Post #1656395
2026-04-24 10:40 UTC
TIL that the astrophysicist who coined the term #DarkMatter , Fritz Zwicky, also coined the term ‘spherical bastard’, meaning someone who is a bastard no matter how you look at them. 🍊 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky
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@HollieK72@mastodonapp.uk 2026-04-25 06:38
@ChemicalEyeGuy@mstdn.science Damn, no one picked up his nuclear goblins idea! "He is celebrated for the discovery of neutron stars. He also proposed a concept he called nuclear goblins, which he described as "a body of nuclear density ... only stable under sufficient external pressure within a massive and dense star". He considered that these goblins could move within a star, and explode violently as they reach less dense regions towards the star's surface, and serve to explain eruptive phenomena, such as flare stars. This idea has never caught on."