News tagged with gravity
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Revised theory of gravity doesn't predict a Big Bang
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Big Bang theory has formed the basis of our understanding of the universe's origins since it was first proposed in 1927 by Georges Lemaitre. And for good reason: the theory is supported ...
Jul 12, 2010 |
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GOCE giving new insights into Earth's gravity (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first global gravity model based on GOCE satellite data has been presented at ESA's Living Planet Symposium. ESA launched GOCE in March 2009 to map Earth's gravity with unprecedented accuracy ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 29, 2010 |
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Riding a bike couldn't be ... more complicated
We are told there's nothing easier than riding a bike. The reality is when it comes to staying upright, there is nothing more complicated. The mathematical formula which explains the motion of a bicycle looks like it could ...
Jun 27, 2010 |
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Earth to Lend Helping Hand to Comet Craft
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Deep Impact/EPOXI spacecraft will fly past Earth this Sunday (June 27).
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2010 |
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Neuropsychologist says most concussions deliver 95g's
Head injury expert Kim Gorgens, a neuropsychologist at the University of Denver (DU), says that most concussions deliver 95 g's to the human body upon impact. G-force is a unit of force equal to the force exerted by gravity. ...
Jun 24, 2010 |
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Mergers Most Likely Fuel for Active Galaxies
(PhysOrg.com) -- The first solid evidence for how the center of some galaxies come to shine brightly while others barely flicker has been uncovered by researchers at the Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics ...
Jun 16, 2010 |
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NASA and DLR Sign Agreement to Continue Grace Mission Through 2015
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver and German Aerospace Center (DLR) Executive Board Chairman Johann-Dietrich Wörner signed an agreement Thursday during a bilateral meeting in Berlin to ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 11, 2010 |
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Planck Mission: Space Probe Peers Into Dark Cosmos
(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine watching the birth of the universe -- the Big Bang -- from the outside. What would you have seen?
Jun 10, 2010 |
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Formation of Saturn's ring moons explained
(PhysOrg.com) -- New computer simulations based on data collected by the Cassini spacecraft mission suggest five of Saturn's moons may have been formed only 10 million years ago, and researchers in France ...
Jun 10, 2010 |
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ESA makes first GOCE dataset available
The first products based on GOCE satellite data are now available online through ESA's Earth observation user services tools. ESA launched the satellite in March 2009 on a mission to map Earth's gravity with unprecedented ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 09, 2010 |
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NASA Moves 'FAST' For Reduced-Gravity Flight Testing Tech Projects
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA selected 17 technology demonstration projects for reduced-gravity aircraft flights to demonstrate whether emerging technologies can perform as expected in the reduced-gravity environment of the moon ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 18, 2010 |
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Gravity might amplify quantum fluctuations, create astrophysical objects
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a new study, physicists have proposed that gravity could trigger a runaway effect in quantum fluctuations, causing them to grow so large that the quantum field’s vacuum energy density could dominate its ...
May 17, 2010 |
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Three Payloads Built By CU-Boulder Set For Launch On Space Shuttle Atlantis
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's space shuttle Atlantis will make its final flight May 14 carrying three University of Colorado at Boulder-built biomedical payload devices, including one to help scientists understand ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 11, 2010 |
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QUT physicist corrects Oxford English Dictionary (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Queensland University of Technology (QUT) physics lecturer has found a 99-year-old mistake in the Oxford English Dictionary - and is having it corrected.
May 10, 2010 |
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GOCE satellite determines gravitational force in the Himalayas
ESA's GOCE satellite has been orbiting the Earth for more than a year and surveying its gravitational field more accurately than any instrument previously. The goal of the researchers - including German scientists ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
May 07, 2010 |
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