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Hello, and thank you very much for listening to this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. The day’s photo is of my friend Tyler, up in the Mackenzie River area, which is, which is up in the foothills of the Cascades. As you’re going up toward the three sisters. And I liked this photo, this was taken back in 2014. I think this was this was taken out my D to h on a digital camera, but I was working with film a lot during that day. And the cool thing about this image is what you can kind of notice at the base of it as Tyler stands there in this marshy area of a field is that there’s all of these small kind of yellow bulbs that seem to be popping up through the photograph. They’re really yellow flowers. They’re sort of a variety of a maybe a lily, but maybe it’s a little bit more than that. It seems like it’s a it’s like kind of a prehistoric marshy pond plant, like a like I guess like a lily pad that’s blooming. That was really cool. I’ve not really seen him before. I think we were there and march of what 2014? Yeah, I think march of 2014. And it seems like these were plants that really only had a short period of growth before it before they were gone. And I haven’t seen him since you know in the year since then, probably because we are fortunate just to be there right at the right time. But thanks for checking out this photograph from Billy Newman photo.com. You can see more by checking me out on Instagram at Billy Newman.
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You can see more of my work at Billy Newman photo comm you can check out some of my photo books on Amazon. I think if you look at that Bitly Newman under the author’s section there and see some of the photo books on film on the desert, on surrealism, camping, and cool stuff over there. Oh, yeah, there’s been so many discoveries since last time your gravitational waves have been verified, and had been projected before but now they’ve been verified, I guess I suppose. They say the math is strong. I’ll let the scientific community that that all. But But yeah, they say that they found out what was it like a 26. And ours, I think it was 26 and 34. solar mass black hole orbiting each other, came closer and closer kind of spiraling in on their same like point. And then they finally merged together when the two giant black holes a solar mass, like we talked about before, is the size of our Sun. So one sun around Earth is one solar mass. So these black holes were each 30 solar masses, so 30 times more massive than the mass of the sun. And these two black holes smiled at each other. And it’s at this rate, I think predicted and Einstein’s theory of special relativity, where it kind of it kind of matches a pattern of how gravitational bodies will orbit around each other, and then collide with each other. And so when these two bodies collided with each other, there was an X, I think there was, if you think of equals mc squared as energy equals mass times the velocity of light squared, then what that would mean is that when mass is accelerated to a certain point, it turns into energy. That’s what happened in this event, these 230 solar mass, black holes collided with each other, it released three solar masses, that’s three times the whole mass of our Sun, from mass into energy out into space. And I think this is one of like the largest or the most energetic events that we’ve been able to record in cosmology. If any big event, yeah, well, yeah, or not. Not in priority, but in amount of energy that’s exchanged at a single point that’s verifiable. And so that’s, I think, what the type of thing that this, this type of observe observatory was looking for, was something to collect these gravitational waves. So it’s a really cool story. They’ve kind of figured that out. I think that was back in September that they made the observations and then now and was it early, or mid February, that’s when they kind of announced it probably won’t make a lot of changes for any daily use, but it will change a lot of the astronomical. Well, I’d say like, part of the study of astronomy going forward in the next 50 or 75 to 100 years. You know, it’s because now we can make gravitational telescopes, we can make these tools that are able to observe gravity waves out in space. And this is just the first time that we’ve done it. This was an observation of one of the most strong signals are strong events that we’d be able to gravitationally pick up. And so now from here, over the next several generations of this, this technology, they’re going to be able to refine it so much more that they’re going to be able to pick up much more subtle gravitational waves. And once they’re able to do this, or once they’re able to, let’s say, now that it’s proven this type of technology out into space, and then make that expanse really vast, we’re going to be able to refine details of these gravitational waves to a much smaller resolution. And that’s going to give scientists and cosmologists and these new gravitational wave astronomers, more tools to look into the universe, and especially the look into the early stages of the universe forming, we’re just gonna be really exciting. I think this event that they observed was one and a half billion light years away, they say, it’s not triangulated. So they don’t know exactly where in space, this event took place. But they say that it would be out somewhere past the Magellanic Cloud, if we were to kind of think about it in the sphere of the sky that’s in the southern hemisphere.
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Pretty cool stuff. Pretty cool. So say, okay, the coolest thing. So it’s kind of up to us to sort of wrap your head around what it means what are they observing? What is it gravitational wave, but there’s ripple from this event that happened one and a half billion years ago, sent a wave in Gravity through space time across the universe, and it adjusted the width of the Milky Way galaxy by the width of your thumb? Oh, yeah, that’s so in the room, there’s, in any kind of human perceptible distance, there’s no there’s no change. There’s like an Adam’s with a change. For us experiencing it here on Earth. That’s why we didn’t see any kind of crazy, you know, thing happen. There’s no kind of observable event, you with something that’s probably one of the strongest events observable. For us, you know, out in outer space, these collisions of black holes. But, but yeah, that that wave, I think, stretched, and then shrunk the Galaxy by the width of a thumb. So that’s like, 100 light years across. I think it’s 100,000 light years across the Milky Way galaxy. And that kind of wiggled by an inch. Yeah, see gravitational wave,
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you saying that it, it got a space in it, that was the width of a thumb. And then it got closer together.
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You know, it’s really strange, it warped space time. So there was no, there’s no physical space that changed. But that was complicated. Yeah, that the, that the, the fabric between the atoms had flexed outward, and perceivable. To us, as beings that don’t have a capability of perceiving something like that the change in space time, we’re not able to really do that we perceive because it says we’re in it, we perceive time to be pretty constant. But if we were outside of that, we could see that the fabric of it the size of it stretched out an inch, and then came back together. So if we think of the expanding universe, it’s the expansion of space time that’s traveling outward. So the physical distance between, between proton proton in an atom is, is expanding outward, and the size of those atoms are expanding outward. And it’s just it’s like space, time is expanding. It’s just sort of all expanding together. But in this situation, just this wave came through, like we think of a wave on a beach, it rolled through. And like when we were in the waves in the ocean a few weeks ago, we you’d kind of be in the wave, it would move through, but then it would go back to the status of the water before wave, right? So the wave similarly came through, it didn’t displace anything, or move anything permanently. But it just just a wave time, and it’s going through, yes, stretch it by some amount, and then had it come back together. But that’s the amount of distortion that was sent across. From that gravitational wave. And gravitational waves. The reason that it’s important to us is that it was the thing that was one of the last things to be identified, or how would that be one of the last items in Einstein’s theory of special relativity that was yet to be on will yet to be proven? So this item of gravitational waves has really just been theoretical, up until this point, because it had not been, there’d been no technology developed to make that an observable phenomena, these gravitational waves. So it’s really this huge feat of engineering that we’re even at a place where we can do that now. Yeah.
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It’s really pretty incredible, is it? So now that they’ve officially, I guess, said that that’s happened. They’re going to be working on telescopes now or near telescopes that can detect that.
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Yeah, there’s so there’s two locations right now. These were all part of a scientific grant to look for a theoretical piece of science that no one believed even existed. Even Einstein, I think kind of sort of tried to retract this idea during his life, that there is that there was even the possibility of observing these gravitational waves, they were able to make this, the system to do that there’s, it’s a gravitational wave Observatory, really interesting stuff, I won’t get into exactly how they do it. But it’s a Laser Interferometer, and it uses like a period of an amount of time to bounce a laser beam back and forth. And if a gravitational wave goes through there and stretches spacetime out, and the wave of light takes longer than the speed of light, to go all the way down to the end, and then back. And so they’re measuring that amount of time, that period really, really accurately. And then when this happened, the wave came through it stretched spacetime over that distance. And then the wave didn’t come back at the right time. That means that there was a measurable gravitational wave that passed through that space time, that stretched that tube of the observatory. And that’s what they recorded, they did this in two locations, all part of the same. I don’t know, observational? Well, there’s two observatories, they both get recordings, and then they match that data together. So that they can do noise cancellation, to drop out any of the disturbances that be localized to the earth. So if there’s an earthquake in one, you could kind of measure that against whatever the other one we pick up, and you can cancel that signal out. Okay. Yeah, that’s cool stuff. So now that it’s been proven, now, this really experimental thing that cost billions of dollars to get set up for the first time has now been proven, it’s going to be this huge expansion into the scientific community, where they’re going to be building a lot more of these tools to do to do gravitational wave observations. That’s really cool. It’s gonna be really exciting. Yeah, I’m really glad that that it came through, we’re gonna see a huge expanse in the field of cosmology in our lifetime. And now that this is something that’s out there that people well that, that astronomers will be able to do research on, it’s going to be interesting to find out, I guess, what kind of what kind of new discoveries kind of come from this? Yeah, time the best, but it’d be really
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cool. Yeah, that’ll be really neat to see what new things we’re figuring out.
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Yeah. Be a lot of fun.
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And so what are the names of the observatories that proved this?
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Yeah. So like, we I think I mentioned that there are two observatories that were picking this up, and they were doing noise cancellation against each other, to try and refine the signal, which is part of how the technology works that they’re using. And so the, the installation is called Lygo. It’s the Laser Interferometer gravitational wave Observatory, it’s an acronym. And there’s two installation sites right now. They’re both in America, I think they’re going to expand soon out from that, because there’s going to be an advantage if there were at least if there are more than two, because right now with two, they’re not able to triangulate the position of a signal that they get. And so once they’re able to triangulate things, that question that we had a few minutes ago, when we were talking about where this event, this, this black hole collision took place in the universe, we’d be able to better pinpoint that answer if we have three of them, because we’ll be able to triangulate that signal. So with the two of them, we’re only able to tell right now that they’re out in the Magellanic Cloud. So the two observatories that exist, one of them is in Washington State, and one of them is in Arkansas. Right now, it’s cool, I think the best place for them to be would be off the earth entirely. So same as like the Hubble telescope. When we started doing optical observations of space above us, we use the telescope here on Earth. But really, ultimately, the best highest resolution way that we can make observations of the universe was by putting that telescope outside the gravity world view of the earth, and putting it out into space, where there wouldn’t be any disturbance from light pollution or atmosphere or vibration. And they could put this telescope up, make it perfectly still and have to take these really long exposures, or long periods of light collecting to get these images or to get this resolution of data so that they can look out so deeply into space, really cool how they’re able to do that with optical telescopes. I think, in our lifetime over the next 3040 years. If this seems like a promising field of science, we’re going to see that expand out into into Laser Interferometer gravitational wave observatories that are put out into space as as like long satellites, or satellites that communicate to each other and send a pulse back and forth, or send a laser back and forth to each other, and then try and pick up that same period of time as the technology and algorithms for this. Get a lot better be really cool. Oh, it’d be really cool. Yeah. Yeah, it would be really nice. I think right now, since they have proven that there are gravitational waves, there is now funding made available for third Lego installment to, I think be put into somewhere in the US probably take another 10 years for that installation to go online. I bet we might see others like this come up from from other educational institutions around the world. Like we might see something from CERN or we might see something from, you know, just from some other installation that would want to build something like this now that it’s a provable scientifically researchable field of cosmology be really cool. It’s going to be one of the most exciting things that happens for for this next century of scientific discovery. I think this is probably one of the groundbreaking things that will be part of learning about gravity learning about that part of early universal history. be interesting.
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Yeah, it’d be really interesting yeah.
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photo and I’m happy with the a seminar so far in fact I’ve been looking at trying to pick up a battery grip for it you know I did a wedding this weekend which is great shooting a wedding and those are those are really fun events to go through and a seven I did a pretty good job in almost every capacity I love the low light of it. The way the sensor works is really great super high quality all of those things they fit the mark for what for what I need, but it was interesting I was noticing that in low life the autofocus for that camera it really doesn’t function in a way that I need it to or I’m missing some stuff that I really want and that’s where I see the real benefit and in some of the older systems I mean even like can’t like contrast base autofocus systems that were in the Nikon or Canon systems for the last like 15 or 20 years are really superior to what I’m seeing in some of the expression of what the early Sony autofocus stuff can do you know it’s like in focus right you’re looking at a frame it’s in focus your autofocus point is on the thing, it’s a contrast point there’s plenty of light on it, you go to autofocus and then your lens just spins out and it does nothing for like four seconds just spins out to infinity and you see just blurriness you lose the knob and completely it comes kind of back in maybe it finally grabs focus and then you take the picture but you kind of miss everything you just I don’t know like there’s a lot of times where you’re waiting for the camera to focus but it really should just be like pull up to your eye it sees focus you hit it grab it click it go I’m having a harder time with that than what I thought I might and I think some of that could be because of the lack of the phase detection autofocus system that like the the newer a seven r two has or the a seven to a seven s to a nine or a nine right yeah that’s a that’s a Sony one and like a lot of the new Canon cameras they had this phase detection system is supposed to be some better multiplexing system of finding autofocus but there used to be systems that worked pretty good like my d3 at 53 autofocus points and it can pull up I think I don’t know something like that but you know, plenty autofocus points and they can grab your autofocus point even in pretty low light they could kind of get oh that’s at infinity or that’s pretty close to right next to me so I’ll stay there. So it’s interesting kind of learning how that behaves. But overall the photos from the wedding came out really well a lot of the stuff worked out very nicely I’ve been really happy with it but another thing that I noticed is with running was running a camera as a device like more like an iPad or like what more like your phone you know where it’s got it’s got some screen on a lot of the time it’s got processing stuff going on, it’s moving gigabytes and gigabytes of data to a card. It’s just drawing from the battery almost constantly I mean like during a wedding, I guess to kind of think of power consumption like this I wrote 48 gigabytes of data to SD cards and so that’s going to take some amount of battery energy, you know stored energy to write all that data to a card and so in that capacity I kind of do get that it would take a good bit of power to write that much information down to capture it and then write that much information if you think about everything that has to do so in that way and then run a screen and you know run the processing and run it visually and all that so I kind of forgive it and it capacity but what I noticed though, is that I really did go through a couple Batteries shooting and just sort of a regular fashion at this wedding for for most of the day is like a full day shooting but it really was burning through those batteries pretty quickly like you look at you like oh whoa I just I just use like 10% in a pretty short amount of time and so with that I was kind of thinking and as it’s been the plan for a long time for just I don’t know kind of like a best use case for professionalism what I really want to do is get the battery grip that goes in accompaniment with the a seminar and the battery grip I think it’s a it’s a you know it’s like a Sony piece that fits I haven’t really seen a battery grip before but you know the one where you can throw the to the two camera batteries into the battery grip you can get an extended amount of life from your camera that way and you get like the the portraits or what is it like the vertical shutter release you know so you can flip your camera up and shoot in portrait mode and try yeah I like the size of it the look of it it’ll be an awesome kind of compact professional What is it not so like I keep wanting to say professional SLR but an interland interchangeable lens camera an interchangeable lens camera that’s rolling right off my tongue isn’t it
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so yeah, it’s gonna be interesting I want to go for the for the battery grip though and I think that could kind of solve some of the problems that I’m having with battery usage issues of the camera kind of coming up dad after after two or three hours or whatever it is. So I don’t know I’ve heard for plenty of other people in relationship to wedding photography kind of complain or grass a little bit about some of the features that are associated or some of the things that make the workflow of wedding work of a wedding shoot go by a little bit more difficulty with with a featured camera like the a seminar I’ve heard of people that are really into it too. So you know, it seems like it seems like a couple different things. But low light autofocus definitely an issue on that camera, I can definitely tell that there’s some stuff that doesn’t do now so with that and with the concept of like what I really like to shoot or you know, like kind of still moving things or the landscapes low light firearm stuff if I try and get into that more I wouldn’t really run into that same kind of problem with as much repetition because you know, you’re not shooting a high volume of frames, you’re not shooting an event based situation so it’s kind of a different sort of scenario and you don’t really seem to you’re you’re wanting to manual focus and take time and take multiple frames of the same thing. And in some of those some of those more set up Fine Art situations or landscape situations like you’re trying to take your time in those squares in with event and wedding photography, that kind of process it’s just it’s really fast you’re trying to move different moving elements into different places and get photographs of them you’re just doing a lot all at one time over a short amount of length of the the amount of time with the you know the event so that it is alright, I did a great had a great time at the wedding. How about you are you know savage people out of food, got a bunch of great photos, brought them home started processing them. That’s a really interesting part of me. I’ve gone through like a big batch of photos and I’ve gotten kind of used to that over the time of getting through a big batch of photos but it is always sort of overwhelming when you’re like wow that’s a lot. That’s like a whole big data project I got to go through now like I don’t realize like how much it was it really takes to get through a bunch of stuff when you finish it. Thanks a lot for checking out this episode of The Billy Newman photo podcast. Hope you guys check out some stuff on Billy Newman photo.com a few new things up there some stuff on the homepage, some good links to other other outbound sources. some links to books and links to some podcasts. Like this blog posts are pretty cool. Yeah, check it out at Billy numina photo.com. Thanks a lot for listening to this episode and the back end