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Fermi's First Light

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:58:30 GMT

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Fermi's First Light

What shines in the gamma-ray sky? Along the galactic plane, energetic cosmic rays collide with gas and dust to produce the diffuse gamma-ray glow. Strong emission from spinning neutron stars or pulsars, and distant active galaxies known as blazars, can be identified by placing your cursor over the map. A prelude to future discoveries, the remarkable result combines only 4 days of observations, equivalent to a year of observations with the Compton Gamma-ray Observatory mission of the 1990s. In addition to the ability to monitor gamma-ray bursts, the greatly improved sensitivity will allow Fermi to look deeper into the high-energy Universe.

Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope

Tags: fermi's first light, space

Trippy sites

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 09:01:24 GMT

clipped by: JackieDel
clipper's remarks: Great sites to waste time

Clip Source: www.listropolis.com

10 WTF Sites That Will Warp Your Mind

Clip Source: www.listropolis.com

I can’t even begin to explain these sites. They are a little trippy, loaded with Flash, and a whole lot WTF. I feel these sites are hanging out on the outer-most sections of the internet universe, and I’ve done my best to pull them all together for you. You may never look at websites the same again.

#1 Treasure Box

Tags: humor

Japanese physicists aim to unlock universe's mysteries

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:18:45 GMT

clipped by: gilligan
clipper's remarks: "Researchers will be able to study some lighter atoms that X-rays cannot analyse, most notably those of water," said Kunihiro Suzuki, chief spokesman at the J-PARC Center.

Clip Source: www.physorg.com

The Japan Proton Accelerator Research Complex (J-PARC Center) -- a 150 billion yen (1.36 billion dollar) project almost entirely funded by the government -- will open in December as one of the world's three hubs of atomic science.

The gigantic complex in the nuclear research hub in Tokai, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northeast of Tokyo, is designed to help researchers study any object on Earth beneath the level of the atom.

By better understanding the world in such minute detail, researchers hope to bring benefits to a variety of fields including pharmaceuticals, food processing and ion batteries.

"As far as research results are made public, researchers can use these facilities for free," said Shoji Nagamiya, director of J-PARC Center.

As many as 57 companies, largely in pharmaceuticals as well as universities and other institutes, are considering research at the science park, where up to 23 studies can take place simultaneously.

Tags: physics

Beautiful Rosette Nebula with Torrent of Gas and Dust

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:03:46 GMT

clipped by: gilligan

Clip Source: science.nationalgeographic.com

An infrared image of the Rosette Nebula shows super-hot O stars (blue dots inside spheres) amid a torrent of gas and dust (green and red). This star-forming nebula, which lies 5,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros, is named for its rosebud-like shape when seen using only optical light.

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Tags: space, outer

exploding universe

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:08:14 GMT

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Clip Source: buttersafe.com

Mind Matter

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:39:01 GMT

clipped by: ChaosSyren

Clip Source: www.halexandria.org

Mind-Matter

Mind-Body discussions are all about how a transcendent mind might control the body with which it is associated. On a grander scale is the idea of Mind-Matter in which the mind controls matter in the universe. This is not a favorite topic of many scientists, inasmuch as it puts their experimental protocols at risk, i.e. all the brilliant work they’ve thus far conjured up may be fatally flawed! Their experiments which may have depended upon an observer not influencing the results, would be just so much barn carpeting if in fact the observer had, perhaps inadvertently, skewed the results.

Unfortunately for such Separatists, the universe is connected, including mind and matter. Dean Radin’s Consciousness Research Laboratory <http://www.psiresearch.org/research.html>, for example, has noted experiences which “suggest the presence of a deep interconnectedness among all things.”

Spaceship Could Fly Faster Than Light

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 14:41:44 GMT

clipped by: tabsey
clipper's remarks: Interesting theory. Anyone want the job of supreme crash test dummy?

Clip Source: www.space.com

Travel by bubble might seem more appropriate for witches in Oz, but two physicists suggest that a future spaceship could fold a space-time bubble around itself to travel faster than the speed of light.

We're talking about the very distant future, of course.

The idea involves manipulating dark energy — the mysterious force behind the universe's ongoing expansion — to propel a spaceship forward without breaking the laws of physics.

"Think of it like a surfer riding a wave," said Gerald Cleaver, a physicist at Baylor University. "The ship would be pushed by the spatial bubble and the bubble would be traveling faster than the speed of light."

In theory, the universe grew faster than the speed of light for a very short time after the Big Bang, driven by the dark energy that represents about 74 percent of the total mass-energy budget in the universe. Dark matter constitutes 22 percent of the budget, and normal matter (stars, planets and everything you see) makes up the remaining 4 percent or so.

Tags: does, time, reverse, at, speed, of, light

Photo Shows Stars Born in Huge Cosmic Wombs By Jeanna Bryner

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:38:52 GMT

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Clip Source: www.space.com

A glitzy new family portrait of a star-forming region supports a theory that the universe's most massive stars carve out these wispy wombs and thereby enable stellar embryos to take shape.

The infrared photograph, which will be detailed in the Dec. 1 issue of The Astrophysical Journal, bolsters a long-held theory of star formation.

Clip Source: www.space.com

In the W5 star-forming region, the oldest stars (blue dots) reside at the centers of two hollow cavities (other blue dots are background and foreground stars). Younger stars (pink dots) line the rims of the cavities, and some can be seen dots at the tips of the elephant-trunk-like pillars. The very youngest stars are forming in the white knotty areas, with heated dust (red) pervading the region's cavities. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA

Tags: astronomy, beauty

Tests clear way for mini 'Big Bang'

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:15:23 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The 'Higgs bosun' has so far been undetected, so it's theoretical, but it is thought to represent the quantum force that gives things their mass.
So far they have found theorized quanta by their behavior, but they haven't been able to find one that makes things 'heavy'
Higgs Bosun is supposed to fill the gap

Clip Source: www.abc.net.au

Robert Evans

Tests have cleared the way for an experiment to restage a mini-version of the "Big Bang" which created the universe 15 billion years ago, the project chief says.

Lyn Evans of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) says

We look forward to a resounding success when we make our first attempt to send a beam all the way round the LHC (Large Hadron Collider),"

The final tests involved pumping a single bunch of energy particles from the project's accelerator into the 27 kilometre beam pipe of the collider and steering them counter-clockwise around it for about 3 kilometres.

The LHC team now plans to send a full particle beam all the way around the collider pipe

as a prelude to sending beams in both directions and smashing them together later in the year

That collision, in which both particle clusters will be travelling at the speed of light, will be monitored

by scientists looking for, among other things, a particle that made life possible

dubbed the "Higgs boson"

Sky survey yields new cosmic haul

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:51:09 GMT

clipped by: hitchhiker08
clipper's remarks: Twinkle twinkle little star, asteroid, etc?!

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Sky survey yields new cosmic haul

SQ372 might come from the inner edge of the Oort Cloud

Astronomers looking through the data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, the world's largest survey of galaxies, have found a new haul of objects closer to home - including one with a potentially exotic origin.

By comparing images taken on different nights, the Washington team was able to detect the asteroids as they moved across the sky.

Unpredictable fate

The new object's orbit is also unusual; only one other object - Sedna, discovered in 2003 - might come from the same region of the Solar System.

The Sloan Digtal Sky Survey's main telescope is based in New Mexico

An interaction with either of its large neighbours would send 2006 SQ372 spinning in a random direction, leaving its fate impossible to predict.

"It will end up with the name of either a centaur, or a mythological name associated with the underworld or creation," he pondered.

Tags: cosmic, galaxy, universe, sloan digtal sky survey, new mexico, stars, night, telescope

Traveling The Astral Plane

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:22:22 GMT

clipped by: friamin
clipper's remarks: I wonder how many times we unconsciously left our bodies and traveled the astral planes...

Clip Source: higherbalance.wordpress.com

The Astral Plane, sometimes referred to as “The Afterlife”, “The Beyond” and even “The Fourth Dimension” is commonly known as the place we will transition to after we pass from this physical plane. The astral plane really isn’t the fourth dimension when you take into consideration that the physical plane makes up the first three dimensions, which includes length, width and height. Time is considered to be the fourth dimension. So we will consider the astral plane as being the “Fifth Dimension” in an otherwise multi-dimensional universe.

Clip Source: clipmarks.com

Tags: chi energy, astral projection, mystical, metaphysical, paranormal, chakra

Micheal Talbot: The Holographic Universe

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:02:26 GMT

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Clip Source: hollowvision.com

Micheal Talbot: The Holographic Universe

In this program Michael Talbot discusses the holographic model of brain functioning and the “implicate order” model of quantum physics. He proposes that these two models combined explain many unsolved mysteries in both brain functioning (such as memory and vision) and quantum physics (such as the problem of hidden variables and quantum interconnectedness).

Tags: video, quantum physics

our universe

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:25:29 GMT

clipped by: pascual
clipper's remarks: nytimes

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

This is your universe on acid: 10 dimensions of space, seven of which we cannot see, filled almost entirely with dark matter and dark energy — invisible thought stuff that serves to make the cosmologists’ equations come out right.

Tags: cosmology, science

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Productivity

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:20:25 GMT

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Clip Source: eric-blue.com

"Men are born to write… Whatever he beholds or experiences, comes to him as a model and sits for its picture. He counts it all nonsense that they say, that some things are undescribable. He believes that all that can be thought can be written, first or last; and he would report the Holy Ghost, or attempt it. Nothing so broad, so subtle, or so dear, but comes therefore commended to his pen, and he will write. In his eyes, a man is the faculty of reporting, and the universe is the possibility of being reported."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Scientists confirm couple's baby 'actually IS centre of the universe'

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:20:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: We all know parents like this. I'm worried I may actually BE a parent like this...

Clip Source: newsbiscuit.com

Scientists confirm couple's baby 'actually IS centre of the universe'

In a groundbreaking scientific development – which runs contrary to current cosmological orthodoxy that states that in the wake of the big bang a central point in an infinitely expanding three dimensional universe cannot exist – physicists at Oxford University have broken ranks to confirm that there is in fact a centre of the universe and that it is Benjamin James Milton, an 18-month old toddler from Knutsford, Cheshire.

Tags: universe