Thursday, May 30, 2013

Anti-Gravity

                                 By: Tsegazeab Beteselassie


Anti-gravity: One way an anti-gravity machine might work, by Dr.Yevgeny Podkletnov.
Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2159487.stm
    "What is anti-gravity*?", you might ask. Well, to put in on simple terms, anti-gravity is, well, the opposite of gravity. It is supposed to be a pushing force, but if you read my last post, (if you want to read it, click here) gravity is a pushing force. Then wouldn't anti-gravity be a pulling force? I have no idea. But if I am correct and anti-gravity is a pulling force, then there would have to be another force acting upon anti-gravity. As I mentioned in my last post, neutrinos push two objects together. Then wouldn't anti-neutrinos (I'm only calling them anti- because I don't know what they are made of, not because they are made of antimatter) push things apart? I don't know about that either. But if that was correct, then there must be at least twice the amount of matter we thought was in the universe. But there is a problem. Wouldn't gravity in a massive object be slowed down with all those anti-neutrinos?

Saturday, May 25, 2013

The theory of Gravity

                            By: Tsegazeab Beteselassie




    The scientists of today have a problem. They made carefully checked equations for how much mass is in our galaxy. And they figured out one thing. Eighty percent of the mass in our galaxy is missing. "Where could all that mass go?" people wondered. But soon they figured where it went.



Le Sage's theory: Le Sage's theory of gravity.
Link: en.wikipedia.org
 

    There is dark matter and dark energy in our universe. And our galaxy has some too, that keeps it spinning. But, still, some mass is missing. But in 1748, a man named Le Sage had an answer. He purposed that there are particles that go through the earth and can act as gravity (we'll get to that later). But no one believed him and the theory wasn't widespread. Albert Einstein further killed the theory  with special and general relativity, as well as the space-time theory and  Le Sage's theory was forgotten. But Le Sage was right. Particles do go through the earth (but they were actually energy waves). They're called neutrinos. But the galaxy's dark energy, dark matter, matter is still isn't enough to make the galaxy spin as it does.
 
    The neutrinos we were talking about earlier actually have to do something with all this. Le Sage said that gravity was a pushing force. "How is gravity a pushing force?" you might wonder. Well, Le  Sage explained that, let's say you have a iron ball. When all those neutrinos attack the ball from all sides, the force on each part of the ball is the same as the other parts. The ball doesn't move. But what happens when there is two balls?

Sunday, May 19, 2013

The New Sabertooth


             By: Tsegazeab Beteselassie

Sabertooth: The new Sabertooth.
Link: futureideas12.blogspot.com
    You know the Sabertooth Cat* right? It was the most powerful hunter of it's time. Yet, it has some weaknesses. Well I created a new species (in my mind) of Sabertooth Cats. They are bigger, stronger, faster, smarter, and overall more powerful than a average Sabertooth Cat. Well anyways, let's start with the Sabertooth's weaknesses.

   One of the Sabertooth's weaknesses is it's Sabers. They were thought to be used for hunting, until they discovered they were actually quite brittle and only used for shearing off meat. So I decided to make my Sabertooth's Sabers have a sturdier base. Also, their length can be a disadvantage so I made them shorter for even more sturdier teeth. The teeth are made normally, but are "immune" to microorganisms that rot your teeth. So far, we have fixed the teeth, but there is another weakness to the Sabertooth. It is it's legs.  

    Sabertooths are fast, but can't run fast for a long time. They have to ambush their prey so that they can survive. That's one of the reasons Sabertooths hunt in groups. But there is a way to fix that problem of its stamina. If you study the antinomy of a gazelles legs, (I hadn't) and combine it with the horses legs, you can get legs that have a lot of stamina, but are very fast. The stamina muscles cover the outside but speed muscles are with the bone. When speed muscles tire out, stamina muscles take over. Well, for now, we cleared most of the Sabertooth's weaknesses. Now, let's add some strengths.

Sunday, May 5, 2013

The Quantum Theory: Quantum Probability

                     
                     By: Tsegazeab Beteselassie

Quantum Theory: One aspect of Quantum Theory, atom entanglement.
Link: http://www.crystalinks.com

    "What is Quantum theory anyway?" You might be wondering. In fact, you might be wondering "What is Quantum mechanics?" Well, let me explain what quantum mechanics is. Quantum mechanics is the studying of laws of the atomic and the sub-atomic world. And Quantum theory is the latest scientific breakthrough. Theoretical physicists are studying this marvelous discovery. It is called, Quantum probability.


    "Then what is Quantum Probability?", you might wonder. Well, Quantum Probability came from a very famous experiment. It is called the double slit experiment. A physicist called Young decided to see whether light will go through two slits and make an interference pattern. When he saw the results, he was shocked. The slits made and interference pattern that went through some of the material that made the double slit experiment  It looked something like this: 



Double slit experiment: The double slit experiment.
   As you can see, the waves behind the wall is the light shone at the wall. If you look closely, you can see that the middle wave goes directly through the chunk of wall! When physicists repeated this over and over again, they struggled with the laws of physics trying to explain this. Then, a physicist suggested a theory that an electron got squished out before you measure it, making the wave patterns. But that was wrong. Then, another theoretical physicist said that an electron was not a squished out particle, but a probability wave. He was saying that when you do the double slit experiment, the wave goes through both slits, but merges at the middle to make it look it went thought the wall. A high wave plus the high waves canceled each other out. A low wave plus a low wave also canceled each other out. But a high wave plus a low wave merged together and made and interference pattern. The place with the highest waves has the most probability of the electron landing there. That makes it look like the waves went through the wall. The double slit experiment was proof that a particle can act like a wave. 

    The double slit experiment also proves that it is impossible to tell were an electron is. It is possible to find the probability that the electron will land there. The idea that we have to rely on probability instead of certainty in the quantum world was mind blowing. But it was correct. Soon everyone knew that a particle can be a wave, and vice verca, and you have to use the equation of the probability wave to "guess" where the electron is. 

    
    A couple years ago, some physicists started to realize that whenever they heat gasses, and looked through a prism, instead of producing a smudge of colors, the prisms produced pencil-thick beams of colors. The physicists started to wonder why that happened, when one day, person saw that when you heat up atoms, the electrons get "exited" and started to flip orbits. The amazing thing is, that the electrons never crossed the distance in between. It's like is suddenly  Mars jumped to Jupiter's orbit without crossing the space between their orbits. The people started calling it, Teleportation. Physicists soon went to some islands and then they conducted an experiment of teleporting atoms across 89 miles of water to a nearby observatory. It worked. We are a long way from teleporting ourselves but were making progress. Soon, we will be able to teleport ourselves to the farthest stars.



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