Upgrade to Pro
— share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …
Speaker Deck
Features
Speaker Deck
PRO
Sign in
Sign up for free
Search
Search
100% Outer Space
Search
Adrian Price-Whelan
March 13, 2015
Science
1
160
100% Outer Space
"Public outreach"
Adrian Price-Whelan
March 13, 2015
Tweet
Share
More Decks by Adrian Price-Whelan
See All by Adrian Price-Whelan
the Astropy project - Flatware
adrn
1
250
the dynamic Milky Way in the Gaia era
adrn
1
220
The Astropy Project
adrn
1
120
Git and version control
adrn
1
120
Chaos and stellar streams
adrn
1
180
Software testing
adrn
0
210
Local Group Astrostatistics
adrn
1
99
SMHASH telecon 03/2015
adrn
0
100
Caltech 03/2015
adrn
0
180
Other Decks in Science
See All in Science
中央大学AI・データサイエンスセンター 2025年第6回イブニングセミナー 『知能とはなにか ヒトとAIのあいだ』
tagtag
PRO
0
120
やるべきときにMLをやる AIエージェント開発
fufufukakaka
2
1.1k
AI(人工知能)の過去・現在・未来 —AIは人間を超えるのか—
tagtag
PRO
0
140
AIに仕事を奪われる 最初の医師たちへ
ikora128
0
1k
サイコロで理解する原子核崩壊と拡散現象 〜単純化されたモデルで本質を理解する〜
syotasasaki593876
0
150
データベース06: SQL (3/3) 副問い合わせ
trycycle
PRO
1
720
検索と推論タスクに関する論文の紹介
ynakano
1
140
データベース08: 実体関連モデルとは?
trycycle
PRO
0
1k
20251212_LT忘年会_データサイエンス枠_新川.pdf
shinpsan
0
230
データマイニング - コミュニティ発見
trycycle
PRO
0
200
データから見る勝敗の法則 / The principle of victory discovered by science (open lecture in NSSU)
konakalab
1
270
KH Coderチュートリアル(スライド版)
koichih
1
58k
Featured
See All Featured
Why Our Code Smells
bkeepers
PRO
340
58k
Code Review Best Practice
trishagee
74
20k
Visualizing Your Data: Incorporating Mongo into Loggly Infrastructure
mongodb
49
9.9k
StorybookのUI Testing Handbookを読んだ
zakiyama
31
6.6k
We Are The Robots
honzajavorek
0
160
Utilizing Notion as your number one productivity tool
mfonobong
3
220
Digital Projects Gone Horribly Wrong (And the UX Pros Who Still Save the Day) - Dean Schuster
uxyall
0
340
The Web Performance Landscape in 2024 [PerfNow 2024]
tammyeverts
12
1k
A designer walks into a library…
pauljervisheath
210
24k
AI Search: Where Are We & What Can We Do About It?
aleyda
0
6.9k
Fashionably flexible responsive web design (full day workshop)
malarkey
408
66k
A brief & incomplete history of UX Design for the World Wide Web: 1989–2019
jct
1
300
Transcript
DARK MATTER @adrianprw adrian price-whelan
I’m an astrophysicist Hi
what you think I do
what you think I do
what I really do
None
DARK MATTER ~80% of the matter in the universe
NO IDEA we have wtf is going on and
i’m a scientist trust me trust me i’m a scientist
why do we think it’s real?
1) stars don’t move like we’d expect
* not to scale Earth 1 year 2π x 1
AU speed = 1 AU (Astronomical Unit)
* not to scale Mars 1.9 year 2π x 1.5
AU speed = 1.5 AU
* not to scale Jupiter 5.2 AU
Speed Distance from Sun
None
None
Speed Distance from Galactic center we expect…
Speed Distance from Galactic center we observe
None
10-100x more dark matter than ordinary matter
None
None
2) gravitational lensing
None
None
None
Galaxies are surrounded by DARK MATTER “HALOS”
you will burn in hell
None
✓
Dark Matter (it’s white here, get over it)
None
None
what about REAL LIFE
you are here
not a thing RED MATTER
DARK MATTER is probably a thing
NO IDEA but we have wtf that shit is
None