Black Holes and Women in Planet A

Black holes are regions of spacewhere gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from them. But how can they contribute to a better World, if their major power lies in sucking in all they find flying closeby and so that even light cannot escape?

Long years have been spent by Roger, Reinhard and Andrea to find answers to such exotic questions.

For us ordinary people without much effort spent for such clarifications this topic became popular as headlines hit us recently when three scientists have been awarded the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics for work to understand black holes.

Sir Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez were announced as this year's winners at a news conference in Stockholm. The winners will share the prize money of 10 million krona (£864,200).

Source: NASA visualization

Penrose receives half of this year's prize, with the other half being shared by Genzel and Ghez. Prof Ghez is only the fourth woman, after Marie Curie (1903), Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1963) and Donna Strickland (2018) to win the physics prize, out of more than 200 laureates since 1901.

Yes, but why shall we care?

Many people mistakenly believe that the ability to learn is a matter of intelligence. For them, learning is an immutable trait like skin or eye color, simply luck of the genetic draw. People are born learners, or they’re not, the thinking goes. So why bother getting better at it?

And that’s why many people tend to approach the topic of learning without much focus. They don’t think much about how they will develop an area of mastery. They use phrases like “practice makes perfect.” Yet art and literature lovers emphasize that learning should and can be fun.

If learning can be connected to have fun, then learners will be made, not born. The mathematics of black holes was surely incredibly complex. Many researchers even believed they were nothing more than mathematical artefacts, existing only on paper. It took researchers decades to realise they could persist in the real world.

Book Many Many Beginnings writes in June 6th, 2020:

WE NEVER STOP LEARNING

“Like waves, feeling sad is a normal reaction to the ups and downs of life that we all experience.

As often heartbreaking life can be, we all secretly know, that exactly there lies its beauty.

The dice are already thrown; everything has an end, not only our lives but also our planet, our sun and even the whole galaxy, one day in very far future. That future, far for some, and not so far for others, depends on the way we look at things. Do you think this is a depressing perspective?

May be not! Let's try to approach the subject differently together!

For long time scientists, even Albert Einstein doubted the existence of black holes…the ‘accelerators’ of momentum for gravity, the master entertainers in our cosmos, without which there would be no light-show, to put it playfully. This changed when evidence came by the new generation after Einstein, which – thanks to the progress in technology- could observe and thus prove their existence, even the one in our own galaxy.

Mr. Brian Greene shares during each years’ Science Festival nice images of two such black holes linked to each other creating a new form, the so-called wormhole, as the point of interest to analyze if time travel is possible.

When two black holes unite, the process of connection ends when a newly completed form, a wormhole becomes finally visible. In some sense it looks like a kiss of these two black holes. A wormhole? Ahh, what a name for such a beautiful kiss!

Like when we kiss, wormholes offer us the best short-cut for a journey into the complex universe. Time travel is a short-cut because some it can connect distant corners of the universe, even different universes, theoretically so that a traveler does not have to go all the way to get to its destination physically. Foolish head weary feet?

Putting down our feet on the ground, coming back to Earth from space, we see those wormholes right here every day. They become visible each day on the streets, frankly everywhere. Love. We look around and all we see is love.

Yet, it only occurs in a sustained way when two people can deeply connect. They open their way to the destination and listen through the channel, with an ever-changing effect where thoughts and emotions and everything travel faster than the speed of light, shaping everything else outside. If Helen Keller lived, she would repeat her lines: “Alone we can do so little. Together we can do so much.”

However, there is something still inherently dangerous here. Yes, once again! Sorry. This time it is even worse in terms of risk of harm compared to those triggered by ‘not so innocent fairy tales.’ And even though the sages who lived before warned us against this danger, it seems many societies have today forgotten about it. Our enemy is winning and we are losing as we are forgetting. So, let us analyze them once more here and repeat them to internalize.”

Dikkat, tehlike! Bu bir kara delik değildir.

(Be Careful! This is not a black hole.)

CEM TANRIÖVER, 2020

621,9 km away from Heinaut, Belgium; Derbyshire Reservoir, England

Jim Shelton from YaleNews writes few days ago that Yale University has launched an initiative that will unite institutional leadership and academic experts across the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, professional schools, and the humanities in so called The Planetary Solutions Project.

Yale’s Planetary Solutions Project that will identify and advance solutions for an array of the most pressing environmental problems caused by human activities — especially climate change and biodiversity loss — through enhanced resources, expanded collaborations, and boundary-pushing problem-solving.

Specific challenges before Yale’s research community include society’s need to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, develop cleaner energy sources, collect and analyze data, devise and implement public policy that promotes a sustainable future, and protect public health — particularly for communities and populations now being disproportionately harmed.

This good news goes in parallel to the framework Women Leaders for Planetary Health Initiative founded by Dr. Nicole De Paula, globally connecting policymakers and researchers to create a public understanding on key issues related to sustainability and public health – whos Team have been a host in our webinar “Global Network – Authors and Activists” just a fews ago.

De Paula and her Team are celebrating the the 1st Annual Summit of the Women Leaders for Planetary Health and please join if you have the time online taking place this Friday, 11 December.

Source: Mohamed MANSARAY, Sierra LEONE, Team ARTBOX

Against the tech divide and social isolation forced by the pandemic and other ill structures such as growing inequlities, these opportunities for unification of experts and expertise mean, (quote Many Many Beginnings)

“… a far-reaching transformation of our prevailing mentality of domination into one of complementarity, in which we would see our role in the natural world as creative, supportive, and deeply appreciative of the needs of human-life but also nonhuman- life. Toward respect. Toward peace! From a world of hierarchy to peace, sterilized from illegitimate forces. May be, towards a world free from abuse, indoctrination, propaganda, domination.”

And these all remind us today once again that it is never enough to emphasize that learning should and can be fun!