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17 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
My googling has failed so:

This is the best belt (strong woven canvas with this cool buckle design) and I can’t for the life of me find somewhere to buy another one exactly like it. 😕 Anyone know anyone anywhere who sells these things? The original brand doesn’t anymore. A photo of the underside of a pin or peg-style belt buckle. A view of the belt with the end of the belt looped into the A view of the belt buckle in action, with the pin through a A view of the closed belt buckle from the front, looking ver
I have worn this belt nearly every day for like 20 years; I would love to find another one!
Update: Someone miraculously found exactly this model of belt on eBay! Unfortunately it was a small (32”) and mine is something like 39”. The search continues…
Well if anyone out there is a belt manufacturer and would like ideas for a clearly superior, fantastically durable belt design that is apparently weirdly unpopular with consumers, see above 😅

Also, @CROAKIES, please re-release this design 🙏🏼

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19 Nov
This piece by @StartsWithABang is a nice explanation of how the mental picture most people have of the “Big Bang” is outdated and wrong (!)

❌ singularity➡️hot dense plasma➡️galaxies etc

✅ [unknown]➡️inflation (probably)➡️hot dense plasma➡️galaxies etc

bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…
I talk a little bit here about what cosmologists CURRENTLY mean when we say “the Big Bang” (a.k.a. “Hot Big Bang”) — the hot dense glowing plasma phase of the early universe. NOT a singularity. We don’t have any evidence a singularity ever happened!

vm.tiktok.com/ZM8gVuDG7/
Here, I talk about the language ambiguity around the term “the Big Bang.” It’s best to think of the Big Bang as the theory that the early universe was hotter, denser, and in some sense smaller than it is today. But a singularity isn’t part of that picture! vm.tiktok.com/ZM8gVfVxr/
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15 Nov
I know that “experimental astrophysics” & “experimental cosmology” typically refer to research using observatories or detectors for signals other than visible light to learn about the universe but it’s still fun to imagine they’re cooking up stars and black holes in the lab 👩🏼‍🔬🪐
Fusion researchers talk about "creating a star" in the lab (e.g., lasers.llnl.gov/education/how-…) but that's more like triggering the physics behind how stars work, which is not quite the same. Creating a black hole in the lab, though, might actually be possible angelsanddemons.web.cern.ch/faq/black-hole…
If CERN *did* create a black hole in the lab, it would tell us some very interesting things about our Universe! It would confirm some speculative theories about the possibility of higher dimensions of space, and it would even give us hints about the stability of the Universe (!)
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30 Oct
In a couple hours I will be boarding a flight to London on roughly this route and I have a window seat on the left 👀🤞🏼✈️ #AuroraBorealis A topographic map of the region of Earth over the Atlantic,
I will report back as to whether I see any incredible aurora and/or discover any downsides to being airborne at high altitude during a geomagnetic storm 🤩😬
I’m ready. Come on aurora! A photo of an engine and another plane out an airplane windo
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26 Oct
Just spoke with @LBC about the discovery of what might be a planet in another galaxy: bbc.com/news/science-e…

Which is very exciting! But (and I didn't get to this in the interview) there are reasons to be skeptical about this claim.
The astronomers observed a dip in the bright x-ray light from a binary system consisting of a massive star locked in an orbit with a compact stellar remnant: a black hole or neutron star. The claim is a planet passed in front of the system and briefly blocked the x-ray emission.
Such a "transit" event is certainly plausible -- we've detected thousands of exoplanets via transits in our own galaxy! But this case would be a VERY lucky situation. The alignment would have to be perfect and the timing EXTREMELY lucky to have caught it.
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10 Oct
At Nashville Airport, heading home shortly. Mask use here (as in all US airports) is mandatory, but is currently standing at about 50%. Maaaaaybe as high as 70% if you pretend that noses don’t exist. 😑
See you soon Raleigh Me leaning against my arm a...
I am back in Raleigh! My suitcase, alas, is not ready to come home yet. The airline tells me it will be on its own flight tomorrow afternoon. While I respect its desire to assert its independence, I would really have preferred having access to my clothes and toothbrush tonight.
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2 Oct
[poll] Did you know? #MercuryRetrograde is when Mercury:
For a really great explainer of what #MercuryRetrograde actually means, check out this video by @JossFong vox.com/2016/9/10/1286…
The short version is that because Mercury is closer to the Sun, it orbits faster than us, and so if we were to chart its sky position relative to distant stars, when it’s scooting between us and the Sun it’ll look like it’s going the “wrong” way. But it’s a trick of perspective.
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