Author: alezeik
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Black holes on the Russian Front
A short story of a scientist soldier Honored Mr. Einstein, In order to be able to verify your gravitational theory, I have brought myself nearer to your work on the perihelion of Mercury, and occupied myself with the problem solved with the First Approximation. Thereby, I found myself in a state of great confusion. But…
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Birthdays & Relativity
Hasn’t it made you wonder once why we even celebrate birthdays ? I’m not trying to be a pessimistic party pooper here, but seriously, it all started somewhere when we created calendars and started noting down “Birth” days, a day when we were born. But for the thousands of years before that, calendars never even…
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The Unattainability of Contentment.
In the quest of finding a purpose of being, we encounter so many hardships that make this process of being unbearable, if not non existent at all. How many brilliant minds have this world given to us, only to have them living in times of war, and soon end up with a cross above their…
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The M87 blackhole and why it is not a discovery.
A Human Collaboration Collaborating from all over the world, several telescopes working altogether, from the United States and Germany to China and Japan, this is indeed a human collaboration, a scientific community coming together, driven by their curiosity and knowledge to uncover the true form of a black hole, and a true form they obtained,…
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Dark Matter vs Mond, a tug of war.
Title: Absence of a fundamental acceleration scale in galaxies Authors: Davi C. Rodrigues, Valerio Marra, Antonino del Popolo, and Zahra Davari First Author’s institution: Federal University of Espírito Santo Status: Published in Nature; closed access A very brief history of Gravity When Vera Rubin made her discovery on galaxy rotations back in the 70’s, she knew she was onto something that…
Ali Lezeik 