Nope. Better. ANU's Quantum Atom Optics group.
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The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
Climate Change Deniers Beware Glory
Earth observing satellite Glory (launching Feb 23, 2011) will provide long-term hard data on aerosols, solar radiation and their effect on climate change.
http://www.space.com/10924-climate-chan … glory.html
Earth observing satellite Glory (launching Feb 23, 2011) will provide long-term hard data on aerosols, solar radiation and their effect on climate change.
http://www.space.com/10924-climate-chan … glory.html
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On the other hand I have to learn the entirety of the "introductory" quantum mechanics course to an exam-standard.
In... two days.
In... two days.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
But Spark, when they read your answers they change the result of your test.
Last edited by AussieReaper (2011-02-23 01:01:08)
..also.. If anyone is interested in watching the launch tune in here.Kmar wrote:
Climate Change Deniers Beware Glory
Earth observing satellite Glory (launching Feb 23, 2011) will provide long-term hard data on aerosols, solar radiation and their effect on climate change.
http://www.space.com/10924-climate-chan … glory.html
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html
It goes up in about an hour.
23 February 11 05:09:00 EST
or here: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/taurus/glory/status.html
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http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/ … te=science
Pretty interesting. S3- is something that I had thought was impossible. Could have pretty interesting implications in geology (and mining, for that matter)Scientists say a previously little known form of sulphur, which only occurs at extreme temperatures and pressures, may be the most common form of the element on Earth.
Dr Gleb Pokrovski from the Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France, and Professor Leonid Dubrovinsky from the Universität Bayreuth in Germany hypothesised that sulphur's ability to transform into different species (chemical forms) could produce interesting results under extremes of temperature and pressure.
To test their hypothesis they performed experiments with sulphur rich fluids at high temperatures and high pressures.
They unexpectedly discoved that a form of sulphur called trisulphur anion or S3- was the dominant stable form of the element in geological fluids at temperatures above 250 degrees Celsius and pressures greater than 0.5 gigapascals.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
lolmg Russians are launching 26 February 11 22:07:00 EST
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n110 … uzrollout/
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n110 … uzrollout/
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I sincerely hope you do find a use for roo poo.Spark wrote:
So... today I finalised a research project. I get to go into a genuinely cutting edge lab and do genuinely cutting edge research in a field which is riiiiiiight out there
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Damn .. another big one. I do believe we are getting close to peak.
This event was captured in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. Some of the material blew out into space and other portions fell back to the surface. Because SDO images are super-HD, the scienctists can zoom in on the action and still see exquisite details. The video below was created using a cadence of a frame taken every 24 seconds; still, the sense of motion is, by all appearances, seamless.
HD if you please.
This event was captured in extreme ultraviolet light by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft. Some of the material blew out into space and other portions fell back to the surface. Because SDO images are super-HD, the scienctists can zoom in on the action and still see exquisite details. The video below was created using a cadence of a frame taken every 24 seconds; still, the sense of motion is, by all appearances, seamless.
HD if you please.
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BTW this is the sort of stuff that the group I'm working with is doing, and at that place - although a different group I think.
Atoms chilled to more than -270°C start to behave just like light particles in a laser beam, according to new Australian research.
The discovery could lead to the development of exciting new technologies including atom holograms, says Dr Andrew Truscott, who led the research team, at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics at ANU in Canberra.
Truscott and colleagues showed that when helium atoms are extremely cold - within one millionth of a degree of absolute zero - they are forced into a state of coherence where they will travel in much the same way as photons travel in a laser.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
BEC is fun stuff. I have a friend getting his PhD in a quantum optics lab...but I honestly don't know what his project is.Spark wrote:
BTW this is the sort of stuff that the group I'm working with is doing, and at that place - although a different group I think.Atoms chilled to more than -270°C start to behave just like light particles in a laser beam, according to new Australian research.
The discovery could lead to the development of exciting new technologies including atom holograms, says Dr Andrew Truscott, who led the research team, at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics at ANU in Canberra.
Truscott and colleagues showed that when helium atoms are extremely cold - within one millionth of a degree of absolute zero - they are forced into a state of coherence where they will travel in much the same way as photons travel in a laser.
Would atom holograms be physical?
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“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
Haha, mine is fairly low grade (modelling noise in an atom laser) but it does mean I have access to a proper research lab, a proper research team, proper modelling software that I get to play with, and learn a bit of some stuff I wouldn't learn for another year or so otherwise (quantum field theory, condensed matter theory etc).SenorToenails wrote:
BEC is fun stuff. I have a friend getting his PhD in a quantum optics lab...but I honestly don't know what his project is.Spark wrote:
BTW this is the sort of stuff that the group I'm working with is doing, and at that place - although a different group I think.Atoms chilled to more than -270°C start to behave just like light particles in a laser beam, according to new Australian research.
The discovery could lead to the development of exciting new technologies including atom holograms, says Dr Andrew Truscott, who led the research team, at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum-Atom Optics at ANU in Canberra.
Truscott and colleagues showed that when helium atoms are extremely cold - within one millionth of a degree of absolute zero - they are forced into a state of coherence where they will travel in much the same way as photons travel in a laser.
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman
I'd say astrological.AussieReaper wrote:
Would atom holograms be physical?
Fuck Israel
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Poop.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
http://www.npr.org/2011/03/02/134196209 … &cc=fp
Study: Most Plastics Leach Hormone-Like Chemicals
by Jon Hamilton
Study: Most Plastics Leach Hormone-Like Chemicals
by Jon Hamilton
Makers of water bottles, including Camelback, now sell products that don't contain BPA, a chemical that can mimic the sex hormone estrogen. But a new study says that even if they don't contain BPA, most plastic products release estrogenic chemicals.
Ride an SRB video into space
Most of the video is silent. However, at the 14:46 mark the video cuts to a camera equipped with sound, and although the Orbiter is well out of the part of Earth’s atmosphere where sound can carry, the metal in the booster itself — as you can hear — is more than enough to transmit sound!
After about a minute in you can see the shadow of the plume on the ocean, and at the 2:25 mark… well, it gets pretty exciting. You’ll see.
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I'm wondering if that's the video that helped them figure out what happened with Columbia. If you look at the video at ~8:00, it would show pretty much exactly what you need to see for that incident. Or it could have been added after that accident, as a result of the investigation...Kmar wrote:
Ride an SRB video into space
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvSRnOJ8 … dded#at=11Most of the video is silent. However, at the 14:46 mark the video cuts to a camera equipped with sound, and although the Orbiter is well out of the part of Earth’s atmosphere where sound can carry, the metal in the booster itself — as you can hear — is more than enough to transmit sound!
After about a minute in you can see the shadow of the plume on the ocean, and at the 2:25 mark… well, it gets pretty exciting. You’ll see.
Cool vids, regardless.
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
― Albert Einstein
Doing the popular thing is not always right. Doing the right thing is not always popular
I'm not sure.. but the belly inspection they now do in response sure helps to prevent a repeat.FEOS wrote:
I'm wondering if that's the video that helped them figure out what happened with Columbia. If you look at the video at ~8:00, it would show pretty much exactly what you need to see for that incident. Or it could have been added after that accident, as a result of the investigation...Kmar wrote:
Ride an SRB video into space
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvSRnOJ8 … dded#at=11Most of the video is silent. However, at the 14:46 mark the video cuts to a camera equipped with sound, and although the Orbiter is well out of the part of Earth’s atmosphere where sound can carry, the metal in the booster itself — as you can hear — is more than enough to transmit sound!
After about a minute in you can see the shadow of the plume on the ocean, and at the 2:25 mark… well, it gets pretty exciting. You’ll see.
Cool vids, regardless.
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Some good stuff on the BBC as usual
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
A section of the solar disk recorded in 30mph winds at the Winter Star Party on West Summerland Key. The massive detached prominence was visible for hours. Skies were quite steady despite the wind
Another shot taken earlier
Earth for scale
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What planet is that? Saturn?Kmar wrote:
http://i.imgur.com/SXLfX.jpgA section of the solar disk recorded in 30mph winds at the Winter Star Party on West Summerland Key. The massive detached prominence was visible for hours. Skies were quite steady despite the wind
Another shot taken earlier
http://i.imgur.com/k5jBc.jpg
Earth for scale
http://i.imgur.com/ICZMF.jpg
If the women don't find ya handsome. They should at least find ya handy.
That's the sun... you see the tell-tale eddies on the surface?
The paradox is only a conflict between reality and your feeling what reality ought to be.
~ Richard Feynman
~ Richard Feynman