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I appreciate the thoughtful responses here — thank you for engaging with these questions.
I’m currently exploring these ideas in a broader way, focusing more on general patterns in human interaction and behavior.
I’ve just started sharing some of these reflections in more depth — feel free to take a look if you're interested.
On this day, reflecting on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, I wonder: could his teachings on compassion, sacrifice, and unity point to deeper patterns in reality — principles that are observable, not just moral lessons?
How might science eventually help us better understand these underlying truths?
#ScienceAndReligion #PhilosophyOfScience #Metaphysics
(Image: Édouard Manet, Le Christ mort et les anges (1864), color-enhanced version)
Before the 'Oxygen Apocalypse', Earth was purple, the oceans ferrous, and H₂O's oxygen safely locked away 🟣
Then, bacteria developed a quantum lockpick 🗝️⚡
The seas rusted and the ancients died out. Complex organisms burn the fuel of this cataclysm still, but pay the price by ageing 🦠
This is the story of how symmetry saves us from the flames ⚛️
Full post: https://keiran-rowell.github.io/oxygen/2026-04-02-the-oxygen-apocalypse/
#oxygen #science #scicomm #GreatOxidationEvent #photosynthesis #eukaryogenesis #quantumbiology #geology
2026 April 3
Caught in the Web: Visualization of a Black Hole Merger in the Tarantula
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* Illustration Credit & Copyright:
** Artwork: Carl Knox OzGrav, Swinburne University of Technology
https://www.instagram.com/knoxcarl
https://www.ozgrav.org/
https://www.swinburne.edu.au/
** Astrophotography: Blake Estes & Christian Sasse, iTelescope.net
https://www.instagram.com/thescopesmith/
https://www.instagram.com/sassephoto/
https://www.itelescope.net/
** Text: Cecilia Chirenti (NASA GSFC, UMCP, CRESST II)
https://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sci/bio/cecilia.chirenti
Explanation:
How can we see what is invisible? Black holes are not easy to see in the dark cosmic night, but astronomers can find them by analyzing their gravitational effects on matter, light and spacetime. The featured image shows an illustration that combines a simulation of a black hole binary system in its final "death-dance" with an astrophotography image of the Tarantula Nebula in the background. Even though black holes don't emit light, they distort the path of light rays, acting like a gravitational lens. As a result, the nebula appears extremely distorted, forming Einstein rings and multiple images. Tarantula Nebula lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that is one of the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, 160,000 light-years away. That is more than 1,000 times closer than any of the binary black hole mergers detected so far. We'll probably never detect a merger so close to home!
https://science.nasa.gov/universe/black-holes/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8THY5spmo
https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/page/what-are-gw
https://www.ligo.caltech.edu/image/ligo20251028c
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240308.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_lens
https://science.nasa.gov/asset/hubble/a-gallery-of-einstein-rings/
https://science.nasa.gov/gallery/hubbles-gravitational-lens-gallery/
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241002.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_galaxies_of_the_Milky_Way
https://science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-observatory/the-galaxy-next-door/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gravitational_wave_observations
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260326.html
>> related TOPICS here on defcon.social :
+ Gravitational Lensing
https://defcon.social/@grobi/114374350096488478
+ Formations Nebulae Pillars
https://defcon.social/@grobi/114696771234606419
+ Novae, Remnants, Nebulae
https://defcon.social/@grobi/114787530730178263
+ Supermassive Black Holes
https://defcon.social/@grobi/114448092463278757
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap260402.html
#space #gravitational_lensing #black_holes #nebula #astrophotography #photography #science #physics #future #nature #NASA #ESA #apod
Inspiriert von der Art Heroes Trendfarbe 2026 Tangerine Twist, einem warmen und lebendigen Orangeton, kombiniert mit Pink, einer meiner Lieblingsfarben, dazu noch eines meiner Lieblingsmotive, eine schwarze Katze...
Schwarze Katze auf orangefarbener Mauer - Acryl handgemalt
--> https://www.artheroes.de/de/motiv/Schwarze-Katze-auf-orangefarbener-Mauer/1906596
#katze #cats #catsofMastodon #art #painting #abstractart #color
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