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From All Corners of the Galaxy

Which Stars Are You From?
  • Galactic Highway - The Wormhole

    • Wormholes are a valid consequence of Einstein's general relativity view on the universe. A wormhole, in theory, acts as a shortcut or tunnel through space and time. There are several versions on the same theme (i.e. wormholes may link different universes; they may link the two separate locations in the same universe; they may even link black and white holes together), but the physics is similar, wormholes create a link two locations in space-time, bypassing normal three dimensional travel through space. Also, it is theorized, that matter can travel through some wormholes fuelling sci-fi stories like in the film Stargate or Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

    If wormholes do exist however, it is highly unlikely that you'll find a handy key to open the mouth of a wormhole in your back yard, they are likely to be very elusive and you'll probably need some specialist equipment to travel through them (although this will be virtually impossible).

    Alexander Shatskiy, from the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, has an idea how these wormholes may be observed. For a start, they can be distinguished from black holes, as wormhole mouths do not have an event horizon.

    Secondly, if matter could possibly travel through wormholes, light certainly can, but the light emitted will have a characteristic angular intensity distribution. If we were viewing a wormhole's mouth, we would be witness to a circle, resembling a bubble, with intense light radiating from the inside "rim". Looking toward the center, we would notice the light sharply dim. At the center we would notice no light, but we would see right through the mouth of the wormhole and see stars (from our side of the universe) shining straight through.

    Source:http://www.universetoday.com/

  • Stream of Time

    • Plato argued that time is constant - it's life that's the illusion. Galileo shrugged over the philosophy of time and figured out how to plot it on a graph so he could get on with the important physics.

    Albert Einstein said that time is just another dimension, a fourth one to go along with the up-down, side-side, forward-back we move through every day. Our understanding of time, Einstein said, is based on its relationship to our environment.

    Weirdly, the faster you travel, the slower time moves. (Is it truely weird? Not quite!!) The most radical interpretation of his theory: Past, present, and future are merely figments of our imagination, constructs built by our brains so that everything doesn't seem to happen at once.

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2007-08-22

一枚銅錢的力量


杭州西湖畔有座古剎，廟裡有口鐘，因年歲已大，無法繼續發出宏亮聲音。

大鐘的瘖啞鐘聲，讓城內士紳及寺內住持決定籌募資金，將老銅鐘熔掉，重鑄新的大鐘。

消息一傳出，杭州城的民眾蜂擁捐出香油錢，很快湊足重鑄銅鐘的資金。

在古剎接受捐款的最後一天傍晚，一位衣衫襤褸、蓬頭垢面的乞婦，一跛一跛走到捐款箱前，望著已貼上封條的捐款箱，對和尚遲疑問道：「我…我還可以捐鑄鐘的錢嗎？」

和尚打量乞婦一身破爛衣服，嘴角下撇，不屑問道：「妳…妳想捐多少呢？」

乞婦瑟縮地從衣袋中掏出一枚銅錢，訥訥地道：「就…就只有這一個」，和尚大笑：「就這一個銅錢？依我看，不必麻煩妳老人家了，鑄鐘的捐款充裕，為了妳這小錢，我不想把封條撕開、重新再黏，妳就請回吧！」和尚用力一揮手，將她趕了出去。

幾個月後，新的鐘鑄好了。

可是，在啟用那天，卻發生了怪事；新鑄的大鐘所發出的聲音，竟比舊鐘的聲音還瘖啞。廟方找了許多鑄鐘專家詳細檢查也找不到任何問題。這怪異的狀況讓大家困惑不已。

當晚，古剎住持夢見菩薩顯靈，告訴住持新鑄的大鐘之所以不響，乃因鑄鐘的銅料少了一枚銅錢。菩薩並顯現那位乞婦的形象，讓住持看見。

住持驚醒後，將這個怪夢告訴眾人，整個杭州城全動員忙著找那位乞婦，好讓她把那枚銅錢順利捐出。

最後，新的銅鐘再度完成，熔有那位乞婦全心奉獻的巨鐘，從古剎的鐘樓內，發出陣陣宏亮而悠遠的美妙鐘聲，響遍整個杭州西湖畔。

巨鐘不響，因為大家的捐輸是在行有餘力的情況下為之，未必是真心誠意。而貧窮的乞婦，卻願意將僅有的一枚銅錢獻上。她所付出的，不僅只是一枚銅錢，而是全部的心意與力量。

凡事善用真誠，並且能夠全力以赴，您將會發現，自己正開始有著美好的改變。變得更有能力，足以完成許多從未想像過自己夠做到的偉大事蹟。就像故事中那位乞婦並不知道自己的一枚銅錢，竟然會影響巨鐘所發出的聲響一般。

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