tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-244178662024-03-08T07:43:41.631-05:00Particle & Astro Physics- The land of sub atomic particle where nothing remains constant! <br>
You need Light to see things around.<br>
So if you travel at the speed of light then what's around you is darkness and the time stands still. <br>
So, Light is darkness!! What a paradox?!Araf Karshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692657964904569309noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24417866.post-87349152688601442512008-11-14T09:20:00.005-05:002023-08-28T10:37:23.873-04:00Destination Moon<span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">India's technological leap in space technology.</span><br />
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<b>Madhavan speaks about Chandrayan mission to moon</b><br />
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<b>NASA Moon landing conspiracy - MSNBC 2002</b><br />
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<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/SabtlXmCDdM&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/SabtlXmCDdM&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"></embed></object>Araf Karshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692657964904569309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24417866.post-34460857824259324662008-09-10T17:07:00.000-04:002023-08-28T10:38:50.273-04:00Behind the Scenes of LHC<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />
<div style="line-height: 130%;"><span><span style="color: #18245c; line-height: normal;"><a href="http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR08.08E.html" style="color: #18245c; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">First beam in the LHC - accelerating science</span></span></a></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Geneva, 10 September 2008. The first beam in the Large Hadron Collider at CERN was successfully steered around 27 kilometers of the world’s most powerful particle accelerator at 10h28 this morning. This historic event marks a pivotal moment in the transition from over two decades of preparation to a new era of scientific discovery. <a href="http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR08.08E.html">Read more....</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 90%; line-height: 130%;"></div><div style="font-size: 90%; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 90%; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: arial; font-weight: bold; line-height: 17px;"><a href="http://the-physics.blogspot.com/2008/09/cern-reiterates-safety-of-lhc-on-eve-of.html" style="color: #333333; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">CERN reiterates the safety of LHC on the eve of the first beam</a></span></span></div><div style="font-size: 90%; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: 90%; line-height: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; line-height: normal;">Geneva, 5 September 2008. A report published today in the peer-reviewed journal Journal of Physics G: Nuclear and Particle Physics provides comprehensive evidence that safety fears about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are unfounded. The LHC is CERN’s new flagship research facility. As the world’s highest energy particle accelerator, it is poised to provide new insights into the mysteries of our universe.</span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br />
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</ul><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">Safety of LHC: <a href="http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html">http://public.web.cern.ch/public/en/LHC/Safety-en.html</a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; white-space: pre;">Press releases: <a href="http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR07.08E.html">http://press.web.cern.ch/press/PressReleases/Releases2008/PR07.08E.html </a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
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<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qQNpucos9wc&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qQNpucos9wc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"></embed></object>Araf Karshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692657964904569309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24417866.post-44328878309382135772008-08-24T05:16:00.011-04:002023-08-28T10:39:59.722-04:00How does the universe work? Get ready for the answer on Sep 10, 2008<div style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/s9XotvwgnaY&hl=en&fs=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><embed allowfullscreen="true" height="344" src="http://www.youtube.com/v/s9XotvwgnaY&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="425"></embed></object></span></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Geneva, August 11th 2008. The synchronization of the LHC's clockwise beam transfer system and the rest of CERN's accelerator chain was successfully achieved last weekend. </span><a href="http://lhc-first-beam.web.cern.ch/lhc-first-beam/News/LHCsyncTest.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">read more</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> ..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div><div style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Countdown to LHC First Beam 16 days more ... September 10th, 2008</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">After a quarter of a century of dreaming and planning, designing and building, at last we are about to see the LHC completed</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><b></b><br />
</span><div class="phlwithcaption"><div class="imageScale"><a href="http://cdsweb.cern.ch/record/40877"><span style="font-family: arial;"><img border="0" class="featureImageScaleHolder" height="127" src="http://doc.cern.ch//archive/electronic/cern/others/PHO/photo-ge/9911033_33a.jpeg" width="200" /></span></a></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Frank Close, Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Oxford University, is a former head of CERN's Communication Group. He recently visted CERN to give </span><a href="http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=34291"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">lectures</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> to the summer students.</span></span></div></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Already the excitement is gathering at the prospect of what will be discovered: possibly the Higgs Boson, or supersymmetry, or even things that no one has thought of. The world's media are already abuzz with anticipation. But we are getting ahead of ourselves. The visions of the new world will hopefully be tomorrow's stories; today, let's reflect on what has been achieved at even getting to this point and recall what it was like long ago when the dream began: in those bygone days, were you sure that the LHC would ever be?</span></span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://cdsweb.cern.ch/journal/article?issue=30/2008&name=CERNBulletin&category=News%20Articles&number=2&ln=en"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">read more... </span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
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</span><div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial; font-size: medium;">Scientists operating from a hollowed-out lair deep beneath the Franco-Swiss border have announced that their enormous, unprecedentedly powerful 27-kilometre proton cannon will shortly be ready to open fire. To be precise, "first beam" is scheduled for September 10th.</span></div><div></div><div><span style="font-family: arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Uncharacteristically, perhaps, the boffins made their announcement via a normal press release rather than by seizing command of TV broadcasts. The traditional demand for a colossal sum of money to be paid by the world's governments on pain of cities erased hourly was also omitted - perhaps because these boffins have already received such funds in order to build their immense machine. </span><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/08/lhc_preps_to_open_fire/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">read more...</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br />
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<b>LHC - The ultimate experiment</b><br />
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The scientists rejected a proposal that would have retained Pluto as a planet and brought three other objects into the cosmic club. Pluto has been considered a planet since its discovery in 1930 by the American Clyde Tombaugh.<br />
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</span></i></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: arial;"><i></i></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: arial;"><i>If accepted on Thursday, it would be bad news for Pluto, which would no longer be a full-fledged planet.</i></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span> </div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial;">read more in <a href="http://www.newscientistspace.com/article.ns?id=dn9818&feedId=online-news_rss20">New Scientist</a></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: Arial;"></span> </div>Araf Karshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692657964904569309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24417866.post-1156221255187259672006-08-22T00:33:00.002-04:002008-08-24T09:50:43.555-04:00Found Dark Matter<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/1600/060821_dark_matter_02.0.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/320/060821_dark_matter_02.0.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: arial;">Dark Matter which makes up </span><a href="http://the-physics.blogspot.com/2005/02/getting-closer-to-god-particle.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">25% of the Universe</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> finally detected. Dark matter eluded scientists for years as it doesn’t emit or reflect light. Scientists found proof of dark matter in the galaxy cluster 1E0657-556. The evidence provided by a cosmic collision between two huge clusters of galaxies. As per Maxim Markevitch of the Harvard Smithsonian Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, it is the “most energetic cosmic show, besides the Big Bang” that we are aware of.<br />
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<span style="color: #6633ff; font-family: arial; font-size: 85%;"><i>Image to right: A purple haze shows dark matter flanking the "Bullet Cluster." Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/M.Markevitch et al. Optical: NASA/STScI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al. Lensing Map: NASA/STScI; ESO WFI; Magellan/U.Arizona/D.Clowe et al.</i></span><br />
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<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/1600/Cosmological_composition.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/320/Cosmological_composition.jpg" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px;" /></a>The known universe (to us) is composed of 5% of matter (which includes, Free Hydrogen & Helium, Stars, Heavy elements (Earth), Ghostly neutrinos, air, life etc) while the rest 95% is made up of Dark Matter and Dark Energy. The matter in the known universe is made up of Quarks (Up and Down) and Electrons. Proton consists of 2 Up Quarks and 1 Down Quark while Neutron consists of 2 Down Quark and 1 Up Quark. This is the first family of fermions in the standard model.<br />
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The scientists discovered the gravitational signature of the dark matter. This signature is the by product of an immense collision of two huge galaxies (happened 100 million years ago) tearing apart the normal matter and the dark matter. The kinetic energy of this collision is good enough destroy planet Earth ten trillion trillion times. The dark matter is not seen, however, its gravity has a predictable effect on the observations. The blue color in the image shows gravity fields observed by how light from each background galaxy is distorted.<br />
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As per <span style="color: #006600;"><i>Robert Roy Britt of Space.Com</i></span> here’s what the image reveals:<br />
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<i><span style="color: #993399;"><span style="color: #006600;">“The hot gas – normal matter – was slowed by a drag force described as the cosmic equivalent of air resistance. But the dark matter was not slowed by this effect, presumably because it does not interact with normal matter, as theory had predicted. So the normal matter and dark matter became separated.”</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-family: arial;">1. AstroPhysics - </span><a href="http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/astro-ph/0608407"><span style="font-family: arial;">A direct empirical proof of the existence of Dark Matter</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">2. BBC – </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5272226.stm"><span style="font-family: arial;">Team finds ‘proof’ of dark matter</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
3. CNN – </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/21/dark.matter/index.html?section=cnn_space"><span style="font-family: arial;">Scientists: Dark Matter exists!</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
4. Space.Com – </span><a href="http://space.com/scienceastronomy/060821_dark_matter.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Colossal cosmic collision reveals dark matter</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
</span>5. NASA – <a href="http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/starsgalaxies/dark_matter_proven.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">A Matter of fact</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
6. BBC – </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4679220.stm"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dark Matter comes out of cold</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
7. Wikipedia.org – </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Energy"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dark Matter</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
8. Wikipedia.org – </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Energy"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dark Energy</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
9. Scientific American - </span><a href="http://sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=000EB9FD-823F-14EB-823F83414B7F0000"><span style="font-family: arial;">Colliding Clusters shed light on Dark Matter</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">10. Scientific American - </span><a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=00023144-9B65-1383-9A5083414B7FFE87"><span style="font-family: arial;">Supernovae Back Einstein's Blunder</span></a>Araf Karshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692657964904569309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24417866.post-1155961077585881652006-08-19T00:14:00.001-04:002008-08-24T09:50:59.267-04:00Astronomers sharply divided on new planet definition<div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: arial;"><i>By Robert Roy Britt, SPACE.com </i></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br />
<span style="color: #006600;">A 12-person committee representing the world's largest group of planetary scientists on Thursday threw its support behind a new planet-defintion proposal that would increase the tally of planets in our solar system to 12. More dissent emerged, too, from several prominent planet experts.<br />
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<span style="color: #006600;">The definition, proposed yesterday at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague, preserves Pluto's planet status and essentially classifies as planets all round objects that orbit the Sun and do not orbit another planet. The tally of planets is expected to eventually soar into the hundreds if the resolution is passed by a vote next week.<br />
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<span style="color: #006600;">The Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS), a group within the American Astronomical Society, has the opposite view. The 12-member DPS Committee, elected by the membership, "strongly supports the IAU resolution," according to a statement released Thursday. </span></i></span></div><div align="justify"><i><br />
<span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #006600;">read more ....</span> <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2006-08-17-planet-controversy_x.htm">usatoday.com</a></span></i></div><br />
<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial;"><b><span style="color: #990000;">Earth's moon could become a planet</span></b><br />
</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600;"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>By Robert Roy Britt</i></span> </span><a href="http://space.com/" target="new"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: arial;"><i>SPACE.com</i></span></a></div><div align="justify"><span style="color: #006600; font-family: arial;"><i>Friday, August 18, 2006; Posted: 12:11 p.m. EDT (16:11 GMT) </i></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><br />
<span style="color: #006600;">(SPACE.com) -- If astronomers approve a newly proposed planet definition next week, things could get really strange. Sure, asteroid Ceres will become a planet. Pluto's moon Charon will become a planet. But we're talking really strange.<br />
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<span style="color: #006600;">Eventually, if Earth and its moon survive long enough, the moon will have to be reclassified as a planet, said Gregory Laughlin, an extrasolar planet researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz.</span></i></span></div><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
<i><span style="color: #006600;">The new definition, proposed this week by the International Astronomical Union (IAU), basically says every round object orbiting the sun is a planet, unless it orbits another planet. But there is a big caveat: If the center of gravity, called the barycenter, is outside the larger object, then the smaller object is a planet. That wording elevates Pluto's moon Charon to planethood, an idea some astronomers have criticized</span></i></span><br />
<span style="color: #000099; font-family: Arial;"><i><span style="color: #006600;">read more in .... </span></i><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/18/moon.planet/index.html?section=cnn_space"><i>cnn.com</i></a></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000;">Pluto may yet lose planet status</span></b> <i><br />
<span style="color: #006600;">Stephen Battersby - 20:24 18 August 2006 - NewScientist.com news service </span></i></span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i><span style="color: #006600;"><br />
We were about to gain a horde of new planets; now we might lose one instead.<br />
In Prague, astronomers are trying to define what it means to be a planet. A draft definition released on Wednesday would have extended the the club from the conventional nine to twelve, and soon to many more (see</span> </i><a href="http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9761-three-new-planets-may-join-solar-system.html"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>Three new planets may join solar system</i></span></a>).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #006600;">read more in</span> ..... </span><a href="http://www.newscientistspace.com/article/dn9797-pluto-may-yet-lose-planet-status.html"><span style="font-family: arial;"><i>New Scientist</i></span></a></div>Araf Karshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692657964904569309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24417866.post-1155743524143431852006-08-16T08:47:00.001-04:002008-08-24T09:51:15.438-04:00Solar System with 12 Planets<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/1600/Earth_New_Brothers.2.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/200/Earth_New_Brothers.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a> <a href="http://www.iau.org/"><span style="font-family: arial;">IAU</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;">’s executive committee submitted (which only submits recommendations likely to get two thirds approval from the group of 2500 astronomers from 75 nations meeting in Prague to decide a universal definition of a planet) a draft proposal to expand the Solar System to 12 planets. They will have two brain storming sessions before they vote on the resolution next week (August 21-25, 2006).<br />
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The change will force the schools across the world to change their text books and the elementary school solar system models. More interestingly astrologers need to tweak their formulas to make predictions as their model of classic nine planets is not valid anymore! :-)<br />
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The proposed new definition of a planet is as follows <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/1600/Earth_More_Candidates.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/200/Earth_More_Candidates.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><br />
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- Any round object larger than 500 miles (800 Km) in diameter<br />
- It must orbit the sun<br />
- A mass roughly one-12,000th that of Earth.<br />
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Pluto and its moon Charon will be first double planet while Ceres is only 592 miles (952 Km) in diameter compared to 2003 UB313 which is 1490 miles (2400 km) in diameter.<br />
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Following will be the 12 planets if the resolution is approved (<span style="color: red;">diameter in brackets</span>)<br />
<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/1600/Expanding_Solar_System.1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/400/Expanding_Solar_System.0.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><br />
1. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28planet%29">Mercury</a> (<span style="color: red;">3031 miles</span>)<br />
2. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus">Venus</a> (<span style="color: red;">7520 m</span>)<br />
3. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth">Earth</a> (<span style="color: red;">7926 m</span>)<br />
4. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars">Mars</a> (<span style="color: red;">4194 m</span>)<br />
5. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Ceres">Ceres</a> (<span style="color: red;">592 m</span>)<br />
6. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jupiter">Jupiter</a> (<span style="color: red;">88,736 m</span>)<br />
7. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn">Saturn</a> (<span style="color: red;">74,978 m</span>)<br />
8. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus">Uranus</a> (<span style="color: red;">32,193 m</span>)<br />
9. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptune">Neptune</a> (<span style="color: red;">30,775 m</span>)<br />
10. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluto">Pluto</a> (<span style="color: red;">1430 m</span>)<br />
11. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28moon%29">Charon</a> (<span style="color: red;">750 m</span>)<br />
12. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_UB313">2003 UB313 or Xena</a> (<span style="color: red;">1490 m</span>)<br />
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<span style="font-size: 85%;"><b>Images</b><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 85%;">In this artist's impression the planets are drawn to scale, but without correct relative distances.<br />
Credit: The International Astronomical Union/Martin Kornmesser<br />
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<b>Resources</b><br />
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1. IAU.org – </span><a href="http://www.iau2006.org/mirror/www.iau.org/iau0601/iau0601_release.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Draft Definition of planet and plutons</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">2. BBC – </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4795755.stm"><span style="font-family: arial;">Planets plan boosts tally to 12</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">3. BBC – </span><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/nolavconsole/ifs_news/hi?redirect=fs.stm&news=1&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;bbram=1&bbwm=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&nol_storyid=4797475"><span style="font-family: arial;">Proposed new planets (video)</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">4. New York Times – </span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/16/us/16pluto.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin"><span style="font-family: arial;">For now, Pluto holds its place in our Solar System</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">4. CNN – </span><a href="http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/space/08/16/new.planets.ap/index.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Proposal would increase planets from 9 to 12</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">5. Scientific American – </span><a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=0002E6D1-16EC-14E2-96EC83414B7F0000&ref=rss"><span style="font-family: arial;">New Planet Definitions Enlarges Solar System</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">6. Telegraph UK - </span><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/08/17/do1703.xml"><span style="font-family: arial;">Never mind the dwarfs, just be happy for pluto</span></a>Araf Karshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692657964904569309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24417866.post-1155441576607293442005-10-12T23:34:00.001-04:002008-08-24T09:51:30.362-04:0010th Planet - 2003 UB313<div align="justify"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/1600/UB313-with-moon.0.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/200/UB313-with-moon.0.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a> <span style="font-family: arial;">Astronomers discovered the 10th Planet of our Solar System. Neptune was discovered in 1846 and Pluto in 1930. Astronomers named this object as UB313 (granted automatically according to the IAU – International Astronomical Union’s naming protocols for minor planets), which is larger than Pluto and has a moon. UB313 takes close to 557 years to orbit the sun and it currently lies almost its maximum distance from the Sun (97 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomical_unit">Astronomical Units</a>). Astronomers calculated the diameter of UB313 around 1490 miles (2400 km - using images from the Hubble Space Telescope) and Pluto is around 1433 miles. Observations taken on September 10, 2005 revealed a moon in orbit around UB313. The moon was nicknamed Gabrielle by its discoverers. The unofficial name for UB313 is Xena (Xena – The warrior Princess).<br />
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Links <a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/1600/X-Planet-Size-Comparison.1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7894/789/320/X-Planet-Size-Comparison.jpg" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;" /></a><br />
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1. <a href="http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/050729_new_planet.html">space.com - Objects bigger than Pluto Discovered</a><br />
2. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_UB313">Wikipedia.org – UB313</a><br />
3. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4730061.stm">bbc.co.uk – Astronomers detect 10th Planet</a><br />
4. <a href="http://www.gps.caltech.edu/%7Embrown/planetlila/">Caltech.edu – Discover of 2003 UB313</a><br />
5. <a href="http://www.astronomy.com/asy/default.aspx?c=a&id=3401">Astronomy.com – Move over, Pluto. There is even a larger ice world out there.</a><br />
6. <a href="http://www.ub313.com/">ub313.com – New Planet</a><br />
7. <a href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap060207.html">nasa.gov – UB313</a><br />
8. <a href="http://www.iau.org/">iau.org – International Astronomical Union</a><br />
9. <a href="http://www.iau.org/TRANS-NEPTUNIAN_OBJECT_2003_UB.324.0.html">iau.org – Trans Neptune Object 2003 UB313</a> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 78%;">* Image Courtesey - Wikipedia.org</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Here are the two complimentary lectures by Prof Richard Wolfson Ph.D, Middlebury College on Albert Einstein's miraculous year 1905 (presented by the </span><a href="http://www.teach12.com/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Teaching Company</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;">).</span><br />
</div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-family: arial;">Lecture 1 (32 minutes) – </span><a href="rtsp://real.eastbaymedia-central.speedera.net/real.eastbaymedia-central/teachingco/Einstein1_H.rm"><span style="font-family: arial;">Real Audio</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;">Lecture 2 (32 minutes) – </span><a href="rtsp://real.eastbaymedia-central.speedera.net/real.eastbaymedia-central/teachingco/Einstein2_H.rm"><span style="font-family: arial;">Real Audio</span></a></li>
<li><span style="font-family: arial;">The Teaching Company - </span><a href="http://www.teach12.com/store/course.asp?id=153&d=Einstein%92s+Relativity+and+the+Quantum+Revolution%3A+Modern+Physics+for+Non%2DScientists%2C+2nd+Edition&pc=Science%20and%20Mathematics"><span style="font-family: arial;">Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution: Modern Physics for Non-Scientists, 2nd Edition (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) By Prof Richard Wolfson.</span></a><span style="font-family: arial;"><br />
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</ol><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Further Reading</span><br />
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<b></b><b></b></span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><b>Internet</b></span><br />
</div><ol><li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">New York Times</span> – <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/opinion/30greene.html?pagewanted=all"><span style="font-family: arial;">Brian Green – The Famous Equation and You (June 30, 2005)</span></a> </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">PBS – </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/experts.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">E = mc² explained</span></a> </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">PBS – </span><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/einstein/relativity/index.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Relativity and Cosmos</span></a> </li>
<li style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Physics 2005 – </span><a href="http://physics2005.org/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Celebrating 100 years</span></a> </li>
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<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Albert Einstein – </span><a href="http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/"><span style="font-family: arial;">Image and Impact</span></a></div></li>
</ol>Araf Karshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692657964904569309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24417866.post-1142893604791626222005-02-05T04:51:00.001-05:002008-08-24T09:53:05.892-04:00Getting closer to God Particle<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Peter Higgs a British physicist predicted the existence of Higgs particle in sixties to explain how matter has mass. His theory suggested that Higgs gives rise to a field through which all other sub atomic particles (fermions) such as quarks, electrons and force carrier particles (bosons) such as photons, gluons, W & Z bosons must pass. When they (particles) interact with the field, the particles experience a drag, the more the drag, the more massive the particle.<br />
</span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">The basic idea of all pervading Higgs field (which is carried by Higgs bosons) is an important part of the Standard Model of particles and forces, for it explains the masses of the carriers of the weak force, responsible for beta-decay<sup>1</sup> and for nuclear reactions that fuel the Sun.</span></div><div align="justify"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Most of the matter (known) in the universe is composed of up quark, down quark and electron (up quark has 2/3 charge while down quark has -1/3 charge). Proton consists of 2 up quarks and 1 down quark while Neutron consists of 2 down quarks and 1 up quark. This is the 1<sup style="font-family: arial;">st</sup> family of the fermions in the standard model.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><o:p><span style="font-family: arial;">The masses of the top quark and of the weak W boson together constrain the mass of the Higgs boson. A precise measurement of the top mass can therefore indicate where to look for the Higgs. On June 9th, 2004 scientist at Fermi Lab announced new results that change the best estimate of the mass of postulated Higgs boson from approximately 96 GeV/c2 (Giga Electron Volt / speed of the light squared) to 117 GeV/c2. </span><a href="http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/1506.html"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read Fermi Lab news on Higgs boson</span></a></o:p><span style="font-family: arial;">.</span><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/280/3442/640/Standard-Model.jpg"><img border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/img/280/3442/320/Standard-Model.jpg" style="border: 1px solid rgb(0, 0, 0); margin: 2px;" /></a></span></div><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold;">The unsolved mysteries - Beyond the standard model?</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;"><br />
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<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">We know the ingredients for the known (5%) part of the universe (refer the table above). So, what about unknown universe, which comprises of dark matter and dark energy? </span></div></li>
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<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Why there are exactly three generations (fermions) of quarks and leptons?</span></div></li>
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<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">What is the role of second and third generation of fermions when most of the known (5%) universe is composed of 1<sup>st</sup> generation of fermions? </span></div></li>
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<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">If there is symmetry between matter and anti-matter in the universe, why do we observe matter and virtually no anti-matter?</span></div></li>
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<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">How does gravity fit into all these quantum stuff?</span></div></li>
</ul><div align="justify" class="MsoNormal" style="border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; border-width: medium; padding: 0in;"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Let us hope to find these answers in this decade. Here is an interesting article by John Womersley of Fermi Lab about Standard Model infact going beyond the standard model.<br />
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by John Womersley, Fermilab February 05, 2005<br />
</span></span></div><div align="justify" style="border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; border-width: medium medium 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><span style="font-family: arial;"></span></div><div align="justify" style="border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; border-width: medium medium 1pt; padding: 0in 0in 1pt;"><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">At almost any particle physics conference, meeting, or lunch table, the phrase “physics beyond the Standard Model” is heard over and over again. What’s wrong with the Standard Model, anyway? Why are physicists so sure that there is something beyond it? And why do they think they can find it anytime soon? .. </span><a href="http://www.symmetrymag.org/cms/?pid=1000064"><span style="font-family: arial;">continue ..</span></a></span><span style="font-family: arial;"> </span></div><ol style="font-family: arial;"><li><br />
<div align="justify"><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 100%;">Beta decay is one process that unstable atoms can use to become more stable. There are two types of beta decay, beta-minus and beta-plus. In Beta-minus a neutron will become a proton (and an electron and an antineutrino will fly away from the nucleus) and in Beta-plus a proton will become a neutron (and a positron and a neutrino will fly away from the nucleus).</span></div></li>
</ol><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Read more about Higgs Boson from </span><a href="http://www.exploratorium.edu/origins/cern/ideas/index.html" style="font-family: arial;">CERN</a><span style="font-family: arial;"> or </span><a href="http://www.fnal.gov/pub/presspass/press_releases/dzero_topquark/index.html" style="font-family: arial;">Fermi Lab</a></span> </o:p><a href="http://www.hello.com/" target="ext"><img align="middle" alt="Posted by Hello" border="0" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/pbh.gif" style="-moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; border: 0px none; padding: 0px;" /></a></div>Araf Karshhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08692657964904569309noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24417866.post-1142893830618380172005-01-31T00:30:00.001-05:002008-08-24T09:53:25.539-04:00Escape from the Universe<span style="font-family: arial;">The universe is destined to end. Before it does, could an advanced civilisation escape via a "wormhole" into a parallel universe? The idea seems like science fiction, but it is consistent with the laws of physics and biology. Here's how to do it ...<br />
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</span><span style="font-family: arial;">The universe is out of control, in a runaway acceleration. Eventually all intelligent life will face the final doom—the big freeze. An advanced civilisation must embark on the ultimate journey: fleeing to a parallel universe.</span><br />
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