Black Hole

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I wanted to show how central, how vital, how productive collaborations could be, whether it was the small collaboration on the theory side or the much bigger one on the observational side, and to see the human complementarity that made it possible to find out new things when people work together.” The story is about a bunch of teenagers who are spreading a mutation disease via sexual intercourse. Rather than explain anything about the disease and where it comes from and how they may cure themselves, this is more about mutant teens getting high and having a lot of sex and weird dreams/trips. A sexually transmitted disease is infecting teenagers, a disease that mutates anyone that catches it. But what happens to the people who catch the teenage plague? Galison continues: “What Hawking realised was that this was in fundamental contradiction with something essential to what physicists believed, which was that if you knew the state of the world at a given moment, you could figure out what it was like in the past. If you knew what was in the present, you could predict the future.

But there's a surrealistic, nightmarish element thrown in the mix: the bug, an STD that manifests itself in a variety of deformities: tails, extra mouths, shedding skin, etc. I found it interesting that the town's more popular kids had the more concealable versions of the disease than the unpopular, a subtlety I didn't even notice until this most recent re-read but one that added a whole extra dimension to this multi-layered story. The fact that the infected outcasts all live out in the woods, separate from the rest of society, only enhances the dream-like feel of the book. In real-life, of course, their parents would probably file a missing persons report, get them treated by a doctor, etc. But I think the way Burns handles it only deepens the theme of alienation, making it a more powerful statement overall. Oh my GOD... it’s soooo much over the top in experience- of GRAPHIC- visually AND in the storytelling than I was comfortable with. In this bleak graphic novel, set in the seventies, Seattle area teens have to deal with all the usual angst ridden issues of their age group - peer pressure, popularity, sex, isolation - AND - a strange, uncurable STD that causes not only eruptions of repulsive festering sores, but lumps, shedding skin, gaping wounds that talk, and tails. Kind of makes herpes seem like a walk in the park.As astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson once described the process: “While you're getting stretched, you're getting squeezed—extruded through the fabric of space like toothpaste through a tube.” Within this unusual world, a handful of teens – Keith, Chris, Rob and Eliza – try to find some sort of connection, even as their bodies metamorphose and they’re alienated by their friends and families. Oh yeah, and there’s a twisted killer loose in the woods. Not all the kids are affected in the same way. Some can hide their deformities and "pass" as normal. Others are so badly maimed by the disease, they live like lepers in a colony in the woods. AIDS had not yet reared its ugly head. The worst sexually transmitted disease you could get was herpes. That sounded awful. Eruptions of repulsive festering sores...and there was NO CURE! Once you got it, you had it for life. Stephen William Hawking was born on 8 January 1942 in Oxford, England. His parents' house was in north London, but during the second world war Oxford was considered a safer place to have babies. When he was eight, his family moved to St Albans, a town about 20 miles north of London. At eleven Stephen went to St Albans School, and then on to University College, Oxford, his father's old college. Stephen wanted to do Mathematics, although his father would have preferred medicine. Mathematics was not available at University College, so he did Physics instead. After three years and not very much work he was awarded a first class honours degree in Natural Science.

Stephen Hawking discusses a grand unified theory in a brief history of time. The idea behind a grand unified theory is that laws can connect general relativity and quantum mechanics. It is also sometimes called the theory of everything. This is the ultimate vindication of research for research’s sake: two of the biggest problems in science and technology have turned out to be intimately related. The challenge of building a quantum computer is very similar to the challenge of writing down the correct theory of quantum gravity. This is one reason why it is vital that we continue to support the most esoteric scientific endeavours. Nobody could have predicted such a link. The issue with today's small pop science books is that they don't intend to provide coherent information about something but for commodifying the simplified works of complex minds to the public under the pretext of preaching that knowing the name of something is intelligent rather knowing about something and being able to clearly understand it.These images, like the book itself, force us to wonder whether we knew everything going on behind those seemingly happy, placid faces. There's something here about being shunned by society because of appearances etc but it's such a done to death theme that it didn't really land here. It was weird and disturbing but ultimately the message was a bit lost I think. Ah. Go on. “Physicists have an expression called ‘spaghettification’ because if you were falling in feet first, your feet would be more attracted towards the centre than your head, and your sides would be pushed towards your middle and this process would extend and compress you.” My reason for being sceptical is that I assumed this book would be a fairly watered-down affair with the usual dose of hand-wavy analogies that end up obscuring or misconstruing most of the real physics. Well, I was very wrong! During the 70’s when the world was a-changing.....I was on the ‘tail’..., ( haha -“tail” I repeat!!!!)..... end of change.

In their final stages, enormous stars go out with a bang in massive explosions known as supernovae. Such a burst flings star matter out into space but leaves behind the stellar core. While the star was alive, nuclear fusion created a constant outward push that balanced the inward pull of gravity from the star's own mass. In the stellar remnants of a supernova, however, there are no longer forces to oppose that gravity, so the star core begins to collapse in on itself. Those lectures by Stephen hawking shows he also had sense of humour... It's already known that the person with high IQs have good sense of humour.. I started and stopped this book several times when it first arrive on my doorstep over a week ago — This graphic novel is so weird and twisted . . . yet, at the same time, makes so much sense. The first image below is just a taste of what you are getting into if you give this a try. The best discovery in this whole matter, I guess, is; "During most of the life of a normal star, over many billions of years, it will support itself against its own gravity by thermal pressure, caused by nuclear processes which convert hydrogen into helium."

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I’m fascinated and interested.....but I also know I didn’t do 99.9 % of the things people my age were doing. governed, was at least sovereign, and therefore free, and had a state where even though the ruler was a Muslim, Hindus nonetheless enjoyed positions in the highest echelons of government (p. 242). The more accurately you know the positions of particles, the less accurately you can know their speeds, and vice versa"