✍️ Comment by Russian Ambassador to South Africa Roman #Ambarovpublished by TV BRICS media outlet on August 6, 2025
Currently, more than 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣South Africans are studying in higher education programs in Russia. This includes those who enrolled through the quota provided by the Russian Government to South Africa, as well as those studying on a contractual basis. In addition to Moscow and St. Petersburg, local applicants choose universities in Saratov, Tambov, Astrakhan, and Kursk. Russian higher education is in demand in fields such as medicine, engineering, mathematics, and computer science.
A degree earned in Russia is highly valued, even though in some fields graduates must have their qualifications recognized before they can work in South Africa (for example, medical professionals — due to South Africa’s unique geographic and climatic conditions).
Some of the students who decide to pursue higher education in Russia receive co-funding from South Africa’s Department of Higher Education and Training. The support is based on certain criteria, one of which is the obligation to return home and work for a certain period after completing their studies.
Indeed, many South Africans dream of studying in Russia. Allow me to share a heartwarming story of one such dream that came true 👇
Benedict, a resident of the “New Jerusalem” orphanage in Midrand, who lost both parents and spent 11 years in the orphanage, had a strong desire to study in Russia. She took part in online Russian language courses organized by Saint Petersburg State University specifically for interested South African residents. In 2024, she applied for admission to the Patrice Lumumba Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia#RUDN and was accepted. As a full orphan, she could not afford airfare or living expenses in Moscow. However, the Russian community in South Africa, which has long supported the orphanage, stepped in to help.
Benedict is now in Moscow. She has already completed the preparatory program at Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas and will soon begin her main studies at RUDN.
Water can boil and freeze simultaneously at its "triple point," a specific, low-pressure state (0.01°C at 611.657 pascals) where solid, liquid, and gas phases coexist in equilibrium. Under these precise vacuum conditions, water molecules with enough energy escape as vapor (boiling), while the rapid heat loss causes remaining molecules to freeze.
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On Pioneer 11
In December 1974 Pioneer 11 skimmed within 27.000 miles of Jupiters southern polar region.
Observations in the infrared from Pioneer 10 a year earlier had already indicated that the planet was much brighter than would be the case had it merely been a planet reflecting light.
D.A. Allen noted that Jupiter appeared so bright that it must be radiating more energy than it could absorb from the Sun.
"When the long wavelength data are also included, we find that Jupiter radiates nearly three times the energy it receives." - D.A. Allen, Infrared: The New Astronomy (1975)
This discovery should have been an earthquake in astronomy, but they kept being stubborn.
With the right electrical input, Jupiter (the Sky Father) could light up in former glory.
#physics
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🫧"Mehrli maktab" da fizika fanini o'qitish, avvalambor, o'quvchilarni zamonaviy fizika yutuqlari bilan tanishtirishni, hamda o'quvchilar ongida tabiiy -ilmiy dunyoqarashni shakllantirishni taqozo qiladi.
🌊Fizika tabiatdagi hodisa va voqealarni hamda ularning qonuniyatlarini o'rganuvchi fandir.
"Mehrli maktab " da fizika fanini o'qitishda yangi shakl va uslublarini faol joriy etish ham maqsadga muvofiqdir.
🌈Shu maqsadda o'quv jarayonida zamonaviy AKTdan foydalanish samarali natija bermoqda. O'quv mashg'ulotlar davomida "Birligini top!", "Xotira mashqi", "Olimlar gulshani", "Kamalak ranglari", "Formula daraxti", "Kashfiyotlar shahri" metodlaridan foydalanib darslar tashkil etiladi.
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Thor still thunderous. (Current NASA footage.)
Any more proof needed that the nature of the universe is electrical?
Our ancient gods are still out there.
It's crucial to understand mythology to accept this fact.
#physics
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https://youtu.be/iJfw6lDlTuA?list=PL701CD168D02FF56F
关于理论物理学的入门级视频,The Theoretical Minimum 系列(理论物理的最低理解要求)。由 Leonard Susskind 授课,理论物理学家,弦理论(String theory)早期几个先驱之一,曾是一名水管工。
对于拓宽知识和丰富体验,纪录片和教学视频都很不错。这个视频系列对理论物理学的入门吸收和拓展也刚好。之前 HN 网站还看到推荐的一个理论物理的博客学习 How to become a GOOD Theoretical Physicist ,也可以关注。迷人的“闻道”之旅。#physics
On the mysterious handbags of the ancients
Although I do not agree with the Thunderbolts people in every detail, they have great ideas and explanations for a lot of things.
They recently released a video, explaining what the mysterious "Handbag of the Gods" might actually be. This handbag can be found all around the globe in ancient reliefs with no connecting culture.
In short: it is a representation of an extreme electrical discharge event, seen as titanic storm.
Watch the video! It also explains to some degree, why we see severe weather conditions and earthquakes.
#physics#mythology
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8C2OdSbw84
On friar Georges Lemaitre
Friar Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian priest and astrophysicist, published a paper in 1927 in the Annals of the Scientific Society of Brussel that first presented the idea of an expanding cosmos. In 1931, Lemaitre proposed what later became known as the 🔗Big Bang theory of the origin of the universe.
The Catholic Church honoured Lemaitre's work: he was elected to the Pontificial Academy of Sciences (sic!) in 1936 and named prelate in 1960.
By contrast, in 1948, astronomers in the atheist Soviet Union were urged to condemn the Big Bang as a reactionary theory helping clericalism, a hostility shared by many scientists and philosophers until the 1960s.
Besides showing the compatibility of faith and science, the case of Lemaitre illustrates the way in which minds and cultures shaped by the belief that (the Abrahamic) God is a Trinity of reason and love have proved fruitful in perceiving order in the universe.
Moreover, it is arguable that belief in (the Abrahamic) God who is beyond creation has freed us to theorise about the causation and change of the cosmos as a whole, rather than simply accepting the totality of material reality as an eternal, unchanging given.
#physics#history
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On the celestial mechanics and the past of the Solar system
A follower of this channel pointed out a video I want to share with you. It contains a brief summary of how the mechanics of the Solar system work and explain on point what this channel tells you about mythology.
Please watch and share, this video solves everything you need to know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RtGal_-KXU
#physics#mythology#history
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Mulugeta Bekele: the jailed and tortured scientist who kept #Ethiopian#physics alive
Mulugeta Bekele paid a heavy price for remaining in #Ethiopia in the 1970s and 1980s. While many other academics had fled their homeland to avoid being targeted by its military rulers, Mulugeta did not.
He stayed to teach #physics, almost single-handedly keeping it alive in the country. But Mulugeta was arrested and brutally tortured by members of the #Derg, Ethiopia’s ruling military junta. “I still have scars,” he says when we meet at his tiny, second-floor office at Addis Ababa University (AAU) in January 2026.
Gentle and softly spoken, Mulugeta, 79, is formally retired but still active as a research physicist. In 2012 his efforts led to him being awarded the Sakharov prize by the American Physical Society (APS) “for his tireless efforts in defence of human rights and freedom of expression and education....
https://physicsworld.com/a/mulugeta-bekele-the-jailed-and-tortured-scientist-who-kept-ethiopian-physics-alive/