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Sunday, 1 November 2015

The Star KIC 8462852

Scientists can’t explain the huge object thats blocking the light from the star Kic so what is it? a tablet
Well laser tweezers technology is advancing to the point that this can be done relativity easily from a station its kinda a tattoo grooving process on an asteroid, like build up a shell as found on a sea bed. As some suggest the Kic star has an equivalent to the asteroid belt in our solar system. Others say its like the grate wall of china but in space. Good news for the planet Venus if had a China, opt for a glow lamp this is an example and could be a new moon. We rock on as they say, could actually need to consider the possibility of intelligent alien civilisation? It’s not every day that we have this permission to throw a hay look its you guys the "Aliens" out there in relation to a confounding astronomical discovery.
As a fact, I don’t think its ever happened could be like birds and bee's story explained and this is when a female is talking about berthing hence the bees. The discovery of a strange pattern of light surrounding a distant star called KIC 8462852 as seen even by the most sensible, as astronomers throw their arms up with a, "Sure, why not?" arguing that the possibility of advanced alien technology can’t reasonably be ignored what a power surge and what would it be used on? The most rational hypnotises is it's an asteroid belt this happens when collision of two or more large objects orbiting a star. As the University states "Aliens should always be the very last hypothesis you consider, but this looked like something you would expect an alien civilisation to build," says Jason Wright, an astronomer from Penn State University in the US, told The Atlantic. This was also a Von Braun theory that could be developed just by sorting welding particles he was the man in-charge of Saturn propulsion system just as a hypnotises.
First up its location though little about the star is in question, KIC 8462852. Facts on this celestial star photo major Tim Peake the first astronaut from grate Britain to orbit Earth on 15 December 2015

Located about 1,500 light-years away between the Cygnus and Lyre constellations of our Milky Way galaxy, KIC 8462852 is brighter, hotter, and more massive than the Sun. It was first discovered by NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope in 2009, and scientists have been tracking the light it emits ever since, along with the light of another 150,000 or so newly discovered stars. They do this because it’s the best way to locate distant planets - slight, periodic dips in a star's brightness signal the fact that it might have one or more large objects orbiting it in a regular fashion. These brightness dips are usually very slight, with the stars dimming by less than 1 percent every few days, weeks, or months, depending on the size of the planet’s orbit, says astronomer Phil Plait at Slate. What makes KIC 8462852 such a strange star to study is that not only are there way more dips of brightness than expected, these dips are highly irregular. There’s no periodic orbiting going on here, just a bunch of strange, light-blocking shapes with no discernible pattern to them.
What are these dimming effects are significant. Scientists are reporting that at one point, the amount of starlight dropped by 15 percent, and then at another, 22 percent. And this tells us a whole lot, says Plait: "Straight away, we know we’re not dealing with a planet here. Even a Jupiter-sized planet only blocks roughly 1 percent of this kind of star’s light, and that’s about as big as a planet gets. It can’t be due to a star, either; we’d see it if it were. And the lack of a regular, repeating signal belies both of these as well. Whatever is blocking the star is big, though, up to half the width of the star itself"
The most obvious explanation for hundreds of irregular dimming events is that KIC 8462852 has a mass of space junk - all kinds of rocks and dust of varying shapes and sizes - circling it in tight formation, says Ross Andersen at The Atlantic. The only problem is that this only occurs when a star is young, and the evidence points to KIC 8462852 being mature. "If it were young, it would be surrounded by dust that would give off extra infrared light," says Andersen. "There doesn’t seem to be an excess of infrared light around this star."
"We’d never seen anything like this star," one of the researchers, Tabetha Boyajian from Yale University in the US, told him. "It was really weird." So what’s going on here? There are a number of reasonable possibilities to consider, and yep, aliens is actually one of them. First off, the scientists have already ruled out the possibility that the information they’re working with is faulty. "We thought it might be bad data or movement on the spacecraft, but everything checked out," says Boyajian.
The best explanation we have is that at one point, another star passed into KIC 8462852’s system and the disturbance of gravity caused a huge mess of comets to be pulled in towards it before being expelled again. And there just so happens to be another star close enough to KIC 8462852 to make this a possibility. "But that would be an extraordinary coincidence, if that happened so recently, only a few millennia before humans developed the tech to loft a telescope into space. That’s a narrow band of time, cosmically speaking," says Andersen.
Then there’s the question of the 22 percent dimming. Could a mass of comets really block that much light?
When astronomer Jason Wright from Penn State got a look at the data, he said we need to consider that perhaps we’ve caught an advanced alien civilisation in the process of building something massive near KIC 8462852. Plait points to the so-called Dyson Sphere from several science fiction stories: a gigantic sphere made of solar panels that completely encircles a star. And he’s not opposed to the idea: "I actually kinda like it. I’m not saying it’s right, mind you, just that it’s interesting. Wright isn’t some wild-eyed crackpot; he’s a professional astronomer with a solid background. As he told me when I talked to him over the phone, there’s 'a need to hypothesise, but we should also approach it skeptically' (paraphrasing a tweet by another astronomer, David Grinspoon), with which I wholeheartedly agree." What does that mean? It means we're allowed to get a little bit excited! Not because aliens are a likely possibility, but because we're in the middle of an awesome mystery the likes of which we haven't seen before in the history of space exploration. Word is that SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute scientists are considering devoting their time to it, and hopefully more research teams will get involved too. We seriously cannot wait to see what they come up with.

Friday, 30 October 2015

Neutrino Holistic Muon.

Conclusion Ion radiated by induction environments collision cooled the Ion plasma as did the collisions between molecular ions and neutrals at low temperature are of both fundamental and practical interest.
Lithium is bombarded by natural neutrons. Those are released by spontaneous fission and by nuclear reactions with cosmic rays. Some of the helium-3 found in terrestrial atmosphere these are  also a relic of atmospheric and underwater. Hydrogen 3 nuclear weapons testing, conducted by the three big nuclear powers before 1963.
Most of this comes from the decay of tritium (hydrogen-3), which decays into helium-3 with a half life of 12.3 years. Furthermore, some nuclear reactors are (landbound or shipbound) periodically release some helium-3 and tritium into the atmosphere. Oxygen created here on earth  Space base system of mine reactive excerpt lighter isotopes of lithium (< 6 Li) are only known to decay by proton emission. The decay modes of the two isomers of 10 Li are unknown.Gran Sasso National Laboratory in Italy have identified the fih incidence of a tau neutrino in a beam of 'muon neutrinos'.
Taken together with the four incidences previously announced, the finding brings OPERA’s detection of muon neutrinos transforming into tau neutrinos to a statistical significance of “5 sigma.” This level of significance is a big deal in particle physics: it means that the result qualifies as a discovery, not as mere evidence into factual reality.
Neutrinos are nearly mass less, neutral particles that rarely interact with other particles. They come in three types: electron, muon, and tau. These are believed to change, as they  “oscillate,” from one type to another. OPERA’s tau-neutrino candidate events were observed in a beam of muon neutrinos that traveled through Earth’s crust from CERN, near Geneva, in  Switzerland, to the Gran Sasso lab located 730 kilometers away in Italy’s on Gran Sasso mountain.
The fact that OPERA detected five tau neutrinos in this beam means that five muon neutrinos changed to tau neutrinos on their way to Gran Sasso. As the OPERA researchers’ data analysis, which involved an improved estimation of the background noise from particles other than tau neutrinos, indicates that the odds that the detector would find five tau neutrinos by chance are less than one in a million. The result lends new support to the phenomenon of neutrino oscillations within surface transfer note engine induction. The molecular dynamics simulation suggests that a solid-solid phase transition in a system of hard spheres takes place via an intermediate liquid stage.
As the solid ‘melts’ forming a liquid droplet, within which the new stable solid phase nucleates and begins to grow. "geo-neutrinos" carry much less energy but can inform scientists about the radioactive processes generating heat inside our planet.  Properties of liquid helium liquid forms are real two examples of these comparisons are shown in the figures.
The range of pressures included in the fit was chosen to avoid the loss of collisional cooling efficiency at low pressure and electron beam heating at high pressure. The figures illustrate the different thermal effects nicely. The left clearly shows the beam heating which increases with hydrogen density and reduced hydrogen thermal conductivity at low temperatures. These density conductivity characteristics combined with the inverse temperature increase in the pressure broadening parameter gives the observed high pressure features in the right figure. Additional details of these diagnostics are given in a recent paper. The basis of our experimental work in this field was the development of a technique for ion spectroscopy that produces signals two orders of magnitude larger than previous techniques ( 367).
This is especially important because prior to this development, microwave ion spectroscopy was reputed to be extremely difficult and time consuming because of the long searches for weak lines. The basis of the method is the extension of the ion rich negative glow region of an anomalous glow discharge by means of an axial magnetic field. In addition to the very large gains in signal strength (~x100), the enhancement is also ion specific, thus providing a powerful discriminant. 
The figure shows the observed signal as a function of applied magnetic field for two common molecular ions, HCO + and N 2 H + . The figure shows a particularly simple version of the magnetically lengthened negative glow cell 367. This cell is of all glass construction with teflon end caps. The solenoid section is immersed in liquid nitrogen. In laboratory test of (367) it was pointed out that the magnetically lengthened negative glow cell is functionally equivalent to an electron gun injecting magnetically confined electrons into a electric field free region. Based on this equivalence a new cell has been developed. In this cell the electrons are produced by a thermionic cathode and guided through a metallic tube which can be cooled either by liquid helium or liquid nitrogen. Because the requirements for sustaining an anomalous glow discharge place severe constraints on pressure, gas mixture, voltage, and current, this new cell provides significantly greater flexibility for the optimization of the production of ions. 
Additionally, because the parameters of the systems are much better determined, it is possible to model the ion production. This makes possible more predictive ion production schemes as well as the quantitative measurement of the physical and chemical parameters involved. For additional implementations and extensions of this work see R. Claude Woods (Wisconsin), Richard Saykally (Berkeley), and Takeshi Oka (Chicago).

Wednesday, 21 October 2015

Research Apollo Data.

Nasa said its colleagues plan to continue to study the Apollo data, but they say they need more data. That could be collected by more instruments over a wider area of the moon.
This is needed to test their transformational faulting hypothesis. Frohlich and Nakamura are also hoping NASA will return to the moon and install a few dozen seismic stations. “Right now, we know virtually nothing about the moon’s interior,” Frohlich says. “So we have to make a lot of assumptions about the moon’s internal composition, which means all our theories are pretty sketchy. Sometimes so much speculation is fun, but more often, as in the case with deep moon-quakes, it’s just frustrating.” Between 1969 and 1972, five Apollo missions installed seismic stations at their landing sites on the nearside of the moon. Because the moon was thought to be seismically dead, the instruments were left almost as an afterthought to detect meteor strikes. But from the time the stations were switched on until they were decommissioned in 1977, they recorded hundreds of internally generated moon-quakes, some as strong as magnitude 5.5 on the Richter scale.
For 40 years, scientists have scoured the Apollo seismic data for an explanation of these moon-quakes. Because the moon lacks active plate tectonics, moon-quakes must be driven by different forces than most quakes on Earth. 
Extreme temperature changes may account for the less common shallow moon-quakes, but a good explanation for deep moon-quakes remains elusive. Now, a new study crosses one long-standing theory about what triggers deep moon-quakes off the list. Instead, the study suggests, moon-quakes might have more in common with earthquakes than previously thought. The Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) comprised a set of scientific instruments placed by the astronauts at the landing site of each of the five Apollo missions to land on the Moon following Apollo 11 landing. This image shows the Apollo 16 package. ALSEP was a collection of geophysical instruments designed to continue to monitor the environment of each Apollo landing site for a period of at least a year after the astronauts had departed. Designed for a life of one year (Apollo 17 The mystery of the moon-quakes deepens. As analysis of Apollo data reveals over 200 tremors on the lunar surface. Researchers say there are four distinct types of quake. Some are as deep as 700km under the surface As this discovery made from seismic data from Apollo 16 mission in 1972. Researchers have uncovered over 200 previously unknown tremors on the moon by analysing data from the Apollo missions. The find gives new insight into the moon's geology, and reveals four distinct types of quake hit the orbiting body.  The algorithm-based program uncovered 210 previously unknown tremors and scientists at Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research say additional new discoveries will follow. The software uncovered 210 previously unknown tremors, and gives new insight into the moon's geology.
There are four separate kinds of moon-quakes, registering as shadowy echoes on the Apollo mission seismometers. The first type is deep, occurring about 700 km below the surface, and believed to be caused by tides and linked to its orbit around the earth. A second type, the result of a meteorite crashing into the surface, takes the form of vibrations. The third type is a thermal in nature; after two weeks of lunar night (and deep-freeze temperatures), the morning sun causes an expansion, and ultimately cracking, of the moon's frigid crust. Finally, the fourth type is a shallow quake occurring 20 or 30 kilometres (about 12 to 19 miles) below the surface. 'The system is trained to recognize deep moon-quakes, impacts, and shallow moon-quakes, and performs reliably,' wrote the authors. Apollo 11, the first spacecraft to land on the moon, planted not only an American flag on the mysterious lunar surface but also seismographic equipment. 
Since that historic first landing in 1969, Apollo astronauts from four additional missions have placed seismometer stations on the lunar surface through 1972, Earth Magazine explains. Until the hour they were decommissioned in 1977, these stations radioed seismic data from the moon back to Earth.
 Analysing the data in the years since, scientists have identified about 13,000 separate tremors, some registering a 5.5 on the Richter scale - a magnitude strong enough to cause slight damage to buildings. 'The algorithm's demonstrated ability to detect rare events and flag previously undefined signal classes as new event types is of particular interest,' wrote the authors.  Moon-quakes have been the only confirmed events recorded on any extra-terrestrial body so far, the researchers noted in their new study. Importantly, lunar tremors look different from the seismic activity seen on Earth, according to NASA Science, and they arise from a different source. At least one research team wondered, Could there be additional lunar activity not yet discovered in the Apollo seismic data? To answer this question, Dr. Brigitte Knapmeyer-Endrun and her team developed a unique algorithm similar to those used in speech recognition programs. After information from one moon tremor is fed into the new algorithm-based program, it is able to search new data and recognize similar patterns. Running the program on a small subset of data from 1972, the researchers classified more than 50 percent of previously uncategorised events and discovered more than 200 new events not listed in the current lunar event catalogue. The researchers said their new program could identify additional undiscovered events in the existing data and may be useful in 'future seismometer missions to other planets,' including NASA's forthcoming Insight mission to Mars. There are four separate kinds of moon-quake, registering as shadowy echoes on the Apollo mission seismometers. The first type is deep, occurring about 700 km below the surface, and believed to be caused by tides and linked to its orbit around the earth. A second type, the result of a meteorite crashing into the surface, takes the form of vibrations. was for two), they ended up working for up to 8 years, the experiments permanently shut down by Mission Control on 30 September 1977.
The third type is thermal in nature; after two weeks of lunar night (and deep-freeze temperatures), the morning sun causes an expansion, and ultimately cracking, of the moon's frigid crust.
Finally, the fourth type is a shallow quake occurring 20 or 30 kilometers (about 12 to 19 miles) below the surface.The first three kinds of tremors are considered mild, only the fourth kind is able to register in the 5.5 range on the Richter scale. The exact origin of the fourth type of quake remains unclear. According to NASA Science, the Apollo seismometers were all placed on one side of the moon in a relatively small region so the exact GPS is difficult to pinpoint. Importantly, the moon is unlike the earth in that it lacks active plate tectonics. The earth's outer crust is broken up into thick plates that move on top of a soft, underlying mantle. The plates move both horizontally and vertically and such motions can cause earthquakes. Because the moon lacks this same feature, scientists say the shallow moon-quakes are caused by different forces unseen on earth. Because water has yet to be discovered on the moon, its been a suggestion mineral phase changes may make certain areas of the moon weaker, resulting in moon-quakes triggered by tidal pressure. “This is one of the first broader viewpoints I've seen,” says Yosio Nakamura, also of the University of Texas at Austin. “Other studies have failed to find a clear relationship between tides and moon-quakes, but this is the first to suggest an alternate mechanism.” Although many think its time to move on just beyond safety to a colony that has water and can support life.

Monday, 19 October 2015

Relativity new Science.

Its an evolution 3D microscope that lets researchers watch cells moving in the body, revealing everything from the spread of cancer to an embryo developing.
Called lattice light-sheet microscopy, technique generates 3-D images as videos. This can capture live organisms at scales ranging from single molecules to early-stage embryos. Developed by Eric Betzig, who just weeks ago won a Nobel chemistry prize. It gives an unprecedented glimpse into the body, and could revolutionise medicine. A new 3D microscope can image cells in the body, watching as cancer spreads or an embryo develops, for instance.  The technique, called lattice light-sheet microscopy, generates extraordinarily sharp, 3-D images and videos of live organisms at scales ranging from single molecules to early-stage embryos. k = 2 / π λ and the y axis is defined as the axis of the cone, which has a half-angle of θ This animation reveals a model for what happens in metastasis, showing cancer cells (green) crawling through a primary tumor (orange spider web). Light sheet microscopy involves illuminating the specimen from the side, sweeping a thin pencil of light, termed a Bessel beam, across the imaging field geometric-optics
The images from that section are recorded, the specimen is moved a tiny fraction and the process repeated. As the 2D sections can then be integrated into a 3D image. The process is fast enough to record dynamic events within the sample. To reduce the time taken to scan a section, Betzig had the idea of dividing the beam into seven parallel parts. Over the last decade, powerful new microscopes have dramatically sharpened biologists' focus on the molecules that animate and propel life. The imaging platform developed by Eric Betzig, who just weeks ago won a Nobel prize, and colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Janelia Research Campus offers another leap forward for light microscopy. 
Light sheet microscopy involves illuminating the specimen from the side, sweeping a thin pencil of light, termed a Bessel beam, across the imaging field. The images from that section are recorded, the specimen is moved a tiny fraction and the process repeated. The 2D sections can then be integrated into a 3D image. The process is fast enough to record dynamic events within the sample. To reduce the time taken to scan a section, Betzig had the idea of dividing the beam into seven parallel parts. The techniques have improved biologists' ability to visually track the movements of cells' tiniest structures – but there were always trade-offs.  Imaging cells at high resolution in three dimensions usually meant sacrificing imaging speed, as well as subjecting cells to significant light-induced toxicity. 'What happens is you end up designing the questions you ask around the tools that are available,' Legant says. 
Infections in the body as the T cell expressing a plasmid (orange) approaching a target cell expressing a plasma membrane marker fused to tagRFP (blue), as seen from the side (top) and from the viewpoint of the APC (bottom). 'With the lattice light sheet, the Betzig team can now optimize their imaging technology for the questions that biologists want to answer. The new microscope evolved from one Betzig unveiled in 2011. To apply a super-resolution structured illumination technique developed at Janelia by the late Mats Gustafsson, Betzig's team moved the Bessel beam to produce a lattice-like pattern of light. 'With that we not only get rid of the side lobe stuff, we actually push the resolution a bit beyond the diffraction limit,' he says. To reduce the time required to move the Bessel beam each time a sample was imaged, the developers split the beam into seven parallel parts, so each travelled just one-seventh of the original distance. Suddenly, the cells they were imaging seemed healthier.
'What was shocking to us was that by spreading the energy out across seven beams instead of one, the phototoxicity went way down,' Betzig says.  'What I learned from that experience is that while the total dose of light you put on the cell is important, what's far more important is the instantaneous power that you put on the cell.'Volume renderings at eight consecutive time points of a single specimen of the protozoan T. thermophila taken from a 4D data set spanning 1250 time points. The new microscope operates in two modes. One uses the principles of structured illumination to create very high-resolution images. In this case, the final image is created by collecting and processing multiple images of every plane of the sample.
Imaging can be sped up to capture faster processes, albeit at lower resolution, with an alternative 'dithered' mode. Light exposure, and thus damage to cells, is lower in the dithered mode; in many cases, tagged proteins are naturally replaced by cells before their signal fades appreciably. 'So there are many cells you could look at forever in 3D,' Betzig says. Thirty teams of biologists have come to Janelia over the past year to find out what the lattice light sheet microscope can reveal about the systems they study. Chen, Legant, and Wang have worked with the researchers to optimize the technology for a variety of experiments.  Cells in prophase (left) and anaphase (right),  The graph shows the distribution of growth rates at different stages of mitosis, averaged across nine to twelve cells.
The microscope is also fast enough to track the rapid growth and retraction of cytoskeletal Betzig wants the lattice light sheet to be widely used, even as technology development continues in his own lab. His team has built a second microscope for Janelia's Advanced Imaging Center, where it will be available to visiting scientists free of charge, and deployed two more of the microscopes to labs at Harvard and the University of California, San Francisco. In fact, Betzig's team freely shares its designs, providing detailed instructions to scientists with the expertise to build their own version of the instrument. Zeiss has licensed the Bessel beam and lattice light sheet microscopy. 'It takes a huge amount of effort to move from a successful high-tech prototype to broader adoption of an imaging technology,' Betzig says. 'Ultimately, commercialization is the crucial last step to ensuring that these technologies can have broad impact in the research community.'
components in dividing cells, and gentle enough to monitor the molecular dynamics of developmental processes that unfold over many hours. 'We know what the microscope can offer in terms of the imaging, but I think there are a lot of applications we haven't even thought of yet,' Legant says.