2643: Cosmologist Gift - Revision history

Natg19: /* Transcript */ cosmology

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‎Transcript: cosmology

172.70.206.95: /* Explanation */ done

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‎Explanation: done

108.162.246.206: Comic link

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Comic link

GreatWyrmGold: /* Explanation */ Restructured a paragraph to make it less of a debate.

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‎Explanation: Restructured a paragraph to make it less of a debate.

BunsenH: /* Explanation */ fusion at the core

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‎Explanation: fusion at the core

172.70.207.8: /* Explanation */ present tense

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‎Explanation: present tense

172.69.34.32: Rvv

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Rvv

162.158.166.183: /* Explanation */ helped

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‎Explanation: helped

172.69.34.32: /* Explanation */ copyedit

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‎Explanation: copyedit

172.69.34.32: /* Explanation */ noun not verb

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‎Explanation: noun not verb

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−	~~{{incomplete\|Created by a MUON ON SALE, PACKAGED IN A BOX THAT A CAT MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HAVE DIED IN- Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}~~

	This comic shows a box labeled to indicate that it contains 30,000 fresh {{w\|neutrino}}s and four zeptograms of {{w\|dark matter}}. The box is intended as an inexpensive gift for a {{w\|cosmologist}}. The gift giver didn't put those things in the box—both are simply passing through it, so the "gift" consists of exactly what was in the empty space it occupies. While the caption suggests this would be a good gift for a cosmologist, what they or anyone else would do with such a box is uncertain.		This comic shows a box labeled to indicate that it contains 30,000 fresh {{w\|neutrino}}s and four zeptograms of {{w\|dark matter}}. The box is intended as an inexpensive gift for a {{w\|cosmologist}}. The gift giver didn't put those things in the box—both are simply passing through it, so the "gift" consists of exactly what was in the empty space it occupies. While the caption suggests this would be a good gift for a cosmologist, what they or anyone else would do with such a box is uncertain.

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 There are about a billion neutrinos per cubic meter throughout space, produced during the {{w|Big Bang}}.[https://physics.mit.edu/news/journal/physicsatmit_14_conrad/] However, the flux of "freshly produced" {{w|solar neutrino}}s at Earth is around 6.5&times;10<sup>10</sup>/cm<sup>2</sup>/s, yielding about 2.1 million per cubic meter, and implying the box is around 12 liters, three quarters as big as a typical {{w|breadbox}}.
-Four zeptograms is a minuscule mass, equal to four sextillionths of a gram, the mass of about 200 carbon-12 atoms or around 20 to 23 {{w|amino acid}}s. There is an estimated 0.011 to 0.016 {{w|solar mass}}es of dark matter per cubic {{w|parsec}} local to the solar system,[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6633/ac24e7/meta] or about 900 zeptograms per cubic meter, suggesting the box is closer to 4 liters. This discrepancy could imply Randall agrees with cosmologists who believe dark matter is partially composed of {{w|primordial black hole}}s,[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121301][https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686418301250?via%3Dihub][https://news.yale.edu/2021/12/16/black-holes-and-dark-matter-are-they-one-and-same][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L25][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/023] instead of being composed entirely of ubiquitous subatomic particles. This comic coincided with the [https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet first James Webb Space Telescope science image release to the public] containing {{w|gravitational lens|gravitationally lensed}} very distant {{w|quasar}}s and {{w|population III star}}s, the spectra of which can be used to test [https://twitter.com/SheerPriya/status/1546576050976870400/photo/1 certain hypotheses associated with dark matter being black holes.] A billion neutrinos have a mass of only about 2×10<sup>-12</sup> zeptograms, at about 0.1 {{w|electron volt}}s each.
+Four zeptograms is a minuscule mass, equal to four sextillionths of a gram, the mass of about 200 carbon-12 atoms or around 20 to 23 {{w|amino acid}}s. There is an estimated 0.011 to 0.016 {{w|solar mass}}es of dark matter per cubic {{w|parsec}} local to the solar system,[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6633/ac24e7/meta] or about 900 zeptograms per cubic meter, suggesting the box is closer to 4 liters. This discrepancy [[2035: Dark Matter Candidates|could imply Randall agrees]] with cosmologists who believe dark matter is partially composed of {{w|primordial black hole}}s,[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121301][https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686418301250?via%3Dihub][https://news.yale.edu/2021/12/16/black-holes-and-dark-matter-are-they-one-and-same][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L25][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/023] instead of being composed entirely of ubiquitous subatomic particles. This comic coincided with the [https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet first James Webb Space Telescope science image release to the public] containing {{w|gravitational lens|gravitationally lensed}} very distant {{w|quasar}}s and {{w|population III star}}s, the spectra of which can be used to test [https://twitter.com/SheerPriya/status/1546576050976870400/photo/1 certain hypotheses associated with dark matter being black holes.] A billion neutrinos have a mass of only about 2×10<sup>-12</sup> zeptograms, at about 0.1 {{w|electron volt}}s each.
 The "local source" mentioned in the title text is a joke about the commercial value of fresh, locally produced items, but the comic means that the neutrinos come from the Sun. It takes solar neutrinos slightly more than 8 minutes to reach Earth once they're emitted, roughly the same time as photons take to make the trip. (While [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_zone energy takes approximately 170,000 years to reach the Sun's surface from its core,] where the fusion reactions occur, the neutrinos are not slowed down inside the Sun and travel at about 99.9999999999% of the speed of light. Thus, they will have aged by less than a millisecond,[https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation] and so are technically even fresher than indicated.)

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 Four zeptograms is a minuscule mass, equal to four sextillionths of a gram, the mass of about 200 carbon-12 atoms or around 20 to 23 {{w|amino acid}}s. There is an estimated 0.011 to 0.016 {{w|solar mass}}es of dark matter per cubic {{w|parsec}} local to the solar system,[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6633/ac24e7/meta] or about 900 zeptograms per cubic meter, suggesting the box is closer to 4 liters. This discrepancy could imply Randall agrees with cosmologists who believe dark matter is partially composed of {{w|primordial black hole}}s,[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121301][https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686418301250?via%3Dihub][https://news.yale.edu/2021/12/16/black-holes-and-dark-matter-are-they-one-and-same][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L25][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/023] instead of being composed entirely of ubiquitous subatomic particles. This comic coincided with the [https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet first James Webb Space Telescope science image release to the public] containing {{w|gravitational lens|gravitationally lensed}} very distant {{w|quasar}}s and {{w|population III star}}s, the spectra of which can be used to test [https://twitter.com/SheerPriya/status/1546576050976870400/photo/1 certain hypotheses associated with dark matter being black holes.] A billion neutrinos have a mass of only about 2×10<sup>-12</sup> zeptograms, at about 0.1 {{w|electron volt}}s each.
-The "local source" mentioned in the title text is a joke about the commercial value of fresh, locally produced items, but the comic means that the neutrinos come from the Sun. It takes solar neutrinos slightly more than 8 minutes to reach Earth once they're emitted, roughly the same time as photons take to make the trip. (This doesn't include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_zone approximately 170,000 years] that energy takes to get from the Sun's core, where the fusion reactions occur, to where photons are emitted at its surface.) However, as the neutrinos are not slowed down inside the Sun and travel at about 99.9999999999% of the speed of light, they will have aged by less than a millisecond,[https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation] and so are technically even fresher than indicated.
+The "local source" mentioned in the title text is a joke about the commercial value of fresh, locally produced items, but the comic means that the neutrinos come from the Sun. It takes solar neutrinos slightly more than 8 minutes to reach Earth once they're emitted, roughly the same time as photons take to make the trip. (While [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_zone energy takes approximately 170,000 years to reach the Sun's surface from its core,] where the fusion reactions occur, the neutrinos are not slowed down inside the Sun and travel at about 99.9999999999% of the speed of light. Thus, they will have aged by less than a millisecond,[https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation] and so are technically even fresher than indicated.)
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 Four zeptograms is a minuscule mass, equal to four sextillionths of a gram, the mass of about 200 carbon-12 atoms or around 20 to 23 {{w|amino acid}}s. There is an estimated 0.011 to 0.016 {{w|solar mass}}es of dark matter per cubic {{w|parsec}} local to the solar system,[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6633/ac24e7/meta] or about 900 zeptograms per cubic meter, suggesting the box is closer to 4 liters. This discrepancy could imply Randall agrees with cosmologists who believe dark matter is partially composed of {{w|primordial black hole}}s,[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121301][https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686418301250?via%3Dihub][https://news.yale.edu/2021/12/16/black-holes-and-dark-matter-are-they-one-and-same][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L25][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/023] instead of being composed entirely of ubiquitous subatomic particles. This comic coincided with the [https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet first James Webb Space Telescope science image release to the public] containing {{w|gravitational lens|gravitationally lensed}} very distant {{w|quasar}}s and {{w|population III star}}s, the spectra of which can be used to test [https://twitter.com/SheerPriya/status/1546576050976870400/photo/1 certain hypotheses associated with dark matter being black holes.] A billion neutrinos have a mass of only about 2×10<sup>-12</sup> zeptograms, at about 0.1 {{w|electron volt}}s each.
-The "local source" mentioned in the title text is a joke about the commercial value of fresh, locally produced items, but the comic means that the neutrinos come from the Sun. It takes solar neutrinos slightly more than 8 minutes to reach Earth once they're emitted, roughly the same time as photons take to make the trip. (This doesn't include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_zone approximately 170,000 years] that energy takes to get from the Sun's core to where photons are emitted at its surface.) However, as the neutrinos are not slowed down inside the Sun and travel at about 99.9999999999% of the speed of light, they will have aged by less than a millisecond,[https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation] and so are technically even fresher than indicated.
+The "local source" mentioned in the title text is a joke about the commercial value of fresh, locally produced items, but the comic means that the neutrinos come from the Sun. It takes solar neutrinos slightly more than 8 minutes to reach Earth once they're emitted, roughly the same time as photons take to make the trip. (This doesn't include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_zone approximately 170,000 years] that energy takes to get from the Sun's core, where the fusion reactions occur, to where photons are emitted at its surface.) However, as the neutrinos are not slowed down inside the Sun and travel at about 99.9999999999% of the speed of light, they will have aged by less than a millisecond,[https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation] and so are technically even fresher than indicated.
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 ==Explanation==
 {{incomplete|Created by a MUON ON SALE, PACKAGED IN A BOX THAT A CAT MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT HAVE DIED IN- Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
 This comic shows a box labeled to indicate that it contains 30,000 fresh {{w|neutrino}}s and four zeptograms of {{w|dark matter}}. The box is intended as an inexpensive gift for a {{w|cosmologist}}. The gift giver didn't put those things in the box—both are simply passing through it, so the "gift" consists of exactly what was in the empty space it occupies. While the caption suggests this would be a good gift for a cosmologist, what they or anyone else would do with such a box is uncertain.

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 There are about a billion neutrinos per cubic meter throughout space, produced during the {{w|Big Bang}}.[https://physics.mit.edu/news/journal/physicsatmit_14_conrad/] However, the flux of "freshly produced" {{w|solar neutrino}}s at Earth is around 6.5&times;10<sup>10</sup>/cm<sup>2</sup>/s, yielding about 2.1 million per cubic meter, and implying the box is around 12 liters, three quarters as big as a typical {{w|breadbox}}.
-Four zeptograms is a minuscule mass, equal to four sextillionths of a gram, the mass of about 200 carbon-12 atoms or around 20 to 23 {{w|amino acid}}s. There is an estimated 0.011 to 0.016 {{w|solar mass}}es of dark matter per cubic {{w|parsec}} local to the solar system,[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6633/ac24e7/meta] or about 900 zeptograms per cubic meter, suggesting the box is closer to 4 liters. This discrepancy could imply Randall agrees with cosmologists who believe dark matter is partially composed of {{w|primordial black hole}}s,[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121301][https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686418301250?via%3Dihub][https://news.yale.edu/2021/12/16/black-holes-and-dark-matter-are-they-one-and-same][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L25][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/023] instead of being composed entirely of ubiquitous subatomic particles. This comic coincided with the [https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet first James Webb Space Telescope science image released to the public] containing the spectra {{w|gravitational lens|gravitationally lensed}} very distant {{w|quasar}}s and {{w|population III star}}s which may be used to test [https://twitter.com/SheerPriya/status/1546576050976870400/photo/1 certain hypotheses associated with dark matter being black holes.] A billion neutrinos have a mass of only about 2×10<sup>-12</sup> zeptograms, at about 0.1 {{w|electron volt}}s each.
+Four zeptograms is a minuscule mass, equal to four sextillionths of a gram, the mass of about 200 carbon-12 atoms or around 20 to 23 {{w|amino acid}}s. There is an estimated 0.011 to 0.016 {{w|solar mass}}es of dark matter per cubic {{w|parsec}} local to the solar system,[https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6633/ac24e7/meta] or about 900 zeptograms per cubic meter, suggesting the box is closer to 4 liters. This discrepancy could imply Randall agrees with cosmologists who believe dark matter is partially composed of {{w|primordial black hole}}s,[https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.120.121301][https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2212686418301250?via%3Dihub][https://news.yale.edu/2021/12/16/black-holes-and-dark-matter-are-they-one-and-same][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8205/823/2/L25][https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1475-7516/2010/04/023] instead of being composed entirely of ubiquitous subatomic particles. This comic coincided with the [https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet first James Webb Space Telescope science image release to the public] containing the spectra {{w|gravitational lens|gravitationally lensed}} very distant {{w|quasar}}s and {{w|population III star}}s which may be used to test [https://twitter.com/SheerPriya/status/1546576050976870400/photo/1 certain hypotheses associated with dark matter being black holes.] A billion neutrinos have a mass of only about 2×10<sup>-12</sup> zeptograms, at about 0.1 {{w|electron volt}}s each.
 The "local source" mentioned in the title text is a joke about the commercial value of fresh, locally produced items, but the comic means that the neutrinos come from the Sun. It takes solar neutrinos slightly more than 8 minutes to reach Earth once they're emitted, roughly the same time as photons take to make the trip. (This doesn't include the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiative_zone approximately 170,000 years] that energy takes to get from the Sun's core to where photons are emitted at its surface.) However, as the neutrinos are not slowed down inside the Sun and have been travelling at about 99.9999999999% of the speed of light, they will have aged by less than a millisecond,[https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/time-dilation] and so are technically even fresher than indicated.