Living in the light of God
Some equations suggest that every black hole contains a universe, which would mean that our universe is inside a black hole right now. Who knows.
While this might mean to make a shrill cry, or to laugh or talk in a shrill manner, or even the act of a large group of women in one room talking and laughing, but: 1. It is a word used in response to a silly or a 'not so funny' joke. One simply Says "CACKLE!" and walks away with a serious look on ...
Located in Idaho is the most lunar like landscape you can visit in the U.S Formed by volcanic eruptions more than 15,000 years ago, the lava field extends over 600 square miles. More recent eruptions up to 2,000 years ago created cinder cones and lava tubes.
On the Phillipines island of Bohol, nearly 1,300 grass-covered, limestone mounds called the Chocolate Hills dot an area of approximately 20 square miles. The counds range from 100 to 400 feet high. In the dry season, the hills look like giant chocolate chips. Legend says they were formed by a ...
The stark volcanic landscape of the Haleakala volcano stands in high contrast to its lush surroundings on Maui. Over 1.5 million people visit Haleakala National Park each year, many to watch dramatic sunrises and sunsets and into an enormous crater that extends seven miles by two miles. The name ...
Mildred Dresselhaus, often called the "queen of carbon science" has been studying it in various forms for over 50 years. Now, graphene is hailed as a wonder material and using carbon in electronics in the horizon. At 82, she is till a professor at MIT and recently won the $1 million Kavli Prize in ...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell (1943-) With the aid of a radio telescope she built herself, she became the first astronomer to detect pulsars rapidly spinning, extremely dense neutron stars. As a graduate student, she was deemed too inexperienced to receive the Nobel Prize, which was given instead in 1974 to ...
Lise Meitner, (1878-1968) A Jewish scientist, she escaped from the Nazis to Sweden in 1938, and carried out the key calculations that led to the discovery of nuclear fission. Her collaborator, Otto Hahn, who stayed behind in Germany, was the sole recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1944. ...
