17.1.10
Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation.
"When the universe was young, before the formation of stars and planets, it was smaller, much hotter, and filled with a uniform glow from its white-hot fog of hydrogen plasma. As the universe expanded, both the plasma and the radiation filling it grew cooler. When the universe cooled enough, stable atoms could form. These atoms could no longer absorb the thermal radiation, and the universe became transparent instead of being an opaque fog. The photons that existed at that time have been propagating ever since, though growing fainter and less energetic, since the exact same photons fill a greater and greater universe. This is the source for the term relic radiation, another name for the CMBR."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_microwave_background_radiation
Bubble Chamber.
"Picture of neutrino interaction in the Fermilab 15-foot Bubble Chamber with heavy neonhydrogen liquid mixture taken in April, 1976. Nearly one neutrino interaction per picture is found with the current run targeting 1013 protons at 400 GeV with the wide band - two horn system. Frequently the chamber is flooded with tracks from several neutrino interactions in the same exposure.
In addition to increasing the interaction rate, the heavy neon mixture allows many of the particles from neutrino interactions to be recognized by direct inspection of the track appearance: protons, charged pions and kaons produce secondary interactions; neutral pions are evidenced by their gamma rays converting to electron pairs; muons sail right through the liquid without interacting and direct electrons or positrons from the vertex are recognized by successive kinks and associated gamma ray conversions along their tracks. A major interest in the present experiment by a Columbia University-Brookhaven Laboratory collaboration is the study of "di-lepton" events in which two muons or a muon and an electron are produced in high energy neutrino interactions." Via Fermilab
13.1.10
in the meantime
This is a jumbotron and it reminds me of a meteor. In preparation for Running Towards Tidal Waves and hairy situations, I propose we photograph flocked tv screens installed in urban and suburban landscapes to appear as though they have fallen from the sky and impacted the earth.
l'histoire (lets find a jumbotron)
http://books.google.com/books?id=p68XfA0MHpoC&dq=handbook+of+display+technology&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=yo2hVEBqOQ&sig=GbwndUd1mXKZtipQY92a0q3QMIQ&hl=en&ei=DVNNS6P6FseJlAfN1oSODQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=&f=true
12.1.10
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