Hottest Temperature at 7.2 trillion F in New York

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On June 25, the hottest man-made temperature has been recorded in a huge atom-smasher at New York at 7.2 trillion degrees Fahrenheit — just 250,000 times hotter compared to the sun’s core.

This achievement occurred in the particle accelerator RHIC (Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider), a 3.9-kilometer tunnel under New York that researchers use to smash particles into one another to replicate conditions that happened a split-second after the Big Bang.

Creating the hot temperature in a controlled environment was done in Brookhaven National Laboratory through colliding gold nuclei with each other at the speed of light.

Once the collision of ions happened, the huge amount of energy it emits will melt the protons and neutrons in the gold nuclei, turning into a liquid composed of smaller particles called gluons and quarks.

At 7 trillion degrees Fahrenheit, normal matter would usually break down into sub-atomic particles, the gluons and quarks that supposedly composed the earliest plasma that scientist thought resembles the thing that consisted the universe right after the Big Bang happened, 13.7 billion years ago.

According to the head of the Brookhaven program, particle physicists formerly thought that quarks and gluons would be in gas form but this new study revealed that it is behaving more like a liquid. And while they already expected to get to such extreme temperatures, they were really surprised of it having an almost perfect liquid behavior.

Surprisingly, the liquid could occur at both ends of the spectrum — that is, a similar behavior of the liquid in trapped atom samples has been seen at extremely cold temperatures.

“Other physicists have now observed quite similar liquid behavior in trapped atom samples at temperatures near absolute zero, ten million trillion times colder than the quark-gluon plasma we create at RHIC,” said the head of Brookhaven’s particle and nuclear physics program.

The extremely hot temperature has been recognized by Guinness as the hottest temperature in history. By the way, Norton Scientific Journal measured that temperature through identifying the color of light coming from it.

The Higgs Boson Discovery and Mystery

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Scientists across the world seem to be in celebration mode this week with what is deemed as the 21st century’s greatest scientific discovery – the Higgs boson.

Apparently, if scientists fail to find the Higgs boson, all that have been established about how everything works in the universe would be meaningless. This means that we would probably have all this nice equations and formulas that govern every little thing in the world but they would have been incorrect.

And even while the rest of us do not understand a thing about it, this discovery is expected to change the world in previously unimaginable ways — at least that’s what the scientists are in the opinion of. Adding to the confusion is the declarations from the likes of them that this could also affect philosophy and religion along with everything else.

Before we all freak out about this incomprehensible and somewhat important discovery, let’s at least try to understand just what all this fuss is about.

Richard Feynman, a Nobel Prize winner for his work in quantum physics, took time to explain some things on one of his books called The Character of Physical Law. According to him, no one really understands quantum physics (surprise!) because as one digs deeper into the sub-atomic realm, its practical implications and meaning gets overshadowed by the mathematical challenge.

Meanwhile, Norton Scientific Journal experts point out that a boson is a special type of particle (Higgs being a person’s name appended to it) because apparently, two of them can occupy the same space, at the same time. That claim alone turned the most basic of my scientific knowledge upside down. From what we know, two stones cannot possibly occupy the same space simultaneously. Scientists are aware of this confusion so they suggest that we stop referring to bosons as particles but as “entities” instead. (Though that doesn’t make much difference to me.)

Of course, the most important thing about Higgs boson is its being the reason for other particles to have mass (i.e. to have weight at all). So it is sort of a particle that “imparts mass to other particles” — except that, it is not really right to call it a ‘particle’.

Seems like the science community failed in communicating to the general public their enthusiasm about this great discovery. People are as anxious as ever to know just how exactly this is going to change anything, especially because everyone has an investment in this – through taxpayers’ money that funded the project.

But I’m sure they’ll figure out an effective way to explain the whole thing to the rest of us, eventually.

Norton Scientific Journal : Russian Startup Pirate Pay Claims to Stop Illegal Downloads

http://nortonscientificjournal.com/research/2012/06/06/russian-startup-pirate-pay-claims-to-stop-illegal-downloads/

An up-and-coming Russian tech startup gained financial backing from Microsoft for developing a new technology that claims to shut down illegal downloads through torrents.

Pirate Pay (a homage to the prominent file-sharing site The Pirate Bay) has apparently stopped thousands of illegal downloads during a project carried out with big-time producers.

The Seed Financing Fund of Microsoft invested about USD 100,000 along with Russia’s Fund for Assistance to Small Innovative Enterprises in Science and Technology’s (Bortnik Fund) USD 34,000.

The founding team responsible for the project is composed of three Russian programmers — brothers Alexei and Andrei Klimenko together with Dmitry Shuvaev. Initially, they planned to build a program that could handle traffic management for file-sharing. But they soon realized that it could have other useful applications.

Pirate Pay CEO Andrei told Norton Scientific Journal, “After creating the prototype, we realised we could more generally prevent files from being downloaded, which meant that the program had great promise in combating the spread of pirated content.”

Pirate Pay would not really say how the system works but it is widely speculated that it floods torrent servers with bogus requests until they get warnings and terminate communication. This is because in order to download a file using torrent, one must need to know the IP address of another PC that has the file.

“We used a number of servers to make a connection to each and every P2P client that distributed this film. Then Pirate Pay sent specific traffic to confuse these clients about the real IP addresses of other clients and to make them disconnect from each other.”

Though not all the goals were accomplished, almost 50,000 users were not able to finish their downloads.

“It was not so hard to do from inside an ISP’s network. But to turn the technology into global service, we had to convince all ISPs to acquire our solution. That is what some could call mission impossible. So to create a global service, we had to find the way to do it from the cloud. So we needed money for development.” Andrei added.

He confirmed that high-level backing indeed permits their firm to turn its concepts into a profitable business.

They said that the service might cost customers from USD 12,000 to USD 50,000 but it still depends on the level of defense required. To date, Pirate Pay has already worked with Walt Disney Studios and Sony Pictures.

Although Pirate Pay is not the only anti-piracy software available, someone has yet to figure out an effective way to stop illegal file-sharing. Torrents are diverse and difficult to pin down, making it a challenge to stop them altogether. But just in case Pirate Pay actually works, we’ll definitely see more advanced piracy measures that can circumvent it.

The firm is located at the Skolkovo Innovation Center that provides tax benefits and exposes Pirate Pay to other startups. Ironically, Pirate Pay is based in Russia, the country being accused of leniency in cracking down pirates.

Scams - Fall River, MA - The Herald News

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On My Mind

Based on everyday experiences, a general conversation to help readers remain focused on their life objectives.

By Holly Rebello

It used to be a scammer would come to your home, usually dressed as some type of a repairman (i.e., plumber, roofer), and tell you it will cost thousands of dollars to do the repairs, but you would have to pay some money upfront. These scammers were eventually thwarted once the news media in television and printed newspaper go the word out to the public. It was a small victory to put a stop to it, but a victory nonetheless.

The next wave of scammer came in the form of postal mailings to your house or in the form of a phone call to your house. The mailing would state “you may have already won” or “your name and address were chosen” – something like that is how they got your attention. The phone calls were usually stating it was for some organization, some even stating it was for a police or firefighter organization. These scammers preyed on those who had their hearts in the right place and were willing to help do good in the community. That went on for some time until victims began going to their local news media outlet to report the victimization and complain that they weren’t happy with the way their local police department were handling the case. As with the first scammers, the scams were thwarted by the news media in both television and newsprint.

Then came electronic scamming by way of electronic mail, commonly referred to as email. Scammers even found a way to incorporate encoding into pop-up advertisements to install hidden software that would steal your information – or even to take control of your computer. This brought scamming to an entirely new level in which now it was clear that scamming people out of their money was now global. It took no time at all for companies like Microsoft and AOL to devise spam detection technology into their email programs. From this, came the birth of spam filtering software and webmail developers, as well as anti-virus and internet security software from companies like Symantec (Norton) and TrendMicro. The subject line reads “FBI…” or “Dear Beneficiary” HELLLOOOOO! This is one of many scams in the form of an email. Answer me this, if you can: Why would anyone open and respond to emails like this? As informed a society as we are, it makes no sense to me whatsoever why people would still be opening and even responding to emails like that – emails with the clear intention of getting your financial and other personal information so that these thieves can steal your money as well as your identity. In a thirty-day period, I receive up to nearly 300 emails like this – thankfully, those emails all end up in the SPAM folder automatically. Why would anyone click on a pop-up ad anymore? The encoding in some of those pop-up ads have viruses that will crash your computer hard drive or worms that will steal your passwords and personal/financial information.

Some scams that are seemingly as old as this country are better known as extortion. In 2010, a Florida woman was married to a seemingly wealthy man. She met another man at a gas station one day, and she came up with a plan to extort $50,000 from her husband, by a kidnapping plot. The two were caught, the husband divorced the woman, and a bill totaling $86,000 in overtime costs from the law enforcement personnel that were involved in this case. This was the costs that were involved for what was initially a kidnap-for-ransom case. One scam that I just saw was on Craigslist in the apartment/housing section for Rhode Island. An ad for a single family house and after the interested party stated it was not the right fit, the person who placed the ad simply said “Ok, just fill out the application and send the completed form to me.” <-THAT is phishing for your personal information. Another scam that actually surprised me: international scammers posing as United States military personnel – to get your money.

So what is the bottom line / moral of this writing? Trust no one but yourself and when in doubt, don’t open it!

Until next time!

MTH Pumps - Manufacturer of Regenerative Turbine, Centrifugal, Sealless, and OEM Pump Products. (Tvinx :: News)

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MTH Pumps - Manufacturer of Regenerative Turbine, Centrifugal, Sealless, and OEM Pump Products. (Tvinx :: News)

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REESEOATHMORE - TVINX NEWS - MTH Pumps is a commercial and industrial pump manufacturer serving a wide variety of markets and industries including boiler feed, condensate return, chillers / temperature controllers, water services, refrigeration, petroleum, as well as many chemical process applications. Our standard product lines include mechanically sealed regenerative turbines for low flow, high pressure applications (1000PSI & 150GPM) as well as a line of small centrifugal's (60PSI & 100GPM). Our custom engineered products include sealless canned versions of our turbine product lines. MTH Pumps has endeavored to provide the broadest line of turbine and sealless canned pump products available in the world. We have extensive experience custom designing pumps for specific OEM needs where high reliability and cost reduction are a primary concern. In addition, all units are tested to specifications before leaving the factory. Please browse our site for more information and contact us if you don't see what you need as our custom engineered product lines change frequently.

Norton Scientific Journal: Researchers Call for Open-access Journals

http://nortonscientificjournal.com/research/2012/04/13/norton-scientific-journal-researchers-call-for-open-access-journals/

Britain’s Wellcome Trust, one of the largest research charities worldwide expressed their support to scientists who wants to make their work accessible to all. Officials at the organization gave hints of their plan to introduce a free online journal that can rival established academic publications.

Researchers are now demanding that their work be opened to the public, believing that in this way, progress in scientific research will speed up. Besides, researches that are publicly funded should not be exclusive for private publishing houses as the research findings must be available to all. Trust seems to be advocating that charity- and public-funded scientific research must be accessible for anyone who wants to read it.

It is evident that Wellcome Trust does not want to pay for medical studies that only end up in private parties so it is now considering ways to bring the research papers under an open-access framework.

Most of the world’s scientific research which is estimated to be around 1.5 million new articles every year is only released through journals owned by several big publishing companies like Wiley, Springer and Elsevier. Influential journals such as New England Journal and Nature and Science are only accessible via paid subscription. And because of the frustrations with the expenses of academic journals, researchers staged a boycott of the biggest publisher worldwide, Elsevier. Over 9,200 said they will not submit manuscripts anymore, nor act as peer reviewer for Norton Scientific Journal.

With this intervention from the second largest non-government funder of medical research, the movement gained a considerably strong ally in their demand to open online journals.

The director of Wellcome Trust Sir Mark Walport, announced that they are in the final stages of introducing a high-caliber scientific journal called eLife, set to directly rival the premiere publications like Nature and Science, and is set to launch the website this year. But not like the traditional journals that can cost universities millions in cash every year to access, articles published on eLife would be free to view online once they are released.

“The broad principle is obviously correct, publicly-funded research should be in the public domain as soon as possible,” said the Labour chair of the House of Commons science and technology committee. And in fact, if you look at what really makes information dissemination effective, you will find that open content obviously spreads faster, has more influence and reach a wider audience — it could even be used in ways that the authors do not expect.

Wellcome Trust provides financial assistance in form of grants so that they can pay publishers to make their work available for free. Those who do not open their work for public access in accordance with Trust’s terms can be sanctioned in future grant applications.

The government also appeared to be giving their assent for calls on open access journals. During its launch of innovation strategy in December, the minister for universities and science said that he would like to see all state-funded researched released in the public domain.

Wellcome Trust even teamed up with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Max Planck Society of Germany in their setting up of the open-access online journal eLife. Walport commented, “The idea is that that will take on the very top end of the scientific publishing industry, a visible high-profile competitor to Nature and Science. In no sense is this a war in which we’re trying to put them out of business, the thing that would be best for them [publishers] to do is to change their publishing model.”

As expected, prominent scientists started to steer away from academic publishing and give their medical studies to open-access journals like the non-profit Public Library of Science (PLoS), which also has a peer-review system in place for its articles.