Large Hardon Collider

[Mizango]

Yeah it does, been avoiding the bi-weekly Max flameathon so I've been finding myself busy with other things and enjoying my break from classes.


But on topic, Venus has always been intriguing to me. Assuming that there was some sort of a souped up primitive solar wind, which may have actually existed in the infant stages of our star system's history. It hypothetically possible that it had the potential to stimulate strong thermal atmospheric escape from the young water filled Venus, or from my understanding anyway.

Its also possible that if Venus were heated by some sort of solar wind blasting it could cause some sort of an escape flux that would have raped water at a molecular level. Venus definitely has a new face on it compared to the beautiful goddess imagine it used to have. Typed all that from my phone, holy smokes.

[Kryssan]

I've used this website in the past on the BG forums before, but since you bring up the Venus Express once more here is the website that details the mission and the progress it has made.


Click here.

[Mizango]

I've used this website in the past on the BG forums before, but since you bring up the Venus Express once more here is the website that details the mission and the progress it has made.


Click here.

ty, ty, ty. I've been looking for this site but couldn't remember its name or anything. Oh man, my Friday just got much better, thanks!

[Eliseos]

Yeah it does, been avoiding the bi-weekly Max flameathon so I've been finding myself busy with other things and enjoying my break from classes.


But on topic, Venus has always been intriguing to me. Assuming that there was some sort of a souped up primitive solar wind, which may have actually existed in the infant stages of our star system's history. It hypothetically possible that it had the potential to stimulate strong thermal atmospheric escape from the young water filled Venus, or from my understanding anyway.

Its also possible that if Venus were heated by some sort of solar wind blasting it could cause some sort of an escape flux that would have raped water at a molecular level. Venus definitely has a new face on it compared to the beautiful goddess imagine it used to have. Typed all that from my phone, holy smokes.

My break ends on Monday, fuck summer classes. The crazy thing is how at least three other bodies in our solar system potentially could harbor life besides us. And yeah, Venus now has the face of global warming. Take that Al Gore.

[Mizango]

My break ends on Monday, fuck summer classes. The crazy thing is how at least three other bodies in our solar system potentially could harbor life besides us. And yeah, Venus now has the face of global warming. Take that Al Gore.

lol no doubt. Yeah man I think its only a matter of time before we have microbial life in some form or fashion verified elsewhere in out solar system, this is a great time and im expecting big things.

[Max™]

I'm wondering how Venus got such an odd orbital period/rotation relationship.

Damn thing is almost at a standstill, 224 earth days for an orbit, 243 earth days for a rotation, almost no axial tilt, and it rotates backwards to boot?

Something very interesting happened there, I think.

[Psion]

Maybe it collided with earth in the early stages of planet development and chipped the moon off while it was it it.

On the subject of science, I want to get into chemistry, but my only real education on the subject is from high school, and that was a decade ago, which means the info about it is horribly outdated as well.

But since I want to get one up on my chemistry classes before I start in college, and so I know what the hell my teacher is talking about, I was wondering, does anyone know a good website (no money atm for books or going to library), that teaches the basics of modern chemistry and explains such things to noob like me without going into complicated formulas I have no clue what the variables stand for?

[wagon]

Personally, all I think a scientist really needs is a sense of wonder, and a lack of common sense. Science should always be about data, regardless of what common sense says. If you get caught up in what "should be" and not what it is, you're gonna miss out on a lot of big discoveries.

Two introductory courses in quantum physics would be sufficient to induce a partial, if not complete abandonment of common sense.

[Eliseos]

Maybe it collided with earth in the early stages of planet development and chipped the moon off while it was it it.

On the subject of science, I want to get into chemistry, but my only real education on the subject is from high school, and that was a decade ago, which means the info about it is horribly outdated as well.

But since I want to get one up on my chemistry classes before I start in college, and so I know what the hell my teacher is talking about, I was wondering, does anyone know a good website (no money atm for books or going to library), that teaches the basics of modern chemistry and explains such things to noob like me without going into complicated formulas I have no clue what the variables stand for?

At the undergrad level, there isn't anything to be out of date, especially with a subject like chemistry. Going off of my university's physics curriculum, you won't reach anything discovered within the past ten years or so even at graduate level studies. My university doesn't have a string department like most others, which is the only subject I can think of that might be taught pre-post-doc (yes, I realize string theory is a physics area and not chemistry, just using it as an example).

Also, the intro chemistry class should be enough to catch you up to where you were in high school. Those intro classes are taken by chemistry majors as well as every other major in the university that requires some kind of natural science elective, so they aren't as intense as specific chemistry classes.

[Max™]

http://www.newscientist.com/embedded/gigatest2

Awesome, anyone else played with this yet?

Caught the article about the Honeycomb Nebula, but saw the zoomable picture, google maps + hubble = win!

[Kaylia]

http://www.newscientist.com/embedded/gigatest2

Awesome, anyone else played with this yet?

Caught the article about the Honeycomb Nebula, but saw the zoomable picture, google maps + hubble = win!

I wonder how many stars there is in the picture.

[Max™]

It zooms in to a pretty impressive level, I wanna see more done with this, on a 3-D monitor which I have yet to get.

[Kaylia]

The parallax effect isn't strong enough to make any real 3d, and a computer simulation would kill all the fun.

[Max™]

I mean stuff like this, but like, floating in my lap so I can shoot jizz at stars while I whack off over how awesome it is.

[Mizango]

Oh man, that's absolutely phenomenal.

[Woozie]

Sath, what happened to your school credits situation? Has it been resolved yet?

[Woozie]

Oh, also, I've been doing physics for so many years and I JUST find out today that the "c" in oscillators is silent. A half hour before I have to give a presentation on synchronization of quantum coupled oscillators >.>

Also, I learned out to say Illinois a few days ago. It turns out the "s" is silent.

Edit: I just learned how to spell it while typing this. Apparently there's no "e" at the end.

[Eliseos]

I and most of my professors say "os-sil-lay-tors"

[Kuya]

Neutrinos are the big nothings of subatomic physics. Nearly massless and lacking an electric charge, these ghostly particles interact so weakly with other types of matter that more than 50 trillion of them pass unimpeded through a person’s body each second.

Yet recent preliminary findings from two experiments hint that neutrinos may be opening a window on a hidden world of subatomic particles and forces.

The findings from both experiments have relatively large margins of error, so they could end up being statistical flukes. But so far the results, announced June 14 at the Neutrinos 2010 conference in Athens, indicate that neutrinos and their antiparticle counterparts, antineutrinos, are not the nearly exact mirror images of each other that current physics supposes them to be.

If confirmed, those conclusions “indicate a fundamentally new direction in our thinking” about subatomic particles and the origin of matter in the universe, says theorist Rabindra Mohapatra of the University of Maryland in College Park.

The new results may help explain a long-standing puzzle — how the universe, believed to have begun with such a perfect balance of matter and antimatter that the two would have destroyed each other upon contact, became dominated by matter. That imbalance has led to the evolution of galaxies, planets and life

The new findings “could even signal a tiny breakdown of Einstein’s theory of special relativity,” Mohapatra adds. “This could completely alter the way we are doing physics now.”

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/gene...le_revolution_

Neutrinos, dawg, how do they work?

edit: No, seriously, how do they work? Someone explain this stuff to me.

[Pirian]

It's fun to speculate, but they even said it themselves:

The findings from both experiments have relatively large margins of error, so they could end up being statistical flukes.

translation: this is all speculation based on a small data set, but wouldn't it be cool!