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☆ Here's the science refresher you need before diving into Netflix's '3 Body Problem'
  + stars: | 2024-03-23 | by ( Jenny Mcgrath | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +9 min
AdvertisementThe three-body problem is unsolvable and chaoticSome of the show's action takes place in a virtual world that's orbited by three suns. "This is a centuries-old problem," Shane Ross, an aerospace and ocean engineering professor at Virginia Tech, told Business Insider. Alpha Centauri is the closest star system to EarthThe three-body system in the story is based on a real neighboring star system called Alpha Centauri. At about 4 light-years from Earth, it's the closest star system to our own and contains three stars: Alpha Centauri A, Alpha Centauri B, and Proxima Centauri, which has two planets orbiting around it. A view of the bright triple-star system Alpha Centauri.
Persons: —, Liu Cixin, Shane Ross, Isaac Newton, Ross, Georgios Kollidas, Alpha Centauri, Franck Marchis, Davide De Martin, they're, Marchis, Ye Wenjie, Enrico Fermi, Benedict Wong, Jerry Ehman, Sir William Hamilton, William of Ockham, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Maximilien Brice, John Finney, It's Organizations: Service, Netflix, Oxford University, Business, Virginia Tech, Alpha, Alpha Centauri, Proxima, SETI Institute, ESO, Columbia University, USA, Keystone, Getty, Ohio State University, Extraterrestrial Intelligence, SETI, American AstroPhysical, CERN Locations: Ohio, China, North America
☆ Walter Mosley Thinks America Is Getting Dumber
  + stars: | 2023-02-06 | by ( David Marchese | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +17 min
Mamadi Doumbouya for The New York Times Talk Walter Mosley Thinks America Is Getting DumberWalter Mosley is best known as one of contemporary literature’s pre-eminent crime novelists, but he’s actually four or five different writers rolled into one. You have to tell stories about real people experiencing it and not real people with a Ph.D. People who are not stupid but ignorant, who don’t know things about the world. There are people who don’t know how to spell, they don’t know how to think. You have these people coming out into the world, and they don’t know what to do. That’s going to happen.
☆ Archaeologists have discovered full-color portraits of Egyptian mummies in ancient Philadelphia
  + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Bethany Dawson | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +3 min
Archaeologists have uncovered the first full-color portraits of mummies in over a century. Researchers found the two full portraits of Egyptian mummies and fragments of others at the Gerza excavation site in Fayoum, Egypt, making these artworks the first of their kind to be discovered in over 115 years. English archaeologist Flinders Petrie was the last to find similar artwork when he discovered 146 mummy portraits at a Roman cemetery in 1911, Artnet News reports. The collection of paintings, known as the Fayoum portraits, portrays some of the wealthiest people that existed in these ancient communities. A statement from the Egyptian government explains that pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309–246 B.C.)
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