What I Googled Today - James Webb Telescope Location, Quantum Entangled Particles from Wormholes & Did Dinosaurs have their Brain in their Tail?

Hello!

I work from home and pretty much sofa-surf most of the day. I'm so inquisitive about life the universe and everything else. Questions just pop into my head and I find myself typing these into Google in a search to find answers. Sometimes the questions are completely random, like my mind's-a carousel of curiosity that seems to stop at the most bizarre musings.



When I Google, I kind of triangulate the results, rarely trusting just one source as gospel. I'll read several or so answers and build up a picture of the actual answer still retaining the thought that it could still all be completely wrong. I'll even pop onto Twitter to ask the same questions. The problem that I find these days is that many of the big media organisations that we used to know and love all have their own agendas-particularly political ones, which usually align to their owners. For this reason I find reporting of the news is no longer impartial, which is a great shame.

These are the questions I asked today:-

Question

Where is the James Webb Telescope located?




I keep seeing new images of the Universe taken by the James Webb Telescope (or JWT) and released by NASA. The media is all over these like a rash with headlines like 'Scientists forced to rethink the Big Bang Theory' or 'Does this prove God exists'. 

Answer

So the answer I got to the location of the JWT is that is is in orbit around the Sun and is 1.5 Million miles away from Earth. Interestingly, the telescope has its back to the Sun so it can take better pictures. The JWT is definitely helping scientists to unlock mysteries of the Universe, but it also seems to be giving them a headache. Why? Because it's challenging a lot of our theories-one of them being the Big Bang. Maybe a topic for another time.


Question

Quantum Entangled Particles from Wormholes?



I imagine some of you look at that question and want to run a mile. Look, I'm not a scientist-I just find these things interesting. When you start looking into quantum physics nothing makes sense. You read an article and then have to read it again several times, just to extract one little crumb of insight. This has happened to me in my quest to try and make sense of our existence. This curiosity probably started back in the past with Star Trek, Blakes 7 and Star Wars (probably in that order!). I'm fascinated by the question of being able to travel faster than the speed of light. The Star Trek Enterprise has its warp drive. Could a combination of wormholes and atoms existing in more than two places at once provide the answer?

The were obviously various answers, but Copilot sums it up: 'A decade or so ago, physicists Maldacena and Susskind introduced a mind-bending idea: entangled particles are connected by wormholes. Yes, you heard that right—wormholes, those cosmic tunnels through spacetime that connect distant locations like cosmic express trains.' 

That's all I'm going to write and encourage you to look further if interested.


Question

Did Dinosaurs have their brains in their tails?

As a kid, I loved anything to do with dinosaurs and read as much as I could about them. I used to spend long hours drawing them too and knew most of their names. Impressive stuff. I remember the young me being desperately unhappy that they'd become extinct and naturally couldn't grasp the time factor involved in the extinction event.

 Answer

No, it was factually incorrect and became a popular urban myth. Articles in books claimed certain dinosaurs had second brains. These included the Stegosaurus and large sauropods. Studies of expanded neural canals near the dinosaur hips led some scientists to this incorrect conclusion.

Well that's it-my Google searches today (or at least some of the more interesting one!)

Thanks for reading

Matt AKA Chillichap

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