Searching for the Seiche
On 16 September 2023, seismometers around the world began ringing, registering a signal that — for 9 days — wobbled back and forth every 92 seconds. A second, similar signal appeared a month later, lasting about a week. Researchers tracked the signal’s origin to a remote fjord in East Greenland, where it appeared a glacier front had collapsed. The falling rocks and ice triggered a long-lasting wave — a seiche — that rang back and forth through the fjord for days.
Simulations showed that a seiche was plausible from a rockfall like the two that caused the seismic signal, but, without first-hand observations, no one could be certain. Now a new study has looked at satellite data to confirm the seiche. Researchers found that the then-new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite and its high-resolution altimeters had passed over the fjord multiple during the two landslide events. And, sure enough, the satellite captured data showing the water surface in the fjord rising and falling as the seiche ricocheted back and forth.
It’s a great reminder that having multiple instrument types monitoring the Earth gives us far better data than any singular one. Without both seismometers and the satellite, it’s unlikely that scientists could have truly confirmed a seiche that no one saw firsthand. (Image credit: S. Rysgaard; research credit: T. Monahan et al.; via Eos)
Refreshing to hear someone who has the knowledge and the position speaking against the Everettian Many Worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics. I have no opinion on his alternative interpretation yet.
Listening to Sean Carroll’s Mindscape (Episode 323 | Jacob Barandes on Indivisible Stochastic Quantum Mechanics): https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2025/07/28/323-jacob-barandes-on-indivisible-stochastic-quantum-mechanics/
A few more renderings of how 3-dimensional primordial magnetic fields (in this hypothesis, produced during inflation) could spread in the intergalactic volume between galaxies, after 13.7 billion years of cosmic evolution, in an ENZO simulation.
This is a tomography of the magnetic field along the horizontal B-component (left) and the baryon density (density), going from one to the other side of this periodic universe, 150Megaparsec wide.
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