I See Into The Past, I see Into The Future, Therefore I Am.

The gigantic scientific instrument called Large Hadron Collider has to be started up today in a world’s largest and most respected centre for scientific research near Geneva at the border Switzerland and France about 100 m underground. This grand scientist experiment will help physicists to learn more about the laws of Nature. What is the result we should expect from such grandioso human’s practical activities on the Earth? There are many theories and discussions about. But the main goal is finding out what the Universe is made of and how it works.

Do you think the answer will be found soon? I don’t so. But no doubt today is the beginning of the process.

While the discussion about ATLAS and CMS, general-purpose particle physics experiments is continuing scientists do their work. The ambition project called for help to see a wide range of particles and phenomena produced in LHC collisions has involved approximately 2,000 physicists from some 35 countries.

They will use the data collected from the complex ATLAS and CMS detectors to search for new phenomena, including the Higgs boson, super symmetry and extra dimensions. They will also measure the properties of previously discovered quarks and bosons with unprecedented precision, and be on the lookout for completely new, unpredicted phenomena.

What is Higgs boson? This is “a fundamental particle predicted by theorist Peter Higgs, may be the key to understanding why elementary particles have mass”, Howard E. Haber from University of California, Santa Cruz explanes. “Explaining the connection, I am reminded of the puzzler, “If sound cannot travel in a vacuum, why are vacuum cleaners so noisy?” This riddle actually touches on a profound insight of modern physics: the vacuum—or empty space—is far from empty. It is indeed “noisy” and full of virtual particles and force fields. The origin of mass seems to be related to this phenomenon.
In Einstein’s theory of relativity, there is a crucial difference between massless and massive particles: All massless particles must travel at the speed of light, whereas massive particles can never attain this ultimate speed. But, how do massive particles arise? Higgs proposed that the vacuum contains an omnipresent field that can slow down some (otherwise massless) elementary particles—like a vat of molasses slowing down a high-speed bullet. Such particles would behave like massive particles traveling at less than light speed. Other particles—such as the photons of light—are immune to the field: they do not slow down and remain massless.

Although the Higgs field is not directly measurable, accelerators can excite this field and “shake loose” detectable particles called Higgs bosons. So far, experiments using the world’s most powerful accelerators have not observed any Higgs bosons, but indirect experimental evidence suggests that particle physicists are poised for a profound discovery.”

Phoenix spacecraft landed in the northern polar region of Mars on May 25, 2008 to begin three months of examining a site chosen for its likelihood of having frozen water within reach of the lander’s robotic arm, NASAreports.

Radio signals received at 4:53:44 p.m. Pacific Time (7:53:44 p.m. Eastern Time) confirmed the Phoenix Mars Lander had survived its difficult final descent and touchdown 15 minutes earlier. The signals took that long to travel from Mars to Earth at the speed of light.

Mission team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.; Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Denver; and the University of Arizona, Tucson, cheered confirmation of the landing and eagerly awaited further information from Phoenix later tonight.

It became known that yesterday at least six people were killed when a shallow, 5.6-magnitude earthquake hit Colombia, destroying homes and shaking buildings in the capital Bogota, where panicked residents fled into the streets. The quake blocked a highway out of Bogota and flattened ten houses and a church near the epicenter, authorities said.

Francisco Gomez, a geology professor at the University of Missouri who has studied the New Madrid Seismic Zone in southeast Missouri and other “intraplate” zones that cause mid-continent earthquakes, said the quake was strong, but it doesn’t necessarily mean there are more to come.

“There always is the concern with something like this that there may be the potential for larger earthquakes in the Wabash River Valley,” he said of the Indiana-Illinois region. “But there’s also the high probability that this is just a moderate earthquake that happened and now they’ll return to the normal level of activity which is pretty infrequent.”

He added: “Does this mean there’s a big one yet to come? Well, not necessarily.”

Gomez said intraplate quakes like this and the massive 7.5-magnitude events that struck Missouri in 1811 and 1812, levelling buildings in St. Louis and reportedly causing the Mississippi River to flow backwards, are very “enigmatic.” They can’t be easily explained or monitored like California earthquakes, which occur when tectonic plates push against each other.

“There are different possibilities. Some of it has to do with the fact that the crust of the earth in continental areas is old and it has a lot of old fractures and cracks within it,” said Gomez. “Sometimes stress gets concentrated and it produces an earthquake. But what causes stress to build? That’s one of the big debates right now.”

As is generally known earthquakes as a natural phenomenon is everyday occurrence. Here you can check the list of Worldwide Earthquakes that happened only in the Last 3 Days.

25-MAY-2008 09:34:09 33.07 104.96 4.9 10.0 GANSU, CHINA
25-MAY-2008 08:21:48 32.58 105.46 5.8 10.0 SICHUAN, CHINA
25-MAY-2008 05:45:12 15.24 -91.70 5.0 193.1 MEXICO-GUATEMALA BORDER REGION
25-MAY-2008 04:27:06 31.92 104.50 4.6 10.0 SICHUAN, CHINA
25-MAY-2008 04:17:06 14.51 -91.43 4.3 82.8 GUATEMALA
25-MAY-2008 03:25:40 46.52 153.32 4.7 39.3 KURIL ISLANDS
25-MAY-2008 02:07:52 -12.76 -14.66 4.8 10.0 SOUTHERN MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
24-MAY-2008 23:23:07 44.24 -129.31 4.6 10.0 OFF COAST OF OREGON
24-MAY-2008 23:20:39 44.33 -129.76 4.2 10.0 OFF COAST OF OREGON
24-MAY-2008 22:29:15 18.37 -105.37 4.2 10.0 OFF COAST OF JALISCO, MEXICO
24-MAY-2008 19:48:12 -23.45 -179.71 4.9 530.7 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
24-MAY-2008 19:20:42 4.45 -73.63 5.7 3.6 COLOMBIA
24-MAY-2008 13:24:11 -7.27 156.02 5.9 67.1 SOLOMON ISLANDS
24-MAY-2008 13:21:28 -0.31 -19.01 5.1 10.0 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
24-MAY-2008 10:28:43 -19.32 169.51 5.1 281.6 VANUATU ISLANDS
24-MAY-2008 09:24:05 -22.11 -179.53 4.9 591.8 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
24-MAY-2008 08:18:18 71.49 -3.06 4.5 10.0 JAN MAYEN ISLAND REGION
24-MAY-2008 07:40:39 -8.78 124.03 5.3 45.6 TIMOR REGION, INDONESIA
24-MAY-2008 06:53:32 -42.01 -71.77 4.7 83.4 S. CHILE-ARGENTINA BORDER REGION
24-MAY-2008 06:26:31 -41.90 -71.81 5.0 69.7 S. CHILE-ARGENTINA BORDER REGION
24-MAY-2008 04:58:19 42.44 -30.55 5.5 10.0 AZORES ISLANDS REGION
24-MAY-2008 02:43:46 -41.95 -71.88 5.3 78.9 S. CHILE-ARGENTINA BORDER REGION
24-MAY-2008 01:59:35 53.13 172.69 4.4 75.1 NEAR ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
23-MAY-2008 22:50:30 -7.03 129.57 5.7 62.2 BANDA SEA
23-MAY-2008 20:46:18 -22.59 -68.55 5.0 99.8 NORTHERN CHILE
23-MAY-2008 19:35:35 7.26 -34.88 6.4 10.0 CENTRAL MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE
23-MAY-2008 16:10:22 32.25 105.10 4.5 10.0 SICHUAN, CHINA
23-MAY-2008 12:27:16 -23.60 178.99 5.0 524.2 SOUTH OF FIJI ISLANDS
23-MAY-2008 11:42:14 65.21 -133.94 4.1 5.0 NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY, CANADA
23-MAY-2008 03:35:06 -8.03 106.89 4.9 10.0 SOUTH OF JAWA, INDONESIA
23-MAY-2008 03:33:07 51.69 177.92 5.2 35.0 RAT ISLANDS, ALEUTIAN ISLANDS
23-MAY-2008 01:07:46 -20.46 -179.34 5.1 652.5 FIJI ISLANDS REGION
23-MAY-2008 00:13:11 7.59 -78.07 4.4 10.0 PANAMA
23-MAY-2008 00:05:06 31.26 103.95 4.6 10.0 SICHUAN, CHINA

You can start your own UFO research right now, to discover the history of government UFO investigations and find out where the new files fit in. So as it was reported earlier, the UK’s Ministry of Defence has agreed to open its secret files on UFO sightings over the UK.

Now you can download these files contained a wide range of UFO-related documents covering the years 1978–2002 including numerous UFO sightings as well as Winston Churchill’s views on UFOs. You can find out more about lights in the sky over Waterloo Bridge, near misses by pilots, crop circles - and what the UK government thought of it all - this is the place to start. The files are in PDF format.

Recently The Daily Mail has published very fascinating facts and common myths about our grey matter, I mean our brains of course. These facts and myths have been taken from a new book by two leading neuroscientists Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang. The information is interesting and sometimes really surprised.

FACT: You can’t tickle yourself
When a doctor examines a ticklish patient, they place one of the patient’s hands over their own to prevent the tickling sensation.
Why does this work? Because no matter how ticklish you may be, you can’t tickle yourself.
This is because your brain focuses on what’s going on in the outside world — to prevent important signals from being drowned out in the endless buzz of sensations caused by your own actions.
For instance, this means you’re unlikely to notice the texture of your socks, but you would feel a tap on the shoulder.
The patient doesn’t feel the tickling because his brain thinks it’s his own hand doing the action.
FACT: Looking at a photograph is harder than playing chess
When computer scientists first began trying to write programmes to mimic human abilities, they found it relatively-easy to get computers to follow logic and do complex maths — such as those required in chess moves — but very hard to get them to figure out what they were seeing in a visual image.

Today’s best computer programmes can beat a grand master, but any toddler can beat the top programmes when it comes to making sense of the visual world.

One reason for this is the difficulty in identifying individual objects.

You only see this ambiguity when you see something briefly enough to misidentify it — like when that rock in the middle of the dark road suddenly turns out to be a neighbour’s cat.

MYTH: You only ever use about 10 per cent of your brain
Although half the world’s population thinks this, in reality you use your whole brain every day.
But for the myth to stick around for so long, it must have been saying something that we really want to hear.

In fact, its impressive persistence may depend on its optimistic message: “If we use only 10 per cent of our brains normally, think what we could do if we could use even a tiny bit of that other 90 per cent.”

The truth is, studies of brain activity show that even simple tasks actually produce activity throughout the entire brain.
More about this book you can read in my Library. So welcome to your brain.

Five designs have been shortlisted in a competition to create an iconic visitor centre for a Lancashire wildlife haven. Lancashire Wildlife Trust has won the race to save Brockholes Wetland, a former gravel extraction site near Preston. The first phase will include the restoration of the wetlands, creation of ponds, seeding of meadows, planting new hedgerows and trees, making access paths and building proper bird watching hides.

It is hoped that the most urgent works can be completed in about three months, when there will be a grand opening by the Partners. However, this will only be the beginning of a project that will be measured in years. Local people will be encouraged to become involved in the reserve, trained and assisted by Wildlife Trust staff on site.

Brockholes will be an inspirational visitor attraction: a mosaic of lakes, reed beds, flower-rich grassland and woodland. It is encircled by the River Ribble, where otters are returning and is bordered by the largest ancient woodland in Lancashire, where badgers and bluebells thrive. It is already one of the finest sites for bird watching in the North West of England.

Critically, the development of Brockholes will also have a significant economic impact at both a local and regional level – dramatically enhancing a key gateway into the region (the site sits along side the M6), driving increased investment into the area through the extensive visitor and tourism facilities that will be developed on site and by providing an attractive and well managed area of green space for local people.

It is already home to a fantastic variety of birdlife including Lapwing, Sand Martin and Kingfisher, together with more vulnerable species such as Whimbrel, Skylark and Reed Bunting. The rich diversity of wildlife will include Great Crested Newts, bats, dragonflies and damselflies.

Usually all of us using different types of cables and connections don’t think too much about how it works and what happens inside. All what we need is its work must be irreproachable. If you have bought or just going to Buy HDMI Cables you’ve probably heard about HDMI and it seems like just one of many connections on televisions or home-theater receivers. That’s right, but not only.

Comparing different system cable’s connections experts have marked HDMI as having wider screen, more pixels and a faster refresh rate, besides that HDMI system is able to display more colors than other sets and this leads us to it. So HDMI is a set of guidelines for creating high-bandwidth connections between digital devices and with the right setup, it can make a significant difference in a home-theater or PC system then no wonder that HDMI has become more popular than Digital Visual Interface, or DVI. It’s easy to use and supports a TV and PC format. It allows you to get the best combination of your audio and visual world.

As we can see creators and designers of digital photo cameras are not going to rest on their laurels but continuing to gladden our hearts and eyes with their radical new concepts and inventions again and again. For instance, right now well known Fuji is working on digital camera glove concept. It means that with moving the fingers the shutter is triggered and the lens is worn like a ring - that would be just a rather silly idea were it not for the fact that. Generally speaking why do people still need a digital camera and a camera mobile phone? Actually there are many admirers and number opponents still persisting in their opinion in unceasing discussion about using mobile phone as a photo camera. I think that the appearance of Photoshop, with its great creative possibilities to edit and work up an image has played one of the main role in the stable interest to photographing.

But everyone knows that today one can find out, download and use any Photoshop Plugin, photo filters or Photoshop Masking, which allow anyone who wishes to work wonders with any picture, photo or drawing. High quality and easy to understand Photoshop Tutorial will help you to see how to use text and photo effects, web graphics, textures, buttons and retouching. Photoshop experts are on hand to assist you to create killer designs and layouts. So, as regards the photographing the future is bright!

The modern name “telephone” as a device that enables us to hear sound at a distance comes from two words,- tele, meaning ‘at a distance’ and ‘phonic’ referring to ’sound’. And in spite of the credit for inventing the electric telephone remains in dispute however among others well known names we can call such famous ones as Charles Bourseul, Antonio Meucci, Johann Philipp Reis, Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray. Thanks to them and many others inventors all of us today are familiar with the telephone as a means of communicating with one another.

But as a matter of fact telephone was invented not too long ago, the first message or ‘telegram’ sent by a telegraph using electromagnetism was in 1833, several different models were produced by two Englishmen, Cooke and Wheatstone. Electric currents passed down wires deflected magnetic needles which pointed to the letters arranged on a panel. The first telephone station was biult in US in 1877, only 131 years ago. I’m not sure that’s only or already but actually 131 years is not too long period for such revolutionary changes we have watched, isn’t it? However, the modern telephone is the result of work done by many people, all worthy of recognition of their contributions to the field and now we just cant emagine our everyday life without this fantastic device.

New technological advancements, mobile technology and wireless technologies have done much to change the way we live and communicate over the past quarter century. I can hardly imagine today businesses management without daily Conference Calls using to meet with remote parties, both internally and outside of their company. Audio Conference provides the client meetings or sales presentations, project meetings and updates, regular team meetings, training classes and communication to employees who work in different locations. Call Conferencing is viewed as a primary means of cutting travel costs and allowing workers to be more productive by not having to go out-of-office for meetings.