No Tension - #JWST #Galaxies at z>10 Consistent with #Cosmological Simulations: https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13755 - "we use results from the Renaissance simulations, which are a suite of high resolution simulations designed to model galaxy formation in the early universe. We find that the most massive galaxies in Renaissance have stellar masses and star formation rates that are entirely consistent with the observations from the JADES and CEERS surveys."

I must be reading too many #cosmological pieces where timetables are in millions of years. Today I read in #NewScientist that our local #interstellar cloud will be merging with the local #GCloud in 2,000 year's and briefly thought "oh good, something I'll be around to see" 🤦‍♂️ @profbriancox @stephenfry #physics #cosmology #fool

150 (or so) Arguments for #Atheism

"A popular view in contemporary #analytic #philosophy of #religion is that while there are many arguments for #theism -- #cosmological, #ontological, and #teleological arguments; #moral arguments; arguments from #consciousness; etc. (...) -- there are only one or two arguments for atheism, viz., the problem of #evil and (more recently) the argument from #divine hiddenness.

This is a misconception. Here are well over 150"

http://exapologist.blogspot.com/2022/06/120-or-so-arguments-for-atheism.html

@philosophy

A Preferential Growth Channel for Supermassive Black Holes in Elliptical Galaxies at z ≲ 2 / Observational Evidence for #Cosmological Coupling of Black Holes and its Implications for an Astrophysical Source of Dark Energy: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/acac2e / https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/acb704 -> First observational evidence linking #blackholes to #darkenergy: https://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/2023/02/first-observational-evidence-linking-black-holes-to-dark-energy/

Searching through existing data spanning 9 billion years, a University of Michigan #physicist and colleagues have uncovered the first evidence of “#cosmological coupling”—a newly predicted phenomenon in #Einstein’s theory of gravity, possible only when black holes are placed inside an evolving #universe.
#BlackHoles #DarkEnergy #Physics #SpaceScience #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/02/sn02152301.html

Surely the most remarkable #acknowledgement in an #astrophysics paper ("On #Cosmological Low Entropy After the Big Bang: Universal Expansion and Nucleosynthesis") accepted by a journal (General Relativity and Gravitation): https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.03988 (p. 11). h/t @vicgrinberg

#RNVooght is a passionate #researcher along with being an author of The #Spirit in the #Sky: Ancient #Cosmological #Gods & Where In The World We Find Them, #DMT: #Deities, #Myth & #Tryptamines & #Devolution Cycle.  Have a look at RN Vooght  Social media link  https://twitter.com/VooghtRN / YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCacHr7LIQoNWknitl5vh0pA  

https://anchor.fm/perceptionstoday/episodes/00021-RN-Vooght-The-Spirit-in-The-Sky-01-of-03-e1hu14i

One of the things I'm most excited about in the #worldbuilding for my #novel is that not everybody in the novel agrees about what #magic is, who can and should use it and for what, who the gods are and what they are like, which myths are factual, or even the correct way to tell a particular story. I'm trying to make #theological and #cosmological opinions vary as widely in my fictional world as they do in real life

I was wondering which among the following #cosmological #models would be "consistent" with our current #data and #observations (if any) to avoid the #BigBang #singularity:

#Migration to #astrodon done!
I guess some #introduction won't hurt.

Hi #everyone ! I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the University of #Bologna. Most of my work time you'll find me doing #cosmological #MHD #simulations to study #magneticfields 🧲 in the #Universe or hybrid #simulations to model the radio emission in #galaxyclusters. #radioastronomers are my best friends nowadays 😃

I recently turned into a #catlover, enjoy doing #yoga and dancing some #salsa 💃. Happy to connect in #mastodon