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		<title>Ways To Create A Young Astronomer Using A Kids Telescope</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Young children in today’s society have lots of u&#115&#101&#32of entertainment, and that includes toys and gadge&#116&#115&#46 Nevertheless parents can tap their natural curios&#105&#116&#121 by giving them gifts which create and curiosity a&#98&#111&#117t sciences this sort of as astronomy, such as a yo&#117&#110&#103 children telescope that are certainly not only fu&#110&#32&#98ut academic. Telescope for young children [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">Young children in today’s society have lots of u&#115&#101&#32of entertainment, and that<s></s> includes toys and gadge&#116&#115&#46 Nevertheless parents can tap their natural curios&#105&#116&#121<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> by giving them gifts which create and curiosity a&#98&#111&#117t sciences this sort of as <input id="apps" type="hidden" />astronomy, such as a yo&#117&#110&#103 children telescope that are certainly not only fu&#110&#32&#98u<input type="hidden" />t academic. Telescope for young children are cert&#97&#105&#110ly not only easy to use, but<input type="hidden" /> one thing which can g&#105&#118&#101 themplenty of hours of educational time under the&#32&#115&#116ar<input id="counter" type="hidden" />s.</div>
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		<title>The High Quality Of Meade Telescopes</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When aspiring astronomers look for quality optics &#119&#104&#105ch will let them peer into the unknown reaches of &#118&#111&#105d, Meade telescopes are an exceptional selection. &#72&#97&#118ing a wide selection of telescopes, mounts, and fi&#108&#116&#101rs obtainable, Meade delivers alternatives for the&#32&#98&#97ckyard stargazer as well as the serious student al&#105&#107&#101. Which is why Meade telescopes are trusted the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="_mcePaste">When aspiring astronomers look for quality optics &#119&#104&#105ch will let them peer into<input id="apps" type="hidden" /> the unknown reaches of &#118&#111&#105d, Meade telescopes are an exceptional selection. &#72&#97&#118<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ing a wide selection of telescopes, mounts, and fi&#108&#116&#101rs obtainable, Meade delive<input type="hidden" />rs alternatives for the&#32&#98&#97ckyard stargazer as well as the serious student al&#105&#107&#101.<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> Which is why Meade telescopes are trusted the wo&#114&#108&#100 over.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Meade grew from quite<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> humble beginnings, wi&#116&#104&#32nothing but 1 man, a kitchen table and a 2&#8243;x4&#8243; ad in Sky &amp; Telescope magazine in 1972. At firs&#116&#32&#111ff<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ering nothing but a small refracting telescope, &#77&#101&#97de discovered that the demand<s></s> for excellent optics&#32&#97&#110d accessories was not being met by the companies w&#104&#111&#32mad<s></s>e telescopes. So, having a new ad in the fledgl&#105&#110&#103 Astronomy magazine, Meade exp<input id="apps" type="hidden" />anded their offering&#115&#32&#97nd improved their designs, allowing them to stand &#111&#117&#116 fro<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />m the other telescopes on offer. In fact, by p&#97&#121&#105ng attention to details such as<input id="phpint" type="hidden" /> spring-loaded gear&#98&#111&#120es on the focusers and including eyepieces with wi&#100&#101&#32field<s></s>s of view, Meade turned itself into a name to&#32&#98&#101 reckoned with.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Meade telescopes<s></s> continued to beco&#109&#101&#32more and more popular every year, thanks to their &#101&#120&#112anding<s></s> offerings and commitment to excellent. In f&#97&#99&#116, by 1977, they had become so pop<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ular that they ha&#100&#32&#97 6-month backlog of orders for their new line of r&#101&#102&#108ecting <s></s>telescopes. But, after first offering each &#111&#102&#32their customers a refund if they d<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />esired one, they&#32&#103&#114ew the business to meet the demand and delivered t&#104&#101&#32orders i<input id="stats" type="hidden" />n only three months.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Finally, as Meade con&#116&#105&#110ued to gather more and more market <s></s>share, they ope&#110&#101&#100 the 1980&#8242;s with their line of Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes. Be&#99&#97&#117se Meade <input id="apps" type="hidden" />saw that the Schmidt-Cassgrain design cou&#108&#100&#32do more than other telescope designs<input id="stats" type="hidden" />, the engineer&#115&#32&#97nd designers stood up to the challenge and deliver&#101&#100&#32a top-notc<input id="counter" type="hidden" />h telescope that took this telescope des&#105&#103&#110 to new levels of quality.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Today, the<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />re are Meade &#116&#101&#108escopes for every interest and every budget. Wheth&#101&#114&#32it is an in<input type="hidden" />expensive starter telescope for someone&#32&#119&#104o is just starting their nighttime exp<input id="stats" type="hidden" />lorations, a&#32&#108&#97rge scope for a dedicated, backyard researcher, a &#115&#99&#111pe for the p<s></s>erson who wants to travel light, or ev&#101&#110&#32a specialist who wants a telescope to e<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />xamine suns&#112&#111&#116s, Meade has the gear that may open up a window to&#32&#116&#104e stars and p<s></s>lanets.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste">Through the years, Meade has &#101&#120&#112anded its business and extended their pr<input id="stats" type="hidden" />oduct line&#32&#105&#110to new areas. In addition to Meade telescopes, the&#114&#101&#32are Meade moun<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ts, eyepieces, imagers, photographic&#32&#108&#101nses, and even binoculars and microscopes<s></s>. And, as&#32&#116&#104eir business moves into fresh areas, Meade puts th&#101&#32&#115ame stamp of hi<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />gh quality on their new products as&#32&#116&#104ey have put on their stargazing equipment.</div><input id="stats" type="hidden" />
<div id="_mcePaste">From a &#115&#109&#97ll operation run from 1 man&#8217;s kitchen table, Meade telescopes ha&#118&#101&#32set new standard<input id="apps" type="hidden" />s of top quality by paying attenti&#111&#110&#32to details that matter. And by taking care <input id="apps" type="hidden" />of the &#100&#101&#116ails and taking care of their customers, Meade is &#116&#104&#101 name people sear<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ch for when they are looking for &#119&#104&#101n they look for a telescope. Which means tha<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />t Mead&#101&#32&#116elescopes are what people appear through when they&#32&#108&#111ok toward the heav<s></s>ens.</div>
<p>When aspiring astronomers l&#111&#111&#107 for quality optics which will let them peer <input id="phpint" type="hidden" />into &#116&#104&#101 unknown reaches of void, Meade telescopes are an &#101&#120&#99eptional selection.<input id="apps" type="hidden" /> Having a wide selection of tel&#101&#115&#99opes, mounts, and filters obtainable, Meade de<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />live&#114&#115&#32alternatives for the backyard stargazer as well as&#32&#116&#104e serious student al<input type="hidden" />ike. Which is why Meade telesc&#111&#112&#101s are trusted the world over.<br />
Meade grew from q<s></s>uit&#101&#32&#104umble beginnings, with nothing but 1 man, a kitche&#110&#32&#116able and a 2&#8243;x4&#8243; ad in Sky &amp; Telescope magazine in 1972. At first<s></s> offering nothing but a small&#32&#114&#101fracting telescope, Meade discovered that the de<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ma&#110&#100&#32for excellent optics and accessories was not being&#32&#109&#101t by the companies who<s></s> made telescopes. So, having&#32&#97&#32new ad in the fledgling Astronomy magazine, Meade<input type="hidden" /> &#101&#120&#112anded their offerings and improved their designs, &#97&#108&#108owing them to stand out<input type="hidden" /> from the other telescopes &#111&#110&#32offer. In fact, by paying attention to details suc<input id="apps" type="hidden" />&#104&#32&#97s spring-loaded gearboxes on the focusers and incl&#117&#100&#105ng eyepieces with wide f<input type="hidden" />ields of view, Meade turne&#100&#32&#105tself into a name to be reckoned with.<br />
Meade teles&#99<input id="counter" type="hidden" />&#111&#112es continued to become more and more popular every&#32&#121&#101ar, thanks to their expan<s></s>ding offerings and commit&#109&#101&#110t to excellent. In fact, by 1977, they had become &#115&#111<input id="stats" type="hidden" />&#32popular that they had a 6-month backlog of orders &#102&#111&#114 their new line of reflect<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ing telescopes. But, aft&#101&#114&#32first offering each of their customers a refund if&#32&#116&#104<input id="stats" type="hidden" />ey desired one, they grew the business to meet the&#32&#100&#101mand and delivered the orde<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />rs in only three months&#46<br />&#10&#70inally, as Meade continued to gather more and more&#32&#109&#97r<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ket share, they opened the 1980&#8242;s with their line of Schmidt-Ca&#115&#115&#101grain telescopes. Because Me<input type="hidden" />ade saw that the Schmi&#100&#116&#45Cassgrain design could do more than other telescop&#101&#32&#100es<input id="stats" type="hidden" />igns, the engineers and designers stood up to th&#101&#32&#99hallenge and delivered a top-<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />notch telescope that &#116&#111&#111k this telescope design to new levels of quality.<br />
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s Time For An additional Bonus Riddle! Guess &#119&#104&#97t? It is time for a different bonus riddle. Get pr&#101&#112&#97red, get set… Monday, August 9th is going to be &#116&#104&#101 day. For a prize this time, we’re offering a co&#112&#121&#32of Confessions of an Alien Hunter, by Dr. Seth Sho&#115&#116&#97k, and a mug from the SETI Institute. [...]]]></description>
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<p>I know&#32&#121&#111u kno<s></s>w this, but let’s go over the rules once ag&#97&#105&#110:</p>
<p>Tom and I will post the bonus <input id="apps" type="hidden" />riddle at noon CDT&#44&#32&#65ugust 9th. That’s Monday. You’ll have a few mo&#114&#101&#32chance<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />s to solve a riddle to turn out to be eligib&#108&#101&#32to participate.</p>
<p>Guesses will be b<input type="hidden" />y email to Tom or&#32&#77&#97rian.</p>
<p>You may have 24 hours to submit your guesses; from noo&#110&#32&#67DT Mond<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ay August 9th, until noon CDT Tuesday Augus&#116&#32&#490th.</p>
<p>You get three guesses.</p>
<p>Commen<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ts will likely b&#101&#32&#99losed on the bonus riddle right up until after the&#32&#115&#117bmission<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> deadline.</p>
<p>The winner is going to be the i&#110&#105&#116ial man or woman to submit the corr<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ect answer. If &#110&#111&#98ody solves the riddle by noon CDT August 10, it wi&#108&#108&#32likely be<input id="apps" type="hidden" /> opened for everybody to give it a shot.</p>
<p>&#84&#111&#109 will have the final say in any cont<input id="stats" type="hidden" />roversy.</p>
<p><img src="http://tomsastroblog.com/images/2010/07/SETI-mug.jpg" alt="" /></p>
<p>Reme&#109&#98&#101r, you won&#8217;t get any feedback from us, except that we received y&#111&#117&#114 guess. We<input type="hidden" /> will compare your emailed guesses again&#115&#116&#32previous comments to ensure we posses<s></s>s the proper &#112&#97&#114ticular person. Once more, it’s not that we do n&#111&#116&#32trust you; we wish to<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> be in a position to prove the prize we&#110&#116&#32to a person to whom we’re not relate<input id="counter" type="hidden" />d. Besides &#128&#148&#32Tom and I both really, definitely want that SETI m&#117&#103&#46</p>
<p>The riddle <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />winners so far for this cycle (bonus r&#105&#100&#100le to bonus riddle) are: Carl Legge, Ro<input type="hidden" />b, George, &#83&#101&#97n, Nick, Roger, Steve, Emily, Kristian, Frank, Jer&#114&#121&#44 Ubiraci, Dwi<input id="stats" type="hidden" />ght, and Amresh. You still possess th&#101&#32&#114iddles July 24th, July 31st, and August <input id="counter" type="hidden" />7th to hav&#101&#32&#121our name within the list.</p>
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		<title>Neutrinos; A Small Slice of a Large Apple</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 13:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alright! Now we get to discuss neutrinos without h&#97&#118&#105ng me having to worry about being reduced to my co&#109&#112&#111nent parts. And while I think my component section&#115&#32&#97re lovely, I’m sure you would rather not go ther&#101&#46&#10Neutrinos are interesting tiny guys, meaning liter&#97&#108&#108y “neutral elementary particle”. An elementary&#32&#112&#97rticle is basically something which is not known t&#111&#32&#104ave [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alright! Now we get to discuss neutrinos without h&#97&#118&#105ng me having to worry abou<input id="counter" type="hidden" />t being reduced to my co&#109&#112&#111nent parts. And while I think my component section&#115&#32&#97<s></s>re lovely, I’m sure you would rather not go ther&#101&#46</p>&#10<p>Neutrinos are interesting t<s></s>iny guys, meaning liter&#97&#108&#108y “neutral elementary particle”. An elementary&#32&#112&#97r<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ticle is basically something which is not known t&#111&#32&#104ave smaller components. We u<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />tilized to believe ato&#109&#115&#32were the smallest possible units of mass. Now we k&#110&#111&#119, <input id="counter" type="hidden" />needless to say, that “atoms” are whopping M&#97&#115&#115ive units of mass.</p>
<p>When we st<input type="hidden" />art off talking about&#32&#226&#128elementary particles”, you are truly referring &#116&#111&#32par<input id="stats" type="hidden" />ticle physics. You easily get into leptons, bos&#111&#110&#115, positrons, muons, tau neutri<input id="counter" type="hidden" />nos, and lots of oth&#101&#114&#32really cool words you swore in freshman algebra yo&#117&#226&#128d n<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ever use.</p>
<p>Guess again.</p>
<p>Particle physics is als&#111&#32&#119here String Concept comes in, b<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ut we aren’t play&#105&#110&#103 around in THAT sandbox currently.<br />
<img src="http://tomsastroblog.com/images/2010/07/FirstNeutrinoEventAnnotated.jpg" alt="Large Apple" /><br />
Okay… here&#153&#115&#32the q<input id="apps" type="hidden" />uite basics. You may accept that everything i&#115&#32&#99omposed of little elements, prop<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />er? I mean, c’mo&#110&#32&#103uys. You swallowed atomic concept without gagging,&#32&#99&#111rrect?<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> You’re just going to possess to realize t&#104&#97&#116 an atom may be the apple, and it<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> might be sliced &#97&#110&#100 diced into all kinds of tiny sections and pieces.&#32&#83&#111me of t<input id="apps" type="hidden" />hese sections have a positive charge, some &#97&#32&#100amaging charge, and some are neutr<input id="stats" type="hidden" />al. Still with m&#101&#63</p>&#10<p>You just certainly not realized how extremely many&#32&#112&#105eces and<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> components atoms might be sliced into.</p>
<p>De&#102&#105&#110itely, you’re additional than hal<input id="apps" type="hidden" />f-way there. Yo&#117&#32&#104ave the concept of atoms down, appropriate? You po&#115&#115&#101ss the en<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />tire negative/positive/neutral factor goi&#110&#103&#44 proper?</p>
<p>We’ll leave string theory<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> for an additi&#111&#110&#97l day.</p>
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		<title>X-51A Waverider</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The X-51A Waverider built by Pratt &#038; Whitney Rocketdyne set a rec&#111&#114&#100 for the longest supersonic combustion ramjet-powe&#114&#101&#100 flight in late May eclipsing the previous record &#111&#102&#3212 seconds by the NASA X-43A, although the X-43A w&#97&#115&#32almost twice as fast. The flight was a bit more th&#97&#110&#32200 seconds and the X-51A accelerated to Mach 5. M&#97&#114&#99h [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The X-51A Waverider built by Pratt &#038; Whitney Rocketdyne set a rec&#111&#114&#100 for the longest supersoni<input id="stats" type="hidden" />c combustion ramjet-powe&#114&#101&#100 flight in late May eclipsing the previous record &#111&#102&#32<input id="stats" type="hidden" />12 seconds by the NASA X-43A, although the X-43A w&#97&#115&#32almost twice as fast.</p>
<p>The f<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />light was a bit more th&#97&#110&#32200 seconds and the X-51A accelerated to Mach 5. M&#97&#114&#99h<input type="hidden" /> 5 is about 3,800 mph or 6,155 kmh. The flight wa&#115&#32&#115hort of the 300 second burn <input type="hidden" />and Mach 6 target beca&#117&#115&#101 the vehicle began to slow once it hit Mach 5 and &#97&#112&#112ar<input type="hidden" />ently there was some unexpected heating in the r&#101&#97&#114 of the engine bay detected a<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />nd the vehicle was de&#115&#116&#114oyed by its operators. That said, the flight was a&#32&#115&#117cce<input id="stats" type="hidden" />ss.</p>
<p>The scramjet’s claim to fame (one of them&#32&#97&#110yway) is that it can operate a<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />t hypersonic speed a&#110&#100&#32pull oxygen out of the rarified atmosphere at high&#32&#97&#108titu<s></s>des so it doesn’t need to carry an onboard o&#120&#121&#103en supply. The scramjet engine <input id="phpint" type="hidden" />has no moving parts&#32&#115&#111 as long as it has fuel it can operate, the proble&#109&#32&#105s the<s></s> engine has to be going very fast in order to&#32&#119&#111rk.</p>
<p>What you are seeing in the v<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ideo isn’t neces&#115&#97&#114ily the result of the scamjet engine, especially a&#116&#32&#116he sta<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />rt. In the video the vehicle is dropped from&#32&#116&#104e B-52 at 50,000 feet and a solid<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> rocket motor acc&#101&#108&#101rates the vehicle to almost Mach 5 and it is at th&#105&#115&#32point w<input id="apps" type="hidden" />here ethylene is used to start the scramjet&#32&#101&#110gine and a transition is made to J<input id="stats" type="hidden" />P-7 aviation fue&#108&#46</p>&#10]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Who Really Invented the Telescope?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For most of us, we thought that Galileo Galilei wa&#115&#32&#116he inventor of telescope since this can be what ou&#114&#32&#115cience teachers have told us and that is what we h&#97&#118&#101 read within our science books. But the truth is, &#119&#101&#32are wrong simply because even if Galilei was 1 in &#116&#104&#101 greatest astronomers this planet has ever [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>For most of us, we thought that Galileo Galilei wa&#115&#32&#116he inventor of telescope s<s></s>ince this can be what ou&#114&#32&#115cience teachers have told us and that is what we h&#97&#118&#101<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> read within our science books. But the truth is, &#119&#101&#32are wrong simply because ev<input id="apps" type="hidden" />en if Galilei was 1 in &#116&#104&#101 greatest astronomers this planet has ever made, h&#101&#32&#119a<input id="counter" type="hidden" />sn&#8217;t the just one who created the telescope, so who invented th&#101&#32&#116elescope can be a question t<s></s>hat has been plaguing &#111&#117&#114 mind.</p>
<p>The answer to question on who conceived the&#32&#116&#101le<input id="stats" type="hidden" />scope is Hans Lipperhey. Yes he was the one who &#100&#101&#118ised the telescope and his in<input type="hidden" />vention has greatly c&#111&#110&#116ributed to world of astronomy and science as whole&#46&#32&#84he <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />telescope has changed the landscape of many poi&#110&#116&#115 within our earth. The telesco<input type="hidden" />pe is utilised not j&#117&#115&#116 in discovering the earth outside our planet for e&#120&#97&#109ple <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />the stars, planets and other astronomical obje&#99&#116&#115 but even within our everyday l<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ives. For instance,&#32&#97&#32telescope is utilized in aiding navigation and tra&#110&#115&#112ortat<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ion just like a vessel and it really is utili&#115&#101&#100 even inside the military field,<s></s> being a tool of p&#114&#111&#116ecting and defending one&#8217;s territory.</p>
<p>Now going back to the quer&#121&#32&#111n who <input type="hidden" />invented the telescope, this guy named Han L&#105&#112&#112erhey was the cause for a large a<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />lter in our earth&#32&#97&#110d he was born in Germany and built his home in Net&#104&#101&#114lands. <input id="apps" type="hidden" />Married in 1954 and a citizen on the Nether&#108&#97&#110ds I 1602, he was a trader by prof<s></s>essions. At that&#32&#116&#105me when the Italians came up with glass-techniques&#32&#116&#104at was i<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ntroduced towards Netherlands, such develo&#112&#109&#101nt has brought new ideas and progre<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ss and men and &#119&#111&#109en then began to try out diverse ways of creating &#108&#101&#110ses. It a<input id="stats" type="hidden" />bsolutely was in 1608 that telescopes had&#32&#98&#101en conceived.</p>
<p>The truth was there wa<input id="stats" type="hidden" />s not simply j&#117&#115&#116 one individual who created the telescope due to t&#104&#101&#32fact the i<input id="apps" type="hidden" />nvention might be given to three persons&#44&#32&#72ans Lippershey and Zacharis Janssen a<input id="counter" type="hidden" />nd Jacob Meti&#117&#115&#46 Right after the invention, telescopes were defini&#116&#101&#108y then made<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> in numbers and were spread across Euro&#112&#101&#32and eventually within the Americas and<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> in Asia. Th&#101&#32&#101arly telescopes can only increase the size of an o&#98&#106&#101ct thrice it<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />s original size. But the present teles&#99&#111&#112es can view object which are light year<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />s away and &#99&#97&#110 see even the tiny object and magnify them.</p>
<p>When d&#105&#100&#32Galilei enter<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> into the picture? He actually did no&#116&#32&#105nvent the telescope but added some facto<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />rs simply &#98&#101&#99ause he put a convex and concave lens in a tube so&#32&#119&#104at he did was <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />an improved version of the original &#97&#32&#115ingle. So Galilei was not actually the ju<input type="hidden" />st one wh&#111&#32&#100eveloped the telescope.</p>
<p>Now here is the twist for &#116&#104&#101 story because <s></s>there was a rumor that circulated t&#104&#97&#116 it was neither Galilei nor Hans who conce<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ived. It&#32&#97&#98solutely was the children of Hans who discovered o&#117&#116&#32about the telesc<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ope even though they have been pla&#121&#105&#110g. But that side on the story on who develo<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ped the&#32&#116&#101lescope wasn&#8217;t yet proven. So at this point, we have to settle w&#105&#116&#104 the additional b<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />elievable version and that is, it&#32&#104&#97d been Hans and two others who developed the<s></s> teles&#99&#111&#112e.</p>
<p>Wendy Pan is an accomplished niche internet sit&#101&#32&#100eveloper and autho<s></s>r.</p>
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		<title>2012: The Shift in Human Consciousness: Part II</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part II: Unconditional Love &#038; Human Evolution Another point relat&#101&#100&#32to human evolution that needs emphasizing is that &#116&#104&#101 Shift now occurring is related directly to an inc&#114&#101&#97se in cosmic consciousness based in unconditional &#108&#111&#118e. The Shift may be visualized as simultaneously e&#118&#111&#108ution, revolution and, to borrow a term from the W&#101&#105&#110holds, &#8220;LOVEvolution.&#8221; For some, the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Part II: Unconditional Love &#038; Human Evolution</p>
<p>Another point relat&#101&#100&#32to human evolution that ne<s></s>eds emphasizing is that &#116&#104&#101 Shift now occurring is related directly to an inc&#114&#101&#97<s></s>se in cosmic consciousness based in unconditional &#108&#111&#118e. The Shift may be visuali<input type="hidden" />zed as simultaneously e&#118&#111&#108ution, revolution and, to borrow a term from the W&#101&#105&#110h<input id="stats" type="hidden" />olds, &#8220;LOVEvolution.&#8221;</p>
<p>For some, the current global blossoming of consciousnes&#115&#32&#105s viewed as a natural proces<input type="hidden" />s of human evolution. &#84&#111&#32others, this phenomenon appears more radical, a sp&#111&#110&#116an<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />eous genetic leap forward. Still others believe &#116&#104&#97t this step is merely the bri<s></s>nging forth of what h&#97&#115&#32existed always as a human potential: a revolution &#98&#97&#99k i<input id="stats" type="hidden" />n the direction of wholeness and integration. I&#32&#116&#114ust by now the listener unders<input id="apps" type="hidden" />tands that these way&#115&#32&#111f envisioning our species’ present evolutionary &#112&#104&#97se a<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />re by no means mutually exclusive.</p>
<p>As the term&#32&#76&#79VEvolution suggests, many belie<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ve that the dawning&#32&#65&#103e of Light or Age of Consciousness defines itself &#105&#110&#32relat<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ion to our capacity for unconditional love, o&#117&#114&#32ability to transcend enemy patte<input id="stats" type="hidden" />rning and victim c&#111&#110&#115ciousness while adopting unity consciousness that &#115&#101&#101s divi<input id="apps" type="hidden" />nity in all things. From this standpoint, it&#32&#109&#105ght be said humans are evolving i<input id="counter" type="hidden" />nto a &#8220;biologically conscious&#8221; species capabl&#101&#32&#111f holding and sharing the light of unconditional l&#111&#118&#101. As we<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> will see momentarily, modern scientific re&#115&#101&#97rch indeed supports the notion tha<input id="stats" type="hidden" />t the emotion of&#32&#108&#111ve is the key to true healing as well as conscious&#32&#101&#118olution.</p><input id="apps" type="hidden" />
<p>It has been said that long ago, the ancie&#110&#116&#32Maya conceptualized this next evolu<s></s>tionary stage o&#99&#99&#117rring in the years leading up to 2013 as Mastery o&#102&#32&#73ntention.<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> Mastery of Intention appears to be anoth&#101&#114&#32way of envisioning what I call consc<input type="hidden" />ious personal &#109&#97&#115tery, defined as unconditional love of oneself as &#115&#105&#109ultaneousl<s></s>y the Creator and the created extended o&#117&#116&#119ard to all perceived others.</p>
<p>Consciou<s></s>s personal ma&#115&#116&#101ry is achieved through activation of an embodied u&#110&#105&#116y conscious<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ness capable of infusing biology itself&#32&#119&#105th new structures and possibilities qu<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ite outside &#116&#104&#101 box of even much of today&#8217;s &#8220;advanced&#8221; thinking about human bio-spiritual potential.</p>
<p>Accord&#105&#110&#103 to Joseph C<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />hilton Pearce in THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSC&#69&#78&#68ENCE: A BLUEPRINT OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT, &#8220;Transcendence<s></s> is our bio&#108&#111&#103ical imperative, a state we have been moving towar&#100&#32&#102or millennia.&#8221; The title of<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> another intriguing study by Pearce n&#101&#97&#116ly summarizes the name of the endgame we<input id="phpint" type="hidden" /> now are p&#108&#97&#121ing: EVOLUTION&#8217;S END: CLAIMING THE POTENTIAL OF OUR INTELLIGENCE&#46</p>&#10<p>&#72ow does one ma<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ster intention in order to claim thi&#115&#32&#112otential? How does one consciously evolve<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> bodily i&#110&#116&#111 &#8220;transcendence through immanence&#8221;? In other words, how can we best foster con&#115&#99&#105ous personal ma<input id="apps" type="hidden" />stery to facilitate our own metamor&#112&#104&#111sis, our own transmutation into a higher w<input type="hidden" />ay of be&#105&#110&#103?</p>
<p>The previously cited research by Bruce Lipton pr&#111&#118&#101s that conscious<s></s>ness can reprogram DNA. Our earlie&#114&#32&#100iscussion of this topic centered on galacti<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />c consc&#105&#111&#117sness, torsion waves spurring human evolution as E&#97&#114&#116h moves into a de<input id="apps" type="hidden" />nser, brighter and &#8220;more conscious&#8221; area of the Photon Band. &#66&#117&#116 what role does an individual&#8217;s consciousness play in this<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> cosmi&#99&#32&#100rama of becoming?</p>
<p>*</p>
<p>Clairvoyance is unnecessary to&#32&#115&#101e that human consc<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />iousness is expanding at a treme&#110&#100&#111us rate. A trip to the local bookstore demons<input id="apps" type="hidden" />trate&#115&#32&#116hat consciousness, along with associated terms suc&#104&#32&#97s &#8220;intention&#8221; and &#8220;manifestation,&#8221; has become a cultural buzz word.</p>
<p>It must<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> be emphasized that the exponen&#116&#105&#97lly increasing focus on consciousness we are w<input id="stats" type="hidden" />itne&#115&#115&#105ng is not merely a &#8220;new age&#8221; phenomenon, as some in the old guard have tried t&#111&#32&#112aint it. Popular bes<input id="counter" type="hidden" />tsellers such as Michael Talbo&#116&#8217;s THE HOLOGR&#65&#80&#72IC UNIVERSE and Dr. Larry Dossey&#8217;s REINVENTING MEDICINE make <s></s>a c&#108&#101&#97r and compelling case that science is beginning to&#32&#97&#100mit the ancient herme<input id="stats" type="hidden" />tic principle that Mind is re&#97&#108&#105ty&#8217;s primary building block.</p>
<p>On this subject, renowned psychia<input type="hidden" />tr&#105&#115&#116 Stanislov Grof has written that &#8220;modern consciousness research &#114&#101&#118eals that our psyches <input id="phpint" type="hidden" />have no real or absolute bou&#110&#100&#97ries; on the contrary, we are component of an infinite fiel<input id="stats" type="hidden" />d&#32&#111&#102 consciousness that encompasses all there is&#8211;beyond space-time a&#110&#100&#32into realities we have <input id="phpint" type="hidden" />yet to explore.&#8221;</p>
<p>Such an expansive view o&#102&#32&#99onsciousness also informs Dr. Leonard Horowitz&#8217;s review of the s<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />&#99&#105&#101nce of quantum holography in DNA: Pirates of the S&#97&#99&#114ed Spiral, where he remi<input id="stats" type="hidden" />nds us not only that a uni&#102&#105&#101d field of consciousness exists, but also that it &#8220;may be explai&#110<input id="counter" type="hidden" />&#101&#100 as emerging from a previously overlooked physical&#32&#118&#97cuum or energy matrix.&#8221; From a human pe<input id="apps" type="hidden" />rspective, based on mount&#105&#110&#103 evidence I barely have touched on, this nonlocal &#101&#110<input id="counter" type="hidden" />&#101rgy field functions through quantum connections be&#116&#119&#101en DNA and universal creat<input type="hidden" />ive consciousness or tor&#115&#105&#111n energy.</p>
<p>On much the same wavelength, in THE DIVI&#78&#69&#32<input id="counter" type="hidden" />MATRIX Braden examines the vast implications of th&#114&#101&#101 genetic experiments conduc<input id="stats" type="hidden" />ted between 1992 and 20&#48&#48&#32that &#8220;shatter&#8221; the old materialistic paradigm on which traditional Newtonian s&#99&#105&#101n<input type="hidden" />ce, and the resulting mechanical view of the body&#32&#97&#115 a machine isolated from min<s></s>d and spirit, are base&#100&#46</p>&#10<p>The first of these experiments was Gariaev and Pop&#111&#110&#105n&#8217;s discovery of<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> the &#8220;DNA Phantom Effect,&#8221; which proves, to quote Braden, that: 1) &#8220;A type of energy exist&#115&#32&#116hat has previously gone unrec<input type="hidden" />ognized&#8221;; and 2) &#8220;Cells/DNA influence matter through this f&#111&#114&#109 of energy.&#8221; (I engage in a more thorough discussion of this min&#100&#45&#98low<input type="hidden" />ing Effect in Chapter Twelve of CONSCIOUS HEALI&#78&#71&#46)</p>
<p>The second experiment, repor<s></s>ted in the journal A&#100&#118&#97nces, was performed by the United States Army in t&#104&#101&#32trad<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ition of similar experiments conducted by Clev&#101&#32&#66ackster. The Army&#8217;s experiment clearly demons<input id="apps" type="hidden" />trated that the con&#110&#101&#99tion between DNA and emotion continues intact foll&#111&#119&#105ng ph<input type="hidden" />ysical separation between a person&#8217;s DNA (sampled from insi&#100&#101&#32the person&#8217;s mouth) and the actual person expe<input id="apps" type="hidden" />riencing the emoti&#111&#110&#46</p>
<p>In Braden&#8217;s words, this experiment suggests that 1) &#8220;A previously unrecognize&#100&#32&#102orm of<input id="apps" type="hidden" /> energy exists between living tissues&#8221;; 2) &#8220;Cells and DNA communicate through this&#32&#102&#105eld of energy&#8221;; 3) &#8220;Human emotion has a direct influence on living DNA&#8221;; and 4) &#8220;Distance appears to be of no<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> consequence with&#32&#114&#101gard to the effect.&#8221;</p>
<p>The third and final experiment cited by Bra&#100&#101&#110 is the<input type="hidden" /> extraordinary research of cell biologist G&#108&#101&#110 Rein on the impact of coherent hu<input id="stats" type="hidden" />man emotion on D&#78&#65&#46 Here, DNA inside human cells was isolated in a gl&#97&#115&#115 beaker <input id="stats" type="hidden" />and then analyzed (chemically and visually&#41&#32&#105n order to determine the impact of <input id="counter" type="hidden" />clearly sustain&#101&#100&#32emotions, negative and positive, on genetic materi&#97&#108&#32as well a<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />s expression. According to Dr. Rein, &#8220;These experiments&#32&#114&#101vealed that different intentions pro<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />duced differen&#116&#32&#101ffects on the DNA molecule causing it to either wi&#110&#100&#32or unwind.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rein and his<input type="hidden" /> colleagues discovered that anger, fear &#97&#110&#100 similar emotions have the power to &#8220;unwind&#8221; the DNA molecule, li<input id="stats" type="hidden" />terally decom&#112&#114&#101ssing and killing it. On the other hand, emotions &#115&#117&#99h as joy, g<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ratitude and love &#8220;wind&#8221; or compress DNA exposed to them, making DN&#65&#32&#115tronger and healthier.</p>
<p>According to Re<input id="apps" type="hidden" />in&#8217;s data, it even may be &#112&#111&#115sible for positive emotions rooted in love to revi&#118&#101&#32or resurrect<input id="phpint" type="hidden" /> DNA apparently destroyed by negative &#101&#109&#111tions&#8211;an astounding phenomenon with truly enormous im<input id="apps" type="hidden" />plications.&#32&#76&#101st the skeptical listener dismiss this possibility&#44&#32&#108et us ponder <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />the related implications of Gariaev&#8217;s assertion tha&#116&#32&#8220;research in&#32&#119&#97ve-genetics … reveals potential applic<s></s>ations wit&#104&#32&#115ignificant prospects for solving issues regarding &#116&#104&#101 aging process<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> and thus increasing life expectancy&#46&#32&#84his view is solidly grounded in [experime<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ntal[[[[]&#124&#93&#124[]|]|[[]|]|[]|]|[[[]|]|[]|]|[[]|]|[]|] evidence.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rein&#8217;s findings on the impac&#116&#32&#111f coherent emot<input type="hidden" />ion on DNA can help us answer the c&#114&#105&#116ical question of how to participate consci<s></s>ously in&#32&#111&#117r own evolution in a very specific manner. His res&#101&#97&#114ch makes a direc<s></s>t connection between life-giving t&#111&#114&#115ion energy and uplifting emotions, particul<input id="stats" type="hidden" />arly un&#99&#111&#110ditional love, the most &#8220;coherent&#8221; of all emotions, indicating that love promo&#116&#101&#115 healing and also<s></s> literally may propel evolution.</p>
<p>&#79&#110&#108y the love-based emotions stimulate DNA to w<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ind an&#100&#32&#98ecome healthier and thus more capable of interacti&#110&#103&#32productively with <input id="apps" type="hidden" />environmental stimuli. Hatred, d&#101&#112&#114ession, boredom and the like cause DNA to unw<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ind, &#100&#101&#115troying the viability of genetic information neces&#115&#97&#114y for healing as we<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ll as evolution.</p>
<p>In keeping wit&#104&#32&#82ein&#8217;s research, Barbara Marciniak in PATH OF EMPOWERMENT wri<input id="stats" type="hidden" />tes &#116&#104&#97t &#8220;genuine feelings of love and appreciation for your body conve&#121&#32&#97 positive message co<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ntaining essential life-sustai&#110&#105&#110g signals that result in excellent health.&#8221; In direct contras<input type="hidden" />t, &#109&#97&#105ntaining &#8220;feelings of doom and despair, loneliness, helplessness&#44&#32&#100enial, anger, resentm<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ent, jealousy, greed, and fea&#114&#32&#99onveys a negative message that promotes discord <input id="phpint" type="hidden" />wi&#116&#104&#105n the physical functions of the body.&#8221; Marciniak concludes that &#116&#104&#101 &#8220;ability to both give and receive l<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ove … holds the true key t&#111&#32&#104ealing because it is the most life-sustaining and<input type="hidden" /> &#97&#102&#102irming form of emotional expression.&#8221;</p>
<p>Rein’s brilliant researc&#104&#44&#32supported by Marciniak&#8217;s inspired key<input id="stats" type="hidden" />s for surviving and thrivin&#103&#32&#105n a chaotic world in the process of transformation<input id="apps" type="hidden" />&#44&#32&#105ndicates that the single most important factor in &#111&#117&#114 personal evolution is o<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ur commitment to open ours&#101&#108&#118es to our own healing by giving and receiving the &#112<input id="apps" type="hidden" />&#114&#105mary torsion wave known as unconditional love.</p>
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<p>A&#112&#112&#114opriately, Wilcock&#8217;s evolutionary model<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />, founded in THE LAW OF O&#78&#69&#44 is crystal clear on the point that Earth and huma&#110&#115<s></s>&#32are evolving from a logos anchored in the third di&#109&#101&#110sion to an existence roote<s></s>d in fourth-dimensional,&#32&#104&#101art-based consciousness.</p>
<p>In THE BIOLOGY OF TRANSCE&#78&#68&#69<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />NCE, Pearce advances a hypothesis supporting this &#114&#97&#100ical assertion based on the<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> little-known fact that&#32&#104&#117mans actually possess four neural centers in addit&#105&#111&#110 <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />to the brain. One of these, currently in a state &#111&#102&#32development, is the &#8220;brain&#8221; located in and around the he<input id="counter" type="hidden" />art. Not surprisingly,&#32&#116&#104e fourth or &#8220;heart&#8221; chakra, linked to the fourth &#8220;density&#8221; in THE LAW OF ONE, typically is associated with&#32&#67&#104ri<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />st consciousness or unconditional love.</p>
<p>It is cr&#117&#99&#105al that we understand the evo<s></s>lutionary engine behi&#110&#100&#32this momentous developmental stage for our species&#44&#32&#117nco<input id="counter" type="hidden" />nditional love, not as a weak abstraction, but &#97&#115&#32an omnipotent creational force<input id="apps" type="hidden" /> of torsion energy t&#104&#97&#116 birthed&#8211;as it is still birthing&#8211;everything in the multiverse, including ourse&#108&#118&#101s.</p>
<p>U<input type="hidden" />nconditional love is named aptly because the c&#114&#101&#97tive principle of love places n<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />o conditions on its&#32&#99&#114eations, allowing for the exercise of free will in&#32&#116&#104e upw<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ard karmic spiral of evolving human conscious&#110&#101&#115s. The Bible sums up this founda<input type="hidden" />tional concept in &#116&#104&#114ee words: God is love. For the ancient Egyptians a&#110&#100&#32Maya, <input id="phpint" type="hidden" />to cite but two examples, such infinite love&#32&#97&#115sociated with the life-giving fem<input id="stats" type="hidden" />inine principle e&#109&#97&#110ates from Galactic Center, also called the Central&#32&#111&#114 Healin<input id="counter" type="hidden" />g Sun.</p>
<p>Today this Core of our galaxy is tho&#117&#103&#104t by most scientists to be a black<s></s> hole of massive&#32&#112&#114oportions: the equivalent of as many as 4 million &#111&#102&#32our suns<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />, or more. For decades it was believed bla&#99&#107&#32holes destroy everything that falls<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> into them. Not&#32&#116&#111o long ago, however, physicist Stephen Hawking per&#102&#111&#114med an ab<input id="counter" type="hidden" />rupt about-face when he was quoted as say&#105&#110&#103, &#8220;It seems that black holes may after all allow i<input id="stats" type="hidden" />nformation wit&#104&#105&#110 them to escape.&#8221;</p>
<p>If we understand &#8220;information&#8221; to include hyperdimensional torsion-wave co&#100&#101&#115 that crea<input id="counter" type="hidden" />te and modify life such as those that fi&#110&#100&#32expression meta-genetically via trans<input id="apps" type="hidden" />posons in DNA&#44&#32&#108ife indeed may originate, as whole civilizations o&#102&#32&#97ncients cla<input type="hidden" />imed, from black holes.</p>
<p>Alternatively, &#105&#116&#32is possible that Galactic Center conta<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ins not only&#32&#97&#32black hole, but also a &#8220;white hole.&#8221; In the words of investigative mythologist&#32&#87&#105lliam Henry,<input id="apps" type="hidden" /> &#8220;Of all the high-energy photons beamed at us by the&#32&#67&#111re, probably none are more puzzling tha<s></s>n those emi&#116&#116&#101d in gamma ray bursts. Astrophysicists speculate t&#104&#101&#115e bursts are <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />coming from a white hole, a &#8216;cosmic gusher&#8217; of matter and energy &#226&#128&#166 [W[[[[]|]|[]|]|[[]|]|[]|]|[[[]|]|[]|]|[<input id="apps" type="hidden" />[]|]|[]|]h&#97&#116&#101ver a black hole can devour, a white hole can spit&#32&#111&#117t. These white<input id="phpint" type="hidden" /> holes precisely conform to the imag&#101&#32&#116he ancients held of the center of our gal<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />axy.&#8221;</p>
<p>In Chinese the ch&#97&#114&#97cter for &#8220;crisis,&#8221; &#8220;wei-chi,&#8221; also means &#8220;opportunity.&#8221; Writing on this subject in TERRA CHRISTA years ago, Ken Carey wisely observed,&#32&#97&#115 if referencing<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> the exact period of history we now&#32&#97&#114e experiencing, &#8220;IF THERE IS A MEGACRISIS, THERE IS ALSO<input id="phpint" type="hidden" /> A MEGAO&#80&#80&#79RTUNITY.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Within a larger framework of reality,&#8221; writes Marciniak, &#8220;a crisis can be thought of as a meeti&#110&#103&#32of minds at the <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />crossroads of opportunity&#8211;a juncture where you r&#101&#99&#111gnize exactly where you are and consciously<input type="hidden" /> choose&#32&#116&#104e best possible outcome for where you are going.&#8221;</p>
<p>The crisis, as&#32&#119&#101ll as the opportu<input id="apps" type="hidden" />nity, of our time is to surrender&#32&#116&#104e controlling aspects of our ego and its con<input type="hidden" />dition&#101&#100&#32fear mechanisms to the primary torsion energy of u&#110&#99&#111nditional love tha<input id="apps" type="hidden" />t is seeking to evolve us and is&#32&#99&#97lling us as a species home.</p>
<p>This &#8220;home&#8221; may be simply a state of awarenes<input id="stats" type="hidden" />s tha&#116&#32&#116ranscends duality and consciously exists in a mult&#105&#100&#105mensional continuum<input id="stats" type="hidden" />. Wilcock sees &#8220;returning home&#8221; as a dimensional Shift refe&#114&#114&#101d to in the Bible as Ascension and in THE LAW <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />OF O&#78&#69&#32as the &#8220;Harvest,&#8221; in both cases envisioned as a spontaneous metamorphosis or t&#114&#97&#110smutation involving <input id="stats" type="hidden" />consciousness as well as biolo&#103&#121&#32similar to what happened to Jesus in the Resurr<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ect&#105&#111&#110.</p>
<p>&#8220;There is a parallel in the Shroud of Turin,&#8221; Wilcock notes, &#8220;where certain researchers ha&#118&#101&#32found that Jesus&#8217; body burned a com<s></s>plete three-dimensional image&#32&#111&#102 itself into the cloth.&#8221; Through experimentation it was determ<s></s>in&#101&#100&#32that &#8220;such a burn could only be caused by an instantaneous blast&#32&#97&#116 a very high temperatu<s></s>re, &#8216;zapping&#8217; the cloth like an X-ray.&#8221;</p>
<p>Others also visualize returnin&#103&#32&#104ome in terms of a radical Shift. Barbara Hand Clo<input id="apps" type="hidden" />w&#32&#104&#97s remarked that, in the final analysis, all dilemm&#97&#115&#32are perceptual&#8211;which implies that all<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> solutions are perceptual a&#115&#32&#119ell. This sentiment is echoed by Judith Bluestone <input id="counter" type="hidden" />&#80&#111&#108ich in Return of the CHILDREN OF LIGHT, where huma&#110&#105&#116y is described as standi<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ng on the brink of a colle&#99&#116&#105ve perceptual &#8220;awakening. As the cosmic cycles of time are telli&#110<s></s>&#103&#32us, it is the time for a major turn upon the spira&#108&#32&#112ath of evolving human con<input type="hidden" />sciousness, when the ligh&#116&#32&#116hat has descended into matter begins the ascent ba&#99&#107<input type="hidden" />&#32to its origin.&#8221;</p>
<p>The preceding quote also suggests that the home &#116&#111&#32which we have been referri<s></s>ng may indicate some oth&#101&#114&#32place entirely. The 2012 alignment of the December&#32&#115&#111<input id="apps" type="hidden" />lstice sun with Galactic Center creates what some &#97&#110&#99ients called the Black Road<input id="stats" type="hidden" />. It is conceivable we &#97&#114&#101 meant to follow the Black Road home to our &#8220;transdimensional&#8221; Source, where w&#101&#32&#101x<input id="counter" type="hidden" />perience a state of being that altogether transce&#110&#100&#115 this holographic reality co<s></s>mposed of various &#8220;frequency domains&#44&#8221; dimensions,&#32&#111&#114 densities.</p>
<p>After all, a white hole is basically a&#32&#98&#108ac<input id="counter" type="hidden" />k hole reversed. The two are thought to meet at &#116&#104&#101ir small ends like a pair of <input type="hidden" />funnels. Mathematical&#108&#121&#44 it should be possible to enter a black hole and e&#109&#101&#114ge <input id="apps" type="hidden" />from a white hole in a completely new universe.</p>&#10]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>The Black Hole Where Your Dreams Belong</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know a good deal about what you Don&#8217;t want? If so, beware&#46&#32&#84he gravitational pull of negativity is extraordina&#114&#121&#44 and you might well manifest your incredible power&#32&#98&#121 attracting a nice fat black hole where your dream&#115&#32&#98elong. This image occurs to me as I reflect on a c&#111&#110&#118ersation with a recruiter friend of mine. I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Do you know a good deal about what you Don&#8217;t want? If so, beware&#46&#32&#84he gravitational pull of n<s></s>egativity is extraordina&#114&#121&#44 and you might well manifest your incredible power&#32&#98&#121<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> attracting a nice fat black hole where your dream&#115&#32&#98elong.</p>
<p>This image occurs to<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> me as I reflect on a c&#111&#110&#118ersation with a recruiter friend of mine. I&#8217;ve been running acro&#115&#115&#32q<input type="hidden" />uite a few folks who are having trouble finding o&#112&#101&#114ate, so I asked my good frie<input type="hidden" />nd what, in his experi&#101&#110&#99e, was the chief barrier that kept otherwise talen&#116&#101&#100 a<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />nd qualified folks from acquiring wonderful jobs&#46&#32&#72e didn’t hesitate for a mom<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ent before responding&#44&#32&#8220;Negativity.&#32&#84&#104ey know a Great deal about what they don&#8217;t want and they can&#8217;t or won&#8217;t ask for what they DO&#32&#119&#97nt.&#8221;</p>
<p>As I think a<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />bout this, I realize that our old friend fear i&#115&#32&#97t the root of the issue. I kno<input id="apps" type="hidden" />w that when I&#8217;m afraid, one thing &#116&#104&#97t makes me feel safer is always to have a laundry &#108&#105&#115t of<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> things to avoid. Not only that, but when I am&#32&#97&#102raid the last point I feel like<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> doing is exposing &#109&#121&#32dreams and desires to feasible rejection or ridicu&#108&#101&#46 The <input id="stats" type="hidden" />result? I become inarticulate about what I wa&#110&#116&#32and entirely focused on what is <input id="counter" type="hidden" />wrong with every o&#112&#112&#111rtunity that comes my way. It is human, it&#8217;s natural, and it hur&#116&#115&#8211;a good deal&#46&#32&#78othing<input id="phpint" type="hidden" /> is lonelier than that black hole we produce&#32&#111&#117rselves.</p>
<p>What to do? What works f<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />or me should be t&#111&#32&#108et the fear out inside the open. Cop to it. Air it&#32&#119&#105th some<input id="apps" type="hidden" />body I trust, release it in ritual or praye&#114&#44&#32or work through it on paper or wit<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />h my coach. It&#8217;s not a sin to &#98&#101&#99ome afraid, or even to become trapped in negativit&#121&#46&#32It is a <input id="apps" type="hidden" />shame though to stay there when there&#8217;s a whole world ou&#116&#115&#105de your black hole that is waiting <input type="hidden" />for you to come&#32&#111&#117t and play.</p>
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		<title>Rosetta Meets Lutetia</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The ESA spacecraft Rosetta is usually a comet cha&#115&#101&#114 launched in February 2004 atop the effective Aria&#110&#101&#455 rocket from launch facilities in French Guiana. &#84&#104&#101 comet Rosetta is ultimately going to reach is Com&#101&#116&#3267P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in Might 2014. You’d t&#104&#105&#110g that large rocket would send the comparatively t&#105&#110&#121 spacecraft appropriate to the comet, but that’s&#32&#106&#117st not [...]]]></description>
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The ESA spacecraft Rosetta is usually a comet cha&#115&#101&#114 launched in February 2004<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> atop the effective Aria&#110&#101&#455 rocket from launch facilities in French Guiana. &#84&#104&#101<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> comet Rosetta is ultimately going to reach is Com&#101&#116&#3267P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko i<input id="counter" type="hidden" />n Might 2014.</p>
<p>You’d t&#104&#105&#110g that large rocket would send the comparatively t&#105&#110&#121 <s></s>spacecraft appropriate to the comet, but that’s&#32&#106&#117st not the way things work. <s></s>Rosetta is having to t&#97&#107&#101 kind of the long way around, including two trips &#105&#110&#116o <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />the asteroid belt and taking benefit of gravitat&#105&#111&#110al speed boosts by a flyby of<input type="hidden" /> Mars (in 2007) and t&#104&#114&#101e flybys of Earth (2005, 2007 and 2009). If you’&#118&#101&#32eve<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />r been on a long ride with children inside back&#32&#115&#101at you know the drill, instead<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> ESA has people like&#32&#109&#101 in the back seat going “are we there however &#147&#32&#97re w<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />e there however?”).</p>
<p>It is a fine thing for u&#115&#32&#105n just about every prolonged tr<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ip you&#8217;ll find bound to be some w&#111&#114&#116hwhile sights along the way and in this case it’&#115&#32&#97n ast<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />eroid named Lutetia. The image above can be a&#32&#115&#104ot of Rosetta leaving Lutetia an<input id="apps" type="hidden" />d if you appear cl&#111&#115&#101 or better yet click on the picture to make it lar&#103&#101&#114 you&#8217;ll see Saturn i<input id="apps" type="hidden" />nside background.</p>
<p>It is possible to see this&#32&#105&#109age and much more including close<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> ups at Science@N&#65&#83&#65 and even more at the ESA Rosetta webpage.</p>
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		<title>Speed Demon</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[This really is extremely strange, this superstar w&#97&#115&#32ejected from our galaxy and is traveling at about &#49&#44&#5400,000 miles per hour — that’s two,500,000 km/&#104&#114&#32!! From the 16 acknowledged hypervelocity stars th&#105&#115&#32would be the fastest. To add to the strangeness th&#105&#115&#32movie star also really should have burned out long&#45&#108&#111ng ago but yet we can nonetheless see [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This really is extremely strange, this superstar w&#97&#115&#32ejected from our galaxy an<input id="stats" type="hidden" />d is traveling at about &#49&#44&#5400,000 miles per hour — that’s two,500,000 km/&#104&#114&#32<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />!! From the 16 acknowledged hypervelocity stars th&#105&#115&#32would be the fastest. To ad<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />d to the strangeness th&#105&#115&#32movie star also really should have burned out long&#45&#108&#111n<input id="apps" type="hidden" />g ago but yet we can nonetheless see it.</p>
<p>Read how&#32&#105&#116 came to get ejected, how it<input type="hidden" /> got going so quickly &#97&#110&#100 why we can nevertheless see it with Hubble in the&#32&#72&#117bb<input id="counter" type="hidden" />le press release, you possibly can also visit Hu&#98&#98&#108esite to see a lot more pictu<input type="hidden" />res:</p>
<p>A hundred millio&#110&#32&#115everal years ago, a triple-star system was traveli&#110&#103&#32by <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />means of the bustling center of our Milky Way g&#97&#108&#97xy when it created a life-chan<input type="hidden" />ging misstep. The tr&#105&#111&#32wandered too close on the galaxy’s giant black h&#111&#108&#101, wh<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ich captured one of the stars and hurled the o&#116&#104&#101r two out of the Milky Way. Add<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ing on the stellar &#103&#97&#109e of musical chairs, the two outbound stars merged&#32&#116&#111 type<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> a super-hot, blue celeb.</p>
<p>This story may perh&#97&#112&#115 appear like science fiction, bu<s></s>t astronomers usin&#103&#32&#78ASA’s Hubble Room Telescope say it could be the &#109&#111&#115t most<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> likely scenario for a so-called hyperveloci&#116&#121&#32superstar, acknowledged as HE 043<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />7-5439, certainly&#32&#111&#110e of the fastest ever detected. It can be blazing &#97&#99&#114oss are<input type="hidden" />a at a speed of 1.6 million miles (two.5 mi&#108&#108&#105on kilometers) an hour, 3 times fa<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ster than our Su&#110&#226&#128s orbital velocity within the Milky Way. Hubble o&#98&#115&#101rvations<s></s> confirm how the stellar speedster hails f&#114&#111&#109 the Milky Way’s core, settling s<input id="apps" type="hidden" />ome confusion a&#114&#111&#117nd exactly where it originally known as home.</p>
<p>Most&#32&#102&#114om the ro<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ughly 16 known hypervelocity stars, all d&#105&#115&#99overed due to the fact 2005, are tho<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ught for being&#32&#101&#120iles through the heart of our galaxy. But this Hub&#98&#108&#101 end resul<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />t is the initial direct observation link&#105&#110&#103 a high-flying star to a galactic mid<input id="stats" type="hidden" />dle origin.</p>
<p>&#128&#156&#85sing Hubble, we can for that first time trace back&#32&#116&#111 in which t<input id="stats" type="hidden" />he celeb comes from by measuring the st&#97&#114&#226s direction of motion about the sky.<s></s> Its motion &#112&#111&#105nts directly in the Milky Way middle,” says astr&#111&#110&#111mer Warren B<input id="apps" type="hidden" />rown with the Harvard-Smithsonian Cent&#101&#114&#32for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., a<input id="apps" type="hidden" /> member wit&#104&#32&#116he Hubble group that observed the superstar. “Th&#101&#115&#101 exiled stars<input id="apps" type="hidden" /> are rare inside Milky Way’s popula&#116&#105&#111n of 100 billion stars. For every 100 mi<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />llion star&#115&#32&#102rom the galaxy lurks one particular hypervelocity &#116&#97&#107e the leading <input id="counter" type="hidden" />role.”</p>
<p>The movements of these unbo&#117&#110&#100 stars could reveal the shape from the da<input id="stats" type="hidden" />rk matter&#32&#100&#105stribution surrounding our galaxy. “Studying the&#115&#101&#32stars could pro<input type="hidden" />vide far more clues about the natur&#101&#32&#111f some of the universe’s unseen mass, an<input id="stats" type="hidden" />d it cou&#108&#100&#32support astronomers much better fully grasp how ga&#108&#97&#120ies type,” cla<input type="hidden" />ims team leader Oleg Gnedin of the&#32&#85&#110iversity of Michigan in Ann Arbor. “Dark <s></s>matter&#128&#153&#115 gravitational pull is measured by the shape on th&#101&#32&#104yperfast stars’<input type="hidden" /> trajectories away from the Milky&#32&#87&#97y.”</p>
<p>The stellar outcast is currently cruis<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ing in&#32&#116&#104e Milky Way’s distant outskirts, high above the &#103&#97&#108axy’s disk, abou<input id="apps" type="hidden" />t 200,000 light-years through th&#101&#32&#99enter. By comparison, the diameter from the M<input type="hidden" />ilky &#87&#97&#121’s disk is approximately 100,000 light-years. Us&#105&#110&#103 Hubble to measure <input id="tracker" type="hidden" />the runaway star’s direction &#111&#102&#32motion and figure out the Milky Way’s core a<input id="counter" type="hidden" />s it&#115&#32&#115tarting point, Brown and Gnedin’s group calculat&#101&#100&#32how fast the take th<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />e leading role had to have bee&#110&#32&#101jected to achieve its recent area.</p>
<p>“The celeb<s></s> is&#32&#116&#114aveling at an absurd velocity, twice as significan&#116&#108&#121 as the superstar req<s></s>uirements to escape the galax&#121&#226&#128s gravitational field,” explains Brown, a hyp<input id="counter" type="hidden" />er&#118&#101&#108ocity celeb hunter who uncovered the first unbound&#32&#115&#117perstar in 2005. “Th<input type="hidden" />ere is no movie star that tr&#97&#118&#101ls that speedily under typical circumstances — <s></s>s&#111&#109&#101thing exotic has to happen.”</p>
<p>There’s one more &#116&#119&#105st to this story. Based<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> on the rate and placement &#111&#102&#32HE 0437-5439, the movie star would have to become <s></s>&#49&#48&#48 million several years old to have journeyed throu&#103&#104&#32the Milky Way’s core. <input type="hidden" />Yet its mass — nine time&#115&#32&#116hat of our Sun — and blue color mean that it mus&#116<s></s>&#32&#104ave burned out right after only 20 million several&#32&#121&#101ars — far shorter than <input id="phpint" type="hidden" />the transit time it took &#116&#111&#32get to its latest location.</p>
<p>The most likely explan&#97&#116<input type="hidden" />&#105on for the star’s blue color and extreme rate is&#32&#116&#104at it was component of a t<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />riple-star technique tha&#116&#32&#119as involved in a gravitational billiard-ball game &#119&#105&#116<input id="apps" type="hidden" />h the galaxy’s monster black hole. This concept &#102&#111&#114 imparting an escape veloci<input id="stats" type="hidden" />ty on stars was very fi&#114&#115&#116 proposed in 1988. The theory predicted that the M&#105&#108&#107y<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> Way’s black hole should eject a superstar abou&#116&#32&#97s soon as every 100,000 year<s></s>s.</p>
<p>Brown suggests that&#32&#116&#104e triple-star technique contained a pair of closel&#121&#32&#111rb<input id="counter" type="hidden" />iting stars and a third outer member also gravit&#97&#116&#105onally tied for the group. Th<s></s>e black hole pulled t&#104&#101&#32outer star away from your tight binary technique. &#84&#104&#101 do<input id="apps" type="hidden" />omed star’s momentum was transferred towards &#116&#104&#101 stellar twosome, boosting the<input id="phpint" type="hidden" /> duo to escape veloc&#105&#116&#121 on the galaxy. As the pair rocketed away, they we&#110&#116&#32on w<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ith usual stellar evolution. The much more mas&#115&#105&#118e companion evolved additional <input id="apps" type="hidden" />easily, puffing up &#116&#111&#32become a red giant. It enveloped its partner, alon&#103&#32&#119ith t<s></s>he two stars spiraled together, merging into &#106&#117&#115t one superstar — a blue strag<input type="hidden" />gler.</p>
<p>“While the&#32&#98&#108ue straggler story may possibly seem odd, you do s&#101&#101&#32them w<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />ithin the Milky Way, and most stars are in m&#117&#108&#116iple systems,” Brown says.</p>
<p>This<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> vagabond celeb h&#97&#115&#32puzzled astronomers considering that its discovery&#32&#105&#110 2005 b<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />y the Hamburg/European Southern Observatory&#32&#115&#107y survey. Astronomers had proposed<input type="hidden" /> two possibiliti&#101&#115&#32to solve the age dilemma. The star either dipped i&#110&#116&#111 the Fou<input type="hidden" />ntain of Youth by becoming a blue straggle&#114&#44&#32or it was flung out of the Large Ma<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />gellanic Cloud,&#32&#97&#32neighboring galaxy.</p>
<p>In 2008 a group of astronomers&#32&#98&#101lieved th<s></s>ey had solved the mystery. They discovere&#100&#32&#97 match between the exiled star’s c<input id="counter" type="hidden" />hemical makeup&#32&#112&#108us the characteristics of stars inside Big Magella&#110&#105&#99 Cloud. Th<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />e rogue star’s location also is close &#111&#110&#32the neighboring galaxy, only 65,000 l<input id="counter" type="hidden" />ight-years aw&#97&#121&#46 The new Hubble end result settles the debate abov&#101&#32&#116he star’s<s></s> birthplace.</p>
<p>Astronomers used the sharp&#32&#118&#105sion of Hubble’s Advanced Camera for<input id="apps" type="hidden" /> Surveys to &#109&#97&#107e two separate observations of the wayward star 3 &#49&#47&#50 decades apa<input id="stats" type="hidden" />rt. Group member Jay Anderson from the&#32&#82&#111om Telescope Science Institute in Balti<input type="hidden" />more, Md., &#100&#101&#118eloped a technique to measure the star’s placeme&#110&#116&#32relative to e<input id="stats" type="hidden" />ach of 11 distant background galaxies&#44&#32&#119hich form a reference frame.</p>
<p>Anderson th<input id="stats" type="hidden" />en compare&#100&#32&#116he star’s position in images taken in 2006 with &#116&#104&#111se taken in 20<input id="phpint" type="hidden" />09 to calculate how far the star mov&#101&#100&#32against the background galaxies. The take<input id="tracker" type="hidden" /> the lead&#105&#110&#103 role appeared to move, but only by .04 of the pix&#101&#108&#32(picture elemen<input type="hidden" />t) against the sky background. “H&#117&#98&#98le excels with this type of measurement,<input id="counter" type="hidden" /> Anders&#111&#110&#32claims. “This observation would be challenging t&#111&#32&#99omplete through <s></s>the ground.”</p>
<p>The group is trying&#32&#116&#111 figure out the homes of four other unbound<input type="hidden" /> stars,&#32&#97&#108l located about the fringes of the Milky Way.</p>
<p>“W&#101&#32&#97re targeting mass<input id="tracker" type="hidden" />ive ‘B’ stars, like HE 0437-5&#52&#51&#57,” says Brown, who has discovered 14 with <s></s>the 16&#32&#107&#110own hypervelocity stars. “These stars should not&#32&#108&#105ve long adequate t<s></s>o achieve the distant outskirts &#102&#114&#111m the Milky Way, so we should not anticipate <input id="apps" type="hidden" />to lo&#99&#97&#116e them there. The density of stars inside outer re&#103&#105&#111n is significantly <input id="phpint" type="hidden" />much less than in the core, so &#119&#101&#32have a far better chance to find these unusual<input id="stats" type="hidden" /> obj&#101&#99&#116s.”</p>
<p>The outcomes were published on the internet &#105&#110&#115ide the Astrophysica<input id="stats" type="hidden" />l Journal Letters on July 20, &#50&#48&#490. Brown could be the paper’s lead author.</p>
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