Fastest Black Hole It's exciting to read some news like this. What else would be discovered in our Galaxy? Researchers have spotted the fastest-growing black hole ever found; it devours a mass equivalent to Earth's sun every two days. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA "This black hole is growing so rapidly that it's shining thousands of times more brightly than an entire galaxy, due to all the gases it sucks in daily that cause lots of friction and heat," Christian Wolf, an astronomer at the Australian National University and first author on the new research, said in the statement. "If we had this monster sitting at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, it would appear 10 times brighter than a full moon. It would appear as an incredibly bright, pinpoint star that would almost wash out all of the stars in the sky," he added. "Luckily, though, the black hole is far enough away that it likely released its light more than 12 billion years ago.", the researchers said.
Quantum Fiction Genre. It started in 20th century but it's catching on in this 21th century. I didn't know this style/genre even exists but I found it interesting, specially, but not only, for science fiction. Here's what I found. Writers / Works that are considered to fit in this Quantum Realism genre: Vanna Bonta: Flight, A Quantum Fiction Novel Jorge Luis Borges: Death and The Compass (La Muerte y La Brújula) The South (El Sur) The Circular Ruins (Las Ruinas Circulares) Aleph (El Aleph) and many more, like the famous one about this Library that never ends or something. Haruki Murakami: Kafka on the shore Pinball ( this sequel is Quantum Fiction and the first book isn't?, odd, but Hey, what do I know?) Dance, Dance, Dance Sputnik Sweetheart and some more. Wilson Harris : The Carnival Trilogy and some others. What wikipedia say about it: This genre is characterized by any or all of the following characteristics: 1) The author use quantum mechanics to make possible supernatural, paranormal, or fantastic elements of a story in which reality appears to defy the laws of mechanical physics. 2) A character as a consciously influencing observer of reality. 3) The scientific recognition of an unquantified animating force of matter measured by observer effect (physics), posited as consciousness or spirit. 4) A theme, character, or events of a story existing per an element explainable as reality according to quantum theory. 5) Adventures involving synchronicity, multiple dimension reality, interactive metaverses, parallel worlds or life as a multiverse. 6) Consciousness (a character or a reader) as an interactive influence in the creation and perception of reality and plot line. 7) Reality behaving unpredictably as persubatomic particles. 8) Unlike science fiction which is largely defined by content, the subject matter of a quantum fiction can be anything. 9) Deals in possibility and probability. 10) Author perceives and creates characters who experience reality with a surreal or nonlinear view of things that does not correspond with the way the physical senses generally experience life and the world, and that behaves in ways posited by quantum theory. Author Charles Platt describes quantum fiction as "a blueprint for avoiding literary obsolescence." Platt writes: "I do believe that "Quantum Fiction" would circumvent some problems associated with traditional science fiction. I believe that there's some other writers that could fit in this genre if they weren't science fictions writers per se, as: Jacek Dukaj: The Old Axolotl Marek S. Huberath Nest of Worlds And, somehow, Stanislaw Lem's Solaris.
I've just finished reading the Clifford D. Simak's Story, "Junkyard", (May of 1953, Galaxy Magazine), that inspired Dan O'Bannon to write "Starbeast" screenplay, renamed later as "Alien". At first, I thought it was some error of my epub reader, but then I realized the harsh true: the story had ended. I didn't want the story to end when there were still so much plot ahead. Did all eight of them manage to leave the planet? Did they take the egg back to earth? "Junkyard" has so much potential to be, at least, a novellete. Curious thing is, I don't like when a story ends leaving me word-hungry but it doesn't bother me to write some stories that ended the same way. I'll think twice from now on. I won't write stories without, at least, suggesting what's going to happen next in the main plot or leave some clues. After all, the dessert is the sweetest dish.
An Experimental Writing Idea Since I read yesterday the Experimental post, I've thinking about it. I've never read experimental writing before but I think the idea of changing the western way of writing/reading could be interesting. It came to my mind where I was so hooked by the book I was reading that I had to stop and think: "Is there a way to read this faster?". I needed to optimize the reading and needed the odd lines to be writen in the "japanese way" so my eyes didn't have to go all the way to the start of the line but resume the reading just below the last word. As an example: "I needed to optimize the reading be to lines odd the needed and writen in the "japanese way" so all go to have didn't eyes my the way to the start of the just reading the resume but line below the last word." Quite confusing at first, I noticed, but it worked after some practice. When you refrain the urge of your eyes to go mechanically to the start of the line, you can read faster. Suppose this could be considered Experimental writing.
Will we someday understand? This is just a thought to test the blog. I read "Are you kidding, Mr. Feynman?" many years ago. I remember the part where the Nobel awarded Richard Feynman explains how disapointed his father was after discovering that all his efforts to make him a scientist were pointless. His son still didn't know the answers to the questions he had mustered his entire life. His son was a physicist that didn't know what an electron was. It quite frustating indeed. Are the human being cursed to know only how to USE the Universe instead of actually UNDERSTAND it?. Maybe understanding is an overkill for evolution. We know how to use electricity but it seems we'll never be able to know what it is. Einstein made a theorical model to describe gravity but we'll never know for sure if the space-time actually curves itself in the presence of mass. All we have is a mathematical model saying that space-time could be thought as being that way. A photon has no mass, but its life is the most bewildered one. From its POV, it is everywhere all the time, if somewhere at all. We have to wait for a solar photon about eight minutes until we see it, but if we ask him how it liked the trip from Sun to Earth it would answer to us: "What trip are you talking about?". From its POV, it didn't even move, either time doesn't exists for it or it experiences all the things at the same time. How can a photon like that interact with other things in the first place? But it does. There are things in this universe that doesn't experience the same space-time reality but still interacts with it. Anyone are very welcome to leave a comment or correct any conceptual/grammatical error I could have commit.
