- A group of researchers around Philip Humphrey and David Buote from the University of Irvine in California have determined the mass of a supermassive black hole from the peak temperature of its gas emissions, as a press release from UC Irvine reported on Wednesday. The results obtained with their method match quite well with the results obtained by studying the motion of surrounding visible matter. You find their paper that was just accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal on the arxiv at 0801.3461 [astro-ph] "Weighing the Quiescent Central Black Hole in an Elliptical Galaxy with X-ray Emitting Gas"
- Most sentimental story of the week: Olive Riley, allegedly the world's oldest blogger, died at age 108 in Australia. As the Globe and Mail reports, her great-grandson Darren Stone said she loved being able to stay in touch with correspondents all over the world and said she believed it kept her mind active. “It was mind-blowing to her,” Mr. Stone said. “She had people communicating with her from as far away as Russia and America on a continual basis, not just once in a while.” I find this just a lovely example for the global village.
- Most absurd story of the week: Man in New York finds knife in a Subway sandwich. Enjoy.
- Curiosity didn't kill the cat: Cat got accidentally sent over several hundred miles in a package. When it was opened, that cat was alive and well and got re-entangled with her happy owner in Bavaria.
- Completely forgot to mention: I am going Sci-Foo-ing next month! The invitation was a pleasant surprise, I am really excited about it. A certain senior PI faculty member reported that allegedly last year he was the youngest physicist at this unconference, so I guess I'm supposed to bring the average physicists age down. I have like a dozen topics that I'd be interested in discussing and can't quite make up my mind. I hope California stops burning by then.
- Backreaction proudly reports: I wrote a paper! 0807.2838 [gr-qc] "A Bi-Metric Theory with Exchange Symmetry".
Friday, July 18, 2008
This and That
In the absence of quality blogging time here's some unordered bits of information:
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Hi Bee,
ReplyDelete“Curiosity didn't kill the cat: Cat got accidentally sent over several hundred miles in a package.”
You missed the point:” Tomcat Janosch was just looking for a nice place to sleep…"I've sent your cat in the post," Manuela Lueginger sheepishly admitted. The day before in her cellar, Lueginger had carefully wrapped tape around a package, which contained a child seat that she had auctioned off on eBay.”
The key points are:” The cat's owner said she wasn't too surprised that Janosch hadn't OBJECTED to being boxed up and carried off. "This cat has always been a bit special," she said. "He likes to ride in cars, he likes boxes and he NEVER COMPLAINS." In addition, “she wasn't particularly worried: The one-year-old tomcat has a habit of DISAPPEARING for a day or two.”
“Where to next?”
I think Janosch deserve the tenure position at PI for the substantial contribution in the quantum and classical physics.
Regards, Dany.
P.S. In addition I suggest you to insist getting support from FQXi for investigation of Manuela Lueginger social unmotivated behavior (50%) and to cover Janosch travel expenses (50%).
ReplyDeleteRegards, Dany.
Hi Bee,
ReplyDeleteThe announcement of your paper was certainly low key as being just the last point on a this and that posting. I have down loaded it plus given it a initial read to the extent that I can acknowledge that I don’t have much of a clue as to what it’s about other then it’s related to the dark matter question. I hope at some point you will have the time and inclination to write an “A Bi-Metric Theory with Exchange Symmetry for Dummies” version as a synopsis on the blog.
Best,
Phil
Hi Phil,
ReplyDeleteYes, the paper is rather technical. I hope that at some point I will have the time to work out some examples that might be easier to explain. Best,
B.
Hi Bee,
ReplyDeleteCongratulations for your new paper! It's interesting subject.
Best wishes
Christine
The SciFoo area of California is definitely not on fire. =) You'll have fun and good weather there.
ReplyDeleteYou can see some Olive Riley videos here. Ah, oysters and beer, certainly brings back some childhood memories for me.
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