It seems I pick the best times to start blogging again. Once again we have a laughable political competition between two parties that do not fully satisfy the voters, we still don't have a form of alternate vote in the US of A, to allow third party voter confidence either, or to even ensure a solid majority rule for that matter. This election year comes down to a Crooked failed governor and CEO, versus a rather successful low-spending over compromising incumbent president. Of course some hope comes with faith in the continued pattern of the two term democrat, wherein the first term safeguards the second term, and the second term they actually seem to have balls. I still don't think Obama will legalize Marijuana however, my reasoning is somewhat about racism. If the first black president legalized marijuana, the republicans would yet again have an issue that they originally championed to chastise liberals and minorities for. The one solid factor in our political system however, (most certainly is not the democrats, or their voting records.) the republicans can always be counted on blame others for problems they aggravate in order to highlight the fact that government has the potential to harm. Kind of like shooting people, to let them know about gun safety... Over and over again. If I had the time to look up my citations I'd go on a rant here about how Saudi money controls the GOP propaganda machine, and is fine with keeping the population here destabilized and profits from being somewhat stable in a war torn region... until some recent riots that is.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16704550, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-16995286, http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/07/12/uk-saudi-security-iran-idUKBRE86B0WY20120712
Hopefully the global riots will lead to something greater than individual change. Seeking human rights, and fair economic policies in individual countries as great as that might be, and as necessary as it would be.. it pales in comparison to the necessity of an end to nationalist concepts. In a world with no borders, we cannot be told which imaginary lines make men into monsters. Lies propagate all war, whether it's religious extremists in the US government, or the hills of Arabic countries we so long ago devastated to control the oil markets. Or Cold War era 'us versus them' mentalities which cultivated fear and refusal to understand first the Soviets, and more recently the Chinese. And I'm sure there are just as meaningful foreign examples, but I have only the pleasure to live in the United States of America... which is in large part why I am so free to criticize it. It is however daunting that we now allow our police forces to use drone surveillance robots.. but on the other hand I am totally down the the EPA using them to monitor safe waste disposal, and clean water practices. But that's all opinion piece let's get down to actually important stuff. Science!
So it seems that Virgin Galactic has contracted some asteroid mining conveyance contracts, Space X has likewise contracted with Bigelow to be the main launch source for their inflatable space stations. (which btw, are 3x the volume of the ISS, and actually laid out like an earth building, with floors rather than tin-cans attached via pvc connectors lol.).
The Higgs Boson, -or 'That God Damned Particle' in other more recent news has been not only detected, with verifiable data several times now, has far more implications than explaining 4% of mass associated with baryonic structures such as ourselves. (most people claim it assigns all mass, but strong and weak nuclear force actually have a good deal more of the share in that burden.)
What exactly does the Higgs Boson do that is so revolutionary? Well, in this bloggers caffeine riddled understanding (and opinion in terms of assigning grandeur -I'm like my own Higgs Boson in that way.)
It assigns mass, by interacting with particles in such a way that it instigates a resistance to movement, this is measured in turn a contributing factor to the mass of said particles. But this interaction may not be entirely limited to what we currently understand as baryonic matter. Dark Matter is also heavily theorized to interact with the Higgs boson in the same way! Why am I so excited by this that I choose to use an exclamation point? Well, my logic is as follows (flawed as perhaps it may be.) to understand the Higgs Boson, is to one day readily find, or generate said particle in laboratory conditions> if the Higgs boson can manipulate the resistance level of Dark Matter, then that moves us towards being able to find, and possibly contain said material for study, and potential future use. Perhaps the Higgs Boson could even one day provide a stable way to contain anti-matter, for 1 to 1 Matter to energy conversion drives on starships. Or Sadly more likely to destroy areas of the world where we think they have resources and are not anglo. As my understanding goes, there are implications into fields that I haven't even begun to understand, such as computing, telecommunications, and electronics. We'll have to wait and see.
On the subject of Dark Matter I'd like to just mention before I have to get ready for work. That we've recently directly observed a thin layer of massive dark matter connecting two galaxies, providing sustenance to our growing understanding of Dark Matter's role as a connective structuring filament for our universe which connects (maybe dictates the origin points of) the large observable galactic formations which comprise our universe -to our understanding. Here, have a picture and a link!
As you can see the Galactic clusters in question are named Abell 223 and Abell 222. Here is an article that goes more indepth.
http://bostonherald.com/news/national/general/view/20120705dark_matter_filament_found_scientists_say
Before I jump off here I'd just like to say I'm glad my viewer ship in finally picking up. I've noticed that not all of my readers come from google+ and facebook anymore. And that's neat. Adios amigos.
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