Chris Barran 🍁

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“Time is the single most precious commodity in the universe.”

🔴 Learning: Latin & Ancient Greek 

🔵 Studied: Maths

🟠 Passions: Cosmology, Astrophysics, Quantum Information & Computation, Mathematical Proofs 

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#️⃣ #math #economics #physics #management #classicalstudies
They Found a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Tombstone in Their Backyard. Then the FBI Showed Up.

The discovery prompted an international search to figure out how the ancient headstone made it to New Orleans. 

Popular Mechanics
“In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Empyrean—often called Dante’s imperium—is the highest realm of Heaven. It lies beyond all physical space and time, above the celestial spheres. Dante describes it as pure light, filled with the presence of God and the blessed souls, who appear as a great, luminous rose. It is not material but a realm of pure intellect and love, where the divine will is perfectly understood and embraced.”
Upon reading the Paradiso, I came upon a figure depicting the seating in Dante’s Empyrean. Thus, I queried ChatGPT for an explanation. It is as follows…
Large-scale visualization of α-synuclein oligomers in Parkinson’s disease brain tissue - Nature Biomedical Engineering

An optical detection and analysis platform quantifies aggregate density, distribution and size in fluorescently labelled post-mortem human brain tissue.

Nature

Transition into the classical forbidden zone. Great illustrations, exhibiting quantum tunneling, in the press release link.

Consider the thought experiment (gedankenexperiment): Entering platform nine and three quarters.
Note: Wizards only, not muggles.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2025/press-release/?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social+media+&utm_campaign=nobel+prize+announcements+2025&utm_content=post

Nobel Prize in Physics 2025

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an electric circuit"

NobelPrize.org
Hidden neighbor: Astronomers confirm long-suspected companion star near Betelgeuse

Betelgeuse is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and the closest red supergiant to Earth. It has an enormous volume, spanning a radius around 700 times that of the sun. Despite only being ten million years old, which is considered young by astronomy standards, it's late in its life.

Phys.org
Mt. Vesuvius Eruption Was So Intense It Turned a Man’s Brain to Glass

The victim was lying in his bed when a searing ash cloud swept through his city. Soon, it turned out, he had a brain of glass.

HISTORY
New Maps of the Bizarre, Chaotic Space-Time Inside Black Holes | Quanta Magazine

Physicists hope that understanding the churning region near singularities might help them reconcile gravity and quantum mechanics.

Quanta Magazine

“The team overseeing NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has been directed to prepare for up to 20% in budget cuts that would touch on every aspect of the flagship observatory's operations.”

https://www.space.com/space-exploration/james-webb-space-telescope/nasa-james-webb-space-telescope-faces-20-percent-budget-cuts

'It's extremely worrisome.' NASA's James Webb Space Telescope faces potential 20% budget cut just 4 years after launch

Such a dramatic cut to a flagship space telescope still in its prime will be felt across the mission's entire operations, affecting science.

Space
Tariffs, structural change and monetary policy

Governor Tiff Macklem discusses the potential impact of a trade conflict with the United States. He also launches the review of the Bank’s monetary policy framework.