#time wave zero

[shopwitchvamp]

So as gauche as it's gonna be, I'm gonna be back to posting & boosting preorders despite everything :[ Like especially because I have all these amazing guest artists who put their hard work into designing for this set & have entrusted me with their artwork.. I don't want to let them down by having the collection fall flat. I wish I'd chosen different timing for these preorders but unfortunately there wasn't realistically any other time that would work since we'll be moving early next year. I hope you'll all understand that I've gotta keep trying to push forward. Thanks as always for your support, everyone 🖤

[intuitive-revelations]

Writing a post to do with Time Lord heartbeats and reading through a section of Time Zero for research, and it's fascinating after the relevant bit to see Eight fully explain the principles of gravitational wave detection (accurately, I'll add, as someone who worked on this stuff during my Master's project):

The Doctor slumped down in one of the folding chairs. He raised his two hands, index fingers extended as if there was a string between them. ‘Gravity waves,’ he said. ‘Not easy things to detect because they affect the world around them. So what do you do? You dig a tunnel. A very long tunnel. Long as you can, in fact. Let’s not worry about the curvature of the Earth for the moment, or how you focus the monitor to detect the source of the waves. . . But just imagine if you will that you have a completely flat tunnel perhaps, what, fifty miles long?’ ‘Fifty miles?’ Nesbitt was wondering where this was leading. ‘More if you can manage it. Then you set up a big laser and shine it along your tunnel. The clever thing now is that you’ve put a mirror at the other end. A perfect mirror, of course – flat, no blemishes, atomically accurate. What happens?’ He snapped his fingers and pointed at Lansing. The Corporal blinked. ‘The laser gets reflected back.’ ‘Exactly. Along the self-same line. And of course you’ve set it up so that the waves of light exactly match. The length of the tunnel from laser-tip to mirror is a perfect multiple of the wavelength of the laser light. Which means?’ The Doctor rippled his fingers, as if drawing the answer out of Lansing. ‘Well, it means the laser exactly matches up with itself.’ ‘Good. Excellent.’ The Doctor leaned forward. ‘Now along comes a gravity wave. They’re very small. And because they change the size of the ruler as well as the thing you’re measuring, you can’t detect them. But. . . ’ He paused and raised his finger, lecture-style. ‘But what happens to the tunnel?’ He waited for a couple of seconds before his expression betrayed his disappointment at the lack of an answer. ‘The tunnel changes length,’ he told them. ‘Just very slightly. The greater the gravity wave, the greater the distortion. And that means?’ ‘Well. . . ’ Lansing looked as Nesbitt, who shrugged. ‘Think about the laser,’ the Doctor prompted. ‘Its waves exactly match, remember. But if the tunnel changes length. . . ?’ ‘They no longer match!’ ‘Exactly right. Light’s wavelength isn’t affected by the gravity wave, so the two waves – the original and the reflected light – get ever so slightly out of synch. Bounce the light up and down the tunnel a few times, or even a few hundred times, and you’ll see the difference even more clearly. Or rather you won’t as it’s still so small. But you can detect it.’

Keep in mind, this novel came out in 2002. The first direct gravitational wave detections were made in 2015! Obviously the theory behind GW interferometers existed much longer and there was a long construction process before LIGO or VIRGO came online, but still interesting to see.

Some funny things to note:

1. Eight suggests building a tunnel 50 miles long, which isn't wrong of course, but is much longer than LIGO ended up needing, only being 4 km long.

2. It's mentioned a bit after that gravitational waves of the scale of nm are detected.

‘So how big are the gravity waves your chums in Whitehall have detected?’ ‘They’re talking in nanometres,’ Lansing said. ‘Except. . . ’ ‘That’s quite big,’ the Doctor admitted. ‘Except,’ Lansing went on, ‘they said the last one was off the scale.’

While the Doctor does say this is quite big, this is kinda an understatement! LIGO, which has an effective length (due to reflections) of 1120 km typically detects changes of length on the scale of 10^-19 m - about 10 billion times smaller! I don't think it's said how long (or effectively long) the detector in the book is, but it must be huge. If the "nm" signal was comparable to those typical signals we see (tbf it's obviously meant to be on the large side, but explicitly normal compared to a much larger detection in the book), that would seemingly correspond to a laser path length a good fraction of a light year!

TBF, the waves are artificial, so they could very well be very powerful, but it's still pretty extreme, and funny the Doctor makes such an understatement after discussing very realistic detection methods. Let's just say that if there was something producing waves that powerful, you wouldn't need miles-long interferometer arms to detect it.

The detection is also made by "chums in Whitehall" which makes it sound like it's from a pretty small lab instrument, not a full observatory like LIGO. Maybe it's using alien technology from UNIT or Torchwood or something? Maybe something bigger on the inside so it can have such a large and powerful interferometer, and that's how they're reading "nanometres"? That's the only way I can think to justify anything, though it's possible I'm missing something from the rest of the book, since I'm only reading part of it.

[rainymafuyu]

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[hammill-goes-fogwalking]

sympathy for the outcasts <3

[vuulpecula]

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"I don't know what to do! I don't know what to do!" This went well beyond the standard medical training all non-medical personnel were given, and though she knew more than most, it was clear she was floundering. Out of her element. Desperate to keep any lacerated part of him together. Trying and failing at every single option she could think of. Save for covering his mouth with perhaps the only apparatus keeping him alive, pushing oxygen into his lungs. Above, the lights of the ship flickered. Around them, it groaned. Metal creaked, as if the whole ship was already mourning the inevitable.

"Tell me what to do! Please!" Fox pleaded, begged whatever horrible thing resided on this cursed ship. "I don't know what to do," sobbing clearly wasn't helping. Neither was looking at her empty, bloody hands, but that was what she did. Mind rushing through every single piece of knowledge within it that might help, only to turn up empty. ERROR: No Data Found.

Leaning over Khan's prone body, she brushed back his damp hair. Trying to keep a smile on her face. Of all the things she knew how to do, bedside manner: how to talk to the injured and dying, was all she could come up with. "We're going to be landing soon," she bit her lip, willing the tears flooding her eyes not to fall. He was nearly unrecognizable, as if beaten within an inch of his life. Each mechanical rise and fall brought that inch closer to centimeters, then millimeters. She wanted to beg him not leave her, not alone, not without him. Lost in space. Doomed to wait out however long her life was going to be after his ended. She wanted to tell him all the things they never had time for, still didn't have time for, but more than anything, she didn't want him to be afraid.

"We're-We're going to land soon, you should get some rest. We'll have so many things to do when we get back." Beneath the medical table, she twisted the knob attached the the breathing apparatus' tubes. Flooding the system with anesthetic. "It's okay to go to sleep now, because when you wake up, we'll be home. We'll be home with everyone else and y-you'll get to talk about all the things we learned with, with, um, with D.J. and Miller and--and--and everyone." The ship around them silenced, only the whooshing sound of air as it compressed and pushed into Khan's lungs. "You'll be home soon," Fox whispered, continuously running her hands through his hair. Watching his closed eyes, willing them to open and look back at her. Knowing that the machine was the only thing keeping up appearances. The moment she turned it off, he'd be still. As still as the ship. As still as the stars and the darkness. "Go home, Khan. Go home." The light above flickered out. The machine shut off.

"Libera te tutemet ex inferis."

[eta-volantis]

Going back to WuWa from ZZZ is screaming X IS NOT DODGE ALECTO X IS NOT DODGE-

[syn4k]

every so often i am reminded of the fact that we are tumblr mutuals with quinn hills, who is the sister of joe hills tsd (of hermitcraft fame). i don't have anything to add to this post i just thought id share it

[radioregine]

when will ppl learn that no one is """required""" to reblog anything omg

[spaghett-onaplate]

I'm literally the peak of functionality wowee

[macchiiattos]

wuthering waves and zenless zone zero are good games, but i don't think they're completely worthy of being 'mobile game of the year' in their current state.

[cheriafreya]

FINALLY ! BEST NEWS EVER 😭

[violetsareblue-selfships]

good morning!! <33

[fierykitten2]

It would be funny to me if Robert and Ayumi got to appear in each other’s games because a) Mr. Zero would ask Ayumi if she’s related to Robert and b) it would be fun imagining the Wave Race group thinking Robert must be related to Ayumi, especially given last time a crossover character shared a name with a Wave Race 64 character they turned out to be siblings

Also as an extra bonus give Robert his alternate costumes from GX (black with gold stripes and green boots and gloves, white with blue stripes and accessories and slightly more silver hair, red with white stripes and red accessories with gold shoe stripes, all three of which seem to swap his normal red scarf he wears for someone special to him with Falcon’s gold one (maybe I had a point whenever it was about them stealing scarves I just got it the wrong way round. Never thought Robert would be one for stealing a scarf though)) in Wave Race and give Ayumi her alternate costumes from Blue Storm (green with green hair, blue with blue hair and red with her default pink hair) in F-Zero

Also when Mr. Zero asks what the key to Ayumi’s victory is she can just say that her coach Robin helped her (wait, who would Robert’s crew chief be? I highly doubt it would be Falcon but having two Rob(ert)s with crew chiefs called Doug(las) would be so fucking funny (I didn’t want to explain the joke of why Robert’s crew chief being Falcon would be funny but I don’t think there’s nearly enough F-Zero fans who know that Rob Haywood’s crew chief is called Doug). I mean technically Falcon’s real name being Douglas isn’t canon (the same source randomly calls Robert “Garron Andrew Stewart” even though I’m sure it was already canon at the time that his first name was Robert. Maybe he has two middle names and those are them) but it’s the closest we have to an official first name for mainverse Falcon so that’s what the fandom have basically agreed on. Alternatively he could have Robin as his crew chief but I think she’d be stressed having to crew chief for two racers)

[kingbcwser]

//I love that even though Bowser is truly chaotic I, as the mun, am currently keysmashing mentally because cool blogs keeps fINDING ME

[impossible-rat-babies]

again. thinking about post-EW again and turning it into my own playground. it’s the first this time tho <3

[sonofsin]

maybe I'm just being a hypochondriac, but I think I might have a deviated septum and that's why breathing through my nose is so fucked. a few weeks ago I stumbled on a screenshot of my most recent dental xray (2018?) and because I've never seen it before, I was looking at it closely and noticed my septum looks? quite off?? and I compared it to images of xrays of deviated septums taken at the same angle. at the very least, it doesn't look like the "normal" septum. idk what I'd do with this information or if it's even something I could get fixed. it's not like I have a family doctor.