Похоже, рубрика "Мысли за месяц" не пользуется большой популярностью у моей аудитории. Хотя частично я связываю это с интерфейсом открытия лонгридов. Абсолютному большинству людей при скролле ленты (в VK) или в момент быстрой реакции на уведомление от канала (в TG) лениво делать дополнительный клик и переключать контекст своего экрана, это можно понять.
Отсюда, кстати, и всякие автозапуски видео практически на всех платформах, где вообще есть видео в каком-то общем потоке: у VK в ленте, у TG в чате. Так просто работает внимание человека. Если видео не начать воспроизводить, за него не зацепится внимание, а делать клик для старта пользователь не станет. Для других видов контента это тоже справедливо. Много раз уже говорил, что интернет с длинными текстами мы потеряли, и возвращение человечества в эту канву маловероятно.
Тем не менее, несколько мыслей в прошедшем месяце я записал, приведу две из них.
Во-первых, я узнал этимологию слова "кенгурятник" применительно к бамперу для внедорожника. Ну, помните, наверное, так называли бампера у джипов, на которых ездили новые русские в девяностые и начале двухтысячных, а потом эти бампера запретили. Слово "кенгурятник" я слышал ещё тогда, и думал, что это какой-то сленг. Но оказывается это буквально изобретение из Австралии: бампер, защищающий машину при столкновении с кенгуру.
Во-вторых, я купил электронный настенный диммер Aqara для системы умного дома. У диммера есть функция нажатия и функция поворота. Я запрограммировал на нажатие включение/выключение торшера в кабинете, а на поворот: его яркость. Но почему-то нажатие срабатывало не всегда, периодически просто ничего не происходило. Поскольку товары Aqara весьма качественные и, как правило, работают без сбоев, я сделал предположение и оказался прав: у диммера есть ещё и третий режим "Поворот в нажатом состоянии". Иногда я при нажатии случайно доворачивал диммер, это интерпретировалось движком как отдельная команда, на которую ничего не записано. Оставалось только продублировать на неё включение/выключение торшера, и всё стало чётко. Буквально иллюстрация фразы "не баг, а фича".
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🪐 At the center of the elliptical galaxy Abell 2261, astronomers discovered one of the largest galactic cores ever observed—so vast and diffuse that it raised the question of whether a supermassive black hole had vanished from sight. This mysterious "missing black hole" has led scientists to wonder if extreme interactions in this galaxy could have warped space-time so severely that the black hole—and its surrounding region—may have been ejected or displaced, providing a real-world example of how powerful gravity can dramatically reshape the structure of space itself. ✨
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🪐 The closest real parallel to a "wormhole" in our universe can be seen in the power of gravitational lensing, such as what occurs in the galaxy cluster Abell 370. Here, the cluster's immense gravity bends and stretches the path of light from distant galaxies, acting like a natural lens and showing how space-time itself can be warped and twisted on a cosmic scale—a vivid example of how gravity can create real space-time distortions in the universe. ✨
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🪐 The idea of wormholes comes from real equations in Einstein's theory of general relativity, which describes how gravity bends space and time. Some scientists believe that extreme cosmic objects like the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* at the center of our Milky Way could, in theory, warp space-time so much that shortcuts—wormholes—might exist, although none have ever been found. The bending of light and matter near these black holes is a real example of how space itself is stretched and twisted by gravity's power. ✨
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🪐 Just outside the event horizon of the supermassive black hole in galaxy NGC 1365, time slows significantly due to the black hole’s intense gravitational pull—a phenomenon called gravitational time dilation. For an observer far from NGC 1365, minutes near the black hole’s edge could translate into hours or even days in regular space, showing how extreme environments can dramatically stretch the flow of time itself. ✨
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🪐 In the galaxy cluster MACS J1206.2-0847, astronomers have mapped dramatic distortions of space-time caused by the cluster's enormous mass. This real effect, called gravitational lensing, bends and magnifies the light from even more distant galaxies behind it, turning MACS J1206.2-0847 into a cosmic lens that reveals objects otherwise hidden from our view. ✨
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🪐 In 2019, astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope observed the effects of extreme space-time distortion around the supermassive black hole in galaxy M87. The light from matter spiraling into this black hole was bent into a bright ring, revealing how gravity can warp space itself and create the famous "shadow"—a real demonstration of space-time being twisted by an enormous mass. ✨
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🪐 Einstein’s theory of relativity predicts dramatic space-time distortions in the violent heart of the galaxy M87, where its supermassive black hole bends not just light, but alters the very flow of time itself. As matter spirals inward, space-time warps so much that signals escaping from near the event horizon—the point of no return—are stretched and delayed, making M87’s core a real example of nature’s most extreme distortions. ✨
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🪐 Space-time, the "fabric" that weaves together space and time, is not always smooth—giant objects like the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy, Sagittarius A*, warp and stretch it so much that both light and time bend around them. These real cosmic distortions, predicted by Einstein’s theory of general relativity, are seen as stars orbit that black hole on paths twisted by its immense gravity, giving us direct evidence that space itself can be bent and curved by massive objects in the universe. ✨
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🪐 Astronomers have observed an unusual form of space-time distortion called "frame dragging" around the rapidly spinning black hole in the galaxy XTE J1550–564. Frame dragging is an effect predicted by Einstein’s relativity, where a rotating massive object actually twists nearby space and time, causing the orbits of matter and light around it to precess—showing in real life how intense gravity can physically drag space itself into motion. ✨
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🪐 In 2015, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope watched star light from behind the galaxy cluster Abell 3827 bend and split as it passed through the cluster, a real-life effect of space-time distortion called gravitational lensing. Gravity from massive clusters like Abell 3827 warps the space around them, so light takes curved paths and can appear as multiple, stretched images—direct evidence that space itself can be bent by gravity’s pull. ✨
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🪐 The speed of light acts as the ultimate speed limit in our universe—no information or object can travel faster than 299,792 kilometers per second, not even the most powerful pulses from the Crab Pulsar in the heart of the Crab Nebula. This constant speed is what lets astronomers measure vast cosmic distances, and it’s the reason we see stars, galaxies, and even supernova explosions like SN 1987A as they were in the past, not as they are right now. ✨
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🪐 In 2023, astronomers used the gravity of the massive galaxy cluster SMACS J0723.3–7327 to create a powerful "gravitational lens," sharply magnifying and stretching light from galaxies over 13 billion light-years away. This natural lens effect, where space-time bends around clusters and distorts the background like a cosmic funhouse mirror, provides one of the clearest real-world examples of how gravity can twist the fabric of the universe and reveal objects otherwise hidden from view. ✨
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