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  1. A Physical Warp Drive Was Supposed to Be Impossible. Then These Scientists Found a Loophole.

    In a surprising paper from 2021, scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire suggested that they’d nailed down a…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #Alcubierredrive #CA #Canada #generalrelativity #lightspeed #MiguelAlcubierre #negativeenergy #Science #scientists #warpbubble #WarpDrive #warpdrives
    newsbeep.com/ca/682764/

  2. A Physical Warp Drive Was Supposed to Be Impossible. Then These Scientists Found a Loophole.

    In a surprising paper from 2021, scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire suggested that they’d nailed down a…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #Alcubierredrive #AU #Australia #generalrelativity #LightSpeed #MiguelAlcubierre #negativeenergy #Science #scientists #warpbubble #warpdrive #warpdrives
    newsbeep.com/au/683743/

  3. A Physical Warp Drive Was Supposed to Be Impossible. Then These Scientists Found a Loophole.

    In a surprising paper from 2021, scientists Alexey Bobrick and Gianni Martire suggested that they’d nailed down a…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #Alcubierredrive #AU #Australia #generalrelativity #LightSpeed #MiguelAlcubierre #negativeenergy #Science #scientists #warpbubble #warpdrive #warpdrives
    newsbeep.com/au/683743/

  4. "Did you know time can slow down near black holes by up to 30%?

    According to Einstein's theory of general relativity, massive objects warp spacetime, causing time dilation near event horizons. This effect is predicted to be extreme, potentially slowing down time by millions of years.

    As Einstein said, "Time and space are not independent of each other."

    What's the weirdest consequence of time dilation you can think of?

    #BlackHoles #TimeDilation #GeneralRelativity"

  5. Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 16/05/2026

    It’s Saturday once again, so time for another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further five papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 104 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 552. It took us until late July to pass 100 last year.

    I will continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience) to encourage you to visit it. Mastodon is a really excellent service, and a more than adequate replacement for X/Twitter (which nobody should be using); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper.

    The first paper to report this week, published on Monday 11th May in the folder High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena is “Triaxial magnetars as sources of fast radio bursts” by Jonathan I Katz (Washington University, USA). This paper suggests that the mysterious properties of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) could be explained by triaxial magnetars, with their activity levels influenced by precessional time scales.

    The overlay for this paper is here

    You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116554775791392800

    The second paper for this week, published on Tuesday 12th May in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies, is “The Abundance of Thin Dwarf Galaxies: a Challenge for Cosmological Simulations” by Jose Benavides & Laura V. Sales (UC Riverside, USA), Julio F. Navarro (U. Victoria, Canada), Simon D. M. White (MPA Garching, Germany), and Carlos S. Frenk, Kyle A. Oman & Shaun Cole (U. Durham, UK). Depending on mass up to 40% of galaxies are intrinsically flat, a fraction that numerical models of galaxy formation struggle to reproduce suggesting the models are incomplete.

    The overlay for this one is here:

    The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116560106342500157

    Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Tuesday 12th May but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Cosmological peculiar velocities in general relativity” by Chris Clarkson (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) and Roy Maartens (U. Western Cape, South Africa). This paper refutes claims that the 1+3 covariant approach to cosmological perturbation theory predicts stronger growth of galaxy peculiar velocities, arguing that standard treatments are correct and fully relativistic.

    The overlay for this one is here:

    The final, accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116560224426499932

    The fourth paper this week, published on Wednesday May 13th “Possible evidence for a pair-instability supernova nature of ultra-early JWST sources” by Andrea Ferrara & Stefano Carniani (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy), Takahiro Morishita (California Institute of Technology, USA), and Massimo Stiavelli (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA). Published in the section Astrophysics of Galaxies. This paper argues that recent observations challenge early galaxy formation models, suggesting that the bright source, Capotauro, could be a supernova from a massive, metal-free star, not a luminous galaxy as initially thought.

    The overlay is here:

    The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and here is the Mastodon announcement:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116566147448743997

    The fifth and final article of this week was also published on Wednesday 13th May but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. The title is “Evolving and interacting dark energy: photometric and spectroscopic synergy with DES Y3 and DESI DR2” and it is by Maria Tsedrik and Benjamin Bose (University of Edinburgh, UK). The study investigates the Dark Scattering interacting dark energy scenario, using data from various sources. Results show no evidence of dark-sector interaction and a preference for the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder parametrisation.

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the authorized version of this paper on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement is here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116566165139100860

    And that concludes this week’s update. I’ll do another next Saturday.

    #arXiv251211035v3 #arXiv260104953v3 #arXiv260107374v3 #arXiv260314511v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #Capotauro #ChevallierPolarskiLinder #cosmicShear #cosmologicalSimulations #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DarkEnergy #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DarkEnergySurvey #DarkScattering #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #dwarfGalaxies #fastRadioBursts #galaxyFormation #generalRelativity #HighEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #JWST #Magnetars #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #peculiarVelocities #supernova
  6. Weekly Update from the Open Journal of Astrophysics – 16/05/2026

    It’s Saturday once again, so time for another update of activity at the Open Journal of Astrophysics. Since the last update we have published a further five papers, bringing the number in Volume 9 (2026) to 104 and the total so far published by OJAp up to 552. It took us until late July to pass 100 last year.

    I will continue to include the posts made on our Mastodon account (on Fediscience) to encourage you to visit it. Mastodon is a really excellent service, and a more than adequate replacement for X/Twitter (which nobody should be using); these announcements also show the DOI for each paper.

    The first paper to report this week, published on Monday 11th May in the folder High-Energy Astrophysical Phenomena is “Triaxial magnetars as sources of fast radio bursts” by Jonathan I Katz (Washington University, USA). This paper suggests that the mysterious properties of Fast Radio Bursts (FRB) could be explained by triaxial magnetars, with their activity levels influenced by precessional time scales.

    The overlay for this paper is here

    You can find the officially accepted version on arXiv here and the announcement on Fediverse here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116554775791392800

    The second paper for this week, published on Tuesday 12th May in the folder Astrophysics of Galaxies, is “The Abundance of Thin Dwarf Galaxies: a Challenge for Cosmological Simulations” by Jose Benavides & Laura V. Sales (UC Riverside, USA), Julio F. Navarro (U. Victoria, Canada), Simon D. M. White (MPA Garching, Germany), and Carlos S. Frenk, Kyle A. Oman & Shaun Cole (U. Durham, UK). Depending on mass up to 40% of galaxies are intrinsically flat, a fraction that numerical models of galaxy formation struggle to reproduce suggesting the models are incomplete.

    The overlay for this one is here:

    The official version of the paper can be found on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116560106342500157

    Next one up, the third paper of the week, also published on Tuesday 12th May but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics is “Cosmological peculiar velocities in general relativity” by Chris Clarkson (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) and Roy Maartens (U. Western Cape, South Africa). This paper refutes claims that the 1+3 covariant approach to cosmological perturbation theory predicts stronger growth of galaxy peculiar velocities, arguing that standard treatments are correct and fully relativistic.

    The overlay for this one is here:

    The final, accepted version can be found on arXiv here and the Mastodon announcement is here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116560224426499932

    The fourth paper this week, published on Wednesday May 13th “Possible evidence for a pair-instability supernova nature of ultra-early JWST sources” by Andrea Ferrara & Stefano Carniani (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy), Takahiro Morishita (California Institute of Technology, USA), and Massimo Stiavelli (Space Telescope Science Institute, USA). Published in the section Astrophysics of Galaxies. This paper argues that recent observations challenge early galaxy formation models, suggesting that the bright source, Capotauro, could be a supernova from a massive, metal-free star, not a luminous galaxy as initially thought.

    The overlay is here:

    The officially accepted version can be found on arXiv here and here is the Mastodon announcement:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116566147448743997

    The fifth and final article of this week was also published on Wednesday 13th May but in the folder Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics. The title is “Evolving and interacting dark energy: photometric and spectroscopic synergy with DES Y3 and DESI DR2” and it is by Maria Tsedrik and Benjamin Bose (University of Edinburgh, UK). The study investigates the Dark Scattering interacting dark energy scenario, using data from various sources. Results show no evidence of dark-sector interaction and a preference for the Chevallier-Polarski-Linder parametrisation.

    The overlay is here:

    You can find the authorized version of this paper on arXiv here and the Fediverse announcement is here:

    https://fediscience.org/@OJ_Astro/116566165139100860

    And that concludes this week’s update. I’ll do another next Saturday.

    #arXiv251211035v3 #arXiv260104953v3 #arXiv260107374v3 #arXiv260314511v2 #AstrophysicsOfGalaxies #Capotauro #ChevallierPolarskiLinder #cosmicShear #cosmologicalSimulations #CosmologyAndNonGalacticAstrophysics #DarkEnergy #DarkEnergySpectroscopicInstrument #DarkEnergySurvey #DarkScattering #DiamondOpenAccess #DiamondOpenAccessPublishing #dwarfGalaxies #fastRadioBursts #galaxyFormation #generalRelativity #HighEnergyAstrophysicalPhenomena #JWST #Magnetars #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #peculiarVelocities #supernova
  7. Darkness Can Move Faster Than Light Without Breaking the Laws of Physics

    Artistic depiction of the darkness measurement. Image not to scale. Physicists have experimentally confirmed a strange prediction: the…
    #NewsBeep #News #Physics #CA #Canada #darkness #generalrelativity #relativity #Science #speedoflight
    newsbeep.com/ca/649634/

  8. Darkness Can Move Faster Than Light Without Breaking the Laws of Physics

    Artistic depiction of the darkness measurement. Image not to scale. Physicists have experimentally confirmed a strange prediction: the…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #darkness #GeneralRelativity #Relativity #Science #speedoflight
    newsbeep.com/us/625064/

  9. Darkness Can Move Faster Than Light Without Breaking the Laws of Physics

    Artistic depiction of the darkness measurement. Image not to scale. Physicists have experimentally confirmed a strange prediction: the…
    #NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Physics #darkness #GeneralRelativity #Relativity #Science #speedoflight
    newsbeep.com/us/625064/

  10. `The Lense-Thirring effect, a prediction of general relativity, implies that massive rotating objects like Earth can slightly "drag" spacetime, which could affect the pendulum's oscillation. This effect, though theoretically significant, is currently too small to measure with a Foucault pendulum.`

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foucault

    #physics #Foucault #pendulum #FoucaultPendulum #Earth #rotation #relativity #generalRelativity #Einstein

  11. @GenghisKen
    The gravitational field is an illusion - it's just space-time curving according to the mass that was always there in the first place. The effect gives the impression of propagating at c but that doesn't mean anything is emerging from beyond the horizon.
    #wibblywobbly #timeywimey #GeneralRelativity #BlackHoles #Gravity

  12. I guess I'm #writing again, because yesterday I brainstormed a bunch of ideas for #book three, (Moon,) and then I woke up at 2:30 AM, realizing (I think) that I had messed up the #generalrelativity between #books one (Atmosphere,) and two, (Ocean.) This, after I spent a whole lot of time trying to make it work during the writing #process. I have a tenuous grasp on the #theory. Wish I had a #physicist friend I could #brainstorm with. #physics #question

  13. (4/4)

    I just really hate how physicist write the cov derivative of the *components* of a tensor (or a section of any vector bundle), while it only make sense if you consider the derivative of the tensor itself.

    #DifferentialGeometry #Gravity #GeneralRelativity #Mathematics #Physics

  14. (2/4)
    … And for a normal (i.e. \( \mathbb R \)-valued) diff form the cov ext diff \( d_\nabla \) shall be just the same as the normal ext diff \( d \).
    This confuses me for a long time.
    Until I realised: the eq I wrote above was taken from a #GR textbook, and physicists tend to write every things into coordinates/components/infices format, which brings the confusion.

    #DifferentialGeometry #Gravity #GeneralRelativity #Mathematics #Physics

  15. (3/4)
    In fact, the tetrad shall be considered as a vector valued 1-form:
    \[
    theta = \theta_j^i \partial_i \otimes d x^j,
    \]
    therefore there is no meaning for the cov ext diff for a component of a vector!
    One should really consider is the \( d_\nabla \theta\), where the connection is considered on the tangent bundle of the spacetime manifold.

    #DifferentialGeometry #Gravity #GeneralRelativity #Mathematics #Physics

  16. (1/4)
    I was trying to reason about the (1st) Cartan structure equation
    \[ d_\nabla \theta^i = d \theta^i + \Gamma^i_j \wedge \theta^j = 0,\]
    where \( d_\nabla \) is the covariant exterial differential, \(\nabla\) is the Levi-Civita connection with connection form \( \Gamma \), and \( \theta \) is an (orthogonal) tetrad.
    For me this does not make sense, since \( \theta^i \) is just a normal 1-form, and…

    #DifferentialGeometry #Gravity #GeneralRelativity #Mathematics #Physics

  17. Spacetime is a four-dimensional topological manifold with a smooth atlas carrying a torsion-free connection compatible with a Lorentzian metric and a time orientation satisfying the Einstein field equations (EFE).
    \[\underbrace{(\mathcal{M},\mathcal{O},\mathcal{A},\nabla,\text{g},\mathcal{T})}_{\text{Relativistic spacetime}}\]
    #spacetime #space #time #physics #relativity #generalrelativity #specialrelativity #differentialgeometry #manifold #theoreticalphysics #einstein #lorentz

  18. My #paperOfTheDay was "Galilei invariance, action-reaction principle, and center of mass theorem" from 1983.
    This is an article about #generalRelativity , without anything quantum. From daily experience, we know that every object has a mass, but thinking more closely, the parameter we call mass actually appears in different ways in #physics, and it is not a priory clear how they are logically related. Einstein's famous thought experiment was about the "falling elevator", that is, if you are in a box and can't look outside, you can not distinguish whether you fall freely, or you are located far away from a planet where there is no gravitational field. This "weak equivalence principle" asserts the equivalence between "inertial mass", the parameter which determines how hard it is to accelerate something, and "passive gravitational mass", the parameter that determines how strongly a gravitational field acts on an object.
    But there is a third type of mass, the "active gravitational mass", which determines how much gravitational field is generated by an object. The "strong equivalence principle" asserts that all three masses are the same.
    The present article demonstrates that, as far as classical celestial mechanics is concerned, the strong equivalence principle can not been distinguished from the weak one. That is, the observed motion of celestial bodies can already be explained by the weak equivalence principle, regardless of whether the strong one holds or not.
    I don't know what the current state of affairs is in that question, in particular regarding quantum theory.
    link.springer.com/article/10.1

  19. We were happy to hear that our workshop on non-regular #spacetime #geometry was productive and lead to the following article written by our visitors. 📏 Hope you will come back soon to @ESIVienna!

    Saúl Burgos, José L. Flores , and Jónatan Herrera:
    The c-completion of #Lorentzian #MetricSpaces.

    #GeneralRelativity #QuantumCosmology
    arxiv.org/pdf/2305.02004.pdf

    @univienna

  20. We were happy to hear that our workshop on non-regular #spacetime #geometry was productive and lead to the following article written by our visitors. 📏 Hope you will come back soon to @ESIVienna!

    Saúl Burgos, José L. Flores , and Jónatan Herrera:
    The c-completion of #Lorentzian #MetricSpaces.

    #GeneralRelativity #QuantumCosmology
    arxiv.org/pdf/2305.02004.pdf

    @univienna

  21. Paola Rioseco (Junior Research Fellow) and Olivier Sarbach were both thematic programme participants last year and have recently published their joint work on a Kerr #BlackHole. 🕳️
    Scroll down for the paper to read it on @arxiv. ⤵️

    #GeneralRelativity #QuantumCosmology #Astrophysics #galaxies

    @univienna @stem_univie

    arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12849.pdf

  22. Paola Rioseco (Junior Research Fellow) and Olivier Sarbach were both thematic programme participants last year and have recently published their joint work on a Kerr #BlackHole. 🕳️
    Scroll down for the paper to read it on @arxiv. ⤵️

    #GeneralRelativity #QuantumCosmology #Astrophysics #galaxies

    @univienna @stem_univie

    arxiv.org/pdf/2302.12849.pdf