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Thomas Rintoul
United Kingdom
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 3 พ.ค. 2020
Hi! I'm Thomas and I'm an Astrophysics PhD student at the Cardiff University in Wales.
This is my channel where I make videos about Physics, Astronomy and Academia.
I started this channel when I was studying for my Astrophysics degree at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. I graduated in 2023.
I'm a massive nerd that spends far too much time playing video games, painting Warhammer 40K figures and watching Netflix. I'm also a keen musician and Scottish Country Dancer in my spare time.
This is my channel where I make videos about Physics, Astronomy and Academia.
I started this channel when I was studying for my Astrophysics degree at the University of St Andrews in Scotland. I graduated in 2023.
I'm a massive nerd that spends far too much time playing video games, painting Warhammer 40K figures and watching Netflix. I'm also a keen musician and Scottish Country Dancer in my spare time.
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Setbacks, conferences and a lot of reading - Astrophysics PhD Year 1
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Setbacks, conferences and a lot of reading - Astrophysics PhD Year 1
a simple guide to making figures that don't suck
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a simple guide to making figures that don't suck
Which UK party does best on Education and Science?
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Which UK party does best on Education and Science?
The apps I NEED for my Astrophysics PhD
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The apps I NEED for my Astrophysics PhD
5 ways I use code as an astrophysicist
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5 ways I use code as an astrophysicist
The BEST way to keep track of papers! - Academic Skills
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The BEST way to keep track of papers! - Academic Skills
What have I been reading? - April 2024
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What have I been reading? - April 2024
My First Astrophysics Conference - BUGS 2024 in Vienna - PhD Vlog 9
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My First Astrophysics Conference - BUGS 2024 in Vienna - PhD Vlog 9
Designing my first conference poster! - PhD Vlog 8
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Designing my first conference poster! - PhD Vlog 8
The BEST WAY to find academic papers! | Academic Skills
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The BEST WAY to find academic papers! | Academic Skills
Back in the office... where were we?! - PhD Vlog 7
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Back in the office... where were we?! - PhD Vlog 7
We are (probably) not alone (in the universe)!
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We are (probably) not alone (in the universe)!
Wrapping up my first PhD semester - PhD Vlog 6
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Wrapping up my first PhD semester - PhD Vlog 6
This training event was interesting... - PhD Vlog 5
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This training event was interesting... - PhD Vlog 5
What I'm doing in 2024 on YouTube and other platforms
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What I'm doing in 2024 on TH-cam and other platforms
I want to throw my laptop out a window! - PhD Vlog 4
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I want to throw my laptop out a window! - PhD Vlog 4
Voyager: Our Vanguard to the Cosmos - Legendary Missions
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Voyager: Our Vanguard to the Cosmos - Legendary Missions
How did we solve astronomy's biggest problem?
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How did we solve astronomy's biggest problem?
What's the accomodation fees like? What language do the uni Converse with?
Every red cent spent on the American led military industrial political complex is a reason to increase spending on astronomy and science in general, also public health, infrastructure, education, industry and job creation, public housing, and the list goes on, just stop squandering money and lives on the goddamn war machine.
I'm surprise they don't collapse overlapping requests together, satisfying two or more groups of astronomers into one.
Truth be told, very few will actually overlap. There are so many objects and so many possible observation parameters that the odds of an exact overlap are near impossible. Even if you want the same object. You might want different instruments, or different filters on those instruments. Or maybe one group needs 30 mins at the best time, but another needs 2 hours all at a time of less perfect but consistent conditions (space weather is a thing as is contamination from e.g. planets, the moon, etc.)
@ThomasRintoul how much are the fees
@ThomasRintoul Do the offer scholarships
Black hole stars are pretty cool
I think its the third one
How fitting 😊 Merry christmas to you too and enjoy the holidays 🌌
chiburashka
props to you for talking about space w/o pretending you’re on a podcast or using an ai voice 😭
Ironically, At 50km altitude it has what is likely the most hospital environment outside of earth in the solar system. Put on an oxygen mask and dodge the odd cloud of sulfuric acid and it’s basically a mild sauna.
That being said. If the astronomers don’t play Uncharted Worlds, by Sam Hulick in the background while analyzing the JWST data then they’re doing it wrong
I’m maybe being a little too anthropocentric but given how common they are. If red dwarfs were good candidates for advanced biospheres we should probably have found ourselves around one. And even orange dwarfs are both more hospitable and more common & long lived than yellow dwarfs like Sol. But we don’t find ourselves orbiting one of those either. My guess is planets analogous to earth around orange dwarfs would get snowballed by the first carbon sequestering life much like earth did. But would remain that way indefinitely since the orange dwarfs wouldn’t have the increasing luminosity needed to pull them out of the ice age. Red dwarf planets likely have the same problem if they don’t just get completely sterilized by ionizing radiation, in addition to the instability of red dwarfs, the tidal locking of the planets would cause them to have little to no magnetosphere.
Many happy returns Tom. Have a good Christmas and New Year.
From muse
Nnoooo I was gonna say that
Love your accent! I could listen to you endlessly.
I never actually thought about a black holes birth.
What if the fluctuations were just so acute during the Big Bang that they formed supermassive primordial black holes instantly.
your underrated bro, new sub, you’ll do well :) oh..I’m already a sub :)
How do you do, fellow St Andrews PandA graduate?
But the earth is flat, and space doesn't exist! -Flerfers
Don't forget the firmament! Made of goodness knows what and no one has ever shown us evidence of it but hey, what's that they say about not letting the truth get in the way of a good story?
What's the margin of error for the interpretation of the image itself being incorrect?
Dr Becky already said at lest two of them Aren’t viable.
The lmc is the closest galaxy to us, we are eating it as I type no Star or planet in it is far enough to be seen at the beginning of the universe, to see that far back you have to look another 13.5 billion light years farther away than the large magellanic cloud for that🎉 well done
I was speaking about the SMC. And being an analogue given it's low quantity of heavy elements. As I made clear
@ThomasRintoul fair enough but for the SMC to be an analogue it would need to be inhabited by purely first generation stars, it would then be a surprise to find planets. As it has 3rd and up to 6th generation stars it having planets is hardly surprising. Most of the heavy elements were stripped by it's travel through the milky way the last time through but the fact that some planets survived the interaction is expected and most planets would survive, only a few would be slung out. But as there are no first generation stars in the SMC, it's not surprising and expected
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Black holes are based on a mathematical misconception. Einstein wrote in 1939 - "The essential result of this investigation is a clear understanding as to why the Schwarzchild singularities (he was the first to raise the issue of General Relativity predicting singularities) do not exist in physical reality. Although the theory given here treats only clusters (star); whose particles move along circular paths it does seem to be subject to reasonable doubt that more general cases will have analogous results. The Schwarzchild singularities do not appear for the reason that matter cannot be concentrated arbitrarily. And this is due to the fact that otherwise the constituting particles would reach the velocity of light." He was referring to dilation. It's the phenomenon our high school teachers were talking about when they said "mass becomes infinite at the speed of light". This does not mean mass increases, it means mass becomes spread throughout spacetime relative to an outside observer. Time dilation is just one aspect of dilation. Even mass that exists at 75% light speed is partially dilated. It occurs wherever there is an astronomical quantity of mass, this includes the centers of high mass stars and the majority of galaxy centers. Dilation is occurring in our own galactic center. This means that there is no valid XYZ coordinate we can attribute to it, you can't point your finger at something that is smeared through spacetime. In other words that mass is all around us. It's the "missing mass" needed to explain galaxy rotation curves. It doesn't occur in galaxies with low mass centers because they do not have enough mass to achieve relativistic velocities. It has recently been confirmed in 6 ultra diffuse galaxies including NGC 1052-DF2 and DF4 to have normal rotation rates, in other words they have no dark matter/dilated mass.
challenge our understanding, or REFINE it?
I thought ALL of the other galaxies were flying AWAY from us, WTH????
It depends on the galaxies. If you mean because of the universe expanding, then that's more true the further away you look. Andromeda is easily close enough for gravity to overcome the little bit of expansion that would be pushing it away.
Hysteric drama producing is when you start telling about something what happens millions years in the future.
Already started to collide at the outer edges
That’s amaaazinngg fuckk I love space
It’s already starting 👍
We are seeing NGC 628 as it looked when they could have observed the extinction of the dinosaurs (roughly)
Almost looks like a Tiger coat.
32 million light years away, just right around the corner.
what forms those nebula?
this has got me stressing out, how am I going to cope
Well 32 million light years mean this is the image of the galaxy 32 million years ago That's even older than apes
Well not "right now" but still pretty amazing
Excellent video. Keep it up.
Is it a new galaxy or does it have any stable systems?
Nobody's going to notice any of that cuz we'll all be dead by the time that happens
My thoughts exactly 💯
Speak for youself. I got that immortal swag
Bro there is pther sentient being when it happens so someone or sonething will notice it surely.
I’m gonna try my best not to be. So we’ll see. Though by that time if some approximation of humanity still exists we’ll probably have build Dyson spheres around every star in both galaxies and will be able to greatly affect the outcome of such a collision so it likely won’t match the natural models
listen, at the end of the day i hate when women’s contributions are overshadowed or outright omitted by men, so the few times the scientific community sacks up to give someone the flowers they deserve, it warms my heart.
On the other hand the high energy radiation could accelerate biological evolution, we may never know.
I wouldn't say it's "debated", there's a pretty strong consensus among actual astronomers that leaving her out was a dick move when it was her data and idea that won the prize
While I agree that a lot of people, myself included, think it was collosal a dick move, there are those, including JBB herself, who have said that the Nobel committee should only award the prize to PhD/Grad students in exceptional circumstances. JBB said she didn't think she was one of them. I personally disagree, but it's still discussed/debated
She didn't discover pulsars there was a whole team of people who collected the data she was analyzing when she found the repetitive signal from the pulsar. That's why the head of the team won the prize.
She was the one who identified the signal - her discovery. The Nobel awarded for the Cosmic Microwave Background detection went to the astronomers who found it by accident. Regardless of experience, Jocelyn Bell Burnell identified the signal and discovered the first pulsar. It wasn't Antony Hewish reading through metres of radio telescope readouts
Just call it the Goldilocks zone. It makes people smile.
It would be the "Baby Bear" Zone, if Sceince were not so Human-Centric.
@rdelrosso1973 When ursine, bovine and lupine come up with a paper then I'll change my use of the etymology. Untill then what Goldilocks stole will be the standard 😆
Not questions I’m sorry… nearly impossible. We’re extremely unique…. God created us for this time . For this world… there’s hope in Christ
hes not suggesting theres like, other humans or intelligent life on it, itll most likely be microorganisms or plants if its a lucky find
lol
AHAhahahaha!! That's a great fairy story, but if it were real in ANY way, there would be EVIDENCE that this God exists. You know, this God who claims to want to have a relationship with us? And when I say "evidence," I'm talking about independently verifiable, measurable, repeatable, falsifiable evidence. The same way that if someone said "I have evidence for Bigfoot," or "... evidence for Santa Claus being real!" in either such case, we would ALSO expect them to have the same kind of evidence as listed above. it's no different if someone said that they have evidence that Odin is really the Allfather of the Gods and that he really exists - We'd expect the same kind of evidence from them! Lastly, if we were unique, we'd be made from unique materials. We're not. We're made from the most common elements in the freakin' universe!!! We are as common as muck!! If we're supposed to be unique and have dominion over all the animals, then why did "God" make us out of meat? Why are we made from food? If God were real and if we were created by a God, shouldn't we have been made from unique matter that's at least exceedingly rare in the universe, if not, unique and shouldn't we be made from NON-edible matter, that ISN'T a source of food to animals and insects, etc? Honestly, mate, it doesn't sound like we're unique at all. It sounds like this whole "unique" nonsense was made up by a bunch of ignorant, primitive savages, who had no knowledge of physics and/ or chemistry, so they couldn't understand reality. You can play pretend, if you like, but be aware: Even if the Bible is true, the New Testament is 100% NOT true. Jesus is the False Prophet that the Old Testament prophesies and he tries to steal people's faith by making False Promises, telling people that they'll get everything they've ever wanted. But not until AFTER they die! All of Jesus' promises are bullshit, according to the Old Testament. Read it to find out for yourself! The afterlife is all bullshit, heaven is bullshit, hell is bullshit... But you'd rather believe the sweet, sweet lies, than accept what's written in black-and-white, in the bible, wouldn't you? Keep holding on to those false promises, mate! I'm sure they'll benefit you somehow, even if it is only to give you a false sense of security...
The planets of Trappist-1 are tidally locked. The temperature between side would be huge.
But what about the rims where the light and dark meet? You could live on that strip
@ Venus has strong winds that keep both sides super hot. You still need to deal with the radiation.
Depending on atmosphere and oceans heat could be distributed efficiently between both sides. Red dwarfs being flare stars is the bigger problem.
But the REAL question is, how's their beer?
Won't it hit the dome over the flat earth first...oh no it may pop the dome....lol
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