[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] a blend of poetry and physics
Dick Miller
TheMillers at millermicro.com
Tue Aug 16 11:10:14 PDT 2022
To A.R.Mill*_n_*er from A.R.Miller (Coincidence, you say?? I think not! :-):
First thoughts, from one who used to phys...
1. I LIKE it! Thanks! (It will want publishing!)
2. I'd like it even more, with full commas and periods - to remove the
distraction of thinking about where they belong.
3. Hubble AND Webb. You might use NASA's early Webb photo as an
illustration:
NEW: Webb Space Telescope glimpses most distant star known to exist.
<https://www.accuweather.com/en/space-news/webb-space-telescope-glimpses-most-distant-star-lord-of-the-rings-character/1227353>
(Accuweather, August 3, 2022)
Named after a "Lord of the Rings" character, the star is 12.9 billion
light-years away from Earth and was first discovered using the Hubble's
gravitational lensing ability. Earendel, also known as WHL0137-LS, is in
the constellation Cetus. It is not visible to the naked eye. The
astronomers said this "offers new hope of directly observing individual
stars at cosmological distances."
[See NASA article on April 6, 2022, below.]
<https://www.axios.com/2022/08/03/july-heat-records-us>
*NEW:* Earendel: A Star in the Early Universe
<https://science.nasa.gov/earendel-star-early-universe> (NASA, April 6,
2022)
Is Earendel the farthest star yet discovered? This scientific
possibility started when the Hubble Space Telescope observed a huge
cluster of galaxies. The gravitational lens effect of this cluster was
seen to magnify and distort a galaxy far in the background. This
distorted background galaxy -- so far away it has a redshift of 6.2 --
appears in the featured image as a long red string, while beads on that
string are likely to be star clusters. The galaxy cluster lens creates a
line of maximum magnification where superposed background objects may
appear magnified many thousands of times. On the intersection between
the galaxy line and the maximum magnification line is one "bead" which
shows evidence of originating from a single bright star in the early
universe -- now named Earendel.
[Also see Webb Space Telescope article on August 3, 2022, above.]
Those are from the New Posts section of /Money Is Not Wealth/
<https://millermicro.com/money.html>.
4. IS that star gone now? Likely so, but we'll have to wait a
while-and-a-half to prove it.
5. "From NEAR the Beginning" - but here, your poetic license works well.
6. Lorenz-Fitzgerald Contraction -enjoy these earlier comments
<https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/5128/what-is-lorentz-contraction#5129>
(I like the first answer), and consider having THEM vet the draft poem.
7. Gratuitous addition, recalled from long, long ago:
/There was a young fellow named Fiske,//
//Whose swordplay was exceedingly brisk.//
//So fast was his action,//
//Lorenz-Fitzgerald contraction//
//Turned his rapier into a disk!/
8. This re-draft incorporates my imagined punctuation:
From the Beginning
Alan Millner July 2022
Earendel,
That star from the dawn of the universe,
Now seen by the Hubble and Webb telescopes.
The farthest, oldest single star ever imaged,
28-billion light years away from here!
12.9-billion years its light traveled to us
While the star moved away as space expanded.
That photon crossed the universe
And landed on the telescope sensor array.
Splat! Like a bug on the windshield.
One of an early generation of suns,
That star is gone now.
Only its light remains
And its elements, scattered in the birth of other stars.
Even its light is visible only because
The galaxies between us bent the spaces
And focused its reddened arc here.
Now look at it from the photon’s point of view.
Relativity tells us
When something travels close to the speed of light
Its time slows down, it ages less.
And if it travels at the speed of light
(Which, of course, it does),
Time stops for it!
So, from the time that photon
Fled the star
To when it was seen by Hubble and Webb,
No time has passed for it.
In its reference frame,
The universe went flying past it
(All scrunched up along its length
By the Lorenz-Fitzgerald contraction)
To no distance at all.
One instant emitted by Earendel,
The next instant captured by Hubble and Webb.
Time passes quickly
When you’re having fun.
Splat!
Thinking photonically,
--Dick Miller, Partner, MMS <TheMillers at millermicro.com>
Co-Leader, FOSS User Group in Natick (NatickFOSS.org)
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On 8/16/22 09:45, Alan Millner wrote:
> On Jul 25, 2022, at 7:52 PM, Alan Millner <armillner48 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am pretty new to the group, often have conflicts on Wednesday mornings.
> Here is a blend of poetry and physics I wrote recently.
>
> <From the Beginning.docx>
> I would love to get some feedback, do you like it? Did I get the
> physics right?
> Thanks,
> Alan Millner
>
> From the Beginning
>
> Alan Millner July 2022
>
> Earendel,
>
> That star from the dawn of the universe
>
> Seen by the Hubble telescope
>
> The farthest, oldest single star ever imaged
>
> 28 billion light years away from here
>
> 12.9 billion years its light traveled to us
>
> While the star moved away as space expanded
>
> That photon crossed the universe
>
> And landed on the telescope sensor array
>
> Splat like a bug on the windshield.
>
> One of an early generation of suns
>
> That star is gone now
>
> Only its light remains
>
> And its elements scattered in the birth of other stars
>
> Even its light visible only because
>
> The galaxies between us bent the spaces
>
> And focused its reddened arc here.
>
> Now look at it from the photon’s point of view
>
> Relativity tells us
>
> When something travels close to the speed of light
>
> Its time slows down, it ages less
>
> And if it travels at the speed of light
>
> Which, of course, it does
>
> Time stops for it.
>
> So from the time that photon
>
> Fled the star
>
> To when it was seen by Hubble
>
> No time has passed for it,
>
> In its reference frame
>
> The universe went flying past it
>
> All scrunched up along its length
>
> By the Lorenz-Fitzgerald contraction
>
> To no distance at all
>
> One instant emitted by Earendel
>
> The next instant captured by Hubble
>
> Time passes quickly
>
> When you’re having fun
>
> Splat.
>
> Alan Millner
> amillner at alum.mit.edu
> 781-862-7893
> 48 North St., Lexington MA 02420
>
>
>
> On Jul 25, 2022, at 7:52 PM, Alan Millner <armillner48 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am pretty new to the group, often have conflicts on Wednesday mornings.
> Here is a blend of poetry and physics I wrote recently.
>
> <From the Beginning.docx>
> I would love to get some feedback, do you like it? Did I get the
> physics right?
> Thanks,
> Alan Millner
> amillner at alum.mit.edu
> 781-862-7893
> 48 North St., Lexington MA 02420
>
>
>
>
>
>
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