14-minute Youtube video from Dr. Becky, where she nominates her Top
Five Space News papers of 2023:

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ3ZJjqu3NQ>

For those allergic to Youtube videos, here are the papers Dr.Becky
cites:

Saio et al. (2023; Betelgeuse supernova imminent) -
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00287.pdf

NASA's OSIRIS-REx analysis plan - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.11794.pdf

Labbé et al. (2023; JWST's over-massive galaxies) -
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12446.pdf

Madhusudhan et al. (2023; K2-18b dimethylsulfide claims) -
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.05566.pdf

NanoGrav research papers - https://nanograv.org/news/15yrRelease

EPTA & InPTA research papers - https://www.epta.eu.org/epta-dr2.html

Parkes PTA research papers - https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pu...

Chinese PTA research papers - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

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On 1/25/24 6:32 AM, jillery wrote:
> 14-minute Youtube video from Dr. Becky, where she nominates her Top
> Five Space News papers of 2023:
>
> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ3ZJjqu3NQ>
>
> For those allergic to Youtube videos, here are the papers Dr.Becky
> cites:
>
> Saio et al. (2023; Betelgeuse supernova imminent) -
> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00287.pdf
>
> NASA's OSIRIS-REx analysis plan - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.11794.pdf
>
> Labbé et al. (2023; JWST's over-massive galaxies) -
> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12446.pdf
>
> Madhusudhan et al. (2023; K2-18b dimethylsulfide claims) -
> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.05566.pdf
>
> NanoGrav research papers - https://nanograv.org/news/15yrRelease
>
> EPTA & InPTA research papers - https://www.epta.eu.org/epta-dr2.html
>
> Parkes PTA research papers - https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pu...
>
> Chinese PTA research papers - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...

In an attempt to find out why astronomers were interested in
parent-teacher associations, I followed your links. The last two are
bad, but the first one worked. Oh, pulsars.

On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 07:32:43 -0800, John Harshman
<john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 1/25/24 6:32 AM, jillery wrote:
>> 14-minute Youtube video from Dr. Becky, where she nominates her Top
>> Five Space News papers of 2023:
>>
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ3ZJjqu3NQ>
>>
>> For those allergic to Youtube videos, here are the papers Dr.Becky
>> cites:
>>
>> Saio et al. (2023; Betelgeuse supernova imminent) -
>> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00287.pdf
>>
>> NASA's OSIRIS-REx analysis plan - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.11794.pdf
>>
>> Labbé et al. (2023; JWST's over-massive galaxies) -
>> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12446.pdf
>>
>> Madhusudhan et al. (2023; K2-18b dimethylsulfide claims) -
>> https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.05566.pdf
>>
>> NanoGrav research papers - https://nanograv.org/news/15yrRelease
>>
>> EPTA & InPTA research papers - https://www.epta.eu.org/epta-dr2.html
>>
>> Parkes PTA research papers - https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pu...
>>
>> Chinese PTA research papers - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
>
>In an attempt to find out why astronomers were interested in
>parent-teacher associations, I followed your links. The last two are
>bad, but the first one worked. Oh, pulsars.

More correctly, Pulsar Timing Array.

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To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge

Monday, January 29, 2024
Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait what?
I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator
and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story,
no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip and I think I know what happened.
Posted by Sabine Hossenfelder
https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/brian-cox-debunked-big-bang-wait-what.html

On 1/29/24 6:37 PM, israel sadovnik wrote:
> Monday, January 29, 2024
> Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait what?
> I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator
> and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story,
> no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip and I think I know what happened.
> Posted by Sabine Hossenfelder
> https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/brian-cox-debunked-big-bang-wait-what.html
>
>
I'll give it a look. Sabine is generally pretty interesting.

John Harshman <john.harshman@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 1/25/24 6:32 AM, jillery wrote:
> > 14-minute Youtube video from Dr. Becky, where she nominates her Top
> > Five Space News papers of 2023:
> >
> > <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ3ZJjqu3NQ>
> >
> > For those allergic to Youtube videos, here are the papers Dr.Becky
> > cites:
> >
> > Saio et al. (2023; Betelgeuse supernova imminent) -
> > https://arxiv.org/pdf/2306.00287.pdf
> >
> > NASA's OSIRIS-REx analysis plan - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2308.11794.pdf
> >
> > Labbé et al. (2023; JWST's over-massive galaxies) -
> > https://arxiv.org/pdf/2207.12446.pdf
> >
> > Madhusudhan et al. (2023; K2-18b dimethylsulfide claims) -
> > https://arxiv.org/pdf/2309.05566.pdf
> >
> > NanoGrav research papers - https://nanograv.org/news/15yrRelease
> >
> > EPTA & InPTA research papers - https://www.epta.eu.org/epta-dr2.html
> >
> > Parkes PTA research papers - https://www.atnf.csiro.au/research/pu...
> >
> > Chinese PTA research papers - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10...
>
> In an attempt to find out why astronomers were interested in
> parent-teacher associations, I followed your links. The last two are
> bad, but the first one worked. Oh, pulsars.

For some reason I have forgotten the No-Bell Prize for them
was in the news once again, recently,

Jan

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:04:29 -0800, erik simpson
<eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:

>On 1/29/24 6:37 PM, israel sadovnik wrote:
>> Monday, January 29, 2024
>> Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait what?
>> I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator
>> and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story,
>> no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip and I think I know what happened.
>> Posted by Sabine Hossenfelder
>> https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/brian-cox-debunked-big-bang-wait-what.html
>>
>>
>I'll give it a look. Sabine is generally pretty interesting.

The following is a link to the Youtube video:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4I68xZ6dCc>

Short version: the keyword to the above is "supposedly". From the
transcript:
************************************
@4:45
All the matter around us is created only at that point when the
inflaton field dumps its energy. In the literature, this event is
usually referred to as “reheating”. What happened with Brian Cox’s
explanation is that he made it sound as if the reheating is the Big
Bang. I mean, listen to it yourself:

“As inflation ended, the ocean of energy was converted into matter.
Big Bang.”

So basically he just used the word “Big Bang” for something
completely different.
************************************

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To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge

On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:18:37 -0500, jillery <69jpil69@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:04:29 -0800, erik simpson
><eastside.erik@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On 1/29/24 6:37 PM, israel sadovnik wrote:
>>> Monday, January 29, 2024
>>> Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait what?
>>> I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator
>>> and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story,
>>> no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip and I think I know what happened.
>>> Posted by Sabine Hossenfelder
>>> https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/brian-cox-debunked-big-bang-wait-what.html
>>>
>>>
>>I'll give it a look. Sabine is generally pretty interesting.
>
>
>The following is a link to the Youtube video:
><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4I68xZ6dCc>
>
>Short version: the keyword to the above is "supposedly". From the
>transcript:
>************************************
>@4:45
>All the matter around us is created only at that point when the
>inflaton field dumps its energy. In the literature, this event is
>usually referred to as “reheating”. What happened with Brian Cox’s
>explanation is that he made it sound as if the reheating is the Big
>Bang. I mean, listen to it yourself:
>
>“As inflation ended, the ocean of energy was converted into matter.
>Big Bang.”
>
>So basically he just used the word “Big Bang” for something
>completely different.
>************************************

As Alan Guth said, inflation put the "bang" into the Big Bang.

The following is way outside my wheelhouse, but again IIUC it was the
lack of a Higgs field in the first instants which enabled inflation.
The condensation of the Higgs field would have given mass to both
energy and matter, and limited expansion to relativistic velocities.
It's uncertain which condensed first from the initial singularity;
matter or the Higgs field.

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To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge

On Wednesday 31 January 2024 at 07:17:56 UTC+2, jillery wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:18:37 -0500, jillery <69jp...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 19:04:29 -0800, erik simpson
> ><eastsi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >>On 1/29/24 6:37 PM, israel sadovnik wrote:
> >>> Monday, January 29, 2024
> >>> Brian Cox debunked the Big Bang! Wait what?
> >>> I was rather surprised when I recently learned that the British science communicator
> >>> and ex-particle physicist Brian Cox supposedly debunked the Big Bang with a creation story,
> >>> no less than in a BBC documentary. I had a look at the clip and I think I know what happened.
> >>> Posted by Sabine Hossenfelder
> >>> https://backreaction.blogspot.com/2024/01/brian-cox-debunked-big-bang-wait-what.html
> >>>
> >>>
> >>I'll give it a look. Sabine is generally pretty interesting.
> >
> >
> >The following is a link to the Youtube video:
> ><https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4I68xZ6dCc>
> >
> >Short version: the keyword to the above is "supposedly". From the
> >transcript:
> >************************************
> >@4:45
> >All the matter around us is created only at that point when the
> >inflaton field dumps its energy. In the literature, this event is
> >usually referred to as “reheating”. What happened with Brian Cox’s
> >explanation is that he made it sound as if the reheating is the Big
> >Bang. I mean, listen to it yourself:
> >
> >“As inflation ended, the ocean of energy was converted into matter.
> >Big Bang.”
> >
> >So basically he just used the word “Big Bang” for something
> >completely different.
> >************************************
> As Alan Guth said, inflation put the "bang" into the Big Bang.
>
> The following is way outside my wheelhouse, but again IIUC it was the
> lack of a Higgs field in the first instants which enabled inflation.
> The condensation of the Higgs field would have given mass to both
> energy and matter, and limited expansion to relativistic velocities.
> It's uncertain which condensed first from the initial singularity;
> matter or the Higgs field.
> --
> To know less than we don't know is the nature of most knowledge
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Book, "Fundamentals":
"The discovery of the Higgs particle was announced on July 4, 2012." . . .
" The lifetime of a Higgs particle is about 10^-22 seconds,
or a tenth of trillionth of a billionth of a seconds."
/page 177, by Frank Wilczek/
Where did the Higgs particle come from?
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