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Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2011/03/Solar%20mystery%20solved.aspx I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Julie Send message Joined: 28 Oct 09 Posts: 34054 Credit: 18,883,157 RAC: 18 |
And knowing it's probably not the only universe around. I saw a movie from Stephen Hawking couple of months ago, intelligent man, incredible! He was talking about multiversums and metaversums,wormholes, travelling through time. I think Hawking has some interesting ideas about the kosmos and all there is actually. Such a bright brain in such a disabled body, so sad in some way... rOZZ Music Pictures |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2011/04/Two%20dying%20stars%20reborn%20as%20one.aspx I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
skildude Send message Joined: 4 Oct 00 Posts: 9541 Credit: 50,759,529 RAC: 60 |
that would be cool to see. Its a shame we won't be here for it In a rich man's house there is no place to spit but his face. Diogenes Of Sinope |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
http://www.space.com/11471-weird-pioneer-space-anomaly-explanation-proposed.html?kw=FB_Space I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
http://www.space.com/11188-alien-earths-planets-sun-stars.html?kw=FB_Space I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
http://www.astronomy.com/en/News-Observing/News/2011/05/Gravity%20Probe%20B%20confirms%20two%20Einstein%20space-time%20theories.aspx I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
http://www.space.com/11556-earth-asteroid-flyby-2005yu55.html I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
ML1 Send message Joined: 25 Nov 01 Posts: 20387 Credit: 7,508,002 RAC: 20 |
http://www.space.com/11556-earth-asteroid-flyby-2005yu55.html Wow! That's a close and big one. All eyes will be skyward come November: ... With 4-meter-per-pixel resolution, the new views of 2005 YU55 should be pretty sharp, perhaps even showing boulders and craters, researchers said. "We're talking about getting down to the kind of surface detail you dream of when you have a spacecraft fly by one of these targets," Benner said. The data collected from Arecibo, Goldstone and ground-based optical and infrared telescopes also should help detail the mineral composition of the asteroid, researchers said. ... One for Hubble to watch also? Or will it be too close to focus on? Keep searchin', Martin See new freedom: Mageia Linux Take a look for yourself: Linux Format The Future is what We all make IT (GPLv3) |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
The Hubble scope needs to be maneuvered and to try and catch a moving object in this close would prove almost impossible. If anyone knows for certain, I'm ready to be corrected. I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
The US Air Force has just inaugurated a Space Surveillance Telescope in Socorro, New Mexico, with a 3.5 m mirror, to watch for space debris and NEO. It should be able to monitor any asteroid. Tullio |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
http://www.space.com/12400-universe-biggest-oldest-cloud-water.html I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Robert Waite Send message Joined: 23 Oct 07 Posts: 2417 Credit: 18,192,122 RAC: 59 |
http://www.space.com/12432-saturn-water-rain-enceladus-moon.html I do not fight fascists because I think I can win. I fight them because they are fascists. Chris Hedges A riot is the language of the unheard. -Martin Luther King, Jr. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
NASA-funded researchers have evidence that some building blocks of DNA, the molecule that carries the genetic instructions for life, found in meteorites were likely created in space. The research gives support to the theory that a "kit" of ready-made parts created in space and delivered to Earth by meteorite and comet impacts assisted the origin of life. "People have been discovering components of DNA in meteorites since the 1960's, but researchers were unsure whether they were really created in space or if instead they came from contamination by terrestrial life," said Dr. Michael Callahan of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. "For the first time, we have three lines of evidence that together give us confidence these DNA building blocks actually were created in space." Callahan is lead author of a paper on the discovery appearing in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. http://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/dna-meteorites.html |
musicplayer Send message Joined: 17 May 10 Posts: 2430 Credit: 926,046 RAC: 0 |
I wish I was a physicist. Anyway, you may have heard about the "Superforce". When the Big Bang happened, this force (which either existed "before" or during the Big Bang), apparently lasting only a very short time) split up. Among other things, we apparently got the three dimensions surrounding us, including the "point" or perhaps "singularity". Also gravity and time. Almost everything in the Universe is mass. This mass exist through the presence of particles. Energy is movement of mass from one place or position to another or maybe transformation of one kind of state of mass to another kind of mass. During the Big Bang matter and anti-matter (which was matter but with the opposite charge than matter) annihilated each other. There was a little more matter than anti-matter and this is what we see today. The Big Bang makes everything fly apart from each other ("inflation theory") when it comes to the big perspective - galaxies and galaxy clusters. It is not necessarily the objects themselves which are moving away from each other, rather the space itself in which the objects are present. Time is not a constant. Close to strong gravitational fields like neutron stars and black holes, time is known to be stopping up. In our world, we could think of the change of time as the passing of one second to the other. We know how long this takes. Strangely, close to a railway line in Russia, where there was though an alien craft had landed, time was shown to be speeding up inside a small area. In micro-cosmos particles (ranging from single electrons through complex molecules) are regarded as being single or complex entities. In macro-cosmos (space) we have stars being single entities and galaxies and galaxy clusters being complex entities. If something is smaller than micro-cosmos or larger than macro-cosmos we do not know anything about it. If the Universe is supposed to be having 11 dimensions, we could likely have many other Universes as well, all of them having similar or other physical properties than our own Universe. Perhaps this is why the existence of "wormholes" has been postulated. |
Michael John Hind Send message Joined: 6 Feb 07 Posts: 1330 Credit: 3,632,028 RAC: 0 |
I wish I was a physicist. Among other things, we apparently got the three dimensions surrounding us, including the "point" or perhaps Nice bit of Scientific blurb here, Musicplayer. Don't worry about not being a physicist this should in no way stop you from taking an interest and contributing your ideas as to how you see things in this field of science. What does help is if you can think laterally for most scientific problems get solved by this method of thought process at some stage. Gravity, by the way, is generally accepted to be a particle called the graviton massless with a boson type structure the same as that of the photon, this is the reason why they are searching for the gravity wave for they think the graviton has duality just like the photon. Duality meaning that the graviton, like the photon, can behave both as a particle and that of a wave too. Depending on what it's doing, it's a particle when it reacts with matter but becomes a wave when it travels through a vacuum such as space. Regarding time, if you have read the other threads here you will know that I don't consider it to be a dimension. I could be wrong, but since time as a dimension has yet to be proved I will continue to consider it to be a bi-product generated by the movement of matter through space. During the Big Bang matter and anti-matter (which was matter but with the opposite charge than matter) annihilated each other. There was a little more matter than anti-matter and this is what we see today. Current research here is pointing towards a sub particle in matter outnumbering it's counter-part in anti-matter. So when each annihilated each other this extra sub-particle coming from matter remains. Time is not a constant. Close to strong gravitational fields like neutron stars and black holes, time is known to be stopping up. In our world, we could think of the change of time as the passing of one second to the other. I don't like the idea that gravity can alter a dimension such as that reported to be occupied by time. It is known that time can not be measured and no one knows what time really is, no one seems to be able to scientifically describe it. Many physicists in the quantum field of work have given up even bothering to try to describe it. Back to dimensions again, if a dimension was just a wave in construction then yes gravity could alter it but a dimension is too profound an entity too superior in makeup to be effected by the lower orders of particles and waves that are around us and out in the universe. Strangely, close to a railway line in Russia, where there was though an alien craft had landed, time was shown to be speeding up inside a small area. If this was to be true then what ever is causing it is far to small to be able to affect one of our dimension. So here again I don't consider time to be a dimension if time itself is being affected by something here in the ground. Remember Einstein and Niels Bohr, made their major discoveries by going against mainstream thinking. They followed their own instincts and thank goodness they did too. |
Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
Kepler probe detects alien world by its gravitational influence on a neighbor For the first time, scientists have definitively discovered an "invisible" alien planet by noticing how its gravity affects the orbit of a neighboring world, a new study reports. The "invisible" world Kepler-19c, seen in the foreground of this artist's conception, was discovered solely through its gravitational influence on the companion world Kepler-19b — the dot crossing the star's face. Kepler-19b is slightly more than twice the diameter of Earth, and is probably a "mini-Neptune." Nothing is known about Kepler-19c other than that it exists. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44442011/ns/technology_and_science-space/#.Tmmw12P7Yb4 |
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