They have strong indications that the particle is spin-0.
In the plot, blue is the expected data for spin-0, red for spin-2. The black line is derived from measurements and nicely corresponds with the peak of spin-0.
See also here.
and minding that all the gold ever mined on Earth fits into like a 2 km cube
It would loosely fit, the latest estimates are a few orders of magnitude less: 20-50m on each side. Then again, nobody really knows.
There's no such thing as a passive detector.
Sure there is. There is nothing special about a detector. If you can put a whole cat (=a bunch of atoms) in a superposition of quantum states, you can also include the detector (=a bunch of atoms) in that superposition.
It only works if the inside of the box (including the detector) is isolated from the rest of the universe. Then there is a superposition of 2 states: (1) the radioisotope didn't decay, the detector detected nothing, the cat is alive; and (2) the radioisotope decayed, the detector detected the emitted particle and released the neurotoxin, the cat died.
Once you break isolation (i.e. coherence), the rest of the universe entangles (at random) with one of these states, and the other state "collapses".
The big question is: what happens with the collapsed state? Was it absorbed in the other state? Did it entangle with a parallel universe? Did it become disconnected from reality?
If you're going to call things that aren't GPS as GPS, then you might as well call navigating by the stars GPS.
We call that Universal Positioning System, or UPS for short...
Why would matter exiting a wormhole be more energetic? It would be less energetic.
In a blackhole matter enters, undergoes E=mc^2 and is re-emitted as conveniently detectable radiation. In a wormhole, matter potentially traverses the length and remains as matter - which means no gamma ray bursts, just whatever heat you pick up from jostling around with all the other matter that might be doing it.
The gamma ray burst energy doesn't come from matter to energy conversion. Recent studies found they consist of normal matter (atomic nuclei). This gets accelerated to near light speed by conservation of momentum in the accretion disc, and the frame dragging effects of the black hole geometry.
Light doesn't exit a black hole at all. Hawking radiation consists of twin pairs of photons that form just outside the event horizon (geometric energy to matter conversion). One falls into the black hole, the other escapes.
Matter falling into a black hole will gain a lot of kinetic energy from the gravitational potential alone, which counters light speed at the event horizon. And on the other side, if stuff can get out again, there can be no event horizon, so the potential well would be less steep. Classic worm holes even are theorized to have a repulsive gravity on the exit end, so matter would be accelerated even more.
Why should there be exits? What if they go to another universe?
I was talking about the classic kind of wormhole. Either it has a direction, and then there should be a 50/50 chance that any end is an exit, or it has no direction and both ends can act like an exit.
If they go to another universe, then I would expect other universe's wormholes to connect to ours too, in a similar ratio (otherwise our universe would be very special, and lose matter/energy).
Is there one nearby that we can observe with our extremely primitive and limited technology? Would we know it if we saw it?
Matter almost falling into a black hole, but escaping, is the source of some of the most energetic bursts of cosmic rays, and we can detect those from half a universe away. It would not be unreasonable to expect the matter/energy that comes out to be even more energetic and also have a much greater quantity. Again, only assuming stuff exits a wormhole.
However, there are hypotheses that wormholes to be stabilized require using negative matter
If Sag A* is a wormhole, and required stabilizing, then it would have destabilized long long time ago, since it has been constantly gobbling up regular matter (albeit infrequently lately).
I doubt anything could pass through a wormhole, since that would probably break causality or the laws of thermodynamics. Also, we should have detected stuff coming out of the other side (maybe not of this one, but there should be "exits" all over the universe).
If wormholes exist, my guess is they will be more like a pair of entangled black holes. They would look like normal black holes, until you did a careful statistical analysis of Hawking radiation of both.
In Soviet Russia, Khena Solo shot first!
And it was the one where Han shot first!
In Soviet Russia, Khena Solo shot first!
Indeed, it's often overlooked.
The easiest way to get plenty of B12 is by eating fortified breakfast cereals.
Depending on what you (don't) want to eat there are other, natural sources: eggs, milk/dairy, sea foods (clams, crustaceans), insects, unwashed mushrooms.
The problem for vegetarians (and more especially for vegans) is not getting enough proteins, it's getting all of the required amino acids
What problem? Rice and beans in combination contain all the amino acids you need.
She was also the girl Elliot kissed during the drunk/frog scene in ET.
Add Chuck Norris and you've created The Delta Force. As an added bonus, you only need one bike...
Yup, that happens. Preview is your friend.
It's actually the HTML tag support that does this.
You can either use entities < (--i <= 0) or wrap everything between <ecode> tags (no entities needed, but it quotes the wrapped text).
--i <= 0
Indeed, and you might want to take it even one step further, and test for --i = 0.
Which would set i to 0...
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