World Sunlight Map Watch the sun rise and set all over the world on this real-time, computer-generated illustration of the earth's patterns of sunlight and darkness. The clouds are updated daily with current weather satellite imagery. The Mercator projection used here is one way of looking at the spherical earth as a flat map. Used since the 16th century for navigation, straight lines on this map can be used accurately as compass bearings but the size and shape of continents are distorted. Also available is a semi-realistic view of dawn and dusk from far above the Earth, a look at the moon, and information about how this works.
Reference, Facts, News - Free and Family-friendly Resources - Refdesk.com CERN Love » train Sorry about all the silence the last couple weeks. These days our day jobs are getting pretty busy. Beam dump at Point 6 After the question “what is 7 TeV?” First of all, let’s stay humble. 27 km in circumference,100 m underground,8 stories high,12,500 tons, etc. But all this huge equipment is just support for the diminutive stars: bunches of 1011 protons,each 7 cm long and 1 mm in diameter (about the size of a mechanical pencil lead). That really isn’t much stuff considering that macroscopic things contain around 1023 atoms. So, what about this 7 TeV thing? A TeV is actually a very tiny amount of energy. On the other hand, we have to give these protons some credit. Of course there can be quite a few protons spinning around the LHC at one time, and though only a few interact each time the bunches cross, we can wonder how much total energy is in the beam. What would happen if the beam were to somehow go astray and hit the beam pipe and surrounding apparatus? So, to the energies…
Index of / India is building Solar Canals to Produce Energy while Slowing Water Loss Gandhinagar, April 23: Close on heels of commencing use of wastelands in northern districts and rooftops in towns and cities, Gujarat is set to potentially use the existing 19,000 km-long network of Narmada canals across the State for setting up solar panels to generate power. The Chief Minister, Mr Narendra Modi, will inaugurate the first of a series of this project, known as Canal Solar Power Project, when he launches a 1 megawatt (mw) pilot project, which is already commissioned, on Narmada branch canal near Chandrasan village of Kadi taluka in Mehsana district on Tuesday. Last week, he inaugurated a 600-MW solar power project spread across 11 districts. Gujarat, which invests nearly Rs 2,000 crore an year on renewable energy, has attracted investments of Rs 9,000 crore so far on solar energy projects. Energy, water security Today, Gujarat has about 458 km of open Main Canal, while the total canal length, including sub-branches, is about 19,000 km at present. Related:
Welcome to the Multiverse | Cosmology Theoretical cosmologist isn’t one of the more hazardous occupations of the modern world. The big risks include jet lag, caffeine overdose, and possibly carpal tunnel syndrome. It wasn’t always so. On February 17, 1600, Giordano Bruno, a mathematician and Dominican friar, was stripped naked and driven through the streets of Rome. These days, cosmologists like me may be safer, but our ideas have grown only more radical. Also like Bruno, cosmologists are reaching far beyond what observational evidence can tell them. The extent of what astronomers can see is frustratingly limited by the speed of light: one light-year (about six trillion miles) per year. Obviously, we don’t know what the unobservable part of the universe looks like. Here we are not talking about disconnected universes, but rather what we cosmologists call pocket universes. For all the parallels, modern physicists are quite unlike Bruno in one crucial way. That’s where the multiverse comes from.
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Waiting For New Universes : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture How long is long enough when it comes to waiting for a new cosmology? How long will scientists, and everyone else, wait for an exciting but speculative theory to find some basis in experiment? Sean Carroll's new column in Discover Magazine recently made its debut with a wonderful piece on the multiverse (a longer explanation of the ideas also appears here). If you have never heard the term before, the multiverse is a universe of universes. The multiverse has become a popular topic in cosmological circles. Now don't get me wrong, I would love for the multiverse to exist. But the questions I want to take up today are simply these: What do you do with a theory that can only explain what you see by assuming the existence of a whole lot more you can't see? This debate about science turning from the universe we can observe to potential or implied universes we can't has heated up over the last decade. Many folks are hard at work looking for observational consequences of the multiverse idea.
TODAYMoms Ryan McVay / Getty Images stock FIONA GOODALL / AFP - Getty Images The 6 Most Mind-Blowing Things Ever Discovered in Space It's actually really easy to think of space as boring. The planets in our own solar system all seem to be empty rocks or balls of gas, and you find a whole lot of nothing before you get to the next star. Meanwhile, Hollywood's most creative minds can't get past populating the place with planets that look a whole lot like Earth (and specifically, parts of California) featuring monsters, rapey aliens or Muppets. But real space is far, far stranger. You just have to know where to look to find things like ... #6. Science fiction writers have this annoying thing they do where they can only think of like five different types of planets. But scientists have studied almost 700 real planets outside the solar system, and some of them are downright gaudy. Via Inewp.comIt's a wedding gem worthy of Jesus or the Sultan of Dubai. How Is This Even Possible? Via Spaceflightnow.comWhat a dick! Carbon is just a shitload of heat and pressure away from becoming a diamond. Photos.com"Yeah, that's cute. #5. #4.