Into The Universe With Stephen Hawking - The Story Of Everything

Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking is an epic new kind of cosmology series, Hawking gives us the ultimate guide to the universe, a ripping yarn based on real science, spanning the whole of space and time, the nature of the universe itself and lot more.

 

Blog Action Day 2009 – Climate Change

We don’t going have this earth forever, 700 million years from now the sun will blow up and will become a red giant. May some astronomer in coming years will discover a comet and path of that comet might in the line of planet earth, but it is plan of nature that Jupiter is there, mostly the Jupiter covered us as umbrella from those about to hit comets. There are lot cosmic ray out there and continuously emerging to the earth atmosphere, including deadly ultra violet. Again it is plan of nature that we have layer of Ozone and that protect earth from these rays. And earth geographical scenario is not always same and it will be change in coming years naturally.

But what about rapid climate change as we have seen now, and who courses it. It is human who shoot itself on the feet.


Year 2050 or approximately there will be shortage of fossil oils, and all short of energy crisis will hovering on planet earth. Nuclear energy is not safe fully. USA as most energy consuming country compared to other countries in the world and we have already seen what cost other country have to bear to maintain energy consumption same for another country like USA. All short of war imposed on lot of country in the name of “democracy”, “justice” etc.


Furthermore is digging up all earth, raping rain forest for increasing amount of greed all over and competition in corporate culture. One of the major root of this Climate Change is capitalism, so it is need to understand basic cause of the climate change more than some smooth actions which ask you to do some dull things ( ex, switch off your bulb when you not in the room , some NGOism with aimless actions) which do not affect anything to climate change.

So this post is in solidarity with those blogger who have concern for this planet, the only home to human and other species in the universe.

Blog Action Day 2009

90 years ago, he was right: Celebrating the 1919 Eclipse at Príncipe

 

It was this day, 90 years ago, when Einstein was proven right and became world famous. A revolution was happened in science history of humankind and evevrything change in our perspective toward universe. A new theory emerged and established itself strongly.

In a world torn apart by first world war, it was hailed as a ray of hope that "a new theory of the universe, the brain-child of a German Jew working in Berlin, had been confirmed by an English Quaker on a small African island" (J. P. McEnvoy).

Einstein's new theory predicted that light does not necessarily travel in straight lines, but can be deflected when it passes something as heavy as the sun. This gravitational deflection of light by the sun's mass provided the first experimental verification of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.

This International Year of Astronomy special project will celebrate the expedition's 90th anniversary: to explain the historic significance of Príncipe, and the way in which gravitational lensing is shaping contemporary scientific understanding of the Universe.

Celebrating the 1919 Eclipse at Príncipe

Chandrayaan-1: an indigenous Indian entry to the moon

Countdown for the launch of Chandrayaan-1, the country's first unmanned moon mission is began as its launch date scheduled on 22 october 2008, almost one day left from now.

As stated on official site of  Chandrayaan :

On 56th indepence day, August 15 2003, India's Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee announced. "Our country is now ready to fly high in the field of science. I am pleased to announce that India will send her own spacecraft to the moon by 2008. It is being named Chandrayaan-1". In Sanskrit (language of Ancient India) "Chandrayaan" means "Moon Craft".

In Chandrayaan-1, the lunar craft would be launched using Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) weighing 1304 kg at launch and 590 kg at lunar orbit. Lunar craft would orbit around moon 100 km from moon surface. 

Indians are fascinated by Moon from ancient days and now 21st century india is ready to land on moon! Chandrayaan is the mission towords that dream.   

Video for Chandrayaan 1 here

Artists and Astronomers 'Observe' the Universe Together: A holy harmony

From the "Spitzer Space Telescope" News Room

Our current view of the universe, to quote Albert Einstein, is "not weirder than we do imagine, but weirder than we can imagine." That said, we have no choice but to observe the universe through human eyes and brains. How can we even start to make sense of it?

One answer might be to call in the artists. For thousands of years, people have used art to explore ideas that humble, confuse or even frighten us. A new exhibition opening in Pasadena continues this tradition, bringing artists and astronomers together to create original pieces of art.

Called "Observe," the exhibition is the culmination of a yearlong collaboration between two Pasadena institutions -- the Art Center College of Design and NASA's Spitzer Science Center at the California Institute of Technology. Beginning Oct. 10, visitors to the Art Center's Williamson Gallery will be challenged to stretch their imaginations as infrared observations from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope are visualized through the minds of five contemporary Southern California artists.

Read full strory here

Finding Higgs-Boson at CERN

CERN states in their page about people who are involving with experiments as "an international spirit"

Beneath the breathtaking Alpine vineyards, work at a feverish pace to complete a machine nicknamed the "Lord of Rings" -- otherwise called a particle accelerator is switched on and what it's going to do is to recreate the birth of the universe, on a smaller scale, of course. The experiment will be carried out deep inside the Earth in a circular tunnel 27 kilometres long, 100 metres below the surface of the Earth.

The CERN experiments could reveal more about "dark matter," antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

Famous astrophysicist Stephen Hawking has bet 100 dollars (70 euros) that a mega-experiment this week will not find an elusive particle seen as a holy grail of cosmic science, he said Tuesday.

"I think it will be much more exciting if we don't find the Higgs. That will show something is wrong, and we need to think again. I have a bet of 100 dollars that we won't find the Higgs," added Hawking.







    Large Hadron Collider - The Search For The Higgs





















"Lord of the Rings" - Large Hadron Collider  pics

Problems in Quantum Mechanics: Discussion between Sean Carroll and David Albert

Sean Carroll Cosmic Variance, California Institute of Technology		David Albert Columbia University

Topics: Problems in Quantum Mechanics
 
Defining Quantum Mechanics (16:13)

Why the Schrodinger equation seems crazy… (08:43)

a few possible ways to make it seem sane (09:29)

Sean on the many-worlds interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (04:00)

David attacks the many-worlds interpretation (17:22)

Quantum Mechanics and free will (07:29)

Time’s Arrow: Discussion between Sean Carroll and David Albert

Sean Carroll
Cosmic Variance, California Institute of Technology
 

David Albert Columbia University

Topics: Time’s Arrow
 
How a philosopher of science spends his time (08:34)
 
David describes his run-in with the “What the Bleep!?” cultists (11:56)
 
Is good science too disturbing to make good entertainment? (04:46)
 
Sean and David take on John Horgan’s critique of string theory (10:54)
 
String theory’s predictive power (or lack thereof) (06:04)
 
Why is the past so different, in so many ways, from the future? (12:28)

Possibilities of Extra Terrestrial life on outer space

Theoretical physicist and mathematician Freeman Dyson  is synonymous with quantum mechanics, solid-state physics, nuclear engineering, space exploration and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI).

In this wonderful video Freeman Dyson suggests that we start looking for life on the moons of Jupiter and out past Neptune, in the Kuiper belt and the Oort cloud. He talks about what such life would be like and how we might find it.

Europa "Life"



A wonderfull imaginative short animated film about  ET on EUROPA, inspired by and based on Freeman Dyson's thoughts and idea. Its is an artistic exploration with scientific logic about existing life on outer space or how it would be there.