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Zarck Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 28 Credit: 662,507 RAC: 0 |
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Zarck Send message Joined: 3 Apr 99 Posts: 28 Credit: 662,507 RAC: 0 |
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Lynn Send message Joined: 20 Nov 00 Posts: 14162 Credit: 79,603,650 RAC: 123 |
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rte76EGNO_k- The Milky Way is moving through space because of hidden void Must watch short video. Earth is a speck in the video. The story: Milky Way galaxy is being pushed across the universe (CNN)Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is being pushed across the universe by a large unseen force, according to new research. Although it may not seem like a friendly gesture, the newly discovered Dipole Repeller is actually helping our galaxy on its journey across the expanding universe. Researchers have known that the galaxy was moving at a relative speed for the past 30 years, but they didn't know why. Scientists have no clue as to the laws of what's out there. |
Michael Watson Send message Joined: 7 Feb 08 Posts: 1383 Credit: 2,098,506 RAC: 5 |
We're moving at better than 600 kilometers per second, with respect to the cosmic microwave background. That amounts to better than 50 million kilometers, each and every day, or roughly the distance to our nearest neighboring planets, at their closest. In a year that comes to more than 180 billion kilometers. Quite a ride! |
Wiggo Send message Joined: 24 Jan 00 Posts: 34744 Credit: 261,360,520 RAC: 489 |
Scientists have no clue as to the laws of what's out there. Isn't lucky that our scientists arn't a horde pessimists, otherwise we wouldn't learn anything new hey? ;-) Cheers. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11360 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Lots of research seems to be being done, as it should be, but I haven't seen any world shattering breakthrough's yet. Chris did you miss the Ligo gravity wave? That was a breakthrough IMO. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Well. Some scientific research can be very funny. About The Ig® Nobel Prizes http://www.improbable.com/ig/ No benefits for humankind what so ever. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11360 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
Chris methinks understanding gravity could very well be useful in interstellar transportation. Your slamming abstract science if applied retroactively would preclude semiconductors. You never know what a new discovery will lead to. |
tullio Send message Joined: 9 Apr 04 Posts: 8797 Credit: 2,930,782 RAC: 1 |
Quantum physics could give us a quantum computer. Federico Faggin, who built the first microprocessor, MCS4, the granddaddy of all Intel and AMD microprocessors, says that quantum computers are the future of information technology. I still have a copy of an Intel 8080 Microcomputer Systems user manual, dated September 1975. The computer is not listed as aon application of it. Applications listed are Intelligent terminals, Gaming machines, Cash registers, Accounting and billing machines, Telephone switching control, Numerically controlled machines and Process control. Intel at that time was making money selling 16 Kbit memory units to mainframe manufacturers and did not want to irk them. The term "microprocessor" is not used in that manual. Tullio |
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