Author: Matty Lawrence

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Melting Arctic ice will have catastrophic effects on the world, experts say. Here’s how.

The Arctic is the “frontline” for climate change, scientists said.

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– Matty

If there is any doubt about climate change, look no further than the coldest regions of the planet for proof that the planet is warming at unprecedented rates, experts say.

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Cosmology’s biggest conundrum is official, and no one knows how the Universe has expanded

Cosmology’s biggest conundrum is official, and no one knows how the Universe has expanded

After more than two decades of precision measurements, we’ve now reached the “gold standard” for how the pieces don’t fit.

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– Matty
  • There are two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe: a “distance ladder” and an “early relic” method.
  • The early relic method prefers an expansion rate of ~67 km/s/Mpc, while the distance ladder prefers a value of ~73 km/s/Mpc — a discrepancy of 9%.
  • Owing to Herculean efforts by the distance ladder teams, their uncertainties are now so low that there is a 5-sigma discrepancy between the values. If the discrepancy isn’t due to an error, there may be a new discovery.
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What Is Math?

Young man looks at math symbols on a chalk board and wonders

A teenager asked that age-old question on TikTok, creating a viral backlash, and then, a thoughtful scientific debate.

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– Matty

It all started with an innocuous TikTok video posted by a high school student named Gracie Cunningham. Applying make-up while speaking into the camera, the teenager questioned whether math is “real.” She added: “I know it’s real, because we all learn it in school… but who came up with this concept?” Pythagoras, she muses, “didn’t even have plumbing—and he was like, ‘Let me worry about y = mx + b’”—referring to the equation describing a straight line on a two-dimensional plane. She wondered where it all came from. “I get addition,” she said, “but how would you come up with the concept of algebra? What would you need it for?”

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Think Climate Change Is Messy? Wait Until Geoengineering

Someone’s bound to hack the atmosphere to cool the planet. So we urgently need more research on the consequences, says climate scientist Kate Ricke.

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– Matty

Here’s the thing about the stratosphere, the region between six and 31 miles up in the sky: If you really wanted to, you could turn it pink. Or green. Or what have you. If you sprayed some colorant up there, stratospheric winds would blow the material until it wrapped around the globe. After a year or two, it would fade, and the sky would go back to being blue. Neat little prank.

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Does the expansion of the Universe break the speed of light?

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– Matty

Just 13.8 billion years after the hot Big Bang, we can see 46.1 billion light-years away in all directions. Doesn’t that violate…something?

  • The cardinal rule of relativity is that there’s a speed limit to the Universe, the speed of light, that nothing can break.
  • And yet, when we look at the most distant of objects, their light has been traveling for no more than 13.8 billion years, but appears much farther away.
  • Here’s how that doesn’t break the speed of light; it only breaks our outdated, intuitive notions of how reality ought to behave.
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The Church or Big Tech?

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I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus, that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge— even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you— so that you are not lacking in any gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ, who will sustain you to the end, guiltless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

(1 Corinthians 1:4-9) ESV

I asked the church for help preparing our people for the return of Jesus Christ and they excommunicated me. I pleaded with Big Tech for the same reason and they began to cooperate.

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JetPress

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A Collision of Corruption and Incompetence

You’re going to get ripped off no matter what, so suck it up.

And if the house is worthy, let your peace come upon it, but if it is not worthy, let your peace return to you.

(Matthew 10:13) ESV

In my religion (Christianity) we’re trained to recognize toxic relationships and then leave them with as little fuss as possible. This is a way of preserving our inner peace.

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