...all, inside and out, lol, profound and light, every aspects of the universe we live in, from physics to biology to psychology to sociology to history to environmentalism to math to philosophy to comedy to the arts and everything about my fellow inhabitants of whatever unique form or nature, no matter how alien it might seem...as longs as it is simplified, clear, delightful, friendly and not too technical :) -- i want to know the how, but also the why.
I'd like to meet:
The Creator...the infinite simple nonending source of continual creation of all the finite, complex stuff that is us.....
Brian Greene, world renowned String Theory founder and physicist, author of "The Elegant Universe" is brilliant here. The extraordinary crux of this short video is the 20 measured numbers that describe our reality, our entire universe, and how if the figures are altered in the smallest way, our reality could not exit!The goal now among String Theory physicists is to find the same 20 numbers in the microscopic level, and this would provide ultimate proof of a unified string universe with its 11 dimensions...so cool! Greene estimates that this will happen in about five years!
Music:
THE SECRET OF THE SEXES (BBC VIDEO - EXCELLENT NEW INFO DISCOVERED - MAY THIS HELP TO BRING MORE HARMONY!)
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Movies:
THE ROMANTIC SIDE OF PI - AWWWWW...
Books:
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From: pluto (( dwarf planet ))
Date: May 2, 2008 7:19 PMActually, Aurora Borealis(north) and Aurora Australis(south) are Best Observed in Spring (or the southern hemispheres fall)
Westerners usually look at it egocentrically.
Auroras are caused by solar activity, but the sun doesn’t know what season it is on Earth.
So how could one season yield more auroras than another?
To answer these questions and others, NASA has deployed a fleet of five spacecraft named THEMIS (short for “Time History of Events and Macroscale Interactions during Substormsâ€) specially instrumented to study auroras. Angelopoulos is the mission’s principal investigator.
Auroras are much more than just pretty lights in the sky. Underlying each display is a potent geomagnetic storm with possible side-effects ranging from satellite malfunctions in orbit to power outages on terra firma. Telecommunications, air traffic, power grids and GPS systems are all vulnerable. In a society that relies increasingly on space technology, understanding these storms is vital.
It turns out that magnetic connections between the sun and Earth are favored in springtime. It’s a matter of geometry: As Earth goes around in its orbit, Earth’s magnetic poles wobble back and forth. (The poles don’t really wobble, but the combination of Earth’s 23-degree polar tilt plus orbital motion makes the poles seem wobble from the solar point of view.) Around the time of the equinox, Earth’s magnetic field is best oriented for “connecting-up†with the sun, opening the door for solar wind energy to flow in and spark Northern Lights.
But wait, there are two equinoxes, spring and fall, with similar
magnetic geometry. Indeed, autumn is aurora season, too.
The THEMIS mission uses 5 identical spacecrafts to study auroras and the substorms that ignite them.
Image by the Goddard Space Flight Center's Conceptual Image Lab
Geomagnetic disturbances are almost twice as likely in spring-fall
versus winter-summer, according to historical records.
Launched in February 2007, THEMIS has already observed one geomagnetic storm with a total energy of five hundred thousand billion (5 x 10^14) Joules. “That's approximately equivalent to the energy of a magnitude 5.5 earthquake,†says Angelopoulos.
“This storm moved twice as fast as anyone thought possible,†crossing an entire polar time zone in 60 seconds flat!
THEMIS may have found the storm’s power supply:
"The satellites have detected magnetic ‘ropes’ connecting Earth's upper atmosphere directly to the sun," . "We believe that solar wind particles flow in along these ropes, providing energy for geomagnetic storms and auroras.
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light . color . energy .
pluto dp .
Heroes:
...michael faraday...who discovered and unified electromagnetism: his is a story that is worthy of great admiration, the classic tale of someone who overcomes intellectual, social, physical and financial handicaps through sheer faith and makes an astounding discovery that changes the understanding of the forces in the universe!
