Tag: multiverse

• The Solar System boundary and the week in review (September 8-14)

  ‘Twas a busy week! High-resolution observations show how black hole jets churn galactic gas (Ars Technica): One portion of my PhD thesis involved galactic feedback. That’s the process by which jets from black holes at the center of galaxies push material away, potentially affecting star formation and other activity. This article addressed the observation of […]

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  Matthew R. Francis

  September 14, 2013

  Ars Technica, Double X Science, Galileo’s Pendulum, Writing for Other Sites

  dark matter, interstellar gas, multiverse, Phobos, Sun, supermassive black holes, the Moon, Voyager 1

• The week in review (August 18-24)

  I’ve been remiss in blogging at Bowler Hat Science, largely because…well, I’ve been writing too much elsewhere. So, I’m going to try something different: instead of blogging each new article I write in a separate entry, I’ll write a single post summarizing everything in one go. How I learned to stop worrying and love tolerate […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  August 24, 2013

  Ars Technica, Galileo’s Pendulum, Metablog, Nautilus, Slate, Writing for Other Sites

  black holes, cosmology, gamma ray burst, general relativity, multiverse, quasiparticles, warp drive

• On the multiverse, metaphysics, and meaning

  I don’t spent a lot of time thinking about the multiverse: the possible existence of regions of the cosmos that have never been connected to ours at any time, and may never be in the future. That’s because those parallel pocket universes aren’t directly detectable, and may never be even indirectly detectable, putting them into […]

  Matthew R. Francis

  June 4, 2013

  Nautilus, Writing for Other Sites

  cosmology, inflation, multiverse