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      <image:caption>A sea snake (left) has a heart located roughly midway along its body. A tree snake (right) needs its heart to be close to its head to ensure it gets enough oxygen to its brain so it won’t faint as it climbs. A ground snake (middle) splits the difference, with its heart farther forward than a sea snake, but not as far forward as a tree snake. Researchers propose that the various arrangements are due to the effect of gravity on snake evolution. ~ illustration by Mary May Heil</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A highly venemous yellow lipped krait enjoys perpetual freefall as an ocean dwelling sea snake. Credit: Craig D</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Coleslaw, my daughter’s corn snake, enjoys climbing, but has the heart of a ground snake.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My careworn copy of Hawking’s amazing book, A brief History of Time.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Joseph Weber’s Lunar Surface Gravimeter as installed on the moon by Apollo 17 astronauts in 1972.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Joseph Weber installs innovative strain sensors on an aluminum bar to detect the passing of graitational waves.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Simulating lunar gravity. By dangling astronauts or instruments at an angle, NASA technicians could simulate the effects of the moon’s gravity, which is 1/6 the gravity on Earth. ~NASA</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Joseph Weber memorial garden at the University of Maryland features eight of the prototype aluminum bars that Weber hoped would ring when pinged by passing gravitational waves. ~James Riordon</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Einstein and Oppenheimer in the 1950s, when Oppenheimer thought most black holes were really stars frozen in mid-collapse and Einstein didn’t believe in black holes at all.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is a portion of Kip Thorne’s illustration using ants to explain why a “frozen star” is an illusion, and that sufficiently massive stellar cores left over after supernovas never slow, from any perspective, as they collapse to become black holes. ~Scientific American, November 1967, page 96.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The ellipse of Mercury’s orbit precesses due to interactions with the other planets, the shape of the Sun, and three relativistic effects that were unexplainable before Einstein came along.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Relatively Easy Blog - The One Orbital Effect You’ve Never Heard of - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:caption>To share the math fun with motivated readers, I left some values for the precession of Mars out of the table. Units here are arcseconds per century.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Your forever home could be in a black hole. It would be a pretty comfortable neighborhood with plenty of elbow room, provided you find real estate in a rapidly spinning, supermassive black hole.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Relatively Easy Blog - Could You Live Inside a Black Hole? (TL;DR: Yes, you could.) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>When black holes spin, they develop a structure that includes regions and surfaces that don’t exist in non-spinning black holes. Anything falling in winds up in a shell at the inner horizon. Freely falling material in the dark central region is hurled outward and ends up joining the inner horizon shell as well.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Relatively Easy Blog - Could You Live Inside a Black Hole? (TL;DR: Yes, you could.) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Possible orbits for objects (outer petals) and light (inner ruffle) inside the inner (Cauchy) horizon of a spinning black hole. Dokuchaev, Vyacheslav I. "Life inside black holes." Gravitation and Cosmology 18.1 (2012): 65-69.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Relatively Easy Blog - Could You Live Inside a Black Hole? (TL;DR: Yes, you could.) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Packing up to move into a black hole is a one-way proposition, unless it’s the entrance to a wormhole that leads to a white hole somewhere else.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Black hole spaghettification, as envisioned by NASA.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Relatively Easy Blog - Death by Black Hole? You might survive diving in after all. - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>In a spinning black hole, material free-falling inside the dark colored region inside the inner horizon is hurled outward, and material outside the inner horizon falls inward. In this sketch, the central ringularity is not shown. Image courtesy of Yukterez (Simon Tyran, Vienna)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A smattering of the countless Einstein-right-again headlines.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The orbit of Mercury swings around the Sun in a way relativity explains, but Newton’s gravity can’t.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Scales — measuring relativity’s effects for millennia.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Warped spacetime offers one explanation for the displacement in the apparent location of a distant star. See the diagram below for another explanation.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Instead of following a straight line in warped spacetime, in Gullstrand-Painlevé coordinates, the path that light takes is bent as it passes through a current of flowing space. Either interpretation leads to the same prediction for things like the gravitational deflection of light around stars, black holes, or other massive objects.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The black hole at the heart of galaxy M87 is the first one ever photographed. NASA scientists captured this image of the black hole in 2017. The M87 black hole is surrounded by the glow of material falling in and getting superheated on the way.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Gas glows brightly in this computer simulation of supermassive black holes only 40 orbits from merging. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Relatively Easy Blog - Einstein’s Black Hole Error (and an Easy Fix) - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>A black hole warps spacetime in Einstein’s interpretation of relativity, which bends the path of light from a distant star. Image credit: NASA</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Both the pattern that water forms when a stream hits the basin of your kitchen sink and the structure of basic black holes are simple in Gullstrand-Painlevé coordinates.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>For a black hole in the flowing space relativity of Gullstrand-Painlevé coordinates, finding the event horizon is easy — it’s where the speed of flowing space equals c.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Note: I forgot to include the factor of 2 in a previous version of this post.</image:caption>
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