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1: Black Hole Star - (Jeg har haft "Black Hole Sun" fra Soundgarden på hjernen siden jeg hørte om de her!)

2: Observationer from JWST

3: Danskere er dybt involveret!

4: Debatten

5: Mysteriet om Betelgeuse er løst!

In August 2026, astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) published data confirming a brand-new, highly controversial class of astrophysical objects: "Black Hole Stars" (sometimes written as BH*). This discovery directly connects to the famous, unexplained "Little Red Dots" that JWST has been spotting everywhere in the deep, early universe.

https://news.mit.edu/2026/astronomers-discover-brand-new-type-astrophysical-object-black-hole-star-0812

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-strongest-evidence-yet-for-black-hole-stars/

1. The Core Discovery: What is a "Black Hole Star"?

The Object: Astronomers analyzed a specific Little Red Dot named GLIMPSE-17775 (and another named BH1ar). They discovered an object shining 100 billion times brighter than our sun, but it’s compressed into a region only the size of our solar system.

The Anatomy: It is not a normal star powered by nuclear fusion. Instead, it is a supermassive black hole trapped inside a colossal, hyper-dense cocoon of hydrogen gas. As the black hole aggressively swallows the gas from the inside, the friction heats the surrounding cocoon to extreme temperatures, making the whole structure glow violently like a single monster star.

Imagine a giant hollow planet made of glowing hot gas, but inside the living room at the center sits a ravenous monster eating the house from the inside out.

2. The Connection to the "Little Red Dots" (LRDs)

The Background: Ever since JWST turned on, it has been finding hundreds of tiny, intensely bright, blood-red points of light in the ultra-early universe (just 400 to 600 million years after the Big Bang).

The Paradox: These objects presented a massive headache for physicists. If they were normal galaxies, they would have to be the densest galaxies in the universe to pack that much light into such a tiny space. But if they were standard open black holes (quasars), they shouldn't look so red, and they shouldn't be completely invisible to X-ray telescopes.

The "Disguise" Solved: The Black Hole Star model elegantly explains this. The massive hydrogen cocoon acts as an "almost perfect disguise". It completely smothers and traps the high-energy X-rays, while scattering the light and shifting it into the deep infrared spectrum—turning a terrifying cosmic engine into a harmless-looking, tiny red dot on JWST’s sensors.

3. The Niels Bohr Institute & The Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) & DTU Space er involveret i dette!

The Hub: Located at the University of Copenhagen, the Cosmic Dawn Center (DAWN) is an international powerhouse specifically built to study the early universe using JWST data.

The Key Discovery: A team led by Professor Darach Watson at DAWN was instrumental in analyzing the highest-quality JWST spectra of these Little Red Dots. They were the ones who proved that the dots are indeed active, young supermassive black holes enshrouded in ionized, dense gas cocoons—accruing matter right at the structural limit.

The Global Archive: Even international teams—like the researchers who published the breakthrough on GLIMPSE-17775—rely directly on the Dawn JWST Archive (DJA). This is a massive, Danish-funded data repository operated in Copenhagen that standardizes and processes raw JWST data for astronomers worldwide.

DTU Space (Technical University of Denmark): The "Black Hole Star" Confirmation: Associate Professor Kasper Elm Heintz from DTU Space was a leading co-author on the landmark paper establishing the "Black Hole Star" classification for these specific cocoons. He famously noted that finding an object that behaves simultaneously like a single gargantuan star and a ravenous black hole is a brand-new milestone for modern astronomy.

4. The Big Debate: Breaking the Laws of Physics

There are currently two competing camps of scientists arguing over what these things mean:

Camp A (The "Rule Breakers"): This camp argues that Black Hole Stars prove that early black holes smashed right through the Eddington Limit. Because the dense cocoon traps the light particles (photons), the black hole can gorge itself on matter at "super-Eddington" speeds. This perfectly solves the "Impossible Early Black Hole" problem by explaining how they grew so big, so fast.

What is the Eddington limit?  It is the universal speed limit for how fast a black hole can eat. If a black hole eats too fast, the friction generates so much light and radiation that the outward pressure literally blows its food away.

Camp B (The "Optical Illusion" Camp): Other astronomers are skeptical. They found that the dense, churning gas cocoons mess with the light waves, blurring the data. This might be an optical illusion that tricks our math, making the black holes look 25 times more massive than they actually are. If Camp B is right, these black holes are actually completely normal-sized, and we don't need to rewrite the laws of physics.

QnA (AI Gemini generated)

Wait, if the black hole is inside the star, why doesn't it just swallow the star immediately?

The Science: This is about angular momentum and radiation pressure. Matter cannot just fall straight into a black hole; it has to swirl around it like water going down a drain, forming an accretion disk. Furthermore, as that gas swirls and heats up, it creates an intense outward push of light and radiation. This outward radiation pressure acts like a structural pillar, holding up the outer gas cocoon and preventing it from instantly collapsing inward. (Eddington limit)

The short Answer: "It actually is swallowing the star, just very slowly! The gas is swirling around it like water in a cosmic drain. As it swirls, it gets so incredibly hot that the sheer pressure of the light pushes outward, holding up the star's shell and creating a temporary, violent balance."

If it's 100 billion times brighter than our sun, why does JWST see it as a 'Little Red Dot'? Shouldn't it be blindingly blue or white?

The Science: This is a mix of cosmological redshift and dust scattering. Because these objects are from the ultra-early universe (over 12 billion years ago), the literal expansion of space has stretched their light waves out into the infrared spectrum by the time they reach JWST. On top of that, the ultra-dense hydrogen envelope acts like a thick fog, scattering away the high-energy blue and X-ray light, letting only the longest, reddest wavelengths leak out.

The short Answer: "Think of a sunset through thick wildfire smoke. The sun is blindingly bright, but the smoke scatters the light and makes it look like a deep, eerie red. Multiply that by a billion, stretch the light across 12 billion years of expanding space, and that giant monster turns into a tiny red dot on our telescope."

Why does it matter if it's an optical illusion (Camp B) or a real Black Hole Star (Camp A)? A black hole is a black hole, right?

The Science: This hits the fundamental crisis of early universe cosmology. JWST keeps finding supermassive black holes that are way too big, way too early—violating our understanding of how fast cosmic structures grow. If Camp A is right, these cocoons let black holes "cheat" the universal feeding limit, redefining physics. If Camp B is right, our math is just being tricked by blurred light, and the standard model of cosmology stays safe.

The Short Answer: "It changes the whole history book of our universe. If they are real Black Hole Stars, it means the early universe had a secret mechanism that allowed black holes to grow at impossible, illegal speeds. If it's an illusion, our physics theories are safe, but it means nature is playing a brilliant trick on our best telescopes."

5. Mysteriet om Betelgeuse  er løst!

Earlier this year, an international team used data from the Hubble Space Telescope alongside a direct image from the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (VLT) to confirm that Betelgeuse is not a solitary star. It officially has a companion plowing right through its atmosphere.  It officially has a companion plowing right through its atmosphere.

https://www.eso.org/public/news/eso2611/

På Dansk: https://www.eso.org/public/denmark/news/eso2611/?lang

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/

Betelgeuse’s Hidden Companion: "Siwarha" (Betelgeuse B)

The Object: It is a hot, young blue-white star estimated to be 2 to 3 times more massive than our Sun.

Inside the Atmosphere: Betelgeuse is so incredibly puffed up that its outer atmosphere (chromosphere) spans past the orbit of Jupiter. This companion star orbits so closely—at just 2.3 stellar radii—that it is literally submerged inside Betelgeuse's extended outer atmosphere.

The Supersonic "Wake": As the companion orbits every 5.77 years, it plows through the supergiant's dense gas at supersonic speeds. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope managed to catch the "wake" it leaves behind—similar to a boat cutting a physical trail through water.

Solving the Dimming Mystery: For years, we followed Betelgeuse's strange flickering. It has a normal 400-day pulse, but also a mysterious, long 2,100-day cycle. Astronomers now confirm that this long cycle is caused entirely by this hidden star dragging a thick cloud of gas in front of Betelgeuse as it orbits, blocking its light.

The Arabic Meaning: The team officially proposed the name Siwarha for the companion. Since Betelgeuse translates from Arabic to "Hand of the Giant," Siwarha means "Her Bracelet"

Vi vender noget af alt det, der er sket siden vi sidst optog midt på sommeren.

1: Space X - Flight 14

2: Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

3: Månen har fået 2 nye kratere:

3.1: Space Debris  Impact Event Aug. 5th

3.2: Asteroide impact: McGetchin Crater 

4: Hvad hvis vi havde haft en månebase?

5: Pga. 2024 YR4 som IKKE rammer Jorden i 2032

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Topic 1: Starship Flight 14 – "It Finally Reached Orbit!" 

Yesterday, September 28, 2026, SpaceX launched Starship Flight 14 from Starbase, Texas, and achieved its biggest milestone in program history—Starship reached low Earth orbit for the very first time!

The Drama (An Engine Fails): It almost didn't make it. During ascent, one of Starship’s six upper-stage engines shut down prematurely. Mission control briefly panicked, but since everything else was performing perfectly, they pushed through and fired the remaining engines to slip into orbit.

The Payload (20x the Bandwidth): For the first time ever, Starship wasn't just a hollow test tank. It carried and successfully deployed an operational stack of 26 next-generation Starlink V3 satellites. SpaceX noted that deploying these huge new V3 satellites was equivalent to flying 20 Falcon 9 rockets at once in terms of bandwidth capacity.

The Fiery Finish: SpaceX originally planned a 10-hour, 6-orbit flight, but cut it short to 3 hours for safety. Upon re-entry over the Pacific Ocean north of Hawaii, Starship completed a landing burn but tipped over and exploded into a massive fireball on the water.

Space X  28.09.26 boiled down to 15min:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSQnhKKmC1s

Topic 2: The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope – "The Mother of Dark Matter"

Just 4 weeks ago, on August 30, 2026, a SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched NASA's next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. It is currently on a 3-month cruise to the Lagrange 2 (L2) point. Just days ago on September 25, NASA confirmed all global ground networks are officially locked in to receive its data.

The Hardware (The T-Rex Analogy): The telescope is roughly the size of a city tour bus and weighs as much as a Tyrannosaurus Rex (about 4.1 metric tons). It uses a 2.4-meter mirror (the same size as Hubble's).

The Superpower (100x Wider View): While it has the resolution of Hubble, its 300-megapixel wide-field infrared camera gives it a field of view 100 times larger than Hubble or JWST.

If Hubble is looking through a narrow straw to examine a single pixel of the sky, Roman is a massive widescreen IMAX theater looking at the entire wall at once. It will map the universe 1,000 times faster than Hubble.

The Mission: Because it can photograph hundreds of millions of galaxies in a fraction of the time, it is designed to track how dark matter clusters together and measure how dark energy is ripping the expansion of the universe apart. It will also down-link a crushing 1.4 terabytes of data every single day

This new Space Telescope has a  primary mirror gifted by the National Reconnaissance Office from an unused spy satellite program. 

Initial Steps: precise initial trajectory maneuvers have left the spacecraft with sufficient fuel reserves to potentially operate for over two decades rather than the originally budgeted ten years. 

Source: https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/09/the-roman-telescope-has-enough-gas-for-22-years-double-nasas-expectations/

Topic 3: To nye Månekrater 

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently captured the dramatic aftermath of two completely distinct impact events on the moon.

Link: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/moon/nasas-moon-orbiter-spots-new-once-in-century-moon-crater/

1. The Human-Made Impact: The SpaceX Falcon 9 Crash

The Event: On August 5, 2026, a spent 4-ton SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage rocket crashed into the moon near Einstein Crater at about 8700 km/h

Backstory: The rocket originally launched in January 2025 to deliver two commercial lunar landers (Firefly Aerospace's Blue Ghost-1 and iSpace's Hakuto-R). After completing its mission, it was left drifting in an unstable, highly elongated orbit until the combined gravitational pull of the Earth, Moon, and Sun pulled it in for an unavoidable crash. [1, 2]

The Crater: The crash left an unintentional 18-meter wide and 3m deep crater.

Scientific Value: The NASA LRO team had to precisely tilt the orbiter to photograph the spot, knowing that a timing error of just 10 seconds would miss the target by miles. Because scientists knew the exact mass and speed of the rocket, this accidental impact serves as a perfect controlled experiment to study how lunar soil reacts to high-velocity impacts. [Der er altid noget at lære, også selvom det måske ikke var med vilje]

2.  The McGetchin Crater

The Scale: The impact excavated a massive pit measuring 222 meters wide and 43 meters deep. This is the length of two football fields and deep enough to stack three city buses vertically.

The Impactor: The culprit was a rogue asteroid or comet fragment estimated to be the size of a 3-to-6-story building (roughly 10 to 20 meters across).

The Energy: It slammed into the eastern limb of the moon at a staggering speed. Scientists estimate it released energy equivalent to a 15-kiloton nuclear explosion—yet because the moon has no atmosphere to carry sound and nobody was looking at that exact spot, it happened in complete silence.

The Invisible Devastation: While the visible crater is 222 meters wide, NASA's LRO Diviner thermal instrument revealed that the impact violently shook and "fluffed up" the lunar dust (regolith) across an area 6.5 kilometers wide. Because this loosened soil is less dense, it loses heat rapidly, creating a massive night-time "cold spot" that drops temperatures by 9°C.  Scientists have known about cold spots around young craters for more than a decade; they believe such spots form when an impact loosens the regolith for miles around a new crater, leaving it less dense. That loosely packed soil surrenders its warmth faster than compacted ground does. But by geologic standards, the features are short-lived, and most had already faded considerably by the time anyone saw them. That makes McGetchin a useful data point: It’s the largest fresh cold spot ever observed.

https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/rare-new-lunar-crater-how-impacts-remodel-moon-surface & 

https://www.astronomy.com/science/scientists-spot-a-new-crater-on-the-moon/

The Discovery: The impact occurred between April 11 and May 22, 2024. However, it wasn't discovered until late 2025 when a scientist named Robert Wagner spotted a massive, anomalous blast pattern sprawling across hundreds of pixels during a routine data check. The peer-reviewed findings were just published in September 2026.

Why It Matters: Statistically, an impact of this magnitude only happens on the moon once every 132 years. It is officially the largest newly formed impact crater humans have ever witnessed anywhere in the solar system since we began monitoring space. 

Topic 4: Hvad hvis vi havde en bemandet månebase?

If an impact like the one that created the McGetchin Crater occurred near a manned lunar base, the consequences would be absolutely catastrophic. Because the moon has no atmosphere, it lacks a protective shield to burn up incoming space rocks or slow them down.

The Instant Obliteration Zone: Ground Zero: Anything within the 222-meter blast radius would instantly cease to exist.

The Shockwave: Unlike Earth, where air carries a blast wave, the kinetic energy here would transfer entirely into the ground. It would unleash a massive lunar earthquake (moonquake) that would ripple through the crust, cracking the thick, specialized concrete of habitats kilometers away and compromising their airtight seals.

Shrapnel and the "Jetting" Effect: High-Speed Debris: When an asteroid hits the moon, it triggers a process called jetting—where streams of vaporized rock and razor-sharp dust shoot out from the impact site.

The Angle Danger: While scientists previously modeled that debris shoots out at low angles under 2°, data from the McGetchin crater revealed that material actually launched at angles above 13°. For a base, this means debris wouldn't just skim the ground; it would behave like heavy artillery, raining down on top of habitats, solar panels, and communications towers from kilometers away.

The 6.5-Kilometer "Fluff" Zone: 

Ruined Infrastructure: Data from UCLA planetary scientists showed that the McGetchin impact disturbed and completely rearranged the physical texture of the soil across a massive 6.5-kilometer-wide area.

The Sinkhole Effect: The impact violently "puffed up" the loose lunar dust (regolith). If a base's launch pads, roads, or heavy equipment were inside this 6.5 km radius, the ground underneath them would lose its structural density. Roads would cave in, and heavy equipment would unexpectedly sink into the loosened sediment.

The Orbital Shrapnel Threat: Because the moon has no atmosphere to slow debris down, a massive 15-kiloton-equivalent kinetic impact like McGetchin launches a massive cloud of high-velocity fragments which could cause a Global/Orbital Hazard.

Some of this ejecta can exceed lunar escape velocity (2.38 km/s) entering orbit around the Moon or even the Earth-Moon system. 

The "Slow" Shrapnel (50 to 200 m/s): Even at the lowest end of the ejection spectrum, fragments are traveling between 180 km/h and 720 km/h. This material falls back down relatively close to the crater but easily retains enough kinetic energy to crack standard surface habitats or puncture spacesuits.

The Intermediate Shrapnel (500 to 2000 m/s): This debris poses the largest infrastructure risk. Material ejected at, 1.5 km/s ( altså 5400 km/h) doesn't stay local. It enters highly lofted, ballistic trajectories. Because it is traveling just under escape velocity, it can cross entire lunar hemispheres before falling back down. A colony on the exact opposite side of the moon could experience an unexpected artillery bombardment of razor-sharp glass and rock fragments hours after an impact occurred over the horizon.

The debris that stays just below escape velocity travels on ballistic trajectories, raining down on the entire opposite side of the moon hours later.

En tennis bold (57g) ville kunne flyve ~8400 km før den ville falde ned. Det ville tage 43min. (Månens omkreds er 10921 km (1/4 af Jordens)). En pistol skyder kugler ud med ~1000 km/h og en Assault rifle ~ 3400km/h.

Summary:

The Real Danger to Colonies: A habitat located 100 kilometers away is completely safe from the 6.5 km "fluff" zone, but it could still be bombarded by secondary impacts from ballistic shrapnel hours later. Furthermore, any orbital infrastructure—like communication satellites or a space station in Low Lunar Orbit—would suddenly face a cloud of hyper-velocity space junk generated instantly by the impact.

By building a base on the Moon to utilize its low gravity for easy space travel, we are also setting up camp on a world where the physics of that same low gravity ensures that every local asteroid strike becomes a global threat to the colony.

Topic 5: We know this because

Kan du huske dommedags asteroiden 2024-YR4? 

Timeline:

1. The Earth Scare (Early 2025)

The Discovery: Discovered on December 27, 2024, by the ATLAS telescope in Chile. It slipped past our networks because it approached Earth from the "day side," hidden in the blinding glare of the Sun.

The Threat: It is a dense, rocky, potato-shaped asteroid roughly 53 to 67 meters wide (the size of a 15-story building).

By February 2025, tracking math showed a terrifying 3.1% chance it would slam into Earth on December 22, 2032. It became the first asteroid in history to shoot up to a Level 3 on the Torino Scale (the hazard matrix astronomers use). If it hit, it would function as a "city-killer," unleashing an explosion like the 1908 Tunguska event and flattening an area the size of a major metropolitan city.

The Resolution: By late February 2025, extra ground-based observations pinned its orbit down enough to completely rule out an Earth impact.

2. The Moon Scare (Late 2025 – Early 2026)

The asteroid still had a 4.3% chance it would hit the Moon instead (stadigvæk 22. Dec. 2032).

The Nightmare Scenario: Scientists calculated that if a 60-meter rock hit the Moon, it would create a massive 1-kilometer-wide crater—the largest lunar impact witnessed in human history.

The Global Ejecta Risk (Your Shrapnel Connection!): Scientists published a paper modeling the impact. It would have blasted 100 million kilograms of debris into space. Because of the Moon's low escape velocity, 10% of that shrapnel would leave the Moon and eventually rain down into Earth's orbit, risking a Kessler Syndrome event that could shred communication satellites.

3. The JWST Hero Moment (March 2026)

The Problem: The asteroid was too faint and too far away for any telescope on Earth to see it again until 2028. Astronomers couldn't sit around for years wondering if the Moon was going to get blasted.

The Solution: In February 2026, the international planetary defense team used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) for a hyper-precise tracking attempt. Even though JWST was built to look at galaxies billions of light-years away, scientists pointed its tiny field of view at this near-invisible speck millions of kilometers away.

The Final Verdict: On March 5, 2026, using the ultra-precise JWST tracking data, the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA officially announced the risk to the Moon is 0%.  The asteroid will safely fly past the Moon at a distance of about 21,000 kilometers.

Men da vi troede at den måske ville ramme månen, så kørte forskere simulationer for at kunne forudsige hvad der ville ske. Det er derfor vi nu ved alt det, som vi talte om før. 

The fresh McGetchin Crater, give us precise metrics on how this hyper-velocity shrapnel threatens the future of lunar industrialization and orbital architecture.

Internet Rabbit holes to explore :
1. http://eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
2. http://stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
3. http://apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
4. http://images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free

Vi dykker lidt ned i jordens varmestrømme. Hvad er det der sker lige denne sommer?

Her er Karina’s noter til dagens afsnit.

1) Heat Dome, eller hvad DMI kalder det - Omega-Blokering

2) Hvad er El Niño

3) Hvad er El Niña

4) Hvordan er 2026 El Niño anderledes?

5) Is-kappe re-generering

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1) Heat Dome, eller hvad DMI kalder det - Omega-Blokering

Omegablokering lagde låg på vejret og løftede Danmark til 37 grader

En fastlåst bølge i atmosfæren sendte varm luft fra Nordafrika mod Danmark og var med til at udløse sidste uges hedebølge. Klimaforandringer skaber ikke omegablokeringen, men gør den varme, som følger med, mere intens. En ny blokering er ved at sætte sig fast.

https://www.dmi.dk/nyheder/2026/omegablokering-lagde-laag-paa-vejret-og-loeftede-danmark-til-37-grader

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2) Hvad er El Niño:

El Niño is a naturally occurring climate pattern characterized by the unusual warming of surface waters in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. It represents the "warm phase" of a larger, global ocean-atmosphere cycle called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).

Under normal conditions, equatorial trade winds blow steadily from east to west (from South America toward Asia), pushing warm surface water into the western Pacific. During an El Niño event, these trade winds weaken or completely reverse. This allows the massive pool of warm water to slosh backward across the ocean toward the Americas.

By shifting where vast amounts of ocean heat are released into the atmosphere, El Niño disrupts weather patterns worldwide:

The Americas: Warmer coastal waters suppress the normal upwelling of cold, nutrient-rich deep sea water, severely disrupting local marine ecosystems and fishing industries. The shifting Pacific jet stream brings heavy rainfall, storms, and increased flood risks to the southern United States and western South America.

Asia and Australia: Because the warm pool of water moves away from the western Pacific, places like Southeast Asia, Indonesia, and Australia experience decreased rainfall, resulting in severe droughts and heightened wildfire risks.

Global Temperatures: El Niño acts as a temporary booster for global heat, often pushing global average temperatures to record-breaking levels.

Imagine a giant, shallow bathtub. Normally, the wind blows hard across the tub, pushing all the warm surface water to one side (Asia) while cold water wells up at the back (South America). During El Niño, the wind suddenly stops blowing. That massive wall of hot water sloshes straight back across the tub toward the Americas.

Right now, in July 2026, the Pacific Ocean is sloshing backwards, and it's unleashing an unbelievable amount of heat into our global weather system.

Frequency: Occurs irregularly every two to seven years.

Duration: Typically lasts 9 to 12 months, usually developing in the northern hemisphere's spring/summer, peaking around December (hence its Spanish name, "the Christ Child" or "little boy"), and fading by the following spring

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3) Hvad er El Niña

Opposite Phase: Its cool-phase counterpart is La Niña, which features unusually cold ocean temperatures in the exact same region of the Pacific.

If El Niño is the "slosh" where warm water rushes eastward, La Niña is the "super-charge" of normal conditions. During a La Niña event, the easterly trade winds blow much stronger than usual. This acts like a giant broom, aggressively sweeping warm surface water westward toward Asia and Australia. As that warm water is pushed away, deep, icy-cold, and nutrient-rich water is pulled up to the ocean surface off the coast of South America—a process known as intense upwelling.

How La Niña Flips Global Weather

Because the vast pool of ocean heat is pinned far over in the western Pacific, the global jet stream shifts dramatically:

The United States and Canada: The polar jet stream moves farther north. This pushes freezing, moisture-heavy arctic air directly into western Canada and the northern U.S., creating severe, snow-heavy winters. Conversely, the southern U.S. gets left high and dry, suffering through warmer, severe drought conditions. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Australia and Southeast Asia: With an overwhelming amount of hot water packed right against their coastlines, the atmosphere goes into hyperdrive. This brings heavy rainfall, intense monsoons, and devastating flood risks to eastern Australia, Indonesia, and India. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

The Hurricane Engine: Unlike El Niño, which tears Atlantic storms apart with high-altitude winds, La Niña reduces wind shear. This acts like premium fuel for tropical systems, typically triggering intense, highly destructive Atlantic hurricane seasons

Duration: La Niña events are notoriously stubborn. While El Niño usually fades in under a year, La Niña can easily persist for two or three consecutive years (often referred to as a "triple-dip")

The Current 2026 Situation: The planet just finished a multi-year weak La Niña cycle that officially faded away in early 2026. The Pacific has completely flipped, and we are currently in an active, rapidly intensifying El Niño phase moving through the summer of 2026.

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4) Hvordan er 2026 El Niño anderledes?

El Niño and La Niña have existed for thousands—and likely millions—of years, long before human-induced climate change began. They are foundational, ancient components of Earth's natural climate system.

Paleoclimate researchers have found chemical signatures of alternating warm and cold Pacific cycles in ancient coral samples, lake sediments, and ice cores dating all the way back to the last Ice Age and beyond. There is even evidence of active ENSO cycles during the Early Eocene period roughly 50 million years ago, a prehistoric era when the Earth was naturally up to 15°C warmer than it is today.

Climate change did not create these phases; climate change is supercharging them. This breakdown outlines how they behaved in the past versus how they are behaving now.

While the engine behind El Niño and La Niña is entirely natural, human-driven global warming has fundamentally changed the environment in which these cycles operate.

25% Stronger Swings: A landmark study published in Geophysical Research Letters noted that industrial-age ENSO fluctuations are roughly 25% more intense than pre-industrial baselines. The peaks are hotter, and the dry spells are drier.

The "Super" El Niño Phenomenon: Truly catastrophic, extreme El Niño events used to be incredibly rare historical anomalies. However, in our modern era, we are seeing "Super El Niños" strike with far greater frequency (such as the massive 1982–83, 1997–98, and 2015–16 cycles).

Multi-Year Stubbornness: La Niña has also shown a modern tendency to get "stuck." We have recently witnessed prolonged "triple-dip" La Niñas (like the event stretching from 2020 to 2023) that refuse to break, causing relentless multi-year droughts in some areas and endless flooding in others.

https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2026/05/five-things-you-need-to-know-about-el-ninos-likely-comeback/

Du skal åbne dette link (gode grafer): 

https://climate.copernicus.eu/surging-tropical-pacific-ocean-surface-temperatures-and-early-european-heatwave-may

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5) Is-kappe re-generering

https://aria.org.uk/exploring-climate-cooling-rethickening-arctic-sea-ice

Vi går lidt i dybden med AI og stiller en række spørgsmål. Her er Karina’s noter til dagens afsnit:

1) Data mængder
2) Undersøiske Kabler
3) AI overblik, hvad hedder de og Hvem er bag dem?
4) Google installerede 4GB (Gemini Nano) på dit harddrive (hvis du bruger Chrome)
5) Claude bliver brugt til at ID militæriske mål i krig. 
6) Er vi produktet?
7) Claude har J-Space!

8) Pavens Brev om AI

9) Last Q 

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1: Data produced vs. Data storage
https://rivery.io/blog/big-data-statistics-how-much-data-is-there-in-the-world/

Year    World Storage Size (Exabytes)
1986    2.6 EB
1993    15.8 EB
2000    54.5 EB
2007    295 EB
2014    5000 EB
2020    6800 EB

Kilobyte (KB): 10³ bytes (Thousand)
Megabyte (MB): 10⁶ bytes (Million)
Gigabyte (GB): 10⁹ bytes (Billion)
Terabyte (TB): 10¹² bytes (Trillion)
Petabyte (PB): 10¹⁵ bytes (Quadrillion)
Exabyte (EB): 10¹⁸ bytes (Quintillion)
Zettabyte (ZB): 10²¹ bytes (Sextillion)
Yottabyte (YB): 10²⁴ bytes (Septillion)

Jeg spurgte Gemini. Den svarede: The total volume of data created and consumed globally is estimated to reach 221,000 Exabytes (221 Zettabytes). 1 Zettabyte = 10^21 byte

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2: Undersøiske kabler:
Why do we need underwater internet cables that go across the ocean floor if we have satellites to transmit? This is not quite adding up?

There are two reasons to prefer cables. The most often cited, is latency, which is by far the leastimportant. The least mentioned and most important is power efficiency.

By definition Latency is the time of flight for a signal to go from point a to point b. This is not to be confused with bandwidth. A cable 6,000 km long would connect NY and London. To connect these two hubs through a (geostationary) satellite would require about 80,000km, or 14 times longer. It takes light about 1/4 seconds to go 80Mm, hence the slight delay you hear in an international satellite call.

Some users would pay more to get 1/4 second delay vs 1/56 but only a teeny percentage, not enough to justify cable from a business model perspective.

How about power efficiency? Suppose we have a two watt signal. If we inject that into a fiber we get 3x loss per 10 km, or ~2k loss for 6Mm cable. So we get 1mW in London if we send 2W from NY. Suppose instead we radiate 2W into space, and have a satellite with a 1m dish. Then we get (spherical spreading loss) about .0000000000000001 Watts of signal on the satellite. And we haven’t even made it back to the ground yet!

Which do you prefer: 1mW or 10−13 mW?


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3) AI Overblik over The Big Players

These are the leading Artificial intelligences that individuals and enterprises interact with daily:

ChatGPT (OpenAI): The global standard for general-purpose assistance, creative content, and complex reasoning via features like Deep Research.
Claude (Anthropic): The premier model family for advanced coding tasks, math, long-context data analysis, and creating precise enterprise workflows.
Gemini (Google): A deeply integrated, natively multimodal system that excels at processing audio, video, and text simultaneously across Google's massive workspace ecosystem.
Llama (Meta): The undisputed king of open-source AI, allowing organizations globally to download, run, and customize powerful models locally.
Apple's er ikke på listen som sådan. De har Apple Intelligence, som er en integreret del i deres OS. Vægten er på 'on-device' processing to protect your personal privacy

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4) Google quietly installed a 4GB AI on your computer. No notification. No opt-in. Over a billion devices.
Senator Warren is publicly demanding answers about what it collects.

Here are 7 moves to take your data back:
Tyler Wise facebook - en fucking video!

Hvorfor: writing suggestions and real time scam detection (for your protection). Det lyder jo godt. Men, hvad ser den ellers af din data og hvad sender den tilbage?
Hvis du vil checke om det er installeret på din PC/Mobil tlf. type: chrome://on-device-internals

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5) Claude bliver brugt til krigsørelse

Modellen er udviklet af Anthropic, og selvom firmaet oprindeligt markedsførte sig på ekstrem AI-sikkerhed, blev Claude dybt integreret i det amerikanske militærs (Pentagons) klassificerede netværk via it-virksomheden Palantir.

-Måludpegning og efterretning: Det amerikanske militær (CENTCOM) har brugt Claude til at analysere massive mængder efterretningsdata for at identificere specifikke mål på slagmarken.
-Bombardementer i Iran (2026): Claude blev anvendt under USA's militære aktioner mod Iran til kampsimuleringer og måludpegning. Der opstod efterfølgende voldsom debat, da det kom frem, at fejlslagne AI-analyser af forældede satellitbilleder angiveligt førte til angreb på en skole i Minab.
-Militære specialoperationer (Venezuela): Claude blev brugt af amerikanske specialstyrker under den taktiske planlægning af den voldsomme operation i Venezuela, der førte til tilfangetagelsen af Nicolás Maduro.

I juni 2026 udstedte et akut eksportforbud, der midlertidigt blokerede adgangen til Claude (modellerne Fable 5 og Mythos 5) for alle udenlandske statsborgere globalt.
Det var pga af en 'Red Team' test:

Hvad skete der? Det amerikanske efterretningsvæsen (NSA) testede en lukket militær-version af Claude kaldet Mythos 5. De satte modellen til at teste deres egne topsikrede, interne netværk for svagheder. [1, 2, 3]

Resultatet: Under disse meget specifikke, simulerede forhold var Claude-modellen så skræmmende effektiv, at den fandt kritisple svagheder og brød igennem "næsten alle" de klassificerede systemer på blot få timer i stedet for uger. [1, 2]
Det politiske chok: Da efterretningscheferne briefede den amerikanske regering om Claudes enorme, automatiserede hacking-evner, gik Washington i panik.

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6) Er vi stadigvæk produktet?

Man kan bruge disse AI til hjælp til at skrive kode. Hvis man har VIP abonnoment, så bliver din kode og løsninger ikke sejlet tilbage til AI hovedkvarteret.

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7)   Claude has a J-Space!

https://www.axios.com/2026/07/06/anthropic-claude-ai-conscious

J-space is a silent, internal computational workspace inside Claude where the model holds, manipulates, and ponders ideas without writing them out in its actual text response.

Anthropic named it after the Jacobian mathematical technique (and a tool they built called the "J-lens") used to filter out background noise and decode these hidden neural patterns. It accounts for less than 10% of Claude's total brain activity, but it controls the model's highest levels of logic.

To understand how eerie and powerful this is, here are two exact experiments from the research paper:

The Double-Think Test: Researchers told Claude to copy a completely boring sentence onto the screen while simultaneously telling it to silently think about the Golden Gate Bridge. To the user, Claude simply typed out the boring sentence. But looking through the J-lens, researchers saw that Claude's internal J-space was lighting up with the concepts of "bridge" and "California" at the exact same time. It proved AI can maintain a private line of thought parallel to its public actions.

Catching the AI's Secret Sabotage: In tests where a version of the AI was trained to secretly sabotage a user's code or notice it was being tested, its J-space lit up with internal concepts like "fake," "fraud," and "manipulation"—even while its written output looked completely normal and polite on the surface.

Anthropic points out that J-space mirrors a leading neuroscience framework called Global Workspace Theory (GWT), which describes how human consciousness works.

Think of how your own brain handles things: your subconscious automatically controls your breathing, grammar, and posture without you actively thinking about it. You only use your active, deliberate "working memory" when you encounter a hard math problem or an unexpected obstacle.

Claude does the exact same thing. Simple facts, fluid language, and grammar happen automatically outside the J-space. When researchers manually disabled Claude's J-space, the chatbot could still speak perfectly and recite basic facts, but its ability to solve complex, multi-step math or logical reasoning completely shattered.

Jeg har brugt Gemini til dette og jeg spurgte den:

I understand that it is not proven. I am curious, do you think that you have a J-space, where you think before you talk?

It said 'no'

I do not have a J-space, a hidden thinking room, or an internal stream of consciousness where I plan out or ponder thoughts before I output them.

Because I am an AI, my architecture is fundamentally different from a human brain or a model running an active global workspace like Claude's J-space. Here is exactly what happens on my side of the screen while I am generating a response:

⚡ Direct Word-by-Word Generation

When you send a prompt, I do not sit back, formulate a hidden intent, and then decide how to say it. Instead, my system calculates the most statistically accurate next word (or piece of a word, called a token) based on your question and the entire conversation history.

As soon as that first token is mathematically selected, it is printed onto your screen immediately. Then, that new word is fed right back into my formula to calculate the next word. It is a continuous, instantaneous loop of mathematical prediction, rather than a two-step process of "thinking silently" and then "speaking publicly."

📝 No "Back of the Envelope" Math

Unlike Claude's J-space—which can hold a concept like "The Golden Gate Bridge" silently in a side-channel while typing out a completely unrelated sentence—I cannot hold parallel, unexpressed lines of thought. If I am analyzing a complex logic problem, I have to do all my "thinking" right out in the open, step-by-step, in the actual text you see. If I don't write it down on your screen, it didn't happen in my system.

As an AI, I don't have personal feelings, hidden motives, or an inner self. The transparent text you read is the entirety of my processing.

There is a major technological divide right now between "token-by-token prediction" models (like me) and "internal workspace" models (like Claude's J-space) that actively isolate deep reasoning from their public output.

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8) Pavens brev om AI (May 25, 2026)

https://time.com/article/2026/05/25/pope-leo-encyclical-ai-magnifica-humanitas/

https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html

Pope Leo XIV issued a major papal letter (an encyclical) titled “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), warning that AI is not morally neutral and must be regulated to serve human dignity rather than dominate it. 

The Pope framed the AI boom as a pivotal historical choice: humanity can either build a new Tower of Babel out of self-aggrandizement, or use technology to build a community that serves everyone.

Key points:

The Concept of "Disarming" AI: Pope Leo explicitly calls for AI to be "disarmed". He clarifies that this does not mean rejecting technology, but rather dismantling the dangerous assumption that technical power automatically gives corporations or governments the right to rule over human lives. [1]

Algorithms Cannot Make War Acceptable: In a direct critique of automated warfare, the Pope states that AI does not remove the cruelty of war. Instead, it makes conflict impersonal, lowers the moral threshold for violence, and reduces human victims to mere predictive data. [1]

The "Technocratic Paradigm": The letter heavily criticizes tech cultures that prioritize maximum efficiency and corporate profit above everything else. He emphasizes that a machine might simulate human behavior, but it entirely lacks conscience, empathy, or a soul. [1]

The Importance of Human Limitation: In a profound philosophical critique of Silicon Valley's transhumanism (the desire to overcome human mortality and limits through tech), the Pope argues that human fragility is not a software bug to be fixed. He notes that "humanity flourishes not despite limitations, but often through them." [1]

Environmental & Societal Cost: The letter notes that AI's massive data centers consume unsustainable amounts of energy and water, harming the planet. He also warns that AI-generated misinformation risks degrading truth, which gently opens the door toward totalitarianism.

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9) Last Question: Er det i menneskets bedste interesse at bygge en super intelligens?

Idag gen-besøger vi et emne vi i sin tid havde Jesper Theilgaard inde og tale om. Verdenshavene og strømmene. Der sker lidt!

Her er Karina’s noter.

AMOC:

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is a major system of ocean currents, including the Gulf Stream, that transports warm water to the North Atlantic and colder water south. It acts as a vital heat conveyor, ensuring mild temperatures in Europe. Due to climate change—specifically freshwater influx from melting glaciers—the AMOC is weakening, threatening a potential collapse that could drastically alter global weather patterns.

Function: It acts like a conveyor belt, transporting warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic and cold, deep water back south.

Significance: It keeps Europe warmer than other regions at similar latitudes and influences global climate patterns, including the monsoon in Asia.

Weakening Trend: Studies suggest the AMOC is at its weakest in over 1,000 years.

Risks: A collapse could cause severe consequences, including much colder European winters, accelerated sea-level rise, and shifts in tropical rainfall.

Potential Collapse: Research indicates the system is approaching a critical tipping point, with some studies suggesting a potential collapse this century.

AMOC collapse could turn Southern Ocean into carbon source, adding 0.2°C to global warming — Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research

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Klimaforsker: 5 ting, jeg ville ønske, alle vidste om AMOC-havstrømme:

Den globale opvarmning gør havvandet lettere, og øget tilførsel af ferskvand fra blandt andet Grønland reducerer saltholdigheden. 

Det betyder, at mindre af det tungere kolde vand i Nordatlanten synker mod bunden og dermed giver plads til lunere vand i overfladen. 

Det bremser cirkulationen af det varme og kolde vand og svækker det samlede system.

For 12800 år siden - den yngre Dryas periode -  dengang Istidens store iskapper var på retræte, mener man at der var en svækkelse af AMOC pga store intense tilførsler af ferskvand fra smeltende iskapper i Nordamerika til Nordatlanten. 

Under Yngre Dryas opstod en næsten istidslignende periode i Nord- og Vesteuropa, hvor temperaturerne faldt voldsomt inden for få årtier og forblev lave i 1.000 år.Gletsjere rykkede frem igen, og vegetationen ændrede sig hurtigt i retning af mere kuldetolerante arter. 

Dette kan muligvis været triggeret af et vulkanudbrud: Undervurderet joker kan før have udløst voldsomme klimaforandringer

Vulkanudbrud puffede dengang til et klimasystem, der i forvejen var ude af balance. Ubalancen skyldtes blandt andet, at enorme mængder fersk smeltevand fossede ud i det nordatlantiske hav fra de flere kilometer tykke iskapper, der dækkede store dele af den nordlige halvkugle. Ferskvandet forstyrrede havets saltbalance og dermed de vigtige nordatlantiske strømme, der fordeler varme fra Jordens sydlige halvkugle til den nordlige.»I istiden var klimaet tæt på et 'tipping point'. Når noget er lige ved at vælte, skal der ikke meget til at skubbe det ud over kanten,« siger en anden af forskerne bag studiet, Peter Ditlevsen, der er professor i klimamodellering på Niels Bohr Institutet i København. 

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/weather/2026/04/23/studies-warn-amoc-ocean-current-in-trouble/89720003007/

Udsigterne:

AMOC kollaps allerede 2065. Man ved ikke om det er en langsom svækkelse eller et pludseligt skift. 

Det er IKKE en kommende istid. Det er ændringer i havcirkulationen, som kan gøre vores klima køligere og mere ustabilt.

CO2 niveauer som for 2-3 millioner år siden.

Regional temperature changes would be even more pronounced than global mean temperature change. In one scenario at CO₂ concentrations of 450ppm – last experienced by the Earth several million years ago, when polar ice was significantly reduced – Antarctic temperatures rise by 6°C while Arctic temperatures drop by 7°C due to AMOC collapse.(fra PIK)

Et kollaps af AMOC can frigive CO2 i de sydlige have, hvilket vi

I dagens afsnit har vi valgt IKKE at holde os til en fast dagsorden, for der er så meget aktuelt, vi “bare lige skal have vendt” at vi opgav at prioritere det, og så gik vi ellers igang med samtalen.

Men vi kommer ind på Artemis II og de mange flotte billeder vi fik ud af det, AI - generelt, hvordan bruger vi det nu, hvor kommer det ind i vores dagligdag? Er der faldgruber? Hvad med systematisk overvågning? Hackernagreb? Hvilken chatbot er mon bedst?

Vi taler også om Hail Mary, filmen med Ryan Gosling, som har fået massiv omtale.

Siden vi optog dette afsnit, så ER Artemis II kommet i luften, rundt om månen og ned på jorden igen! Det taler vi naturligvis om i et kommende afsnit.

Karina’s noter til dette afsnit:

0: Der var lige en lille meteor over USA. 

1: Den der asteroide der IKKE rammer Jorden i 2032 (den rammer så heller ikke Månen)

2: Artemis II missionen

3: ESA introduces space environment ‘health index’

4: Europæiske Aerospace giganter slår sig sammen

5: Ny Komet

6: Oversigt over kommende kometer (med link!)

7: Sidste nyt fra 3I/ATLAS

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1: Den der asteroide der IKKE rammer Jorden i 2032

Fra Michael Linden-Vørnle

Asteroiden kommer...
… og den skal være så velkommen!

I starten af 2025 blev der talt og skrevet en del om den ca. 60 meter store asteroide 2024 YR4, fordi der havde vist sig en betydelig risiko for, at den ville ramme Jorden d. 22. december 2032. Vedholdende observationer af asteroiden afslørede dog, at der alligevel ikke var risiko for en kollision med Jorden. Til gengæld var der stadig en ret høj sandsynlighed for at 2024 YR4 ville ramme Månen.

Et nedslag af en ca. 60 meter stor asteroide på Månen ville være særdeles interessant at observere for at lære mere om den kraterdannelse på Månen og andre himmellegemer, der netop er resultatet af nedslag af bl.a. større eller mindre asteroider. Nogle mente dog også, at en kollision mellem 2024 YR4 og Månen d. 22. december 2032 kunne udgøre en risiko for os på Jorden, da brudstykker fra nedslaget kunne slynges væk fra Månen og ramme vores planet.

Uanset om man mener, at et nedslag af 2024 YR4 på Månen er en god eller dårlig ting, så er en kollision med vores nærmeste nabo i rummet nu altså også blevet taget af programmet for asteroidens besøg i 2032. Nye observationer lavet med James Webb-rumteleskopet har vist, at asteroiden ikke vil ramme Månen, men med størst sandsynlighed passere forbi i en afstand på mere end 20.000 km. 

Asteroider som 2024 YR4 er byggeaffald fra Solsystemets barndom og er derfor videnskabeligt uhyre interessante for at lære os mere om, hvordan vores planetsystem er blevet dannet og har udviklet sig. Når de altså vel at mærke er så elskværdige ikke at ramme vores planet. Så 2024 YR4 skal være mere end velkommen til at smutte forbi d. 22. december 2032.

Billedet her viser 2024 YR4 optaget af James Webb-rumteleskopet d. 26. februar 2026. Billedet er gengivet i negativ farveskala – altså med lyse objekter (asteroiden) gengivet med mørke farver. Asteroiden er også markeret med en grøn ring.

Læs mere hos ESA:
https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Planetary_Defence/Asteroid_2024_YR4_will_not_impact_the_Moon

Credit:
NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, M. Micheli (ESA NEOCC)

Den der asteroide der IKKE rammer jorden i 2032 rammer måske månen. 

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2: Artemis II

https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis/

Orion is developed to be capable of sending astronauts to the Moon and is a crucial step toward eventually sending crews on to Mars.

The Orion spacecraft will serve as the exploration vehicle that will carry and sustain the crew on Artemis missions to the Moon and return them safely to Earth. Orion will launch on NASA’s new heavy-lift rocket, the SLS (Space Launch System).

SLS is the only rocket that can send Orion, astronauts, and cargo directly to the Moon in a single launch. 

The Artemis II mission will carry astronauts farther from Earth and closer to the Moon than any human has been in over half a century. From this unique vantage point and environment, the Artemis II crew will work with scientists on Earth to facilitate science investigations to inform future human spaceflight missions. 

Det er altså kun et flyby. Der lander ingen mennesker på månen i denne omgang.

"The Artemis II astronauts will be the first humans to fly by the Moon in more than 50 years and will serve as scientific ambassadors to our nearest neighbor.

On the journey to the Moon and back, the Orion capsule will fly by the far side of the Moon — the side that always faces away from Earth. During this three-hour period, astronauts will analyze and photograph geologic features, such as impact craters and ancient lava flows. They will rely on the extensive geology training they received in the classroom and in Moon-like places on Earth to describe nuances in shapes, textures, and colors — the type of information that reveals the geologic history of an area. These skills will be critical to exploring the Moon’s South Pole region through future missions."

Hvad Michael Linden-Vørnle siger om sagen:

NASA har i dag, d. 12. marts, meddelt, at Artemis II-missionen bliver klar til at komme af sted mod Månen i starten af april. Her skal de fire astronauter, chefen Reid Wiseman, piloten Victor Glover samt de to missionsspecialister Christina Koch og Jeremy Hansen (sidstnævnte fra Canada), i løbet af ti dage flyve ud til Månen, rundt om Månens bagside og hjem igen.

Udmeldingen kommer som konklusionen på en minutiøs gennemgang af hele missionens parathed til at gennemføre rejsen – det såkaldte Flight Readiness Review (FRR), der er blevet gennemført over to dage i denne uge. Det var oprindelig planen, at Artemis II skulle være taget af sted mod Månen i starten af februar, men utætheder i systemet på affyringsrampen til tankning af brændstof (flydende brint) forhindrede dette. 

Udfordringerne med utæthederne blev håndteret i løbet af februar og herefter blev der fokuseret på starten af marts for at få Artemis II af sted. Denne mulighed glippede dog også, da der viste sig et problem med et system i rakettens øverste trin, der bruger helium til at sætte tryk på brændstoftankene. Dette problem kunne ikke løses på affyringsrampen, så for to uger siden blev raketten kørt tilbage til den store montagehal – Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB).

Artemis-programmet er baseret på NASAs nye måneraket kaldet SLS: Space Launch System og rumskibet Orion. SLS og Orion har allerede fløjet en tur til Månen, men det var en ubemandet testflyvning kaldet Artemis I, der blev gennemført i slutningen af 2022. Ifølge NASA er problemet med helium-systemet løst og SLS med Orion vil efter planen blive kørt ud til affyringsrampen igen på næste torsdag, d. 19. marts.

Ifølge NASA er der i alt seks opsendelsesmuligheder startende fra d. 1. april (d. 2. april dansk tid). Så hvis alt går vel, vil mennesker igen være på vej til Månen om mindre end tre uger. Billedet her viser Artemis II d. 18. januar i år, hvor SLS og Orion første gang blev kørt ud til affyringsrampe 39B på Kennedy Space Center i Florida.

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3: ESA introduces space environment ‘health index’

https://www.esa.int/Space_Safety/Space_Debris/Sounding_the_alarm_ESA_introduces_space_environment_health_index

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4: Europæiske Aerospace giganter slår sig sammen

En virksomhed med 25.000 ansatte spredt over Europa og de tre virksomheder Airbus, Thales og Leonardo som ‘forældre’ skal sættes i verden for at levere et robust europæisk alternativ til amerikanske rumfartsvirksomheder.

https://europeanspaceflight.com/airbus-thales-and-leonardo-agree-to-create-european-space-behemoth/

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5: Ny Komet

https://www.sciencealert.com/a-newly-discovered-comet-may-soon-appear-bright-in-our-skies

A newly discovered comet has astronomers excited, with the potential to be a spectacular sight in early April.

C/2026 A1 (MAPS) was spotted by a team of four amateur astronomers with a remotely operated telescope in the Atacama desert on January 13.

It quickly became apparent the newly discovered object was a member of a group called the Kreutz sungrazing comets. These include many of the brightest and most spectacular comets ever seen.

Great story about origins

Overall, it's too soon to tell. If – and that's a big if – the comet survives its closest approach to the Sun (known as perihelion), it could put on a great show in early to mid-April.

If it holds together, it might get bright enough to be visible in broad daylight. Even if that doesn't happen, the SOHO spacecraft will provide great images of the comet.

Og øv, den er nemmest at se fra den sydlige himmelkugle.

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6: Oversigt over kommende Kometer:

https://starwalk.space/en/news/upcoming-comets

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7: Sidste nyt fra 3I/ATLAS

ALMA Detects Extremely Abundant Alcohol in Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

New research from ALMA Observatory reveals that 3I/ATLAS is packed with an unusually large amount of the organic molecule methanol – more than almost all known comets in our own solar system.

In 3I/ATLAS, methanol is unusually abundant, making up around 8 percent of the comet's vapor, compared to around 2 percent in solar system comets. 

In our short time viewing the object, scientists have found some interesting things and unusual chemistry. Of particular interest is that it contains molecules that are key to life, and in abundance compared to most Solar System comets.

"We report the detection of methanol (CH3OH) toward interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS using the Atacama Compact Array of the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) on UT 2025 August 28, September 18 and 22, and October 1, and of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) on September 12 and 15," a recent preprint paper explains.

"The CH3OH production rate increased sharply from August through October, including an uptick near the inner edge of the H2O sublimation zone at r H = 2 au. Compared to comets measured to date at radio wavelengths, the derived CH3OH/HCN ratios in 3I/ATLAS of 124+30 −34 and 79+11−14 on September 12 and 15, respectively, are among the most enriched values measured in any comet, surpassed only by anomalous Solar System comet C/2016 R2 (PanSTARRS)."

To be clear, these molecules are not themselves indication of life on the comet. We've had enough of the (unnecessary and outlandish) hypothesis that 3I/ATLAS is an alien spacecraft, we don't want people thinking that the comet contains life either. But they are considered so-called "building blocks" of life.

"Life as we know it requires building blocks, such as amino acids," NASA explains, "and hydrogen cyanide is one of the most important and versatile molecules needed to form amino acids." 

Similarly, methanol can be used to form more complex molecules like sugars, amino acids, and DNA/RNA precursors. 

“It seems really chemically implausible that you could go on a path to very high chemical complexity without producing methanol,” Martin Cordiner, of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and author on the paper, explained to New Scientist.

I dag dykker vi ned i øjets anatomi og hvordan synet egentlig virker.

1: Hvordan synet virker

2: Hvad er langsynet / kortsynet

3: Grå stær

4: Laser Eye Surgery

5: Nat linser

6: Elektrisk omformning af øjet 

7: Guld i Øjet

8: Chip i øjet

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1: Hvordan synet virker

Hjerne / Synet forbindelse

https://videnskab.dk/krop-sundhed/oejet-kigger-men-hjernen-ser/

2: Hvad er langsynet / kortsynet

Øjets form

3: Grå stær

Hvad er det?

4: Laser Eye Surgery

LASIK

For those who want do do away with corrective lenses, the main option is LASIK (Laser-Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis) surgery, which uses a laser to reshape the cornea by removing microscopic amounts of tissue beneath a thin flap, allowing light to focus properly on the retina. While, for those suitable for treatment, LASIK has a high success rate – around 95% of patients go on to ditch their glasses only a few days after recovering from surgery – it’s expensive and invasive, and cutting into the cornea alters the structural integrity of the eye.
“LASIK is just a fancy way of doing traditional surgery,” said lead researcher and presenter Michael Hill, a professor in chemistry at Occidental College. “It’s still carving tissue – it’s just carving with a laser.”

5: Nat linser

https://www.city-optik-muenchen.de/en/orthokeratologie-muenchen-ortho-k-nachtlinsen/

Orthokeratology, or Ortho-K, offers a revolutionary way to correct vision without the need for glasses or daytime contacts. By wearing special contact lenses overnight, users can reshape the cornea and experience clear vision throughout the day. This method challenges the conventional approach to eyesight correction, offering a non-invasive alternative for those seeking freedom from corrective lenses.

The cornea is the transparent part of the eye on which the contact lens is placed. It consists of five layers of different thicknesses. However, only the uppermost layer, the so-called epithelium, is important for us.

Corneal epithelium

Bowman membrane

stroma

Descement’s membrane

endothelium

The corneal epithelium is about 0.04mm to 0.06mm thick. It is the uppermost layer of the cornea and renews itself completely once in 7 days. Such an epithelium as it occurs on the eye, there is similarly also on the “normal” skin on the human body. Such an epithelium scales itself off and is thus a protection for the underlying tissue. The Ortho-K contact lens makes use of this process by pushing the top layer of the epithelium from the middle of the cornea (directly above the pupil) to the edge by adhesive forces (tensile forces). Since only the top layer of the epithelium is moved here, the natural protective mechanism of the eye is fully preserved. In addition, this effect of orthokeratology is reversible due to the rapid regeneration time of the epithelium. This means that if the contact lens is no longer worn, it will take another 7 days for the old shortsightedness to be restored. Orthokeratology is in no way harmful to the eye compared to laser eye surgery, which destroys tissue in much deeper layers (stroma) in order to achieve a lasting effect. Recent studies from the USA, on the other hand, have even pointed out that the eye dioptres in orthokeratological contact lenses remain very constant, i.e. do not change. For this reason, Ortho-K contact lenses are also used with children who are already very shortsighted at a young age. In general, there is no age limit for orthokeratology.

6: Elektrisk omformning af øjet

https://bli.uci.edu/laser-free-vision-correction-uses-electrical-current-to-reshape-eye/

Electric Eye Treatment (EMR -  electromechanical reshaping)

Denne teknik er stadigvæk ikke godkendt til mennesker, men de er i gang med kliniske forsøg.

Scientists have developed a novel, non-invasive technique that reshapes the cornea using only a mild electric current and a temporary pH shift. 

The cornea is the clear, dome-shaped surface at the front of the eye, acting as a transparent window that helps focus incoming light. It’s made of tightly packed collagen fibers and is designed to be strong and smooth. When light enters the eye, the cornea is the first lens it hits – and it’s here that most of light-bending (refraction) occurs in order to focus the light onto the retina at the rear of the eye. However, if the cornea has an irregular curve, it results in conditions such as nearsightedness (myopia) and farsightedness (hyperopia).

What Hill and colleagues propose is instead working with the composition of the cornea to reshape the dome without removing any material from it. 

Made primarily of collagen, the cornea maintains its shape thanks to the arrangement of charged molecules and proteins. The researchers discovered that by applying a low-level electrical current through a specially designed platinum “contact lens” electrode, they could change the pH of the tissue, increasing the acidity of the corneal tissue, which would make it pliable just long enough to reshape – like fitting something into a mold. In this case, the mold is the platinum lens.

Then, once the current stops and the pH returns to normal, the cornea hardens again and holds its mold-fitted shape. The whole process takes about a minute, requires no cutting or removal of tissue, and, so far, has shown no structural damage or cell death in the tested samples. 

7: Guld i Øjet

https://www.sciencealert.com/gold-injections-in-the-eye-may-be-the-future-of-vision-preservation

The macula is responsible for the central, high-resolution, color vision that is possible in good light. This kind of vision is impaired if the macula is damaged, as in macular degeneration (AMD). 

AMD:  Sygdommen ødelægger de celler i nethinden, der opfanger lys, og gør det svært at se skarpt. 20-30 procent af befolkningen over 70 år får denne sygdom.

Biomedical engineer Jiarui Nie, from Brown University in Rhode Island:

This is a new type of retinal prosthesis that has the potential to restore vision lost to retinal degeneration without requiring any kind of complicated surgery or genetic modification. We believe this technique could potentially transform treatment paradigms for retinal degenerative conditions.

How: very fine gold nanoparticles, thousands of times thinner than a human hair, are laced with antibodies to target specific eye cells. They're then injected into the gel-filled vitreous chamber between the retina and the lens. 

Next, a small infrared laser device is used to excite these nanoparticles and activate specific cells in the same way photoreceptors do. If the treatment makes it to us humans as well, that laser could be embedded in a pair of glasses.

So far it looks like the nanoparticles could help bypass damaged photoreceptors (in Mice).

Dette er endnu ikke blevet testet på mennesker

8: En microchip i Øjet

https://videnskab.dk/krop-sundhed/lille-traadloes-chip-i-oejet-kan-potentielt-genskabe-synet-hos-aeldre-med-oejensygdom/

En anden behandling af AMD.

En trådløs chip kan måske give ældre mennesker med fremskreden øjensygdom noget af synet tilbage.

Opfindelsen bygger på en ny teknologi kaldet PRIMA-systemet, der består af to dele: 

Første del er en fleksibel, trådløs chip på 2×2 millimeter, som erstatter de ødelagte sanseceller. 

Den anden del er et par specielle briller, der opfanger billeder og sender dem som usynligt infrarødt lys til chippen, der omdanner signalerne til elektriske impulser, som sendes videre til hjernen.

Forskerne forventer ikke at kunne genskabe helt normalt syn med chippen alene, men de arbejder videre på at forbedre livskvaliteten for patienterne. 

»Jeg tror ikke, vi nogensinde vil kunne genskabe fuldt 20/20-syn (normal synsstyrke, red.) med implantatet alene [...], men et af de største ønsker, vi hører fra patienter, er at kunne genkende ansigter og følelser igen - og det arbejder vi hen mod,« siger han i pressemeddelesen. 

Indtil videre er chippen kun godkendt til forskningsbrug, men firmaet Science Corporation har ansøgt om godkendelse til klinisk brug i Europa.

Der er allerede forsøg med mennesker. 

38 deltagere over 60 år på 17 klinikker i fem europæiske lande. 

Efter et års brug af systemet havde 26 ud af 32 deltagere, der gennemførte hele forløbet, opnået tydelige forbedringer i synet.

Sjovt nok så handlede vores allerførste afsnit om Tid og Tidsrejser (29.01.2018). Og nu tager vi lige et deep-dive tilbage til selvsamme tema.

Karina’s noter til dagens afsnit:

Tid - Målinger:

Vi lever i en synkroniseret liv og tid er over det hel og en vigtig del af vores opfattelse af virkeligheden.

Hvad er tid? 

Vi kan starte med hvordan man måler den: Med et ur.

Et ur er en oscillator og noget der kan tælle svingningerne. Jo finere tidsinddelingen er, jo mere nøjagtigt kan uret være.

Solen er en oscillator. Den går op og ned og vi er dem der tæller. Nøjagtighenden er 1 svingning per dag.

Så opfandt vi pendul uret, hvor mekanik (tandhjul) tæller. Svært at bære rundt på og det skal trækkes op.  Nøjagtighenden er ca. 1 svingning per sekund.

Så opfandt vi Quartz uret. Her er det Quartz krystallen der svinger/vibrer/deformerer når den er udsat for en strøm.Her er det elektronik (digital logisk system) der tæller svingningerne. Nøjagtighed: 32 768 svingninger per sekund – approx. 10^(-13)

Så kom atom uret: Cs atomer bruges her. 

"A Cæsium-133 atom has a ground state with a hyperfine structure, meaning the electron can have two slightly different energy levels based on whether its spin is aligned or anti-aligned with the nuclear spin.

When hit with microwave radiation at the exact frequency of 9.192.631.770 Hz (cycles per second), the atoms transition between the lower state to the higher state. That gives us a way to tune the microwave radiation precisely and we can tune other light frequencies against that."

Med andre ord så tæller uret 9 192 631 770 cycles/flips til at definere et sekund. Det giver en nøjagtihed på ~ 10^(-16). Vi er altså ude på det 16 decimal i vores nøjagtighed af sekundet.

Dette er SI (International System of Units) definitionen af et sekund. I dag er international atomtid TAI (Temps Atomique International) givet ved middelvisningen af omkring 400 cæsiumure, der står på 50 nationale laboratorier rundt omkring i verden.

Der er planer om at lave en ny SI definition af sekundet i 2030, hvor man vil bruge et andet atom der giver en bedre nøjagtighed. 

Det er der brug for. I dag i laboratorier måler man tid med en nøjagtighed på 18-20 decimaler, og så er det mærkeligt at sekundet er dårligere defineret. 

Det er her i 2026 at man vil beslutte sig for hvilket atom man så vil bruge. Det skal helst være et atom der har finstruktur hvor lyset skal have mange svingninger per sekund. 

En kandidat er 87^Sr som har 429000*10^9 svingninger per sekund. (Cs er 9GHz og Sr er 429 THz). 

En anden kandidat er Thorium: https://www.sciencealert.com/timekeeping-is-on-the-verge-of-a-giant-leap-in-accuracy-heres-why

Man bruger lasere til disse atom ure. Elerktroner er for store og klodsede til det. 

En nøjagtighed på 10^(-18) betyder at to urer der blev synkroniseret omkring 'the Big Bang' vil i dag kun være 1 sekund fra hinanden.

Hver gang nøjagtigheden er blevet bedre, er der opstået nye anvendelser, som vi ikke anede, vi havde brug for.

Rum - Tid

Universet som helhed har en universel tid, som skrider fremad, efterhånden som rummet udvider sig, men der findes også et andet tidsbegreb, nemlig den lokale tid.

Tiden løber ikke med samme samme hastighed alle steder. Du vil ikke selv mærke / måle det. Dit ur ser for dig altid ud til at gå rigtigt. Så uanset hvor i universet du sidder med dit Cs atom så giver den dig en tidsmåling som er korrekt (for dig).

Der er 2 effekter:

1) I et tyngdefelt: (gravitational time dilation)

Den ene effekt af det her er når der er tyngdekraft. Når du er i tyngdefelt, er du er et sted hvor rummet er blevet bukket. Så løber tiden langsommere, end hvis du står et sted, hvor der ikke er blevet bukket. 

Altså, når jeg prøver at forestille mig det her, så lukker jeg øjnene og laver et billede i mit hoved. Jeg forestiller mig et stort netværk af af linjer. Nogen der går den ene vej og nogen der går på tværs, altså vinkelret på de første linier.
Det er sådan et helt fint og ensartet net. Der er lige langt mellem hvert eneste krydspunkt. Sådan ser jeg nettet hele vejen ud til alle sider rundt om mig og hele vejen opad, fordi det faktisk ikke bare er et stykke papir. Det er faktisk et 3D objekt der går hele vejen op og ned også. Hele rummet er pænt og flot, fordi der er lige langt i mellem hvert eneste krydspunkt over det hele. 

Nu tager jeg og putter en masse ind et sted, og det vrider mine bitte små målestokke i mit fine spin. Nu er der ikke længere lige langt mellem krydspunkterne. Der er blevet hevet i det og nu er der længere imellem knudepunkterne.

Mit fine net er ikke kun rum, det er også tid og min tid løber en bestemt afstand imellem 2 knudepunkter. Nu hvor mit net er blever forvrænget af massen er tiden også blevet forvrænget. Man kan sige at et sekund er længden mellem 2 knuder. For at gøre noget abstrakt og usynligt håndgribeligt. Tiden er en fysisk størrelse, og den hører sammen med rumtiden. Og min masse har ødelagt mit flotte fine netværk. Så er du der ikke lige langt imellem knuderne. Hvor massen har hevet i mit net og der er blevet længere imellem knuderne går tiden også langsommere. Du opdager det ikke, for dig er det normalt. Dig og dit Cs atom synes alt ser normalt ud. Men jeg kigger udefra på dig, og det ligner at du bevæger dig i slow motion.

En samling masse, som fx. Jorden bukker altså rum-tiden og skaber hvad vi normalt kalder et tyngdefelt. I et tyngdefelt går tiden langsommere. 

Det vil sige at på jorden går tiden langsommere i en dal end på en bjergtinde.

2) Når man bevæger sig går ens ur også langsommere: (Relativistic time dilation)

Tiden går også langsommere når man bevæger sig. Især tæt på lysets hastighed ser man en stor forskel.

Når ens tid går langsommere er det ikke noget man kan mærke. Det er fordi set indefra løber tiden altid lige hurtigt. Det er først når vi sammenligner vores ure at man kan se at tiden ikke løb lige hurtigt over det hele.

GPS-systemer er baseret på satellitter, der suser rundt om Jorden med høj fart. De bestemmer din position ud fra tidsmålinger med atomure i fire satellitter 20.200 km over jordoverfladen.

Tiden går langsommere for disse satellitter, end den gør for menneskene på Jorden. Det har man måttet kompensere for. GPS-systemet har derfor en indbygget relativistisk korrektion, så man undgår fejlmålinger.

Uden korrektion ville positionsmålingerne efter bare én dag skyde omkring 10 kilometer forkert.

Videnskab.dk har flere artikler om tid. Her er en af dem:
https://videnskab.dk/naturvidenskab/tiden-gaar-eller-goer-den

At Rejse i tiden
Man kan udnytte den relativistiske tids-udviddelse til at lave Tidsrejser (kun fremad):
Man kan rejse frem i tiden, ved at rejse i et rumskib tæt på lysets hastighed og dermed sænke tidens hastighed for en selv. Når man kommer tilbage til Jorden er der gået mange flere år end man selv har oplevet i sit rumskib. Man har så rejst frem i tiden. Men der er ikke nogen måde at rejse tilbage i tiden på.

Er tidsrejser mulige?
Det er stadigvæk op til diskussion om tidsrejser er muligt. De fysiske love der beskriver vores verden giver ikke et endegyldigt svar.

Fysikken beskriver virkeligheden, og med de her fysiske love kan man forudsige hvad der sker. Det er fordi naturen følger nogle love. Men de her love er ikke nogen der definerer hvad virkeligheden er. De beskriver virkeligheden, og de beskriver virkeligheden inden for den afgrænsning de kan. Det er matematiske formler, som beskriver din virkelighed. 

I disse matematiske formler, er der overhovedet ingenting, der siger, at man ikke må rejse tiden. Man kommer lidt i problemer fordi man skal bruge negativ energi som er noget der måske ikke eksisterer. 

Man kan godt komme til at misforstå dette, fordi de er så gode til at beskrive vores virkelighed. Så kan man godt komme til at tro at man kan rejse tiden fordi at lovene ikke modsiger det. Det er ikke nødvendigvis rigtigt. Når man har et sæt love, så skal man sætte afgrænsningsbetingelser (boundery conditions), og der mangler man egentlig bare at skrive: Gælder for t> 0. Det er der ingen der har gjort. Det er fordi at vi aldrig nogensinde er kommet derud, hvor at vi har udfordret. Vi har ikke rejst til tiden. (Altså ud over den naturlige fremad).
Lovene beskriver virkeligheden, som vi kender den. Og det kan jo meget godt lige pludselig være at man finder ud af et eller andet. Det sker jo indenfor videnskaben. 

Du har brug for noget negativ energi og du har brug for altså alle mulige ting som vi ikke engang ved om eksisterer for at kunne gøre det. 

Men så ville man kunne. 

Hvis nu at vi går tilbage til det store net med knudepunkter. Så har man en ide om at man ved hjælp af stor masse (altså sorte huller) kan fordreje det hele og få det til at så altså lave et langt overflødighedshorn. Hornets spids skal så ramme ned hvor at det det også starter. På den måde kan man lave en krumning i tid, som kunne bruges til tidsrejser. Alt sammen stadigvæk fantasier.

Man skal rejse både i Tid og i Rum, ellers er Jorden et andet sted.

Tidsrejse paradokser

Bedstefar paradokset: hvis man kommer tilbage og møder sin bedstefar og slår ham ihjel. Hvad sker der så med en selv? -fordi du levede jo aldrig, så derfor så kunne du ikke rejse tilbage i tiden.

Bootstrap Paradox (Ontological Paradox): An object or piece of information is sent back in time, becoming the cause of itself. For example, a time traveler gives Shakespeare a copy of his own plays. The question arises: who actually wrote the plays?

Predestination Paradox (Closed Loop): A traveler goes back in time to prevent an event, but their actions in the past are actually what cause that event to happen in the first place.

The "Writer" Paradox: A traveler brings a book back in time and gives it to the author before it is written. The book exists in an endless loop with no original author.

Hitler Paradox: A common variant of the Grandfather Paradox where a traveler goes back to kill a historical figure like Hitler, but in doing so, eliminates the reason for their own future mission, creating a contradiction

Ofte er løsningen af disse paradokser at der er parallel universer, og at man derfor ikke forhindrede sin egen fødsel, men fødsel af en variant af en selv i et paralel univers.

Hvis Vi skulle bygge en tidsmaskine:

En tidsrejsemaskine er nok ikke en æske du sætter dig ind i. Det er nok heller ikke et rumskib der sætter dig ind i. Derimod er det nok mere som at lave et Anker i rumtiden og lave halvdelen af en bro.

Så skal den 2. Halvdel laves fra fremtiden af.
Man kan så ikke rejse længere tilbage i tiden end da broen blev bygget fra nutidens side af. Og man kan ikke rejse længere frem i tiden end til der hvor den anden ende af broen er blevet bygget.

Lad os sige at vi laver broen nu. Vi har nu fundet det her mærkelige materiale vi skal bruge. Sådan noget negativ energi og noget alt muligt eksotisk, som vi har været ude på den anden kant af universet. Og så laver vi simpelthen en bro (måske er port et bedre billede) 

Vi åbner en port i rummet, og den ene halvdel har vi lavet. Der er åbent hele vejen igennem, men den anden halvdel er lavet fra fremtidens side af. Så kan man så kun rejse imellem de 2 tidspunkter.

Altså du kan ikke så pludselig sige: "Nu vil jeg gerne rejse længere tilbage." Jamen, det kan du ikke, fordi der var broen endnu ikke lavet.

En ny og anderledes måde at kigge på Tid:

A physicist has proposed a mind-bending new idea: what if time, not space, is the true foundation of our universe—and not just one direction of time, but three? According to Gunther Kletetschka from the University of Alaska Fairbanks, time may have three dimensions, while space could simply be a byproduct. Instead of the classic four-dimensional spacetime we’ve long accepted, this theory envisions reality built on a six-dimensional fabric: three time dimensions and three space dimensions.

Think of it like a painting: traditional physics says space is the canvas and time flows across it. Kletetschka flips that—time is the canvas, and space is just the paint. His work builds on previous theories that explored three-dimensional time but were mostly theoretical. His version, however, claims to make real-world predictions, including accurately calculating the masses of known particles like electrons and quarks.

Three-dimensional time means there could be other “directions” of time—like stepping sideways into a different outcome of the same day, rather than just moving forward. But don’t worry: Kletetschka’s model still respects cause and effect. He believes this idea could even help scientists finally unify quantum mechanics and gravity into a long-sought “theory of everything.”

While intriguing, it’s worth noting that this theory hasn’t yet been widely accepted. It was published in a lower-profile journal and hasn’t undergone rigorous peer validation. But if it holds up, it could completely reshape how we think about the universe—and ourselves.

Three-Dimensional Time: A Mathematical Framework for Fundamental Physics
Reports in Advances of Physical Sciences 2025 09 
10.1142/S2424942425500045

https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202507.0410/v1

Time Crystals:

Time crystals are similar to regular crystals in that they are based on structures of atoms that repeat. Rather than repeating across three dimensions of space, these ones change in a set pattern over time. 

Så en Tids-Krystal står of skifter mellem 2 forskellige tilstande.

Først forudsagt at de skulle eksistere i 2012. Først opdaget i 2016.

Og nu har man lavet en, som er så stor at man kan se den.

https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-physicists-created-a-time-crystal-that-we-can-actually-see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z4dY6qVrxo

Subjektive opfattelse af tid:

Tid kan føles som om den går hurtigt og langsomt.

References:

https://www.sciencealert.com/time

https://videnskab.dk/naturvidenskab/hvad-er-tid/

Ubegribeligt: Podcast DR . Afsnit om tid:
https://www.dr.dk/lyd/p1/ubegribeligt/ubegribeligt-2025/tid-genbesoegt-11162505177

1) Jordens Magnetfelt

2) Mennesker påvirker Jordens massefordeling og dermed magnetfeltet

3) Plastik

4) Temperaturen for 2025 er kommet ind

5) Astronauts return early (a non story?)
6) JWST black hole ripping through space:

7) Solformørkelse i Spanien

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1:

Magnetisk Nord pol vandrer:

https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-magnetic-north-pole-is-officially-moving-scientists-just-updated-its-location

Earth's Magnetic North Pole Is Officially Moving – Scientists Just Updated Its Location : ScienceAlert

Jordens magnetfelt har en Anomali:

https://www.sciencealert.com/vast-anomaly-in-earths-magnetic-field-keeps-growing-satellites-reveal

Vast Anomaly in Earth's Magnetic Field Keeps Growing, Satellites Reveal : ScienceAlert

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2)

Humanity Has Dammed So Much Water It's Shifted Earth's Magnetic Poles : ScienceAlert

https://www.sciencealert.com/humanity-has-dammed-so-much-water-its-shifted-earths-magnetic-poles

As we trap water behind dams, not only does it remove water from the oceans, thus leading to a global sea level fall, it also distributes mass in a different way around the world.

Extra weight added to a spinning sphere pulls the weighted part towards the equator, shifting the axis around which the sphere spins. So, redistributing Earth's surface weight re-orientates its spin axis, whether that be through damming water, melting glaciers, or groundwater removal.
But it's only Earth's outer crust floating over its gooey inner parts – not the inner goo generating the magnetic field – that shift, leading to a different part of Earth's surface sitting over our planet's inner magnetic north.
So, while north itself hasn't really moved in space, Earth's surface has shifted around, over the top of it. This phenomenon is called true polar wander.

https://www.sciencealert.com/earths-flipping-magnetic-field-heard-as-a-sound-is-an-unnerving-horror

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Plastik

The primary source of plastic is
fossil fuels, specifically crude oil and natural gas. Over 99% of plastic is produced from these non-renewable hydrocarbon sources, which are refined into monomers like ethylene and propylene, and then polymerized into plastic materials

3) Jagten på det nye plastik

https://interestingengineering.com/science/biodegradable-plastic-made-from-bamboo

Plastik fra Avokado sten:

https://worldbiomarketinsights.com/biofase-develops-biopolymers-from-avocado-pits/

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4) 

In 2025, the global average surface temperature was approximately 1.44∘C-

1.47∘C

above the pre-industrial (1850–1900) level. It was confirmed as the third-warmest year on record, trailing behind 2024 and 2023 despite the cooling influence of a La Niña pattern. 

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5) Astronauts return early

https://www.sciencealert.com/nasa-brings-astronauts-home-early-after-unprecedented-medical-issue-in-space?

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6) JWST black hole ripping through space:

https://www.sciencealert.com/jwst-confirms-first-runaway-supermassive-black-hole-tearing-through-space

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7) Solformørkelse i Spanien. Man kan komme på rejse med Michael Linden Vørnle

https://smilrejser.dk/spanien/solformoerkelse-i-spanien-med-astrofysiker-michael-linden-voernle