Tag: astronomy
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Quantum Cosmology- A journey to the beginning of the world
I would like to dedicate this article to my professor Claus Kiefer, who I see inspiration in his continuous work to finding a Quantum Theory of Gravity. Liberation “I’ve always believed in numbers and the equations and logics that lead to reason. But after a lifetime of such pursuits, I ask, “What truly is logic?…
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Vulcan, The planet that was never found
On a French winter day in December of 1859, he left everything behind rushing to Orgères, after receiving the news that someone had finally found what he worked effortlessly searching for, Vulcan, the long sought for planet he theorized to describe the perihelion motion of Mercury. Urbain Le Verrier was one of the most skilled…
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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…
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LIGO’s Real Challenge.
arXiv Title: The Sensitivity of the Advanced LIGO Detectors at the Beginning of Gravitational Wave Astronomy. Whether you’ve heard about the binary neutron star merger that was discovered last year or not, a new era of astronomy has opened, the multi-messenger astronomy, after scientists at LIGO and VIRGO have been able to detect both gravitational…
Ali Lezeik 