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Hameroff MD, Professor Emeritus, Anesthesiologist, Consciousness Researcher, Co Founder, Director, Center for Consciousness Studies2015-09-29T02:13:15+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/09/28/water-on-mars-watch-major-nasa-announcement/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/163161main_meyer-browse.jpg163161main_meyer-browsehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/green_jim_hqweb.jpgGreen_Jim_HQwebhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/lujendra-ojha3-e1443456893872.jpglujendra-ojha3https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/a952956540d31723ed756c87450de6bb1.jpega952956540d31723ed756c87450de6bbhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/mcewen-e1443457168232.jpgMcEwenhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/5609344a1b00003000dfda74.jpeg5609344a1b00003000dfda74The dark streaks are known as recurring slope lineae and are believed to be evidence of flowing water. The blue color seen upslope of the dark streaks is thought not to be related to the streaks but to the presence of the mineral pyroxene. (Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/mars_dec12_nature.jpgMARS_dec12_naturehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/577359main_pia14472-946b1.gif577359main_pia14472-946bRecurring slope lineae observed in HiRISE images of Mars. The RSL form on Sun facing slopes during warm season and fade during cold season. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/image_1755_2-mars-water.jpgimage_1755_2-Mars-Waterhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/55a4fea6c0ab0.jpg55a4fea6c0ab0Diversity of rock textures. Credit: Nature Geoscience (2015) doi:10.1038/ngeo2474 2015-09-28T19:20:07+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/09/27/watch-the-super-moon-eclipse-live/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ua-lawn-supremoon.jpegua lawn supremoonSupermoon from the University of Arizona, Tucson. AZ.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/animation_september_28_2015_lunar_eclipse_appearance.gifAnimation_September_28_2015_lunar_eclipse_appearancehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/cp8zjutukaa7zhu.jpgCP8zjUtUkAA7ZHu2015-09-28T15:13:53+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/04/06/how-spooky-is-quantum-non-locality/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/richard-healey-talk-loft-slide11.jpgRichard Healey Talk Loft Slide(1)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/richard-healey-talk-loft-slide.jpgRichard Healey Talk Loft Slidehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/richard-healey-talk-loft-slide1.jpgRichard Healey Talk Loft Slide(1)2015-09-26T02:07:35+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/09/02/topic011-the-cosmic-rest-frame-an-unobstructed-view-bill-tifft-9215/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/topic_011_s3f1-s3f21.jpgBook figures 3.1 and 3.2https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/topic_011_s3f4.jpgBook figure 3.4https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/topic_011_s3f1-s3f2.jpgFeatured Image -- 466952015-09-03T02:16:37+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/08/28/quantum-spookiness-passes-toughest-test-yet/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/anton-zeilinger-godany-portracc88t.jpgAustrian quantum physicist, Anton Zeilinger (Image Credit: Jacqueline Godany)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1757905951.jpg175790595(1)Anton Zeilinger, Austrian quantum physicist, Portrait. (Photo by Jacqueline Godany/ASAblanca via Getty Images)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/20130411_tudelft_tnw_mg_1564-1024x668.jpg20130411_tudelft_tnw_MG_1564-1024x668Ronald Hanson and his group at Delft University (Image Credit: Michel van Baal)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/ibm-pc-turns-25.jpgIBM-PC-turns-25https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/1982-cern-john-bell-8206265web.jpg1982 CERN John Bell 8206265web2015-08-28T22:30:04+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/heidi-mcpeak/2015-08-23T04:33:58+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/william-tifft/2015-08-23T04:33:19+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/alaric-weber/2015-08-23T04:32:56+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/2015/08/17/topic010-the-cosmological-correction-curvature-in-time-bill-tifft-81515/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/topic_010_formula_v11.jpgFormula for Topic010https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/topic_010_formula_v1.jpgFeatured Image -- 466532015-08-17T15:25:45+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/19/philosophy-and-cosmology/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2014-11-14-at-10-29-37-am.png2015-08-05T04:45:40+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/08/04/a-visit-to-the-atlo-floor/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dscn1129-jpg.jpegKevin an I pose with the Big Aerial Balloon in the background.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dscn1130-jpg.jpegTAGSAM is being integrated and tested as a separate assembly, prior to integration onto the spacecraft bus.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dscn1128-jpg.jpegFeatured Image -- 46625https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dscn1128-jpg1.jpegKevin Walsh (left) and I pose for a shot with OSIRIS-REx in the background.2015-08-04T15:32:28+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/07/03/topic008-global-quantization-the-galactocentric-rest-frame-bill-tifft-63015/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/s2fn27_topic81.jpgSeminar 2, Figure 27 fro Redshift Key to Cosmologyhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/s2fn27_topic8.jpgFeatured Image -- 466222015-07-03T15:20:47+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/06/18/topic007-testing-large-scale-dynamics-double-galaxies-ii-bill-tifft-60815/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/s2fn19_topic0071.jpgFigure 19 from Seminar 2https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/s2fn19_topic007.jpgFeatured Image -- 466192015-06-18T15:48:53+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/06/14/the-target-asteroids-citizen-science-program/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/hergenrother.pngHergenrotherhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/more-results-the-better.pngMore results the betterhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/the-scientists.pngThe scientistshttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/css_60_inch_dome1.pngCredit: Catalina Sky Survey, Lunar & Planetary Laboratory, The University of Arizonahttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/vodniza_27jan2015_asteroid-2004-bl86_def.gifVodniza_27Jan2015_ASTEROID 2004 BL86_Defhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/css_60_inch_dome.pngFeatured Image -- 46610https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/ta_logo_resized.pngTA_logo_resizedhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/nasa-asteroids-jpl-caltech.jpgNASA-Asteroids-JPL-Caltech2015-06-14T15:53:44+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/06/08/how-bright-is-daytime-on-pluto/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/screen-shot-2014-01-30-at-1-02-10-pm.jpgTimeline of the New Horizons mission. Download a large version here. (NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/plutotime-print-013.pngClick and print this page for your #PlutoTime photo!https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/pluto-c2a9ron-miller.jpgConcept of Pluto's surface. © Ron Miller, used with permission.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/nh-pluto-time-shareable.jpgIt's always #PlutoTime somewhere! (Yes, literally.)2015-06-08T17:32:04+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/05/28/the-osiris-rex-graphic-artists-where-art-and-science-intersect/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/graphic-art-5.pngThe OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Flyby graphic is an example of scientifically accurate data represented in a visually appealing design.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/graphic-art-1.jpegOSIRIS-REx's Principal Investigator, Dante Lauretta, holding a model of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/graphic-art-2.pngGraphic Art 2https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/graphic-art-3.pngThe OSIRIS-REx factsheet is an example of the benefits of design/typography.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/graphic-art-41.pngAn example of visualizing data relevant to OSIRIS-REx.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/graphic-art-4.pngFeatured Image -- 465982015-05-28T16:59:54+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/05/20/big-steps-in-gravitational-wave-detection/2015-05-22T04:15:03+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/05/18/how-the-father-of-nuclear-physics-really-died/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/comicmay1615_stampcollecting1.jpgComicMay1615_StampCollecting2015-05-18T16:45:33+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/12/18/the-scientific-method-defending-the-integrity-of-physics/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/impossible_8.jpgimpossible_8(Credit: Unknown)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hif01.jpghif01"Image illustrating a phenomenologist after reading a philosopher go on about empiricism." (Credit: Sabine Hossenfelder at Backreaction)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/experimental-vs-theoretical1.gifexperimental-vs-theoreticalCredit: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cerealhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/experimental-vs-theoretical-e1418862550666.gifexperimental-vs-theoretical(Credit: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/string_theory.pngstring_theoryIs String Theory in trouble?(Credit: xkcd.com)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cosmic-string-animation.gifcosmic-string-animationCosmic String Animation (Credit: Anderson Institute)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/shutterstock_140483161.jpgmultiverseImage by Juergen Faelchle / Shutterstockhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/multi.pngmulti2015-05-20T05:44:09+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/05/05/topic006-testing-the-quantum-concept-double-galaxies-i-bill-tifft-42515/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/s2fn9_topic6_1.jpgFeatured Image -- 46552https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/s2fn9_topic6_11.jpgS2FN9_topic6_12015-05-05T23:54:27+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/04/30/how-sdss-uses-light-to-see-dark-matter-in-galaxies/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/fig2_bundy_etal_2015.pngFeatured Image -- 46548https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/screen-shot-2015-04-30-at-16-18-52.pngElliptical galaxy NGC 4636 (left) and spiral galaxy M81 (right), as seen by the Sloan Telescope. The telescope captures the light of the stars, and in M81 we can also see some dust in the spiral arms. Both galaxies reside in large, invisible, dark matter haloes.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/fig2_bundy_etal_20151.pngExample of a galaxy observed with MaNGA. Left is the image of the galaxy, showing the stellar light. The middle image is the rotational velocity field of the galaxy: the red part of the galaxy is moving away from us with 254 km/s, and the blue part of the galaxy is moving towards us with the same velocity. The green axis down the middle is the rotation axis. The right image shows the random motions of the stars: these are higher in the centre (red: 257 km/s) than in the outskirts of the galaxy (blue: 94 km/s). Figure taken from Bundy et al. 2015.2015-04-30T16:26:11+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/03/30/dark-matter-interacts-with-itself-and-everything-else-even-less-than-previously-thought/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/heic1506f.jpgGalaxy cluster MACS J0717.5+3745 with dark matter mapThis is a NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image of the galaxy cluster Abell 370. Shown in blue on the image is a map of the dark matter found within the cluster. (Credit NASA, ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/kristi-nucrecoilatoms.jpgkristi.NucRecoilAtomshttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/john_grunsfeld_on_sts-109.jpgJohn_Grunsfeld_on_STS-109John Grunsfeld, assistant administrator of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/hs-2015-10-b-web_print.jpghs-2015-10-b-web_printThis collage shows images of six different galaxy clusters taken with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. The clusters were observed in a study of how dark matter in clusters of galaxies behaves when the clusters collide. Seventy-two large cluster collisions were studied in total. Using visible-light images from Hubble, the team was able to map the post-collision distribution of stars and also of the dark matter (colored in blue), which was traced through its gravitational lensing effects on background light. The team determined that dark matter interacts with itself less than previously thought. The clusters shown here are, from left to right and top to bottom: MACS J0416.1-2403, MACS J0152.5-2852, MACS J0717.5+3745, Abell 370, Abell 2744, and ZwCl 1358+62. Image Type: Astronomical/Annotated Credit: NASA, ESA, D. Harvey (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland; University of Edinburgh, UK), R. Massey (Durham University, UK), T. Kitching (University College London, UK), and A. Taylor and E. Tittley (University of Edinburgh, UK) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/hs-2015-10-a-web_print.jpghs-2015-10-a-web_print2015-04-02T01:00:21+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/03/30/topic005-the-redshift-is-quantized-bill-tifft-32715/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/s2fn4_topic005.jpgFeatured Image -- 415012015-03-30T22:21:36+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/03/23/the-spin-limit-of-colliding-black-holes/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fig1.jpgFig1https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/fig2.jpgFig2https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/geoffrey-lovelace.jpgGeoffrey Lovelace2015-03-23T20:58:27+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/03/20/ua-science-lecture-series-life-in-the-universe/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/solar_eclipse.pngsolar_eclipse2015-03-20T14:16:42+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/03/20/how-do-we-know-when-we-have-collected-a-sample-of-bennu/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/tagsam-at-bennu1.pngFigure 1: Artist view looking from the spacecraft down at the extended arm, and the sampling device during the descent to the surface.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/tagsam-at-bennu.pngFeatured Image -- 372942015-03-20T14:12:20+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/publications/a-spectroscopic-survey-of-case-emission-line-galaxies-in-the-direction-of-the-bootes-void/2015-03-09T23:55:54+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/quantum-cosmology/2015-03-09T23:54:54+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/quantum-effects-in-the-redshift-intervals-for-double-galaxies/2015-03-09T23:54:42+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/redshift-quantization-in-the-cosmic-background-rest-frame/2015-03-09T23:54:28+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/redshift-studies-of-large-scale-structure-i-the-south-coma-void-region/2015-03-09T23:54:18+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/three-dimensinal-quantized-time-in-cosmology/2022-10-03T19:26:44+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/the-definition-visibility-and-significance-of-redshift-magnitude-bands/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/1974apj-188-221t.gif1974ApJ...188..221T2015-03-09T23:53:39+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/the-arizona-new-mexico-spectroscopic-survey-of-galaxies-iii-on-galaxy-populations-2-2/2015-03-09T23:53:25+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/the-arizona-new-mexico-spectroscopic-survey-of-galaxies-iii-on-galaxy-populations-2/2015-03-09T23:53:06+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/structure-within-redshift-magnitude-bands-morphological-evolution-2/2015-03-09T23:52:52+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/publications/30204-2/2015-03-09T23:52:42+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/2015/03/09/rapid-changes-in-lovejoy-comets-tail-observed/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/figure2rightcomettail2.jpgFigure2RightCometTail2This shows movement of the two clumps in the plasma tail. Time stamps in yellow show the start time of the exposure. White circles indicate the clumps detected in the study. They move away from the nucleus over time. The size of the cutout is about 2500 X 5600 kilometers. The research team calculated the speed of the clumps at 20-25 kilometers per second. Note: Images produced from 2-minute exposures are further processed; background star trails are masked, and unsharp-masked to enhance detailed structures. The masked star trails are seen as short tilted white lines. Credit: the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Images processed by M. Yagi. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/figuer2leftcomettail1.jpegFiguer2LeftCometTail1A 2-second I-band exposure of the comet. The cyan rectangle shows the region in the right panel. Credit: the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Images processed by M. Yagi. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/figure1comettailmovie.gifFigure1CometTailmovieThis GIF animation shows changes in the global structure of Comet Lovejoy’s (C/2013 R1) plasma tail. The time stamp at the bottom right shows the start time of each of three 2-minute exposure in Hawaii time on the morning of 12/4/13. In these I-band images, the tail narrows with time, especially downstream of the nucleus (at the bottom of the image). Moreover, two clumps were detected formed at about 0.3 million kilometers from the nucleus. Note: The image is aligned so that the nucleus of the comet is at the same position and the tail lies vertically. Bright parts of the sky are shown as black, and dark parts are shown as white, allowing astronomers to see details in the object more clearly. The white tilted grid is a gap between CCD detectors. Credit: National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. Images processed by M. Yagi. Credit: the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. 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Shuro Takano (Credit: Mr. Matsunaga, S. Takano)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/naoj_nobeyama_45m_radiotelescope_20101-e1424991680786.jpgNAOJ_Nobeyama_45m_Radiotelescope_201045-meter radio telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/naoj_nobeyama_45m_radiotelescope_2010.jpgNAOJ_Nobeyama_45m_Radiotelescope_2010https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ann13064a.jpgann13064aALMA was taken from a small remote-controlled hexacopterEFE/Ariel Marinkovichttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/alma_nrao_padilla_14.jpgALMA_NRAO_padilla_1445-meter radio telescope at the Nobeyama Radio Observatory of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ). (Credit: Wiki Commons)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/vla_aerialwye5_print_ready.jpgVLA_AerialWye5_print_ready The VLA Wye in D Configuration Looking down the north arm of the Y-shaped Very Large Array in New Mexico. (Credit: NRAO)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/150226_alma_takano_01.jpg150226_ALMA_takano_01The central part of the galaxy M77, also known as NGC 1068, observed by ALMA and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. Yellow: cyanoacetylene (HC3N), Red: carbon monosulfide (CS), Blue: carbon monoxide (CO), which are observed with ALMA. While HC3N is abundant in the central part of the galaxy (CND), CO is mainly distributed in the starburst ring. CS is distributed both in the CND and the starburst ring. Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), S. Takano et al., NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ngc1068composite_nrao.jpgNGC1068composite_nraoellow: cyanoacetylene (HC3N), Red: carbon monosulfide (CS), Blue: carbon monoxide (CO), which are observed with ALMA. While HC3N is abundant in the central part of the galaxy (CND), CO is mainly distributed in the starburst ring. CS is distributed both in the CND and the starburst ring. (ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO), S. Takano et al., NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and A. van der Hoeven)2015-02-26T23:39:41+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/02/05/spooky-alignment-of-quasars-across-billions-of-light-years/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/dibujo20130314-quasar-engines-accretion-matter-onto-giant-black-holes-in-centres-galaxies.pngdibujo20130314-quasar-engines-accretion-matter-onto-giant-black-holes-in-centres-galaxieshttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/quasar.pngQuasarHow Quasars Are Powered (Credit: Nature)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/potw1346a.jpgBest image of bright quasar 3C 273This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) is likely the best of ancient and brilliant quasar 3C 273, which resides in a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo (The Virgin). Its light has taken some 2.5 billion years to reach us. Despite this great distance, it is still one of the closest quasars to our home. It was the first quasar ever to be identified, and was discovered in the early 1960s by astronomer Allan Sandage.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/pks_1127-145_x-rays.jpgPKS_1127-145_X-raysThe Chandra X-ray image is of the quasar PKS 1127-145, a highly luminous source of X-rays and visible light about 10 billion light years from Earth. An enormous X-ray jet extends at least a million light years from the quasar. Image is 60 arcsec on a side. RA 11h 30m 7.10s Dec -14° 49' 27" in Crater. Observation date: May 28, 2000. Instrument: ACIS.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/quasar_viewed_from_hubble.jpgQuasar_viewed_from_Hubblehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/1920px-artists_rendering_ulas_j11200641.jpg1920px-Artist's_rendering_ULAS_J1120+0641This artist’s impression shows how ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun, may have looked. This quasar is the most distant yet found and is seen as it was just 770 million years after the Big Bang. This object is by far the brightest object yet discovered in the early Universe. (Credit: Wikipedia)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/070109-black-holes_big.jpg070109-black-holes_big A false-color image from the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii shows the first observed triple quasar—a trio of enormous, hyperactive black holes in close proximity to each other. The three quasars are 10.5 billion light-years away from Earth, meaning that the light being recorded is actually a glimpse into the early universe. (Credit: S. G. Djorgovski et al., Caltech, EPFL )2015-02-19T23:52:51+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/02/16/ovirs-development-rising-from-the-ashes/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ovirs-fire-4.pngThe new OVIRS flight box, ready for mirror installation. The dark interior coating is evident in this picture.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ovirs-fire-3.pngThe same OVIRS optics box after the fire.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ovirs-fire-1.pngThe bare aluminum OVIRS optics box prior to coating. This whole assembly is machined from a single piece of aluminum.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ovirs-fire-21.pngFire at Highland Plating on July 13.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/ovirs-fire-2.pngFeatured Image -- 243592015-02-16T17:21:27+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/02/02/hubble-spies-a-loopy-galaxy/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/heic1503b.jpgWide-field image of NGC 7714 (ground-based image)Wide-field image of NGC 7714 -- In this image, the bright star you can see on the left is around a billion times closer than the galaxy.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/heic1503a.jpgHubble image of NGC 77142015-02-02T19:04:48+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/02/02/image-release/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gbtasteroidstill.jpgGBTAsteroidStillRadar image of asteroid 2004 BL86 made by the Green Bank Telescope from radar transmitted from NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Network antenna. It reveals clear surface features and a companion moon-like body. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; NRAO/AUI/NSF)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gbtasteroidarray.jpgGBTAsteroidArrayCollage of radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86 made by the Green Bank Telescope from radar transmitted from NASA's Goldstone Deep Space Network antenna. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; NRAO/AUI/NSF)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/gbtasteroidgif.gifGBTAsteroidGif2018-02-14T00:23:02+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2015/01/20/astronomy-magazine-tucson-star-party/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/morelevelsadjustedinbackgro.jpgmorelevelsadjustedinbackgrohttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/images.jpgimagesAstronomy Magazine Tucson Star Party2015-01-21T02:03:41+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/12/21/is-time-really-passing/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/ein1-e1419535229928.pngeinhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/space-smolin-11-e1419190858765.pngspace smolin 1https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/space-smolin-1-e1419190689923.pngspace smolin 1https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gauge17_hi-res.jpggauge17_hi-res(Credit: John D. Norton Gauge Workshop, University of Pittsburgh)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/etienne_jules_marey.jpgEtienne_Jules_Mareyhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/caloric-e1419143254789.pngcaloricThe world’s first ice-calorimeter, used in the winter of 1782-83, by Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre-Simon Laplace, to determine the heat involved in various chemical changes. (Credit: Wikipedia)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/a-vs-b-theory-of-time.jpga-vs-b-theory-of-timeadversusapologeticahttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/reality_universe_axes.gifreality_universe_axesLee Smolin's simple maxim: "There is nothing outside the universe" which he described as the "first principle of cosmology". This means there can be no absolute coordinate system for space or time outside the universe by which object positions and times can be defined. Instead, the position of every object in the universe must be defined solely in terms of the position of other objects in the universe. (Credit: Mtx Tegmark)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/2209_db116b39f7a3ac5366079b1d9fe249a5.png2209_db116b39f7a3ac5366079b1d9fe249a5The Moon’s Orbit: We can equivalently think of the moon as a position in space that changes over time (right), or as an unchanging spiral shape in spacetime (left), corresponding to a mathematical structure. The snapshots of space (right) are simply horizontal slices of spacetime (left). To keep things legible, I’ve drawn the orbit much smaller than to scale and made several simplifications. To get snapshots of space (right) from spacetime (left), you simply make horizontal slices through spacetime at the times you’re interested in. (Credit: Max Tegmark)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/hny-e1419133894716.pnghny2014-12-25T19:21:09+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/12/23/what-happens-when-you-point-a-telescope-designed-to-investigate-black-holes-at-the-sun/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/d5106st2.jpgD5106ST2In 1977 Frank Wilczek proposed the existence of a new type of elementary particle. He named it an “axion”, after a brand of detergent, because it cleaned up a profound physical problem. (Credit: indico.cern.ch)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nelson_slide.pngnelson_slideThe axion is a hypothetical elementary particle postulated by the Peccei–Quinn theory in 1977 to resolve the strong CP problem in quantum chromodynamics (QCD). (Credit: Wiki)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/x-ray_comparison.jpgx-ray_comparisonX-ray comparison graphic. (Credit: NASA/JPL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nustar-pegasus-mast.jpgnustar-pegasus-mastEssential to the NuSTAR design is a deployable mast which extends to 10 meters (30 feet) after launch. This mast will separate the NuSTAR X-ray optics from the detectors, a necessity to achieve the long focal length required by the optics design. (Credit NASA/NuStar)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nustar-solar-illumination-test.jpgnustar-solar-illumination-testNuSTAR spacecraft will allow astronomers to study the universe in high energy X-rays. Here it undergoes a solar array illumination test. Image tweeted Feb. 3, 2012. (Credit: NASA/NuStar)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nustar-xray-black-hole-hunter-satellite-120305c-02.jpgnustar-xray-black-hole-hunter-satellite-120305c-02NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) space telescope will launch in 2012 on a mission to seek out distant black holes like never before. Take a look at how the $165 million space telescope will launch and perform its mission (Credit: in the SPACE.com)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nustar20120613-640.jpgnustar20120613-640https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/nustar141222a.jpgnustar141222aX-rays stream off the sun in this image showing observations from by NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).This image shows that some of the hotter emission tracked by NuSTAR is coming from different locations in the active regions and the coronal loops than the cooler emission shown in the SDO image. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech )2014-12-25T19:09:48+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/12/20/starburst-galaxies-emit-more-radiation-than-a-million-suns-emit-at-all-wavelengths/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/su2014511.jpgsu201451The galaxy NGC 1068, seen here in X-ray (red), optical (green) and radio (blue), is actively forming stars and contains three ultra-luminous X-ray sources ULXs. Astronomers investigating the connections between young stars and ULXs have completed a study of active star-forming galaxies and were surprised to find they are deficient in ULXs. (Credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/C.Canizares, D.Evans, Optical NASA/STScI, Radio NSF/NRAO/VLA) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/burst_full.jpgburst_fullAn artist's rendition of one of the newly discovered SPIRE 'hot starburst' galaxies (credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/antennae_galaxies_xl.jpgAntennae_galaxies_xlThe Antennae Galaxies are an example of a starburst galaxy occurring from the collision of NGC 4038/NGC 4039. (Credit: NASA/ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/m82nu_w11.jpgm82nu_w11An Ultraluminous X-ray Source (ULX) in the center of galaxy M82 that astronomers had thought was a black hole is really the brightest pulsar ever recorded. (Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Univ. of Toulouse/M. Bachetti; Optical: NOAO)2014-12-20T20:26:12+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/12/16/the-higgs-and-beyond/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3078996679_1_14_qz9ibmrq.jpg3078996679_1_14_qZ9ibMRQGrand Rebound (Credit: Unknown)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/the_potsdam_gravity_potato.jpgThe_Potsdam_Gravity_PotatoThe slight difference in the gravity of Earth in different locations illustrated. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/standard-model.pngstandard model(Credit: particleadventure.org)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cern_lhc1.jpgCERN_LHCAerial of Cern (Credit: CERN / LHC)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/mmmm-run172822-evt2554393033-3d.jpgmmmm-run172822-evt2554393033-3dReal CMS proton-proton collision events in which 4 high energy muons (red lines) are observed. The event shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson but is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. (Credit: CERN, for the benefit of the CMS Collaboration)2014-12-16T19:47:00+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/12/15/have-experimentalists-discovered-dark-matter/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/432040.jpg432040"Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View" Art Print by Cornelia Parker. An artistic interpretation of Dark Matter. (Credit: Cornelia Parker)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1d7d9bc4-9911-4524-b139-33603a54eaf5-620x372.png1d7d9bc4-9911-4524-b139-33603a54eaf5-620x372Dark matter particles known as axions streaming from the sun, converting in Earth’s magnetic field (red) to x-rays, which are detected by the XMM-Newton observatory. (Credit: University of Leicester)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/dark_matter1-e1416001438794.jpgdark_matter1-e1416001438794According to supersymmetry, dark-matter particles known as neutralinos (aka WIMPs) annihilate each other, creating a cascade of particles and radiation. (Credit: Sky & Telescope / Gregg Dinderman)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/dark_matter_energy_pie.jpegdark_matter_energy_pieAstronomers use the idea of dark matter to account for a substantial portion of the mass of our universe. An even greater amount of mass, they believe, is taken up with dark energy. Meanwhile, the visible stars and galaxies we see around us in space may be only a small part of the whole universe. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1e0657_scale.jpg1e0657_scaleThe Bullet Cluster: HST image with overlays. The total projected mass distribution reconstructed from strong and weak gravitational lensing is shown in blue, while the X-ray emitting hot gas observed with Chandra is shown in red. (Credit: Wikipedia)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cosmos_3d_dark_matter_map.jpgCOSMOS_3D_dark_matter_map3D map of the large-scale distribution of dark matter, reconstructed from measurements of weak gravitational lensing with the Hubble Space Telescope (Credit: Wikipedia)2014-12-15T17:27:29+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/12/13/have-yourself-a-merry-little-meteor/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/3002287.jpg3002287The annual Geminid meteor shower peaks on December 13/14 and as expected it displayed a fascinating show in 2009. (Credit: Babak A. Tafreshi, TWANight)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/141212-geminidchart_898159260a4216736b7c5b0a6b183c50-nbcnews-ux-640-360.jpg141212-geminidchart_898159260a4216736b7c5b0a6b183c50.nbcnews-ux-640-360Geminid meteors appear to emanate from a radiant point in the constellation Gemini, as shown in this sky chart. (Credit: Sky and Telescope)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/140708204028-aom-stargazers-irpt-joshua-tree-national-park-horizontal-gallery.jpg140708204028-aom-stargazers-irpt-joshua-tree-national-park-horizontal-galleryLast December, Jason Hullinger went to Joshua Tree National Park to catch the Geminid meteor shower. He set up his tripod to take 20-second exposures from about 11 p.m. Thursday to 3 a.m. Friday. (Credit: Jason Hullinger)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/meteor_falling_courtesy_nasa.gifMeteor_falling_courtesy_NASA2014-12-14T05:54:55+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/12/03/fractal-geometry-simple-patterns-in-a-complex-world/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1.png1https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/1-findingthesi.jpg1-findingthesi2014-12-04T22:51:09+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/willow-creek-conference/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_12791.jpegIMG_1279https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/fullsizerender.jpgFullSizeRenderhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_1279-e1415146382394.jpegIMG_1279https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_8481.jpegIMG_8481https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/img_8603-e1415053746486.jpegIMG_86032014-11-23T03:10:42+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/19/topic001-discussion-on-redshift-magnitude-bands-bill-tifft-111214/2014-11-19T15:35:01+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/16/philae-wins-race-to-return-comet-findings/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/cd515061-2d59-470d-a921-e80bb0eac1ea-620x372.jpegcd515061-2d59-470d-a921-e80bb0eac1ea-620x372 A Rosetta mission selfie with the comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko in the background. (ESA/Rosetta/Philae/Civa)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/an-artists-impression-of-012.jpgAn-artists-impression-of--012 An artist’s impression of the Philae lander touching down on the comet. Photograph: Observer https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/welcome_to_a_comet_node_full_image_2.jpgWelcome_to_a_comet_node_full_image_2Credit: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVAhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/philae_bounce_anim.gifPhilae_bounce_animTwo images, taken 5 minutes apart, zero in on the spot where Philae touched down — and then bounced away — on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The landing occurred precisely where it should have, but a pair of anchoring harpoons failed to activate. (Credit: ESA / OSIRIS team)2014-11-18T02:05:50+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/17/the-leonids-are-here/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/leonid_meteor.jpgLeonid_MeteorA meteor during the peak of the 2009 Leonid Meteor Shower. The photograph shows the meteor, afterglow, and wake as distinct components.(Credit: Wiki)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/right.pngrighthttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/east.pngeasthttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/4b2b10ebd82697a95e9c2edbd1454627.jpg4b2b10ebd82697a95e9c2edbd1454627Leonids Viewing Conditions Photo courtesy of AccuWeather.comhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bolide20141114-16.jpgbolide20141114-16This diagram maps the data gathered from 1994-2013 on small asteroids impacting Earth's atmosphere to create very bright meteors, technically called "bolides" and commonly referred to as "fireballs". Sizes of red dots (daytime impacts) and blue dots (nighttime impacts) are proportional to the optical radiated energy of impacts measured in billions of Joules (GJ) of energy, and show the location of impacts from objects about 1 meter (3 feet) to almost 20 meters (60 feet) in size. Image (Credit: Planetary Science)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/456px-trouvelot-_the_november_meteors-_-_1868.jpg456px-Trouvelot-_The_November_meteors._-_1868A depiction of the 1868 Leonids by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot from The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings, 1881. Image in the Public Domain.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/2014.jpg2014The November path of the radiant of the 2014 Leonids. Credit: Starry Night Education Software.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/meteor-shower-20132.jpgmeteor-shower-2013(2)The Leonid meteor shower is forecasted to peak Monday afternoon (Nov. 17) in the U.S. eastern time zone, so stargazers in the United States are advised to look to the skies between midnight and dawn on Monday and Tuesday morning for the best view, astronomers say. This year, the Leonid meteor shower should treat skywatchers to beween 10 and 15 meteors per hour, NASA meteor expert Bill Cook, head of the Meteoroid Environment Office at the agency's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, told Space.com. For some meteor showers, that's considered a decent rate. [Photos: Most Amazing Leonid Meteor Shower Photos] https://cosmologyandtime.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/meteor-shower-20132.jpg2014-11-18T01:18:39+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/12/rosetta-makes-histroy/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/farewell_philae_-_narrow-angle_view_node_full_image_2.jpgFarewell_Philae_-_narrow-angle_view_node_full_image_2Rosetta’s OSIRIS narrow-angle camera captured this parting shot of the Philae lander after separation. (Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/b2qxsnccaaaqy_q_large.jpgB2QXsNcCAAAQy_q.jpg_large(Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/rolis_descent_image_node_full_image_2.pngROLIS_descent_image_node_full_image_2The image shows comet 67P/CG acquired by the ROLIS instrument on the Philae lander during descent on Nov 12, 2014 14:38:41 UT from a distance of approximately 3 km from the surface. The landing site is imaged with a resolution of about 3m per pixel.(Credii: ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/screen-shot-2014-11-12-at-9-08-52-am.pngTouchdown!(Credit ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/a6bfd535-41a0-478f-81c4-570d46d12729-620x372.jpegESA - Rosetta Mission Lands probe on comet Philae’s shot of its mothership shortly after separation. Photograph: ESA/Handout/ESA/Handout/Corbis https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/imrs-php.jpgimrs.phpPhilae's landing site isn't perfect, but it's as close as the ESA could get. (ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/bleakbonyiberianmidwifetoad.gifBleakBonyIberianmidwifetoadComet 7P/C-G. (ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA)2014-11-12T20:38:37+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/09/hadron-collider-did-not-find-higgs-boson-but-something-else/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/mads-toudal-frandsen.jpgOLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA "The CERN data is generally taken as evidence that the particle is the Higgs particle. It is true that the Higgs particle can explain the data but there can be other explanations, we would also get this data from other particles", Mads Toudal Frandsen. (Credit: http://sdu.dk)2014-11-09T20:30:34+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/09/arrow-of-time-emerges-in-a-gravitational-system/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/0bcc7c33-1c3f-4bd2-bb9a-966b3111e556.png0bcc7c33-1c3f-4bd2-bb9a-966b3111e556Configuration of masses evolving under Newtonian gravity. Barbour et al. show that nearly all such systems have a moment of “lowest complexity,” which they identify as a unique “past” from which two “futures” emerge. (Credit: APS/Alan Stonebraker) 2014-11-09T19:21:02+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/09/alma-telescope-spots-birth-of-a-planet-in-milestone-discovery/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/hltau_nrao.jpgHLTau_nraohttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1415529915293-cached.jpg1415529915293.cachedALMA image of the young star HL Tau and its protoplanetary disk. This best image ever of planet formation reveals multiple rings and gaps that herald the presence of emerging planets as they sweep their orbits clear of dust and gas.( Credit: ALMA (NRAO/ESO/NAOJ); C. Brogan, B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF)HLTauStill)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1415529914797-cached.jpg1415529914797.cached(Credit: National Science Foundation)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/higgs-boson-particle-illustration.pnghiggs-boson-particle-illustrationHiggs Boson Particle Illustration(Credit: BIOZZ) 2014-11-09T18:15:46+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/04/why-our-galaxys-black-hole-didnt-eat-mystery-object/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/andreaghezkeckobservatoryimagecreditethantweedie_mid.jpgAndrea+Ghez+Keck+Observatory+image+(credit,+Ethan+Tweedie)_midTelescopes at the Keck Observatory use adaptive optics, which enabled UCLA astronomers to discover that G2 is a pair of binary stars that merged together. (Credit: Ethan Tweedie)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/dnews-files-2014-11-galactic-center-670x440-141104-jpg.jpgdnews-files-2014-11-galactic-center-670x440-141104-jpgScreenshot of a simulation depicting the G2 black hole encounter... before astronomers realized G2 isn't quite what it seemed. (Credit: LECHO/MPE/M. Schartmann/L. Calçada)2014-11-05T01:52:23+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/04/new-clock-may-end-time-as-we-know-it/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/senior-chamber_custom-348e64172b0fd242ea20c87be2ae297219dc9585-s40-c85.jpgsenior-chamber_custom-348e64172b0fd242ea20c87be2ae297219dc9585-s40-c85 Strontium atoms floating in the center of this photo are the heart of the world's most precise clock. The clock is so exact that it can detect tiny shifts in the flow of time itself. (Credit: Ye group, Brad Baxley/JILA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/superclock-ec61a3465753120755b55299682498c97840a7fe-s3-c85.jpgsuperclock-ec61a3465753120755b55299682498c97840a7fe-s3-c85The world's most precise atomic clock is a mess to look at. But it can tick for billions of years without losing a second. (Credit: Ye group and Baxley/JILA/Flickr)2014-11-04T15:45:40+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/11/03/first-simulated-images-of-two-black-holes-colliding/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1ycjby0yyjnnkmkdotxgcga.pngA BBH system of equal-mass black holes with no spin, viewed near merger with the orbital angular momentum out of the page.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/1iawwg2aymr3tmmh1fxpcfa.png1*iAWwG2aymR3TmMH1fXpcfA2014-11-03T22:47:38+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/31/comet-discovered-at-skycenter/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/comet-orbit.jpegComet orbitPreliminary orbit simulation of Comet P/2012 T7 (Vorobjov) based on observations between Oct. 15-18. Longer-term observations will be needed to precisely determine the comet's trajectory.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/tov7dd.gifTOV7DDIn this sequence assembled from three discovery images taken about 30 minutes apart, the comet can be seen as a black speck moving toward the lower right near the center of the image and a faint tail can be seen moving along with the comet on its right side. Similar to a photo negative, black and white have been inverted in the image to make objects easier to spot. (Credit: Tomas Vorobjov)2014-11-04T19:45:52+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/30/how-could-quantum-physics-get-stranger/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/20130308liquidhelium.jpg20130308liquidhelium2014-10-30T16:58:41+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/29/russian-rocket-manufacturer-insists-it-is-not-to-blame-for-antares-crash/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/78598447_78598442.jpg_78598447_785984422015-10-23T04:17:45+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/28/watch-an-amazing-solar-flare/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/oct_27_m6_131-304_ovr_crop_3.jpegoct_27_m6_131-304_ovr_crop_3A large active region erupts with a mid-level flare, an M6.6-class, in this image from NASA's SDO on the night of Oct. 27, 2014. The region will soon rotate over the right horizon of the sun and will no longer be facing Earth. Image Credit: NASA/SDO2014-10-28T16:46:28+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/23/cuore-the-coldest-heart-in-the-known-universe/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/gu8jqmqwfttihmw8j0sp.jpggu8jqmqwfttihmw8j0sp2014-10-27T19:33:26+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/27/einsteins-greatest-legacy-how-demons-and-angels-advanced-science/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/missed_calling.pngmissed_calling(Credit: Abstruse Goose, Missed Calling, S. Hossenfelder)2014-10-27T18:21:37+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/22/suns-stroke-keeps-kepler-online/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/kepler1.jpgKeplerhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/kepler.jpgKeplerhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/214251main_ssc2008-03a1_full-for-web.jpg214251main_ssc2008-03a1_full for WEB2014-10-22T17:30:45+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/21/partial-solar-eclipse-graces-skies-on-thursday/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/partial-solar-eclipse_84918_990x742.jpgpartial-solar-eclipse_84918_990x7422014-10-22T02:50:57+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/21/nasas-fermi-satellite-finds-hints-of-starquakes-in-magnetar-storm/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/magnetar_burst_torsional_waves_4096.jpgmagnetar_burst_torsional_waves_4096NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope detected a rapid-fire "storm" of high-energy blasts from a highly magnetized neutron star, also called a magnetar, on Jan. 22, 2009. Now astronomers analyzing this data have discovered underlying signals related to seismic waves rippling throughout the magnetar.2014-10-21T19:22:01+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/20/nasa-ames-75th-anniversay-open-house/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_2244.jpgIMG_2244https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/fullsizerender.jpgFullSizeRenderhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_2170.jpgIMG_2170https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_2423.jpgIMG_2423https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_2360.jpgIMG_2360https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_2348.jpgIMG_2348https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_2158.jpgIMG_2158https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_2249.jpgIMG_2249https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_2246.jpgIMG_2246https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_2221-e1413842329261.jpgIMG_22212014-10-21T18:17:49+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/stew-barr/2014-10-21T07:02:20+00:00weekly0.6https://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/21/watch-live-nasa-video-streams-orionid-meteor-shower/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/splash0_1.gifsplash0_https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/splash0_.gifsplash0_2014-10-21T06:23:17+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/14/nasas-ames-research-center-75th-anniversary-open-house/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/75th.jpg75th2014-10-15T02:11:54+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/11/physics-in-the-news-125/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/7-20398.jpg7.20398A mock-up of a torsion balance used by British natural philosopher Henry Cavendish to measure G in 1798.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ggzmkmhk421mzc4q.jpgggzMkmHK421mZc4q This is Sanchayeeta Borthakur, assistant research scientist in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the Johns Hopkins University. (Photo Credit: JHU)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/141010-shuttle_c92e33917bf64aaa38d9790b47f34c7f-nbcnews-ux-1240-800.jpg141010-shuttle_c92e33917bf64aaa38d9790b47f34c7f.nbcnews-ux-1240-800https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ska_lfaa_australia_closeup-screen.jpgSKA_LFAA_australia_closeup.screenClose up artist rendition. Image of the Australian SKA LFAA (Low Frequency Aperture Array) instrument. These dipole antenna which will number in their hundreds of thousands will survey the radio sky in frequencies as low at 50Mhz (Credit: SKA Organisation)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/topologicald.jpgtopologicaldA cosmic string is a very long (possibly as long as the diameter of the visible universe), very thin (less than the width of a proton) high-density object formed during the early moments of the big bang. (Credit: Stae Trek, Paramount Pictures)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/thermal_interference.jpgthermal_interferenceCoherent light passes through a pair of slits (top center). The two resulting concentric trains of waves will interfere, resulting in a fixed pattern when measured by a detector (top right). Non-coherent thermal light passes through slits and meets with a beam splitter (green plane), which reflects half the waves toward one detector and the other half toward a second detector (lower left). Each of the detectors records a temporary interference pattern (lower right). (Credit: JQI/Kelley )https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/webvic14_oct12mo.jpgWEBvic14_Oct12moThe waning Moon and Orion tip to the southwest as dawn brightens. (The Moon in these scenes is always shown three times its actual apparent size.. (Credit: Sky and Telescope)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ed_061313ccarraway-large-200x160.jpeged_061313ccarraway-large-200x160(NASA, Shellard,)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/seancarroll.jpgseancarroll the philosophy of cosmology. He commented that the field is not well formulated yet, and proposed that one way to build a sound foundation for the field would be to identify the key questions worthy of its attention. Carroll nominated 10 such questions. Credit: Carroll) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/photon99.jpgphoton99Prof. Butterworth, leading physicist on the ATLAS experiment at CERN and head of physics and astronomy at University College London, said the two colliding proton beams at CERN were the highest energy particle beams ever used in a laboratory. In order for the high momentum beams to be bent into a circle, its curvature had to be gentle enough for superconducting magnets to be able to control the beams. (Credit: hep.ucl.ac.uk/~jmb/publications)2014-10-11T19:24:54+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/10/physics-in-the-news-124/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/proton_zundel.gifProton_ZundelProtons tunnel across a series of hydrogen bonds between hydronium ions and water molecules. (Credit: Wiki)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/physrevlett-113-151302.pngPhysRevLett.113.151302Galactic Center Gamma-Ray Excess from Dark Matter Annihilation: Is There a Black Hole Spike? (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/physics_fundamentals_confirmed_albert_einstein_1947_ml.jpgPhysics_Fundamentals_Confirmed_Albert_Einstein_1947_mlResults confirm the time dilation predicted for high velocities in the theory of relativity with an accuracy that has never before been achieved. Furthermore, the team provided the first direct proof of a spectral line in highly charged bismuth ions. (Credit: Technische Universität Darmstadt )https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cc_borthakur1hr_feat_free.jpgcc_borthakur1HR_feat_freeUltraviolet light (orange) pours out of a galaxy in this image from NASA’s GALEX satellite. New Hubble observations reveal this galaxy might mimic the earliest galaxies in the universe. (Credit: NASA; ESA; R. Overzier/ON/MCT; T. Heckman/JH)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/3007714211_01ed1bc417_o.jpg3007714211_01ed1bc417_oA new journal, Microgravity, is dedicated to publishing research that uses space exploration and research enabled by spaceflight. It will also publish research utilizing ground-based models of spaceflight. (Credit: NASA, Caspermeyer)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/la-sci-sn-a-comet-is-about-to-come-very-close-001.jpgla-sci-sn-a-comet-is-about-to-come-very-close--001An artist's concept shows comet Siding Spring (C/2013 A1) heading toward Mars. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/s3-reutersmedia-net.jpgA sidewinder rattlesnake robot is pictured in this undated handout photo Researchers on Thursday said they conducted experiments to learn precisely how sidewinder rattlesnakes are able to climb sandy hills, then applied the reptiles' repertoire to an existing snake robot so it could do the same thing. Credit: Chaohui Gong., Reuters/Chaohui Gong/Handout via Reuters) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cosmic_treadmill.jpgCosmic_treadmillIf you ever wanted to see a sci-fi plot that expertly applied advanced physical concepts so that with a bit of imagination teleporting a human was not as unbelievable as most of the teleportation scenarios we see in the movies, read this articel. The above is a Cosmic Treadmill, as it appears in Flash #196. (Credit: Paul Winslade, Hmmmjenia)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hs-2014-28-a-large_web.jpgThe Hubble Space Telescope has imaged light from a hot Jupiter called WASP-43b, detecting temperature differences between the planet's day and night sides. The results suggest that the planet has an eastward jet stream that redistributes some of the heat from its host star, but otherwise there's very little circulation of heat. (Credit: Hubble, Timmer)2014-10-10T19:31:25+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/09/physics-in-the-news-123/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rrb_466025822edr_f0421020rhaz00323m_-580x580.jpgRRB_466025822EDR_F0421020RHAZ00323M_-580x580Rover tracks and Martian sand as seen from the rear hazcam of NASA’s Curiosity rover. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/141009091600-large.jpgA new measurement of dark matter in the Milky Way has revealed there is half as much of the mysterious substance as previously thought. The above is an artist's impression of the Milky Way and its dark matter halo (shown in blue, but in reality invisible). Credit: ESO/L. Calçadahttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hypothetical.jpghypotheticalThe term Higgsogenesis refers to the first appearance of Higgs particles in the early universe, just as baryogenesis refers to the appearance of baryons (protons and neutrons) in the early moments after the big bang. While baryogenesis is a fairly well understood process, Higgsogenesis is still very hypothetical. (Credit: CERN/Lucas Taylor, Koberlein)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cqajp9vfr7hhcaebtytk.jpgcqajp9vfr7hhcaebtytkThis quirk of subatomics could have huge implications for our understanding of the universe, specifically how the current inequality between matter and antimatter came to be. Answering that could, in turn, provide a better insight as to why reality did not simply blink out of existence immediately after the Big Bang as a universe's worth of matter and antimatter negated one another's existences (https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ja-2014-07132m_0006.gifja-2014-07132m_0006For the first time, scientists have demonstrated that modified hydrogen bonding is sufficient to switch solid-state electronic properties. (Credit: University of Tokyo. ,Tan)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01bb0794ea39970d.gifThe image above shows a graphic which was produced by the SETI from the data of the Wow signal. A signal (Gaussian, triplet or pulse) arises only in a single narrowband channel. All other channels contain noise. Up to now we do not know cosmic phenomena which would generate such signals. It would seem improbable that they have no artificial origin. The picture shows a computer generated example of a strong Gaussian signal.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pulsar_at_center_of_m82.jpgPulsar_at_center_of_M82Astronomers have found a pulsating dead star beaming with the energy of about 10 million Suns, which is the brightest pulsar ever recorded.. A rare and mighty pulsar (pink) can be seen at the center of galaxy M82 in this new multi-wavelength portrait. NASA's NuSTAR mission discovered the "pulse" of the pulsar — a type of dead star — using is high-energy X-ray vision.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/dn25710-1_300.jpgdn25710-1_300Two new particles have been discovered by the LHCb experiment at CERN's Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, Switzerland. One of them has a combination of properties that has never been observed before. : Dave Stock)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/id37671.jpgid37671 (Credit: Bill Saxton, NRAO/AUI/NSF)2014-10-09T20:39:11+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/06/physics-in-the-news-120/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/vandenbroucke_justin14_5662.jpgVandenbroucke_Justin14_5662Professor Justin Vandenbroucke leads the development of the DECO app. (Credit: Jeff Miller/UW-Madison)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/pw-2014-09-29-cartwright-compression.jpgPW-2014-09-29-Cartwright-compressionif we have a system of qubits all in the same state (with the same probability distributions), we have identical qubits, even though we might get different results upon measuring the individual qubits. Strangely enough, particles in the quantum world can be both identical and distinct at the same time. (Credit: M. Byrne)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/deep-sleep-670x440-141003.jpgdeep-sleep-670x440-141003NASA is reportedly working on a plan to send humans on Mars while they are in deep sleep. It is being said that the deep sleep, called torpor, would reduce astronauts’ metabolic functions with existing medical procedures. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/cern-030308.jpegcern-030308https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01b7c6ed3010970b-800wi.jpg6a00d8341bf7f753ef01b7c6ed3010970b-800wiThe image above shows a standard prediction for the dark matter distribution within about 1 million light years of the Milky Way galaxy, which is expected to be swarming with thousands of small dark matter clumps called `halos'. (Credit: Garrison, Kimmel, Bullock, UCI) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/compositeima.jpgA giant double radio source known as 3C 75.his composite X-ray/radio image of Abell 400 shows radio jets (pink), immersed in a vast cloud of multimillion degree X-ray emitting gas (blue) that pervades the cluster. The jets emanate from the vicinity of two supermassive black holes (bright spots in the image) in the galaxy. Chandra and radio data confirm that the unusual structure is due to the merger of two large galaxies, whose supermassive black holes are bound together by their mutual gravity. The swept-back appearance of the radio jets is produced by the rapid motion of the galaxy through the hot gas of the cluster, in much the same way that a motorcyclist's scarf is swept back while speeding down the road.Credit: X-Ray: NASA/CXC/D. Hudson, T.Reiprich et al. (AIfA); Radio: NRAO/VLA/ NRLhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/461625-7127022a-3ca5-11e4-8e39-312e1c329a32.jpg461625-7127022a-3ca5-11e4-8e39-312e1c329a32Researcher will mash together the visual recognition skills of humans and the spatial memory system of rats to enable robots to navigate in any environmental conditions. (Credit: The Australian) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rosettacomet.jpgrosettacomet2014-10-09T17:50:11+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/08/physics-in-the-news-122/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hellnobel-320.jpgHellNobel-320German winner of the Nobel Prize for chemistry Stefan Hell gestures at a small party with his colleagues in Goettingen, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. Hell shares the prize with Americans Eric Betzig and William E. Moerner for developing ways to dramatically improve the resolution of optical microscopes. Hell developed the underlying technology for R&D 100 Awards-winning super-resolution microscopes from Leica. (Credit AP/dpa, Swen Pfoertner)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/uygkygkg.jpguygkygkghttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/hitsi_3.jpghitsi_3The UW’s current fusion experiment, HIT-SI3. It is about one-tenth the size of the power-producing dynomak concept. (Credit: U of Washington)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/rey_raposo2014_fig2.pngRey_Raposo+2014_fig2Gas column density 5 Myr after stars begin forming in the “real” Clouds (left panels) and corresponding Spheres (right panels). The Spheres begin forming stars 5-6 Myr after t=0, so the figure shows simulations at a similar stage of star formation. Clouds show more widespread star formation, and alignment of their major gas filaments along the larger-scale structures present in the galaxy. Part of Figure 2 from Rey-Raposo, Dobbs & Duarte-Cabral 2014.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/einstein_2411605b-665x3851.jpgeinstein_2411605b-665x385Gas column density 5 Myr after stars begin forming in the “real” Clouds (left panels) and corresponding Spheres (right panels). The Spheres begin forming stars 5-6 Myr after t=0, so the figure shows simulations at a similar stage of star formation. Clouds show more widespread star formation, and alignment of their major gas filaments along the larger-scale structures present in the galaxy. Part of Figure 2 from Rey-Raposo, Dobbs & Duarte-Cabral 2014.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/einstein_2411605b-665x385.jpgeinstein_2411605b-665x385he Einstein Papers Project, a group of scholars devoted to collecting and transcribing Einstein’s works and publishing The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein both online and in printed format, have collected thousands of Einstein’s letters, both those from him and to him. But this exchange is new. (Credit: The Telegraph) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/seti-670x440-141002.jpgseti-670x440-141002The SETI Institute's Allen Telescope Array (ATA) is hunting for radio signals from hypothetical intelligent alien life in our galaxy. (Credit: SETI) Institutehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/682x436xgedi-pagespeed-ic-5va_5fbxfb.pngNASA has a new project underway called GEDI. The sole purpose of GEDI is to point a laser-based device at Earth from the International Space Station in order to map out forests in 3D, eventually determining the amount of carbon in Earth’s forests. (Credit: NASA's Goddard Space)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/51093955.jpgPair Of Galaxies Engaged In A Celestial Dance Of Cat And Mouse Or In This Case MouseLarger galaxies are unable to create new stars at a rapid enough pace so they start to “eat” stars in neighboring galaxies. (Photo By Nasa/Getty Images)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2014-2731.jpg2014-2731 The Wait For Space A look through the open hatch of SpaceX's Dragon V2 capsule, one of two designs chosen for NASA's Commercial Crew Transportation Capability program. Both Boeing and SpaceX have been told to halt production of their space taxi designs until a protest filed by the Sierra Nevada Corporation has been resolved. (Credit: NASA)2014-10-09T04:57:06+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/10/07/physics-in-the-news-121/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/robot-safetyx299.jpgrobot.safetyx299, a collaborative robot from Rethink Robotics, works on a mocked-up assembly line. (Credit: Rethink Robotics)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ska.pngskaA few major factors will drive exponential growth in the amount of terabytes falling on us from the skies over the next couple of decades: the increasing speed of commercial satellite deployment, implementation of faster communication technology, and the onset of interplanetary missions. (Credit: SKA Telescope, Golubovich)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/mit-negative-photoconductors-01.jpgMIT-Negative-PhotoConductors-01Shown here is the crystal structure of molybdenite, MoS2. When hit with a burst of laser light, freed electrons and holes combine to form combinations called trions, consisting of two electrons and one hole (represented here by orange and green balls). (Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/nobel-prize-discovery-01_84401_990x742.jpgnobel-prize-discovery-01_84401_990x742Thomas Edison is famous for his lightbulb, but he never won a Nobel Prize. (Credit: AFP/Getty)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/oriontbp.jpgA test version of NASA's Orion capsule floats in the rear of the USS Anchorage during a recovery drill off the coast of CaliforniaA test version of NASA's Orion capsule floats in the rear of the USS Anchorage during a recovery drill off the coast of California September 15, 2014. Orion is NASA's next exploration spacecraft, designed to carry astronauts to destinations in deep space, including an asteroid and Mars. Picture taken September 15, 2014. (Credit: REUTERS/Mike Blake)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/141006085124-large.jpg141006085124-largeThe theoretical work has focused on using quantum computing to accelerate the machine learning. (Credit: SINC)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/2-thedifficult.jpg2-thedifficultOne of the biggest advances of astronomy in the past decade has been the discovery of planets orbiting other stars, known as exoplanets. But just how many exoplanets have been discovered? According to the Extrasolar Planet Encyclopedia, a semi-official catalog based in Europe, there were as of the end of September last year 990 confirmed exoplanets and 2,321 candidate exoplanets. (Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/79136d92-657b-4a8f-b8be-9baa9b4cdd0e-460x276.jpeg79136d92-657b-4a8f-b8be-9baa9b4cdd0e-460x276 Construction of Noνa, apparently the biggest free-standing plastic structure in the world. And a neutrino detector. Photograph: FNAL 2014-10-07T12:25:43+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/05/25/physics-in-the-news-111/2014-10-03T21:15:27+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/03/physics-in-the-news-118/2014-10-03T18:42:11+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/02/physics-in-the-news-117/2014-10-03T18:41:09+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/01/physics-in-the-news-116/2014-10-03T18:40:12+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/05/31/physics-in-the-news-115/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/admin-ajax-php.pngadmin-ajax.php2014-10-03T18:38:19+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/05/26/3047/2014-10-03T18:32:18+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/05/30/physics-in-the-news-114/2014-10-03T18:23:41+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/05/29/physics-in-the-news-113/2014-10-03T18:22:25+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/05/28/physics-in-the-news-112/2014-10-03T18:21:40+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/05/27/physics-in-the-news-110/2014-10-03T18:20:43+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/04/physics-in-the-news-119/2014-10-03T18:12:18+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/05/physics-in-the-news/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/74143_web.jpg74143_webThis shows the DZT-1 prototype and observation image. Credit: ©Science China Presshttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/artacama.jpgArtacamahttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mega-earth-kepler-01_80397_990x742.jpgmega-earth-kepler-01_80397_990x742https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/observedbyte.jpgobservedbytehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/zoom.jpgzoomhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/miniature-digital-zenith-telescope-617x416.jpgMiniature-digital-zenith-telescope-617x416https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image_1965_1-kapteyn-b-c.jpgimage_1965_1-Kapteyn-b-chttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/macsj0717.jpgMACSJ0717https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/multiverse.gifmultiversehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/quantum_physics_60-year-old_prediction_of_atomic_behavior_confirmed_ml.jpgQuantum_Physics_60-year-old_Prediction_of_Atomic_Behavior_Confirmed_ml2014-10-03T17:07:22+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/26/physics-in-the-news-108/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/opo0003a.jpgopo0003aTwo international teams of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes in Australia and Chile have discovered the first examples of isolated stellar-mass black holes adrift among the stars in our galaxy. (Credit: NASA/ESA, D. Bennett)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/alma-array9-25a.jpgALMA-Array9-25aThe vibrant, starry stream of the Milky Way frames radio telescopes of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array - known as the ALMA Observatory - in Chile’s Atacama Desert. (Credit: Y. Beletsky/ESO)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/20140927_std001_0.jpg20140927_STD001_0 A paper just released by the team behind Planck, a European space telescope, casts serious doubt on the BICEP-2 result. (Credit: D. Simonds)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/tech20140926-640.jpgtech20140926-640rtist's concept of an atom chip for use by NASA's Cold Atom Laboratory (CAL) aboard the International Space Station. CAL will use lasers to cool atoms to ultracold temperatures. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/3348903915_9fd3b2afec.jpg3348903915_9fd3b2afec"The atomic age is an incredible epoch, filled with people we think we know already—from Marie Curie and Albert Einstein to Ronald Reagan and the plant workers of Fukushima—but they all turn out to be a lot more complicated and interesting than any of us could’ve imagined," says Nelson.(Credit: Helvio Faria)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/photonic-chip.pngPhotonic chipThe first teleportation of a photon inside a photonic chip illustrates both the potential for quantum computation and the significant challenges that lay ahead. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/wisedataonthecompositionofblackholes-2.jpgwisedataonthecompositionofblackholes-22014-09-27T00:56:41+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/25/physics-in-the-news-107/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/pia14722_ip-720x340.jpgOne way that stars are categorized is by temperature. Since the temperature of a star can determine its visual color, this category scheme is known as spectral type. The main categories of spectral type are M, K, G, F, A, B, and O. The coolest stars (red dwarfs) being M, and the hottest stars being O. Our own Sun is a G star. (Credit: B Koberlein, NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1-15995.jpg1.15995Life is made largely of molecules that are different than their mirror images. (Credit: Notjustnut/Getty)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/vpython.jpgvpythonIt’s difficult to create a uniformly charged electric rod and even harder to measure the electric field at different points in space. (Credit: Rhett Allain) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/7_58175f5465a1e9a63adec3509c888ff12.jpg7_58175f5465a1e9a63adec3509c888ff12In astronomy, WIMPs, or weakly interacting massive particles, figure into one explanation of the dark matter problem. The particles are called “weakly interacting” because they seem not to have much interaction with normal matter (electrons, protons, and neutrons) other than gravitational attraction (thus “massive”). (Credit: NASA, ESA. Hubble)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/solar-system-water-2.jpgsolar-system-water-2Planets form in the presence of abundant interstellar water inherited as ices from the parent molecular cloud. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt (SSC-Caltech)/ESO/J. Emerson/VISTA/Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)2014-09-25T19:44:27+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/24/physics-in-the-news-106/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/77796716_r4200090-neptune-spl.jpg_77796716_r4200090-neptune-splScientists have found definitive traces of water on a relatively small exoplanet. HAT-P-11b is the size of Neptune and has copious amounts of both water vapor and hydrogen in its atmosphere. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/planckdustmap-580x312.jpegplanckdustmap-580x312Dust map of the Universe. The region studied by BICEP2 is indicated by the rectangle in the right circle. (Credit: Planck Collaboration)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/whatisthegeo.pngwhatisthegeoOur current model of the early inflationary period predicts that the universe should be flat, and so far that has held up. If the universe actually is curved, then the inflationary period must have been more complex than we have thought. (Credit: Koberlien)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/4color.gif4color(Credit: Andrei Linde)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/artificial-atom.jpgartificial-atomn this illustration, the artificial atom on the right side of the image sends out sound waves that are picked up by the microphone on the left. (Credit: Philip Krantz)2014-09-24T22:00:28+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/23/physics-in-the-news-105/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/india-space-program-20130911-afp.jpgINDIA-SPACE-MARS-SCIENCE-FILESAFP / Files / Manjunath Kiranhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mars-curiosity-jpeg11-186x1242.jpgmars-curiosity.jpeg11-186x1242On Wednesday, Sept. 24, India could join the ranks of NASA, the European Space Agency and Russian Federal Space Agency having a successful mission to Mars. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/si-planckindepth.jpgsi-planckindepthPlanck’s new microwave maps cast doubt on earlier results. (Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/howcloudcham.jpghowcloudchamPhotograph of a cloud chamber showing the first discovered positron. (Credit: Carl D. Anderson)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/a.pngaEvolution of pressure-free collapse with Hawking radiation. For easy of plotting, the luminosities are scaled by a factor of 1000. The thin dashed lines in the upper panel represent the respective quantities in a pure Oppenheimer-Snyder collapse of the same initial conditions.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/michael_spectra_4k_jpg.jpgMICHAEL_SPECTRA_4K_JPGAstronomers find the strength of the electromagnetic force hasn't changed in ten billion years (Michael Murphy/Swinburne )https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/r1328471_18458439.jpgr1328471_18458439Astronomers find the strength of the electromagnetic force hasn't changed in ten billion years (Credit: Michael Murphy/Swinburne )https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/r1328471_18458457.jpgr1328471_18458457https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/luisroyo-fantasyart-gothicangelhold-590x402.jpgLuisRoyo-FantasyArt-GothicAngelHold-590x402Einstein, like no other physicist before or after him, demonstrated how the power of human thought alone, used skillfully, can allow us to consider experiments that could never be practically performed. This line of thinking, these experiments performed only in our imaginations, showed we little humans often have the power to deduce equations that govern the natural world by logical deduction alone.(Credit: Siegel, Luis Royo Fantasy Art, via Photobucket user mikenolan78)2014-09-23T20:28:23+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/22/physics-in-the-news-104/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/philaes_sci_instruments-580x482.pngPhilaes_Sci_Instruments-580x482Rosetta’s Philae lander includes a carefully selected set of instruments and is being prepared for a November 11th dispatch to analyze a comet’s surface. (Credit: ESA, Composite – T.Reyes)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/450x300_q75.jpg450x300_q75Lt. Will Curtin, a student in the mechanical engineering program, demonstrates the carbon nano-fiber foam (CFF) following its creation in the NPS Functional Materials Laboratory. For the first time, NPS researchers have developed a CFF that behaves as a viscoelastic solid with stable mechanical properties without the need of a polymeric component. (Credit: Javier Chagoya)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/newsimage_2458.jpgNewsImage_2458The Erbium Team (from left): Kiyotaka Aikawa, Albert Frisch, Simon Baier, Michael Mark, and Francesca Ferlaino (not pictured: Cornelis Ravensbergen) (Credit: University of Innsbruck)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2mrs-allsky.png2MRS.allskyThe 2MASS survey of tens of thousands of 'nearby' galaxies, plotted in Galactic coordinates, where the Milky Way lies across the horizontal. (Credit ESA, NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1920px-andromeda_galaxy_ssc2005-20a1-1024x301.jpg1920px-Andromeda_galaxy_Ssc2005-20a1-1024x301A dusty Andromeda galaxy (NASA Spitzer)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/space-elevator-665x385.jpgSpace-elevator-665x385Japanese construction giant Obayashi believe that carbon nanotechnology is developing quickly enough that a space elevator may be a reality as early as 2050, and they plan to be the first to make one. (Credit: ABC News Australia)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/140921145007-large.jpg140921145007-largeCrystals which contain photonic information after the teleportation. (Credit: Copyright GAP, University of Geneva (UNIGE))https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/var_www_wordpress_wp-content_files_mf_cache_915f3d84ec89f011f4c64ec05e66d59a_bicep2_16-92.jpg_var_www_wordpress_wp-content_files_mf_cache_915f3d84ec89f011f4c64ec05e66d59a_BICEP2_16-92The BICEP2 telescope detected a swirl pattern resembling an expected signal from the Big Bang, but was it all cosmic dust? (Credit: Olena Shmahalo/Quanta Magazine)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01bb0789e8b0970d-800wi.jpg6a00d8341bf7f753ef01bb0789e8b0970d-800wiThe image at the top of the page shows open star clusters M35 and NGC 2158. M35, on the upper left, is relatively nearby at 2800 light years distant, relatively young at 150 million years old, and relatively diffuse, with about 2500 stars spread out over a volume 30 light years across. (Credit: http://asterisk.apod.com)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/140921145009-large.jpg140921145009-largeFrom the electron microscope image of nanocrystals – here a magnesium oxide nanocrystal (below) – the three-dimensional structure is reconstructed with atomic precision using a new method developed by researchers from Jülich and Xi’an. The red spheres represent magnesium, the blue, oxygen. (Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich) 2014-09-22T21:12:40+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/20/physics-in-the-news-103/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/138008main_jsc2005e43267_hi-0-0_standard_1280-0.jpg138008main_jsc2005e43267_hi.0.0_standard_1280.0A NASA rendering of farming in Martian greenhouses.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1200px-ho-mg-zn_e8-5cube.jpg1200px-Ho-Mg-Zn_E8-5CubeThe quasicrystals formed 4.5 billion years ago in a violent collision between two rocks, among the asteroids that coalesced into planets. The rock with the quasicrystals landed in Chukotka as a meteorite. “They’re part of the primal stuff that formed our solar system,” Dr. Steinhardt said. The above is A penteract (5-cube) pattern using 5D orthographic projection to 2D using Petrie polygon basis vectors overlaid on the diffractogram from an Icosahedral Ho-Mg-Zn quasicrystal. (Credit: NYTimes)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/15101354198_7baf2d3bae_z.jpg15101354198_7baf2d3bae_zA transmission electron microscopic image of titanium dioxide plates resting on a near-invisible sheet of graphene. (Credit: Rozhkova et. al.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cc_blackhole.jpgcc_blackholeITTY BITTY LIVING SPACE The tiny galaxy M60-UCD1 (circled in white) harbors a black hole with the mass of around 21 million suns. M60-UCD1 may be a remnant of a larger galaxy torn apart by the massive galaxy M60 (center), which is also pulling in a nearby spiral galaxy (upper right). (Credit: NASA, ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/wrecked-trains-and-cars-a-011.jpgWrecked trains and cars at a simulated meteor strike at a training facility near Houston, TexasThere have been recent near misses – an explosion over Russia, a mysterious crater in Nicaragua. But what would we do in the event of an actual meteor strike? A simulated meteor strike at a training facility in Texas. (Credit: Nick Ballon)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/32-researchersp.jpg32-researcherspGraphic representation of a seaborgium hexacarbonyl molecule on the silicon dioxide covered detectors of a COMPACT detector array. (Credit: Alexander Yakushev (GSI) / Christoph E. Düllmann)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1410359988290_wps_16_solid_light1_png.jpg1410359988290_wps_16_Solid_light1_pngScientists are a step closer to creating quantum computers after making light behave like crystal. At first, photons in the experiment flow easily between two superconducting sites, producing the large waves shown at left. After a time, the scientists cause the light to 'freeze,' trapping the photons in place. (Credit: Stanford)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/541cb1a56f36e.jpg541cb1a56f36ePakistan is a signing ceremony away from becoming the associate member of the European Organisation for Nuclear Research. Above photo is of CERN Labs on the Swiss-French border. (Credit: CERN)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1-15970.jpg1.15970Few scientists doubt that Einstein was right. But the mathematics describing the time-dilation effect are “fundamental to all physical theories”, says Thomas Udem, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, who was not involved in the research. “It is of utmost importance to verify it with the best possible accuracy.”2014-09-20T16:49:56+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/18/physics-in-the-news-101/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1-makingsmartp.jpg1-makingsmartphis revolutionary work could open up new real estate in the phone by embedding the glass with layer upon layer of sensors, including ones that could take your temperature, assess your blood sugar levels if you're diabetic or even analyze DNA.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ams1.pngAMS1Upper plot shows the slope of positron fraction measured by AMS (red circles) and a straight line fit at the highest energies (blue line). The data show that at 275±32 GeV the slope crosses zero. Lower plot shows the measured positron fraction as function of energy as well as the location of the maximum. (Credit CERN)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1-nuclearspins.jpg1-nuclearspinsAn organic light-emitting diode, or OLED, glows orange when electrical current flows through it. University of Utah physicists used this kind of OLED -- basically a plastic LED instead of a conventional silicon semiconductor LED -- to show that they could read the subatomic 'spins' in the center or nuclei of hydrogen isotopes and use those spins to control current to the OLED. It is a step toward 'spintronic' devices such as faster computers, better data storage and more efficient OLEDs for TV, computer and cell phone displays. (Credit: Andy Brimhall, University of Utah)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/antenna_galaxy__800x600_q85_crop.jpgantenna_galaxy.jpg__800x600_q85_cropScience says the universe could be a hologram, a computer program, a black hole or a bubble—and there are ways to check (NASA, ESA, SAO, CXC, JPL-Caltech, and STScI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/halley1.jpghalley1European Space Agency's Giotto probe returned 2333 images during the Comet Halley encounter of March 13-14, 1986. All were recorded before the closest approach of 596 km at 00:03:02 UTC on 14 March 1986; the last from a distance of 1180 km, 15 seconds before closest approach. (Credit: MPAE, Dr H.U. Keller. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/7i6tgkuyfk.jpgRandom number generator setup: a camera is fully and homogeneously illuminated by a LED. The raw binary representation of pixel values are concatenated and passed through a randomness extractor. This extractor outputs quantum random numbers. (Credit: arXiv:1405.0435 [quant-ph])https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/av_clio_l3917201432422am63-1552x1940.jpgav_clio_l3917201432422AM63-1552x1940https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/big-bang-590x330.jpghttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/potw1108a-600x284.jpgpotw1108a-600x284The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this finely detailed image of the beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 6384. This galaxy lies in the constellation of Ophiuchus (The Serpent Bearer), not far from the centre of the Milky Way on the sky. The positioning of NGC 6384 means that we have to peer at it past many dazzling foreground Milky Way stars that are scattered across this image. In 1971, one member of NGC 6384 stood out against these bright foreground stars when one of its stars exploded as a supernova. This was a Type Ia supernova, which occurs when a compact star that has ceased fusion in its core, called a white dwarf, increases its mass beyond a critical limit by gobbling up matter from a companion star. A runaway nuclear explosion then makes the star suddenly as bright as a whole galaxy. While many stars have already come to the ends of their lives in NGC 6384, in the centre, star formation is being fuelled by the galaxy’s bar structure; astronomers think such galactic bars funnel gas inwards, where it accumulates to form new stars. This picture was created from images take with the Wide Field Channel of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys. An image taken through a blue filter (F435W, coloured blue) was combined with an image taken through a near-infrared filter (F814W, coloured red). The total exposure times were 1050 s through each filter and the field of view is about 3 x 1.5 arcminutes. (Credit NASA)2014-09-19T20:53:19+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/19/physics-in-the-news-102/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1462-miranda.jpg1462 MirandaMosaic of southern hemisphere of Miranda, the innermost regular satellite of Uranus, with radius of 236 km. Projection is orthographic, centered on the south pole. Visible from left to right are Elsinore, Inverness, and Arden coronae. (Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Ted Stryk)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1462-miranda-lg.jpgMosaic of southern hemisphere of Miranda, the innermost regular satellite of Uranus, with radius of 236 km. Projection is orthographic, centered on the south pole. Visible from left to right are Elsinore, Inverness, and Arden coronae. (Credit: NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Ted Stryk)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/lasersystem.jpglasersystemPicture of the laser system with which the hydrogen molecules were investigated on earth. (Credit: LaserLaB VU University Amsterdam/Wim Ubachs)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mit-compression-suit-01_0.jpgMIT-Compression-Suit-01_0The MIT BioSuit, a skintight spacesuit that offers improved mobility and reduced mass compared to modern gas-pressurized spacesuits. (Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/r1331550_18520039.jpgThe lonely landscape of Rosetta's comethttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/blanco-telescope3_span.jpgThe dome of the Blanco Telescope, which houses DECam, the 570-megapixel CCD camera used for the Dark Energy Survey, at the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile. (Credit: Reidar Hahn)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mit-dark-matter-01_0.jpgMIT-Dark-Matter-01_0The starboard truss of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Endeavour docked with the station. The newly installed Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer (AMS) is visible at center left. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/140919110526-large.jpg140919110526-largeAn artist's rendition of Rosetta probe during a flyby. (Credit: ESA/C.Carreau)2014-09-19T18:40:31+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/17/physics-in-the-news-100/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/spdc_figure.pngSPDC_figureArtistic rendering of the generation of an entangled pair of photons by spontaneous parametric down-conversion as a laser beam passes through a nonlinear crystal. Inspired by an image in Dance of the Photons. (Credit: A. Zeilinger)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sky-stars-magnitude-9-5-limit-binoculars_st_edited-2.jpgSky-Stars-magnitude-9.5-limit-binoculars_ST_edited-2The sky facing south at nightfall in late September from a dark, light-pollution-free site with stars visible to magnitude 6.5, the naked eye limit. (Credit: Stellarium)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/images.jpgimageshttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01a73e17e92d970d-800wi.jpg6a00d8341bf7f753ef01a73e17e92d970d-800wiThe image above is a comparison of the radial density profiles of the galaxies which the researchers have created by displaying the soliton in the centre of each galaxy with a halo surrounding it. The solitons are broader but have less mass in the smaller galaxies. (Credit: /kipac.stanford.edu/kipac/media) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/physrevlett-113-120405.pngThe experiment effectively measures the shift in the laser frequencies relative to what these transition frequencies are for ions at rest. The combination of two frequency shifts eliminates uncertain parameters and allows the team to validate the time dilation prediction to a few parts per billion, improving on previous limits. The result complements other Lorentz violation tests that use higher precision atomic clocks but much slower relative velocities. (Credit: Botermann, et al., Schirber)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/borexino-sphere-575.jpgThe Borexino collaboration, which announced the detection of an elusive solar neutrino in August, involved several scientific contributions from Princeton over its 25-year history. The detector consists of two massive transparent nylon balloons filled with a petroleum-based liquid called "scintillator," which emits a flash of light when it detects a neutrino. These flashes are picked up by an array of sensors embedded in a stainless steel sphere that surrounds the balloons. (Credit: Borexino collaboration)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/eso1429a-610x732.jpgeso1429a-610x732https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/swift_grb130925a_9-2014.jpgThe X-ray image from the Swift X-ray Telescope of the gamma-ray burst GRB 130925. The white object in the center is the gamma-ray burst. The large diffuse region to the right is a cluster of galaxies. The other objects are X-ray-emitting celestial objects, most likely supermassive black holes at the centers of distant galaxies. The full image is approximately the size of the full moon. (Credit: Phil Evans/ University of Leicester)2014-09-17T20:00:31+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/16/physics-in-the-news-99/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/newsimage_2439.jpgRendering of the near–perfect crystal structure of the yttrium–iron–aluminum compound used in the study. The two–dimensional layers of the material allowed the scientists to isolate the magnetic ordering that emerged near absolute zero. (Credit:Brookhaven National Laboratory)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/nsn_web_logo_lg_480_274.gifNSN_web_logo_lg_480_274NASA’s Night Sky Network is conducting a new survey to better understand the landscape of educational outreach performed by astronomy clubs. It will then use this data to assess the needs of the amateur astronomy community for the next five years. (Credit: https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/earth-bound-asteroid-20130214.jpgNASA has found about 95 per cent of the largest and potentially most destructive asteroids, those measuring about one kilometre or larger in diameter, but only 10 per cent of those 140 metres or larger in diameter. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/Canadian Press) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/c5e053d4-a13d-4d2f-a487-2ae05de66572.pngc5e053d4-a13d-4d2f-a487-2ae05de66572The researchers observed for the first time coherent oscillations between two spin states: |e↑,g↓〉⇔|e↓,g↑〉. From the oscillation frequency, they determine the spin-exchange interaction strength. (Credit: APS/Ana Maria Rey)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/3-solarsystems.jpgA montage of the planets and some of the moons in our solar system, not to scale. (Credit: NASA/JPL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/neutrinotrid.jpgneutrinotridParameter space for the Z’ gauge boson. The light gray area is excluded at 95% C.L. by the CCFR measurement of the neutrino trident cross section. The dark gray region with the dotted contour is excluded by measurements of the SM Z boson decay to four leptons at the LHC. The purple region is the area favored by the muon g-2 discrepancy that has not yet been ruled out, but future high-energy neutrino experiments are expected to be highly sensitive to this low-mass region. (Credit: Altmannshofer, et al. ©2014 American Physical Society)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/planetswitho.jpgplanetswithoOn Mercury a solar day is about 176 Earth days long. During its first Mercury solar day in orbit the MESSENGER spacecraft imaged nearly the entire surface of Mercury to generate a global monochrome map at 250 meters per pixel resolution and a 1 kilometer per pixel resolution color map. (Credit: NASA/JHU APL/CIW)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/290906_collider.jpg290906_colliderThe Tevatron, the particle accelerator used to find the oscillating Bs meson, has huge detectors surrounded by a cylindrical 'tracking chamber', shown here. (Credit: Fermilab)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/harderdiamond2.jpgHarderDiamond2Diamond anvils malformed during synthesis of ultrahard fullerite. Note the dent in the center. (Credit: Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology)2014-09-17T01:34:52+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/15/physics-in-the-news-98/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/peter-higgs_2681850b.jpgPETER-HIGGS_2681850bIt was the daytime soap opera of particle physics. But the final episode of the first season ends in an anticlimax. The Higgs boson's decay into pairs of photons – the strongest yet most confusing clue to the particle's existence – is looking utterly normal after all. (Credit: D. Moir/Reurters, M. Slezak)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/4a3ca52e-b2c2-4f89-aadf-87604371d51d-460x276.jpeg4a3ca52e-b2c2-4f89-aadf-87604371d51d-460x276"I confess that in my early in my career as a physicist I was rather cynical about sophisticated statistical tools, being of the opinion that “if any of this makes a difference, just get more data”. That is, if you do enough experiments, the confidence level will be so high that the exact statistical treatment you use to evaluate it is irrelevant." (Credit: Michael Slezak)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hologramillustration_small.jpgHologramIllustration_smallTo find out if the universe is a hologram, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory have powered up their exotic holographic inferometer, or Holometer. The results of the Fermilab E-990 experiment could indeed indicate that the nature of the universe is holographic. (Credit: Baskin, M. Freiberger)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/nasa-dark-energy-chart-570x427.jpgNASA-Dark-Energy-Chart-570x427The ultimate fate of the universe depends on the nature of dark matter and dark energy, about which we know almost nothing. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/type-ia-supernova-617x416.jpgType-Ia-supernova-617x416Less than two months after it first began repeatedly scanning the sky, the ESA’s Gaia space observatory has discovered its first supernova – a powerful stellar explosion that had occurred in a distant galaxy located some 500 million light-years from Earth, the agency announced on Friday. The above is an artist’s impression of a Type Ia supernova – the explosion of a white dwarf locked in a binary system with a companion star. (Credit: ESA/ATG medialab/C. Carreau, Bednar) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/phosphorus-semiconductor-lg.jpgphosphorus-semiconductor-lgGrain boundaries are rows of defects that disrupt the electronic properties of two-dimensional materials like graphene, but new theory by scientists at Rice University shows no such effects in atomically flat phosphorus. That may make the material ideal for nano-electronic applications. (Credit: Evgeni Penev/Rice University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/pia18420.gifPIA18420https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/threesacharm.jpgthreesacharmNIST chip containing a single-photon detector was made of superconducting nanowires. Four chips like this were used in the experiment that entangled three photons. (Credit: Verma/NIST)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1410727788423171.jpg1410727788423171"The key question is whether a real quantum dynamics, of the general form suggested by de Broglie and the walking drops, might underlie quantum statistics," Bush said. "While undoubtedly complex, it would replace the philosophical vagaries of quantum mechanics with a concrete dynamical theory," said John Bush of MIT. (Credit: D. Harris/MIT, M. Byrne)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/protonshower-640x353.jpgProtonshower-640x353The new plan, proposed by researchers at the University of Southampton in England, is to eavesdrop on the faint nanosecond radio signals sent our way when cosmic rays hit edges of the Moon at a near-tangent. (Credit J. Hewitt, astrobiology.aob.rs)2014-09-15T16:33:16+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/11/physics-in-the-news-95/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/nw-mri-image-1-1-credit-the-budakian-group.jpgTo see something new, inventor, Raffi Budakian, had to get small — really small. The instrument he uses is as long as a human hair is wide and has the circumference of a virus.(Credit: The Budakian Group)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/13945_web.jpgthis is a one centimeter by one centimeter graphene film transfer to a silicon wafer with a silicon dioxide top layer. (Credit: Xuesong Li and Weiwei Cai)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/130429160154-graphene-explainer-1-horizontal-gallery.jpg130429160154-graphene-explainer-1-horizontal-galleryhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/200905071490341.jpghttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/monash-university-researchers-develop-revolutionary-graphene-light-detector.pngMonash-University-researchers-develop-revolutionary-graphene-light-detector“Graphene photothermoelectric detector device fabrication and principle of operation.” (Credit: Nature.com)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/panelsboth_e-580x426.jpgThe above sequence depicts a rare supernova explosion. Hubble images (bottom panel) correspond to an artist’s conception (top panel). (Credit: Kavli IPMU / NASA / Gastón Folatelli)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/defyingphysi.jpgdefyingphysiAn illustration of the nonreciprocity of the dynamics of light propagating in the forward (a) and the backward (b) direction. (Credit: Nature Photonics)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/prshenquasargraphicforweb-preview.jpgThis graph shows the distribution of about 20,000 luminous Sloan Digital Sky Survey quasars in the two-dimensional space of broad line width versus FeII strength, color-coded by the strength of the narrow [OIII] line emission. The strong horizontal trend is the main sequence of quasars driven by the efficiency of the black hole accretion, while the vertical spread of broad line width is largely due to our viewing angle to the inner region of the quasar. (Credit: Y. Shen, L. Ho, KIAA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ncovar_50j.png Correlation matrix of wp(rp) for the full sample cross correlation (DR10 CMASS galaxies with DR7 uniform quasars).https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/star-cluster-messier-54-01_83436_990x742.jpgstar-cluster-messier-54-01_83436_990x742New observations of the star cluster Messier 54, shown above, reveal that it is just as strangely deficient in lithium as our own galaxy, deepening a mystery about the element's big bang origins. (Credit: ESO)2014-09-14T08:08:20+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/13/physics-in-the-news-97/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/southpoletelescope-s.jpg“When you get off the plane at the South Pole, there is a feeling like you’re out in the ocean,” says University of Chicago physicist John Carlstrom, the principal investigator for the South Pole Telescope team, who has logged 15 round trips to the South Pole over the past two decades. “It’s just a featureless horizon. The snow is so dry it feels like Styrofoam.” (Credit: J. Gallicchio, G. Roberts Jr.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1410543543368540.png"Our research strengthens the argument that methane and oxygen together, or methane and ozone together, are still strong signatures of life,” he said.That's because oxygen and methane abhor each other. An atmosphere heavy in one of these gases has to have its supplies of the other continually replenished, and the most reliable way that happens on Earth is through the mechanisms of life. (Credit: NASA, B. Richmond)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/computer-chip-electron-cooling-quantum-well-640x425.jpgcomputer-chip-electron-cooling-quantum-well-640x425Researchers at UT Arlington have created the first electronic device that can cool electrons to -228 degrees Celsius (-375F), without any kind of external cooling. (Credit: S. Anthony) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/keck-black-hole.jpgkeck-black-holeThe nearby galaxy Centaurus A as viewed at X-ray, radio, and optical wavelengths, showing jets powered by a massive black hole at the center of the galaxy. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/140909130754-large.jpgThis is an artist's impression of supernova 1993J, an exploding star in the galaxy M81 whose light reached us 21 years ago. The supernova originated in a double-star system where one member was a massive star that exploded after siphoning most of its hydrogen envelope to its companion star. After two decades, astronomers have at last identified the blue helium-burning companion star, seen at the center of the expanding nebula of debris from the supernova. The Hubble Space Telescope identified the ultraviolet glow of the surviving companion embedded in the fading glow of the supernova.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/water-ice-clouds-brown-dwarf-wise-0855.jpgwater-ice-clouds-brown-dwarf-wise-0855Astronomers have detected traces of water ice clouds in the atmosphere of the brown dwarf WISE 0855, a misfit failed star about 7.2 light-years from Earth. The discovery is the first time water ice clouds have been found beyond the solar system, scientists say. (Credit: Rob Gizis (CUNY BMCC))2014-09-13T22:47:54+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/12/physics-in-the-news-96/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/trapdoor_real.gifTrapdoor_realThe Smoluchowsi trapdoor is a simple test for any proposed exorcism of Maxwell's demon. It is immediately obvious that an information based exorcism is of no use. The are no sensors in this simple device that collect information; and there are memory devices that would need erasure if the demon is to return to its original state. (Credit: Hemmo, M.; Shenker)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/x0612cw_nibs_pg005-300.jpgWhisky that was fired into space three years ago as part of an experiment into flavour has returned to Earth. (Credit: Unknown)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sundrum.jpgsundrumhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/qm.pngqmC H Figure 1: Acausality: Penrose diagram of a black hole with signature c hange at high curvature (hashed region). In contrast to traditional non-sing ular models, there is an event horizon (dashed line H , the boundary of the region that is determined by backward evolution from future infinity) and a Chauchy horizon (dash-dotte d line C , the boundary of the region obtained by forward evolution of the high-curvature re gion) (Credit: https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/hot-jupiter-binary-stars-orbits.jpgGiant alien planets known as "hot Jupiters" can induce wobbles in their parent stars that may lead to the wild, close orbits seen by astronomers. This diagram shows the relationship between wobbling stars and the orbital tilt of hot Jupiter planets. (Credit: Cornell University/N.Storch, K.Anderson, D.La)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gravity_probe_b.jpgGravity_Probe_BGravity Probe B (GP-B) has measured spacetime curvature near Earth to test related models in application of Einstein's general theory of relativity.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2388_563372.jpgThe research group resolved the challenging issue attributed to solid crystals, namely widely spread emission wavelengths, and succeeded in fabricating many single-photon sources that emit photons with nearly identical emission wavelengths. (Credit: National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS))https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fluidmechani.jpgfluidmechaniClose-ups of an experiment conducted by John Bush and his student Daniel Harris, in which a bouncing droplet of fluid was propelled across a fluid bath by waves it generated. (Credit: Dan Harris)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/konstgjord-atom-690-x-330.jpgOn the right, an artificial atom generates sound waves consisting of ripples on the surface of a solid. The sound, known as a surface acoustic wave (SAW) is picked up on the left by a "microphone" composed of interlaced metal fingers. According to theory, the sound consists of a stream of quantum particles, the weakest whisper physically possible. The illustration is not to scale. (Credit: Philip Krantz, Krantz NanoArt)2014-09-12T19:55:20+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/10/physics-in-the-news-94/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/asteroide_988.jpgasteroide_988(Credit: Planetary Resources)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/china-space-1hrzgal.jpgchina-space-1hrzgalThe U.S. Defense Department has highlighted China's increasing space capabilities, however, saying China was pursuing activities aimed at preventing its adversaries from using space-based assets during a crisis.(Credit: Jaime FlorCruz - CNN Beijing Bureau Chief)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/blackholethe.jpgSimulation of a black hole merger. (Credit: NASA/Chandra)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cubesat-570x374.jpgcubesat-570x374Two tiny satellites escaping on their own doesn’t sound too bad … except it’s not the first time this has happened. On August 23rd, NASA reports that two other CubeSats set themselves free. OK, 4 out of 100 doesn’t sound too bad either … except only 12 have been launched so far, which means a quarter of the CubeSats un-tethered themselves. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/alcoholcloud.jpgalcoholcloud(Credit: HUbble)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/proton.gifQuarks have one of three “color charges,” which are analogous to the primary colors red, green and blue. Just as an atom strikes a balance between positive and negative electrical charges, particles made of quarks balance colors to reach a neutral state. In the color analogy, that means combining colors to make white. (Credit: Quanta Magazine)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1-istheunivers.jpgIf our understanding is correct, then the universe as a whole could be in a locally stable configuration, but it could also jump to a lower energy state through a process of quantum tunneling. If that happened, the universe would collapse and we'd all go bye bye. So to our best understanding, it is possible for the universe to collapse. (Credit: )https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/starhd100546.jpgThis graphic is an artist’s conception of the young massive star HD100546 and its surrounding disk. (Credit: VP. Marenfeld & NOAO/AURA/NSF)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iu742ex3h5lrok0fjdgy.jpgChandra Observatory2014-09-10T17:09:14+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/09/physics-in-the-news-93/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/140905160710-01-artificial-intelligence-0905-horizontal-gallery.jpg140905160710-01-artificial-intelligence-0905-horizontal-gallery Machines have surpassed humans in physical strength, speed and stamina. What if they surpassed human intellect as well? Science fiction movies have explored this question. In the classic "2001: A Space Odyssey," astronaut David Bowman, played by Keir Dullea, struggles for control of the spacecraft against the sentient computer HAL 9000. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/x85hy769s0aqyrpb.jpg Erlangen-based physicists have sent bright pulses in sensitive quantum states through the window of a technical services room on the roof of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light to a building of the University Erlangen-Nürnberg. These types of light flashes are easy to receive even when the sun is shining brightly, unlike the signals of individual photons used to date. (Credit: MPI for the Science of Light)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/solidlightco.pngsolidlightcoOscillations of photons create an image of frozen light. At first, photons in the experiment flow easily between two superconducting sites, producing the large waves shown at left. After a time, the scientists cause the light to "freeze," trapping the photons in place. Fast oscillations on the right of the image are evidence of the new trapped behavior. (Credit: Princeton University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/saturn-christmas-02-670x440-131226.jpgsaturn-christmas-02-670x440-131226Cassini spied just as many regular, faint clumps in Saturn's narrow F ring (the outermost, thin ring), like those pictured here, as Voyager did. But it saw hardly any of the long, bright clumps that were common in Voyager images. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/dark-matter-simulation.jpgTwo models of the dark matter distribution in the halo of a galaxy like the Milky Way, separated by the white line are shown. The colors represent the density of dark matter, with red indicating high-density and blue indicating low-density. On the left is a simulation of how non-interacting cold dark matter produces an abundance of smaller satellite galaxies. On the right the simulation shows the situation when the interaction of dark matter with other particles reduces the number of satellite galaxies we expect to observe around the Milky Way. (Credit: Durham University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/artificial-cell-1.jpgartificial-cell-1In a recent paper in the journal Science, a team of scientists at the Technische Universität München (TUM) say they have done just that. To better understand how our own biological cells work, the team created artificial protocells in the lab that can not only change their shape but even move on their own. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/buckydiamondoid860_free.jpgbuckydiamondoid860_freeSquare, cage-shaped molecules called diamondoids (left) linked to soccer-ball shaped buckyballs (right) create a new molecule called a buckydiamondoid, center, in this illustration. These new hybrid molecules may be useful for developing molecular electronic devices in the future. Manoharan Lab/Stanford Universityhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bh_free.jpgThe gravity of a black hole swallows the matter around it. The link between tensor networks and quantum entanglement may prove useful in studying the physics of black holes, some physicists propose. (Credit: )2014-09-09T19:38:08+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/08/physics-in-the-news-92/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/z2a4-350x139.jpgAs usual for this type of satellite, the Chinese media is referring to the new satellite as ‘a new remote sensing bird that will be used for scientific experiments, land survey, crop yield assessment, and disaster monitoring.’ (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ap723287713790.jpgap723287713790In this Sunday Sept. 7, 2014, publicly distributed handout photo provided by the Nicaraguan Army shows an impact crater made by a small meteorite in a wooded area near Managua's international airport and an air force base. Nicaraguan government spokeswoman Rosario Murillo said Sunday that a loud boom heard overnight by residents of the capital was a "relatively small" meteorite that "appears to have come off an asteroid that was passing close to Earth." (Credit: Nicaraguan Army/AP)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/iss040e099377-1024x680.jpgRussian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov, performs maintenance and retrieves science experiment packages during a spacewalk on Aug. 18. Skvortsov, along with two other astronauts return to Earth on Sept. 10. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/31-researchersp.jpgResearchers have separated the nuclear spin states of water. In para water, the spins (depicted as arrows) of water's two hydrogen nuclei cancel out. They add up in ortho water. The scientists produced an ultracold, supersonic beam of water molecules -- a mixture of para and ortho water -- and sent it through an electric deflector (blue device on the left). The deflector acts as a prism for nuclear spin states, separating para and ortho water molecules in space (right). (Credit: Daniel A. Horke, CFEL/DESY)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6a00d8341bf7f753ef019b02de95ca970c.jpg6a00d8341bf7f753ef019b02de95ca970chttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cycloidgrowth.pngCycloidGrowthSchematic sketch of the growth mechanics of a cycloid Note that the reversal in curvature of the second segment above cannot be explained by the previous model of cycloid formation. (Credit: Marshall & Kattenhorn (2005))2014-09-08T17:21:55+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/18/physics-in-the-news-73/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ap060421024773.jpgTo celebrate the NASA-ESA Hubble Space Telescopes 16 years of success, NASA and the European Space Agency are releasing this mosaic image of the starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82), made in March 2006. It is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82, a galaxy remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions. Located 12 million light-years away, it is also called the "Cigar Galaxy" because of the elongated elliptical shape produced by the tilt of its starry disk relative to our line of sight. (AP Photo/NASA-ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14957457165_9b1b940e02_z-580x211.jpgA panoramic view of the Venus Jupiter Conjunction on August 17, 2014, taken from the Cairns Esplanade in Queensland Australia. (Credit: Joseph Brimacombe.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/newsimage_2335.jpgPart of the optical apparatus used to direct pulses of light to control the quantum state of a single electronic spin in diamond. (Credit: UPenn)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/satellite-just-after-release.pngCosmonaut Oleg Artemyev looks on after he released a small Peruvian satellite into space during a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on Aug. 18, 2014. (Credit: NASA TV)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bvp-wkrcmaeumu__large.jpgAstronaut Alexander Gerst captured the moment from his home aboard the ISS. (Credit: Alexander Gerst) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iss038e038300_1.jpgNorth Korea is barely lit when juxtaposed with neighboring South Korea and China. (Credit NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/fascinatingr.jpgThis image of the galaxy Messier 82 is a composite of data from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. The intermediate-mass black hole M82 X-1 is the brightest object in the inset, at approximately 2 o'clock near the galaxy's center. (Credit: NASA/H. Feng et al.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quantum-computing-looks-closer-than-ever.jpgQuantum computing Adiabatic quantum computer component array: methodology is certainly going to be a gigantic leap for next gen development.2014-09-07T16:52:32+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/17/physics-in-the-news-40/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dn26057-2_1200.jpgA team of researchers has identified seven dust particles that were returned to Earth in 2006 by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft, which might have originated in the interstellar medium. This false-color image shows a diffraction pattern created by one of these particles, named Orion. Image (Credit: Zack Gainsforth)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/f4221dd31.jpgThe influence of the Higgs boson and its field (inset) on cosmological inflation could manifest in the observation of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 telescope (background). (Credit: EPFL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/374ae0f1-cf55-470b-aa62-24200878aaa41.pngA bit of heat. Two parallel, thin plates that exchange heat via thermal radiation can form a thermal “bit” that changes rapidly between “one” and “zero.” One of them is made of a material like VO2 that switches between two states with different thermal properties, depending on its temperature. (Credit: P. Ben-Abdallah/Univ. of Paris-Sud)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bveve3ccyaalssw.pngCygnus Orb-2 spacecraft ‘Janice Voss’ bids farewell to the ISS at 6:40 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 15, 2014. It’s set to reenter the atmosphere on Aug. 17. (Credit: NASA TV)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/847793-1ff085ca-2436-11e4-b41c-3de6330dcee11.jpg Engineering PhD student Willem Olding aims to take out the tedium in creating mapping systems to free-up time for more important work. (Credit: Richard Jupe)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/374ae0f1-cf55-470b-aa62-24200878aaa4.pngA bit of heat. Two parallel, thin plates that exchange heat via thermal radiation can form a thermal “bit” that changes rapidly between “one” and “zero.” One of them is made of a material like VO2 that switches between two states with different thermal properties, depending on its temperature. (Credit: P. Ben-Abdallah/Univ. of Paris-Sud)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/f4221dd3.jpghttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/847793-1ff085ca-2436-11e4-b41c-3de6330dcee1.jpgEngineering PhD student Willem Olding aims to take out the tedium in creating mapping systems to free-up time for more important work. Picture: RICHARD JUPEhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/isee-3-reboot-project-google-moon-flyby.jpgNASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 spacecraft, which launched in 1978, will fly by the moon on Aug. 10, 2014. Credit: SpacecraftforAll.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/novatometeorite-640x425.jpgThe fragmentation of the Novato meteorite on Oct. 17, 2012, as depicted in a horizontally mirrored image to show the progression of the event (from left to right). (Robert P. Moreno Jr., Jim Albers and Peter Jenniskens/NASA-SETI)2014-09-07T16:49:14+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/28/physics-in-the-news-23/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/quantum-space-channel.pngExperimental Satellite Quantum Communicationshttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/igr-600x425.jpg(Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image-300x261.jpgHubble Space Telescope image. (Credit: NASA, ESA, G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch (University of California, Santa Cruz), R. Bouwens (Leiden University), and the HUDF09 Team)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/004-300x246.jpgEinstein and Oppenheimer: Both men in their later years dismissed black holes as anomalies, unaware that they contained some of the deepest mysteries of physics (Image: Alfred Eisenstaedt, LIFE magazine)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/st_allsun_orbit.jpgIllustration of the positions of the two STEREO spacecraft show that they attain 180 degrees of separation in Feb. 2011, thus allowing the world to see the entire Sun for the first time. (Credit: NASA/STEREO/SSC)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1-physicistsfi.jpgA new technique developed by a Binghamton University physicist and his colleagues will improve the quality of flexible, conductive, transparent glass.2014-09-07T16:47:36+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/13/physics-in-the-news-69/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/introducingt.jpgAstronauts will be working together, deep underground. (Credit: ESA—A. Romeo)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dn26041-1_300.jpgdn26041-1_300https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140812222649-supermassive-black-hole-story-top1.jpg140812222649-supermassive-black-hole-story-topOranges are not the only stacking fruit (Credit: Ray Tang/Rex)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140812222649-supermassive-black-hole-story-top.jpgThis artist's rendering shows one possible configuration for a corona, but that its true shape is unknown.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/planck-map-cmb.jpgThe European Space Agency's Planck space telescope mapped the cosmic microwave background. (Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/clearpath-husky.jpgClearpath Robotics "Husky," an autonomous vehicle. (Credit: Clearpath Robotics)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/photon-under-production.jpgphoton-under-productionNew data from the Hubble Space Telescope and computer simulations have revealed that the universe has much less ultraviolet light than previously thought. (Credit: Ben Oppenheimer and Juna Kollmeie)2014-09-06T19:18:50+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/06/physics-in-the-news-91/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/atzo1.pngATZOThe ratios of various elements found in the sample of RSGs, where the dark gray line is the theoretical model for a RSG, the lighter grey shows a three sigma deviation from normal, and the black points show the observed ratios for the sampled stars. The red, however, are the ratios observed in the TZO candidate HV 2112- indicating some elements are present at ratios far from expected. (Credit: E.Levesque et al.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/comet-jacques-september-2014.jpgcomet-jacques-september-2014Once every year or two, a comet appears in the sky that is bright enough to be seen with a small telescope or binoculars. Right now, observers anywhere in the Northern Hemisphere can see such a comet. (Credit: Credit: Starry Night Software)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/pw-2014-09-05-stafford.jpgPW-2014-09-05-Staffordhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/atzo.pngSofie Carsten Nielsen, Danish science minister, and Swedish education minister Jan Björklund break ground for the €1.84bn European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden. (Courtesy: ESS)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/screen-shot-2014-09-05-at-4-55-31-pm.pngThe ratios of various elements found in the sample of RSGs, where the dark gray line is the theoretical model for a RSG, the lighter grey shows a three sigma deviation from normal, and the black points show the observed ratios for the sampled stars. The red, however, are the ratios observed in the TZO candidate HV 2112- indicating some elements are present at ratios far from expected.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/howphysicalc.pnghowphysicalcDiagram illustrating quasar observations. (Credit: J. C. Berengut, Koberlein)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/precisestnatural-clocks-can-be-galactic-gps.jpgA pulsar is the rapidly spinning and highly magnetized core left behind when a massive star explodes. Because only rotation powers their intense gamma-ray, radio and particle emissions, pulsars gradually slow as they age, and eventually cease their characteristic emissions. (Credit: F. Reddy of Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/storymaker-photos-higgs-boson-crazy-stories-1207035-514x268.jpgA weird theoretical cousin of the Higgs boson, one that inspired the decades-long hunt for the elusive particle, has been properly observed for the first time. The discovery bookends one of the most exciting eras in modern physics. The above is a simulation of the production and dec (Credit: Slezak) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/universe_expansion2.pngUniverse_expansion2“This is a time of very rapid advances in the field. You don’t know on any given day what new discovery you’re going to see posted that night on arXiv," said Liam McAllister, associate professor of physics and a specialist in string theory.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/img_4452_4b_maven-at-ksc_ken-kremer-580x386.jpgIMAVEN is NASA’s next Mars orbiter and launched on Nov. 18, 2014 from Cape Canaveral, Florida. It will study the evolution of the Red Planet’s atmosphere and climate. Universe Today visited MAVEN inside the clean room at the Kennedy Space Center. With solar panels unfurled, this is exactly how MAVEN looks when flying through space and circling Mars and observing Comet Siding Spring. (Credit: Ken Kremer)2014-09-06T18:26:35+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/05/physics-in-the-news-90/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/dnews-files-2014-09-cubesat-launcher-670x440-140905-jpg.jpgdnews-files-2014-09-cubesat-launcher-670x440-140905-jpgIn the grasp of the Japanese robotic arm, NanoRack’s CubeSat deployer releases a pair of miniature satellites last month. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/0904_dwave-800x480.jpg0904_dwave-800x480rather than keeping all its eggs in D-Wave's basket, Google's "Quantum A.I. Lab" announced that it is starting a collaboration with an academic quantum computing researcher, John Martinis of the University of California-Santa Barbara. (Credit: Wiki, Timmer)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sorting_quicksort_anim.gifSorting_quicksort_animAn animation of the quicksort algorithm sorting an array of randomized values. The red bars mark the pivot element; at the start of the animation, the element farthest to the right hand side is chosen as the pivot. (Credit: RonaldH)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/china-astronaut-crew-yang-liwei.jpgchina-astronaut-crew-yang-liweiChina's first astronaut, Yang Liwei, is now vice director of the China Manned Space Engineering Office. (Credit: CMS)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/sunnasa.jpgSunNASAhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/fejgjustmnyohoddcbyt.jpgArtist impression of the Square Kilometer Array. If all goes according to plan in the next decade, we could see these small perturbations on the moon—and begin to solve some of the mysteries of space. (Credit: SKA)2014-09-05T23:40:48+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/21/physics-in-the-news-16/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/slowlyrotati.jpgslowlyrotatiAn artist’s impression of an x-ray binary system. The matter that a neutron star (blue) sucks from a regular star (red) leads to the emission of intense x-ray beams. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/heic1413a-580x454.jpgheic1413a-580x454A Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 5548. (Credit: ESA/Hubble and NASA. Davide de Martin)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/modifiedgrav.jpgmodifiedgravA schematic picture of how researchers can observe galaxy peculiar velocities, “a cosmic dance of galaxies.” (Credit: Wojciech A. Hellwing)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/gamma-rays-black-hole-earth-diagram.jpggamma-rays-black-hole-earth-diagramAs cosmic-ray particles are accelerated by a black hole in this artist's interpretation, they stream toward Earth as very-high-energy gamma-rays. Upon hitting the atmosphere, they produce a shower of particles that rain down on Earth. Most of these particles run out of energy before they hit sea level. Credit: Aurore Simonnet, Sonoma State Universityhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/energy_arc_central_electrode_of_a_plasma_lamp.jpgEnergy_Arc_(central_electrode_of_a_Plasma_Lamp)Energy Arc, central electrode of a Plasma Lamp.2014-10-09T15:29:35+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/07/7thofjunesat/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/381356main_image_1454_946-710-665x385.jpg381356main_image_1454_946-710-665x385New scientific evidence from the Apollo missions could prove that a planet the size of Mars called Theia once collided with Earth and created our moon. Credit: NASAhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/600px-bh_lmc.png600px-BH_LMCSimulated view of a black hole (center) in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. Note the gravitational lensing effect, which produces two enlarged but highly distorted views of the Cloud. Across the top, the Milky Way disk appears distorted into an arc.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sls-launch-at-launch-complex-39b-at-kennedy-space-center-in-florida-nasa-image-posted-on-americaspace-1024x636.jpgSLS-launch-at-Launch-Complex-39B-at-Kennedy-Space-Center-in-Florida-NASA-image-posted-on-AmericaSpace-1024x636(Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dnews-files-2014-06-lhcb-670x440-140607-jpg.jpgdnews-files-2014-06-lhcb-670x440-140607-jpgCERN/LHC/LHCbhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/big-bang.jpgBig-Bang2014-09-04T22:56:30+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/14/physics-in-the-news-9/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pia18452-full_1-610x407.jpgpia18452-full_1-610x407The Herschel Space Observatory has uncovered a weird ring of dusty material while obtaining one of the sharpest scans to date of a huge cloud of gas and dust, called NGC 7538. Image credit: ESA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/Whitman Collegehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pluto1_full-580x434.jpgpluto1_full-580x434Artist impression of Pluto and Charon (NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/752253main_pia15954-946.jpg752253main_pia15954-946Credit: NASAhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dn25301-2_300.jpgdn25301-2_300Three images, showing dwarf planet 2012 VP113 in red, then green, then blue, were combined to reveal its path across the night sky (Image: Scott S. Sheppard, Carnegie Institution for Science)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/galaxy-grb-020819b-observations.jpgGamma-ray burst buried in dustObservations of galaxy GRB 020819B of molecular gas (left) and dust (middle) done by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). At right is a visible-light image from the Frederick C. Gillett Gemini North Telescope. The cross indicates the site of a gamma-ray burst in the region. Credit: Bunyo Hatsukade(NAOJ), ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pia18412-600x267.jpgPIA18412-600x267NASA scientists used Earth-based radar to produce these sharp views of the HQ124 asteroid on June 8, 2014. Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/Arecibo Observatory/USRA/NSF2014-09-04T22:55:25+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/13/physics-in-the-news-8/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/red-giant.jpgred-gianthttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/quantum-tunneling-illustration.jpgquantum-tunneling-illustrationQuantum particles transmit through a whole series of barriers under conditions where a single particle could not do the move. Credit: University of Innsbruckhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/star-si.jpgstar.si V838 created an expanding light echo that illuminated the interstellar dust surrounding it and generated one of the most amazing scenes captured by Hubble. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1402614066486826.jpg1402614066486826Made in Space's 3D Printer. Image: Made in Spacehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/oco-observatory-high-view-earth.jpgoco-observatory-high-view-earthArtist's rendition of the OCO-2 Observatory. Credit: JPL/NASAhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/june10-sdo-nasa-flare-600x450.jpgjune10-sdo-nasa-flare-600x450This image from NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory captures the first of three giant flares erupting from the sun’s surface on June 10, 2014. Credit: NASA/SDO/Goddard/Wiessinger2014-09-04T22:43:52+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/06/physics-in-the-news-2/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140605-theia_f8c110591433f8ab8d0d6269664cf950-nbcnews-ux-640-480.jpg140605-theia_f8c110591433f8ab8d0d6269664cf950.nbcnews-ux-640-480An artist's conception shows the impact of Theia and the young Earth.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/m51_w11.jpgm51_w11The Whirlpool galaxy seen in both optical (red, green and blue) and X-ray (purple) light. Image Credit: X-ray: NASA/CXC/Wesleyan Univ./R.Kilgard, et al; Optical: NASA/STScI Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/112332/amazing-new-x-ray-image-of-the-whirlpool-galaxy-shows-it-is-dotted-with-black-holes/#ixzz33snF4D1V https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kepler-exoplanet-mission-glitch-safe-mode-670x440-130121.jpgkepler-exoplanet-mission-glitch-safe-mode-670x440-130121Artist's impression of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope, which has now begun a new phase of its exoplanet-hunting mission.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/rosetta_11.gifRosetta_1Comet 67P can be seen evolving a tailon-a-comet.75125/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/blackhole.jpgblackholeThis artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy. The blue color here represents radiation pouring out from material very close to the black hole. The grayish structure surrounding the black hole, called a torus, is made up of gas and dust. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-gravitational-fields-black-holes-eddy.html#jCphttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/giant-asteroid-the-beast.jpgGiant-Asteroid-The-BeastA gigantic asteroid nicknamed ‘The Beast’ is expected to fly by Earth on Sunday, June 8. The asteroid 2014 HQ124 is roughly the size of a football stadium, reports Space.com.2014-09-04T22:37:01+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/04/physics-in-the-news-89/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cosmos_3d_dark_matter_map.jpgThis three-dimensional map offers a first look at the web-like large-scale distribution of dark matter, an invisible form of matter that accounts for most of the Universe's imaginary mass. The map reveals a loose network of dark matter filaments, gradually collapsing under the relentless pull of gravity, and growing clumpier over time. The three axes of the box correspond to sky position (in right ascension and declination), and distance from the Earth increasing from left to right (as measured by cosmological redshift). Note how the clumping of the dark matter becomes more pronounced, moving right to left across the volume map, from the early Universe to the more recent Universe.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/i02-32-darkmatter.jpgThe concentrations of dark matter (mapped in contours) usually - but not always - match up with normal matter (coloured). The discrepancies could be a simple error resulting from the way the observations were made. Alternatively it is suggested that dark matter, if the clump is small enough, could have any accumulating visible matter blown out of it by a high-energy phenomenon such as a quasar or a supernova, for example. The collision of two galaxies could also blow an amount of visible matter out as a faint satellite galaxy that has no associated dark matter. (Credit: https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/evaporating_exoplanet_480.jpgEvaporating_Exoplanet_480An artist's depiction of an early stage in the destruction of a hot Jupiter by its star. NASA / GSFC / Frank Reddy - See more at: https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2014rc_ca2-main_0.pngThis graphic depicts the passage of asteroid 2014 RC past Earth on September 7, 2014. At time of closest approach, the space rock will be about one-tenth the distance from Earth to the moon. Times indicated on the graphic are Universal Time. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/cosmicforeca.jpgcosmicforecaThe Wide Field Imager (WFI) on the MPG/ESO 2.2-meter telescope at the La Silla Observatory in Chile captured this view of dark cloud Lupus 4 blotting out background stars. Lupus 4 is a dense pocket of gas and dust where new stars are expected to form. The cloud is located about 400 light-years away from Earth, on the border between the constellations of Lupus (The Wolf) and Norma (The Carpenter's Square). (Credit: ESO)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bjeet4tbwn2v3dmh4pwf1.jpgThe Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a ground-based extremely large telescope planned for completion in 2020.[5] It will consist of seven 8.4 m (27.6 ft) diameter primary segments,[6] with the resolving power of a 24.5 m (80.4 ft) primary mirror and collecting area equivalent to a 22.0 m (72.2 ft) one,[7] (which is about 368 square meters) (Credit: wiki, Tarantola)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/bjeet4tbwn2v3dmh4pwf.jpgThe Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT) is a ground-based extremely large telescope planned for completion in 2020.[5] It will consist of seven 8.4 m (27.6 ft) diameter primary segments,[6] with the resolving power of a 24.5 m (80.4 ft) primary mirror and collecting area equivalent to a 22.0 m (72.2 ft) one,[7] (which is about 368 square meters) (Credit: wiki, Tarantola)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/1-ultracoldato.jpg1-ultracoldatoSchematic representation of a spin-exchanging collision. Two atoms in different orbitals (blue and green) and different spin orientations (black arrows) collide. The two atoms exiting the collision have swapped their spins after interacting. Crucially, the process is independent of the two specific initial spin states. Credit: LMU-München / MPQ, Quantum Many Body Systems Division Read more at: http://phys.orghttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/shutterstock_111293468-620x412.jpgshutterstock_111293468-620x412Supernova (Credit: jupeart via Shutterstock)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/alice-s.jpgALICE-sAs time ticks down to the restart of the Large Hadron Collider, scientists are making sure their detectors run like clockwork.Photo by Antonio Saba, CERN2014-09-04T18:32:01+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/26/physics-in-the-news-21/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/sn1987a_debris_evolution_animation.gifSN1987a_debris_evolution_animationA time sequence of Hubble Space Telescope images, taken in the 15 years from 1994 to 2009, showing the collision of the expanding supernova remnant with a ring of dense material ejected by the progenitor star 20,000 years before the supernovahttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/composite_image_of_supernova_1987a.jpgSN 1987A was a supernova in the outskirts of the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy. It is close enough that it was visible to the naked eye. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/speed-of-light-2-300x200.jpgThis neutrino detector uses distilled water laced with gadolinium to try to determine the direction of an incoming neutrino.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/samushia.jpgMore than 600 000 galaxies from the BOSS survey were utilized to measure the strength of gravitational interactions of galaxies extremely far away from each other. This is a visual representation of that measurement; the amount that the circles are distorted, or squashed from perfect concentric rings, indicates the velocity that galaxies are falling towards each other and hence the strength of the gravitational interactions. Credit: BOSS/U. Portsmouthhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140625-blackhole_2c4d1c628c825563e032a8127bc3798f-nbcnews-ux-640-600.jpgTwo closely orbiting black holes in a galaxy about 4.2 billion light-years from Earth emit wavy jets, seen as a bluish spiral, while the third black hole in the trio is more distant, emitting linear jets off to the right. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/catchingagra.jpgMonash and Warwick astronomers are searching for gravitational waves emitted by Scorpius X-1. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/r1294456_17647539.jpgThe discovery of a triple black hole system will help scientists studying galactic evolution and gravity waves (Credit: K. Thorne (Caltech)/ T. Carnahan (NASA GSFC))https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/xray-band-3.jpgThe Perseus galaxy cluster.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/berylliumenergy.jpgComputational techniques developed by a team from NIST and IU could enable precise computation of atomic properties that are important for nuclear medicine, as well as astrophysics and other fields of atomic research. Image: Paco Ayala (Fotolia)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/higgs-boson.jpgCandidate Higgs boson events from collisions between protons in the LHC. The top event in the CMS experiment shows a decay into two photons (dashed yellow lines and green towers). The lower event in the ATLAS experiment shows a decay into 4 muons (red tracks).[2014-09-03T21:43:47+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/15/physics-in-the-news-10/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/i02-13-composition21.jpegI02-13-composition21Image credit: NASA, retrieved from http://universe-review.cahttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/atilla445-617x416.jpgatilla445-617x416Image Credit: atilla445/Thinkstock.comhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01a511cd0444970c-800wi.jpg6a00d8341bf7f753ef01a511cd0444970c-800wiSummary of the spacetime issues discussed in this article. One can use photons and astronomical objects as test particles to measure spacetime over 22 orders of magnitude in scale, ranging from the cosmic horizon (probing the global topology of and curvature of space - top) to distant supernovae (giving evidence of dark energy) down to galaxies (giving evidence for dark matter), galactic nuclei and binary stellar systems (giving evidence for black holes)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14411386334_e4de5fb99f_b-580x346.jpg14411386334_e4de5fb99f_b-580x346Hubble Space Telescope picture of galaxy NGC 3081. Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA; acknowledgement: R. Buta (University of Alabama)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nasa-aromatic-saturn-titan-si.jpgnasa-aromatic-saturn-titan.siTitan, Saturn's largest moon appears before the planet as it undergoes seasonal changes in this natural color view from NASA's Cassini spacecraft in this handout released by NASA August 29, 2012. (Reuters/NASA)2014-09-03T16:25:20+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/16/physics-in-the-news-11/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-15-at-9-27-00-pm.pngSistersunThese clues have been used by a team of astronomers led by the University of Texas to identify the Sun's potential sibling. Still unnamed but known as HD 162826 or by a number of other catalogue designations, it is plainly visible through binoculars high in our summer night sky.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dn25730-1_300.jpgdn25730-1_300Atomic clock (Image: NIST)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/image_1989_3-titan.jpgimage_1989_3-TitanThis image is a composite of several images taken during two separate Titan flybys in 2006. The large circular feature near the center of Titan’s disk may be the remnant of a very old impact basin. The mountain ranges to the southeast of the circular feature, and the long dark, linear feature to the northwest of the old impact scar may have resulted from tectonic activity on Titan caused by the energy released when the impact occurred. Image credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/brebrd05-18-2014daily1a01120140517imgcrs-3f9inhangar0-j11tj7.jpg-brebrd05-18-2014daily1a01120140517imgcrs-3f9inhangar0.j11tj7A planned launch of a Falcon 9 rocket Sunday evening was delayed to allow time for more tests on one of Orbcomm Inc.’s satellites.(Photo: FOR FLORIDA TODAY)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/veggieharvest.jpgveggieharvestNASA astronaut Steve Swanson harvests a crop of red romaine lettuce plants that were grown from seed in space.(Photo: NASA)2014-09-03T16:19:36+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/17/physics-in-the-news-12/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/trappingligh.jpgtrappinglightThe top layer shows a simulation of the nanostructure confining the light in the tiny red regions. The second layer is the design generated by an approach that mimics evolutionary biology. The bottom two layers show electron micrographs of the realized nanostructure in silicon. The sharp peak on the left is the trace of the long trapping of light. Credit: Fabio Badolatohttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/eris-dwarf-planet-art.jpgeris-dwarf-planet-artAn artist’s impression of Eris, the most massive dwarf planet known to date, with an aphelion of 97 AU from the Sun. Could bigger Super-Earth-type planets be orbiting even farther out? Image Credit: ESO/L. Calçada and Nick Risingerhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/opportunity-at-pillinger-point-sol-3684_1a_ken-kremer.jpgOpportunity-at-Pillinger-Point-Sol-3684_1a_Ken-KremerOpportunity Mars rover peers into vast Endeavour Crater from Pillinger Point mountain ridge named in honor of Colin Pillinger, the Principal Investigator for the British Beagle 2 lander built to search for life on Mars. Pillinger passed away from a brain hemorrhage on May 7, 2014. This navcam camera photo mosaic was assembled from images taken on June 5, 2014 (Sol 3684) and colorized. Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell/Marco Di Lorenzo/Ken Kremer-kenkremer.com Read more: http://www.universetoday.com/112606/opportunity-peers-out-from-pillinger-point-honoring-british-beagle-2-mars-scientist-where-ancient-water-flowed/#ixzz34sFwIO7M https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1024px-spx_crs-2_launch_-_further_-_cropped.jpg1024px-SpX_CRS-2_launch_-_further_-_croppedThe SpaceX Dragon capsule is making its third trip to the International Space Station, following a demonstration flight in May 2012 and the first resupply mission in October 2012https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/rt_yc12_70001.gifrt_yc12_7000https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/gravitational_lens-full1-676x450.jpgGravitational_lens-full1-676x450A diagram depicting gravitational lensing, a phenomenon by which light bends around some objects in space. (NASA, ESA; J. Richard, CRAL; and J.-P. Kneib, LAM)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/newhorizonsatpluto.jpgNewHorizonsatPlutoThe New Horizons spacecraft approaches Pluto in this artist's conception. (JHUAPL/SWRI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/microgravity-science-glovebox.jpgmicrogravity-science-gloveboxNASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio prepares to test the ultraviolet light decontamination hardware (Image: NASA) 2014-09-03T15:28:31+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/03/physics-in-the-news-88/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/moving-bands_1.gifmoving-bands_1Magnetic stripes of solar material – with alternating south and north polarity – march toward the sun's equator. Such observations may change the way we think about what's driving the sun's 22-year solar cycle. (Credit: S. McIntosh)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isittheera-of-racing-for-colliders-physics_2.jpgIsIttheEra-of-Racing-for-Colliders-Physics_2A 1974 photo of the part named Intersection 5 (I5) of the ISR of CERN's old PS, clearly shows the layout of the magnets and the crossing of the two beams pipes. (Credit: Salem)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/isittheera-of-racing-for-colliders-physics.jpgIsIttheEra-of-Racing-for-Colliders-PhysicsParticle Accelerators have a long story which started since the beginnings of the twentieth century. (Credit: Cern)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/865109065.jpgThe little mushroom cap between the two high-gain antennas is the X-band low-gain antenna. The little blue thing is DCAM3, a deployable camera that will hopefully take pictures of the explosion and impact of Hayabusa's "Small Carry-on Impactor" while the mothership hides safely in the shadow of the asteroid. (Credit: Lakdawalla)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/getmediainterface-php_.jpegPhase change materials can switch between two forms depending on how quickly they're cooled. Cool them quickly and you get an amorphous form, which provides significant resistance to the flow of electrons. Cool them slowly and they will allow electrons to flow more readily. Once cooled, these two forms remain stable, locking the differences in conduction in place. (Credit: Columbia University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/b113071f-360f-45bb-8fe4-3d42901810e5.png An event in the IceCube neutrino telescope. Photomultipliers attached to strings buried deep in the Antarctic ice detect the bursts of light emitted when a neutrino collides with the ice and produces a muon. The event shown was generated by an upward moving muon, which was produced by an upward moving muon neutrino that passed through the Earth. APS/Joan Tycko;https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/spiral.jpgThis image illustrates Dawn’s spiral transfer from high altitude mapping orbit (HAMO) to low altitude mapping orbit (LAMO). The trajectory turns from blue to red as time progresses over two months. Red dashed sections are where ion thrusting is stopped so the spacecraft can point its main antenna toward Earth. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/brest-300-420-nikiet.jpgRussian power engineering R&D institute NIKIET has completed the engineering design for the BREST-300 lead-cooled fast reactor. (NIKIET)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/2589a.jpgThe Yarkovsky Effect: The daylight side absorbs the solar radiation. As the object rotates, the dusk side cools down and hence emits more thermal photons than the dawn side. It may be possible to exploit this effect for planetary defense.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/76758586_rosetta_comet_624.jpgRosetta scientists will be heading to Lisbon, Portugal, next week to present their early impressions of the comet to their peers.2014-09-03T15:17:16+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/02/physics-in-the-news-58/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/black_hole_2.jpgblack_hole_2The event horizon is the boundary between a black hole and the rest of the universe. Any matter that spirals in toward the black hole and crosses the event horizon disappears. Ann Feild, Space Telescope Science Institutehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/qubit-architecture.jpgqubit-architecturephoto: Erik Lucero / University of California, Santa Barbarahttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/02obox-master675.jpg02OBOX-master675 Inside the Borexino detector used to detect neutrinos from the sun. Credit Borexino Collaboration https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/c5202551-4e4b-4cf6-b3be6ea54e0e6b20_article.pngEntering a closed timelike curve tomorrow means you could end up at today. Credit: Dmitry Schidlovskyhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/screen-shot-2014-09-02-at-2-30-10-pm.pngScreen Shot 2014-09-02 at 2.30.10 PMhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/gk04-640x426.jpgGK04-640x426These aren't our illustrious orbiting sex geckos, but they are the experiment's ground-based control sex geckos, and that's almost as good!2014-09-02T22:32:42+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/09/01/physics-in-the-news-87/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/asteroid_impact_alamy-crop-original-original.jpgasteroid_impact_alamy.jpg.CROP.original-original(29075) 1950 DA is a near-Earth asteroid. Among asteroids more than 1 km in diameter, it is notable for having the highest known probability of impacting Earth.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/central-clean-room.jpgcentral-clean-roomhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mit-patterned-surfaces-01.jpgInterfaces between solid materials are surfaces with intricate, internal structure (shown on the left). To control that structure, and to use it for specific applications, researchers model it a simplified way (shown on the right). Image: Niaz Abdolrahim and Jose-Luis Olivares/MIThttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/3-laserpulsetu.jpg3-laserpulsetuComputer simulations show the electron flux from one atom to the others. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/mixinginstar.jpgmixinginstarThis is an image from a computer simulation shows a collision of two streams of interstellar gas, leading to gravitational collapse of the gas and the formation of a star cluster at the center. In this image, the gas streams were labeled with blue and red "tracer dyes," and the purple color indicates thorough mixing of the two gas streams during the collapse. Credit: Y. Feng and M. Krumholz https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/ww14.jpgww142014-09-01T22:30:37+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/31/physics-in-the-news-86/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14-233b_0-610x405.jpg14-233b_0-610x405Engineers just completed hot-fire testing with two 3-D printed rocket injectors. Certain features of the rocket components were designed to increase rocket engine performance. The injector mixed liquid oxygen and gaseous hydrogen together, which combusted at temperatures over 6,000 degrees Fahrenheit, producing more than 20,000 pounds of thrust. (Credit: NASA photo/David Olive)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/steve-swanson-robonaut-2-lg.jpgCommander Steve Swanson works with Robonaut 2 in the Destiny lab module. (Credit: NASA TV)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cosmic_history_2.jpgcosmic_history_2Inflation explains the origin of the large-scale structure of the cosmos. Many physicists believe that inflation explains why the Universe appears to be the same in all directions (isotropic), why the cosmic microwave background radiation is distributed evenly, why the universe is flat, and why no magnetic monopoles have been observed. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/porous_chondriteidp.jpgThis is a scanning electron microscope image of an interplanetary dust particle that has roughly chondritic elemental composition and is highly rough (chondritic porous: "CP"). CP types are usually aggregates of large numbers of sub-micrometer grains, clustered in a random open order. (Credit: Donald E. Brownlee)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/725156main_rbsp-belts-orig_full_2-1.jpg725156main_rbsp-belts-orig_full_2-1NASA's Van Allen Probes orbit through two giant radiation belts surrounding Earth. Their observations help explain how particles in the belts can be sped up to nearly the speed of light. Image (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/third-transient-radiation-belt-617x416.jpgthird-transient-radiation-belt-617x416This image was created using data from the Relativistic Electron-Proton Telescopes on NASA's twin Van Allen Probes. It shows the emergence of a new third transient radiation belt. The new belt is seen as the middle orange and red arc of the three seen on each side of the Earth. (Credit: APL, NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/heic1418a-1024x682.jpgheic1418a-1024x682https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mars-opportunity-rover-25-mile-panorama-endeavour-crater2-pia18595.jpgThe decision to reformat Opportunity’s flash memory early next month is prompted by the multiple computer resets the rover has been experiencing. This month alone, Opportunity has had to be rebooted a dozen times, interrupting valuable time that should be taken up with carrying out science near the rim of Endeavour crater. (Credit: NASA, O'Neil)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/standard_model_infographic.pngAgravity, short for ‘adimensional gravity’, is one of the most recent Theory of Everything (ToE) proposals in a long line of such proposals that have come about ever since the problem of reconciling Gravity with the Standard Model was realized by physicists. It attempts to merge gravity with the Higgs interaction (the thing that gives particles mass and electric charge) and thus the rest of the Standard Model by reconciling the huge difference between the Planck Scale (on the order of 1019 giga-electron-volts (GeV) = 1011 Joules (J)) and the relatively small masses of all the other particles 2014-09-01T18:40:32+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/21/physics-in-the-news-45/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ultrafastxra.jpgAn artistic view of the electron transfer inside an iodomethane molecule. After the interaction with an ultrafast X-ray laser, the electrons from the methyl group, on the right, jump to the iodine atom, on the left. (Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2-astronautsto.jpgThree satellites fly in formation as part of the Synchronized Position Hold, Engage, Reorient, Experimental Satellites (SPHERES) investigation. This image was taken during Expedition 14 in the Destiny laboratory module. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/8-capture.jpgAccording to Efimov's prediction, bound states of three atoms can be universally described under certain conditions. The scientist found that infinitely many quantum mechanical bound states for the "ménage à trois" exist, even if two of the atoms cannot bind together. (Credit: Heidelberg Uni.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dn25922-1_1200.jpgDelicate Arch and many other gigantic arches in the US are made of the stuff. It is a "locked sand", whose angular grains can catch on each other.(Credit: Brad Goldpaint/Aurora Open/Corbis)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/anoblegascage.jpg In this computer simulation, light and dark purple highlight the cavities within the 3D pore structure of CC3. (Credit: Nature Materials 2014)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/h9btgoninpdz2fcaf2rf.jpgBuzz Aldrin listening to mission control transmission during translunar coast NASA/Project Apollo Archive2014-08-31T04:38:38+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/30/physics-in-the-news-85/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ynniuldiggshefps8pdg.gifOn August 30th, 1984, the space shuttle Discovery launched on its first voyage to space. It wasn't the first, but over the next 27 years it became the undeniable king of NASA's shuttle program. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/experimentsr.jpgNeutron-rich magnesium nuclei have a neutron halo that extends beyond the tightly packed core of the nucleus. (Credit: Ken-ichiro Yoneda, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cd6c5b85-926e-4cf4-8d30cc992c10cf9a_paywallpreview.jpgIn the past decade an extraordinary claim has captivated cosmologists: that the expanding universe we see around us is not the only one; that billions of other universes are out there, too. (Credit: Slim Films, Ellis)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2d11056075-130107-coslog-sun3-blocks_desktop_large.jpgNASA has warned that a new sunspot spewing powerful X-class flares is beginning to rotate to a position directly in line with Earth. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sls-infographic-nasa-570x712.jpgSLS-infographic-NASA-570x712https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/20140829_comet-c-1979_f537.jpgThree consecutive images of comet C/1979 Q1 plunging into the solar atmosphere on August 30, 1979. In these SOLWIND coronagraph images, the Sun is masked behind the solid disk in the center of the image. (Credit: NRL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ardbeg-bill-lumsden-whisk-013.jpgDirector of distilling, Bill Lumsden. Ardbeg Scottish whisky was sent into space three years ago in an experiment looking at the impact of gravity on how it matures. It will return to Earth September 12th. (Credit: Paul Dodds/Ardbeg/PA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/before-explosion.jpgBefore the big explosion: The artist’s impression shows a binary star system where mass is transferred from a companion to a white dwarf. As soon as sufficient matter has collected on the surface of the dwarf star, this can trigger a nuclear explosion which in turn ignites the catastrophic nuclear burning and destroys the white dwarf – a type Ia supernova flares up. (Credit: ESA, Justyn R. Maund)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/la-sci-asteroid-smashup-planet-formation-20140-001.pngSpitzer's observations of the aftermath of an asteroid collision offer insights into how Earth was formed. (Credit: NASA)2014-08-30T23:31:42+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/29/physics-in-the-news-84/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/spin_injection.jpgSpin_InjectionA plot showing a spin up, spin down, and the resulting spin polarized population of electrons. Inside a spin injector, the polarization is constant, while outside the injector, the polarization decays exponentially to zero as the spin up and down populations go to equilibrium. (Credit SA3.0)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pia18470-full.jpgllustration of data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, showing the massive increase in dust around the star NGC 2547-ID8, thought to be the result of an asteroid collision. Image (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/77219596_77219595.jpgThis artist's impression shows a possible mechanism for a Type Ia supernova Continue reading the main story Related Stories Dazzling supernova mystery solved Triple star system clue to gravity Dead star eats water-rich asteroid Astronomers have shown that dead stars known as white dwarfs can re-ignite and explode as supernovas. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/muotomo_001_sphereslanl.jpgLos Alamos National Laboratory postdoc Elena Guardincerri, right, and undergraduate research assistant Shelby Fellows prepare a lead hemisphere inside a muon tomography machine. (Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/r1322082_18313017.jpgNew measurements have found the Pleiades open star cluster is 443 light years from Earth (Credit: NASA/ESA/AURA/Caltech/Palomar Observatory)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/storymaker-argonne-supernova-simulation3-514x411.jpgComplex Fluid Mechanics - Detailed visualizations of the nuclear combustion inside a supernova. The calculations are based on fluid mechanics, showing how the explosion rips through the star. (Credit: Argonne National Laboratory)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/storymaker-argonne-supernova-simulation2-514x411.jpgWhite Dwarf No More - The Type 1a supernova proceeds in the simulation, ripping through the white dwarf star. The star is completely destroyed. Around 1-2 × 1044 Joules of energy is released from Type 1a supernovae, ejecting matter and shock waves traveling at velocities of 3-12,000 miles per second (approximately 2-7% the speed of light). (Credit: Argonne National Laboratory)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/storymaker-argonne-supernova-simulation1-514x411.jpgThe moment of detonation of a Type 1a supernova is modeled. This situation arises when a white dwarf star has accreted mass from a binary partner to a point when gravitational forces overcome the outward electron degeneracy pressure. The star collapses and it is thought that carbon fusion is initiated in the core, creating a supernova. (Credit: Argonne National Laboratory)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/keckobservat.jpgThis image shows observations of a newly discovered galaxy core dubbed GOODS-N-774, taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys. The core is marked by the box inset, overlaid on a section of the Hubble GOODS-N, or GOODS North, field (Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey). (Credit: NASA, ESA) 2014-08-29T18:49:14+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/28/physics-in-the-news-83/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/samsung-gear-s.jpgsamsung-gear-sAccording to LG, the G Watch R will be available in key markets early in the fourth quarter of 2014. The smarwatch will be unveiled for consumers at the IFA 2014, which is scheduled to kick off on Sept. 5 in Berlin, and details such as pricing and availability are expected to be announced locally at the time of launch. (Credit: Samsung, Bora)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/superabsorpt.jpgsuperabsorptIn one potential method to realize superabsorption, a superabsorbing ring absorbs incident photons, giving rise to excitons. (Credit: Higgins, et al.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pebbleplanet-250.jpgRadio/optical composite of the Orion Molecular Cloud Complex showing the OMC-2/3 star-forming filament. GBT data is shown in orange. Uncommonly large dust grains there may kick-start planet formation. (Credit: S. Schnee, et al.; B. Saxton, B. Kent (NRAO/AUI/NSF)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/whatlitupthe.jpgA computer model shows one scenario for how light is spread through the early universe on vast scales (more than 50 million light years across). Astronomers will soon know whether or not these kinds of computer models give an accurate portrayal of light in the real cosmos. (Credit: Andrew Pontzen/Fabio Governato)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diquark.gifdiquarkDIQUARK MODEL In the diquark model, the particles form quark-quark and antiquark-antiquark pairs, which are forced to combine to balance their color charges.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/meson-molecule.gifmeson-moleculehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quantumdot_wf.gif3D confined electron wave functions for each eigenstate in a Quantum Dot. Here, rectangular and triangular-shaped quantum dots are shown. Energy states in rectangular dots are more ‘s-type’ and ‘p-type’. However, in a triangular dot, the wave functions are mixed due to confinement symmetry.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/64d59b45-ffb4-4b3d-b4e83bb48be73e4a_article.jpgThe Borexino neutrino detector uses a sphere filled with liquid scintillator that emits light when excited. This inner vessel is surrounded by layers of shielding and by about 2,000 photomultiplier tubes to detect the light flashes.(Credit: Borexino Collaboration)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quantum-cats-1_83007_990x742.jpgIn the new experiment, the physicists entangled photons in two separate laser beams with different wavelengths, and hence color: one yellow and one red. (CreditBarreto-Lemos, Vergano2014-08-28T18:31:37+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/27/physics-in-the-news-82/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/s_r01_f6ef469d.jpgNASA is exploring the idea of sending swarms of autonomous robots to explore other worlds. Robotic innovations by NASA scientists have greatly aided in space exploration. NASA is exploring the idea of sending swarms of autonomous robots to explore other worlds. Robotic innovations by NASA scientists have greatly aided in space exploration. (Credit: https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/wheel-damage_nasajpl-caltechmsss.jpgEvidence of a damaged wheel. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/largehadroncollidergetty.jpgLargeHADRONCOLLIDERGETTYWith a circumference of 52km, the “Higgs Factory” would be almost twice the size of Europe's equivalent, and significantly more powerful. The Chinese said it is due to be completed by 2028. Image above is the Large Hadron Collider. (Credit: Getty)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/heic1417a.jpgThe NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and many other telescopes on the ground and in space have been used to obtain the best view yet of a collision that took place between two galaxies when the Universe was only half its current age. The astronomers enlisted the help of a galaxy-sized magnifying glass to reveal otherwise invisible detail. These new studies of the galaxy H-ATLAS J142935.3-002836 have shown that this complex and distant object looks surprisingly like the well-known local galaxy collision, the Antennae Galaxies. In this picture, which combines views from Hubble and the Keck-II telescope on Hawaii (using adaptive optics), you can see a foreground galaxy that is acting as the gravitational lens. The galaxy resembles how our home galaxy, the Milky Way, would appear if seen edge-on. But around this galaxy there is an almost complete ring — the smeared out image of a star-forming galaxy merger far beyond.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/82491504-1-522x293.jpg"If we find a noise we can't get rid of, we might be detecting something fundamental about nature - a noise that is intrinsic to space-time," said Physicist Aaron Choi, the holometer project’s lead scientist. (Credit: NASA/ESA via Getty Images)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/solararray11.jpegsolararray1https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/solararray1.jpegsolararray1Shannon Zirbel with the solar panel array prototype, designed using the principles of origami, unfolded (Credit: BYU, Meier)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dnews-files-2014-08-brown-dwarf-670x440-140826-jpg.jpgFinding clouds of water floating in the atmosphere of an alien world is a significant find. Now, astronomers have reported preliminary findings that water clouds have been detected in the atmosphere of a brown dwarf, a mere 7.3 light-years from Earth.(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech, O'neil)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/8-scientistscr.jpgAs seen under an optical microscope, the heterostructures have a triangular shape. The two different monolayer semiconductors can be recognized through their different colors. (Credit: U of Washington)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1409006113491856.jpg2014-08-27T19:44:13+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/26/physics-in-the-news-81/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/during-august-16-and-17-1989-the-voyager-2-narrow-angle-camera-was-used-to-photograph-neptune-almost-continuously-recording-approximately-two-and-one-half-rotations-of-the-planet.jpgduring-august-16-and-17-1989-the-voyager-2-narrow-angle-camera-was-used-to-photograph-neptune-almost-continuously-recording-approximately-two-and-one-half-rotations-of-the-planethttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quantum-computing-01-0814-mdn.jpg"When you start to make electronics smaller and denser, not only are you making much more heat in the same amount of volume, but it's much harder for the heat to flow outward," says Peter Nalbach, a theoretical physicist at the University of Hamburg, Germany. (Credit: Mehau Kulyk/Getty)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/physicsresea.pngProbability density of an Efimov trimer state at different three-body geometries that are characterized by the polar angle -- indicated by the trimer legends. The key feature in the probability density is that unlike ordinary molecular binding that mostly has a single geometry, the Efimov trimer covers have a broad range of geometries. The atoms in such states behave more like in a fluid drop. (Credit: Yujun Wang, Kansas State University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/orbiting-space-debris-earth-space-junk-grey-black-lg.jpgThe agency intends to deploy the spacecraft, codename Liquidator, to clear up the geostationary orbit over the equator, which is 36 thousand kilometers above sea levelhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/b451cb6d2ad4ad19.jpgJonathan Menard, a principal research physicist and program director for the National Spherical Torus Experiment (NSTX), and Masa Ono, a principal research physicist and project director of the NSTX, stand in front of the experiment during a tour of the facility. The device has been shut down since 2011 while it undergoes a $94 million upgrade that will make it the most powerful device of its kind in the worldhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/sn-firststarsh.jpgThe very first stars in the Universe might have been hundreds of times more massive than the Sun. Credit: Artist's impression by National Astronomical Observatory of Japanhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-25-at-9-11-10-pm.pngRelative intensity (top row) and pre-trial significance (bottom row) of the cosmic-ray flux in the vicinity of Region A (left), Region B (center), and Region C (right), from the map shown ihttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/robot-brain.jpghey hope to create a massive online “brain” that can help all robots navigate and even understand the world around them. “The purpose,” says Saxena, who dreamed it all up, “is to build a very good knowledge graph—or a knowledge base—for robots to use.Thinkstockhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/asiasat6.jpgThe AsiaSat-6 payload undergoes final processing, ahead of its launch on Tuesday, 26 August. (Credit: AsiaSat)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/0821hinkov-w.jpg0821hinkov-wX-ray interference pattern measured while studying complex nano-layer structures. The sketch inserted illustrates the path of the x-ray beam relative to the surface of the sample. (Credit: Sebastian Macke)2014-08-26T05:37:41+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/25/physics-in-the-news-80/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/potw1222a.jpgThis picture shows ALMA antennas pointing towards the centre of the milky-way. (Photo: ESO, B. Tafreshi)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/aninterestin.jpg. A novel class of electronic materials – the so-called transition-metal oxides – hold promise for exciting, new applications. Where layers of this novel class of electronic materials touch, often a unique, and unprecedented phenomenon occurs: for instance, the interface between two insulators can become superconducting, or a strong magnetic order can build up between two non-magnetic layers. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/diamond-laser.jpgThe AsiaSat-6 payload undergoes final processing, ahead of its launch on Tuesday, 26 August. (Credit: AsiaSat)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/25mudur3.jpgIndian physicists propose a tabletop experiment that will provide scientists their first opportunity to measure the probability that particles can move through slits in a twisted path (depicted by the purple ray).https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/082114_cacmpg35_soft-infrastructure-large.jpg082114_CACMpg35_Soft-Infrastructure.largehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01a511fb4f6a970c-800wi.jpg2014-08-25T17:28:52+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/24/physics-in-the-news-79/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14-10494-large2-640x429.jpgResearchers have developed a flexible structure that can sense ambient conditions and adjust its color to match them. At the moment, it only works in black and white. (Credit: PNAS, Timmer)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01b7c6d17038970b-800wi.jpg"Maybe we will see how galaxies are magnetically connected to intergalactic space. This is a key experiment in preparation for the planned Square Kilometre Array (SKA) that should tell us how cosmic magnetic fields are generated," says Rainer Beck, lead astronomer with the Max Planck Institute. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/potw1431a-600x613.jpgThis new NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows the globular cluster IC 4499. A cosmic archaeological dig has unfolded within a giant ball of stars some 55,000 light-years away. Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mercurytransit_cortner_1200.jpgWhat’s that dot on the Sun? If you look closely, it is almost perfectly round. The dot is the result of an unusual type of solar eclipse that occurred in 2006. Usually it is the Earth’s Moon that eclipses the Sun. This time, the planet Mercury took a turn. (Credit: D. Cortner, NASA, K. Schmidt)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-24-at-10-39-30-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-08-24 at 10.39.30 AMTop: A typical set-up for squeezing injection in the first demonstrations of squeezing at GEO600 and LIGO, both using DC readout [36,37]. Proposed design for future detectors. This design features an in-vacuum OPO. The remainder of the squeezed light source remains outside of vacuum. (Credit: E. Oelker, L. Barsotti, S. Dwyer, D. Sigg, and N. Mavalvala) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dwarf_wide-fd70aeca2e4961d713137d9e6d38d1f4e7433322-s40-c85.jpgn this artist's conception, the atmosphere of an Earthlike planet displays a brownish haze — the result of widespread pollution. (Credit: Christine Pulliam/Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/vid_3015443c.jpgSingularity University in Silicon Valley (Credit: Steve Rhodes)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nistf1ph_1.jpgNIST-F1, the nation's primary time and frequency standard, is a cesium fountain atomic clock developed at the NIST laboratories in Boulder, Colorado. NIST-F1 contributes to the international group of atomic clocks that define Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the official world time. Because NIST-F1 is among the most accurate clocks in the world, it makes UTC more accurate than ever before. (Credit: Time and Frequency Division of NIST's PML) 2014-08-25T02:02:40+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/23/physics-in-the-news-78/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iss_aurora_1.jpgAn aurora dances in the atmosphere on Aug. 20, 2014, as the International Space Station flew over North America. This image was captured by astronaut Reid Wiseman from his vantage point on the ISS. (Credit: NASA/Handout/QMI Agency)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/29-spacestation.jpgThe suturing tool demonstrates image-guided anastomosis, which means the connecting of parts such as vessels. The target on the top of the tool is used to lead the tool's tip. This is the same technology used to track the robotic systems on the space shuttle and the International Space Station. (Credit: MDA and CIGITI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/xraylaserpro.jpgA patterned 3-D grid of tiny whirlpools, called quantum vortices, populate a nanoscale droplet of superfluid helium. Researchers found that in a micron-sized droplet, the density of vortices was 100,000 times greater than in any previous experiment on superfluids. An artistic rendering of a wheel-shaped droplet can be seen in the distance. (Credit: SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1408566023262883.pngAn overview of the brain-to-brain interface. (Credit: PLOS One)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/i1zqf1lw9bo4.jpgGov. Brown Signs Legislation At Google HQ That Allows Testing Of Autonomous Vehicles Google Inc. has conducted more than 300,000 miles of driverless car testing with vehicles. They navigate by collecting real-time sensor data and comparing it to pre-loaded maps that specify exact locations for roads and signs, while adapting to obstacles such as people and cars. (Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images, Kearns)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/vqcvfm1l7z2cu2p4qx05.pngOn July 29th, the the Automated Transfer Vehicle launched carrying samples of the stuff to the ISS, where it docked on August 12th. There, astronauts will conduct tests on the paint, which absorbs 99.5 percent of visible light (and 99.8 percent of longer wavelength light). (Credit: NASA, Campbell-Dollaghan)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/676x3801.jpg676x380https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/676x380.jpg676x380https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iss2.jpgthe space specialist said that the ISS surface was polluted very strongly due to operation of space engines and other factors. “We are conducting special works to polish somehow and put illuminators in order. This is particularly needed during long space flights,” Solovyev added.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bvrxpvhceaa2mju.jpgBvrXpvHCEAA2Mju(Credit: @EthansMommy17)2014-08-23T20:56:01+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/22/physics-in-the-news-77/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/spin-current-and-spin-accumulation-layer-systems-platinum-cobalt-lg.jpgThe scientists reported a 40-times-larger effect than previously achieved in semiconductor materials, with the largest value measured comparable to a record high value of the spin-Hall effect observed in heavy metals such as Platinum. (Credit: UCL London Centre for Nanotechnology)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/640px-carlo_rovelli_crop1-244x300.jpgCarlo Rovelli: "Theoretical physics has not done great in the last decades. Why? Well, one of the reasons, I think, is that it got trapped in a wrong philosophy." (Credit: Horgan)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cst-100-boeing.jpgBoeing in among three companies bidding for the next NASA contract to take astronauts into space. The company is offering its CST-100 space capsule in the competition. (Credit: Boeing)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ngc-3603-ngc-3576.jpgStar formation in the southern Milky WayThis mosaic of images from the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile shows two dramatic star formation regions in the southern Milky Way. (Credit: ESO/G. Beccari)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/r1317696_18201772.jpgNew meteorite evidence shows volcanic activity began much earlier in the history of the solar system than previously thought.(USGS)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-22-at-11-35-13-am.pngThe nickel-based catalyst is just as effective as platinum. (Credit: Tunnicliffe, Stanford)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/77096107_77094519.jpgThe first stars were born a few hundred million years after the Big Bang, as this artist impression shows. (Credit: NASA)2014-08-22T19:18:36+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/21/world-science-u/2014-08-21T19:10:59+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/21/physics-in-the-news-76/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/g31.jpgg3https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/black-hole-formation-670.jpgThe recent finding of an intermediate-mass black hole provides evidence that could support some theories of how supermassive black holes form. (Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/6a00d8341bf7f753ef014e881c2299970d.jpgTo date, perhaps some of the best evidence for parallel worlds actually arrives courtesy of an enigmatic oddity within deep-space, careening toward the Milky Way at an incredible 200,000 miles per hour. Though it’s more than 2 million light years away, the Andromeda galaxy, as observed by astronomers, appears to engage in anomalous behavior which, at times, suggests a strange gravitational phenomenon. Specifically, gravity that could be draining from another universe, as yet invisible to us, could be the impetus behind such anomalous phenomena in deep space. (Credit: Micah Hanks)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dm_nutcracker_snowflakes_1000.jpgHaving a single point in contact with the ground lets a ballerina spin. In the same way, a quantum state is dynamic because it can turn about a point thanks to quantum uncertainty, say CQT and Oxford researchers. (Credit: Michael Garner, courtesy English National Ballet)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/omps-limb_pr_image_web.jpgA cross-section of the Earth's ozone layer as measured by the limb profiler, part of the Ozone Mapper Profiler Suite that's aboard the Suomi NPP satellite. (Credit: NASA/NOAA) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/black-hole-collision.jpgA simulation of two colliding black holes. Colors reflect the variation of gravitational waves. (Credit: Werner Benger/NASA Blueshift)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/g3.jpgNASA and markerbot chose the winner of the mars base challenge in cooperation with NASA’s jet propulsion laboratory, makerbot have held the ‘mars base challenge’, a competition for the design of a bioshielding dwelling on earth’s neighboring planet. proposals had to respond to adverse environmental conditions such as extreme cold, high radiation levels, lack of oxygen and the frequent dust storms. (Credit: Makerbot and Noah Hornberger)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/black_hole_in_the_universe.jpgA star in a galaxy passes by a black hole closely enough to be destroyed once every 10,000 years. It is possible to detect the death of a star in a fairly distant galaxyas the destruction of a star generates a bright X-ray flare; it is only necessary to distinguish such a flare from other types of X-ray radiation. Because flares occur in a variety of astrophysical processes, the task of finding stars destroyed by black holes is quite complicated. (Credit: Sergei Sazonov)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hinkel2.jpegNatalie Hinkel gives a plenary talk at the Cool Stars 18 meeting in Flagstaff, Arizona, about her paper on the Hypatia Catalog. (Credit: Natalie Hinkel)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-20-at-5-38-04-pm.pngScreen Shot 2014-08-20 at 5.38.04 PM2014-08-21T16:36:24+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/20/physics-in-the-news-75/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lead.jpgFor as long as we’ve been able to make robots, we’ve been worried about them killing us. (Credit: Ociacia/Shutterstock)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-05-29-at-7-31-07-pm.pngSpaceX CEO Elon Musk and the new Dragon V2, which will soon carry people to the International Space Station (Credit: SpaceX_https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/s2-reutersmedia-net.jpgA view of the Kori nuclear power plant in BusanThe Kori nuclear power plant in Busan, southeast of Seoul, is seen in this picture released by the plant to Reuters on April 14, 2011. (Credit: Reuters/Kori Nuclear Power Plant/Handout) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/573691-4c5de4a2-2802-11e4-943a-734490773104.jpg573691-4c5de4a2-2802-11e4-943a-734490773104 A robot carries food to customers in a restaurant in Kunshan, China. Photo: Johannes Eisele. (Credit: AFP)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/f842dc5c-a38c-4a5b-b1f5-d042e072079a.pngIn Einstein’s general theory of relativity, gravity is nothing more than the curvature of spacetime. A massive object, such as the sun, causes a deformation of the spacetime grid, while another object such as a planet or a light beam follows the shortest path (a “geodesic”) on this grid. To an observer, this looks like a deflection of the trajectory caused by gravity. (Bottom) A collapsing star can form a black hole so dense and massive that it creates a region of infinite curvature (a “singularity”) so that—inside the event horizon—light cannot escape. Current research in gravitation is attempting to modify general relativity to account for such objects consistent with quantum theory. (Credit: Carin Cain)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/orion_neb.jpgorion_nebShown above is part of one of the most imaged parts of the night sky, the Orion Nebula. Since the angular size of Orion's Nebula is so large on the sky, only a portion is shown here. Located just below "Orion's Belt" this star-forming region is dominated by four young, massive O stars (known as the Trapezium, not pictured here). The wispy blue, green gas seen above is composed mostly of hydrogen, the main element used in forming stars. The Orion Nebula is an astrophysical laboratory, providing an up-close view of the birth of stars (Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/thermal-power-plant-india.jpgA file photograph of Adani Power's thermal power plant in the western Indian state of Gujarat.(Credit: Reuters)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/24-studyreveals.jpg24-studyrevealsEuropean Space Agency astronaut Andre Kuipers, Expedition 30 flight engineer, prepares vials in the Columbus laboratory of the International Space Station for venous blood sample draws during an immune system investigation. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/gl10_test013_8-19-14.jpgGreased Lighning (GL10) project 10 engine electric prototype remote control plane. Photo taken 8/14/14 (Credit: NASA Langley/David C. Bowman)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/glowing-plankton.jpg2014-08-20T14:27:05+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/02/physics-in-the-news-27/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bio-bot.pngbio-botMuscle-Powered Bio-Bots: Soft biological machines (Credit: Janet Sinn-Hamlon)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1-thehiggsboso.jpgSimulation of a particle collision in which a Higgs boson is produced. (Credit: Lucas Taylor/CMS)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nasa-near-earth-asteroid-count-chart-wise.jpgThis chart illustrates how infrared is used to more accurately determine an asteroid's size. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01901e1f4752970b-500wi.jpg"The dark matter seems to 'know' how the visible matter is distributed. They seem to conspire with each other such that the gravity of the visible matter at the characteristic radius of the dark halo is always the same," said Dr. Benoit Famaey (Universities of Bonn and Strasbourg).https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/12972515933_1c77e19750_b.jpgHubble Witnesses an Asteroid Mysteriously Disintegrating (Credit: NASA Goddard Photo and Video)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/wouldearthlo.jpgA zoomed-in image of Earth from the perspective of NASA’s Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). The small dot below it is the moon. Credit: NASA Ames2014-08-20T01:39:48+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/27/physics-in-the-news-22/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cosmicowngoa.jpgThe visible galaxies in the Local Group simulation, shown in the lower right, only trace a tiny fraction of the vast number of dark matter halos, revealed in the upper left. Credit: John Helly, Till Sawala, James Trayford, Durham Universityhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/perseus_0.jpghttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/140625-space-artist-illustration-gliese-832c_ca12ad8dc1adab78956f46a1d33035ff-nbcnews-ux-640-360.jpgPotentially habitable Super-Earth Gliese 832 c appears in an artist's conception against a background of a stellar nebula.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1403717114562422.jpgBefore (left) and after (center) images of the region where DES13S2cmm was discovered. On the right is the supernova. (Credit: Dark Energy Survey)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/stereo-images-corona.jpgScientists used these observations of the sun's atmosphere (the bright light of the sun itself is blocked by the black circle at the middle) from NASA's Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory on Aug. 5, 2007, to define the outer limits of the solar atmosphere, the corona. (Credit: NASA/STEREO)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/iss038e029117-617x416.jpgmage Caption: The Ants In Space CSI-06 investigation looks at how an ant colony responds to the extreme environment of microgravity aboard the International Space Station to solve their collective need for resources. Data gathered from this study may help with algorithms for robotics on Earth. (Credit: NASA)2014-08-20T01:38:48+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/29/physics-in-the-news-24/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nyberg-robonaut-2-iss-levity.jpgAboard the International Space Station, astronaut Karen Nyberg indulges in a moment of levity with Robonaut 2. Image tweeted on June 28, 2013.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01a73de2a632970d-800wi.jpgAstronomers Confirm from 600,000 Galaxieshttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dark-matter-shutterstock_146381012-webonly.jpgTheory says there may be disk of it at center of galaxy. (Credit: Shutterstock)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/paley9-perfect-svg_-300x300.pngThe Paley graph of order 9 is a perfect graph, making it an appropriate object of veneration and study on June 28, a perfect day. Image: David Eppstein. (Credit: Wikimedia) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1403755151198.jpgThe "grandfather paradox": Time travel raises the spectrum of possibly changing life events. Photo: Universal Studios2014-08-20T01:38:22+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/30/physics-in-the-news-25/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/10352199_10152107528011765_3369126901951927095_n.jpgOrion, seen here with its heat shield installed, being maneuvered for stacking on the spacecraft’s service module at KSC earlier this month. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/stamper-krun-shreppler-300x194.jpgMechanical oscillators translate an applied force into measureable mechanical motion. The Standard Quantum Limit is imposed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, in which the measurement itself perturbs the motion of the oscillator, a phenomenon known as “quantum back-action.” (Credit: Kevin Gutowski) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/newsimage_2128.jpgBy filtering light from the sun, CQT researchers have made a strong detection of a quantum effect known as 'photon bunching' in its light. This is a hallmark of the sun radiating like a black body. (Credit: NASA/SDO)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ceres-vesta-extra-tight-july_edited-11.jpgMap showing Ceres and Vesta as they approach each other closely this coming week. Both asteroids are near the easy-to-find star Zeta in Virgo not far from bright Mars. Although the asteroids appear very close together in the sky, they’re really about 51 million miles apart with Vesta in the foreground. (Credit: Chris Marriott’s SkyMap)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/574346main_universe20110722-43_946-710.jpgAn artist’s concept illustration shows a quasar, or feeding black hole, similar to APM 08279+5255, where astronomers discovered huge amounts of water vapor. (NASA/ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/touchdown-confirmed-mars-landing-nasa-curiosity-rover_6812.jpgA software bug, that is, as Flaw turns up in popular compression imaging algorithm. (Credit:2014-08-20T01:38:01+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/01/physics-in-the-news-26/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/38-india2-afpgt.jpgScientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation work in the Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System control room at the Indian Deep Space Network (Credit: AP)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/23-scientistsde.jpg23-scientistsde A group of researchers from Russia, Belarus and Spain, including Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology professor Yury Lozovik, have developed a microscopic force sensor based on carbon nanotubes. (Credit: Computational Materials Science journal)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/6859864728_5d68aedbd7_b.jpg(Credit) J.Gabás Esteban/cc-by-nc-sa 3.0 https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/chaos-papahilippou-particle-cern-resized.jpgA method to correct tiny defects in the LHC’s superconducting magnets (example shown above) was crucial to the discovery of the Higgs boson, which was announced in 2012. (Credit: CERN)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/15-researchersc.jpgThis image shows quantized electron states, for quantum numbers n = 1 to 6, of a linear quantum dot consisting of 22 indium atoms positioned on the surface of an InAs crystal. (Credit: Stefan Fölsch/PDI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/12_verge_super_wide.jpgThis is Spaceport America's Operations Center. The building, which Hendrickson notes is affectionately called "the sock," houses the facility's mission control center on its upper floor. (Credit: Dan Hendrickson)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/saturn-storm-2-580x443.jpgSaturn’s northern storm marches through the planet’s atmosphere in the top right of this false-color mosaic from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute) 2014-08-20T01:37:49+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/03/1205/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hs-2014-35-a-print-crop.jpgTwo multiple-exposure images from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope showing Kuiper Belt objects, or KBOs, against a background of stars in the constellation Sagittarius. The two KBOs are roughly 4 billion miles from Earth. (Credit: NASA, ESA, SwRI, JHU/APL, New Horizons KBO Search Team)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1404339659478-620x349.jpgAn artist's impression of how NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory will look in space. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/microboone-1.jpgThe detector for the MicroBooNe is gently lowered into place. (Credit: Fermilab)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/arecordbreak.jpgThe accelerator-based pulse neutron source at ORNL’s Spallation Neutron Source operated steadily for users at the maximum design power of 1.4 megawatts June 26. (Credit: Genevieve Martin/ORNL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/122107-ff1343a2-023d-11e4-8a13-c9890f82f8cd.jpg Being entered for first ime since 1976 radiation blast ... The McCluskey Room located inside Hanford Nuclear Reservation’s closed plutonium finishing plant. (Credit: AP) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mean_void_imprint.pngThe mean imprint on the Cosmic Microwave Background of 50 supervoids. (Credit: BSA-3.0)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ngc-5548-2.jpgMap of the gas streamer spewing from the heart of NGC 5548. (Credit: NASA, ESA, and A. Feild (STScI))2014-08-20T01:37:30+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/04/physics-in-the-news-28/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ros_67pcg_2728june14.gifAnimation of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko rotating as seen by Rosetta on June 27-28, 2014 (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/binary-star.jpg Simulation of a binary star system. (Impolite offspring not pictured.) (Credit: Malcolm Park; Getty Images) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/grail-gif.gifTwin spacecraft, named Ebb and Flow — about the size of washing machines — chased each other around the moon for three months. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/underthebrig.jpgVenus can be seen as a black dot eclipsing the Sun in this image from 2012. Venus orbits too close to the Sun to the planet to be habitable for life as we know it. Venus experiences a runaway greenhouse and the average surface temperatures are thought to be around 864ºF. (Credit: NASA/SDO & the AIA, EVE, and HMI teams; Digital Composition: Peter L. Dove) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1404419232936120.jpgArtist's concept showing potential internal structure of Titan. (Credit: A. Tavani/NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/potential-habitable-exoplanets-750x375.jpgPotential-Habitable-Exoplanets-750x375Potential Habitable Exoplanets (Credit: The habitable exoplanet catalog) 2014-08-20T01:37:18+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/05/physics-in-the-news-29/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/15339367-mmmain.jpgThe Moon is near Mars tonight. (Credit:Starrynight.com)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/qao1d3x-660x825.jpgThis ad should have a huge asterisk somewhere explaining that Koreshanity was a cult started by a guy who shocked himself and woke up thinking he was Jesus.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/14206376348_fca4af4ba5_o-1024x681.jpgThis view is looking into the Destiny Laboratory from Node 1 (Unity) with Node 2 (Harmony) in the background. Destiny is the primary research laboratory for U.S. payloads, supporting a wide range of experiments and studies. (Credit NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cassini.jpgCassini has uncovered a trove of exciting scientific information by discovering new moons of Saturn, exploring the jetting geysers of Enceladus, and studying the bizarre polar hexagon at Saturn’s north pole. (Credit: NASA) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nasa-sofia-laboratory-2014-07-04-02.jpgBy sticking a 17-ton telescope into a Boeing 747, you can launch it up to 45,000 feet and get past 99 percent of our atmosphere's water vaporhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/discoveryexp.jpgThis artist's rendering shows a newly discovered planet (far right) orbiting one star (right) of a binary star system. The discovery, made by a collaboration of international research teams and led by researchers at The Ohio State University, expands astronomers' notions of where to look for planets in our galaxy. (Credit: Cheongho Han, Chungbuk National University, Republic of Korea.)2014-08-20T01:37:05+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/06/physics-in-the-news-30/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gavinschmidt.jpgGavin Schmidt (Credit: Christy Field)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/726784-762328ce-04d0-11e4-ac31-28cbd3f83dd9.jpg Part human, part machine, the future of artificial intelligence. (Credit: Getty Images) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/j-michael-bishop-300x200.jpgDr. J. Michael Bishop- (Credit: Christian Flemming/Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cdcb6b66a0dbacee9051e62d881bf139.jpgTeleportation aside, they'd feel right at home on earth. (Credit: AP)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/zumino-obit-master495.jpg Bruno Zumino in 1985. (Credit: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/spergel_lead_crop-266x300.jpgDavid Spergel, a theoretical astrophysicist at Princeton University who was a theorist on NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe mission. (Credit: Princeton)2014-08-20T01:36:46+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/07/physics-in-the-news-31/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/howthefainte.jpgA view of the entire simulation volume showing the large scale structure of the gas, which is distributed in filaments and clumps. The red regions are heated by UV light coming from the galaxies, highlighted in white. These galaxies are over 1000 times less massive than the Milky Way and contributed nearly one-third of the UV light during re-ionisation. The field of view of this image is 400,000 light years across, when the universe was only 700 million years old. (Credit: John Wise)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/98ddda80-25b5-47cf-ac98-ba830349a206-460x276.jpegA worker rides on his bicycle in the CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) tunnel during maintenance works. (Credit: AFP / FABRICE COFFRINIFABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/satellitexra.jpgsatellitexraAn artist's impression of a magnetar with an intense torroidal magnetic field in its core. (Credit: NASA/CXC/M.Weiss)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nasa-sls-mission.jpgNASA plans to spend $6.8 billion of its funding for the SLS project. (Credit: NASA)2014-08-20T01:36:30+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/08/physics-in-the-news-32/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bush-detects-error_jpg_250x1000_q851.jpgThe story is that Bush et al. at MIT did some playful experiments with droplets and the conclusion is supposed to be that this strengthens the case for de Broglie’s pilot wave theory. (Credit: Motl)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/comparison-wave-dark-matter-particle-lg1.jpgThis figure shows that a comparison of the distribution of matter is very similar on a large scale between wave dark matter, the focus of this research, and the usual dark matter particle. (Credit: UPV/EHU)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/era-of-astronomical-discovery-alt1.jpgNergis Mavalvala (pictured) aims to detect elusive gravitational waves. (Credit: Len Rubenstein)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dnews-files-2014-07-black-hole-jet-670x440-140707-jpg.jpgOne of the most enduring mysteries behind the dynamics of supermassive black holes, and their impacts on galactic evolution, has been uncovered by an international team of astrophysicists. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nasa-meal.pngA sample meal demonstrates what NASA astronauts might eat aboard the International Space Station. (Credit: Daniel Terdiman/CNET)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/5471b27777eea385dd1d6bc0a8499219116aef4f_m.jpgAlbert Einstein Standing Alone in Palm Springs Deserthttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bush-detects-error_jpg_250x1000_q85.jpgThe story is that Bush et al. at MIT did some playful experiments with droplets and the conclusion is supposed to be that this strengthens the case for de Broglie's pilot wave theory. (Credit: Motl)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/comparison-wave-dark-matter-particle-lg.jpgThis figure shows that a comparison of the distribution of matter is very similar on a large scale between wave dark matter, the focus of this research, and the usual dark matter particle. (Credit: UPV/EHU)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/era-of-astronomical-discovery-alt.jpgNergis Mavalvala (pictured) aims to detect elusive gravitational waves. (Credit: Len Rubenstein)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/artist-impression-active-galaxy.jpgThis artist’s impression shows a galaxy releasing material via two strong jets (shown here in red/orange), as well as through wide-angle outflows (shown in gray/blue). The black hole at the galaxy’s center drives both jets and outflows. (Credit: ESA/AOES Medialab)2014-08-20T01:36:14+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/10/physics-in-the-news-34/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/centaurusa_high.jpgThere's just not enough of them to account for interstellar light, say researchers. (Credit: NASA/ESAhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/planet-star-artist-iau-e1404923586816.jpgArtist’s impression of a distant exoplanet – planet beyond our solar system – orbiting its star. (Credit: IAU)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hs-2014-10-a-web_print.jpgUDF, COSMOS, GOODS-S, and AEGIS Galaxy Fields. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pan-stars-gal.jpgComet C/2012 K1, also known as comet Pan-STARRS, was captured by NASA's NEOWISE probe as it swept across the sky on May 20, 2014. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/voyager-in-interstellar-space.jpgThis artist’s concept shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by plasma, ionized gas (illustrated here as brownish haze), that was thrown off by giant stars millions of years ago. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/proximal_orbits_large1.jpgProximal_Orbits_large1Cassini will end its historic mission with 22 breathtaking loops passing through the gap between Saturn and its innermost ring. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/introduction-science-background.jpgCassini will end its historic mission with 22 breathtaking loops passing through the gap between Saturn and its innermost ring. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/june-4-2011-flare-stereo_01.pngA solar flare erupted on the far side of the sun on June 4, 2011, and sent solar neutrons out into space. Solar neutrons don't make it to all the way to Earth, but NASA's MESSENGER, orbiting Mercury, found strong evidence for the neutrons, offering a new technique to study these giant explosions. (Credit: NASA/STEREO/Helioviewer)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/jp-zombie-master495.jpgJP-ZOMBIE-master495 The International Sun-Earth Explorer-3 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center before its launch. (Credit NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/june-4-2011-flare-stereo_0.pngA solar flare erupted on the far side of the sun on June 4, 2011, and sent solar neutrons out into space. Solar neutrons don't make it to all the way to Earth, but NASA's MESSENGER, orbiting Mercury, found strong evidence for the neutrons, offering a new technique to study these giant explosions. (Credit: NASA/STEREO/Helioviewer)2014-08-20T01:35:55+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/11/physics-in-the-news-35/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen-shot-2014-07-11-at-12-11-10-pm.pngThis image shows the results of calculations aimed at determining which of six chemical elements would make the best catalyst for promoting an ammonia synthesis reaction. Based on thousands of these calculations, which yielded a range of results (colored dots) that reveal the uncertainty involved, researchers estimated an 80 percent chance that ruthenium (Ru, in red) will be a better catalyst than iron (Fe, in orange.) (Credit: Andrew Medford and Aleksandra Vojvodic/SUNCAT, Callie Cullum)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cig9mx7lr2ripbtbpcty.jpgULAS J0015+01 at the center of the photo. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/19thcenturym.jpgohns Hopkins graduate student Xiang Yang, at right, teamed up with Rajat Mittal, a professor of mechanical engineering, to revamp a "useless" 169-year-old math strategy, making it work up to 200 times faster. (Credit: Will Kirk/JHU)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bsorxgvcaaa5q8y_large.jpgSteven Wright saw the fireball Thursday, July 10 (Credit: Steven Wright)2014-08-20T01:34:48+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/12/physics-in-the-news-36/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/newsimage_2181.jpgThe base for the research collaboration between Microsoft and the Center for Quantum Devices, called Station Q–Copenhagen, aims to realise quantum information (Credit: ku.dk)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/image_2062-messier-101.jpgThis image shows the nearby spiral galaxy Messier 101 and the seven newly discovered dwarf galaxies. (Credit: Allison Merritt et al.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mars-dryice-gullies.jpgThis pair of before (left) and after (right) images captured by the HiRise camera on NASA’s MRO documents the formation of a new channel on a Martian slope between 2010 and 2013. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/927792-e29fb4d8-08b1-11e4-ac31-28cbd3f83dd9.jpg The Arecibo Observatory This pair of before (left) and after (right) images captured by the HiRise camera on NASA’s MRO documents the formation of a new channel on a Martian slope between 2010 and 2013. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/927686-37c87f50-08ab-11e4-ac31-28cbd3f83dd9.jpgCSIRO Parkes radio telescope observing in the morning twilight. Credit: Shaun Amyhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/isee3_mission_control.jpgAn old McDonalds serves as ISEE-3 mission control (Credit: ISEE-3)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pia18399_ip.jpgThe blue line added to this June 27, 2014, image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is the edge of the ellipse that was charted as safe terrain for the rover's August 2012 landing. Curiosity is visible right on the ellipse line in the lower center of the image. This 3-sigma landing ellipse is about 4 miles long and 12 miles wide (7 kilometers by 20 kilometers). Curiosity reached the edge of it for the first time with a drive of about 269 feet (82 meters) earlier that day. (Credit: NASA)2014-08-20T01:34:36+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/13/physics-in-the-news-37/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/multiverse-magazine-illustration-01_77755_990x742.jpgThis illustration depicts a main membrane out of which individual universes arise; they then expand in size through time. (Credit: Moonrunner Design)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2012-12-12-universevalleysm.jpg(Credit: Mario Livio)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kuo-south-pole.jpgChao-Lin Kuo, who helped design the BICEP2 experiment, isn’t bothered by criticism that cosmic dust may account for his results. He just wants to know the truth. (Credit: Chao-Lin Kuo)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/infographic.jpg(Credit: sciencemag.org)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cartoondatavsstatistics.jpgCartoonDataVsStatisticshttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/h353_w628_m6_otrue_lfalse.jpgAn illustration of The Planetary Society's LightSail spacecraft. (Credit: SpaceX)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/venus_express_aerobraking_625.jpgVisualisation of Venus Express during the aerobraking manoeuvre, which will see the spacecraft orbiting Venus at an altitude of around 130 km from 18 June to 11 July. In the month before, the altitude will gradually be reduced from around 200 km to 130 km. If the spacecraft survives and fuel permits, the elevation of the orbit will be raised back up to approximately 450 km, allowing operations to continue for a further few months. Eventually, however, the spacecraft will plunge back into the atmosphere and the mission will end. (Credit: ESA - C. Carreau)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dvorkin_fig1.pngThe colored curves describe different velocity dependences of the scattering strength; it is scaling as v to the nth power. The horizontal axis, k, is a measure of how separated two points in space might be; larger k corresponds to smaller physical separation. The vertical axis (technically known as a “power spectrum”) describes how correlated two points separated by a scale 1/k are; higher number mean more correlation. The one point with error bars shows that most of the models the authors consider are not very favored by the data. The black dots around the error-barred point show the slope of the power spectrum the data allows; it also is not very compatible with the models considered. Note this data is taken from correlating clouds of neutral gas we infer by the light they absorb; as described above as well. These clouds, also known as the Lyman-alpha forest, are considered large-scale structure (in contrast to the CMB).https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/5055005_orig.jpg(Credit: NASA)2014-08-20T01:34:24+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/14/physics-in-the-news-38/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/kuipers_waterdrop.jpgAn air bubble was blown into the water droplet to create this effect. (Credit: Imgur)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/12ndwavesystemsincd-wave-system-with-visible-512-qubit-chip-1384789518371.jpgWhat’s going on inside the D-Wave Two is still a matter of debate. (Credit D-Wave Systems)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen-shot-2014-07-13-at-8-55-12-pm.pngBathurst Observatory Research Facility manager Ray Pickard said work will begin on the Bathurst Asteroid Research Telescope next week. (Credit: ZENIO LAPKA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/exoplanet-artist-concept-617x416.jpgImage Caption: Artist's conception of a hypothetical exoplanet orbiting a yellow, Sun-like star. Astronomers have measured the ages of 22 Sun-like stars using their spins, in a method called gyrochronology. Before now, only two Sun-like stars had measured spins and ages. (Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/article-2690424-1f9c528100000578-71_634x537.jpgBritish scientists have created a material which absorbs all but 0.035 per cent of light, a new world record, and is so dark the human eye struggles to discern what it is that it is seeing, giving the appearance of a black hole. (Credit: Surrey Nano Systems)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/99-researchersd.jpgResearchers have shown that clusters of 40 boron atoms form a molecular cage similar to the carbon buckyball. This is the first experimental evidence that such a boron cage structure exists. (Credit: Wang lab / Brown University)2014-08-20T01:34:10+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/15/1474/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/tumblr_inline_n8lt0dnvsl1rwys5r.jpgIndia's Zetatrek citizen science initiative is online workshop starting on 19th July, where science and math hobbyists from all over the world are invited to study the original manuscripts of Sir Isaac Newton. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/9bfff314-c95d-4115-a572-ad94d0853311.pnga) An example of the classical phase transition in a ferromagnet. Thermal fluctuations causing the random reorientation of the constituent spins grow with temperature. They compete with the tendency of the local magnetic fields to align the spins. As a result, the net magnetization in the ordered state continuously decreases with temperature (orange line) and drops to zero at a critical temperature Tc, surrounded by a narrow critical region (dashed rectangle). (b) A generic example of the quantum phase transition. Quantum fluctuations controlled by the nonthermal parameter g lead to a similar phase transition at a critical value gc, the so called quantum critical point, already at zero temperature, T=0. Their interplay with thermal fluctuations opens up a progressively broader, V-shaped quantum critical region extending much above the zero temperature (dashed lines). https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/spectrum-perfectly-ordered-crystal-to-perfectly-disordered-anticrystal-lg.jpgMaterials can be described as being on a spectrum from a perfectly ordered crystal to a perfectly disordered anticrystal. (Credit: Liu, Goodrich, Nagel)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/smallestswis.jpg20 bromine atoms positioned on a sodium chloride surface using the tip of an atomic force microscope at room temperature, creating a Swiss cross with the size of 5.6nm. The structure is stable at room temperature and was achieved by exchanging chlorine with bromine atoms. (Credit: Department of Physics, University of Basel)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/16.jpgThe damaged 4th unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant and a memorial sign "Heroes, Professionals - those who protected the world from nuclear disaster" in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone (Credit: RIA Novosti)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/htomutau.jpgThe results obtained by the CMS Collaboration showing that six different channels all give a non-zero value for the decay rate of Higgs boson into pairs of tau and muon. (Credit: Pauline Gagnon)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/theworldsfir.jpg This image depicts from left to right Serge Rosenblum, Yulia Lovsky, Orel Bechler and Itay Shomroni. At the center of the photonic router is a single atom that routes photons in different directions. (Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/cavitybusscheme-72dpi.jpgThe device combines a superconducting microwave resonator to trap the photons and a circuit quantum electrodynamic qubit that's linked to the resonator.(Credit: Schoelkopf Lab, Yale)2014-08-20T01:33:57+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/16/physics-in-the-news-39/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/largenumbero.pngThis map shows the distribution of dark matter (black) in the Universe, overlapping with optical measured clusters of galaxies (red circles). The mass peaks in the map contain significant cosmological information, will provide us with an improved understanding about the dark side of the Universe. The size of this map is about 4 square degrees corresponding to only 2.5% of the full CS82 survey footprint shown in the next figure. (Credit: CS82, SDSS)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/arecibo_1170-770x460.jpg"The radio waves show every sign of having come from far outside our galaxy—a really exciting prospect," says Victoria Kaspi. (Credit: Paul/Flickr) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/earth-blue-nasa-marble-all-157348.jpgearth-blue-nasa-marble-all-157348(Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/hotspotmap-640x342.jpgThe hotspot map for ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays. (Credit: Telescope Array)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/6a00d8341bf7f753ef01a3fd319244970b-800wi.jpg(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SSI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mars-iron-meteorite-curiosity-lebanon.jpgThis photo by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows the huge iron meteorite "Lebanon" (7 feet wide) and its smaller companion "Lebanon B." The two meteorites were found by Curiosity on May 25, 2014. The circular insets are more detailed views by Curiosity's Chem-Cam instrument overlaid on an image by the rover's Remote Micro-Imager. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/LPGNantes/CNRS/IAS/MSSS)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/3-physicistsde.jpgBrookhaven Lab/ATLAS physicist Marc-André Pleier adjusting detector components. (Credit: Brookhaven Lab/ATLAS)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/38061128-61f6-47f1-ae39-875ebc73f30c_320x180.jpgAlthough we know that the magnetic field originates from several sources, exactly how it is generated and why it changes is not yet fully understood. (ESA/ATG Medialab)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/clip_image004_thumb4.jpgHigh temperatures expanding the seal material could have either impeded the flow, or have precluded the latch valve from opening even with the microswitch indicated to telemetry that the valve was open.2014-08-20T01:33:44+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/17/physics-in-the-news-41/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/4854853_original_1354598770.jpg(Credit: Ritvars Skuja)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sdfasdf.png(Credit: S. Schiller et al., Phys. Rev. Lett (2014))https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1405503951682-cached.jpg1405503951682.cachedDARPA wants its new experimental spaceship to fly 10 times within in 10 days and it wants the contractor to show that the vessel can fly at 10 times the speed of sound or more. (Credit: DARPA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/machinelearning2.jpg(Credit: Sandbox Studio, Chicago)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/space-station.jpgThe International Space Station’s robotic arm, Canadarm2, grapples the Orbital Sciences’ Cygnus cargo craft. (Source: NASA TV) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/perthsplanet.jpgPerth engineer ‘TG’ Tan hunts planets with his backyard observatory in Mt Claremont. (Credit: TG Tan)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/08n300ostendotechnologiesimageprojectiononqpi-1405367812980.jpgQuantum Photonic Imager: Ostendo’s light-field display produces 3-D images using light-emitting pixels and piles of pixel-level processing. (Credit: Ostendo Technologies)2014-08-20T01:33:29+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/18/physics-in-the-news-42/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/screen-shot-2014-07-18-at-8-38-50-am.png(Credit: PI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dnews-files-2014-07-rosetta-670x440-140717-jpg.jpgNew images from the Rosetta comet probe show its target has a twin nucleus. (Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM IAA/SSO/ INTA /UPM /DASP/ IDA/Planetary Society)2014-08-20T01:33:16+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/19/physics-in-the-news-43/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/140717142011-large.jpgThe interior of the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The object entering from the left is the target positioner, on which a millimeter-scale target is mounted. Researchers recently used NIF to study the interior state of giant planets. (Credit: Image by Damien Jemison/LLNL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/image.jpgCanada is about to build technology that will be used to map an asteroid in 3D using lasers on an upcoming space mission.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pw-2014-07-17-commissariat-dama.jpgOn a high: do muons and neutrinos mimic DAMA's signal? (Credit: DAMA/LIMA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dn25912-1_300.jpgFresh from the ATLAS detector at the Large Hadron Collider (Credit: CERN)2014-08-20T01:33:02+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/20/physics-in-the-news-44/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/robot-eic-rm-vrge_large_verge_medium_landscape.jpgThe Associated Press recently announced a big new hire: A robot reporter from Automated Insights (AI) would be employed to write up to 4,400 earnings report stories per quarter. (Credit: The Verge) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/11-smartwatch-w529-h352-2x.jpgIn the past week, I’ve been called “Inspector Gadget” twice, had a near-calamitous accident involving spray-on sunblock, and felt my arm vibrate so often I started treating it as a phantom limb. (Credit: Photo: Bobby Doherty/New York Magazine)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/400px-quintephone_brainwave_regen_poster_colour.jpgBrainwave electrodes for regenerative musical performance (Credit: BY-SA 3.0)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gripping_robot_fingers.jpgMIT's robot fingers get a grip. (Credit: Melanie Gonick/MIT)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/chkbt4oax7cpuzd4jp4o.gifCredit: Rsorokanichhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/darkmatter-590x330.jpg US Department of Energy is funding Dr. Peter W. Graham research effort to the tune of $750,000. 2014-08-20T01:32:49+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/22/physics-in-the-news-46/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1405954313000-d1-flag-brain-mapping.jpgA Diffusion Spectrum MRI (DSI) of the human brain obtained with the MGH-UCLA Human ?Connectom? Scanner. The fiber tracks are color-coded by direction: red=left-right, green =anterior-posterior, blue=through brain stem. (Credit: National Institutes of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and National Institutes of Health)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/boostingthef.jpgTwo atoms exchanging a virtual photon. Empty space around them is not as empty as one might think. (Credit: Vienna University of Technology, TU Vienna)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1920px-keplers_supernova.jpgKepler's Supernova Remnant "On October 9, 1604, sky watchers -- including astronomer Johannes Kepler, spotted a "new star" in the western sky, rivaling the brilliance of nearby planets. "Kepler's supernova" was the last exploding supernova seen in our Milky Way galaxy. (Credit: NASA/ESA/JHU/R.Sankrit & W.Blair)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/800px-george_ellis_img_02771.jpg"You cannot do physics or cosmology without an assumed philosophical basis," says George Ellis. (Credit: David Monniaux)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/22john-master495.jpgNew particles may yet be discovered, and even new laws. But it is almost taken for granted that everything from physics to biology, including the mind, ultimately comes down to four fundamental concepts: matter and energy interacting in an arena of space and time. (Credit: Carl Wiens)2014-08-20T01:32:23+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/23/physics-in-the-news-47/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/2046416_te_air_waveguide.jpgAn “air waveguide” has been used to enhance light signals collected from distant sources. A single waveguide could be used to send out a laser and collect a signal. (Credit: Howard Milchberg) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/albert-einstein.jpgWhat is the view of time that Albert Einstein presents to us in special relativity? Einstein tells us that there is no separate ‘time’ or ‘space.’ ‘Time’ and ‘space’ cannot be separated; they are a united whole.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/scdms-web.jpgThe Super Cryogenic Dark Matter Search is an international, multimillion dollar dark matter experiment currently based in Minnesota with plans to progress the project by building a more sensitive detector at SNOLAB.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/neutrins2.jpg The research group demonstrates that adding such massive neutrinos to the standard model does not really explain all datasets. Credit: The Milky Way, NASA. Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-07-massive-neutrinos-standard-cosmological-concordance.html#jCphttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dnews-files-2014-07-transformer-pulsar-670x440-140722-jpg.jpgdnews-files-2014-07-transformer-pulsar-670x440-140722-jpgThese artist's renderings show one model of pulsar J1023 before (top) and after (bottom) its radio beacon (green) vanished. Normally, the pulsar's wind staves off the companion's gas stream. When the stream surges, an accretion disk forms and gamma-ray particle jets (magenta) obscure the radio beam. NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centerhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ad8c203d-85d1-4bcf-8884475516f1c0d4_article.jpg(Credit: Brookhaven National Laboratory)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/centaurusahalo.jpgThis image shows the stunning elliptical galaxy Centaurus A. Recently, astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to probe the outskirts of this galaxy to learn more about its dim halo of stars. (Credit: ESA/Hubble)/NASA/Digitized Sky Survey/MPG/ESOhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sternenentstehung_559319.jpgDensity, temperature, and CII projections along the y-axis at a scale of 1 pc, for three different metallicities. (Credit: University of Göttingen)2014-08-20T01:32:08+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/24/physics-in-the-news-48/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/michael-freedman.jpgThere’s nothing like a Star Trek reference (yay Tribbles!) to help explain complex stuff like quantum computing. (Credit: Microsoft, Michael-Freedman)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gg2of0edafhpmcm4.jpg One approach of making computers faster relies on quantum dots, a kind of artificial atom, easily controlled by applying an electric field. A new study demonstrates that changing the coupling of three coherently coupled quantum dots with electrical impulses can help better control them. (Credit: Tooski, S. B. et al.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ccnew12_06_14.jpgFig. 1. Left: Limits on the dark-matter particle mass as a function of the effective interaction scale from the associated production of the particle with a top-quark pair. Fig. 2. Right: The limits set on the dark-matter particle mass from the search for invisible Higgs-boson decays compared with those from direct-detection experiments.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/a711e7e2-d58c-45e6-85fe337e670d0f81_article.jpgView of the LHC tunnel sector 3-4. Proposals for two particle accelerators could see the country aim to become the collider capital of the world. (Credit: Maximilien Brice (CERN))https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/thebirthofto.jpgThe atomic layers of the topological insulator bismuth selenide are visible in this high-resolution electron microscope image. (Credit: Samarth lab, Penn State University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pluto_concept.jpgArtist's concept of Pluto (Credit: NASA, ESA and G. Bacon (STScI))https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/zoom2-580x159.jpgRosetta imaged its target comet, Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, from about 3,417 miles (5,500 kilometers) away. The “neck” of the comet appears to be brighter than the rest of the nucleus. (Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gas-giant-e1406208390391-665x385.jpgThe Hubble Space Telescope finished another step in a important mission, looking for water in the milky way. The results so far are a bit surprising, with three exoplanets (planets outside the solar system) coming up short in their water supplies. (Credit: Greg Bacon)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/thefutureofu.jpgView of a thin-disc laser. Its geometry ensures more stable operation at higher powers than is possible with conventional solid-state lasers. (Credit: Thomas Metzger)2014-08-20T01:31:56+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/25/physics-in-the-news-49/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pw-2014-07-24-stafford-cern.jpgPowering up: CERN's Antiproton Decelerator will be running next week (Credit: CERN/Maximilien Brice)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sls_configurations.pngSpace Launch System's planned variant vehicle configurations. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/thefirstsupe1.jpgFigure 1: Nucleons (protons and neutrons) are made up of quarks (colored spheres) and have an orientation called spin (indicated by up and down arrows). The spin–orbit force is the interaction between two orbiting nucleons, resulting in a potential well (center) that holds them together. (Credit: Keiko Murano, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/thefirstsupe.jpgFigure 1: Nucleons (protons and neutrons) are made up of quarks (colored spheres) and have an orientation called spin (indicated by up and down arrows). The spin–orbit force is the interaction between two orbiting nucleons, resulting in a potential well (center) that holds them together. (Credit: Keiko Murano, RIKEN Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/20-breakthrough.jpghe experiment was undertaken at Rutherford Appleton Laboratories in the Artemis laser facility using an advanced femtosecond laser system to resolve rotations of complexes. The picture shows a section of the laser system used during the experiments. (Credit: Gediminas Galinis, University of Leicester.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/23-si.jpgA new scientific theory suggests that when black holes reach the end of their lifespan, they explode into “white holes” and release all of their matter into space. (Credit: Reuters / NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/planet.jpgThe exoplanet 209458b, a gas giant, is located 150 light-years from Earth. Dry atmospheres of three exoplanets challenge ideas of how planets form. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/uroplatus_fimbriatus_3.jpgProgress is busily working to re-establish a connection with the operating system — currently on autopilot — before all hope is lost. (Credit: Tim Vickers )2014-08-20T01:31:43+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/26/physics-in-the-news-50/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/iss-panels-428x321.jpgImages of panels from the International Space Station. (Credit: NASA Ames Research Center)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/la-sci-sn-israel-palestine-gaza-hamas-photo-fr-001.jpgla-sci-sn-israel-palestine-gaza-hamas-photo-fr-001"If we ever will be visited by another species from somewhere in the universe, how would we explain to them what they might see as the very first thing when they look at our planet? How would we explain to them the way we humans treat not only each other but also our fragile blue planet, the only home we have?" Astronaut Alexander Gerst (Credit: (Alexander Gerst / European Space Agency)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/tumblr_inline_n587fdmuhf1roucwv.jpgThe Internet of Things, recently nicknamed the Internet of Everything, describes a future where all objects are linked together.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/toomanypigeons.jpgAn image of pigeons in holes. Here there are n = 10 pigeons in m = 9 holes. Since 10 is greater than 9, the pigeonhole principle says that at least one hole has more than one pigeon. (Credit: SA 3.0, McKay)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/voyager-in-interstellar-space1.jpgThis artist’s concept shows the Voyager 1 spacecraft entering the space between stars. Interstellar space is dominated by plasma, ionized gas (illustrated here as brownish haze), that was thrown off by giant stars millions of years ago. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gale_crater.pngModel of Mars' Gale crater. NASA has released STL files so you can 3D print your own scale models of space probes, asteroids and the surface of the moon. (Credit: NASA)2014-08-20T01:31:27+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/27/physics-in-the-news-51/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/sunshieldstackup-photo_3.jpgThe James Webb Space Telescope (sometimes called JWST) is an orbiting infrared observatory that will complement and extend the discoveries of the Hubble Space Telescope, with longer wavelength coverage and greatly improved sensitivity.(Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/pia17993-detectorsforinfantuniversestudies-20140317.jpgEvidence of gravitational waves in the infant universe may have been uncovered by the BICEP2 radio telescope. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/myydwfkj-1406071013.jpgThe coherent dance of dwarf orbits around the Andromeda Galaxy. (Credit: R. Ibata/Nature)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/siding-spring-solarsystem-scope-580x324.jpgSimulation depicts comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring during its close Mars flyby on Oct. 19. Its nucleus will miss Mars by about 82,000 miles (132,000 kilometers). The comet’s trail of dust particles shed by the nucleus might be wide enough to reach the planet. Click to see the interactive, animated view. (Credit: Solarsystemscope.com)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/frb_maps.pngMapping signals on the sky can offer clues about where the signals originate. Pulsars (top) concentrate in the Milky Way, because most of the ones we see sit in our galaxy. Gamma bursts (middle) come from everywhere, which means they’re parked in other galaxies. Fast radio bursts (bottom) seem to mostly avoid our galgaxy, a hint that they may come from very far away.(Credits: Green Bank Telescope, West Virginia Univ; G. Fishman et al/BATSE, CGRO, NASA.; J. Carpenter, T.H. Jarrett/2MASS, R. Hurt, C. Crockett)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/fgsa7zsrvpgtd42vkvrg.jpgThe first Giant Leap was Apollo 11 landing astronauts on the moon. The next Giant Leap could be Apollo 45 landing humans on Mars. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/bilde.jpgJustin Dowd, a Princeton man who won a contest and will be traveling into outer space next year, sits next to an illustration used in the opening scene of his educational video. (Credit: T&G Staff/STEVE LANAVA)2014-08-20T01:31:11+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/28/physics-in-the-news-52/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/gm-babies-uk-deception-si.jpgBritain’s government has allegedly misled the public with respect to a new IVF technique experts claim will herald an era of genetically modified babies.(Reuters / United Photos)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/a.pngThe full-scale James Webb Space Telescope model at South by Southwest in Austin. (Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/messenger_sunside-580x514.jpgArtist’s conception of NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft above Mercury. (Credit: JHUAPL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mjk09izpzmm4yyv1.jpg This is an illustration showing the magnetic field lines of two electrons, arranged so that their spins point in opposite directions. The image comes from the lab of Dr. Roee Ozeri. (Photo Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/r1307726_17960870.jpgGravitational tidal heating from the Earth acts on the lower mantle of the moon (Credit: NASA/Apollo 8)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/grav_waves-3_0-610x406.jpgNASA Goddard intern Robert Buttles adjusts equipment used for the eLISA mission, which will test for vibrations that could reveal subtle changes in gravity. Image (Credit: NASA Goddard/Kristen Basham)2014-08-20T01:30:56+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/29/physics-in-the-news-53/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/a1.pngScientists in Italy are working on creating robots that mimic the properties of plant roots, including the capacity for growth. (Credit: Euronews)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/teleportation.jpg(Credit: Paramount/Everett Collection)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/la-sci-sn-best-time-to-see-2014-meteor-showers-001.jpgLook up, sky watchers! NASA cameras caught this streak over the New Mexico skies on Sunday, as the Perseid meteor shower heats up. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/mfrcqfih4uec4wqv60je.jpgNASA reports that the Mars Rover has clocked up 25.01 miles of driving on the Red Planet—setting a record for the longest distance a vehicle has driven outside Earth. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/f1-large__0.jpg Diatoms. Images a and b are raw diatoms; c and d are fossilized, and e and f are fossilized diatoms that were frozen but not shot. (Credit: Mark Burchell et al., Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/what-is-a-higgs-boson.jpghis 2011 image provide by CERN, shows a real CMS proton-proton collision in which 4 high energy electrons (green lines and red towers) are observed in a 2011 event. The event shows characteristics expected from the decay of a Higgs boson but is also consistent with background Standard Model physics processes. To cheers and standing ovations, scientists at the world's biggest atom smasher claimed the discovery of a new subatomic particle Wednesday July 4, 2012, calling it "consistent" with the long-sought Higgs boson — popularly known as the "God particle" — that helps explain what gives all matter in the universe size and shape. (Credit: AP Photo/CERN)2014-08-20T01:30:43+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/30/physics-in-the-news-54/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/ice1.jpgAn artist's depiction of NASA's International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 spacecraft as it flies through space. The volunteer ISEE-3 Reboot Project, which hoped to move the probe closer to Earth, now says the spacecraft is out of gas. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/leaf.pngThis man-made leaf could help us breathe in space. (Credit: Julian Melchiorri/Dezeen/MINI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/101-geysers-identified-on-saturn-s-icy-moon-enceladus-452485-2.jpgThis graphic shows a 3-D model of 98 geysers whose source locations and tilts were found in a Cassini imaging survey of Enceladus' south polar terrain by the method of triangulation. While some jets are strongly tilted, it is clear the jets on average lie in four distinct "planes" that are normal to the surface at their source location. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/b87q3lfqcwwsxdxhlh2p.jpgNASA is studying the effects of radiation on sperm. Freeze-dried mouse sperm are spending one, 12, and 24 months on the ISS before being used to fertilize mouse eggs back home. (Credit: Wei Ming/Shutterstock)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/no-touch.jpgno-touch(Credit: IFL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/670px-r136a11.jpgIllustration of Wolf-Rayet star R136a1, the most massive star known. (Credit: Wikipedia)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/1406653495726_wps_9_cat_paths_credit_vienna_u.jpgScientists have observed for the first time a weird quantum phenomenon known as the 'Cheshire Cat' effect (illustration shown). The 'cat' in question was a subatomic neutron particle, and the ghostly 'grin' the particle’s magnetic moment, which describes the strength of its coupling to an external magnetic field. (Credit: Vienna U)2014-08-20T01:30:24+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/31/physics-in-the-news-55/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/rtx4xkj.jpgA new accurate map of the Moon has shown that it bulges slightly at one side and is flattened at the top and bottom - but how did it get this way? (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/50footwidemu.jpgThe 50-foot-wide Muon g-2 electromagnet at rest inside the Fermilab building that will house the experiment. The magnet was moved into the new building on Wednesday, July 30, 2014. The magnet will allow scientists to precisely probe the properties of subatomic particles called muons. (Credit: Fermilab.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/movie_ee_bomb_cum_mc68-01_withintro.gifThe GIF below shows the impacts the model suggests happened. They go forward in time from red to blue (4.5 billion years ago to 3.5 billion years ago). (Credit: Simone Marchi)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/diamond-3.gifThe GIF below shows the impacts the model suggests happened. They go forward in time from red to blue (4.5 billion years ago to 3.5 billion years ago). (Credit: Collins et al)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nanobotpropeller.jpgThe nanoprop is able to easily pass between polymer chains, like those present in bodily fluids. (Credit: https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/binzell.jpgThis Document is a Parody (Credit: Richard Binzel)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/dnews-files-2014-07-weird-disks-670x440-140730-jpg.jpgArtist’s impression of the discs around the young stars HK Tauri A and B (Credit: R. Hurt (NASA/JPL-Caltech/IPAC)2014-08-20T01:29:07+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/02/physics-in-the-news-57/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dnews-files-2014-08-clelestis-pets-670x440-140801-jpg.jpgCelestis has expanded their services to include animals, called Celestis Pets. And now you can even send your family pet in Armstrong’s and Aldrin’s footsteps by launching them to the moon. (Credit: Celestis Pets)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/world-wide-web-day-today-celebrate-the-web-browser-invention-and-surf-650x465.jpgCERN’s website was the first to be hosted on the World Wide Web, at info.cern.ch. It was a simple page that contained a lot of links, which was essentially what the WWW was for at that time. It was dedicated to the Internet itself, describing the basic features of the web, accessing documents and setting up servers. (Credit: Beth A. Balen) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/despiteexten.jpgThis artist's representation shows the Fermi bubbles towering above and below the galaxy. Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ii.pngLight enters a two-dimensional ring-resonator array from the lower left and exits at the lower right. Light that follows the edge of the array (blue) does not suffer energy loss and exits after a consistent amount of delay. Light travels into the interior of the array (green) suffers energy loss. (Credit: Sean Kelley/JQI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/finalflighto.jpgESA's Haptics-1 body-mounted astronaut joystick will be used to investigate telerobotics for space aboard the International Space Station. (Credit: European Space Agency)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/556255-5bc6fcc4-1a4e-11e4-8adb-938012f29f27.jpgSpace agency officials unveiled seven instruments they plan to put on a Martian rover that would launch in 2020, including two devices aimed at bigger Mars missions in the future. (Credit: NASA)2014-08-20T01:28:47+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/03/physics-in-the-news-59/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bestevidence1.jpgbestevidencehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/reddwarfplanet_cfa_full_1-580x290.jpgAn artist’s concept of a rocky world orbiting a red dwarf star. (Credit: NASA/D. Aguilar/Harvard-Smithsonian center for Astrophysics)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/bestevidence.jpgNASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured this image of what the sun looked like on April 23, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. EDT when the EUNIS mission launched. EUNIS focused on an active region of the sun, seen as bright loops in the upper right in this picture. (Credit: NASA/SDO)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/comet-siding-spring-mars-animation.gifAnimation of Comet C/2013 A1 Siding Spring / Mars encounter. (Credit: Near-Earth Object (NEO) office and NASA JPL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/yuji-hasegawa-tobias-denkmayr-stephan-sponar-hartmut-lemmel-hermann-geppert-lg.jpghe study, carried out at the Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL) and published in Nature Communications, showed that in an interferometer a neutron's magnetic moment could be measured independently of the neutron itself, thereby marking the first experimental observation of a new quantum paradox known as the 'Cheshire Cat'. Pictured are Yuji Hasegawa, Tobias Denkmayr, Stephan Sponar, Hartmut Lemmel, and Hermann Geppert. (Credit: Vienna University of Technology.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/comet-67p-1200-milles-away.jpgThe European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft saw the nucleus of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimernko from a distance of 1,210 miles (1,950 kilometers). Image taken July 29, 2014. (Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/darpa-space-plane_large.pngDARPA's hypothetical "space plane." (Credit: DARPA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/asteroid-590x330.jpgThe team says that during this 500 million year period the planet likely experienced three to seven impacts by objects more than 300 miles wide. There were also as many as four impacts by titanic space rocks more than 600 miles across. If there had been any life on the Earth, a 600 mile wide monster asteroid probably would have wiped it out. Surprisingly, these impacts are compatible with the existence of liquid water on the surface as early as 4.3 billion years ago.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/122204237-320.jpg(Credit: iStock/360/Getty) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hubble-space-telescope-gravitational-lensing.jpgIn this image from the Hubble Space Telescope, a giant elliptical galaxy 9.6 billion light-years away appears as a red patch. The bluish dot and tadpole-shaped smear are the distorted and magnified shapes of a more distant spiral galaxy 10.7 billion light-years away. (Credit: NASA, ESA, K.-V. Tran (Texas A&M University), and K. Wong) 2014-08-20T01:28:08+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/04/physics-in-the-news-60/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/191672638.jpgPhoto of the Mars surface, Made with HiRise Camera. (Credit: NASA JPL/University of Arizona)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/spacegas-630x420.jpgNASA hopes to add precious years of functional life to satellites and expand options for operators who face unexpected emergencies, tougher economic demand and aging fleets. (Credit: Bob Granath, Kt-Imaging)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140803-comet_7712b609a015d4859a70814048fcf9d4-nbcnews-fp-1160-600.jpgThe Rosetta spacecraft is scheduled to rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko on Wednesday. If all goes according to plan, Rosetta will become the first probe ever to orbit a comet — and, in November, the first to drop a lander onto the surface of one of these icy wanderers. (Credit: ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/3b545fc77c04020dd1a2105595e0eef9.jpg(Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/robobee.gifrobobeeThe RoboBee demonstrates a successful flight next to a quarter for scale. (Credit: Harvard University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/image_large_7.jpgResearchers believe that as soon as 10 years from now these RoboBees could artificially pollinate a field of crops, a critical development if the commercial pollination industry cannot recover from severe yearly losses over the past decade. (Credit: RoBoBees)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/imageforarticle_9402.jpgEinstein was the first person to propose that ‘empty space’, which does not contain matter or radiation, is not actually empty and in fact has a residual energy. This empty space is also capable of creating more space from itself. (Credit: benmoat/Shutterstock) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/andromeda-galaxy.jpgAndromeda is twice as massive as the Milky Way. Scientists say that Andromeda has twice the mass, made of dark matter, than the Milky Way. (Credit: Phil Plait)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/elon-musk.jpgAbove: Tesla CEO Elon Musk. (Credit: SXSW Livestream)2014-08-20T01:27:50+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/05/physics-in-the-news-61/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/110482423.jpgA perigee moon rises in Washington, DC, on March 19, 2011. A perigee moon is visible when the moon's orbit position is at its closest point to Earth during a full moon phase. The full moon coincided with its closest approach to the Earth, 221,565 miles (356,575 km), making the so-called "super moon" look slightly larger than average. AFP PHOTO / Jewel Samad (Photo credit should read JEWEL SAMAD/AFP/Getty Images)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/0804-rosetta-comet_full_600.jpgAn artist's impression shows what the Rosetta orbiter will look like when it deploys the Philae lander to a comet later this year. (Credit: ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dn25985-1_1200.jpgThe work verifies theoretical models of the most likely way in which a quantum system will collapse, proving that the probable path can be predicted. This paves the way to actively controlling a quantum system in the future by steering it towards a certain outcome.(Credit: Irfan Siddiqi, UC Berkeley)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/enterprisewarp-crop-original-original.jpgPhoto by Paramount Pictureshttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/neutrinos.jpgJapanese scientists recently published a paper that showed they could monitor neutrinos by putting a detector in the back of a van and parking it outside the reactor. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lsst-telescope-lg.jpglsst-telescope-lgThe 8.4-meter LSST will use a special three-mirror design, creating an exceptionally wide field of view. (LSST/rendering) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/3dcodesyield.jpgSandia National Laboratories researchers Steve Plimpton, left, and Michael Gallis look at a projection of a model of the Russian MIR space station, which fell out of orbit several years ago and disintegrated, with the remains ending up at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Using Sandia’s 3-D code SPARTA, the calculation is simulating an instance of the process of de-orbiting. (Credit: Randy Montoya)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/img_0660.jpgChris Wetton of CERN's Technical Infrastructure Operation group keeps a keen eye on the monitors at the CERN Control Centre (Image: Stephanie Hills)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mit-visual-microphone.jpgAlgorithm recovers speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag filmed through soundproof glass. (Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT)2014-08-20T01:27:36+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/06/physics-in-the-news-62/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/o-daewoo-exoskeleton-570.jpghttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/rpsc257r5s3c56vb.jpg Kater Murch (right), assistant professor of physics at Washington University in St. Louis, and junior Chris Munley work with the equipment that can map a quantum device's trajectory between two points in quantum state space, a feat until recently considered impossible. (Credit: Joe Angeles/WUSTL Photos)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dnews-files-2014-08-pluto-alma-670x440-140805-jpg.jpgThe cold surface of Pluto and its largest moon Charon as seen with ALMA on July 15, 2014. (Credit: /AUI/NSF)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jupiter-io-volcano-820x420.jpgFootage from the Venus Express orbiter confirmed sightings of hot spots on the surface of the planet, in accordance with volcanoes still simmering. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/inmarsat_2861454b.jpgInmarsat used its satellite network to name search areas for the missing Malaysia Airlines flighthttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nasatestemdrive4.pngnasatestemdrive4https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/b6mgtpy4-1407213651.jpgb6mgtpy4-1407213651The Milky Way is bit of a barrier between us the extra-galactic universe. (Credit: NASA, CC BY)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/equal_transit-time_nasa_wrong1.gifThe incorrect “equal transit time” explanation for lift. (Credit: )https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2-chapmanunive.jpgAt the present moment another measurement is performed which is influenced both by what happened earlier and what happened later. (Credit: Jeff Tollaksen)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1-diamonddefec.jpgThis is a schematic of the process to localize NV centers in 3-D. The researchers blasted carbon ions through holes to create vacancies and heated the diamond to make the vacancies mobile within the crystal. NV centers could form in the nitrogen-doped layer below where the holes were placed. (Credit: F.J. Heremans and D. Awschalom/U. Chicago and K. Ohno/UCSB)2014-08-20T01:27:21+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/07/physics-in-the-news-63/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/robot-ping-pong-olympics-1.jpgNearly half of the respondents (48%) predicted that robots and AI will displace more jobs than they create over the coming decade. While that left a slim majority believing the impact of technology on employment will be neutral or positive. (Credit: Humanrobo/Wikimedia Commons)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2721950_orig.pngCredit: NASA/JPL/Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nasa_s-hubble-finds-supernova-star-system-linked-to-potential-e2809czombie-stare2809d.jpgnasa_s-hubble-finds-supernova-star-system-linked-to-potential-e2809czombie-stare2809d(Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/photocathodes8-6a.jpgSiddharth Karkare, left, and Laurent Boulet '14 in the Newman Hall photocathode research lab. (Credit: Lindsay France/University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jul-01-2014-09_53.gifhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nocosmologic.jpgScientists have found that tension among different data sets persists even after accounting for massive sterile neutrinos, possibly indicating systematic biases in the measurements. (Credit: Leistedt, et al. ©2014 American Physical Society)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cosmic-microwave-background-617x416.jpgCosmic-microwave-background-617x416 The anisotropies of the Cosmic microwave background (CMB) as observed by Planck. The CMB is a snapshot of the oldest light in our Universe, imprinted on the sky when the Universe was just 380 000 years old. It shows tiny temperature fluctuations that correspond to regions of slightly different densities, representing the seeds of all future structure: the stars and galaxies of today. (Credit: ESA and the Planck Collaboration - D. Ducros)2014-08-20T01:27:06+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/09/physics-in-the-news-65/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/cassiniprepa.jpgThis is an artists concept of Cassini during the Saturn Orbit Insertion (SOI) maneuver, just after the main engine has begun firing. (Credit: NASA/JPL)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hubble1.jpgA typical magnifying glass works by bending light (i.e. refraction) to a focus point, in this case your eye. In a similar way, gravitational lensing also works by bending light, but in this case it is mass from another galaxy bending the light. This galaxy that extends far into space causes light rays passing near and through its gravitational field to bend and again refocus onto a particular location. The more massive and dense the matter, the more bending and refracting. (Credit: Flickr, Hubble Heritage)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/rosettawillt.pngDo you see a duck? On August 6, millions of miles away from Earth, the firing of a rocket thruster signalled the end of a decade-long journey by a European spacecraft to reach its ultimate target – the 'duck' comet. (Credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pr_e12_proper_sat_stars_3fps.gifAnimation of Pluto and Charon showing nearly a full rotation (Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/calabi-yau.pngCalabi-YauA construction for computer visualization of certain complex curves" (Credit: CC BY-SA 2.5)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/tardis-670-665x385.jpgWhile time travel may be theoretically possible, there are unfortunately several drawbacks to the researchers’ TARDIS concept. In order to function, it requires the use of exotic matter, which has yet to be shown to exist in our universe. Time travel would also have to violate classical mechanics, and in order to move in anything other than a circular direction in both time and space, more than one TARDIS curve would need to be constructed, raising the possibility of exiting the time vortex into a universe of anti-matter. (Credit: Bitbillions)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nswd-binary-3.jpgNSWD-Binary-3University of Warwick researchers explain mystery of the loneliest supernovas. Compact binary star systems that have been thrown far from their host galaxy when one star of that pair became a neutron star, go through a second trauma when the remaining white dwarf star is eventually pulled onto the neutron star. (Credit: Mark A. Garlick / space-art.co.uk / University of Warwick)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/highenergypa.jpgHigh-energy collisions between nuclei (white arrows) produce a cloud of elementary particles including quarks (red) and gluons (yellow). When gluons form an expansion front, they can produce a wall of matter called a color glass condensate, which eventually dissipates as the expansion continues. (Credit: © 2014 Larry McLerran, RIKEN–BNL Research Center)2014-08-20T01:26:52+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/10/physics-in-the-news-66/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/the-higgs-boson-1600x1200.jpgthe-higgs-boson-1600x1200(Credit: img.eu)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/dnews-files-2014-08-pluto-charon-orbit2-140808-gif.gif This gif of Pluto and its largest moon, Charon, was taken by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft as it raced toward Pluto in July 2014. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/swanson-spacewalk.jpgNASA astronaut Steve Swanson on a spacewalk outside International Space Station on April 22, 2014. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/impossible-engine-630x364.jpgWhile the separate tests confirm such an engine might be possible, they could be wrong. Still, the mere thought of something that was once considering impossible is now possible should get a lot of people excited. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ibm-truenorth-synapse-chip-array-640x452.jpgIBM's new TrueNorth chip. (Credit: IBM)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/140806-gaherty-moon.jpgA particularly large bright Moon will interfere with viewing the Perseid meteor shower this year. (Credit: Starry Night)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/670px-blackhole.jpg670px-blackholeWe could be living in the 3D event horizon of a 4D black hole (Credit: Wikipedia)2014-08-20T01:25:58+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/11/physics-in-the-news-67/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quantum-computer-617x416.jpgAt the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), experiments with nitrogen atoms in diamonds are already being carried out. (Credit: TU Wien)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/fd4ea004-bb36-4264-a1af-8e34831abaa6-1407527788463.jpgScientists have developed a method to bend sound waves as they travel through open air, and can even create an acoustic “bottle” that can trap and hold tiny particles. (Credit: Xiang Zhang Group)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/gg.jpgour known universe could be the three-dimensional “wrapping” around a four-dimensional black hole’s event horizon. In this scenario, our universe burst into being when a star in a four-dimensional universe collapsed into a black hole. (Credit: Perimeter Institute)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/asteroid_redirect_mission_capture.jpegIn this concept image, the robotic vehicle deploys an inflatable bag to envelop a free-flying small asteroid before redirecting it to a distant retrograde lunar orbit. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/isee3-ice-trajectory.gifThe International Sun-Earth Explorer 3 (ISEE-3) will have the closest view of the moon at 11:16 a.m. PDT. Members of the rebooted mission partnered with Google to create a website, where they will host a video hangout beginning at 10:30 a.m. PDT. (Credit: ISEE3, NASA) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/universe.jpgResearchers from Three Perimeter Institute have a new idea, and have claimed that what is perceived as the big bang, could be the three-dimensional 'mirage' of a collapsing star in a universe profoundly different than our own. (Credit: NASA, ANI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/tractor_beam_punzmannshats_credit_s-hay_anu-440x295.jpgDr Horst Punzmann (left) and Professor Michael Shats test their wave-generated tractor beam. (Credit: Stuart Hay)2014-08-20T01:25:14+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/19/physics-in-the-news-74/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/miptandrassc.jpgNanoparcticles producing logical calculations. (Credit: Maxim Nikitin)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/baryontalk.jpgCDF physicist Petar Maksimovic, professor at Johns Hopkins University, presented the discovery to the particle physics community at Fermilab. He explained that the two types of Sigma-sub-b particles are produced in two different spin combinations, J=1/2 and J=3/2, representing a ground state and an excited state, as predicted by theory. (Credit: Fermilab)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/red_giant_lg.jpg A red giant star really is quite gigantic compared to our Sun. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mossobalance_custom-892e81831384529b63e0a9e6c0a00726b9aed7ba-s40-c85.jpg Angelo Mosso's "human circulation balance" machine worked like a seesaw to measure blood flow changes to the brain. (Credit: Stefano Sandrone et al.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/curiosity-rover-mars-sand-dunes.jpgThis image, taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity in August 2014, looks across the northeastern end of sandy "Hidden Valley" to the lower slopes of Mount Sharp on the horizon. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/recyclingold.jpgThis could be a classic win-win solution: A system proposed by researchers at MIT recycles materials from discarded car batteries—a potential source of lead pollution—into new, long-lasting solar panels that provide emissions-free power. (Credit: Christine Daniloff/MIT)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/newsimage_2340.jpgThe quantum system studied at TU Wien (Vienna): a black diamond (center) contains nitrogen atoms, which are coupled to a microwave resonator. (Credit: TU Wien)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/swarmies-640x426.jpgNASA engineers have built four robots nicknamed “Swarmies” to test whether a group of robots can autonomously and effectively scout an area for resources, and they’ve model the software design after how ants do the same thing. (Credit: NASA/D. Gerondidakis, G. Tickle)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/lifeonmars3.jpg The ExoLance Concept. "Arrows" fall from a spacecraft, penetrate the ground, and expose the life-detecting equipment inside. (Credit: Explore Mars Inc.)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/rxedztcpp8pz23y3eoon.jpgScientists of the early 20th century argued that tidal forces had caused the sun to spit out the planets when a rogue star passed too close. It was a kind of drive-by shooting theory of planetary formation known as the "Planetesimal Hypothesis." (Credit: NASA, M. Strauss)2014-08-20T01:23:50+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/16/physics-in-the-news-72/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nasa-sleep-bulb.jpgnasa-sleep-bulbhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/498884main_df3_fermi_bubble_art_labels.jpg498884main_DF3_Fermi_bubble_art_labelsNuSTAR's observations revealed that the black hole's gravity pulled the coronal X-ray light onto the inner regions of Mrk 335's accretion disk. Further study has shown that the corona remains close to the black hole, months after it originally moved inward. (This inward migration was rapid, occuring over a period of days rather than weeks or months, researchers said.)(Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quasar_1170-770x460.jpg"The puzzle has been how these 'seed' black holes grew into the monsters that we now see within the time available, a few billion years at best," says Priyamvada Natarajan, who proposes that early quasars took in a "super boost," feasting from large reservoirs of gas that were part of early star clusters. (Credit: Lollito Larkham/Flickr) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1950-da.jpgAsteroid 1950 DA. “Following the February 2013 asteroid impact in Chelyabinsk, Russia, there is renewed interest in figuring out how to deal with the potential hazard of an asteroid impact,” said Rozitis. “Understanding what holds these asteroids together can inform strategies to guard against future impacts.” (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pw-2014-08-14-than-landau.jpgBeam out: elongated "Landau" states - Instead of rotating uniformly at a particular frequency, an international team of researchers has found that electrons in a magnetic field are capable of rotating at three different frequencies, depending on their quantum properties. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/classical_nova_final_print.jpgNovae typically originate in binary systems containing Sun-like stars, as shown in this artist’s rendering. NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope discovered that a nova in a system like this likely produces gamma rays (magenta) through collisions among multiple shock waves in the rapidly expanding shell of debris. (Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/S. Wiessinger)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nasa-solar-panel-origami-designboom011.jpgNASA-solar-panel-origami-designboom01https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nasa-solar-panel-origami-designboom01.jpgBYU, NASA and JPL-caltech 2014-08-16T16:58:21+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/15/physics-in-the-news-71/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/76939117_76939116.jpgScientists may have identified the first known dust particles from outside our Solar System, in samples returned to Earth by a Nasa space mission. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/mro-boulder-roll.jpgNASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the trail from an oblong boulder that rolled down a slope on the Red Planet. The image was taken on July 3, 2014. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/transistor_count_and_moores_law_-_2011-svg.pngTransistor_Count_and_Moore's_Law_-_2011.svgPlot of CPU transistor counts against dates of introduction. Note the logarithmic vertical scale; the line corresponds to exponential growth with transistor count doubling every two years. Transistor counts for integrated circuits plotted against their dates of introduction. The curve shows Moore's law - the doubling of transistor counts every two years. The y-axis is logarithmic, so the line corresponds to exponential growth. (Credit: Wgsimon)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/pia18467.jpgThis plot of data captured by NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, or NuSTAR, shows X-ray light streaming from regions near a supermassive black hole known as Markarian 335. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/moleculareng.pngThese images show a diamond sample with a hemispherical lens (right and lower left), and the location of a single electron spin/quantum state visible through its light emission (upper left). The scale bar on the image at upper left measures five microns, the approximate diameter of a red blood cell. (Credit: Courtesy of Awschalom Lab/University of Chicago)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/191961970.jpgPlanck space observatory (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/whoa_rolling_boulder_on_mars-e8175294a623b7f6eb9c76afb819d8ee.jpgNASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted the trail from an oblong boulder (bottom right) that rolled down a slope on the Red Planet. The image was taken on July 3, 2014. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/nasa-iss-fully-berthed-640x360.jpgnasa-iss-fully-berthed-640x360Here’s an awesome photo to start your day: The International Space Station currently has five spacecraft docked to it — the most that can be currently attached. If any of the world’s space agencies, or private companies like SpaceX were to send up another spacecraft today, they’d need to circle until another parking space becomes available. (Credit: NASA)2014-08-15T17:47:05+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/14/physics-in-the-news-70/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/7953f1d91f.jpgAlissa Wiengarten, PhD student at the TUM Department of Physics, heats a porphine powder in a vacuum chamber. (Credit: Thorsten Naeser/Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/black-hole-wallpaper-600x356.jpgBecause of that alacrity, and the fact that they had repeat observations at roughly a decade's detach, the Russian scientists were able to single out stars that dimmed by at least tenfold. They've been named 1RXS J114727.1 + 494302, 1RXS J130547.2 + 641252, and 1RXS J235424.5-102053. (Credit: Davies, NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/could-mystery-signal-that-has-been-detected-be-proof-of-dark-matter.jpgCould a mystery signal that has been detected be proof of dark matter? While searching through the fundamental structures of various galaxy clusters, astrophysicists located at Harvard University found a bizarre discharge line they are having trouble in identifying. (Credit: Kimberly Ruble)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quanten-gedaechtnis_560951.jpgSemiconductor quantum-dot microring laser emits light whose emission intensity exhibits oscillations due to quantum memory between excitation and light Emission. Pressestelle der Philipps-Universität Marburg/Fachgebiet Theoretische Halbleiterphysikhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/hubbleeyesga.jpgFrom objects as small as Newton's apple to those as large as a galaxy, no physical body is free from the stern bonds of gravity, as evidenced in this stunning picture captured by the Wide Field Camera 3 and Advanced Camera for Surveys onboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. (Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, Acknowledgement: Luca Limatola)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/amused-article.jpgDr Rosolem with the cosmic-ray soil moisture sensor installed at the the Federal University of Santa Maria SulFlux site in Brazil https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/newsimage_30863.jpgAlissa Wiengarten, PhD student at the TUM Department of Physics, heats a porphine powder in a vacuum chamber. (Credit: Thorsten Naeser/Munich-Centre for Advanced Photonics)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/jhffvbm.jpgExperimental arrangement. A tip is approached to a distance of micrometres from a grounded highly ordered pyrolytic graphene (HOPG) surface carrying Ag nanostructures (illustrated in the inset). Electrons are field-emitted from the tip when a negative tip voltage Vt of hundreds of volts is applied, and the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) of the Ag nanostructures is excited by the field-emitted electrons under a strong electric field introduced by the tip–sample bias. The backscattered electrons are collected and analysed by the TEEA. (Credit: Nature Physics (2014) doi:10.1038/nphys3051)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2-particlephys.jpg The STAR detector, used in the researchers' experiment, measures the energy and angle of the electron from the W boson decay produced in the proton collision. (Credit: STAR Collaboration)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/screen-shot-2014-08-14-at-8-19-52-am.png WISE thermal-infrared images of (29075) 1950 DA. The image scale is 2.75 arcsec per pixel for the W1, W2 and W3 bands and 5.53 arcsec per pixel for the W4 band. White pixels are ‘bad’ pixels that do not contain data. The object seen to the upper left of (29075) 1950 DA (red circle) (Credit: Rozitis, MacLennan & Emery)2014-08-14T16:38:15+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/12/physics-in-the-news-68/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/fromeonstose.jpgA protein folding funnel, the product of algorithms created by Rice’s Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, is a graphic representation of the energy landscape a protein navigates as it goes from its initial floppy state to a folded, functional unit. The funnel shows smooth slopes as well as outcroppings where parts of a protein may pause while others catch up, and also traps that could cause a protein to misfold. New Rice research shows how the interplay between evolution and physics developed the skills necessary to conserve useful proteins. (Credit: Center for Theoretical Biological Physics/Rice University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/504775main_massive_impact-1.jpg(Credit: NASA/Don Davis)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1-beyondsixnin.pngNIST researcher Kevin Dwyer with the silicon enrichment apparatus. The process begins at the left, where natural-abundance silicon in the form of silane gas (SiH4) is ionized. The ions pass through a magnetic field (top left), which causes their paths to curve to different degrees based on their mass. The silicon-28 ions, now separated from the other silicon isotopes, are decelerated through an ultra-high vacuum chamber (top center) and into the deposition chamber (top right) (Credit: Pomeroy, NIST, Dwyer)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/53ea575382bb2.jpg53ea575382bb2This artist’s concept illustrates a supermassive black hole with millions to billions times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes are enormously dense objects buried at the hearts of galaxies. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/followtherad.jpgThis is a schematic of a plasma torus around an exoplanet, which is created by the ions injected from an exomoon's ionosphere into the planet's magnetosphere. (Credit: UT Arlington)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/s1-reutersmedia-net.jpgThe International Space Station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, grapples the Orbital Sciences' Cygnus cargo craft, as seen in this still image taken from NASA TV July 16, 2014. (Credit: Reuters/NASA TV/Handout via Reuters)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1k5ff7r5m_oxqq-70ynpq5g.jpegEvery once in a while I think that there maybe is no fundamentally smallest unit of length; that all these arguments for its existence are wrong. I like to think that we can look infinitely close into structures and will never find a final theory, turtles upon turtles, or that structures are ultimately self-similar and repeat.(Credit: Sabine Hossenfelder)2014-08-12T19:34:21+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/08/physics-in-the-news-64/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/14074301571952181.jpghttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/graphene7-11.jpgThree dark field-transmission electron microscopy images of bilayer graphene are overlaid with colors to show diffraction angles. The lines are soliton boundaries. (Credit: Muller lab)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/53e306421794f-image.jpg53e306421794f.image Professor Howard Milchberg. University physicists working in the Intense Laser Matter Interactions group have made two breakthroughs in recent months: One allows them to send high-powered lasers through atmosphere, and another uses this technology to collect weak signals from a distance. (Credit: Samantha Medney/For The Diamondback)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1407430157195218.jpghe bridge of gas (shown in green) stretches from the large galaxy at the bottom left to the group of galaxies at the top. A third nearby galaxy to the right also has a shorter stream of gas attached to it. (Credit: Rhys Taylor / Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey / The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Collaboration)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/artificialre.jpgGraphene electronics can be prepared on flexible substrates. Only the gold metal leads are visible in the transparent graphene sensor. (Credit: Natalia Hutanu / TUM)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/2014080715520036w.jpgA team of researchers from TU Wien (Vienna) the National Institute for Informatics (Tokyo) and NTT Basic Research Labs in Japan has now proposed a new architecture for quantum computing, based on microscopic defects in diamond. (Credit: TU Wien (Vienna) and Japan. (National Institute of Informatics and NTT Basic Research Labs)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/orion-docking-arv_1.jpgorion-docking-arv_1 A concept image of the Orion spacecraft docking with the robotic asteroid redirect vehicle. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/coldflows-2.jpgThis graphic shows the center of a newly formed star cluster (stars are in yellow), within which the seed black hole gets its super boost of gas (shown in blue).2014-08-09T19:30:59+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/08/01/physics-in-the-news-56/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1406889604_a4bc.jpgIn 2013, Rutgers astronomer Rachel Somerville received the Dannie Heineman Prize in Astrophysics from the American Astronomical Society and the American Institute of Physics. The prize recognizes exceptional work by mid-career astronomers, citing her for providing fundamental insights into galaxy formation and evolution using modeling, simulations, and observations. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/279px-feynmann_diagram_gluon_radiation-svg.pngA Feynman diagram showing the radiation of a gluon when an electron and positron are annihilated. (Credit: Joel Holdswort CC by 2.5)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/10333239.jpgMark Levinson : He's got a Physics Phd in particle theory and has been a key crew-member for the likes of David Fincher and Anthony Minghella. As his new documentary Particle Fever prepares to screen to sell out audiences. (Credit: Mark Levinson)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/studyfindsph.jpgInelastic neutron scattering experiments revealed a temporary, collective anisotropic order prior to the onset of magnetism in a temperature interval where anisotropic resistance had previously been measured. (Credit: Tanyia Johnson/Rice University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/quadcopter-set.jpgReed Beverstock (right) pilots the physics department quadcopter while Daniel Duane (center) monitors the video feed on a computer tablet while Professor of Physics Bill Cooke looks on. They’re using the device to create video tutorials as part of a Creative Adaptation initiative. (Credit: Joseph McClain)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/m82-after-sn-large-arrow.jpgThis image from NASA's Swift space telescope, taken on Jan. 22, 2014, shows the supernova SN 2014J as seen in three different exposures by the space observatory. Scientists suspect the weird supernova's progenitor star may have had a helium belt. (Credit: NASA/Swift/P. Brown, TAMU)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/778463.jpgNASA has conducted experiments on a revolutionary space drive that seems to defy the laws of conservation of momentum and confirmed that it works. (Credit: EmDrive 3D render by Elvis Popovic)2014-08-01T16:21:42+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/07/09/physics-in-the-news-33/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/upgradingthe1.jpgThe CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment aims to discover new particles and study their properties. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/upgradingthe.jpgThe CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) experiment aims to discover new particles and study their properties. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/nasafindsqui.jpgArtist’s impression of the InSight Mars lander. The SEIS will be deployed onto the surface using a robot arm, where it will then record signals from marsquakes and meteorite impacts in order to probe the planet’s interior. (Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) 2014-07-09T21:57:37+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/25/physics-in-the-news-20/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/richardfeynmanbbc-300x223.jpgRichard Feynman - Philosopher (Image: Washington University)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/3-measuringthe.jpgThis image shows professor Donhee Ham and his student Hosang Yoon are in the laboratory at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. (Credit: Eliza Grinnell, Harvard SEAS.) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/edison_effect_bulb_1.jpgOne of the bulbs Thomas Alva Edison used to discover thermionic emission (the Edison Effect) in 1884. It consists of an Edison incandescent lamp - an evacuated glass bulb with a hairpin shaped bamboo carbon filament - with an additional platinum foil electrode (center, inside the filament) connected to wire terminals. A current is applied to the filament, heating it. Edison found when he connected an ammeter between the filament and the auxiliary electrode, a current would flow, passing through the evacuated space of the bulb from filament to electrode. This current was later found to consist of electrons. This effect is the basis of vacuum tube technology, which dominated electronics for 50 years, until the 1970s.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1-llnlresearch.jpg Lawrence Livermore physicist Hui Chen sets up targets for an experiment using petawatt laser technology at the Jupiter Laser Facility.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/coldremnant.jpgColdRemnantArtist impression of a white dwarf star in orbit with pulsar PSR J2222-0137. It may be the coolest and dimmest white dwarf ever identified. (Credit: B. Saxton NRAO/AUI/NSF)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/curiosity-rover-small.jpgcuriosity-rover-smallNASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover captures a selfie to mark a full Martian year — 687 Earth days — spent exploring the Red Planet. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)2014-06-27T20:48:49+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/24/physics-in-the-news-19/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/golden_record_cover.jpgThe Golden Record carried a message from Earth on board NASA's Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dnews-files-2014-06-earth-magnetic-field-670x440-140622-jpg.jpgdnews-files-2014-06-earth-magnetic-field-670x440-140622-jpghttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/magic-island-on-saturns-moon-performs-mysterious-vanishing-act.jpgMagic-Island-on-Saturns-Moon-Performs-Mysterious-Vanishing-Acthttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/0623_spacex_full_600.jpg0623_SpaceX_full_600A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload of Orbcomm communications satellites is seen at launch complex 40 after an attempted launch was scrubbed due to technical issues at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/bicep2-telescope.jpgBICEP2 TwilightThe BICEP2 telescope at twilight, which occurs only twice a year at the South Pole. The MAPO observatory (home of the Keck Array telescope) and the South Pole station can be seen in the background.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/781897508265157776.jpg781897508265157776This might look like a routine scientific experiment, but you're actually looking at European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst as he sets fire to samples of various solids aboard the International Space Station to see how they burn. This man truly has a wonderful job. [ESA]2014-06-24T22:12:18+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/23/physics-in-the-news-18/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ticker_titan.jpgTicker_titanA bright patch (right, circled) on one of Titan’s northern methane seas, shown as dark areas, appeared in a Cassini spacecraft image taken on July 10, 2013. The patch disappeared by July 16, 2013 and was not visible in earlier images (left).https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/atlast_8m_telescope_exterior-cropped.jpgATLAST_8m_Telescope_Exterior croppedThe Atlast telescope will be the most powerful telescope ever made and up to four times larger than the Hubble Telescopehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/604042-1620-49.jpg604042-1620-49https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/s2-reutersmedia-net.jpgAn exterior of the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne An exterior of the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California May 29, 2014. (Credit: Reuters/Mario Anzuoni) https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1403464688584-cached.jpg1403464688584.cached(Credit: NASA)2014-06-23T18:17:44+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/22/physics-in-the-news-17/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/iss-laser-panel.jpgISS-Laser-panelAt left: Illustration showing the 2.5 watt OPALS laser beaming video to Earth. At right, the laser beam arrives from the ISS as seen on the computer monitor at Table Mountain Observatory. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/75669700_mf624final.jpg_75669700_mf624finalA field snapshot in June. Reds are strong; blues are weak. The view is dominated by the core contributionhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lattice400.jpglattice400M.C. Escher works © Cordon Art-Baarn-the Netherlands.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/protoplanetary-disc-art.jpgprotoplanetary-disc-artArtist's conception of a protoplanetary disc. Credit: University of Copenhagen/Lars Buchhavehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/space-time-structure.jpgspace-time-structureSpace-time structure exhibiting closed paths in space (horizontal) and time (vertical). A quantum particle travels through a wormhole back in time and returns to the same location in space and time. Credit: Martin Ringbauer2014-06-22T15:46:34+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/19/physics-in-the-news-14/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/gravity_field_near_earth.gifGravity_field_near_earthGravity field near earth at 1,2 and A the curvature of the Earth is negligible at this scale, and the gravity force lines can be approximated as being parallel and pointing straight down to the center of the Earth. (Credit:CC BY-SA 3.0)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/nyt_may_4_1935.jpgNYT_May_4,_1935May 4, 1935 New York Times article headline regarding the imminent EPR paper.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kuiper-belt.gifKuiper-beltThe Kuiper belt is a region beyond Neptune that is full of comets, asteroids and other debris. It circles the solar system and has always been a little bit of a mystery as it is so far away and hard to explore.(Credit: Chris Dann)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/quasar-expansion-670x440-140618.jpgquasar-expansion-670x440-140618An artist's view of how quasars and BOAs work together to measure the expansion of the universe. Light from distant quasars is absorbed by gas, which is imprinted with a pattern of BOAs from the early universe. Zosia Rostomian, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Andreu Font-Ribera, BOSS Lyman-alpha team, Berkeley Labhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/wfirst-afta_0.jpgwfirst-afta_0An artist's rendition of the proposed WFIRST-AFTA mission, which will study dark energy, extrasolar planets and objects in the near-infrared. (Credit: NASA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/venus-express-swansong_80788_990x742.jpgvenus-express-swansong_80788_990x742This illustration of Venus Express shows it amid charged particles of solar wind in the upper layers of the Venusian atmosphere. (credit: ESA, AOES Medialab)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/field_lines_mass_24_lines.gifField_lines_mass_24_linesField lines drawn for a point mass using 24 field lines The gravitational field can be represented using field lines. These run in the direction that a mass would be accelerated in initially. The object will not necessarily fall along the field lines, but the acceleration will always be in the direction of the field lines. The closer the field lines are together, the denser the gravitational field. (credit: CC BY-SA 3.0)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/3521_98afdcc1ebd85daa0f1749c5e56b9d8c.png3521_98afdcc1ebd85daa0f1749c5e56b9d8c An invisible neutrino entering a hydrogen bubble chamber from the right collides with a proton, leaving three visible particle pathways.2014-06-20T17:44:42+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/20/physics-in-the-news-15/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dwave.pngdwaveJeremy Hilton, D-Wave's vice president of processor development, with one of the company's quantum computers. Screenshot by Nick Statt/CNET https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/astronomersp.jpgastronomerspThis is an illustration of the physical, spatial and temporal picture for the outflows emanating from the vicinity of the super massive black hole in the galaxy NGC 5548. The behavior of the emission source in five epochs is shown along the time axis. The obscurer is situated at roughly 0.03 light years (0.01 parsecs) from the emission source and is only seen in 2011 and 2013 (it is much stronger in 2013). Outflow component 1 shows the most dramatic changes in its absorption troughs. Different observed ionic species are represented as colored zones within the absorbers. Credit: Ann Feild/Space Telescope Science Institutehttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/a65b60b9-7120-4688-961ee10b59968b8a_article.jpgA65B60B9-7120-4688-961EE10B59968B8A_articleLight from the Crab Nebula (shown here in a Hubble Space Telescope photo) limits the possibilities for fluid spacetime. NASA/ESA/ASU/J. Hesterhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/lead.pngleadThe end of an era: Just 18 percent of survey respondents report using the full-faced emoticon. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/asteroid-comparison_concept.jpgasteroid-comparison_conceptAn artist's conception of two possible views of asteroid 2011 MD. (Image courtesy NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory)2014-06-20T10:21:39+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/18/physics-in-the-news-13/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/high-temp-superconductors.pnghigh-temp-superconductors Map of superconducting copper oxide structure. Credit: Nicolle R Fuller https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/cmb_timeline300_no_wmap.jpgCMB_Timeline300_no_WMAPThis is an artist's concept of the metric expansion of space, where space (including hypothetical non-observable portions of the universe) is represented at each time by the circular sections. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/strangephysi.jpgstrangephysiManipulating minute areas of gain and loss within individual lasers (shown as peaks and valleys in the image), researchers were able to create paradoxical interactions between two nearby lasers. Credit: Vienna University of Technologyhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dynamicspect.jpgdynamicspect2-D-EV spectral data tells researchers how photoexcitation of a molecular system affects the coupling of electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom that is essential to understanding how all molecules, molecular systems and nanomaterials function. Credit: Fleming grouphttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/surprisingly.jpgsurprisinglyThis is a computer simulation of gas (in yellow) falling into a black hole (too small to be seen). Twin jets are also shown with magnetic field lines. Credit: Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Berkeley Labhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/water-building_molecule_in_helix_nebula_large.gifWater-building_molecule_in_Helix_Nebula_largeThis is a computer simulation of gas (in yellow) falling into a black hole (too small to be seen). Twin jets are also shown with magnetic field lines. Credit: Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Berkeley Lab2014-06-18T08:19:03+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/12/physics-in-the-news-7/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/kepler-detecting-planet-transit-in-front-star-lg.jpgkepler-detecting-planet-transit-in-front-star-lgArtist's impression of the Kepler telescope. Image courtesy NASA, Ames, JPL-Caltech.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/mg_0264.jpgMG_0264The LDSD test article in the clean room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, preparing for shipment to Hawaii for its first test launch this summer. LDSD will help land bigger space payloads on Mars or return them back to Earth. Photo Credit: AmericaSpace / Robert Fisherhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/ldsd20140602-640.jpgldsd20140602-640This artist's concept shows the test vehicle for NASA's Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD), designed to test landing technologies for future Mars missions. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/enriched-xenon-observatory-200-exo-200-time-projection-chamber-lg.jpgenriched-xenon-observatory-200-exo-200-time-projection-chamber-lgThis image shows the insertion of the EXO-200 detector into the cryostat 650 meters below ground at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad (New Mexico). Image courtesy SLAC.https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/krauss_origins_0_1.jpgOrigins:The Great Debate-Climate ChangeThe Krauss-Wilczek paper describes how the recent claimed discovery of gravitational waves from the early universe can provide definitive evidence that gravity must be understood as a quantum theory. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/f54302s84016krkk.jpgf54302s84016krkk The study has been carried out with data from the four Cluster satellites. (Photo Credit: Image: ESA)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/heic0206a.jpgheic0206aThis picture of the galaxy UGC 10214 was taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), which was installed aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in March during Servicing Mission 3B.2014-06-12T14:51:44+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/11/physics-in-the-news-6/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/igfa46ebhya89o0s.jpgigfA46ebhyA89O0sPhoto Credit: ICFOhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/three_flares_24_hours.jpegthree_flares_24_hoursThree X-class flares erupted from the left side of the sun June 10-11, 2014. These images are from NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory and show light in a blend of two ultraviolet wavelengths: 171 and 131 angstroms. The former is colorized in yellow; the latter, in red. Image Credit: NASA/SDOhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/screen-shot-2014-06-11-at-10-39-35-am.pngScreen Shot 2014-06-11 at 10.39.35 AMTweet from @NASAhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dnews-files-2014-06-mercury-transit-curiosity-670x440-140610-jpg.jpgdnews-files-2014-06-mercury-transit-curiosity-670x440-140610-jpgNASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Texas A&Mhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/enterprise2.jpgEnterprise2Image by Mark Rademakerhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/18-si.jpg18.siAFP Photo/NASA2014-06-11T18:51:00+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/09/physics-in-the-news-4/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/venus-001_190514.pngvenus.001_190514https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/study-explains-decades-of-black-hole-observations.jpgStudy-Explains-Decades-of-Black-Hole-ObservationsThis annotated image labels several features in the simulation, including the event horizon of the black hole. NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Centerhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/dvergrt.jpgdvergrtPlanetary core formation. Credit: Speed metal, Science 6 June 2014. https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/space_weather_report_medium.jpgSpace_weather_report_mediumSpace weather report for Venus https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/14-05-23-infografik_dibaryon_b_en.jpg14-05-23-infografik_dibaryon_b_enFor a long time, physicists were only able to reliably verify two different classes of hadrons: baryons and mesons. Experiments performed at Jülich’s accelerator COSY have now shown that, in fact, another class of exotic particles made up of six quarks exists. Credit: Forschungszentrum Jülich/SeitenPlan CC BY 4.0 Read more at: http://phys.org/news/2014-06-quarks-six-packs-exotic-particle.html#jCp2014-06-10T18:25:35+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/10/physics-in-the-news-5/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/curiositycap.jpgcuriositycapCuriosity rover panorama of Mount Sharp captured on June 6, 2014 (Sol 651) during traverse inside Gale Crater. Note rover wheel tracks at left. She will eventually ascend the mountain at the ‘Murray Buttes’ at right later this year. Assembled from Mastcam color camera raw images and stitched by Marco Di Lorenzo and Ken Kremer. Credit: NASA/JPL/MSSS/Marco Di Lorenzohttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/55yearolddar.jpg55yearolddarThis is a composite image of the lunar farside taken by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter in June 2009, note the absence of dark areas. Credit: NASAhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/wormholes-infographic.gifWormholes-infographichttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/wertheimer_car_einstein.jpegWertheimer_car_EinsteinEinstein fell for this teaser2014-06-10T17:23:46+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.org/2014/06/08/physics-in-the-news-3/https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/4364907875_c85af7d438_o-676x450.jpg4364907875_c85af7d438_o-676x450This composite shows the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant that has magnetic fields that are approximately 100 times stronger than those in adjacent interstellar space. (NASA/DOE/Fermi LAT Collaboration, CXC/SAO/JPL-Caltech/Steward/O. Krause et al., and NRAO/AUI)https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/hybrid-star-tzo-image.jpghybrid-star-tzo-imageCredit: Phil Massey, Lowell Observatoryhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/20140424_e.jpg20140424_e© Photo: nias.affrc.go.jp https://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/pia18009-640.jpgpia18009-640This infrared image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope shows N103B -- all that remains from a supernova that exploded a millennium ago in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy 160,000 light-years away from our own Milky Way. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Goddardhttps://timeincosmology.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/space-red-dwarf.jpgNASA?s Kepler Mission Discovers A World Orbiting Two StarsArtist conception of a rocky planet in a binary star-system, one of which is a red dwarf. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/R. Hurt via Getty Images)2014-06-08T17:05:37+00:00monthlyhttps://timeincosmology.orgdaily1.02025-05-21T21:51:34+00:00