Ben Kweller is an American musician and singer-songwriter who gained popularity in the early 2000s. While he is primarily known for his indie rock and power pop music, there have been occasional rumors and discussions about his involvement in occultism. It is important to note that these speculations are largely based on hearsay and have not been confirmed by Ben Kweller himself. Some fans and followers have highlighted certain symbols or lyrics in his songs that they believe are related to occult practices or beliefs. However, it is essential to approach these claims with skepticism, as it is common for fans to interpret lyrics and symbolism in various ways. Occultism refers to the study and practice of alternative spiritual and magical systems that are often associated with hidden knowledge or mystical phenomena.
These abs know what’s up. They’re hip to the trend, but aware that it’s silly. More than anything, these abs illustrate that this man’s comfortable with his body, one of the most attractive traits of a MMXXL dancer. And he thinks about ice cream! You know who also thinks about ice cream? Tito. (Well, he wants to open a yogurt food truck and dances an ice cream/candy-based routine so close enough.) Also me.
These ambitious abs have already changed the world by introducing it to this heavily curtained bath tub and a phone roughly the size of two abs, but this sentiment is trite and vague. Abstract Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies dSphs are among the best candidates to search for signals of dark matter annihilation with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, given their high mass-to-light ratios and the fact that they are free of astrophysical gamma-ray emitting sources.
Occultism refers to the study and practice of alternative spiritual and magical systems that are often associated with hidden knowledge or mystical phenomena. It encompasses a wide range of beliefs, including astrology, divination, tarot reading, and rituals involving spiritual entities. While some musicians and artists have openly embraced occult symbolism or imagery in their work, there is no concrete evidence to suggest that Ben Kweller is involved in occult practices.
Title: Combined searches for dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies observed with the MAGIC telescopes, including new data from Coma Berenices and Draco
(9), A. López-Oramas (1), S. Loporchio (21), B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga (10), C. Maggio (25), P. Majumdar (31), M. Makariev (32), M. Mallamaci (11), G. Maneva (32), M. Manganaro (22), K. Mannheim (23), L. Maraschi (3), M. Mariotti (11), M. Martínez (5), D. Mazin (6,15), S. Menchiari (13), S. Mender (7), S. Mićanović (22), D. Miceli (2,45), T. Miener (9), J. M. Miranda (13), R. Mirzoyan (15), E. Molina (17), A. Moralejo (5), D. Morcuende (9), V. Moreno (25), E. Moretti (5), V. Neustroev (33), C. Nigro (5), K. Nilsson (24), D. Ninci (5), K. Nishijima (30), K. Noda (6), S. Nozaki (29), Y. Ohtani (6), T. Oka (29), J. Otero-Santos (1), S. Paiano (3), M. Palatiello (2), D. Paneque (15), R. Paoletti (13), J. M. Paredes (17), L. Pavletić (22), P. Peñil (9), M. Persic (2,46), M. Pihet (15), P. G. Prada Moroni (16), E. Prandini (11), C. Priyadarshi (5), I. Puljak (27), W. Rhode (7), M. Ribó (17), J. Rico (5), C. Righi (3), A. Rugliancich (16), L. Saha (9), N. Sahakyan (26), T. Saito (6), S. Sakurai (6), K. Satalecka (14), F. G. Saturni (3), B. Schleicher (23), K. Schmidt (7), T. Schweizer (15), J. Sitarek (12), I. Šnidarić (34), D. Sobczynska (12), A. Spolon (11), A. Stamerra (3), J. Strišković (28), D. Strom (15), M. Strzys (6), Y. Suda (35), T. Surić (34), M. Takahashi (6), R. Takeishi (6), F. Tavecchio (3), P. Temnikov (32), T. Terzić (22), M. Teshima (15,6), L. Tosti (36), S. Truzzi (13), A. Tutone (3), S. Ubach (25), J. van Scherpenberg (15), G. Vanzo (1), M. Vazquez Acosta (1), S. Ventura (13), V. Verguilov (32), C. F. Vigorito (20), V. Vitale (37), I. Vovk (6), M. Will (15), C. Wunderlich (13), D. Zarić (27) ((1) Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias and Dpto. de Astrofísica, Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife), Spain, (2) Universitá di Udine and INFN Trieste, Udine, Italy, (3) INAF - National Institute for Astrophysics, Roma, Italy, (4) ETH Zürich, Institute for Particle Physics, Zürich, Switzerland, (5) Institut de Física d'Altes Energies (IFAE), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology (BIST), Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain, (6) Japanese MAGIC Group: Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR), The University of Tokyo, Chiba, Japan, (7) Technische Universität Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, (8) Croatian MAGIC Group: University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing (FER), Zagreb, Croatia, (9) IPARCOS Institute and EMFTEL Department, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain, (10) Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas (CBPF), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, (11) Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia dell'Universitá and INFN Padova, Padova, Italy, (12) University of Lodz, Faculty of Physics and Applied Informatics, Department of Astrophysics, Lodz, Poland, (13) Dipartimento SFTA, Sezione di Fisica, Universitá di Siena and INFN Pisa, Siena, Italy, (14) Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Zeuthen, Germany, (15) Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany, (16) Universitá di Pisa and INFN Pisa, Pisa, Italy, (17) Universitat de Barcelona, ICCUB, IEEC-UB, Barcelona, Spain, (18) Armenian MAGIC Group: A. Alikhanyan National Science Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia, (19) Centro de Investigaciones Energéticas, Medioambientales y Tecnológicas, Madrid, Spain, (20) INFN MAGIC Group: INFN Sezione di Torino and Universitá degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy, (21) INFN MAGIC Group: INFN Sezione di Bari and Dipartimento Interateneo di Fisica dell'Universitá e del Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy, (22) Croatian MAGIC Group: University of Rijeka, Department of Physics, Rijeka, Croatia, (23) Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, (24) Finnish MAGIC Group: Finnish Centre for Astronomy with ESO, University of Turku, Turku, Finland, (25) Departament de Física, and CERES-IEEC, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain, (26) Armenian MAGIC Group: ICRANet-Armenia at NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia, (27) Croatian MAGIC Group: University of Split, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB), Split, Croatia, (28) Croatian MAGIC Group: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Department of Physics, Osijek, Croatia (29) Japanese MAGIC Group: Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, (30) Japanese MAGIC Group: Department of Physics, Tokai University, Hiratsuka, Kanagawa, Japan, (31) Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics, HBNI, Kolkata, India, (32) Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy, Sofia, Bulgaria, (33) Finnish MAGIC Group: Astronomy Research Unit, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland, (34) Croatian MAGIC Group: Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, (35) Japanese MAGIC Group: Physics Program, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan, (36) INFN MAGIC Group: INFN Sezione di Perugia, Perugia, Italy, (37) INFN MAGIC Group: INFN Roma Tor Vergata, Roma, Italy, (38) also at International Center for Relativistic Astrophysics (ICRA), Rome, Italy, (39) now at Department for Physics and Technology, University of Bergen, Norway, (40) now at University of Innsbruck, (41) also at Port d'Informació Científica (PIC), Bellaterra (Barcelona) Spain, (42) now at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Astronomisches Institut (AIRUB), Bochum, Germany, (43) now at Department of Astronomy, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley CA, (44) also at Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Trieste, Trieste, Italy, (45) now at Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules (LAPP), CNRS-IN2P3, Annecy Cedex, France, (46) also at INAF Trieste and Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, University of Bologna)
Download a PDF of the paper titled Combined searches for dark matter in dwarf spheroidal galaxies observed with the MAGIC telescopes, including new data from Coma Berenices and Draco, by MAGIC Collaboration: V. A. Acciari (1) and 370 other authors
Abstract: Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are among the best candidates to search for signals of dark matter annihilation with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes, given their high mass-to-light ratios and the fact that they are free of astrophysical gamma-ray emitting sources. Since 2011, MAGIC has performed a multi-year observation program in search for Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) in dSphs. Results on the observations of Segue 1 and Ursa Major II dSphs have already been published and include some of the most stringent upper limits (ULs) on the velocity-averaged cross-section $\langle \sigma_<\mathrm> v \rangle$ of WIMP annihilation from observations of dSphs. In this work, we report on the analyses of 52.1 h of data of Draco dSph and 49.5 h of Coma Berenices dSph observed with the MAGIC telescopes in 2018 and in 2019 respectively. No hint of a signal has been detected from either of these targets and new constraints on the $\langle \sigma_<\mathrm > v \rangle$ of WIMP candidates have been derived. In order to improve the sensitivity of the search and reduce the effect of the systematic uncertainties due to the $J$-factor estimates, we have combined the data of all dSphs observed with the MAGIC telescopes. Using 354.3 h of dSphs good quality data, 95 % CL ULs on $\langle \sigma_<\mathrm > v \rangle$ have been obtained for 9 annihilation channels. For most of the channels, these results reach values of the order of $10^ $cm$^3$/s at $1$ TeV and are the most stringent limits obtained with the MAGIC telescopes so far.
| Comments: | 17 pages, 5 figures |
| Subjects: | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2111.15009 [astro-ph.HE] |
| (or arXiv:2111.15009v1 [astro-ph.HE] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2111.15009 |
These abs mean business. You can tell by the setup in the background that these abs produce some sort of audio content—content that would surely be “on-the-air” if not for the corporate control of radio. It’s a damn shame that there’s no other outlet for music in 2015.
It is crucial to separate artistic expression from personal beliefs or affiliations. Furthermore, the perception of occultism in popular culture is often sensationalized and misunderstood. Many artists use occult symbolism as a creative tool or a way to add depth and mystery to their work, without necessarily indicating their personal beliefs or involvement. In conclusion, the topic of Ben Kweller's alleged involvement in occultism remains speculative and lacks substantial evidence. It is essential to approach these claims with critical thinking and understand that artistic expression may incorporate various symbols and themes that do not necessarily reflect an artist's personal beliefs or practices..
Reviews for "Resurrecting the occult influences in Ben Kweller's early work"
1. Sarah - 2 out of 5 stars - I was really disappointed with "Ben kweller occultism". The album lacked any sort of cohesion or clear direction. The songs felt jumbled and unrelated, making it hard to connect with any of them. The lyrics were also quite underwhelming and failed to provoke any sort of emotion or depth. Overall, I wouldn't recommend this album to anyone looking for a memorable or meaningful listening experience.
2. John - 1 out of 5 stars - "Ben kweller occultism" was a complete waste of my time. The music was bland and uninspired, sounding like a mess of random chords and unremarkable melodies. The vocals were lackluster and lacked any sort of charisma or uniqueness. I found myself feeling bored and uninterested throughout the entire album. Save yourself the disappointment and skip this one.
3. Emily - 2.5 out of 5 stars - I had high hopes for "Ben kweller occultism" but unfortunately, it fell short for me. The album had potential, but it felt unpolished and lacked a cohesive sound. The lyrics were forgettable and didn't offer any profound or thought-provoking messages. Although there were a few standout tracks, overall, it didn't leave a lasting impression on me.
4. Mike - 2 out of 5 stars - "Ben kweller occultism" seemed like a half-hearted attempt at music. The songs lacked depth and substance, feeling like they were written without much thought or effort. The production quality was also subpar, with the sound feeling muddled and unbalanced. Overall, I was left unimpressed and quickly forgot about this album as soon as I finished listening to it.