hongkonghiraeth:

這是一個最壞的時代，也是一個最好的時代。

Without any warnings, 36 shots were fired, including ones from the Shun Tak Centre walkway downwards to protestors on the ground, as well as ones that were fired at protestors head from a close range within a crowd. Their malicious intent lead to serious injuries. On the other hand, the Police casted multiple teargases, and continued to fire shots through the smoke, putting protestors and members of the press in a position of extreme danger.

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lovinghk:

about 721 yuen long attack 

‘The whole car smelled of blood’: Hong Kong victims describe brutal attack at Yuen Long MTR station; some may sue for damages

(source: scmp | 24 jul 2019)

• Six Hongkongers come forward with details of violent attack by angry mob of men in white T-shirts, one asking: ‘Where was the law?’
• Another witness says: ‘We were just passengers, normal citizens, on the way back home’

BBC 10pm News 23/09/2019

wonders-of-the-cosmos:

The Multiverse

The multiverse is a hypothetical group of multiple universes. Together, these universes comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, and the physical laws and constants that describe them.The different universes within the multiverse are called “parallel universes”, “other universes”, or “alternate.

The universes would be, in an analogy, similar to soap bubbles floating in a larger space capable of harboring them.  Some would even be interconnected by black holes or wormholes.

There are several multiverse versions. See two examples.

In chaotic inflation theory, a variant of the cosmic inflation theory, the multiverse, or space as a whole is expanding and will continue to do so forever, but some regions of space stop stretching and forming distinct bubbles (such as pockets  of gas in a growing bread). These bubbles are embryonic of level I of the multiverse. Different bubbles can experience different breaks of spontaneous symmetry, which results in different properties, such as different physical constants.

The brane multiverse version postulates that our entire universe exists on a membrane (brane) which floats in a higher dimension or “bulk”. In this bulk, there are other membranes with their own universes. These universes can interact with one another, and when they collide, the violence and energy produced is more than enough to give rise to a big bang. The branes float or drift near each other in the bulk, and every few trillion years, attracted by gravity or some other force we do not understand, collide and bang into each other. This repeated contact gives rise to multiple or “cyclic” big bangs. This particular hypothesis falls under the string theory umbrella as it requires extra spatial dimensions.
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