Sister blog of Physicists of the Caribbean. Shorter, more focused posts specialising in astronomy and data visualisation.
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The Bunny Rabbit of Death
Today's paper is a bit more technical than usual, but sometimes you've gotta tackle the hard stuff. Ram pressure stripping is some...
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Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
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In the last batch of simulations, we dropped a long gas stream into the gravitational potential of a cluster to see if it would get torn...
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And more importantly, how not to build a galaxy. Uniform discs of pure gas turn out to be almost impossible. Exponential discs - where ther...
Generating esoteric conceptual vocabularies and alternative interpretive mental models. I think this represents a fascinating recombinatory creativity. It is not difficult to imagine someone stumbling across new organisational (physical, material) principles entirely by accident and all just by having the artistic bravery to try new things, to see the world in new ways.
ReplyDeleteI'm running out of adjectives and superlatives. This doesn't often happen to me.
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