Cabalgata
I just spent the last few hours feeling like an idiot because I couldn’t figure out how to add two waves with a known phase lead. I had a real episode. There were tears and I thought maybe I’m just dumb and not cut out for physics because I kept getting the wrong answer no matter how many times I put it into my calculator. I checked my method over and over and couldn’t figure out why it was wrong.
Hours.
I just needed to change my calculator into radian mode instead of degree.
I wasted so much time that I probably won’t be sleeping tonight.
I shouldn’t be taking two physics classes at once.
apod:
2017 February 27
Four Quasar Images Surround a Galaxy Lens
Image Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Sherry Suyu et al.Explanation: An odd thing about the group of lights near the center is that four of them are the same distant quasar. This is because the foreground galaxy – in the center of the quasar images and the featured image – is acting like a choppy gravitational lens. A perhaps even odder thing is that by watching these background quasars flicker, you can estimate the expansion rate of the universe. That is because the flicker timing increases as the expansion rate increases. But to some astronomers, the oddest thing of all is that these multiply imaged quasars indicate a universe that is expanding a bit faster than has been estimated by different methods that apply to the early universe. And that is because … well, no one is sure why. Reasons might include an unexpected distribution of dark matter, some unexpected effect of gravity, or something completely different. Perhaps future observations and analyses of this and similarly lensed quasar images will remove these oddities.
∞ Source: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap170227.html
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Night time at the park.
I’m getting something done rather than nothing. Even if it’s not that great, it’s okay.
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