle ribs not that lol#mermay#mermay 2024#persona 4 naoto
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themirokai · 1 year
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I got this comment on a story from my Other AO3 Account this morning.
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(Info redacted because I prefer keeping these accounts separate but no one follows me on the side blog I have for that account.)
The story was posted almost a year ago and is relatively “popular” by my average statistics even though it has tropes and themes that are big turnoffs for a lot of people (hence separate accounts). This popularity is undoubtedly because it’s a Marvel Loki story and that fandom is massive.
So there is obviously an algorithm or a bot scrubbing ao3 statistics and leaving this comment on fics that meet a certain metric with the main character of the fic inserted into the comment.
I had a little time to kill this morning so I decided to investigate further. And y’all this is so predatory. Come on this journey with me. It made me mad. It may make you mad.
First, if you go to Webnovel’s website, you HAVE to choose between male lead or female lead stories before you can go any further. WTF?
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And that’s weird, but this gets so much worse. This is basically a pay-to-read site that has different subscription models. Which… okay BUT! The authors don’t get paid! Look at that comment again. They’re promising a supportive and nurturing community, but zero monetary compensation. It’s basically, “post your stuff here so we can get paid and you can get… nice vibes?” I mean look at this Orwellian writing:
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Using the phrase “pay-to-read model” in the same sentence as “qualitative changes in lifestyles for authors” deliberately makes you think that you can get paid and maybe even make a living on this website. But that’s not actually what it says and authors will not receive one red cent.
Oh but wait, the worst is still to come. In case this breaks containment (which I kind of hope it does) this is where I mention that I’m a lawyer in the US.
I don’t do intellectual property or copyright law but I do read and write contracts for a living. So I went to look at their terms of service. It was fun!
Highlights the first, in which Webnovel gets a license to do basically whatever they want with content you post on their site. This is how they get to be paid for people reading authors’ writing without paying them anything.
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Highlights the second, in which Webnovel takes no responsibility for illegally profiting off of fan fic. This all says that the writer is 100% responsible for everything the writer posts (even though only Webnovel is making money from it).
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Highlights the third which say that by posting, the author is representing that they have the legal right to use and to let Webnovel use the content according to these terms. So if a writer posts fan fiction and Webnovel makes money from people reading the fan fiction, and the House of the Mouse catches wise, these sections say that that’s ALL on the writer.
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So that’s a little skeevy to start off with but the thing that is seriously shitty and made me make this post was that these assholes are coming to ao3. They are actively recruiting people in comments on their fan fiction. And they are saying they are big fans of the character you’re writing about and that they share your interests.
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They are recruiting fan fiction writers and giving every impression that you can make money from posting fan fiction on their site and hiding the fact that you absolutely cannot but they can make money off of you while you try, deep in their terms of service which no one but a lawyer who writes fan fic and has some time to kill will read.
I see posts on here regularly from people who don’t understand how this stuff works, don’t understand that they (and others) can not legally make a financial profit from fan fiction. And there are tons of people who will not take the time to dig into the details.
Don’t deal with these bastards. Fuck Webnovel.
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boris-shuster · 7 months
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tag dump
he boris on my shuster until i case files
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joandelahaye · 9 months
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Dive into Darkness: Thriller Sale, Black Dahlia Mystery, and More!
Hello, my Freaky Darlings! Greetings from a once again chilly arse-end of Africa — because apparently, Mother Nature decided we were getting too comfortable. She unleashed her inner polar bear, and now we’re stuck shivering like penguins in a desert. In the realm of news, it’s been the BRICS summit extravaganza non-stop. It’s as thrilling as watching paint dry. Oh, but guess what? The Chinese…
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