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Sunday, 27 December 2009
Saturday, 26 December 2009
If Star Wars had Facebook
Its a good thing that Star Wars was a long time ago in a galaxy far far away. It explains why they are not taking advantage of earth’s technological advances.
Like for instance, if Star Wars had Facebook, statuses might have looked like this:
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Forget Black Holes, How Do You Find A Wormhole?
Finding a black hole is an easy task… compared with searching for a wormhole. Suspected black holes have a massive gravitational effect on planets, stars and even galaxies, generating radiation, producing jets and accretion disks. Black holes will even bend light through gravitational lensing. Now, try finding a wormhole… Any ideas? Well, a Russian researcher thinks he has found an answer, but a highly sensitive radio telescope plus a truckload of patience (I'd imagine) is needed to find a special wormhole signature…
Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).
Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon. Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.
For the possibility to observe the wormhole mouth, sufficiently advanced radio interferometers would be required to look deep into the extreme environments of galactic cores to distinguish this exotic cosmic ghost from its black hole counterpart.
However, just because wormholes are possible does not mean they do exist. They could simply be the mathematical leftovers of general relativity. And even if they do exist, they are likely to be highly unstable, so any possibility of traveling through time and space will be short lived. Besides, the radiation passing through will be extremely blueshifted, so expect to burn up very quickly. Don't pack your bags quite yet…
Source: arXiv publication
Forget Black Holes, How Do You Find A Wormhole?
Finding a black hole is an easy task… compared with searching for a wormhole. Suspected black holes have a massive gravitational effect on planets, stars and even galaxies, generating radiation, producing jets and accretion disks. Black holes will even bend light through gravitational lensing. Now, try finding a wormhole… Any ideas? Well, a Russian researcher thinks he has found an answer, but a highly sensitive radio telescope plus a truckload of patience (I'd imagine) is needed to find a special wormhole signature…
Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).
Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon. Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.
For the possibility to observe the wormhole mouth, sufficiently advanced radio interferometers would be required to look deep into the extreme environments of galactic cores to distinguish this exotic cosmic ghost from its black hole counterpart.
However, just because wormholes are possible does not mean they do exist. They could simply be the mathematical leftovers of general relativity. And even if they do exist, they are likely to be highly unstable, so any possibility of traveling through time and space will be short lived. Besides, the radiation passing through will be extremely blueshifted, so expect to burn up very quickly. Don't pack your bags quite yet…
Source: arXiv publication
Paper Roll Forest Cutout - StumbleUpon
Check out this website I found at stumbleupon.com
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Friday, 25 December 2009
Tuesday, 15 December 2009
link-building - angry talking cat [vid]
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Monday, 14 December 2009
How to turn a computer into a mirror [yahoo answers pic]
THE absolute height of stupidity
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1GB 20 years ago and 1GB now!!!
/s It's amazing how quickly technology advances these days...
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How NOT to avoid jury duty!
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Monday, 16 March 2009
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Green Guide to Obama's Economic Stimulus Bil
Image via Cal High Speed Rail As you've probably heard, there's a lot of green going on in that $787 billion economic stimulus bill recently signed into law. There's money for renewable energy research, funding for a massive high
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50 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
Instead of listing 100 plus tutorials that you’ll bookmark never to come back, we’ve decided to take you through the basics of typography, hopefully inspiring and then teaching you. Typography is an art just like any other. You have to feel the form, admire the curves and connect with the flow.
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Future of Twitter: Integrated Search, Trends, Featured Users
People have been speculating on how Twitter is going to make money for what seems like forever. This slideshow from Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist with Union Square Ventures (which has invested in Twitter), features a screenshot that may signal how it's actually going to happen.
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EU ends full-time monitoring of Microsoft
BRUSSELS - Microsoft got a reward for good behavior from European Union regulators on Wednesday when they ended close checks on the company's compliance with a 2004 antitrust order.
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A-Lab Unveils Stunning Eco-Office for Norway
This stunning energy-efficient office recently won a competition to design the 2012 location for Norway’s oil company StatoilHydro. Conceived by Oslo’s A-lab, the modern and flexible office compound took the winning bid from a pool of some 40 entries.
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Baby Olympian? DNA test screens sports ability
It is drawing fire from scattered coaches, therapists and genetic experts who worry some parents will misuse the data and that the young science will inject even more pressure and politics into childhood games.
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Tuesday, 3 March 2009
The Left-Libertarian Meeting of Minds is Dead
The liberal-libertarian rapprochement is going nowhere fast. With Barack Obama safely in the White House and commanding Congressional majorities, liberals have no reason to court libertarians on issues like the First Amendment-busting campaign finance "reform." The Democrats are safely back in the bash free-trade corner.
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Why do we leave the ones we love?
You promise to stay together till the last breath but you left me alone when I am still breathing.
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The World's Oldest Tree
If these trees could talk they would tell us what it means to be 4,600 years old. From the date Great Pyramid of Giza completed up to present.....and it's still keeps getting older.
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The World's Oldest Tree
If these trees could talk they would tell us what it means to be 4,600 years old. From the date Great Pyramid of Giza completed up to present.....and it's still keeps getting older.
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Jaadoooo Animation
A hilarious animated video with lot of fun thats happening between a bunny and his magician just watch it. You will definitely enjoy it.
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