Venus and Jupiter, december 11, 2011 (by Jonasdearaujo)
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The Higgs Boson may have been found!!!
CERN Scientists in Geneva are expected to announce they have caught it today in a press conference planned for 8 AM EST.
Source: Video Produced by: CERN Video Productions. Director: Daniel Rodriguez 0:36 min. / 12 December 2011 / © 2011 CERN
The Higgs Boson may have been found!!!
A typical candidate event including two high-energy photons whose energy (depicted by red towers) is measured in the CMS (Compact Muom Solenoid).
Credit: © 2011 CERN
Source: Candidate events in the CMS Standard Model Higgs Search using 2010 and 2011 data.
More
- Text background on the Higgs, and a glossary of important terms in Higgs research can be found here.
- CERN on Twitter
- Watch the live webcast
- Interesting entry in the blog of the theorist physicist Luboš Motl (Higgs: 17 hours ahead of the world)
The Sun’s rotation creates a spiral pattern in the solar magnetic field in interplanetary space, known as the Parker spiral. The drag produced by the spiraling magnetic field causes angular momentum to be transferred away from the Sun. This diagram shows the heliospheric current sheet that separates the regions of space where the magnetic field points toward or away from the Sun.
Largest-Ever Simulation of the Universe Revealed - Technology Review
The latest computer model of the cosmos involves 400 billion particles in a box about two thirds of the volume of the universe
… Today, Juhan Kim at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study in Seoul, and a few pals, show just how far this technique has come. These guys have carried out the largest simulation of the universe ever undertaken, consisting of 374 billion particles in a box some 10 gigaparsecs across. That’s roughly equivalent to about two thirds the size of the observable universe.
This took some 20 days of computing time on the Tachyonii supercomputer in Korea, the 26th fastest in the world in the last set of rankings.
Albert Einstein’s Office in Princeton on His Last Day
Albert Einstein died on April 18th, 1955. Photographer Ralph Morse was allowed to take the last snapshot of Albert Einstein study in Princeton as Einstein left it.
I’ve had this on my tumblr before…
…but here it is again! Because it’s amazing!!
The periodic catastrophic table depicts the many threats in our live, from natural occurrences to man-made disasters and universal catastrophes.
I consider this from a satirical point of view.
(Unfortunately I didn’t found the credits yet)
I found it! Belongs to the book by Richard Horne “A Is for Armageddon: An Illustrated Catalogue of Disasters”
Ultrasound of an Asian Elephant at 5 months: The calf foetus is 10cm long with the beginnings of a spine, front and hind legs
Japan Quake May Have Shortened Earth Days, Moved Axis
The March 11, magnitude 9.0 earthquake in Japan may have shortened the length of each Earth day and shifted its axis. But don’t worry—you won’t notice the difference.
Using a United States Geological Survey estimate for how the fault responsible for the earthquake slipped, research scientist Richard Gross of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., applied a complex model to perform a preliminary theoretical calculation of how the Japan earthquake—the fifth largest since 1900—affected Earth’s rotation. His calculations indicate that by changing the distribution of Earth’s mass, the Japanese earthquake should have caused Earth to rotate a bit faster, shortening the length of the day by about 1.8 microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).
The calculations also show the Japan quake should have shifted the position of Earth’s figure axis (the axis about which Earth’s mass is balanced) by about 17 centimeters (6.5 inches), towards 133 degrees east longitude. Earth’s figure axis should not be confused with its north-south axis; they are offset by about 10 meters (about 33 feet). This shift in Earth’s figure axis will cause Earth to wobble a bit differently as it rotates, but it will not cause a shift of Earth’s axis in space—only external forces such as the gravitational attraction of the sun, moon and planets can do that.
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