superposition: (Through hell and high tide)
Qubit ([personal profile] superposition) wrote 2022-06-11 08:52 pm (UTC)

[ Why, he's glad you asked! Qubit holds up an index finger and nods acknowledgement - he'll get to that in a sec, but he's building up to it. ]

It's hard to see from the video, but if we take a look at the charts -

[ Clickety click - he summons an assortment of scatter plots to the screen, all with colorful lines of best fit or filled-in areas or what-have-you. To the untrained eye they're just a dizzying array of dots and squiggles, but apparently they make perfect sense to him. He embiggens one in particular, which has on it a mostly smooth curve, except for a large spike partway down the line, which he points out with (somewhat) restrained enthusiasm. ]

There was actually a second drop in the expansion rate here, just under 34 hours in. But this one's different. The first one looks more like a pressure equalization gradient, but this - it's more of a gradual tapering off, followed by a ramp-up -

[ He zooms in and overlays a second graph, highlighting a segment where the curve dips down, flattens out, then increases. ]

- but in between, for 26 and a half minutes, the expansion rate drops to near zero.


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