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🚨: Quantum researchers suggest that the “now” might exist as a superposition of possibilities, with multiple timelines overlapping before observation collapses one into reality.

@TheExtremeMusi1 Richie Havens

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@TheExtremeMusi1 George Harrison

Before reclaiming the name King Crimson, the band was taking shape in small clubs in the Spring of '81 across Western Europe. The six shows, which were performed under the name Discipline, are now available for streaming for the first at nugs.net/kingcrimson

Before reclaiming the name King Crimson, the band was taking shape in small clubs in the Spring of '81 across Western Europe. The six shows, which were performed under the name Discipline, are now available for streaming for the first at nugs.net/kingcrimson

Jupiter’s visible atmosphere is only the upper expression of a much deeper and more complex dynamical system. Its familiar bands, storms and east-west jet streams are not just shallow cloud patterns painted onto the top of the planet; recent evidence, especially from NASA’s Juno mission, shows that some of these winds extend thousands of kilometres below the cloud layer, down to pressures around one hundred thousand times Earth’s surface atmospheric pressure. That changes the way we understand Jupiter. It is not simply a planet with weather on top, but a rapidly rotating fluid world where the atmosphere and interior are dynamically linked. Jupiter rotates in about ten hours, and that rapid spin helps organize its atmosphere into more than twenty alternating jet streams. Some blow eastward, others westward, with speeds around 100 metres per second, much faster than Earth’s strongest jet streams. The equatorial jet is especially interesting because it moves in the same direction as Jupiter’s rotation, a behaviour known as superrotation. Maintaining that requires momentum to be transported toward the equator, which is not trivial and remains one of the central problems in Jovian atmospheric dynamics. For a long time, we could measure Jupiter’s cloud-level winds by tracking visible features in images from telescopes and spacecraft such as Voyager, Cassini, Hubble and, more recently, JWST. But cloud tracking only reveals what happens near the observable top of the atmosphere. The major advance came from Juno’s extremely precise gravity measurements. Because deep winds slightly redistribute mass inside the planet, they leave a detectable signature in Jupiter’s gravitational field. Those measurements showed that the jets are not merely superficial: they penetrate deeply, while below that wind-dominated layer the planet appears to rotate more like a solid body. This deep structure raises a difficult question: what stops the winds from going even deeper? Several mechanisms are being considered. Magnetic drag may slow the flow where hydrogen becomes electrically conductive and interacts with Jupiter’s magnetic field. Stable layers inside the planet may also suppress vertical mixing and act as a brake on the jets. Helium rain, deep radiative zones and variations in density could all play a role, but none of these explanations is yet fully settled. One of the tensions is that some proposed stable layers may lie deeper than the observed wind penetration, while others are difficult to reconcile with the available data. The question of what drives the jets is equally unresolved. At higher latitudes, turbulence probably helps feed energy and momentum into the alternating east-west flows, in a way that is partly analogous to how eddies can sustain jet streams on Earth. But Jupiter is not Earth: it has no solid surface, receives relatively weak sunlight compared with its internal heat, and has a much deeper convective envelope. Some models suggest that shallow weather-layer processes are enough to maintain the jets; others point to deep convection powered by heat escaping from the interior. The equatorial jet may need additional mechanisms, such as latent heat released by water condensation, wave convergence, or organized convection transporting heat upward from deeper layers. Juno has also provided evidence that Jupiter’s atmosphere may contain large-scale overturning circulation beneath the clouds. At midlatitudes, microwave observations suggest a pattern of alternating circulation cells, somewhat reminiscent of Earth’s atmospheric cells but extending far deeper. Above the clouds, however, observations may indicate a different or even reversed circulation pattern, implying that Jupiter’s atmosphere could be vertically stacked in a way that has no simple terrestrial equivalent. This makes Jupiter a crucial laboratory for understanding atmospheric dynamics under physical conditions very different from those on Earth. The main message is that Jupiter’s atmosphere is not a thin, isolated weather layer. It is part of a deep, rotating, magnetized and internally heated planetary system. Juno has transformed the problem by showing how far the winds reach and by linking atmospheric motion to gravity and interior structure, but it has also exposed how much remains uncertain. To understand Jupiter properly, we need long-term monitoring across visible, infrared and microwave wavelengths, more detailed magnetic-field studies, possibly new atmospheric probes, and more realistic global circulation models that can connect clouds, radiation, chemistry, condensates, deep heat flow and magnetic effects in one framework. Jupiter is no longer just the planet of bands and the Great Red Spot; it is a test case for how giant planets move, mix, cool and evolve from the cloud tops down into their deep interiors. 👉 nature.com/articles/s4146…

🎬 “John Lennon: The last interview”. Steven Soderbergh presenta a Cannes il documentario che ricostruisce con l’IA l’ultima intervista radiofonica di John. a cura di @sabrimasce L’8 dicembre 1980, poche ore prima di essere assassinato, John Lennon concede la sua ultima intervista radiofonica. Nel suo appartamento del Dakota Building, insieme a Yoko Ono, incontra una troupe della RKO Radio Network per parlare dell’uscita dell’album “Double Fantasy”. Quella che doveva essere una semplice conversazione promozionale si trasforma in un dialogo lungo e intimo: non solo musica, ma vita familiare, il legame con Yoko, i progetti artistici che immaginava per il futuro. Una registrazione che è diventata un documento straordinario per la profondità dei contenuti e per l’intensità emotiva del momento. A distanza di quarantasei anni, Steven Soderbergh dedica a quel materiale un documentario che ricostruisce visivamente l’intervista — di cui esiste solo l’audio — attraverso materiale d’archivio, fotografie e, in accordo con gli eredi, sequenze generate dall’intelligenza artificiale generativa, sviluppate in collaborazione con Meta. Il regista chiarisce che solo il 10% del film utilizza contenuti generati dall’IA, limitati alle parti più astratte e filosofiche del dialogo tra John e Yoko. Un uso, sottolinea, che non sostituisce l’azione umana né mira a ingannare lo spettatore, ma si colloca nella stessa logica degli effetti visivi o della computer grafica. Soderbergh racconta anche il sostegno pieno di Yoko Ono e Sean Lennon alla realizzazione del documentario. A Sean ha chiesto cosa avrebbe pensato suo padre di questa tecnologia, e la risposta è stata: «Avrebbe voluto sperimentarla. Amava tutte le nuove tecnologie. Tutti i Beatles le amavano. Avrebbe voluto giocarci solo per vedere cosa poteva fare. Era fatto così». Il documentario sarà presentato in anteprima alla 79ª edizione del Festival di Cannes, in programma dal 12 al 23 maggio, all’interno della sezione “Proiezioni speciali”. #JohnLennon #StevenSoderbergh #TheBeatles #Yesterdaypills #Cannes2026

David Bowie talking about Writing the song 'Fame' with John Lennon who sang backing vocals (Interview from 1978) ▶️

James Comey: "Bill Barr ought to be on your show, talking about the dangers he sees, and that he thought [Donald Trump] should never be near the oval office again…Everybody who has a voice ought to be speaking up."

Jürgen Vollmer, Astrid Kirchherr, and Klaus Voormann a few months before they met The Beatles in late 1960. #TheBeatles #Hamburg

RF is now on Substack. A series of writings, excerpts, notes, and quotes will begin on his 80th birthday: @robertfripp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">substack.com/@robertfripp

@BeatlesEarth The restoration is incredible

“All My Loving” - The Beatles (Live in Washington DC, February 11, 1964)

Patrick Bailey's last inning as a Giant was spent trying to decipher apparently confusing signs from the dugout...

#BREAKING: Morning Joe: “…you have Donald Trump’s friend, Vladimir Putin…we find out from The Economist, openly planning, trying to kill Americans…let me say that again, Vladimir Putin who Donald Trump continues to side with, is scheming with Iranians to kill Americans…”🤦‍♀️

Definition of Time

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What the Night Sky on Mars may look like... 140 million miles away from us!

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Yesterday we learned that Trump’s FBI Director Kash Patel had launched an investigation focused in journalist Sarah Fitzpatrick after she reported out a bombshell story revealing Patel’s alleged abuse of alcohol. And what did Sarah Fitzpatrick and The Atlantic where she works do? Did she crawl into a ball and hide under her desk? Nope, on the SAME DAY we got news of that investigation, she published ANOTHER explosive story about Kash Patel’s personalized stash of branded Bourbons…Now Patel is reportedly having a paranoid meltdown inside FBI headquarters.”😳😂