Sunday, July 24, 2022

Black Hole as a Consideration in Explanation for the Recently Detected Unusual Fast Radio Burst (FRB) Heartbeat Pulse from Outer Space



Black Hole as a Consideration in Explanation for a Recently Detected Unusual FRB Pulse from Outer Space, In Regard to a Recent Science-Related News Articles on a Mysterious .20-Second FRB Pulse Recurring for the Unprecedented Total Duration of 3 Seconds and of the Source Energy Output of Hundreds of Millions of Suns

 

On 07-19-2022 I read a science news article on the mysterious .20-decimal second, recurrent FRB resembling a heartbeat pattern and lasting for a record total duration for an FRB of 3 seconds.  The article reported that the energy source of that FRB would have to have been that of hundreds of millions of solar masses, and that pulsar or magnetar neutron stars that otherwise could explain the source of past FRBs did not fit as sources because of their single digit masses, equated with energy magnitude, recurrent heartbeat pattern and comparative, to past FRBs, extreme duration.  I attempted to save the article, to which I posted the following comment; however, the article did not save.  So I tried to research it online but could not find an article mentioning the reference to the hundreds of millions of solar masses but I did find a reputable science article on the same FRB without reference to the said solar-mass energy, whose click-on hyperlink is posted at the conclusion of this herein Twitter post of mine.  The comment I posted was:  “Celestial FRBs (fast radio-wavelength bursts) associated with the energy output of hundreds of millions of times of the energy magnitude of or output produced by our sun, our solar-planetary system's star, within a decimal second or three seconds could only be produced by a supermassive black hole, of equivalence or greater in mass, of some kind and in some way, and nothing else.” (I actually used the term milliseconds, which I saw in the numerous news stories I read on this particular FRB but which I knew was the incorrect term, instead of the term decimal seconds, an imperfect term but the best fit, in my aforementioned quoted comment.)  Supermassive black holes with such magnitudes of solar masses are well known to astronomers and human astronomy to exist.

 

In afterthought, I add the caveat that there is a weak outside chance that a small galaxy or large star cluster (a globular star cluster) with hundreds of millions of solar masses, rotating globularly as a unit, at the extreme speed of a pulsar or magnetar neutron star, or a black hole, that could be the energy source and cause of this particular heartbeat repeating FRB, a weak chance because neither a small galaxy nor globular cluster of stars has ever shown anything close to the observed necessary extreme spin velocity to generate the decimal-second time of any FRB, including the concerned FRB, whereas pulsar and magnetar neutron stars commonly have and so have black holes, some black holes of which have been radio-telescopically clocked to spin at half the speed of light, circa 335,000,000 miles per hour.  Nor has any galaxy, small or large, nor globular star cluster made of up of only or primarily either or a mix  of pulsar and/or magnetar neutron stars, or all variety of neutron stars, ever been reported to have been observed in the astronomical observations of astronomy.  Among other explanations as to how a black hole or black holes could produce this and some of the other FRBs, is the one that when two or more black holes merge, they probably generate more than outwardly going gravitational shock waves, insofar as their individually orbiting huge and powerful accretion disks of volatile chemical gas and particulate matter, and photospheres, most probably collide during their merger and ignite or trigger a chaos of astronomically large and powerful explosions of all possible kinds, possibly including nuclear explosions, that as a result radiate their own concomitant, with gravitational waves, radio frequency or wavelength blasts, and/or nuclear explosion-related EMP (electromagnetic-pulse) blast/s, into and through the surrounding outer space of the universe.  Supermassive black holes, of hundreds of millions to billions of solar masses in magnitude, might have gravitationally entrained orbiting satellites, beyond their accretion disks and toruses, of stars, with or without celestial-body solar systems, whose stars might include neutron stars, maybe pulsars and/or magnetars, and binary, or multisystem, stars, that are absorbed in, and smash up during, the black hole mergers and in some situations are cause for or contributors of cause for the concerned FRBs.  

https://news.mit.edu/2022/astronomers-detect-radio-heartbeat-billions-light-years-earth-0713

 

Sunday, July 17, 2022

Thoughts on Why Dinosaurs Such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, i.e., Meraxes Gigas, Have Small Arms and Hands

Thoughts on Why Dinosaurs Such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, i.e., Meraxes Gigas, Have Small Arms and Hands

 

My Updated and Complete Reply to a Science Article Posted on Facebook on 07-08-2022 on Why Dinosaurs with a Similar Body Architecture to That of T-Rex, i.e., Meraxes Gigas, Have Small Arms and Hands (or biological analogs of hands), cited online article’s click-on hyperlink at https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/giant-meat-eating-dinosaur-species-discovered-argentina/story?id=86386556&cid=social_fb_abcn

 

The precise reason that their arms are small can be deduced from looking at extant bipedal or semi-bipedal species such as humans, (penguins), kangaroos, wallabies, kangaroo mice, praying mantises (insects that typically stand on 4 legs, with two others functioning as arms, instead of 6 legs that are the standard for insects), as well as less so the great apes and lesser apes, respectively of chimps, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans and gibbons, Barbary apes, as well as the ground-dwelling monkeys of various species of baboons, which is because they no longer walk and run, as a matter of course, or characteristically, at all or materially as much on their front limbs, which were previously strictly legs and feet, when they were four-legged, four-footed animals, with all limbs, and their attached four feet too then, ground-bound and propping up and supporting their bodies and body weight. With the freeing of their once front legs and feet from being ground-bound and weight-bearing and the repurposing of the front limbs and feet to being characteristically arms and hands free/d from bearing body weight, or in such a transition as in the case of the referenced apes and baboons, there would be, over generations of their descendant posterity, substantial or appreciable bone, muscle-mass and connective tissue diminishment of or loss for them, in a sense adaptation-related limited atrophy for them in their new bio-architectural form and usage as arms and hands or hand analogs. The more characteristically upright standing a species is in its mobility and awake-state activities, over a numerous critical number of generations of descendent offspring, the less in appearance and function its leg-and-feet front limbs would tend to be and the more arm-and-hand appearing and functioning they would tend to be. The hind legs and feet of the changed animal species would tend to gain size and bone, muscle and connective-tissue mass with them taking over the burden and workload of bearing the weight of the body on their own that is no longer or much less supported by the front limbs (except in the case of the praying mantis insect, retaining four legs for standing and holding up the bulk of its body while using its forelimbs as arms and hands or analogs of them), become or in the state of transition to arms and hands, or analogs of hands, [as adjuncts] for predation.  

 

In the case of T-rex body-architecture shaped, bipedal dinosaurs with enormous heads and bodies and small arms and proportional hands or hand analogs to their arms, because of the giant size of their heads and protruding mouths and many huge teeth, like hyenas, wolves, dogs, monitor lizards, alligators and crocodiles of our time, they would both be superlatively efficient bite-attack hunters and bite fighters as well as protective of their head and the rest of their body with their greatly larger head, mouth and many such teeth, with the additional advantage afforded to them with their characteristic upright mobility stature of panoramic vision over their environments, prey and combatant competitors bound to the ground with their four legs and four feet attached to their legs, and of comparatively rapid upper-body, including perhaps independently their head  and whole-body swaying, swiveling, bending forward and back and turning and turnaround ability, as well as the potential or capability to rapidly hop high and long lengths with both of their bipedal legs and feet and to kick with a leg and foot, obviating their need for using their arms for hunting and combat or defense, although their arms and hands or analogs of hands very well may have been formidable for swatting off and felling lesser prey and pack or leaping predator-competitor animals with them for  their common prey animals that were not large dinosaurs, such as lions, tigers, bears, etc., if they existed during their geological era, or small and modest-sized dinosaurs of their era.  Incidentally, lions, tigers, cats of all kinds in general and bears have dual use front limbs that function as two of their normal four legs and feet for ground mobility and as a set of two arms and clawed paws for climbing trees and swatting, mauling, clutching, subduing and killing prey and other predator-competitor animals.  Unlike with male cats, which have retractable genitalia that are internal until they engage in sexual intercourse, it is risky and a disadvantage for canines to bipedally stand and locomote upright because in doing so they would, especially males, expose their externalized vulnerable reproductive and pain highly susceptible genitalia to assault and injury or destruction by other attack animals, a disadvantage in upright stature and locomotion that dinosaurs, predecessors and relatives, if not the progenitors, of birds, with a T-rex like body architecture, might not have had in their possibly having had, for males, internal genitals, kept within the cloaca as in the case of birds, that could, like in male birds, be externalized for reproductive coitus with females.  In societally primitive humans, clothing, such as a loin cloth or covering at a minimum, as well as the human weapons of stick or torch wielded fire, knives, spears and shields could respectively hide, and possibly protect against and fend off or kill attacker animals before they could attack their genitalia.  What the latter have in common with the referenced primate species is that both of these kinds of animals regularly or occasionally climb up, about in and down trees and are lineage climbers of and residents or sojourners in or of trees, which work as an ecological niche in establishing and maintaining the arms and hands or paws of their putatively once strictly front legs and feet.  The arms and bladed or clawed hands of T-rex body-like dinosaurs could have been used to push and poke, or slash, or possibly even stab, other animals, and scrape meat from the bones of a carcass that they might desire to savor while eating it, and to help them upright themselves, their bodies, from falls to the ground or from sitting or reclining related to rest or sleep, as in pushing in a needed direction (on a side or from side to side and/or below and behind), along with their tails, against the ground to initiate the uplifting of their bodies, as well as to help them seat or recline themselves for rest or sleep and to lift and handle their infants and to tussle with and box one another like kangaroos and wallabies of our age ritualistically do.  Their tremendous size and weight insinuate that their body architecture and type were highly successful in feeding and prospering themselves in hunting and fighting.  Though their circa 3-foot-long arms might have been as large and powerful as those of the most powerful grizzly bears of our time, the small size of their arms relative to their huge dinosaur bodies would make more biological sense in purposefulness if they attached to penguin-like, bat-like or great-blue-heron-bird-like, etc., wings on the T-rex dinosaur model scale.  I saw a video of a penguin facing down on glacial or snow-covered ground lift its body upright by pressing its wings forward against that ground. 

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Photos of kangaroos:  https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/kangaroo

Photos of wallabies:  https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/wallabies

Photos of praying mantises:  https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/praying-mantis

Photos of penguins, https://www.istockphoto.com/search/2/image?phrase=penguins+photos

Photos of winged bats:  https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/bat-wing

Photos of great heron birds:  https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/bird-of-prey-hunt, https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/bird-catching-fish, https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/grey-heron, https://www.istockphoto.com/photos/Great-Blue-Heron  

The cited online article’s click-on hyperlink is https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/giant-meat-eating-dinosaur-species-discovered-argentina/story?id=86386556&cid=social_fb_abcn