Countless legal standards ask what the reasonable person would do. But who is this person? The reasonable person is not just the average person. That s easily seen. Sometimes, average people do unreasonable things. This insight has led theorists to propose the reasonable person as some ideal person , such as the virtuous person, the person who achieves the best consequences, or the person who acts in accord with moral duty.But this is all too quick. The reasonable person isn t just the average person, but neither is it simply the ideal person. Instead, the reasonable person represents someone who is both common and good.The reasonable person is often associated with the law of accidents. To determine whether someone is legally responsible for causing an injury, courts apply a test of reasonable care . Did the person causing the injury act with the care of a reasonable person? But reasonableness sets countless other legal standards: was a killing reasonably
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IMAGE: Artist s impression of PSR J2039?5617 and its companion. The binary system consists of a rapidly rotating neutron star view more
Credit: Knispel/Clark/Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics/NASA GSFC
An international research team including members from The University of Manchester has shown that a rapidly rotating neutron star is at the core of a celestial object now known as PSR J2039?5617
The international collaboration used novel data analysis methods and the enormous computing power of the citizen science project Einstein@Home to track down the neutron star s faint gamma-ray pulsations in data from NASA s Fermi Space Telescope. Their results show that the pulsar is in orbit with a stellar companion about a sixth of the mass of our Sun. The pulsar is slowly but surely evaporating this star. The team also found that the companion s orbit varies slightly and unpredictably over time. Using their search method, they expect to find more such syst
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VIDEO: This three-and-a-half minute video shows highlights of researchers adjusting and deploying the SAMI instrument at the Anglo Australian Telescope at Siding Spring University in New South Wales, Australia.
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Credit: Ángel R. López-Sánchez (Australian Astronomical Observatory / Macquarie University)
The complex mechanics determining how galaxies spin, grow, cluster and die have been revealed following the release of all the data gathered during a massive seven-year Australian-led astronomy research project.
The scientists observed 13 galaxies at a time, building to a total of 3068, using a custom-built instrument called the Sydney-AAO Multi-Object Integral-Field Spectrograph (SAMI), connected to the 4-metre Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) at Siding Spring Observatory in New South Wales. The telescope is operated by the Australian National University.
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Bizarre behaviour from an already unusual celestial object known as a magnetar has given astronomers clues into how it was formed and challenged theories about how it changes over time.
A magnetar is a type of neutron star, a collapsed remnant of a much larger star that did not explode in a supernova, but instead collapsed into an object up to three times the mass of our sun but only about 20 kilometres in diameter.
An artistâs impression of the active magnetar Swift J1818.0-1607.
Credit:Carl Knox, OzGrav
Unlike other neutron stars, a magnetar has an incredibly powerful magnetic field. It is so powerful that if a magnetar were as close to Earth as the moon, it would wipe blank every magnetic key card on the planet.