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Science Odds and Ends
18 May 2011 22:49 #233
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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But it's a good one to ask! I too am ignorant on this matter - a PubMed search is in order!
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Tomorrow.
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"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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19 May 2011 06:50 #234
by TPP
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Astronauts Install Big Magnet on Space Station
Published May 19, 2011 | Associated Press
AP
May 18: This image provided by NASA taken by one of the Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station shows the space shuttle Endeavour as the two spacecraft made their relative approach.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Endeavour's astronauts accomplished the No. 1 objective of their mission Thursday, installing a $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station to scan the invisible universe for years to come.
The space fliers used a pair of robot arms to remove the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer from the shuttle, then hoist it onto the sprawling framework on the right side of the station.
The instrument -- which has a 3-foot magnet at its core -- is the most expensive piece of equipment at the orbiting lab and certainly the most prominent scientific device. It will search for antimatter and dark matter for the rest of the life of the space station, and hopefully help explain how the cosmos originated.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/19/astronauts-installing-big-magnet-space-station/
Published May 19, 2011 | Associated Press
AP
May 18: This image provided by NASA taken by one of the Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station shows the space shuttle Endeavour as the two spacecraft made their relative approach.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Endeavour's astronauts accomplished the No. 1 objective of their mission Thursday, installing a $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station to scan the invisible universe for years to come.
The space fliers used a pair of robot arms to remove the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer from the shuttle, then hoist it onto the sprawling framework on the right side of the station.
The instrument -- which has a 3-foot magnet at its core -- is the most expensive piece of equipment at the orbiting lab and certainly the most prominent scientific device. It will search for antimatter and dark matter for the rest of the life of the space station, and hopefully help explain how the cosmos originated.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/19/astronauts-installing-big-magnet-space-station/
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19 May 2011 07:23 #235
by Rockdoc
Does anyone actually think that the dark matter will come to light?
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TPP wrote: Astronauts Install Big Magnet on Space Station
Published May 19, 2011 | Associated Press
AP
May 18: This image provided by NASA taken by one of the Expedition 27 crew members aboard the International Space Station shows the space shuttle Endeavour as the two spacecraft made their relative approach.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Endeavour's astronauts accomplished the No. 1 objective of their mission Thursday, installing a $2 billion cosmic ray detector on the International Space Station to scan the invisible universe for years to come.
The space fliers used a pair of robot arms to remove the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer from the shuttle, then hoist it onto the sprawling framework on the right side of the station.
The instrument -- which has a 3-foot magnet at its core -- is the most expensive piece of equipment at the orbiting lab and certainly the most prominent scientific device. It will search for antimatter and dark matter for the rest of the life of the space station, and hopefully help explain how the cosmos originated.
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/05/19/astronauts-installing-big-magnet-space-station/
Does anyone actually think that the dark matter will come to light?
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19 May 2011 12:23 #237
by ScienceChic
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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Don't forget about dark energy! (This article was timely!)
http://topicfire.com/share/WiggleZ-gala ... 79503.html
WiggleZ galaxy project proves Einstein was right again
An Australian-based astronomy team, co-led by Professor Michael Drinkwater from the School of Mathematics and Physics (SMP) at The University of Queensland (UQ), has shown that the mysterious 'dark energy' is indeed real and not a mistake in Einstein's theory of gravity.
May 19, 2011
TPP, if there's a spot in the universe where there is no light, then it could be because there's a black hole at that location. It's not the presence of dark, but the absence of light, and their existence is not proved or disproved. (And just because us puny humans only see a small portion of the light spectrum, doesn't mean that we can't "see" the dark!)
http://topicfire.com/share/WiggleZ-gala ... 79503.html
WiggleZ galaxy project proves Einstein was right again
An Australian-based astronomy team, co-led by Professor Michael Drinkwater from the School of Mathematics and Physics (SMP) at The University of Queensland (UQ), has shown that the mysterious 'dark energy' is indeed real and not a mistake in Einstein's theory of gravity.
May 19, 2011
The survey, which covered more than 200,000 galaxies, took four years to complete and aimed to measure the properties of ‘dark energy' - a concept first cast by Einstein in his Theory of General Relativity.
The scientist adapted his original equations to include the idea and later ruefully admitted that it was "his greatest blunder".
Dark energy is the name astronomers gave in the late 1990s to an unknown cause of the Universe's accelerating expansion.
This mysterious energy, that defies gravity, makes up about 72 percent of the Universe, with the remaining 24 percent constituting dark matter, and 4 percent making up the planets, stars and galaxies that we normally hear about.
TPP, if there's a spot in the universe where there is no light, then it could be because there's a black hole at that location. It's not the presence of dark, but the absence of light, and their existence is not proved or disproved. (And just because us puny humans only see a small portion of the light spectrum, doesn't mean that we can't "see" the dark!)
"Now, more than ever, the illusions of division threaten our very existence. We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.” -King T'Challa, Black Panther
The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it. ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. ~Winston Churchill
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