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Elemental Origins of Philosopy
Platohagel: Was Plato the first to give the possibility of an elemental structure to form? Socrates: Ah, dear Platohagel, let us delve into the annals of ancient philosophy to explore the roots of the idea of elemental structure. Plato, in his dialogues, indeed addressed the nature of the physical world and proposed a theory of…
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Stellar flares seen from a nearby red dwarf star.
On April 23, NASA’s Swift satellite detected the strongest, hottest, and longest-lasting sequence of stellar flares ever seen from a nearby red dwarf star. The initial blast from this record-setting series of explosions was as much as 10,000 times more powerful than the largest solar flare ever recorded. At its peak, the flare reached temperatures…
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Elementary Particles in the Decay Chain
The general theory of relativity is as yet incomplete insofar as it has been able to apply the general principle of relativity satisfactorily only to gravitational fields, but not to the total field. We do not yet know with certainty by what mathematical mechanism the total field in space is to be described and what…
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Fermilab experiment discovers a heavy relative of the neutron
Scientists of the CDF collaboration at the Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory announced the observation of a new particle, the neutral Xi-sub-b (Ξb0). This particle contains three quarks: a strange quark, an up quark and a bottom quark (s-u-b). While its existence was predicted by the Standard Model, the observation of the neutral…
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The Sun’s Before Us
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Cosmic ray spallation
As this NASA chart indicates, 70 percent or more of the universe consists of dark energy, about which we know next to nothing Other explanations of dark energy, called “quintessence,” originate from theoretical high-energy physics. In addition to baryons, photons, neutrinos, and cold dark matter, quintessence posits a fifth kind of matter (hence the name),…
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Johannes Kepler: The Birth of the Universe
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Reaching for the Stars
Mars in 6 weeks? And back in a total of four months? That’s the prediction of a design team working on antimatter rocket concepts at Pennsylvania State University. But first, you have to get the stuff – and store it. (PSU) The popular belief is that an antimatter particle coming in contact with its matter…
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Ring World
Impact armor, a flexible form of clothing that hardens instantly into a rigid form stronger than steel when rapidly deformed (for example, by the impact of a projectile such as a bullet) – a technology which is quickly approaching reality; in fact being tested during the 2006 Winter Olympics as a product called d3o Lest…
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Breakthrough Propulsion Physics?
Shuttle Main Engine Test Firing-1981-A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. Spacecraft propulsion is used to change the velocity of spacecraft and artificial satellites, or in short, to provide delta-v. There are many different…
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Tunnelling in Faster then Light
Underneath this speculation of mine is the geometrical inclination of the universe in expression. If it’s “dynamical nature is revealed” what allows us to think of why this universe at this time and junction, should be flat(?) according to the time of this universe in expression? Omega=the actual density to the critical density If we…
