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#introduction hi, i'm fsou!

i've finally come around to write a small bio with my interests, hoping to find like-minded people to connect to :Blobhaj:

my interests mainly lie in:

- ⁨#opensource⁩ ⁨#foss⁩ ⁨#linux⁩ ⁨#voidlinux⁩ ⁨#helix⁩ ⁨#selfhost
- ⁨#physics⁩ ⁨#blackholes⁩ ⁨#math
- ⁨#solarpunk⁩ ⁨#visiblemending
- ⁨#typst
- ⁨#tokipona
- ⁨#dota2
- ⁨#journaling⁩ ⁨#ttrpg
- ⁨#watercolor

rn: trying to graduate and pursue a PhD in ⁨#theoreticalphysics

Purely coincidentally, I just started reading The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking), by Katie Mack, known elsewhere as @AstroKate. She talks about the 5 different scenarios currently deemed possible, if not likely, for how the universe and everything in it will end, by theoretical physicists. Our choices are: Big Crunch; Heat Death; Big Rip; Vacuum Decay (which could happen at any moment); and the Bounce. A “…surprisingly upbeat ride…”. #bookstodon #theoreticalPhysics #science

(Re) Introducing myself after moving from emacs.ch: I am an academic interested in #math and #theoreticalphysics

I am at this instance because I contribute to some #Emacs projects (details to come in a follow up) and I am posting this using mastodon.el the Emacs client for fediverse.

Other than that I am interested in #fiction and #urdu #poetry. I am here to mostly read rather than write and it has shame that there is not much Urdu content here (I hope I am just missing some niche).

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To look “into” a #BlackHole—from which no photon or wave or ray ever returns—requires considerable #creativity. The interior of a black hole can only be deduced from changes exterior to it. Active #BlackHoles are encircled by intense brightness & billion-degree heat, given off by matter falling toward them—think of the fire of an incoming asteroid—while the black hole itself is unthinkably cold, a tiny fraction of a degree above absolute zero.

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As he explained it, a #BlackHole has a mass, an electrical charge, & an angular momentum (meaning it can spin). “And that’s pretty much it,” he said. “Their behavior is extreme, but the apparatus is something we think we understand.” Another “simple” way to think of a black hole is as an extraordinary amt of mass in a relatively small space. It exerts a gravitational pull so strong that not even light can escape it.

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To me, a #SupermassiveBlackHole sounds sublime; to a #scientist, it can also be a test of wild hypotheses. “#Astrophysics is an exercise in incredible experiments not runnable on Earth,” Avery Broderick, a theoretical physicist at uWaterloo & at the Perimeter Inst, told me. “And #BlackHoles are an ideal laboratory.”

Broderick says that he studies black holes because they are very simple, theoretically & mathematically.

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In Jan, #astronomers announced that the #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope had observed the oldest black hole yet—one present when the universe was a mere 400M yrs old.…Recently, 2 #SupermassiveBlackHoles, w/a combined mass of 28B suns, were measured & shown to have been rotating tightly around each other, but not colliding, for the past 3B years. And those are just the examples that are easiest for the public to make some sense of.

#BlackHoles Are Even Weirder Than You Imagined

It’s now thought that they could illuminate fundamental questions in #physics, settle questions about #Einstein’s theories, & even help explain the #universe.

…In recent yrs, the amt of data that scientists have discovered about black holes has grown exponentially.

#Astrophysics #TheoreticalPhysics #astronomy #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope #cool #science
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I am currently investigating an analogy between geodesic deviation from GR and the electromagnetic (Lorentz + Coulomb) force in QED. Once I got all the mathematical details worked out, I will make a thread about this, but I am tripping over the details of how to solve the classical Dirac equation perturbatively in a constant external EM field (mainly distribution-theoretical Fourier stuff). Does anyone here have a good reference on this?

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I didn't include #introduction the first time. So, here goes again.

Recent late in life Dx #ActuallyAutistic #artist and #designer

Special interests in my bio plus these here:
#LEGO
#blender3d
#RubiksCube
#3Dprinting
#JewelryDesign
#drawing
#DisneyWorld
#geometry
#TheoreticalPhysics
#topology
#EvolutionaryBiology
#etymology
#WebDesign
#GraphicDesign
#psychology
#neurology
#humor
#nostalgia
#engineering
#technology