How many universes are necessary for an ice cream to melt? Asks Professor Milan M. Ćirković [pictured] of the Astronomical Observatory Belgrade, Serbia, in the Serbian Astronomical Journal, Vol. 166, page 55-59. His paper considers the possibilities of other universes where a soft ice cream, left to its own devices, might be generally more likely […]
Tag: astronomy
Effect of microwave ovens on astronomy
“Rogue Microwave Ovens Are the Culprits Behind Mysterious Radio Signals” is the headline on Nadia Drake’s article in the Phenomena blog. Drake writes: if you happen to be reheating your coffee at the Parkes Observatory in Australia, you could be contributing to the growing collection of mysterious radio signals known as perytons. Well, the collection […]
Stochastic flights of propellers (near Saturnian moonlets)
Stochastic flights of propellers, seldom discussed until now, are openly described in this new study: “Stochastic flights of propellers,” Margaret Pan [pictured here] (UC Berkeley), Hanno Rein (IAS), Eugene Chiang (UC Berkeley), Steven N. Evans (UC Berkeley), arXiv:1206.3583v1, June 15, 2012. The authors report: “Kilometer-sized moonlets in Saturn’s A ring create S-shaped wakes called ‘propellers’ in […]
Happy 100th, Grote Reber, creator of the big radio telescope
Today, December 22, 2011, is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Grote Reber [pictured here, as he was around 1937], who is credited with building the first big dish radio telescope. Bill Higgins writes: It has been 100 years since the birth of Grote Reber on 22 December 1911. He died nine years ago, but his […]