alt Hacker NewsAI image recognition detects bubble-like structures in the universe
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'Bubbles' could imply something like space-time changes, and in face a couple of comments speculatively / hopefully read them like this: [1], [2]
But they're (sadly?) much simpler: Spitzer bubbles 'are formed by radiation and winds from massive stars, which carve out holes within surrounding dust clouds.'
So really just the blast radius!
-- https://www.spitzer.caltech.edu/image/ssc2013-05a1-bubbles-w...
I would _love_ it if either of both these comments were true, by the way. Space-time can be boring and restrictive. What if...? I love the idea of bubbles reflecting a smaller universe and what it might hint about FTL, for example, and I live in hope that we'll find abberations and abnormalities like this.
I truly hope that the common theme of the likes of "JWST Just Found Something Which Should Not Exist" etc will not be augmented by stuff like "we used AI(tm) to figure out X, Y, Z".
The last thing we need is hallucinations fucking up the more grounded astrophysics. I'm not saying that is what is happening, I just worry about stuff like this. AI causing us to bark up the wrong tree, and so forth.
Remember when everyone suddenly started seeing channels on Mars?
I had eyeballed one in a random image from Hubble few years ago! Finally found my answer of what it was
https://x.com/jharohit/status/1479100020049678339?s=46
Great use of AI!
You wanna hear my evidence-free cosmic structure theory? Of course you do.
If you shine a laser through a mass of soap bubbles it will unsurprisingly split into lots of smaller beams due to a mix of refraction and reflection. I have long held the suspicion that there's an isomorphism between gravitational and surface tension structures, that the multiplicity and distance of galaxies may be somewhat illusory, and that many of them are translated/rotated reflections of nearer ones. Laugh now, perhaps gasp in wonder later.
Could be relevant to Conformal cyclic cosmology
> In 2010, Penrose and Vahe Gurzadyan published a preprint of a paper claiming that observations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) made by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) and the BOOMERanG experiment contained an excess of concentric circles compared to simulations based on the standard Lambda-CDM model of cosmology, quoting a 6-sigma significance of the result.
Clearly DSE (Death Star Events)
These are probably mostly supernova remnants, but also, if you believe the "inside" (i.e. other side) of Black Holes are White Holes, it would make perfect sense to see White Holes in our universe where stuff is sort of "falling into" our universe and exploding outward. There might be an actual hierarchy of these kinds of things so that what we think was our "Big Bang" was actually the location where a White Hole emerged thru which flowed everything in our universe.
Can’t believe they don’t link to the actual paper: https://academic.oup.com/pasj/advance-article/doi/10.1093/pa...