Quasi stellar objects

GOOGLED – Quasi stellar objects ;- (Just love that name – Robin Williams [Science-Show] on Radio National provide the podcast – download to listen to the complete interview OR listen online)

Interview-TITLE:  The physical laws of the universe

THE INTRO;  It is assumed the physical laws apply universally, from the very small to the very big. But do the constants, used in equations, change at the extremes? Michael Murphy’s group uses quasars as a background light source, allowing light to be traced as it travels through space. This is used as a backdrop to study galaxies 10 billion light years away. Quasi stellar objects are super massive black holes, billions of times the mass of our sun. They suck in all material around and shine very brightly.

It is possible that the developer has mixed up his hyper-links with these two stories.  “LHC still on hold”, with another story – interviewing the same guy, with the story name “The physical laws of the universe”. [Both interesting - if your into that sort of stuff]

How Big is BIG?

GOOGLE – the milky way galaxy facts AND;  Swinburne Astronomy Productions – Bigger than Big

This reminds me of the Monty Python movie – Life of Brian, song ‘Always look on the bright side of life’, where they spew out all these Milky Way facts, pointing out that you, and I are insignifigant in the bigger scheme of things,  – ‘How Big is Big?’

OUR HOME: The Milky Way Galaxy;
The arrow points to our Star the Sun, which is any one of several hundred billion stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. – Pictured here, – The Star closest to our Sun is 4.5 light years away. – A Light Year is the distance light travels in one year. – Light moves at the speed of 186,272 miles or 300,000 kilimeters per second. – Our Sun is 30,000 light years from the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. – So the light that we see coming from our Milky Way Galaxy’s center, left there 30,000 years ago. – The know Universe contains over 1,000,000 Billion of other Galaxies. – The Milky Way Galaxy contains at least 400 billion stars. -

We are living on a planet that is in constant high-speed motion around itself and traveling on its orbit around the Sun. – The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 25,000 miles or 40,000 kilometers. – The Earth rotates around its axis once every twenty-four (24) hours time, or one whole day and night. While Planet Earth is rotating on its axis at the speed of over 1000 miles or 1609 kilometers per hour, Earth is also traveling, revolving on its oval orbit around the Sun at the speed of about – 67,000 miles or 107,200 kilometers per hour once every 365 days or one whole year.

How Big is BIG?

All About the Milky Way – The Milky Way is simply the common name for the galaxy that encompasses our solar system.

The Venus Project

THE FUTURE AND BEYOND
By Jacque Fresco

BEYOND UTOPIA

With the advent of future developments in science and technology, we will assign more and more decision making to machines. At present this is evident in military systems in which electronic sensors maintain the ideal flight characteristics in advanced aircraft. The capacities of computers today exceed five hundred trillion bits of information per second. The complexity of today’s civilization is far too complex for human systems to manage without the assistance of electronic computers. Computers of today are relatively primitive compared to those that will evolve in the future. Eventually the management of social systems will call for require electronic sensors interconnected with all phases of the social sequences thus eliminating the need for politics.

Today modern industrial plants have built in automatic inventory systems, which order materials such as bearings and other mechanical replacements well in advance.