Archive for the ‘cosmology’ category: Page 373
Jan 25, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Best Damn Podcast — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, business, cosmology, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, health, life extension
Jan 22, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — The Richard Syrett Show — Ira Pastor — Bioregeneration
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, bitcoin, cosmology, cryonics, disruptive technology, DNA, futurism, health
Jan 21, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — The Edge News Television — Ira Pastor
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, alien life, bioengineering, biotech/medical, cosmology, DNA, futurism, genetics, geopolitics, life extension
Jan 10, 2018
A New Hypothesis Suggests That Parallel Universes Might Interact after All
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: cosmology, quantum physics
Jan 9, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — Ira Pastor — X-Zone Radio Show
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, cosmology, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, life extension, transhumanism
Jan 8, 2018
Bioquark Inc. — At The End of the Day Show
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: aging, bioengineering, biotech/medical, business, cosmology, cryonics, DNA, futurism, genetics, transhumanism
Jan 7, 2018
Computational astrophysics team uncloaks magnetic fields of cosmic events
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, cosmology, physics
The development of ultra-intense lasers delivering the same power as the entire U.S. power grid has enabled the study of cosmic phenomena such as supernovae and black holes in earthbound laboratories. Now, a new method developed by computational astrophysicists at the University of Chicago allows scientists to analyze a key characteristic of these events: their powerful and complex magnetic fields.
In the field of high-energy density physics, or HEDP, scientists study a wide range of astrophysical objects—stars, supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies and galaxy clusters—with laboratory experiments as small as a penny and lasting only a few billionths of a second. By focusing powerful lasers on a carefully designed target, researchers can produce plasmas that reproduce conditions observed by astronomers in our sun and distant galaxies.
Planning these complex and expensive experiments requires large-scale, high-fidelity computer simulation beforehand. Since 2012, the Flash Center for Computational Science of the Department of Astronomy & Astrophysics at UChicago has provided the leading open computer code, called FLASH, for these HEDP simulations, enabling researchers to fine-tune experiments and develop analysis methods before execution at sites such as the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory or the OMEGA Laser Facility in Rochester, N.Y.
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