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Hypernova
Master Cruncher Audaces Fortuna Juvat ! Vaud - Switzerland Joined: Dec 16, 2008 Post Count: 1908 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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We have a mathematical representation of magnetism and we represent the magnetic field with lines. We have equations that describe it.
----------------------------------------Theory predicts the existence of a particle that is the magnetic monopole. There are claims that one was detected but still to be confirmed. But in truth nobody has a clue about what is in reality a magnetic field. The only thing we can see visually is in an indirect way its effects. I find this frustrating, and also the same with the gravity field. Yes the fundamental question is: what is physically a field?  |
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Hypernova
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Oh sorry, I forgot another terribly frustrating issue.
----------------------------------------What is Time?, and the Void? After reading a lot of quantum dynamics and a lot of absolutely marvellous theories, we must admit that when it comes to space and time we are complete ignorants and unable to answer simple and silly questions. Really very very frustrating. |
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Stunning Photos of Space Capture Top Honors
Royal Observatory in England recognizes best astronomy photographs |
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Diamond star thrills astronomers
Twinkling in the sky is a diamond star of 10 billion trillion trillion carats, astronomers have discovered. The cosmic diamond is a chunk of crystallised carbon, 4,000 km across, some 50 light-years from the Earth in the constellation Centaurus. It's the compressed heart of an old star that was once bright like our Sun but has since faded and shrunk. Astronomers have decided to call the star "Lucy" after the Beatles song, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.... |
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The 727 that Vanished
A case pursued by the FBI, the CIA, the U.S. Departments of State and Homeland Security, CENTCOM, and the sister of Ben Padilla. In 2003, a 727 that once flew for American Airlines disappeared from Angola Seven years after her brother disappeared from Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport in Angola, Benita Padilla-Kirkland is trying to persuade the FBI to re-open his case. She believes she has the “new information” agents told her they require. But she suspects that the agency already has more information than agents will admit to... |
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Sekerob
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Maybe we should have a Solar News thread by it's own, as much interesting stuff there is just on our star:
----------------------------------------Solar Storms can Change Directions, Surprising Forecasters http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2010/21sep_zigzag/
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Dataman
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Asteroid-hunting super-camera has found its first dangerous space rock (and that's great news)
----------------------------------------http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronom...hreat-to-earth-2010-st3/?  |
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Astronomers say they've found oldest galaxy so far
Astronomers believe they've found the oldest thing they've ever seen in the universe: It's a galaxy far, far away from a time long, long ago. Hidden in a Hubble Space Telescope photo released earlier this year is a small smudge of light that European astronomers now calculate is a galaxy from 13.1 billion years ago. That's a time when the universe was very young, just shy of 600 million years old. That would make it the earliest and most distant galaxy seen so far... |
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First human-like robot to fly in space
To watch NASA's Robonaut 2 tip its head and gaze down at its open palms as it flexes its fingers and opposable thumbs is to believe there must be a human behind the opaque gold visor on the robot's face. In fact, there are only cameras. Robonaut 2, which NASA hopes to launch Feb. 3 aboard the space shuttle Discovery on a flight to its permanent home on the International Space Station, will be the first humanoidlike robot to fly in space. Based on technology nurtured in part at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View and built jointly by the space agency and General Motors, the robot has a head, two arms and a humanlike chest and shoulders. It has fingers, thumbs and wrists with enough dexterity to grip a pen and write "hello." It can even dial an iPhone. Robonaut 2 was built "to bring robots to the next level," said Vytas SunSpiral, a senior robotics researcher at Ames, "to where you could see them working in people's houses, or out in public."... |
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