I met Kickstand a few months back while going for a jog. I had seen him sitting on one of the benches in the local park a few times and decided to finally meet him on this day. So, I stopped.
I recalled he had a book in his hand 20...
One thing that has really been upsetting me as of late are the e-mails I am getting in my in-box that contain some incredibly “wise” and as we “brilliant ones” call it, “profound” words that were written by philosophers of the Word of God; people who studied the scriptures...
A couple months back my daughter went to a youth group function in the church for all the girls. It was supposed to be a fun and enjoyable time; a big sleepover bash. At around 11:30pm the phone rings; it’s my daughter. She proceeds to tell me...
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In other cases they behave more like soundwaves as they travel through a wind instrument. Using satellite images of these loops, which can be over 60,000 miles long, the scientists were able to recreate the sound by turning the visible vibrations into noises and speeding up the frequency so it is audible to the human ear. Professor Robertus von Fáy-Siebenbürgen, head of the solar physics research group at Sheffield University, said: "It was strangely beautiful and exciting to hear these noises for the first time from such a large and powerful source. "It is a sort of music as it has harmonics. "It is providing us with a new way of learning about the sun and giving us a new insight into the physics that goes on at in the sun's outer layers where temperatures reach millions of degrees." The coronal loops are thought to be involved in the production of solar flares that fling highly charged particles out into space, creating a phenomenon known as space weather. When the sun's activity, and thus solar flare production, increases, the resulting "space storm" can have catastrophic results here on earth, destroying electronic equipment, overheating power grids and damaging satellites. Nasa warned last week that the sun's activity is starting to increase following an extended period of low activity and is on course to throw out unprecedented levels of magnetic energy into the solar system by 2013. Professor Fáy-Siebenbürgen said that studying the "music of the sun" would provide new ways of understanding and predicting solar flares before they happen. The coronal loops vibrate from side to side because they are "plucked" rather like guitar strings by the blast waves from explosions on the surface of the sun. The scientists also found the loops vibrate backwards and forwards in a way that mimics the acoustic waves in a wind instrument. Scientists cannot directly record the sound produced in the Sun's atmosphere because sound cannot travel through the near vacuum of space. They are, however, able to use visual observations of the frequency at which the coronal loops vibrate to recreate the sound back here on Earth. Professor Fáy-Siebenbürgen's research has been revealed as the University of Sheffield launches a new project, called Project Sunshine, aimed at finding new ways to harness and understand the power of the sun. He said: "These loops are oscillating like the strings on a guitar or the air in a wind instrument. Over time the waves die away and that is telling us new things about the physics in the sun's atmosphere."
