deamonstar

gravity is a psuedo-force much in the same way that centrifugal force is a psuedo-force. it is caused by the temporal inertia of mass (its tendancy to remain at rest in a given moment in time) being accelerated through space-time. the acceleration is provided by the accelerated expansion of the universe. as a body of mass exists in space, the 'outward' expansion of space tries to push the body of mass through time as well. as space expands, it encounters resistance from the temporal inertia of the body of mass resulting in a curvature of space-time around it. other bodies of mass are not actually 'pulled' towards another body of mass, so much as space-time is expanding around them. 'realatively' speaking, the distance between the bodies of mass will become less... in a sense, it is the function of a percentage of the realative distances between the two bodies of mass as compared to the mean volume of space at a given moment in time. (of course, other factors such as total mass and velocity and trajectory influence the behaviours of the various bodies of mass which interact with each other.) for further reading follow this link... gravity

I have GOT to get one of these!!! 0-60 in 2.8 seconds, 0-100 in 6.3 seconds. the published figure for the Ferrari McClaren F1 is 0-60 in 3.2 seconds... you do the math! http://www.tigerracing.com/cars/z100main.htm

when I was a teen-ager, I had contracted a rare (and fatal if left untreated) strain of salmonella which caused violent dry heaves (vomitting without anything coming out) which felt like all of my muscles in my body were being torn out among other associated pains that I don't care to mention. the doctors at the hospital couldn't identify the cause of my illness for several days so they called in a specialist in diseases and he discovered that I had the weird salmonella. in the mean time, I was given medications to treat most other common causes of food poisoning but, those medicines had little effect on the strain that I was infected with. the specialist told me that I was lucky that he was called in when he was because if the doctors would have waited another day or two, I would have been beyond treatment. another painful experience... while at work one day, I was on the roof of the house which was slightly damp from the previous nights rain. I was lifting lumber up into a window to where we were working when I turned and slipped on a spot that was a bit more damp than the rest of the roof. I fell only one story to the hard packed ground below, landed on my feet and tried to roll out of the fall. I got up and found that my feet hurt like the dickens! I went to the doctors office to get x-rayed. turns out that I bruised the bottoms of my heel bones. and as the swelling in my feet got worse, the pain also became worse... enough so that I couldn't walk for a day or so. but, the worst pain that I ever experienced happened at work also. we were setting steel I-beams with a crane that day. we were short-handed as 2 people called out of work that day leaving us with just myself, two others and the crane operator. I was on the ground strapping the I-beams to the crane. since the I-beams were sitting on the ground, I had to lift up one end by hand so that I could put a wooden block underneath of it so I could put the strap around it. well, anyways... I was lifting a 14 foot I-beam a little too close to its center when I heard and felt a sickening crunching sound that came from my lower back. it didn't hurt much at the time, just slightly sore. a few days later, I was putting on the plywood for the roof when I had turned slightly and felt a 'POP' in my lower back. my legs gave out and I fell back on my butt onto the roof where I was standing. ohhh the pain was terrible but, I managed to climb down the ladder. I was walking to my truck so that I could go to the doctors office but, the pain was getting worse by the second. I was crawling before I got half-way to the front door before the pain was too much to bear. I rolled over onto my back and just layed there. it didn't help that, at the time, I was also suffering a bout of bronchitis. I was coughing every few seconds. and the muscles were of course spasming with every cough. this only made the pain worse. my boss called an ambulance to come get me. it hurt terribly when they rolled me onto my side to get the back-board under me so that I could be carried out. the drive to the hospital was no better. every small bump in the road was exaggerated ten-fold by the pain that was screaming in my back. at the hospital, the doctors determined that I didn't break my back but I had a collapsed disk that was compressing the nerves in my spine. the doctor gave me a shot of Demeral (a powerful pain killer) in the leg. the shot itself hurt pretty bad too, that was one of the largest needles that I've ever seen. the pain of it injecting the drug into me caused me to clench and that only made the pain in my back even worse. the doctor said 'let the demeral work for about fifteen minutes then, I will come back to check on you.' when he came back he asked if the demeral helped... I told him that it didn't help at all. so, he tried another shot into my other leg... same thing... OUCH!!! still to no avail did the pain subside. about an hour after the shots of demeral, the pain still excruciating, the doctor gave me a prescription for 1000mg of ibuprofin to be taken every 4 hours, 700mg of percocet to be taken every 4 hours or as needed for pain and two 500mg of robaxin every 4 hours, and then sent me home to rest. after taking the medications, the pain itself was still terrible but the drug induced haze allowed me to sleep. I couldn't move for two days (well actually, I did manage to crawl to the bathroom to releive myself of bodily functions even though the pain was still nearly unbearable even with all the drugs... hey, when you gotta go... you gotta go!). after that, crawling was about the only locomotion that I could muster for a whole week. the drugs dulled the pain enough for me to walk after that first agonizing week. after the second week, most of the pain was gone except for an almost throbbing soreness that would come about after the drugs wore off between dosages. after the third week I was feeling much better and so, returned to work. I still had some of my prescription left over and was able to actually enjoy the high it gave me without the pain in my back. the accident with the I-beam has left me with a permanat injury. every now and then if I turn slightly in the wrong way, my back still goes out and causes me terrible pain (though nowhere as bad as that first time) which I can get a prescription from my doctor for. and as a matter of fact, we worked ouselves pretty hard this past week at work, and now my back is pretty sore right now. on a scale of 1-10, 1 being the least and 10 being the worst pain. I would say that the back injury was a resounding 13+!

I watched the whole show. it was spectacular! saw it naked eye, with binos and through my 8" scope. great with each one. took a few pictures by way of eyepiece projection with my digital camera. the photos didn't come out as well as I would have liked... probably due to its fast shutter speed (which is not adjustable). editing the photos only resulted in very minor contrast improvement, but not significant enough to make quality prints of. anyway... I had a great time with the observing. my 5 yo son was just as entusiastic as I was. my 12 yo son (who has NO interest in astronomy whatsoever) even came outside and thought it was pretty cool and also liked the view of m47 through the binos and the double cluster through the scope. I am so glad that I got to see this one considering the previous one was clouded out at my location. can't wait till the next one! well... I guess it's almost time for some good meteor showers! clear skies!

just picked up two books from a friend of mine... "Knight of the Black Rose" by James Lowder and "Specter of the Black Rose" by James Lowder and Voronica Whitney-Robinson. both of which are a part of the Ravenloft series of fantasy novels.

brian greene's book "the elegant universe is very good... as is kip thorne's book "black holes and time warps".

go for the cobra. scrap the stock manifold and slap on a gt40 head in its place, get some good roller cams, throw on some meaty 50s in the back and hold on tight!

I just finished reading "The Templar Revelation: the Gaurdians of the Secret of the True Identity of Christ" by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince. it's a real eye-opener which caused me to re-read the Gospels with much more scrutiny. this is now one of my favorite books.

I built a trebuchet once. it was 12 feet tall and I launched bricks and chairs over my neighbors lawn into the alley behind our houses... LOADS of fun!!!! there is an old guy in the UK somewhere with entirely too much money and free time who built a GIGANTIC trebuchet out of telephone poles. he launched a flaming piano and a car with it. he has plans to build an even larger one using steel-tube roller-coaster support colums so that he can launch a double-decker bus!!!!!! I have GOT to get me one of those!!!!!

go here for thousands of other choices of avatars... http://www.gamespy.com/avatars/index.asp

go here http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eph?sstr=100377&s_sb=Search&c_time=%2B20031013000000.000%2C%2B20031028000000.000%2C0%2C1%2Cd%2C%2CC&c_loc=500%3BGeocentric%3B0.%2C0.%2C0.%2Cm&c_quan=0108c0101%2CJHA%2C%2C0 be sure to click all appropriate links to enter your pertinent info. then click "generate ephemeris" to get your map with coordinates in any way that you want from alt/az or ra/dec or what ever... hope this helps.

this one is my favorite. it is far too long to post here though... rime of the ancient mariner

might is right might was right when caesar bled upon the stones of rome, might was right when genghis led his hordes over danube's foam, and might was right when german troops poured down through paris way, it's the gospel of the ancient world and the logic of today. behind all kings and presidents - all government and law, are army-corps and cannoneers - to hold the world in awe. and sword-strong races own the earth, and ride the conqueror's car - and liberty has never been won except by deeds of war. what are the lords of hoarded gold - the silent semite rings? what are the plunder-patriots - high-pontiffs, priests and kings? what are they but bold master-minds, best fitted for the fray who comprehend and vanquish by - the logic of today. cain's knotted club is scepter still - the "right of man" is fraud: christ's ethics are for creeping things - true manhood smiles at "god". for might is right when empires sink in storms of steel and flame; and it is right when weakling breeds - are hunted down like game. then what's the use of dreaming dreams - that "each shall get his own"? by forceless votes of meek-eyed thralls, who blindly sweat and moan? no! a curse is on their cankered brains - their very bones decay: go! trace your fate in the iron game, it's the logic of today. the strong must ever rule the weak, is grim primordial law - on earth's broad racial threshing floor, the meek are beaten straw - then ride to power o'er foemen's necks let nothing bar your way: if you are fit you'll rule and reign, is the logic of today. you must prove you're right by deeds of might - of splendor and reknown. if need be, march through flames of hell, to dash opponents down - if need be, die on scaffold high - in the morning's misty grey: for "liberty or death" is still the logic of today. might was right when gideon led the "chosen" tribes of old, and it was right when titus burnt, their temple roofed with gold: and might was right from bunker's hill, to far manilla bay, by land and flood it's wrote in blood - the gospel of today. "put not your trust in princes" is a saying old and true, "put not your hope in governments" translateth it anew. all "books of law" and "golden rules" are fashioned to betray: "the survival of the strongest" is the gospel of today. might was right when carthage flames lit up the punic foam - and when the naked steel of gaul weighed down the spoil of rome; and might was right when richmond fell - and at thermopylae - it's the logic of the ancient world - and the gospel of today. where pendant suns in millions swing, around this whirling earth, it's might, it's force that holds the brakes, and steers through death and birth: force governs all organic life, inspires all right and wrong. it's nature's plan to weed-out man, and test who are the strong.

sorry 'bout the size. I know it's awfully big.

this may interest some of you...

I liked "Black Holes and Time Warps" by Kip Thorne. also, as an amature astronomer, I liked "Seeing in the Dark" by Timothy Ferris. as far as periodicals go... I have a subscription to "Astronomy" magazine and "Popular Science".

hypothesis: http://dict.die.net/hypothesis/ postulate: http://dict.die.net/postulate/ proposition (this is what I assume that you meant, YT2095, for a preposition is not really related to scientific terms rather, it is a grammatical modifying word): http://dict.die.net/proposition/ theory: http://dict.die.net/theory/ and for good measure, let's add... theorem: http://dict.die.net/theorem/ and... idea: http://dict.die.net/idea/

it was probably the reference to the "plane" that was misunderstood. a plane is 2 dimensional; length and width. a line is 1 dimensional; length.

just guessing here but... you will probably need an automobile alternator for your generator, a garden windmill to turn it, some pulleys, some belts, a good sized capacitor, a low wattage light bulb (no more than 40 watts), and of course a good stiff breeze. there was no mention as to the duration that the bulb is to stay lit... so...

the drag coefficient is measured as the force of gravity. the 'swirling' is the source of angular momentum, which can be seen in all bodies with mass... from the atom to planets and solar systems, and galaxies and galaxy clusters.

touche! however, kur and kurios do have ancient origins which refer to magic/lord/mountain. this was merely to illistrate the point of the idea that mounains were the dwelling places of the gods. it is also in a similar fashion to the ancient greeks with mt. olympus. in either case it has little to do with the 'face of mars'.

(good greif! I really hate making typos! but, it is the conveyance of meaning and not the grammatical correctness that is important. but, if you are wise... you would already know this.)

"Mountains were said to be the dwelling places of the gods. " this speculation comes from the ancient Sumerians and Babalonians. one of their primary gods was called Marduk Kurios. an Elder God, Marduk Kurios was a child of the Ancient Ones. he possed (and was the source of) the magic that the Elder Gods weilded to overtrow their predecessors (the Ancient Ones). his throne on earth was a mountain top. in incantations used by those ancient cultures, the word 'KUR' is often used to invoke the magic for their ceremonies. this word is taken directly from its source: Kurios. it is a word of 'power' and, depending on its use, could be translated into 'magic' or 'mountain'. there is also a Greek word for Lord of the same name: Kurios... still more evidence of its root in the name of Marduk Kurios. the following is transcribed from the editors introduction of the book "the Necronomicon"... "(Note: the original translator had noticed the resemblance between the Greek word for Lord, kurios, and the Sumerian word for Mountain, kur, and for a type of underworld, cthonic, monster which is also called kur and which refers to the Leviathan of the Old Testament... The Old Derpent KUR is, of course, invoked every day by the Christians: Kyrie Eleison!)". (note the resemblance between the words 'Kyrie' and 'Kur'.) but, as far as the 'face' being an ancient artifact of another race of intelligent beings on Mars... I will remain on the side of 'natural formation' untill irrefutable direct evidence determines otherwise. after all... there are many natural formations here on earth that closely resemble intelligent design that are obviously (and under investigative, archeological scrutiny) NOT man-made.

as I was contemplating the progression of time, I came to think that time does not move at all either forward or backwards or any which way that you might imagine. perhaps time exists at every moment... everywhere. this idea hit me when I was trying to factor in the expansion of the universe. let's perform a thought experiment to give an anology... imagine a circular pond of water that has the same depth at every point within (this will represent time, which remains unchanging in the absence of outside influence). drop a pebble into the exact center (this will represent the big bang). from this point a wave will propogate outwards (this will represent the expansion of the universe (for simplicity I will describe only a single wave) ). this was the easy part to imagine. then I tried to imagine where gravity fits in. well, for there to be gravity, there must be a body which has mass. o.k. we all know this much; the greater the mass- the greater the gravity. but what exactly is gravity anyway? Einstein tells us that gravity is actually the curvature of space/time. this seems a reasonable enough explanation... but, how does gravity work? I figure that mass has an inherent tendancy to remain in one moment in time, while the force of the expansion of the universe tends to propell mass forward through time. this creates a resistance which causes space to curve around the body of mass (the degree of curvature depends upon the amount of mass that is trying to remain at a given point in time). perhaps Newtons' laws of motion also apply to the expansion of space where a body of mass is concerned (an object at rest tends to stay at rest and, a body in motion tends to stay in motion). in this case the body at rest is mass and the body in motion is space itself expanding. this still leaves the question as to how gravity works to pull things in. let me explain. space is also trying to remain in one moment in time, yet the force of the big-bang is propelling space through time. as this expansion encounters mass (which is trying to remain in one moment in time) there arises a resistance between the expansion of space and the body of mass. this resistance curves space as the body of mass absorbs energy from the force of the expansion, thus slowing the rate of expansion in the local area of affect of the mass' tendancy to remain at a given moment in time. as the force of the expansion continues outward through time, the area of space around the body of mass falls behind in time... which gives us the curvature of space around this body of mass as the rest of space continues on its merry way forward through time unhindered by mass. this is not to say that the body of mass is not also being propelled forward in time, it is... only at a slower rate than the expansion of space. this creates a depression in time (much like in the manner of the model of the curvature in space where you place a heavy ball on a rubber sheet). this depression in time allows a smaller body of mass to be "attracted to" a larger body of mass becuase there is less resistance to the outward expansion of space near the larger body of mass (which is trying to remain at one moment in time)... thus allowing this smaller body of mass an easier way to remain in one moment in time... in other words, it will take the path of least resistance in its' attempt to remain at that moment in time. now let's get extreme... consider a black hole. the mass of a black hole is greater than the resistance of the force of the expansion of space through time to such a degree that the black hole has actually been able to remain at one moment in time. this is at the event horizon only. since space and time interact, the event horizon allows space to remain at the event horizon while as you get further from the event horizon space will encounter less resistance (due to the mass of the black hole) to the force of expansion through time. this is how we can percieve time as "slowing down" as we get closer to the event horizon (or any other large body of mass for that matter). thoughts, anyone?

mine is obviously... the demonstar http://wonka.physics.ncsu.edu/www/Astro/Research/Algol/algol.mpeg