PLato said,"Look to the perfection of the heavens for truth," while Aristotle said "look around you at what is, if you would know the truth" To Remember: Eskesthai
NASA hosted a two-day event for 50 social media followers on August
22-23, 2012, at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA's twin
Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) are scheduled to lift off aboard a
United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 4:08
a.m. on August 23. Designed for a two-year primary science mission in
orbit around Earth, RBSP will provide insight into our planet's
radiation belts, and help scientists predict changes in this critical
region of space.
NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes blasted off from Cape Canaveral
on August 30th, 2012. Bristling with sensors, the heavily-shielded
spacecraft are on a 2-year mission to discover what makes the radiation
belts so dangerous and so devilishly unpredictable.
"We've known about the Van Allen Belts for decades yet they
continue to surprise us with unexpected storms of 'killer electrons' and
other phenomena," says mission scientist David Sibeck, "The Storm
Probes will help us understand what's going on out there."
Each of the two Storm Probes is bristling with sensors to count
energetic particles, measure plasma waves, and detect electromagnetic
radiation. Learn more
NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL)-A spacecraft
successfully completed its planned main engine burn at 2 p.m. PST (5
p.m. EST) today. As of 3 p.m. PST (6 p.m. EST), GRAIL-A is in a
56-mile (90-kilometer) by 5,197-mile (8,363-kilometer) orbit around
the moon that takes approximately 11.5 hours to complete.
The launch of an Atlas V carrying NASA's Radiation Belt Storm Probes
(RBSP) payload was scrubbed today due to weather conditions associated
with lightning, as well as cumulus and anvil clouds. With the
unfavorable weather forecast as a result of Tropical Storm Isaac, the
leadership team has decided to roll the Atlas V vehicle back to the
Vertical Integration Facility to ensure the launch vehicle and twin RBSP
spacecraft are secured and protected from inclement weather.
Pending approval from the range, the launch is rescheduled to Thursday,
Aug. 30 at 4:05 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time. See:
RBSP Launch Targeted for No Earlier Than Aug. 30
RBSP is being designed to help us understand the Sun’s influence
on Earth and Near-Earth space by studying the Earth’s radiation belts on
various scales of space and time.
The instruments on NASA’s Living With a Star Program’s (LWS)
Radiation Belt Storm Probes (RBSP) mission will provide the measurements
needed to characterize and quantify the plasma processes that produce
very energetic ions and relativistic electrons. The RBSP mission is part
of the broader LWS program whose missions were conceived to explore
fundamental processes that operate throughout the solar system and in
particular those that generate hazardous space weather effects in the
vicinity of Earth and phenomena that could impact solar system
exploration. RBSP instruments will measure the properties of charged
particles that comprise the Earth’s radiation belts, the plasma waves
that interact with them, the large-scale electric fields that transport
them, and the particle-guiding magnetic field.
The two RBSP spacecraft will have nearly identical eccentric
orbits. The orbits cover the entire radiation belt region and the two
spacecraft lap each other several times over the course of the mission.
The RBSP in situ measurements discriminate between spatial and temporal
effects, and compare the effects of various proposed mechanisms for
charged particle acceleration and loss.
See: RBSP
Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Engineers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in
Laurel, Md., prepare to place Radiation Belt Storm Probes spacecraft
"B" in a thermal-vacuum chamber, where they can make sure the
propulsion system will stand up to the range of hot, cold and airless
conditions RBSP will face in outer space. This round of testing took
place in late October-early November 2010.
SAMPEX, the Solar Anomalous and Magnetospheric Particle Explorer, was successfully launched by a Scout rocket on July 3, 1992. It is investigating the composition of local interstellar matter and solar material and the transport of magnetospheric charged particles into the Earth's atmosphere.
SAMPEX is a momentum-biased, sun-pointed spacecraft that maintains the experiment-view axis in a zenith direction as much as possible, especially while traversing the polar regions of the Earth. It points its solar array at the Sun by aiming the momentum vector toward the Sun and rotating the spacecraft one revolution per orbit about the Sun/spacecraft axis.
SAMPEX was an international collaboration between NASA of the United States and Germany.[2] It was part of the Small Explorer program started in 1989[2]
SAMPEX science mission ended on June 30, 2004.[3]
Innumerable suns exist; innumerable earths revolve
around these suns in a manner similar to the way
the seven planets revolve around our sun.
Living beings inhabit these worlds.
Giordano Bruno, 1584
The paper was very much appreciated by many of the author's colleagues[citation needed], even by very prominent ones, although it has also been criticized as being unscientific[citation needed], belonging more appropriately to the category of science fiction, by several other colleagues[citation needed].
The reason for this discrepancy, she says, is due solely to prejudice
(similar to the prejudices regarding the biological evolution discovered
by Darwin and his colleagues). As a matter of fact, Gato-Rivera even
coined the term the Crown of the Creation Syndrome[citation needed], in her paper to explain this kind of prejudices, which she discusses in some detail.
Beams
of neutrinos have been proposed as a vehicle for communications under
unusual circumstances, such as direct point-to-point global
communication, communication with submarines, secure communications and
interstellar communication. We report on the performance of a low-rate
communications link established using the NuMI beam line and the MINERvA
detector at Fermilab. The link achieved a decoded data rate of 0.1
bits/sec with a bit error rate of 1% over a distance of 1.035 km,
including 240 m of earth.
Kapusta points out that the condensation temperature would be well below
the cosmic background temperature, so it would be quite a feat to make
this superfluid. However, Kapusta also notes that a sufficiently
advanced civilization might use pulses of neutrino superfluid for
long-distance communications. See: The right spin for a neutrino superfluid
The intuitive framework has to recognize that you have already worked
the angles and that such intuition is gathered from all that has been
worked. This contradicts what you are saying. I am not saying it is
right just that I have seen this perspective in development with regard
to scientists as they push through the wall that has separated them from
moving on. This then details a whole set of new parameters in which the
thinking mind can move forward with proposals.
I never quite could get the economy either, until I understood the idea of Fractals as a gesture of the underlying pattern of all of the economy in expression. Of course that is my point of view. I might of called it the algorithm before.
The idea here is that all thing are expression of the underlying pattern and you might call the end result psychology or sociology of thinking and life as a result.
It seems that the accumulated reference of mind as a place in it's evolution is to see that all the statistical information is already parametrized by the judgements in which you give them personally?
Ultimately this is the setting for which your conclusions guide your
perspective, yet, it is when we look back, one can choose too, "guide
their brain?"
If
you did not pick it up, Benoit was able to reduce the economy too, and
used an inductive deductive facility in regard to what is self evident.
But I would point out what you might have interpreted as illusory in
terms of the graph he sees on the board was instrumental to his
penetrating the pattern in the economy.
Just raising the name of Nassim Nicholas Taleb
and the idea of the Black Swan in relation to the basis of the economy
Benoit raises deeper questions and does garner a look for me. I don't
know what to expects is opening up the door to understanding more about
such erudition's but they are with regard to the economy.
Taleb was collaborating with Benoit Mandelbrot on a general theory of risk managementCollaborations
A simple assumption about heads and tails, leads to bell curves and such?
While these writings are disparate pieces, do they indeed come together
under this post book review?? As a scientist and mathematics person are
you not intrigued about "the pattern?" I was shocked.....yet is made
sense.
Now Nassim adds dimension to the subject. "He calls for
cancellation of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, saying that the
damage from economic theories can be devastating".
Game theory if you know how it works it is used in all types of negotiation.
Sarah Parcak is an archaeologist and Egyptologist, and specializes in
making the invisible past visible using 21st-century satellite
technology. She co-directs the Survey and Excavation Projects in the
Fayoum, Sinai, and Egypt's East Delta with her husband, Dr. Greg
Mumford. Parcak is the author of Satellite Remote Sensing for Archaeology,
the first methods book on satellite archaeology, and her work has
seeded several TV documentaries. She founded and directs the Laboratory
for Global Observation at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
While most Google Earth hobbyists are satisfied with a bit of snapping and geotagging, some have far loftier ambitions.
Satellite archaeologist Angela Micol thinks she's discovered the
locations of some of Egypt's lost pyramids, buried for centuries under
the earth, including a three-in-a-line arrangement similar to those on
the Giza Plateau. Egyptologists have already confirmed that the secret
locations are undiscovered, so now it's down to scientists in the field
to determine if it's worth calling the diggers in.
Individual computers also become more powerful,
which means that computer grids are increasingly able to solve
increasingly complex problems. All this computing power helps our
scientists find solutions to the big questions, like climate change and
sustainable power.
The mission of the WLCG project is to provide global computing resources
to store, distribute and analyse the ~25 Petabytes (25 million
Gigabytes) of data annually generated by the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN on the Franco-Swiss border. Current WLCG sites
Detailed descriptions of the front-end architecture can be
found in the following LHCb notes:
EDMS715154, Requirements to the L1 front-end electronics. LHCb-2001-014,
Requirements to the L0 front-end electronics. EDMS 692583, Test, time
alignment, calibration and monitoring in the LHCb front-end electronics.
The HLT (High Level Trigger) have
access to all data. At the 1 MHz output rate of Level-0 the remaining
analogue data is digitized and all data is stored for the time needed
to process the Level algorithm. This algorithm is implemented on a
online trigger farm composed of up to 2000 PCs.
The HLT algorithm is divided in two
sequential phases called HLT1 and HLT2. HLT1 applies a progressive,
partial reconstruction seeded by the L0 candidates. Different
reconstruction sequences (called alleys) with different algorithms and
selection cuts are applied according to the L0 candidate type. The HLT run very complex physics tests to look for specific signatures,
for instance matching tracks to hits in the muon chambers, or spotting
photons through their high energy but lack of charge. Overall, from
every one hundred thousand events per second they select just dizaines
of events and the remaining dizaines of thousands are thrown out. We are
left with only the collision events that might teach us something new
about physics.
The
Perseid meteor shower is underway. There's more to see than meteors,
however, when the shower peaks on August 11th through 13th. The
brightest planets in the solar system are lining up in the middle of the
display.
MSL Curiosity's Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer, with a ruler
ChemCam: ChemCam is a suite of remote sensing instruments, including the first laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) system to be used for planetary science and a remote micro-imager (RMI).
Alpha-particle X-ray spectrometer (APXS): This device can irradiate samples with alpha particles and map the spectra of X-rays that are re-emitted for determining the elemental composition of samples.
So of course I might wonder about cymatics in space. It 's more the idea that you could further experiment with the environment with which life on the space station may provide in opportunity. That's all.:)
There is a reason why I am presenting this blog entry.
It has to do with a comparison that came to mind about our earth and the relationship we might see to a sphere of water. Most will know from my blog the relevant topic used in terms of Isostatic adjustment in terms of planet design and formation. It is also about gravity and elemental consideration in terms of the shape of the planet.
Now sure we can expect certain things from the space environment in terms of molecular arrangement but of course my views are going much deeper in terms of the makeup of that space given the constituents of early universe formations. So here given to states for examination I had an insight in terms of how one may arrange modularization in terms of using the space environment to capitalize.
So there is something forming in mind here about the inherent nature of the matter constituents that I may say deeper then the design itself such arrangements are predestined to become perfectly arranged according to the type of element associated with it?
I want to be in control of that given a cloud of all constituents so that I may choose how to arrange the mattered state of existence. A planet maker perhaps?:) Design the gravity field. There are reasons for this.
Supernova explosions are enriching the intergalactic gas with elements
like oxygen, iron, and silicon that will be incorporated into new
generations of stars and planets X-ray: NASA/CXC/SAO/J.DePasquale; IR: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Optical: NASA/STScI
A beautiful new image of two colliding galaxies has been released by NASA's Great Observatories.
The Antennae galaxies, located about 62 million light years from Earth,
are shown in this composite image from the Chandra X-ray Observatory
(blue), the Hubble Space Telescope (gold and brown), and the Spitzer
Space Telescope (red). The Antennae galaxies take their name from the
long antenna-like "arms," seen in wide-angle views of the system. These features were produced by tidal forces generated in the collision. See: Antennae: A Galactic Spectacle
Broadly speaking, the aim of the talk is to give the theorists in the audience an introduction to state-of-the-art reconstruction (e.g. particle flow, techniques for dealing with high pile-up, the status of tau reconstruction) and their implications for searches. A discussion of triggering (whether focused on hadronic or more general) would also be very useful. Beyond these vague suggestions, you can define the scope of the talk however you think will do best to motivate, focus, and inform discussions about possible future analyses. The theorists in the audience will have a mix of BSM and SM expertise, and a somewhat more appetite than average for experimental details. See: Jet Reconstruction and Triggering
A block diagram of the CMS L1 trigger
In particle physics, a trigger
is a system that uses simple criteria to rapidly decide which events in
a particle detector to keep when only a small fraction of the total can
be recorded. Trigger systems are necessary due to real-world limitations in data storage capacity and rates.
Since experiments are typically searching for "interesting" events
(such as decays of rare particles) that occur at a relatively low rate,
trigger systems are used to identify the events that should be recorded
for later analysis. Current accelerators have event rates greater than
1 MHz and trigger rates that can be below 10 Hz. The ratio of the
trigger rate to the event rate is referred to as the selectivity of the
trigger. For example, the Large Hadron Collider has an event rate of 1 GHz(109 Hz),
and the Higgs boson is expected to be produced there at a rate of at
least 0.01 Hz. Therefore the minimum selectivity required is 10−11.Taking A Closer Look
To have a good chance of producing a rare particle, such as a Higgs boson,
a very large number of collisions are required. Most collision events
in the detector are "soft" and do not produce interesting effects. The
amount of raw data from each crossing is approximately 1 MB, which at
the 40 MHz crossing rate would result in 40 TB of data a second, an
amount that the experiment cannot hope to store or even process
properly. The trigger system reduces the rate of interesting events down
to a manageable 100 per second.
To accomplish this, a series of "trigger" stages are employed. All the
data from each crossing is held in buffers within the detector while a
small amount of key information is used to perform a fast, approximate
calculation to identify features of interest such as high energy jets,
muons or missing energy. This "Level 1" calculation is completed in
around 1 µs, and event rate is reduced by a factor of about thousand
down to 50 kHz. All these calculations are done on fast, custom
hardware using reprogrammable FPGAs.
If an event is passed by the Level 1 trigger all the data still buffered in the detector is sent over fibre-optic links to the "High Level" trigger, which is software (mainly written in C++)
running on ordinary computer servers. The lower event rate in the High
Level trigger allows time for much more detailed analysis of the event
to be done than in the Level 1 trigger. The High Level trigger reduces
the event rate by a further factor of about a thousand down to around
100 events per second. These are then stored on tape for future
analysis.
