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Astrobiology is funny. The only serious line of science that’s entirely theoretical. This guy clocks into work to ponder what could be real, but it ultimately a bunch of hypotheses.

Same thing with advanced astrophysics. They got people pondering philosophical concepts.

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OBSERVATORY NIGHT I DID SATURDAY AAAAAH IT WAS SO NICE

(we do spectrography)

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The Honorable

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) 
Palais Wilson 52 rue des Pâquis 
CH-1201 Geneva, Switzerlan
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Report On Friday 13th March 2026 (2:30 pm - Cairo – Egypt)

Egypt Authority Persecutes the Coptic -Please Help

EGYPT AUTHORITY TRIES TO KILL MY MOTHER BY INSULIN INJECTION – PLEASE HELP

(Also they force my family to send me to the madhouse) -Because 

Egypt Authority tries to STEAL my astrophysics research results, I worked in it since 2013 till now –Egypt authority torture us to steal my research – they hanged many of my accounts and even prevent me to write my research papers by using torture.

(They try to burn my laptop- which is my only source for all my research materials) 

Notice

I’m a former student in (Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia – Moscow) – (Physics Department) –and my research reach to important results-

Egypt authority prevents me to write my research by using torture and creates continuous difficulties for me and hanged many of my accounts frequently   

Please notify the Interpol and Europol that any harm will be done for my mother or me or if my research be stolen, these actions are done for us because of Egypt Authority Persecution of Coptic-Please Help –

Egypt authority people torture my mother BY ELECTRIC SHOCKS and try to kill her BY THE INSULIN INJECTION Now (my mother life is in extreme danger) (Please help - Egypt authority forces my mother to take material raise the hypertension and they prevent any doctor help or medicine to kill her or to cause a serious disease)

Because of Egypt authority persecution for us and their continuous try to steal my research

I have authorized The United Nations for my research on Thursday 8th September 2022



And

I have authorized The Honorable United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres for my research on Friday 7th of July 2022 and published this authorization letter on the sites



and also

I have authorized my teacher Dr. Budochkina, Svetlana Aleksandrovna for my research on Monday 10th February 2020 and published that authorization letter on the sites


or  https://www.academia.edu/41892810/An_Authorization

or  https://www.slideshare.net/Gergesfrancis/an-authorization

This authorization is canceled on 10-11-2025 by the following document

The Cancellation Of The Authorization Letter Written On 10-2-2020


Or


or


Or


Or


The Story With Documents Is Published On This Link

Petition (with signature) (Egypt Persecution Against The Coptic).pdf


AN ACCUSATION (EGYPT AUTHORITY CAUSED THE BOMB IN THE CHURCH 2016)

(The Cathedral “El-Botrosyia” Church Bomb December 2016)


and

Vodafone –Egypt practices a fraud and breach of trust during (2013-2022)


And

National Bank Of Egypt Practice The Fraud (2020-2022)


AND

A Claim Is Sent To The United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres-

The Claim tells (Egypt Authority And The Egyptian Army Put Spies In The Churches To Cause To Spread The Sexual Abnormality Among Children) (20 -1-2025)




A Claim To United Nations Against Vodafone Egypt –They Persecute The Coptic And Breach Of Trust


and


Accusation Against Egypt Authority- They Will Make A Genocide For The Coptic In Egypt


AND


Application For The Registration Of The Coptic Church Icon In UNESCO (The World Heritage)-With Signature


AND


AND

A Claim Against UNESCO Is Sent To  The Honorable United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres- Because UNESCO refused to register the Coptic Church Icons in (The World Heritage List and Centre)


And


A Job Application For UN For Free (Is Sent To The Honorable United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres)


or


Please Note

(Based on that My Teacher Dr.Budochkina, Svetlana Aleksandrovna can be in danger-Please notify the Russian Police that she may be in A Serious Danger because any terrorist action may be done against her under Egypt Authority Support)   

Dr. Budochkina, Svetlana Aleksandrovna

Associate Professor (Mathematical Analysis and Theory of Functions Department)

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) – Moscow – Russia

The Claim Details

(I) Egypt authority persecutes me (2013-2022) by the following methods: 

(1st) They Torture My Mother By Electric Shocks And Try To Kill Her By Insulin Injection – Please Help

(2nd) They Try To Kill Me By Poison or by poisonous gasses – and forces my family to get rid of me by a fake accusation or by sending me to the madhouse based on false reports.   

(3rd) Egypt authority tries to hurt my Teacher Dr. Budochkina, Svetlana Aleksandrovna

(4th) Egypt authority practices hacking on all my accounts To Prevent Me to publish my research

(5th) Egypt Authority tries Currently To Steal My Research Results –

(II) Egypt authority try to kill My Mother Now By Electric Shocks Torture And INSULIN INJECTION & By STARVATION (Also Egypt authority forces my family to get rid of me, try to kill or to send me to the madhouse). 

(III) Egypt authority tries to kill my mother as a revenge from me because I have authorized Dr. Budochkina, Svetlana Aleksandrovna – to use my research material as her own research material –

(IV) National Bank of Egypt persecutes me because I’m Coptic, they denied the money sent to me based on a contract issued by Ministry of Justice - France – this contract I have published with many other important documents proves Egypt persecutes me (2013-2022)

(V) Egypt authority people puts harmful materials in our foods – and they may cause to hurt my mother by any transportation accident –

Egypt authority uses many people to perform these tasks – I refer here to 3 people

(1st person) my father / Francis Tawdrous Gerges – he resident in the same house (my same address)

(2nd person)  retired policeman / Thrawt Olson – resident in 5th Mohamed Rageb St – El Materyia – Cairo – Egypt (resident in our street but House No.5)

(3rd person) Engineer / ABDEL-ATIF MANSY –he’s an owner of packaging machines company

his address / El Mansi office – in front of  Elbnat high school –El Mansy st- behind baba El sharea police station – Cairo – Tel (+20121696797) – site (https://www.m2pack.com/contact_us.html ) and (https://www.m2pack.com

My Story Summary

  • Gerges Francis Tawdrous Gerges                          Mobile +201022532292
  • Passport No./ A11263731                                           ID. No./27410090102716 
  • Curriculum Vitae  http://vixra.org/abs/1902.0044 (Egyptian –Coptic – 1974)    
  • Address   / 11 Mohamed Rageb st – Madenet El Saada – El Materiya– Cairo – Egypt

2013-2019: Egypt authority prevented any job from me and prevented me to travel abroad- they threaten mine and my mother lives 

2010-2013: I have studied in Faculty of physics & Math– Physics Department – Peoples Friendship University of Russia – Moscow – Russian Federation.  

2013-2019 (Details) - Because I couldn’t return to Moscow - I have performed an interesting research in astrophysics- many international physicists interested for it – while Egypt authority realized my research importance they:

(I) torture my mother by electric shocks to force me stop publishing my papers

(II) they practice hacking on my accounts and telephone calls (+201022532292) to prevent any contact to reach to me. 

During 2019-2020

  1. I have claimed to The International Criminal Court and The Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court had sent to me a letter explaining that they received my documents – but that causes no difference in Egypt authority behavior against us – they still torture my mother by electric shocks and try to kill her by insulting injection (The Court Letter is posted in this paper Page no.2) (dated 21st October 2019)  
  2. Then the Ministry of Justice – France has sent to me a decree by a loan to help me to get out of Egypt but the National Bank of Egypt denied the money to prevent me to travel aboard (the Ministry of Justice contract and the money transfer are posted in this paper page no 3) (dated 19th January 2020)
  3. Then – after that – I have authorized Ms. Svetlana Budochkina to use my research materials as her own research –  I do that because Ms. Svetlana Budochkina the mathematics analysis teacher in my Faculty -  and by this authorization letter I try to find a help from my Faculty & university – because Egypt authority prevents any contact to me – and I can’t use my research at any case because of the Egypt authority persecution against me – So I want Ms. Svetlana Budochkina to use my research materials as her own research and to present it under her name before any scientific community which will support my research and improve my situation against Egypt Authority (the authorization letter is posted in this paper page no.4) (dated Monday 10th February 2020)

My Claim / Egypt persecutes me because I’m Coptic (Christian) (2013-2020).

(1) Egypt authority prevents any source of money to me – and by that I have no money for food, medicine, transportations or internet connection – that makes this message is the last one till they allow me for some money – BUT –I want to send a daily report to your Excellency because (mine and my mother lives) are in extreme danger, but no internet connection to do. 

(2) My mother is their method to practice stress on me – they torture her daily by electric shocks and try to kill her by insulin injection or any other method – So Please register her name / Na'ema Zakher Kerlous – as a target for killing- and in case she is dead under any circumstances – Please request from the international police to investigate her body

My International Certificates Are In My Curriculum Vitae

Note Please, 

I have no money at all and can’t travel from Egypt to any place because of that – also Egyptian government prevents any one of my relatives or my church people to provide me any help (And 2 persons were killed because they have tried to help me).

I thank your Excellency deeply for this great favor is done for us          Kind Regards

Gerges Francis Tawdrous +201022532292

Physics Department-  Physics & Mathematics  Faculty 

Passport No./ A11263731                                                   ID. No./27410090102716 

Address /11 Mohamed Rageb st- Madenet El Saada – EL Materiya District – Cairo – Egypt

Curriculum Vitae           http://vixra.org/abs/1902.0044

E-mail                            mrwaheid@gmail.com

Twitter                           https://twitter.com/GergesTawdrous1

Facebook                       https://www.facebook.com/gergis.tawadrous/

VK                                 https://vk.com/id696655587

Tumblr                           https://www.tumblr.com/blog/itsgerges 

Discord                          https://discord.gg/sgQFvUvT

Researcherid                  https://publons.com/researcher/3510834/gerges-tawadrous/

ORCID                          https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1041-7147

Google                                https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2Y4ZdTUAAAAJ&hl=en

box                                https://app.box.com/s/47fwd0gshir636xt0i3wpso8lvvl8vnv

Academia                       https://rudn.academia.edu/GergesTawadrous

List of publications        http://vixra.org/author/gerges_francis_tawdrous

Slideshare                            https://www.slideshare.net/Gergesfrancis                 

My Mother

Na'ema Zakher Kerlous                                       Mobile : +201286733743

  1. Diabetes Patient – 67 Years Old –
  2. Resident in the same address - Address /11 Mohamed Rageb st- Madenet El Saada – EL Materiya District – Cairo – Egypt
  3. Home Telephone No. +222550186            
  4. Just I can talk in English – no one other in home can do – for telephone conversations ypu can use my mobile number +201022532292 or to use translator speaks in Arabic to the home No. +222550186  

Thanks Deeply from my heart bottom                                                                  Best Greetings         

Notice / I have made many authorization letters for the united nation – on of them I insert in the next page to explain my try to protect myself and my mother by legal procedures

Authorization Letter For The United Nations

To whom it may concern

On Thursday 30th of March 2023

I, the undersigned, Gerges Francis Tawdrous Gerges, herby authorize The United Nations

This authorization be issued concerns my research be published on the sites

My academia        https://rudn.academia.edu/GergesTawadrous

My Box account   https://app.box.com/s/47fwd0gshir636xt0i3wpso8lvvl8vnv

My Slideshare        https://www.slideshare.net/Gergesfrancis

My page               http://vixra.org/author/gerges_francis_tawdrous

The Authorization be for the followings:

(1) 

The Authorization provides a percentage (10%) (ten percent) of all my income from this research to be received by The United Nations – As its own legal money and has all rights to require it by legal procedures.

(2)

The Authorization is provided to enable The United Nations to raise a claim before The International Judgment against The President of Egypt / Abdel Fatah El Sisis – Because – He used his authority and force to steal my research results during (2013-2023)

The Authorization Reason (Details)

I’m, Gerges Francis Tawdrous Gerges, Egyptian, Christian- (date of birth 9/10/1974)

Passport No. A11263731 –  ID No. 27410090102716

The President of Egypt /Abdel Fatah El Sisis during (2013-2023) has persecuted me

(a) He prevented me to travel abroad during (2013-2023) and prevented all income

(b) He threatened my life and my mother life along the period and tortured us

© He used hackers to close my accounts (twitter, Quora, Linkedln, researchgate ….etc) and made problems for me to prevent me to publish my research on my accounts-

(d) His people torture my mother by electrical pulses and threaten her life– they try to kill my mother by insulin injection and to starve her for long periods (many days of starvation)

(e) The president of Egypt uses the satellites to torture us – and by that – they can cause many pains for us by using these tools – example – He can cause my body to be bleeding without any direct touch

The authorization letter is written for the United Nations without definition of any name – because – I try to protect the person who will do this task – the United Nations is free to choose the person who will do the defined job 

Notice The authorization letter defines the money – and the payment will be done only for the issued international judgment against the president of Egypt/Abdel Fatah El Sisis

Also, there are other authorization letters, each letter defines its job- 

Signature (in Arabic)

Signature (in English)

Signature (in Russian)

Fingerprint (Gerges Francis Tawdrous Gerges Right Thumb)

Gerges Francis Tawdrous         +201022532292

ORCID     https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1041-7147

Facebook  https://www.facebook.com/gergis.tawadrous/               E-mail mrwaheid@gmail.com

Address/  11 Mohamed Rageb st- Madenet El Saada – El Materiya District – Cairo – Egypt        

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Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae

Frame-dragging may explain an odd pattern seen in the brightest supernovae.

Image of a purple sphere on a star studded background. The sphere has a series of glowing yellow lines curving out from its poles.

Magnetars drag spacetime to power superluminous supernovae


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A Review of a Science Conference on LLM in Astronomy and Astrophysics

So the last couple of days I have been attending a conference on the usage of Large Language Model (LLM) on astronomy and astrophysics. I usually don’t do this, but I came away from the conference simultaneously impressed and thinking that AI proponents are just not beating the allegations, even in a professional, scientific setting.

Now, before I go on some of my fundamental disagreements, I do want to mention, a lot of people are doing good research work. A lot of them are testing the limits of LLMs and benchmarking them. They have developed tools so that LLM agents will interface with external or internal sources, and draw real data from the right place. The formatting will not be consistent, but the numbers drawn are real. A lot of talks and people have also been honest about what doesn’t work about it, and what needs to be improved. And legitimately, some works, like a way to query astronomical data from database, could legit be a game changer. I personally know that going through all these disparate astronomical databases is a pain in the ass. Or if there are quick ways to classify humongous amount of data, say, galaxy images, with certain amount of reliability, it would be cool. I hope they succeed.

The other aspect I liked is that I learned quiet a bit. I learned more about how LLMs worked and some of the softwares used. There was a talk about how LLMs think of tokens rather than letters and words, and why they make the mistakes they do, and I really enjoyed that one. I actually came away from day 1 of the conference feeling pretty positive. They also did hack sections. While I wasn’t very good at it, it was fun thinking of stuff. Even if the ideas are silly, it’s okay, you are learning.

Oh and I did like how one of the host of the conference handled a potential power dynamics situation. The hosts were running the event smoothly, they did a great job.

At the same time, some of the stuff presented makes me think, why? As an example, why would I want an LLM summary of a paper? Every paper literally has a summary, it’s called an abstract. If you want more details, go read the conclusion. Instead, we want to spend a massive effort trying to correct all the fake stuff when the amount of stuff being published is faster than the available man power for it? The most ridiculous example of this was someone proposing to mint NFTs as a way to verify AI videos as science accurate. In the year 2026. I don’t even want to go into why this is such a stupid idea. That said, I always allow for one crank idea for every conference, even if this one made me particularly angry.

The worst part of this conference is the insidious nature of its worst ideas. The presentations are slick, the words sound reasonable, but they stand for the promotion for lowering the standards and hypocrisy. Nowhere was this more evident in a talk where I was lectured about what LLMs can and cannot achieve, the fact that LLMs don’t even save that much time in a lot of tasks, all the while using trashy, clearly AI generated slides that, while sleek on the surface, were aesthetically clashing and incomprehensible to interpretation (and I have a suspicion they are not the only person to do it by the way). Now, I have seen plenty of bad talks, including from yours truly, but you know, at least I can say that my slides could reasonably be followed by human beings. Earlier in the conference, another speaker gave a talk about how current ethical principles could be used to ground LLM research without new guidelines. Well, they were burying the lede here. Because as the other speaker admitted, they thought the power point looked good enough when asked about it. Clearly too many people are too oblivious and lack enough self-awareness that we do, in fact, necessitate new guidelines. After all, someone did go in front of everybody to present that they were writing a book that would normally take four years in one year. To be honest, I do not trust these people enough to think it is going to end well. After all, so many things I saw and heard made me think a lot of these people don’t really care about science communication. Which as an educator, well, it kind of pisses me off. In addition, there was an argument that went, when every astronomer adopted MCMC thanks to the emcee package, a lot of people did not due their due diligence to check burn-in and convergence, and that is okay. Now, I agree with the part that it’s a good thing you don’t have to learn every little thing about MCMC. That does not mean that the argument should extend such that the former is okay. Maybe the referees should raise their standards a bit regarding MCMC then?

A lot has been made in the conference about how maintaining trust is one of the most important part of using LLM. If that is the case, they failed. I came out of it even more assured that LLM overall is untrustworthy, because the ethical/philosophical foundation of the field is untrustworthy despite the claims that they cared about it. If someone were to ask me if they should attend an LLM conference on their field, I would tentatively say, do it once, learn something, and be very skeptical of what they are trying to sell.

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Researcher bridges the worlds of general relativity and supernova astrophysics

For decades, astronomers have used distant supernovae as cosmic lighthouses to test fundamental physics and to measure the universe. For Joseph Farah, a fifth-year graduate student at UC Santa Barbara, one particular supernova began to signal something never seen before: a “chirp.”

In a groundbreaking paper accepted to the journal Nature, Farah and a team of international researchers, including his advisor Andy Howell, who leads the supernova group at Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO), announce the discovery of a superluminous supernova (SN 2024afav) whose erratic behavior has confirmed a long-standing theory of stellar death. By applying the principles of general relativity to the explosive death of a massive star, the team has provided an explanation for the unusual behavior of these ultra-bright events.

The mystery of the bumps

When a massive star runs out of fuel, its core collapses and the star dies in a spectacular explosion called a supernova. Most supernovae follow a predictable evolution, brightening and fading in a smooth arc. While ordinary supernovae are already bright enough to outshine their host galaxies, a rare class of supernovae has been discovered in recent years which are 10 to 100 times brighter: superluminous supernova whose power mechanism remains unknown. These hyper-bright explosions often have mysterious undulations, temporary surges that defy expectations and point to hidden physics inside the expanding supernova.

The origin of the overbrightness and bumps is hotly debated. One possibility is that superluminous supernovae are powered from within. The violent core collapse is theorized to forge a neutron star, an ultra-dense stellar remnant, which pours energy into the expanding supernova, increasing its brightness. Another school of thought suggests that the unusual characteristics stem from the supernova shock slamming into layers of gas clumped around the star. As the blast wave crashes into this surrounding material, it might briefly brighten the supernova again.

Scientists at LCO observed that SN 2024afav — located roughly a billion light-years away — displayed a strange sequence of “bumps” or modulations in its brightness. With SN 2024afav, Farah noticed a pattern that no random interactions could explain: The bumps had a clearly sinusoidal, periodic shape — and that period was getting rapidly shorter. For the first time, a supernova was displaying a quasi-periodic signal with an increasing frequency, generating a “chirp” reminiscent of the gravitational wave signals produced by merging black holes.

“There was just no existing model that could explain a pattern of bumps that get faster in time,” said Farah. “I started thinking about ways this could happen, because the signal seemed too structured to be due to random interactions.”

A magnetar under the hood

Farah’s breakthrough thinking came from an unlikely source: a General Relativity class he was auditing at the time with leading relativist and UCSB Professor Gary Horowitz. Farah hypothesized that the supernova had left behind a magnetar, a rapidly spinning neutron star with a massive magnetic field. In the existing theory, a magnetar can power a supernova like a battery, pumping in energy from within, leading to an ultra-bright and smooth rise and fall. But this theory can’t explain the bumps, which could be caused by anything from interactions with surrounding material to unexplained deviations in the power output of the magnetar.

According to Farah’s model, some material from the explosion fell back toward the magnetar, forming a tilted accretion disk. Because of a General Relativity effect known as Lense-Thirring precession, the fabric of space-time itself is twisted by the spinning magnetar, causing the disk to wobble. As the disk precessed, it periodically blocked and reflected light from the magnetar, turning the whole system into a strobing cosmic lighthouse. The precession timescale decreases with the radius of the disk; so as the disk slides inward towards the magnetar, the disk wobbles faster, creating the “chirp” observed by telescopes on Earth.

Lense-Thirring precession isn’t the only effect that can make a disk wobble. Working with theorist Logan Prust (a former postdoctoral scholar at UCSB’s Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics), Farah and his team investigated several alternatives. What makes SN 2024afav unique — and a particularly effective test bed for these theories — is that any model needs to explain both the period and the period rate-of-change observed in the data. “We tested several ideas, including purely Newtonian effects and precession driven by the magnetar’s magnetic fields, but only Lense-Thirring precession matched the timing perfectly,” Farah explained. “It is the first time General Relativity has been invoked to describe the mechanics of a supernova.”

A Victory for Global Observation

The discovery was a “mad dash” involving a global network of telescopes. While the ATLAS survey discovered the initial flash in December 2024, the LCO in Goleta played a pivotal role, tracking the event for over 200 days. During this extended campaign, the team took maximal advantage of the full suite of LCO’s instruments and ability to near-continuously survey any target. Observation parameters were adjusted on-the-fly to capture even the faintest bumps in SN 2024afav’s evolution.

“This is a major victory for LCO,” said Farah. “The uniquely pristine and high-cadence LCO data allowed us to predict future bumps and the ability to dynamically adjust the campaign on a dime let us check our predictions in real-time. When the predictions started coming true, we knew we were watching something special.”

The paper is being hailed as a breakthrough for two reasons. As the first observed “chirp” in a supernova, it identifies a new class of observational phenomena in exploding stars. It also provides the first unambiguous confirmation of the magnetar model for superluminous supernovae, transforming the model from one of several competing hypotheses into an observationally confirmed mechanism.

The Next Frontier

Farah, who is set to defend his Ph.D. thesis at UCSB this May, will continue his work as a Miller Fellow of the Miller Institute for Basic Science at UC Berkeley, working alongside Professor Dan Kasen — the physicist who originally proposed the magnetar model.

Farah’s advisor, Andy Howell, emphasized the importance of the breakthrough: “I was part of the discovery of superluminous supernovae almost 20 years ago, and at first we didn’t know what they were. Then the magnetar model was developed and it seemed like it could explain the astounding energies needed, but not the bumps.

“Now, I think Joseph has found the smoking gun,” Howell continued, “and he’s tied the bumps into the magnetar model, and explained everything with the best-tested theory in astrophysics – General Relativity. It is incredibly elegant.”

Farah expects to find dozens more of these “chirping” supernovae as the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile prepares to come online and begin the most comprehensive survey of the night sky. The new facility will produce 10 terabytes of data every night throughout a ten-year initiative. “This is the most exciting thing I have ever had the privilege to be a part of. This is the science I dreamed of as a kid,” Farah said. “It’s the universe telling us out loud and in our face that we don’t fully understand it yet, and challenging us to explain it.”



IMAGE: A spinning magnetar twists space-time itself, causing the disk of material around it to wobble and produce the ultra-bright flashes of this peculiar kind of supernova. Credit Joseph Farah and Curtis McCully of LCO

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How You Can Help Reduce Light Pollution

Here’s a helpful short tiktok from the Dark Sky Alliance about the general types of lights that can be used to reduce light pollution! (One example is warmer tones - which makes sense if you think about how red lights are used in observatories so people can keep night vision)


And here’s a guide from Dark Sky International going into more detail


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The Physics of Time Travel and the Mystery of the Tipler Cylinder

Have you ever found yourself awake at 3 AM, staring at the ceiling, wondering why physics easily lets us travel to the future but aggressively blocks us from visiting the past? Yeah, me too.

Recently, I fell into a massive astrophysics rabbit hole and discovered something that absolutely blew my mind. It’s called The Tipler Cylinder.

Forget cinematic wormholes or glowing phone booths. In 1974, a mathematical physicist named Frank Tipler actually proved that you can travel back in time without breaking Einstein’s laws of General Relativity.

Here is the wild part of how it works:

  • The Build: You take a cylinder packed with the mass of several suns.
  • The Spin: You spin it on its axis at billions of revolutions per minute—getting incredibly close to the speed of light.
  • The Twist: It spins so fast that it literally drags the fabric of spacetime with it, twisting reality into a cosmic tornado.

If I were to fly a spaceship in a specific spiral trajectory around this spinning megastructure, I would enter what is known as a Closed Timelike Curve. Inside my ship, time would feel normal. But outside? I would be moving backward through the universe’s timeline.

It is theoretically the only way to travel to the past using standard physics. But there is a massive, heartbreaking catch to this machine that makes it impossible for us to ever build one.

I just published a full breakdown of the math, the paradoxes, and why Stephen Hawking eventually had to step in to ruin our time-travel dreams.

You can read my full deep dive over on the main site here: 👉 https://metaverseplanet.net/blog/the-physics-of-time-travel-and-the-mystery-of-the-tipler-cylinder/

I’d love to know what you guys think about this. If the physical limitations were somehow solved tomorrow and you could safely use a machine like this, what specific moment in your own life would you go back to? Let’s talk about it in the notes!

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i saw a music video post on my tumblr feed that had the band name of L7, and that reminded me of my college days, where i knew someone that had a fixation on L5, which is one of the 5 Lagrange points (L1-L5) for any two celestial body system.

from wikipedia:

i know, a bit boring for social media, but important for astrophysics 😂

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Help,

Abdul-Fattah El Sisi – The President Of Egypt Caused The Bombs In The Churches In 2016 And 2017 – Please Help

Petition (with signature) (Egypt Persecution Against The Coptic).pdf

And

AN ACCUSATION (EGYPT AUTHORITY CAUSED THE BOMB IN THE CHURCH 2016)

(The Cathedral “El-Botrosyia” Church Bomb December 2016)

And

Vodafone –Egypt practices a fraud and breach of trust during (2013-2022)

And

National Bank Of Egypt Practice The Fraud (2020-2022) https://www.slideshare.net/Gergesfrancis/national-bank-of-egypt-practice-the-fraud-20202022pdf

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something that will never fail to amaze me is that life on exoplanets could be so unbelievably different, right? I mean, when we look for life, since we can’t just start searching random planets, we narrow it down with the habitability index- because we search for life as we know it. But the thing is with ‘life as we know it,’ is THERE WAS SO MUCH CHANCE AT PLAY. The conditions for this kind of life were so specific that its so rare- i mean i have to believe that some planet in the two trillion galaxies we know exist- even the 400 billion suns we know in our galaxy maybe theres a few planets with life like us. but life must be so vastly different on the rest of the planets- so different it changes the meaning of the word. It must have evolved so differently i mean its so ONTOLOGICALLY INSANE.


i love the universe.

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allengreenfield
allengreenfield
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ceruleanphoenix7
ceruleanphoenix7

This happened in February, but I just learned of it today. It is deeply disturbing that two renowned physicists have been killed in the US in the last six months. Scientists are foundational to our society and deserve to do their work without fear of harm or death.

It is also sad and horrifying, as someone who studied astrophysics, to see someone so established in the field be murdered.

Astrophysics is not a field that seeks harm, dominance, or control of others. It is a field where people are entranced by the universe and seek to understand it.

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arburi
arburi

I love doing astrophysics and cosmology work. It can be tedious, but going through all that data to extract little nuggets of information is wonderful.

But I sometimes wonder about the different version of Renée who became a geologist instead. I wonder if she keeps little space mementos in her desk drawer rather than me who keeps rocks in mine.

I wonder if she’s better funded, as opposed to me whose eye is twitching while I impatiently wait for my fucking NSF funding to come in isweartofuckinggod–

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chukanovenergy
chukanovenergy

🌌 SDQP - The Energy Source of Stars and Earth

What powers the stars? What produces the enormous heat inside planets like Earth?

A new article from Chukanov Energy explores the concept of Super Dense Quantum Plasma (SDQP) - a proposed state of matter that may exist under extreme pressure in the cores of stars and planetary bodies.

According to the theory, when matter is compressed to extremely high density, it may transform into SDQP and release vast amounts of thermal and kinetic energy. This could provide an alternative explanation for the powerful energy processes occurring in stars and deep planetary interiors.

The concept also raises interesting questions about the nature of quantum energy, the physics of extreme environments, and the possibility of future energy technologies inspired by these phenomena.