The Neutrino Puzzle

Bahcall and Davis were just the type of people who would spend all their time underground, trying to collect four atoms a week.

They believed that the sun should be emitting a huge number of neutrinos all the time. They were very interested in the nuclear physics, because they said that was the interesting point. They did all their work with ease and simplicity and with elegance and beauty. Bahcall was always enthusiastic and full of calculations. He was excited to get new calculations on the sun and pick up new data.

It all starts with the stellar nursery. Gravity is the first recognizable characteristic of the star-to-be. As gravity pulls the atoms around a central clump, there are collisions between the hydrogen atoms. This collision creates another essential force, pressure. After the clump becomes bigger and bigger, it starts to create a proto-star. The proto-stars’ gravity pulls dust and gas to the core. The temperature increases due to collisions between the hydrogen atoms. As this happens, the density increases, as does the gas pressure. The gas pressure resists the collapse of the nebula. When the gas pressure equals the force of gravity, creating an equilibrium, the accretions stops.

This star turned out to be a Sun-like star. If it wasn’t murdered it would have gone from a stellar nursery to a proto star, then from a proto star to a solar type star, then from the solar type star to a red giant, then from a red giant to a planetary nebula to a white dwarf, than from a white dwarf to a type 1a SNR.

Unfortunately this will not happen for this star. The equilibrium between gravity and pressure had become unbalanced. The pressure overtakes the gravity due to the complexity of the fusions taking place in the suns. After all the hydrogen’s fuse into helium, the helium must turn into beryllium. The fusions become too complex for the sun so the pressure of the sun murders the gravity. The unbalance causes the sun to explode causing another stellar nursery. This will repeat the cycle causing new suns to be born.

Black Holes

Black holes are places where ordinary gravity gets so extreme that not even a beam of light can excape it. They are produce by massive stars as a natural part of the stellar evolutonary process. It can be produced by a dying star which is 20 times the mass of the sun

A person falling into a black hole would be pulled apart by intense tidal forces. The intense gravitational pull would be much stronger on someones feet in a black hole then their head. They would then be crushed into infinite density and sucked into the black hole.

There are three types of black holes: stellar, supermassive, and miniature.

A black hole is invisable because it is so compact that no light can escape. Only stars with a mass much larger than the sun have the ability to become a black hole.

My Passion

What's your passion? What do you dream about doing in your future?

My passion is for helping people. In my future I want to make a difference in the world. Whether it is one person or a group of people, I want to help people.

Whatever career I choose to go in, I know I will help people in some way. I will help volunteer with my children in school, and be active in my church. The only way our world will change, is if we all put in a helping hand and work together to help others in need.

a.) A sunspot is a region on the sun's surface that is marked by intense magnetic activity, which inhibits convection, forming areas of reduced surface temperatures.


b.) The climate has an effect on the sunspot and changes them.


c.) It shows the latitiude of sunspot occurance versus time (in years).


d.) The number of sunspots reaches a maximum about every 11 years, but successive maxima have spots with reversed magnetic polarity. Thus the whole cycle is 22 years long.


e.) When there are significant sunspots, it makes the Earth colder.


f.) The next solar maximum is expected between 2011 -2012.


g.) Sunspots are observed with a land based telescope as well as ones on earth orbiting satellites.


h.) Dearborn Telescope

Near earth Astroids and the End of the World

--->Potentially Hazardous Asteroids are space rocks larger than approximately 100m that can come closer to Earth than 0.05 AU. The closest Earth-asteroid encounter was in 2009 when it was 8.8 LD and was approximately 44 m.

YES!:
1.) Mayan Calander. In 2012 the Mayan calander is coming to an end and if that is coming to an end, then so is our world. (Pseudoscience)

2.) Pole Drifting. In the next 50,000 years the magnetic poles are going to flip and in turn degrade the earth. (Pseudosceince)

3.) The Magnetic pole are moving rapidly, causing the loss of northern lights and postition of the North and South Poles. (Science)

NO!:
1.) The nothern lights will be lost

2.) The Mayan Religion

3.) Lord Krishna disincarnated on this date

Jupiter

Jupiter:

1.) Jupiter is by far the largest planet

2.) Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun

3.) Jupiter is the fourth brightest object in the sky

4.) Jupiter was the King of the Gods and the ruler of Olympus

5.) Jupiter is about 10% helium and 90% hydrogen with traces of methane, water, ammonia and rock.



http://www.nineplanets.org/jupiter.html

Events

10 events in TIME that range from 10^-10 second to 10^15 seconds:

1.) For a nerve to send a signal=10^-4
2.) Blink= 10 ^-1
3.) Log onto Blogger= 10 ^1
4.) Bake Cookies= 7 Minutes=7 min X 60 Sec=10^2
5.) Prepare Supper=1 hour=10 ^ 3
6.) Bake a 20 lb turkey=5 hours=5 hrs X 60 min X 60 sec= 10^4
7.) Travel to the moon=3 days=10^5
8.) Sheila's 17th birthday=1 year=10^7
9.) Travel to Jupiter on a spacecraft=6 years=10^9
10.) How long ago World War 2 ended=64 Years=10^10

In the book Papa Please Get The Moon For Me, All of the Phases of the moon are shown. However, the times of the moon is not shown right because every phase is shown in the middle of the night. The Only moon that is not shown in this book is the New Moon.

1. Waxing crescent: rise at 9 am, set at 9 pm-Wrong
2. Waxing half: rise at noon, set at midnight-right
3. Waxing gibbous: rise at 3 pm, set at 3 am-Right
4. Full moon: rise at 6 pm, set at 6 am-Right
5. Waning gibbous: rise at 9 pm, set at 9 am-Right
6. Waning half: rise at midnight, set at noon-Wrong
7. Waning gibbous: rise at 3 am, set at 3 pm-Wrong

(If the video does not register on this blog, you can access it on youtube under "Papa Please Get The Moon For Me.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Hvzh2BTxE

a) if you are trying to defeat night burglars, what part(s) of the lunar cycle will cause you the most trouble?

>>A New moon will cause you the most trouble, because it would be the darkest and you wouldn't be able to see anything.

b) if someone gets a ticket during a full moon at 10 pm, can they use the defence that the moon got in their eyes because it was rising before them?

>>Yes they could because the full moon rises at 6p.m. and therefore it would be at eye level at about 10 pm

c) what does the pseudoscience statement, "the crazies come out during a full moon" have wrong with it?

>>Sceince proves that everything is more active with a full moon, so the crazies aren't the only thing that come out.

d) when are the best times of the lunar cycle to stargaze?

>>During the new moon, would be the best time to stargaze because the moon isn't blocking out any stars and most of them can be seen.

e) do illustrators, in general, understand the cycle of the moon? Explain your reasoning.

>>No, They do not understand at what times of the night the moon comes out. And they don't know which sides to always shade in.

Hipparchus

Hipparchus:
Lived: 190BC-120BC
He was geocentric.
Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematcian who compiled the first known star catelog.

http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/hipparchus.html

Copernicus

Copernicus:
Lived: 1473-1543
He was heliocentric.
Copernicus was a Polish astroner and mathematician. He viewed the earth in its daily motion and reported about its motion around its axis and discovered that our sun is stationary.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html

Pope Gregory

Pope Gregory:
Lived: 1502-1585.
He was Heliocentric.
Gregory reformed the calendar because he believed in Easter.

http://www.nndb.com/people/953/000091680/

Newton

Newton:
Lived: 1642-1727.
He was Heliocentric.
Newton created the three laws of motion which are now known as Newton's Laws. Newton also came up with the theory about universal gravitaion.

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Newton.html

Brahe

Brahe:
Lived: 1546-1601
He was geocentric.
Brahe constructed an astronomical observatory on the island of Ven. He also made amazingly accurate astronomical observations.

http://712educators.about.com/cs/biographies/p/brahe.htm

Galileo

Galileo:
Lived: 1564-1642
He was heliocentric.
Galileo was the father of modern science. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus and the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter.

http://www.thespacesite.com/space_galileo_astronomy.html

Kepler

Kepler:
Lived: 1571-1630
He was heliocentric.
Kepler invented log books that he used for calculating the positions of planets. He also cam up with many theories involving astronomy.

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_Johannes_Kepler.htm

Aristotle:
Lived: 384BC-322BC
He was geocentric.
Aristotle made models of the universe which had a profound influense on medival scholars.



<http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/GREECE/ARIST.HTM>

Hipparchus

Hipparchus:
Lived: 190BC-120BC
He was geocentric
Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician who compiled the first known
star catalog.

<http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/hipparchus.html>