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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.

    Source: http://www.socialtext.net/

2007-09-08

讓生命成為一次神奇旅行

A search is underway for millionaire American aviation adventurer Steve Fossett who has been reported missing after taking off in a light plane from a ranch in the US. FAA says Steve Fossett took off in a single-engine plane from a private airstrip in western Nevada and didn't return.
A friend reported the 63-year-old missing.

In 2002, Steve Fossett became the first person to fly around the world alone in a balloon. He later become the first person to fly a plane solo around the world without refueling.

The millionaire adventurer has survived numerous near-misses and crash landings over the years, including a plummet into the Coral Sea because of a storm-shredded balloon. This time, Steve Fossett had reportedly not filed a flight plan.

美國富豪冒險家佛賽特駕小飛機失蹤6日進入第四天，救難人員仍然鍥而不捨的進行全面性的搜救行動。佛賽特的好友，英國億萬富豪布蘭森也透過Google的衛星地圖比對服務，尋找佛塞特的下落。

美國內華達州的飛航巡邏機6日天一亮，就在晴空萬里視野最佳的情況起飛搜尋佛塞特的下落。酷愛冒險的富豪佛塞特3日駕著一架單引擎小飛機，從內華達州一處私人農場起飛，卻沒有依照原定時間抵達目的地，至今已經宣告失蹤四天。

搜救單位四天來出動了超過十架配有熱影像系統的飛機及直升機在內華達山區和沙漠進行地毯式的搜索，搜索範圍超過4000平方公里，只是到目前為止都還沒有任何令人振奮的消息。

但是搜救人員並不氣餒，內華達飛航巡邏隊辛西亞雷恩說：「這一類型的搜救通常會長達兩周甚至更久，所以（現在）四天而已，我們還在開始的階段。如我稍早所說，要想累積發現他的可能性必須在不同光源，不同氣象的情況下持續搜尋，才能夠將某個區域排除。」

到目前為止，搜救單位對於佛賽特可能生還還抱持樂觀的態度。內華達公路巡警恰克艾倫：「我們要充滿希望的結果，我們還只是在第三天，天氣很不錯，只要佛塞特沒有受到重傷就有生還的可能。」

佛塞特的英國富豪冒險家好友布蘭森也動用關係，透過Google的衛星地圖比對服務協助尋找佛塞特的下落。現在眾人都希望，佛塞特能平安歸來。

在這之前，經過8年的努力，美國富豪冒險家史蒂夫．福賽特終於完成了他期待已久的單人無停頓、不加油的環球航行。在這之前他曾經失敗過5次。美國當地時間3月3日下午1點50分，經過67個小時，飛越了37000公里以後，他乘坐的「環球飛行者」單引擎噴氣飛機安全地降落在航行的起點堪薩斯州的薩利納市，比他預計的時間提前了13個小時。

面對著地面上那麼多歡迎等待他的人們，福賽特說：「相信我，可以重回陸地真是太好了。這是我所做過最艱鉅的任務之一，值三天的班，不分晝夜，事實上根本沒睡覺。這是一次對耐力的考驗。」

福賽特說，他靠著十二份奶昔與水撐過這三天，最大的問題是頭痛，不過喝水後就沒事了，另外就是缺乏睡眠。對於有這麼多觀眾透過電視與網路觀賞他的飛行，以及數以萬計的民眾到機場看他降落，福賽特十分感動。

回憶起這三天三夜，福賽特說：「雖然我有點害怕，但是我覺得我不能從我的飛機上跳到海裡去。在返回出發地的時候，我有點不想著陸，我想繼續飛下去，但是沒有燃料了。」 這次飛行計劃的負責人穆爾表示，油料可能是外洩，不然就是飛行初期消耗超過預估，令他幾乎無法越過太平洋。

這並不是福賽特第一次單人環球航行，他在2002年和2004年都曾經做過這樣的嚐試。

福賽特被美國人推崇為美國當代最偉大的探險家之一。

1997年，他經歷了第一次駕駛熱氣球環球航行的失敗。1997年1月13日，他駕駛熱氣球從聖路易斯安納州的布赫體育館出發。這次航行持續了6天2小時44分鐘。

1997年12月31日，他又一次踏上了征途。但是因為加熱器的故障，他不得不在俄羅斯的諾沃基羅拉夫斯卡亞降落，4天11小時的時間飛越了7300公里。

1998年8月7日，他從阿根廷的門多薩啟程，這時候他所駕駛的熱氣球更大而且裝載了更多的燃料，他希望能夠飛越整個南半球。但是很不幸的是福賽特8月16日經過澳大利亞上空時遇上了暴風雨，熱氣球受到了損壞。

當時他在澳洲大堡礁上空29000英尺的高空中遇上雷暴，氣球失控直線墜落，墜到4000英尺高度時，福賽特攀越密封艙頂上的活門，割斷燃料和氧氣桶的繩子任其掉落，藉此減緩氣球下墜的速度，最終得以活命。地面營救隊伍找到福賽特的時候發現他並沒有受到重傷，精神也很好。

福賽特最崇拜的偶像之一就是弗里特約夫．南森。南森1861年出生在挪威，是著名的探險家、科學家和人類學家。他曾領導挪威北極考察隊到達北極，他自己本身也是最早進行極地探險並到達北極點的人之一。

福賽特是這樣評價自己的偶像的，「就算情況再艱難，他從來沒有捨棄過團隊裡面的任何一個成員。在那個困難的年代中，他專門成立了收容難民的機構，他是當之無愧的諾貝爾和平獎獲得者」。

福賽特是一個平靜而又時尚的人，他的腦海中充滿了夢想，除了飛行探險，他還喜歡賽車、登山和滑水。

1985年，他從英國入水，游泳橫渡英吉利海峽。

福賽特創下了航行方面的8項官方世界記錄。其中包括駕駛熱氣球用16天17小時21分鐘完成從日本橫濱到美國舊金山的航行，橫渡太平洋。雖然他並不是總能贏，但不斷的嚐試增強了他的體力和耐力，讓他的生命本身變成了一次神奇的旅行。

Source: ABC Radio Australia、ETtoday、Epochtimes.com (image by http://www.epochtimes.com/)
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