08-29-2016, 09:53 PM
Name: Danika Zayed
Age: 29
Origin: Chicago, IL
Current: Moscow
Occupation: Theoretical astrophysicist
Appearance: brunette with big brown eyes and a wide smile. Average height and healthy build and weight. Danika has an average sense of style and wears classic, tasteful pieces.
Goddess reborn: Sumerian goddess of knowledge, wisdom, writing, and the heavens, Nisaba
Biography:
Danika Zayed is an American physicist from Chicago, IL who studies string theory, dark theory, and quantum mechanics. She describes herself as a proud Chicago public schools alumna. She completed her undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her graduate work at the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science in Munich and is a new faculty member in the department of theoretical physics at Moscow State University. She is best known for her contribution to the Illustris project.
Danika was born in 2017 and raised by her parents from a wealthy suburb outside Chicago, IL. In 2023, she enrolled in the Edison Regional Gifted Center and graduated high school from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2034, the last remaining public school for the gifted in the state.
Before she focused on energy theory, Danika did fellowship research every summer of high school at the labs of the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) located in Hanover, Germany at the Albert Einstein Institute, the home of the first gravitational wave observatory in space. She was 14 years old during her first summer fellowship there, but was forced to leave three days early due to illness. When she returned the next summer, her research exploded with new findings. Her mentors were baffled by her innovative inquiries into particle physics, especially investigating dark matter, dark energy, dark particles, and a term coined by her, dark flows. She had a standing invitation to return to the Institute for a doctoral program upon completing her undergraduate studies back in the United States, an invitation she eventually accepted. Her dissertation research focused on an original concept where she postulated a new force of nature and how this fifth force, made up of dark waves, was studied using similar principles to studying gravitational waves, a body of work called the Illustris project.
As a toddler she developed at an average pace, although she had an affable and warm personality, including a big sense of humor.
Her parents had Danika's name on a wait list for the private Gifted School before she was even born. There, her intellect blossomed. Creativity was encouraged through a style more closely resembling play and self paced study than anything from the traditional academic classroom settings. She fell in love with astronomy and earth science, and spent many nights up past dark to look at the stars through her telescope. She even had a white cat named Milky Way. By the 2020's, the American space exploration programs were all pretty much defunded; no NASA space camp anymore. So Danika's parents looked abroad. Programs in the CCD were more plentiful and stable, but highly competitive-especially for foreigners. Danika was wait-listed the summer she was 8 years old. It was fortunate she was able to go, because the experience was integral to her acceptance to a fellowship program later in high school.
Despite her academic aptitude for math and science, Danika maintained a cheerful, outgoing personality. She was well-liked, and rarely involved in typical schoolgirl drama. She was was never ill, either, or missed any classes because of infection. Even when measles went through the school, she didn't catch it, and she had to have been exposed. The only time she was sick was during the summers in Munich, but even those episodes passed.
Her easy going nature persisted through college. Even in graduate school, she wasn't a complete stranger to the Munich club scene. A girl had to have her down time after all.
Despite her friendly personality, Danika has little experience with serious relationships. She had a few dates and went to prom, but a steady boyfriend was absent. Men probably found her intellect and charm to be intimidating, or she was too naive to know when she was being flirted with.
As a result, most of her social life takes place is shallow in the club scene or restricted to professional relationships at work. She's been in Moscow for a year now. In the last few months, the Illustri project was finally published, reviewed, and accepted in the field as evidence for a new fundamental force of nature.
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Illustris project
Dark energy is thought to be very homogeneous, not very dense and is not known to interact through any of the fundamental forces other than gravity.
Dark energy can have such a profound effect on the universe, making up 68% of universal density, only because it uniformly fills otherwise empty space. The two leading models are a cosmological constant and quintessence. Both models include the common characteristic that dark energy must have negative pressure.
The simplest explanation for dark energy is that it is simply the "cost of having space": that is, a volume of space has some intrinsic, fundamental energy. This is the cosmological constant, sometimes called Lambda (hence Lambda-CDM model) after the Greek letter Λ, the symbol used to represent this quantity mathematically (and usually multiplied by gamma Γ. Since energy and mass are related by E = mc2, Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that this energy will have a gravitational effect. It is sometimes called a vacuum energy because it is the energy density of empty vacuum. In fact, most theories of particle physics predict vacuum fluctuationsthat would give the vacuum this sort of energy.
A major outstanding problem is that most quantum field theories predict a huge cosmological constant from the energy of the quantum vacuum, more than 100 orders of magnitude too large. This would need to be cancelled almost, but not exactly, by an equally large term of the opposite sign. Mathematically, this opposite constant is represented by the Greek letter iota ι multiplied by Nu, Ν.
Although dark energy lacks mass, it is not transient, and interacts with dark matter through wave-like streams called dark flows.
When the two black holes collided in deep space, scientists celebrated the successful discovery of gravitational waves. It was recently postulated by Danika that the black hole binary was the signature of dark matter. What followed in the publication were five pages of annotated mathematical equations showing how she considered the mass of the two objects as a point of departure, suggesting that these objects could be part of the mysterious substance known to make up about 85 percent of the mass of the universe.
As a result, she has suggested that dark matter might not be made of extremely high-mass heavy fermions, but low-mass light bosons instead, on the order of one tenth of a billion of one-billionth of one billionth the mass of an electron.
The difference between fermions and bosons is that a fermion cannot occupy the same state at the same time as another fermion. As an analogy, a state is like a seat, and two or more fermions cannot sit in the same seat simultaneously. In contrast, two or more bosons can occupy the same state at the same time, and can therefore clump into so-called Bose-Einstein condensates that act like single blobs. She found that these condensates full of dark matter are composed of waves.
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Age: 29
Origin: Chicago, IL
Current: Moscow
Occupation: Theoretical astrophysicist
Appearance: brunette with big brown eyes and a wide smile. Average height and healthy build and weight. Danika has an average sense of style and wears classic, tasteful pieces.
Goddess reborn: Sumerian goddess of knowledge, wisdom, writing, and the heavens, Nisaba
Biography:
Danika Zayed is an American physicist from Chicago, IL who studies string theory, dark theory, and quantum mechanics. She describes herself as a proud Chicago public schools alumna. She completed her undergraduate studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, her graduate work at the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science in Munich and is a new faculty member in the department of theoretical physics at Moscow State University. She is best known for her contribution to the Illustris project.
Danika was born in 2017 and raised by her parents from a wealthy suburb outside Chicago, IL. In 2023, she enrolled in the Edison Regional Gifted Center and graduated high school from the Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy in 2034, the last remaining public school for the gifted in the state.
Before she focused on energy theory, Danika did fellowship research every summer of high school at the labs of the Evolved Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (eLISA) located in Hanover, Germany at the Albert Einstein Institute, the home of the first gravitational wave observatory in space. She was 14 years old during her first summer fellowship there, but was forced to leave three days early due to illness. When she returned the next summer, her research exploded with new findings. Her mentors were baffled by her innovative inquiries into particle physics, especially investigating dark matter, dark energy, dark particles, and a term coined by her, dark flows. She had a standing invitation to return to the Institute for a doctoral program upon completing her undergraduate studies back in the United States, an invitation she eventually accepted. Her dissertation research focused on an original concept where she postulated a new force of nature and how this fifth force, made up of dark waves, was studied using similar principles to studying gravitational waves, a body of work called the Illustris project.
As a toddler she developed at an average pace, although she had an affable and warm personality, including a big sense of humor.
Her parents had Danika's name on a wait list for the private Gifted School before she was even born. There, her intellect blossomed. Creativity was encouraged through a style more closely resembling play and self paced study than anything from the traditional academic classroom settings. She fell in love with astronomy and earth science, and spent many nights up past dark to look at the stars through her telescope. She even had a white cat named Milky Way. By the 2020's, the American space exploration programs were all pretty much defunded; no NASA space camp anymore. So Danika's parents looked abroad. Programs in the CCD were more plentiful and stable, but highly competitive-especially for foreigners. Danika was wait-listed the summer she was 8 years old. It was fortunate she was able to go, because the experience was integral to her acceptance to a fellowship program later in high school.
Despite her academic aptitude for math and science, Danika maintained a cheerful, outgoing personality. She was well-liked, and rarely involved in typical schoolgirl drama. She was was never ill, either, or missed any classes because of infection. Even when measles went through the school, she didn't catch it, and she had to have been exposed. The only time she was sick was during the summers in Munich, but even those episodes passed.
Her easy going nature persisted through college. Even in graduate school, she wasn't a complete stranger to the Munich club scene. A girl had to have her down time after all.
Despite her friendly personality, Danika has little experience with serious relationships. She had a few dates and went to prom, but a steady boyfriend was absent. Men probably found her intellect and charm to be intimidating, or she was too naive to know when she was being flirted with.
As a result, most of her social life takes place is shallow in the club scene or restricted to professional relationships at work. She's been in Moscow for a year now. In the last few months, the Illustri project was finally published, reviewed, and accepted in the field as evidence for a new fundamental force of nature.
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Illustris project
Dark energy is thought to be very homogeneous, not very dense and is not known to interact through any of the fundamental forces other than gravity.
Dark energy can have such a profound effect on the universe, making up 68% of universal density, only because it uniformly fills otherwise empty space. The two leading models are a cosmological constant and quintessence. Both models include the common characteristic that dark energy must have negative pressure.
The simplest explanation for dark energy is that it is simply the "cost of having space": that is, a volume of space has some intrinsic, fundamental energy. This is the cosmological constant, sometimes called Lambda (hence Lambda-CDM model) after the Greek letter Λ, the symbol used to represent this quantity mathematically (and usually multiplied by gamma Γ. Since energy and mass are related by E = mc2, Einstein's theory of general relativity predicts that this energy will have a gravitational effect. It is sometimes called a vacuum energy because it is the energy density of empty vacuum. In fact, most theories of particle physics predict vacuum fluctuationsthat would give the vacuum this sort of energy.
A major outstanding problem is that most quantum field theories predict a huge cosmological constant from the energy of the quantum vacuum, more than 100 orders of magnitude too large. This would need to be cancelled almost, but not exactly, by an equally large term of the opposite sign. Mathematically, this opposite constant is represented by the Greek letter iota ι multiplied by Nu, Ν.
Although dark energy lacks mass, it is not transient, and interacts with dark matter through wave-like streams called dark flows.
When the two black holes collided in deep space, scientists celebrated the successful discovery of gravitational waves. It was recently postulated by Danika that the black hole binary was the signature of dark matter. What followed in the publication were five pages of annotated mathematical equations showing how she considered the mass of the two objects as a point of departure, suggesting that these objects could be part of the mysterious substance known to make up about 85 percent of the mass of the universe.
As a result, she has suggested that dark matter might not be made of extremely high-mass heavy fermions, but low-mass light bosons instead, on the order of one tenth of a billion of one-billionth of one billionth the mass of an electron.
The difference between fermions and bosons is that a fermion cannot occupy the same state at the same time as another fermion. As an analogy, a state is like a seat, and two or more fermions cannot sit in the same seat simultaneously. In contrast, two or more bosons can occupy the same state at the same time, and can therefore clump into so-called Bose-Einstein condensates that act like single blobs. She found that these condensates full of dark matter are composed of waves.
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