Cryusaki, Science is Beautiful

A general science blog updated daily on subjects like Math, Physics and Space. All content is becoming original content, feel free to ask any science related question c:

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Randomness Must Exist.

                When Einstein thought about the properties of quantum entanglement he has a big issue with the conclusion it was drawing. The idea is two particles, say electrons, can be entangled with one another such that when separated by an arbitrarily large distance a measurement on one can affect the properties on the other. That sounds weird enough but what really got Einstein was the fact this shifting of properties happens instantly, remember it is regardless of the distance between them. Einstein’s theory of relativity relies on the fact that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light, we all know that. Actually it’s important that technically it is information cannot travel faster than the speed of light.

                It is from this issue that we can draw the conclusion that randomness exists while preserving the truth of the statement about information not traveling faster than the speed of light. Entanglement works by 2 particles having a property such as spin, where if one electrons has an ‘up’ spin the other must be measured to have a ‘down’ spin. You can conceivably then build two machines and put them in separate galaxies, and then two people can speak to one another by something such as Morse code. Measure the spin of the electron in such a way that say ‘ups’ are 0’s and ‘downs’ are 1’s.

                However this is the beauty of it all. To preserve the statement on information you must have no control as to whether you will measure a spin up or down. If you could in anyway control the outcome then you can send messages, which as know defies a law in physics. Therefore randomness must exist to keep physics consistent. If you are like me and Einstein and not like randomness that is okay, but you must accept it as truth.

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From Apes to Space

                Thump..thump..thump.. That is the sound of your heat beating in your chest right now. Delivering oxygen, extracted from the air by your lungs, forced in by a difference of pressure created by your diaphragm. This is your body, your life; you are a physical being interacting in a physical world. These processes go on even if you are not aware of them, even if you do not believe them. The muscles that are manipulating your skeleton. The force of gravity constantly pulling everything towards the Earth. This train of thought extends beyond your body, beneath your feet there is a molten earth brewing, winds are blowing against the house your grew up in, planes are flying through the sky.

                The point of this is to remind you of what we are and that the world is constantly in motion, constrained and acted upon by the laws of physics. Take a step back and imagine our ancestors on the plains of Africa. How primitive the world is at that point. There are no Wi-Fi signals transmitting data, no stock markets to predict global economic outcomes, no practicing of science to develop a fundamental understanding of space and time. There were basic needs to be met; the social structure contained of a single alpha male to be the leader. We ate, we procreated, and we died. We ate, we procreated, and we died.

                Take that same world, and add in a little time and we get today. We get tomorrow, we get the future. Self-contained units of plastics and metal that uses the flow of electrons to emit photons from a screen, accept input from a user and decode text from another server to be presented so that you can read this. A living quarters the size of a football stadium that is able to orbit around the entire planet and sustain human life. Cell phones, universities, capitalism, ethics, philosophy, science. All of these were created not but gods, but the same primal beings in the previous paragraph. They were constrained by the physical world in the same way we are today, any tool they needed they had to make them, any idea they had they had to think of them. The idea that we came from such humble beginnings makes me feel in tune with the world I live in, it gives society more value and culture. I encourage you to reread this and truly give it thought until you understand what I mean, it is truly awe inspiring. If you are having trouble watch the first bit of 2001: A Space Odyssey, you will understand it then.

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Do you answer problem specific questions?

Ill answer whatever I get asked to the best of my ability!

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Reblog this if you are on the Science Side of Tumblr!

Lets see how many of us there actually are!

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Some perspective

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8 San Antonio Warships are active with 2 more in the making

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I feel like this is a very broad and silly question but do animals taste things like we do? Do taste buds generally have the same structure in carnivores and omnivores, do they detect only certain tastes; answer whatever way you like :)

I'm going to try an answer this without looking up any information while only saying things I am confident would be true.

Taste buds make sense from an evolutionary standpoint, understanding and determining what is going into your body makes a lot of sense. If you couldn't distinguish a rotten apple from a fresh one based on taste alone then your ancestors would have a rough time. This would also be useful to all animals and I imagine especially to mammals.

As for do they taste things similar to the way we do?Sweet things taste good because they are high in energy for our body ie glucose. Our minds would have a positive response to this intake of food so sweet food tastes good. Glucose is useful for all life, omnivore and carnivore so they would also have a positive stimulus to sugar, however if it tastes the same is hard to say. Same argument goes when we ask "Does red look the same to you as it does to me?"

On this point I would hypothesis that cows taste buds are more in tune with the taste of grass since they, or bacteria in their gut rather, can digest the large polysaccharide chains that make up the grass where we cant. Similarly vultures and animals that eat on the dead wouldn't mind the taste of rotting flesh as much as you and I.

That's the best I can answer, biology was never my strong point. Prominently math, physics and space science.I encourage anyone else to add if they would like.

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Particle Fever is on Netflix

I repeat, Particle Fever is on Netflix

Go watch the documentary about the most complicated machine ever build by mankind to discover a particle that gives mass to the universe. If not for that then watch it in respect of the countless hours put in from many different disciplines coming together. If not for that then watch it in protest of America canceling the project, show that CERN matters, promote the material made from it. Go watch Particle Fever!

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Run your own Plasma Experiment free, remotely and online.

     The plasma physics laboratory at Princeton University has set up a remote experiment that can be controlled online for free. Users line up to get access to the equipment on ten minute intervals. You have control over Voltage, Pressure and strength of an electromagnet. Give it a try at the link below!

Remote Glow Discharge Experiment

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An argument for the importance of Art from a Science lover.

                The Universe was born as a predictable and logical process. There are laws that it follows that define how objects interact with one another. We call the process of discovering these interactions Science and the language in which we discuss it is math. Scientists spend their entire lives discovering how the universe works to find a more complete picture of the world. The universe to a scientist is beautiful; there is a fundamental truth to the world and scientists use the scientific method to discern truth from false.

                The universe birthed us humans. The atoms that we are made up of follow the same laws of physics as the atoms that we try and understand. Science has shown us that the universe is mostly empty, a lot of plasma stars and lots of planets. Probably some life forms out there but clearly life isn’t as common as say atmospheres on a planet or asteroid collisions. Life is special to behold, not to be taken lightly. I fully support Science and the quest to uncover truth but I also believe science neglects the importance of arts.

                The universe is not capable of creating the strength of emotion a complex life can put into a love letter nor can it put ink in an intentional pattern to draw out Starry Night by Vincent van Goph.  If we are born out of a logical process and statistics then why do we scientists tend neglect the emotions and higher complexity of art. I believe arts gives the human race a reason to want to live and to have something to show for itself after we are gone. After all there is a reason why the golden record on Voyager 1 had the sounds of newborn babies as well as our music and it wasn’t to give an alien race something to listen to on their travels.

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                Everybody knows of the heroic space walks where astronauts don their EVA’s and head out to the great black, and everyone has seen videos of astronauts experimenting with zero g environment but what of the others hours of their day? Astronauts work long work days with little free time compared to the North American lifestyle, a standard weekday consists of 10 hours of work where Saturday is a 5 hour day and their only day off is on Sunday. Just like firemen they must be prepared for any emergency or repair at any time so their days off can be cut short by a repairmen or preparation for a short notice space walk.

     ISS Tour      Chris Hadfield Video

     Post Sleep Activities After waking up the astronauts will prepare for the day by using the bathroom like any normal person and looking at their schedule for the upcoming day and planning out what they need to get done as well as any conferences with NASA. This is considered free time.

     Exercise #1 Astronauts will do an hour of exercise in the morning to combat brittle bones and to maintain their health while on orbit. Very important to make this routine for when the astronaut gets back to earth.

     Work An astronauts work is to be the hands of the researchers on the ground. The ISS is an orbital library full of expensive experiments to be tested and data needs to be collected. Astronauts will work with scientists and researchers on the ground to collect their data and send it down to them. Whether it be experiments on fluid dynamics, anatomy change, nutrition, physics, thermodynamics, etc.

     Lunch Break 1 Hour is taken to eat a proper meal, traditionally water is readded and heated in a suitcase like heater. Astronauts can use this time to catch up on experiments if they are behind or check their emails.

    Exercise #2 Second half of their daily exersice routine

     Work #2 The second half of their work. Astronauts are given main objected which are handed to them in the morning and side objected that they can do on the side if they have minute free like cleaning or checking up on another experiment. Speaking to students is also a popular option to spread the interest of space.

     Pre Sleep Activities This time is allocated to finish up any experiments that an astronaut may be behind in as well as speak to Nasa about what they accomplished. The rest is free time followed by a full 8 hours of sleep.

Thanks to piktochart for the infographic maker

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       The Falcon 9 Rocket is a modern space launch craft developed by SpaceX to deliver cargo and eventually humans into orbit. Launching their first version of the Falcon 9 (v1.0) in mid 2010 they soon improved the design and created Falcon 9 v1.1, the one we know today. This second version of the Falcon 9 almost doubled the weight of cargo it could bring to space with almost double the thrust. More cargo means more money for the young space company of SpaceX as Nasa hires them to bring cargo to the ISS every few months. Now in the works is a third version of the Falcon9 Reusable. Showcasing a pair of legs whose intent is to bring the first stage back to the ground safely to be refueled and sent back into the air with another load of cargo. This disruptive innovation will revolutionize the cost of the space industry.

       The CEO of SpaceX Elon Musk describes it similar to trashing your car after a single trip every time you drive somewhere as 99% of the cost of the spacecraft comes from the rocket itself. Fuel takes up a meager 0.3% of the cost of a rocket launch. Traditionally the first stage becomes waste at the bottom of oceans never to be recovered, the F9R plans to eliminate this process.

       Driving the technology forward is the grasshopper spacecraft used to test the concept as well as the landing legs. Completing several flight tests over the past 2 years the technology is almost here for a fully reusable launch system. These test launches can be seen on SpaceX’s Youtube Channel, their latest from the day of this post is a 1km ‘hop’. The four space legs are made from carbon fiber with aluminum honeycomb to maximize their strength and minimizing their weight.

       Useful Links SpaceX Youtube Channel Falcon 9 Wikipedia Falcon 9 Space X Website Latest 1km Test Flight Falcon 9 Overview Falcon 9 Overview (2)

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No, your sense of smell is safe from strong odours.

Intuitively you would think that some strong odours out there, like a gym bag or skunk spray, with enough intensity would damage your sense of smell. This is not the case and it only takes a moment to realize what your sense of smell is even smelling compared to sound or sight.

High intensity light or high energy light can damage your eyes because the photons your eyes are detecting can ionize or give too much energy to the electrons of your atoms. They can also heat them up or light may hit areas of the eye that is not meant to capture light, thus damage is resulted.

Hearing is just sensing the change in density of the air, known as sound waves. A loud sound is a highly compressed space of air followed by a low pressure wave. If the difference is great enough if could move your ear drum too much, causing a tear or a rip, resulting in damage.

Sense of smell, however, is just your minds way of categorizing molecules in the air. A strong odour is just a highly concentrated space of molecules that your mind deems unpleasant but there is no more intrinsic harm in the sent of smelly socks as there is in lilies.

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I think I am the only one on Tumblr that thinks the AP Physics B exam went well

Like honestly, there was nothing on flow rate, or diffraction grating, or debroglie wavelength or much on things like flux. I think everyone finished their exams so im pretty sure that was okay to say.

Define tally could have been much harder.

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I haven't been exercising much and I've already lost 3 pounds this week!

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"And so we talked through the summer night,        Of life and of love amid the stars;    And how our wrongs would be all made right                   In the Planet Mars."                                                     __Albert Bigelow Paine.