M15 // Phil Hoppes

"If you go on T you won't look like a pretty anime boy, you're gonna look like an ugly man!" is so funny because I'm SE Asian, have been on T for 3 years with subtle (but satisfactory) changes, and definitely still have been told I look like an anime boy or a K-pop idol (because racism.) I do like to take care of my appearance and make an effort to look nice and stylish, but that's not a "pretty anime boy" or "K-pop idol" thing, I'm just A Guy who wants to look nice and pretty and cool. It's such an odd statement cause from my perspective it definitely does not consider the experience I described above, LMAO. It's assuming a "little white girl who doesn't know any better and likes anime" person, or something like that. (Just putting this out there because transmascs of color definitely need to be heard more, and transitioning on T experiences are all very very different.)

And anyways, the condescending way people talk down to trans men who do want to look like their cute/pretty fictional men transition goals is so weird... Like, what's wrong with that, anyways? Some fictional guys are really designed nicely, and may give new perspective on masculinity or maleness that people IRL may not show depending on where you live. Anyways, I think even if T changes you to be more masculine than you expected, you can still present in a way inspired by characters and styles you admire if you so like.

And the other side -- what's wrong with looking like an "ugly" man? I feel like that's saying any masculine trait is "ugly," so if you think that please reevaluate yourself. Looking more like a man Is Kind Of The Entire Point. Many transmascs will embrace that masculinity, and that's not anything bad, wrong, or poisonous. If you think it makes them look uglier or more like a predator or enemy, I want you to know that is not a very kind mindset to have toward transgender people, or to any man in general; it's rather in poor taste, and shows you are not an ally to transgender people. So if you do desire to be an ally, I urge you to reevaluate yourself and challenge yourself on what being a "man" entails, what being "masculine" entails. Because it's not inherently immorality or ugliness, it's just a gender.

This framing of masculinization as something to be warned against, that we don't know what we're getting into is not very cool, definitely ignoring we have our own agency and choices and feelings about our bodies. Like, when we go on T, often we know what it will do to us, and what kind of person we are gender-wise. We're making that choice for ourselves, absurd that we're treated like we don't know any better. We know. Don't treat it like a warning that we'll become less desirable types of people.

Here's a reminder to stop shortening the James Webb Space Telescope's name to "James Webb" and instead use "JWST".

"A lot of us would appreciate it if people didn't refer to the JWST as just "James Webb". He does not deserve to have his name associated with the praise the telescope receives. He didn't do these things. What he did do was awful. I only wanna hear sentences in which "James Webb" is the subject when they're about what he did. Otherwise it erases everything that we fight to bring awareness to. All we see when people do this is praise for a man who brought so much pain to the community. It feels like people are ignoring the fight to rename it and it legitimises NASA's name choice and justifies their horrible treatment of those who spoke up. So please consider using the full name, JWST or other alternative names that have been suggested."

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Something I want to add: A lot of us would appreciate it if people didn't refer to the JWST as just "James Webb". He does not deserve to ha

hi are you really an astrophysicist can you tell me like your favorite facts. not in like a quiz way i just think it's a neat field. thank you !

everyone knows about how interstellar paid for simulation on what a black hole would look like but few people know how the hair animation on tangled later got used for simulations of magnetic field lines in the sun. the problem with magnetic field lines in the sun is, imagine a magnetic, which is a nice shape. now set it on fire and melt it and put it in a blender. and that's a little bit like the sun.

this was presaged some decades ago by a physicist using skills to draw simulations of magnetic field lines using the skills in drawing hair that he learned sketching models at the local nudie bar.

To Stand on a Comet

This footage was taken by ESA Rosetta probe on the Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.

The snow fall is in fact a number of things, firstly the background stars moving as the comet rotates, secondly the zippy streaks are in fact cosmic rays and then there is dust moving about too, so none of it snow !

The first JWST image is creating quite a buzz around gravitational lensing because of the sheer amount of it in the image. Gravitational lensing makes galaxies appear warped like these:

Because spacetime curves around a massive body, light bends when it's near enough a massive object, allowing us to see very distant galaxies behind the cluster we're looking at.

Here is some recommended reading on it if you wanna learn more:

HubbleSite.org

Gravitational Lensing

SYFY Official Site

Magnificent Hubble image of a cluster warping space and stripping gas

Hubble image of galaxy cluster MACSJ01338-2155 shows gravitational lensing and gas stripped from galaxies.

Google Books

Einstein's Telescope: The Hunt for Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe

"In Einstein’s Telescope, Evalyn Gates, an expert on all that’s dark in the universe, brings dark matter, dark energy, and even black holes

ARE THERE MORE THAN 1 UNIVERSE??

Blog# 198

Saturday, June 4th, 2022

Welcome back,

What – one vast, ancient and mysterious universe isn’t enough for you? Well, as it happens, there are others. Among physicists, it’s not controversial. Our universe is but one in an unimaginably massive ocean of universes called the multiverse.

If that concept isn’t enough to get your head around, physics describes different kinds of multiverse. The easiest one to comprehend is called the cosmological multiverse. The idea here is that the universe expanded at a mind-boggling speed in the fraction of a second after the big bang. During this period of inflation, there were quantum fluctuations which caused separate bubble universes to pop into existence and themselves start inflating and blowing bubbles.

Russian physicist Andrei Linde came up with this concept, which suggests an infinity of universes no longer in any causal connection with one another – so free to develop in different ways.

Cosmic space is big – perhaps infinitely so. Travel far enough and some theories suggest you’d meet your cosmic twin – a copy of you living in a copy of our world, but in a different part of the multiverse. String theory, which is a notoriously theoretical explanation of reality, predicts a frankly meaninglessly large number of universes, maybe 10 to the 500 or more, all with slightly different physical parameters.

And then there’s the quantum multiverse. Physicist Hugh Everett came up with this idea, which is predicted by his “many worlds” interpretation of quantum physics. Everett’s theory is that quantum effects cause the universe to constantly split. It could mean that decisions we make in this universe have implications for other versions of ourselves living in parallel worlds.

Originally published on www.newscientist.com

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“WHAT IS THE NEW THEORY OF GRAVITY??”

Lunar Eclipse over the ESO’s VLT, Chile

NGC 1512 by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Space + Academia

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