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Saturday, December 05, 2009
SPEED OF LIGHT
Speed of light
The speed of light in a vacuum is presently defined to be exactly 299,792,458 m/s (approximately 186,282 miles per second). This definition of the speed of light means that the metre is now defined in terms of the speed of light. Light always travels at a constant speed, even between particles of a substance through which it is shining. Photons excite the adjoining particles that in turn transfer the energy to the neighbor. This may appear to slow the beam down through its trajectory in realtime. The time lost between entry and exit accounts to the displacement of energy through the substance between each particle that is excited.
Different physicists have attempted to measure the speed of light throughout history. Galileo attempted to measure the speed of light in the seventeenth century. An early experiment to measure the speed of light was conducted by Ole Rømer, a Danish physicist, in 1676. Using a telescope, Ole observed the motions of Jupiter and one of its moons, Io. Noting discrepancies in the apparent period of Io's orbit, Rømer calculated that light takes about 22 minutes to traverse the diameter of Earth's orbit.[4] Unfortunately, its size was not known at that time. If Ole had known the diameter of the Earth's orbit, he would have calculated a speed of 227,000,000 m/s.
Another, more accurate, measurement of the speed of light was performed in Europe by Hippolyte Fizeau in 1849. Fizeau directed a beam of light at a mirror several kilometers away. A rotating cog wheel was placed in the path of the light beam as it traveled from the source, to the mirror and then returned to its origin. Fizeau found that at a certain rate of rotation, the beam would pass through one gap in the wheel on the way out and the next gap on the way back. Knowing the distance to the mirror, the number of teeth on the wheel, and the rate of rotation, Fizeau was able to calculate the speed of light as 313,000,000 m/s.
Léon Foucault used an experiment which used rotating mirrors to obtain a value of 298,000,000 m/s in 1862. Albert A. Michelson conducted experiments on the speed of light from 1877 until his death in 1931. He refined Foucault's methods in 1926 using improved rotating mirrors to measure the time it took light to make a round trip from Mt. Wilson to Mt. San Antonio in California. The precise measurements yielded a speed of 299,796,000 m/s.
Two independent teams of physicists were able to bring light to a complete standstill by passing it through a Bose-Einstein Condensate of the element rubidium, one led by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau of Harvard University and the Rowland Institute for Science in Cambridge, Mass., and the other by Dr. Ronald L. Walsworth and Dr. Mikhail D. Lukin of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, also in Cambridge.
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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009
Griz's First Video
Okay - this won't win any awards but I have been fiddling with youtube lately and posted this video.
What? You expected to see me? Thought it had something to do with making money online? Lol. yes I'm a jerk...
Actually it does have to do with making money online in the sense that I am going to find out exactly how G decides which videos it pushes to page 1 in the search results. To that end I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest the videos with the most anchored backlinks will win. Yes a real stretch so with that in mind you can go directly to youtube and watch the Red Fox Videothere. (You can watch it here - I just needed an excuse to send a proper keyword anchored backlink to the vid.) ;-)
And yes - I shot the video. That's my 7 year old feeding the Fox and yes I know... don't feed wild animals. (Last time I did I ended up with a pet wolf for 15 years - btw. Max the Wolf passed on two months ago from old age - we miss him a lot.)
So as long as I lured you all here under false pretenses I have a question for all you twitter users. Have any of you signed up with Ad.ly? Okay 2 questions - if you have are any of you getting advertisers?
On paper Ad.ly sounds like it might make a few bucks if you have enough twitter followers. The premise is simple enough - sign up and tweet a couple of ads a week to your followers and get paid a weekly fee for your effort. The thing is I signed up with my small following of twitterers (only 800 followers) and have yet to see an advertiser darken my doorstep. Not that this surprises me as I haven't played the twitter game of following everyone who follows me. If I had I would be well in the 5 figures by now. Many of my readers do have thousands of followers though and I thought I'd trouble you folks for some feedback. Are you using Ad.ly and if so how many followers do you have and what kind of rate are you getting based on your followers? If it turns out that there is money to be made in this I may have to rethink my twitter following.
If you haven't heard of Ad.ly and have a lot of followers (you need a minimum of 50 to be accepted) then you might want to join up (it's free - really free...) and test it yourself. That link has my referring id in it and normally I wouldn't care if you used my link or not but I got an email from Ad.ly yesterday that said I had cracked the top ten for referrals for some contest they are running - who can send the most traffic to them of course - and the prize is a MacBook which I don't need or want (I'll give it away on here should I win it once I think of some lame contest...) These kind of contests never interest me but when I saw the list of who was in the top ten I felt the urge to catch Mr "I make money online by taking pictures of my food" Chow... If inclined please join and full disclosure - I make no money from you joining and have not been paid to promote Ad.ly. (I really just want to find out how many people Chow referred and I need to beat him to do that - Ad.ly isn't publishing the numbers.) Yes I do have better things to do...
What? You expected to see me? Thought it had something to do with making money online? Lol. yes I'm a jerk...
Actually it does have to do with making money online in the sense that I am going to find out exactly how G decides which videos it pushes to page 1 in the search results. To that end I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest the videos with the most anchored backlinks will win. Yes a real stretch so with that in mind you can go directly to youtube and watch the Red Fox Videothere. (You can watch it here - I just needed an excuse to send a proper keyword anchored backlink to the vid.) ;-)
And yes - I shot the video. That's my 7 year old feeding the Fox and yes I know... don't feed wild animals. (Last time I did I ended up with a pet wolf for 15 years - btw. Max the Wolf passed on two months ago from old age - we miss him a lot.)
So as long as I lured you all here under false pretenses I have a question for all you twitter users. Have any of you signed up with Ad.ly? Okay 2 questions - if you have are any of you getting advertisers?
On paper Ad.ly sounds like it might make a few bucks if you have enough twitter followers. The premise is simple enough - sign up and tweet a couple of ads a week to your followers and get paid a weekly fee for your effort. The thing is I signed up with my small following of twitterers (only 800 followers) and have yet to see an advertiser darken my doorstep. Not that this surprises me as I haven't played the twitter game of following everyone who follows me. If I had I would be well in the 5 figures by now. Many of my readers do have thousands of followers though and I thought I'd trouble you folks for some feedback. Are you using Ad.ly and if so how many followers do you have and what kind of rate are you getting based on your followers? If it turns out that there is money to be made in this I may have to rethink my twitter following.
If you haven't heard of Ad.ly and have a lot of followers (you need a minimum of 50 to be accepted) then you might want to join up (it's free - really free...) and test it yourself. That link has my referring id in it and normally I wouldn't care if you used my link or not but I got an email from Ad.ly yesterday that said I had cracked the top ten for referrals for some contest they are running - who can send the most traffic to them of course - and the prize is a MacBook which I don't need or want (I'll give it away on here should I win it once I think of some lame contest...) These kind of contests never interest me but when I saw the list of who was in the top ten I felt the urge to catch Mr "I make money online by taking pictures of my food" Chow... If inclined please join and full disclosure - I make no money from you joining and have not been paid to promote Ad.ly. (I really just want to find out how many people Chow referred and I need to beat him to do that - Ad.ly isn't publishing the numbers.) Yes I do have better things to do...
Speaking of which - I just found out my friend Allyn Hane finally got hisBeer Review Blog up and running and I want to lend him a hand with a link and some traffic if any of you are into cold frosty beverages. Allyn is a heckofanice guy and drop in on him if you have a moment. If you are a struggling musician he is looking to promote unknown music on his beer videos (Allyn is a video blogger) so get in touch with him if you are looking to promote your stuff.
Lastly for the 16 emailers who politely and some not so politely asked me to put up a new post... I just did. :-)
Cheers,
Griz
Prologue - It took about an hour for the video to show up on page 1 of the serp's for "Hand Feeding a Red Fox" - not a competitive term but apparently links work just as well for vids as they do for pages.
Monday, October 19, 2009
MY PURITY
Purity
Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing
that thy living touch is upon all my limbs.
I shall ever try to keep all untruths out from my thoughts, knowing
that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind.
I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my
love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.
And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it
is thy power gives me strength to act.
Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it
droop and drop into the dust.
I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of
pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end before I am
aware, and the time of offering go by.
Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower
in thy service and pluck it while there is time.
Life of my life, I shall ever try to keep my body pure, knowing
that thy living touch is upon all my limbs.
I shall ever try to keep all untruths out from my thoughts, knowing
that thou art that truth which has kindled the light of reason in my mind.
I shall ever try to drive all evils away from my heart and keep my
love in flower, knowing that thou hast thy seat in the inmost shrine of my heart.
And it shall be my endeavour to reveal thee in my actions, knowing it
is thy power gives me strength to act.
Pluck this little flower and take it, delay not! I fear lest it
droop and drop into the dust.
I may not find a place in thy garland, but honour it with a touch of
pain from thy hand and pluck it. I fear lest the day end before I am
aware, and the time of offering go by.
Though its colour be not deep and its smell be faint, use this flower
in thy service and pluck it while there is time.
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Unconditional Love
Unconditional Love
The greatest power known to man is that of unconditional love. Through the ages, mystics, sages, singers and poets have all expressed the ballad and call to love. As humans, we have searched endlessly for the experience of love through the outer senses. Great nations have come and gone under the guise of love for their people. Religions have flourished and perished while claiming the true path to love. We, the people of this planet, may have missed the simplicity of unconditional love. . .
Simply stated, unconditional love is an unlimited way of being. We are without any limit to our thoughts and feelings in life and can create any reality we choose to focus our attention upon. There are infinite imaginative possibilities when we allow the freedom to go beyond our perceived limits. If we can dream it, we can build it. Life, through unconditional love, is a wondrous adventure that excites the very core of our being and lights our path with delight.
The greatest power known to man is that of unconditional love. Through the ages, mystics, sages, singers and poets have all expressed the ballad and call to love. As humans, we have searched endlessly for the experience of love through the outer senses. Great nations have come and gone under the guise of love for their people. Religions have flourished and perished while claiming the true path to love. We, the people of this planet, may have missed the simplicity of unconditional love. . .
Simply stated, unconditional love is an unlimited way of being. We are without any limit to our thoughts and feelings in life and can create any reality we choose to focus our attention upon. There are infinite imaginative possibilities when we allow the freedom to go beyond our perceived limits. If we can dream it, we can build it. Life, through unconditional love, is a wondrous adventure that excites the very core of our being and lights our path with delight.
Why Unconditional Love?Unconditional Love is a dynamic and powerful energy that lifts us through the most difficult times. It is available at any moment by turning our attention to it and using its wonderful potential to free us from our limitations. It requires practice and intent to allow this energy to fully permeate our daily experience. It begins with ourselves, for without self-love, we cannot know what true love can be. In loving ourselves, we allow the feeling to generate within us and then we can share it to everyone and everything around us! That which we send out, returns to us in greater measure. If you have not thought about how you feel towards yourself, physically, mentally, and emotionally, or spiritually, we invite you to do so now. Begin the journey that changes everything. Begin the journey of unconditional love...
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