In physics, gravity, also known as gravitation or a gravitational interaction, is a fundamental interaction, which may be described as the force that draws material objects towards each other.
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Black hole
A black hole is an astronomical body so compact that its gravity prevents anything, including light, from escaping. Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes gravitation as the curvature of spacetime, predicts that any sufficiently compact mass will form a black hole. The boundary of no escape is called the event horizon. In general relativity, crossing a black hole's event horizon traps an object inside but produces no locally detectable change. General relativity also predicts that every black hole should have a central singularity, where the curvature of spacetime is infinite.
Dark matter
In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is an invisible and hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with light or other electromagnetic radiation. Dark matter is implied by gravitational effects that cannot be explained by general relativity unless more matter is present than can be observed. Such effects occur in the context of formation and evolution of galaxies, gravitational lensing, the observable universe's current structure, mass position in galactic collisions, the motion of galaxies within galaxy clusters, and cosmic microwave background anisotropies. Dark matter is thought to serve as gravitational scaffolding for cosmic structures. After the Big Bang, dark matter clumped into blobs along narrow filaments with superclusters of galaxies forming a cosmic web at scales on which entire galaxies appear like tiny particles.
Entanglement Builds Space-Time. Now “Magic” Gives It Gravity. | Quanta Magazine
In holographic theories, physicists may have traced the pliability of space-time to its quantum roots: a measure of quantumness known as “magic.”
Compact object
In astronomy, the term compact object (or compact star) refers collectively to white dwarfs, neutron stars, and black holes. It could also include exotic stars if such hypothetical, dense bodies are confirmed to exist. All compact objects have a high mass relative to their radius, giving them a very high density compared to ordinary atomic matter. The term is used as a generalization for cases where the exact nature of a significant gravitational effect isolated to a small radius is not known.
gRPC | Google Open Source
gRPC is a modern RPC framework that can run in any environment. It can efficiently connect services in and across data centers with pluggable support for load balancing, tracing, health checking and authentication. It is also applicable in last mile of distributed computing to connect devices, mobile applications and browsers to backend services.
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In the language of modern physics, gauge theories are the grammar of interaction. They tell us that the laws of nature are not merely equations describing fields and particles, but the manifestation of a deep principle: certain transformations can be performed everywhere in space and time without changing the physical content of the theory. The mathematical name for this principle is local symmetry, and it lies at the heart of our most successful physical frameworks—from electromagnetism to the Standard Model of particle physics. Gauge invariance tells us what must remain unchanged when we shift our mathematical descriptions, and in doing so, it dictates what kinds of interactions and fields must exist.
Defying Gravity - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Galaxy
A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. Galaxies, averaging an estimated 100 million stars, range in size from dwarfs with less than a thousand stars, to the largest galaxies known – supergiants with one hundred trillion stars, each orbiting its galaxy's centre of mass. Most of the mass in a typical galaxy is in the form of dark matter, with only a few percent of that mass visible in the form of stars and nebulae. Supermassive black holes are a common feature at the centres of galaxies.
An anatomy of interaction: co-occurrences and entanglements
The paper by Basman et al. suggests that we think about programming in terms of interaction rather than algorithms. This call needs to be interpreted in a broad sense – the idea of interaction is not just another programming abstraction, but different ...
A hierarchy of voids: Much ado about nothing
We present a model for the distribution of void sizes and its evolution in the context of hierarchical scenarios of gravitational structure formation. We find that at any cosmic epoch the voids...
Beyond Applications: Interaction Substrates and Instruments
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The era of precision cosmology with voids
Cosmic voids, the large underdense regions of our Universe, have emerged over the past decade as powerful cosmological laboratories: their simple dynamics, sensitivity to local gravitational...
10 Examples of Affordances - The Boffins Portal
Affordance is a concept in design that refers to the possible actions or uses that an object or environment offers a user. It is the relationship between an object and the person using it and what the person perceives they can do with the object based on its physical characteristics. In other words, affordance is ... Read more
