Cosmological Notes: Some Technical Insights to Warpdriving Cosmic Structure; Odd Galaxies; Life under Other Stars; General Comments

Nilo Serpa

Cosmological Notes: Some Technical Insights to Warpdriving Cosmic Structure; Odd Galaxies; Life under Other Stars; General Comments

Nilo Serpa

Resumo

This essay is, in some sense, a continuation of the work entitled "Stylophilic Notes of a Physicist: Science and Philosophy Recorded by Fountain Pens", published in CALIBRE Vol. 9 (2024), but it is more technical about the physics of space-time and cosmology. Nevertheless, the references to the vintage fountain pens used in the preparation of the manuscript remain relevant in the spirit of the original proposal, which exalts the art of writing and doing theoretical science with old fountain pens, some of which may be centennial. The essay reflects a lifestyle and, above all, a peculiar way of producing and recording knowledge, at the same time exciting and stimulating, considering the reiterated benefits of handwriting for the brain, and the need to protect it from the binary adaptation induced by generative AI, one of the biggest hoaxes of all time. It is expected that the essay will motivate readers to practice handwriting, especially with fountain pens, and to study astrophysical cosmology with emphasis on the structure of the space-time woof.

Keywords: Fountain pens, Space-time, Gravity, Cosmology, Inhomogeneous universe, Reentrant galaxies, Metamaterials.

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