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Paul Pelosi attacker trafficks in conspiracy theories in call to TV station after video release
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The man who attacked the husband of Nancy Pelosi in their home last year showed no remorse and continued his dangerous fixation on the former House speaker in a bizarre phone call to a San Francisco reporter on Friday, according to the Bay Area station’s reporting.
David DePape called KTVU’s Amber Lee from the San Francisco County Jail on the same day the attack footage was released, with what he called “an important message for everyone in America.”
Without mentioning Pelosi by name, DePape said he had gathered “names and addresses” of people he believed were “systematically and deliberately” destroying American freedom and liberty and said he wanted to “have a heart-to-heart chat about their bad behavior.”
DePape added that he should have been “better prepared,” adding that he was sorry that he “didn’t get more of them.”
KTVU said their reporter was not allowed to ask follow-up questions of DePape during the phone conversation, which he allowed to be recorded.
The call came on the same day that a California court released video of the attack, audio of the 911 call and his initial police interview after the arrest in which he echoed right-wing extremist views, including MAGA tropes that underscored how he was influenced by dangerous rhetoric and conspiracies.
DePape also told a San Francisco police officer in October that the reason he went to the Pelosis’ San Francisco home was because he believed that the then-speaker was “the leader of the pack” of all the politicians in Washington, DC, “lying on a consistent basis.”
In laying out his reasons for enacting the attack, DePape epitomizes how dangerous unsubstantiated political rhetoric that enters the mainstream has contributed to political violence nationwide.
US Capitol Police Chief Tom Manger said earlier this month that threats against members of Congress is “still too high” even though threat investigations dropped in 2022 for the first time in five years. Federal law enforcement agencies have consistently warned about the increasing threat of politically motivated violence after rioters attacked the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, raising specific concerns about the likelihood that online calls for violence result in real-world attacks.
DePape claimed in his October interview that Democrats, led by Pelosi, spied on former President Donald Trump in a way that was worse than Watergate, when then-President Richard Nixon was forced to resign after it was discovered his administration tried to cover up a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters.
“When Trump came into office, what they did went so far beyond spying on a rival campaign. It is just crazy,” DePape said in an audio recording of his interview with a San Francisco police officer in October.
Without evidence, DePape claimed that Democrats were on an “endless f**king crime spree” when it came to Trump.
“Not only were they spying on a rival campaign, they were submitting fake evidence to spy on a rival campaign, covering it up, persecuting the rival campaign,” DePape said of what he believed Democrats were doing to Trump.
DePape said that these actions originated with Hillary Clinton, who unsuccessfully ran against Trump in 2016, and that all Democrats are “criminals.” But he zeroed in on Pelosi as the one who “ran with the lying.”
DePape is facing both state and federal charges related to the attack. He has pleaded not guilty.
The video and audio were released by a court Friday, over the objections of DePape’s attorneys who argued it would “irreparably damage” his right to a fair trial. Media outlets, including CNN, pressed the court to release the information.
Sam Asghari slams fan theories that he controls wife Britney Spears
Sam Asghari is shutting down claims that he is now controlling his wife, Britney Spears, a year after her conservatorship ended.
When asked if he was “controlling Britney,” he told TMZ on Friday, “No, I don’t even control what we have for dinner.”
“You know, in the past, there has been a lot of stuff going on, so I understand where [fans are] coming from.”
“They’re just being protective. If anything, they’re being good fans,” the model, 28, added.
While Asghari said his wife, 41, is in control of her own life, several fans have shared interesting theories surrounding the “Gimme More” singer’s recent behavior online, sparking the #WhereIsBritney hashtag.
After the pop star deactivated her Instagram earlier this month, her husband took to his own account and shared a message about how social media can be “traumatizing.”
“Sometimes it’s good to take a break,” Asghari wrote on his Instagram Stories Dec. 7. “She has her voice and is a free woman. I have respect for her privacy and I protect it at all times. Thank you to all of her protective fans.”
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After Spears reactivated her account, several TikTokers speculated that a body double of the “Toxic” songstress was used in new posts from her and Asghari.
Fans also questioned her newer captions, which were extremely shorter than the lengthy ones she usually posts.
Earlier this month, Asghari defended his wife against criticism for sharing nude images on social media.
“The only person in the world that gets bullied for posting things like this,” he commented on Instagram at the time, while admitting how he really felt about the NSFW posts.
“I personally preferred she never posted these but who am I to control someone that’s been under a microscope and been controlled for most of her life,” the “Lioness” actor added.
Spears and Asghati tied the knot at the singer’s California home in June, eight months after her controversial conservatorship was terminated.
‘Not Controlling Britney Spears’: Sam Asghari Is Dispelling Fan Conspiracy Theories
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Britney Spears is free and independent.
That’s the message her husband Sam Asghari sent when TMZ caught up with him to ask about fan conspiracy theories that he is secretly controlling the pop superstar.
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“No, man. I don’t even control what we have for dinner,” he told the tabloid.
Asghari was also asked what he thinks of fan conspiracy theories claiming that he is the one running her social media accounts and more.
“In the past, it has been a lot of stuff going on. So, I understand where they’re coming from,” he said. “They’re just being protective. If anything, they’re being good fans.”
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For years, while Spears was under a conservatorship controlled by her father Jamie, fans mounted campaigns to “Free Britney,” making the case that her legal situation was unjust.
A judge finally terminated the conservatorship last year.
‘Unexpected’ space traveler defies theories about origin of solar system
Researchers from Western have shown that a fireball that originated at the edge of the solar system was likely made of rock, not ice, challenging long-held beliefs about how the solar system was formed.
Just at the edge of our solar system and halfway to the nearest stars is a collection of icy objects sailing through space, known as the Oort Cloud. Passing stars sometimes nudge these icy travelers towards the sun, and we see them as comets with long tails. Scientists have yet to observe any objects in the Oort Cloud directly, but everything detected so far coming from its direction has been made of ice.
Theoretically, the very basis of understanding our solar system’s beginnings is built upon the foundation that only icy objects exist in these outer reaches and certainly, nothing made of rock.
This changed last year when an international team of scientists, stargazers, and professional and amateur astronomers led by Western meteor physicists captured images and videos of a rocky meteoroid that flew through the skies over central Alberta as a dazzling fireball. The researchers have since concluded all signs point to the object’s origin being smack dab in the middle of the Oort Cloud.
The findings were published in Nature Astronomy.
“This discovery supports an entirely different model of the formation of the solar system, one which backs the idea that significant amounts of rocky material co-exist with icy objects within the Oort cloud,” said Denis Vida, a Western meteor physics postdoctoral researcher. “This result is not explained by the currently favored solar system formation models. It’s a complete game changer.”
All previous rocky fireballs have arrived from much closer to Earth, making this body—which clearly traveled vast distances—completely unexpected. State-of-the-art Global Fireball Observatory (GFO) cameras, developed in Australia and run by the University of Alberta, observed a grapefruit-sized (approximately 2 kg) rocky meteoroid. Using Global Meteor Network tools, developed for the Winchombe fireball, Western researchers calculated it was traveling on an orbit usually reserved only for icy long-period comets from the Oort Cloud.
“In 70 years of regular fireball observations, this is one of the most peculiar ever recorded. It validates the strategy of the GFO established five years ago, which widened the ‘fishing net’ to 5 million square kilometers of skies, and brought together scientific experts from around the globe,” said Hadrien Devillepoix, research associate at Curtin University, Australia, and the principal investigator of the GFO.
“It not only allows us to find and study precious meteorites, but it is the only way to have a chance of catching these rarer events that are essential to understanding our solar system.”
During its flight, the Alberta fireball descended much deeper into the atmosphere than icy objects on similar orbits and broke apart exactly like a fireball dropping stony meteorites—the necessary evidence that it was, in fact, made of rock. Conversely, comets are basically fluffy snowballs mixed with dust that slowly vaporize as they approach the sun. The dust and gases within them form the distinctive tail that can stretch for millions of kilometers.
“We want to explain how this rocky meteoroid ended up so far away because we want to understand our own origins. The better we understand the conditions in which the solar system was formed, the better we understand what was necessary to spark life,” said Vida.
“We want to paint a picture, as accurately as possible, of these early moments of the solar system that were so critical for everything that happened after.”
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Denis Vida et al, Direct measurement of decimetre-sized rocky material in the Oort cloud, Nature Astronomy (2022). DOI: 10.1038/s41550-022-01844-3
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Completing Einstein’s Theories – A Particle Physics Breakthrough
More than a century after it was first theorized, scientists have completed Einstein’s homework on special relativity in electromagnetism.
Osaka University researchers show the relativistic contraction of an electric field produced by fast-moving charged particles, as predicted by Einstein’s theory, which can help improve radiation and particle physics research.
Over a century ago, one of the most renowned modern physicists, Albert Einstein, proposed the ground-breaking theory of special relativity. Most of everything we know about the universe is based on this theory, however, a portion of it has not been experimentally demonstrated until now. Scientists from Osaka University’s Institute of Laser Engineering utilized ultrafast electro-optic measurements for the first time to visualize the contraction of the electric field surrounding an electron beam traveling at near the speed of light and demonstrate the generation process.
According to Einstein’s theory of special relativity, one must use a “Lorentz transformation” that combines space and time coordinates in order to accurately describe the motion of objects passing an observer at speeds near the speed of light. He was able to explain how these transformations resulted in self-consistent equations for electric and magnetic fields.
While different effects of relativity have been proved numerous times to a very high degree of experimental 
Illustration of the formation process of the planar electric field contraction that accompanies the propagation of a near-light-speed electron beam (shown as an ellipse in the figure). Credit: Masato Ota, Makoto Nakajima
Now, the research team at Osaka University has demonstrated this effect experimentally for the first time. They accomplished this feat by measuring the profile of the Coulomb field in space and time around a high-energy electron beam generated by a linear particle accelerator. Using ultrafast electro-optic sampling, they were able to record the electric field with extremely high temporal resolution.
It has been reported that the Lorentz transformations of time and space as well as those of energy and momentum were demonstrated by time dilation experiments and rest mass energy experiments, respectively. Here, the team looked at a similar relativistic effect called electric-field contraction, which corresponds to the Lorentz transformation of electromagnetic potentials.
“We visualized the contraction of an electric field around an electron beam propagating close to the speed of light,” says Professor Makoto Nakajima, the project leader. In addition, the team observed the process of electric-field contraction right after the electron beam passed through a metal boundary.
When developing the theory of relativity, it is said that Einstein used thought experiments to imagine what it would be like to ride on a wave of light. “There is something poetic about demonstrating the relativistic effect of electric fields more than 100 years after Einstein predicted it,” says Professor Nakajima. “Electric fields were a crucial element in the formation of the theory of relativity in the first place.”
This research, with observations matching closely to Einstein’s predictions of special relativity in electromagnetism, can serve as a platform for measurements of energetic particle beams and other experiments in high-energy physics.
Reference: “Ultrafast visualization of an electric field under the Lorentz transformation” by Masato Ota, Koichi Kan, Soichiro Komada, Youwei Wang, Verdad C. Agulto, Valynn Katrine Mag-usara, Yasunobu Arikawa, Makoto R. Asakawa, Youichi Sakawa, Tatsunosuke Matsui and Makoto Nakajima, 20 October 2022,
Weird young super-Jupiter challenges theories of planet formation
A newly discovered planet has the diameter of Jupiter but eight times its mass, giving it twice the density of Earth despite being composed mostly of gas. Not only have these characteristics of this “super Jupiter” left astronomers confused, but they could also challenge current theories about planet formation.
The exoplanet, which lies around 310 light-years outside the solar system in the constellation Centaurus, orbits a sun-like star and is just 15 million years old, making it a relative infant in cosmic terms and when compared to our 4.6 billion-year-old planet. A team of astronomers was able to measure both the diameter and mass of this gas giant — dubbed a “super Jupiter” because it is more massive than its solar system namesake — making it the youngest planet of this kind for which such measurements have ever been made.
And those statistics are strange. Explaining how this planet, designated HD 114082 b, came to have eight times the mass crammed into a Jupiter-like diameter may require an update to planetary formation models that allows gas giants to possess unusually large solid planetary cores.
“Compared to currently accepted models, HD 114082 b is about two to three times too dense for a young gas giant with only 15 million years of age,” Olga Zakhozhay, an astronomer at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany and lead author of the new research, said in a statement.
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HD 114082 b’s diameter and mass give it a density that is twice that of Earth — astounding given that it’s a gas giant composed mostly of hydrogen and helium gas, the universe’s lightest elements.
The exoplanet circles its star at a distance that is half that between Earth and the sun, completing an orbit every 110 Earth days, an orbit comparable to that of Mercury, the closest planet to the sun.
A recipe for a weird super-Jupiter
There are two possible ways a gas giant like HD 114082 b could form, both of which occur in the protoplanetary disk, a disk of gas and dust that collapses to form planets.
The first formation mechanism, the core accretion model, involves a protoplanet starting life as a solid, rocky core accumulating more and more material. Once this core attains a critical mass, its gravitational influence drags surrounding gas to it, resulting in the core accreting hydrogen and helium in a runaway process that births a giant planet.
The second mechanism, the disk instability model, involves gravitationally unstable and dense patches of the protoplanetary disk collapsing and growing to form a gas giant lacking a rocky core.
These formation models differ in the rate at which the gas accumulated cools down, leading astronomers to describe planets as getting a “hot” (core accretion) or “cold” (disk instability) start. Scientists currently favor the hot-start model, but the two approaches should lead to observable differences, thus pointing scientists toward the right formation model.
In gas giants, that key characteristic is size: Because hot gas occupies a larger volume than cold gas, smaller gas giants might have formed from a “cold” start, whereas larger gas giants like HD 114082 b more likely formed by core accretion. The difference in size caused by the two potential origins should be particularly pronounced among younger worlds, becoming less and less measurable over hundreds of millions of years as the planet cools and the gas contracts.
Despite hot-start being the commonly expected model, HD 114082 b’s density seems to defy what astronomers would expect for a core accretion model, favoring instead the underdog, the cold start or disk instability model. Some older exoplanets discovered by other teams of astronomers also favor this cold model, but the team behind the new research warns not to scrap hot start planet formation models just yet.
Alternative explanations for HD 114082 b’s small size and big mass that rescue the critical mass model include the idea that the exoplanet simply has an exceptionally large rocky core buried at its heart or that astronomers don’t yet have an accurate picture of how rapidly gas in an infant gas giant cools.
“It’s much too early to abandon the notion of a hot start,” Ralf Launhardt, an astronomer at Max Planck Institute for Astronomy and co-author on the new research, said in the statement. “All we can say is that we still don’t understand the formation of giant planets very well.”
Star’s ‘wobble’ reveals exoplanet HD 114082 b
HD 114082 b was spotted as part of the Radial Velocity Survey for Planets Around Young Stars (RVSPY) program, operated using the 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla site in Chile. The program aims to uncover the population of hot, warm and cold giant planets around young stars.
Astronomers use data collected by RVSPY to hunt for shifts in the spectra of light from stars that indicate a “wobble” caused by an orbiting exoplanet. Known as the radial velocity method, this technique can also reveal a planet’s mass, but to measure the world’s size, astronomers must observe it as it crosses or “transits” the face of its star, causing a tiny dip in light output.
This transit method can also help refine the orbital period of the exoplanet around its star, but it’s limited to planets that actually cross the face of their star as seen from Earth. Fortunately, HD 114082 b is just such a world, which the team confirmed with NASA’s exoplanet-hunting Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS).
“We already suspected a nearly edge-on configuration of the planetary orbit from a ring of dust around HD 114082 discovered several years ago,” Zakhozhay said in the statement. “Still, we felt lucky to find an observation in the TESS data with a beautiful transit light curve that improved our analysis.”
Thus far, HD 114082 b is one of only three giant planets younger than 30 million years for which astronomers have determined both masses and sizes. All of these planets seem to be inconsistent with the core accretion.
Even though this is a very small data set, the team believes these planets are unlikely to be outliers and are indicative of a wider trend.
“While more such planets are needed to confirm this trend, we believe that theorists should begin re-evaluating their calculations,” Zakhozhay said. “It’s exciting how our observational results feed back into planet formation theory. They help improve our knowledge about how these giant planets grow and tell us where the gaps of our understanding lie.”
The team’s findings were published Friday (Nov. 25) as a Letter to the Editor in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
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China moon mission samples upend theories of lunar volcanism
An analysis of lunar samples returned by China’s Chang’e 5 moon mission has produced a new possible answer for volcanism late in the moon’s history.
Lunar samples returned by the Apollo and Luna missions are all older than about 3 billion years, but samples returned by Chang’e 5 in late 2020 confirmed remote sensing analysis that rocks in the area were relatively young, at only 2 billion years old.
Scientists previously speculated that either a relatively high water content or the presence of radioactive, heat-producing elements in the lunar interior might have driven volcanism in a late stage of the moon’s life in some areas, but new Chang’e-5 data published in Nature appears to have ruled out these hypotheses.
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Researchers led by Chen Yi from the Institute of Geology and Geophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IGGCAS) found that a lower melting point for portions of the lunar mantle could be due to the presence of fusible, easily melted components, leading to young lunar volcanism.
“Recent melting of the lunar mantle can be achieved by either raising the temperature or lowering the melting point. To better understand this problem, we should estimate the temperature and pressure in which the young volcanism was created,” Chen said in a statement (opens in new tab).
The researchers conducted a series of fractional crystallization and lunar mantle melting simulations to compare 27 samples of Chang’e 5 basalt clasts with Apollo basalts. They found that the young magma collected by Chang’e 5 had higher calcium oxide and titanium dioxide contents than older Apollo magmas. These are calcium-titanium-rich late-stage lunar magma ocean cumulates are more easily melted than early cumulates.
“This is a fascinating result, indicating a significant contribution of late-stage lunar magma ocean cumulates to the Chang’e 5 volcanic formation,” said Dr. Su Bin, first author of the study.
The research presents evidence for the first viable mechanism to account for young volcanism on the Moon that is compatible with the newly returned Chang’e 5 samples and could help understanding of the Moon’s thermal and magmatic evolution.
The study was published in the journal Science Advances (opens in new tab) on Friday (Oct. 21).
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