Next: References Up: No Title Previous: Scientifically discovered God . What does it mean, God being discovered scientifically, or Superintelligence? And what is the future science dealing with an endlessly complicated world? ... But a human lexicon has also so important words as ``to understand'' and ``to believe''. ... And how the scientifically discovered God which has been inevitably reached by the modern simple science correlates with the religious God? ...

Astronomy Picture of the Day . Light Can Twist as Well as Spin . ... 19.11.2003 . ... Recently, however, it has been more broadly realized that photons can also have orbital angular momentum (OAM), an attribute classically analogous to the Earth orbiting the Sun as well as spinning on its axis. ... Light with OAM might be used to increase the information content of communication or to discern specific types of astronomical sources. ... NASA Web Site Statements, Warnings, and Disclaimers . ...

... For the past years I have been working on the problem of synthesis of light curves of close binary systems, consisting of a normal star and a compact object (point object with fixed X-ray luminosity). ... Possible existence of a bright spot on the disk's lateral surface is taken into account. ... The last of then will be published in Gordon and Breach Publishers ( Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ... Cherepashchuk A.M., Katysheva N.A., Khruzina T.S., Shugarov S.Yu. ...

... In the presence of only uniform magnetic field B , the motion of a charged particle can be described with gyration about the guiding center and motion along the field line. ... In the precence of both magnetic and electric fields, the equation of motion for charged particle (mass m, charge q) is m d v /dt = q ( E + v x B ). ... Because v is independent of the mass and sign of the charge, it is the same for negatively and positively charged particles, and does not create electric current. ...

... 2003 November 19 . Light Can Twist as Well as Spin . ... Recently, however, it has been more broadly realized that photons can also have orbital angular momentum (OAM), an attribute classically analogous to the Earth orbiting the Sun as well as spinning on its axis. Pictured above , the wave-front of a photon with OAM is shown to be twisted, in contrast to the flat plane of zero OAM light. ... APOD Update: APOD mirror now on-line from Poland with archive in Polish. ... Archive | ...

... For this one needs additionally to associate a weight with each attitude sample. ... time => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'TSTART', REAL64, 's')) raDeg => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'RA', REAL64, 'deg')) decDeg => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'DEC', REAL64, 'deg')) paDeg => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'PA', REAL64, 'deg')) isGood => boolData( addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'IS_GOOD', BOOLEAN)) weights => real64Data(addColumn(binnedAttTab, 'WEIGHTS', REAL64)) . ...

... As a new Puerto Rican resident, you have a complicated tax status. The short answer for US citizens coming from the US is that you file 1040 claiming all your income for the year you moved, but with form(s) 1116 (credit for foreign tax paid) to reclaim the portion of your Federal tax attributable to income earned (and tax paid) in Puerto Rico. ... Form 1040 and Instructions. ... Publication 514 ``Foreign Tax Credit'', which contains the real instructions for form 1116. ...

... Research of an atmosphere of the Earth and other planets of Solar system by optical methods . ... The long-term experience of study of atmospheres of planets of Solar system in a department of physics of planets has defined directions and methods of researches spent for laboratory . ... The tasks of laboratory are researches by optical methods of structure of a Terrestrial atmosphere, namely study of spectra of absorption of its compound radiation of natural and artificial sources. ...

Region markers can be moved, resized, rotated, zoomed, deleted, and can change geometric type. ... For example, markers placed on astronomical catalog positions should be fixed so that one cannot accidentally move them off the specified position. ... Parameters can be fixed using the fix option of the regions public access point (for fixing classes of markers) or by means of a fix keyword in the definition of an externally loaded marker. ... In the command: echo "regions fix all -position -size" | ...

... Bojan Nikolic web pages (r. 329) . ... The new document explaining how to get and run the code: Using casata (i.e., how to get it without revision control!) ... casata is a thin layer on top of CASA which implements commonly used procedures for analysis of data from aperture array telescopes at radio frequencies. ... One way to think of casata is as a CASA data reduction script but with an attempt at careful software engineering. ... Contributing to casata . ... casata: CASA Tools for Analysis . ...

. Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics of Russian Academy of Science . Laboratory of . Electromagnetism . Head: prof. Vadim A. Kaloshin, e-mail: vak@cplire.ru . Staff: 12 persons . Phone: (095)2034836, Fax: (095)2038414, E-mail: vak@cplire.ru .

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... The Magnetic Sun . ... Magnetic Planets . ... He planned to demonstrate the heating of a wire by an electric current, and also to carry out demonstrations of magnetism, for which he provided a compass needle mounted on a wooden stand. ... Andre-Marie Amp?re in France felt that if a current in a wire exerted a magnetic force on a compass needle, two such wires also should interact magnetically. ... For two straight wires, the final result is as above--a force inversely proportional to R, not to R 2 ]...

... The sample of the Local Volume galaxies (distance smaller than 10 Mpc) gives a unique opportunity to study the properties of galaxies including the weakest objects: the absolute magnitude M B -10 and the virial mass M vir 10 9 M x263C;. ... Luminosity function of the Local Volume galaxies. ... The luminosity functions for galaxies are presented: red dashed line - from the 2dFGRS survey (Norberg et al. 2002); blue dash-dotted line - from the SDSS survey (Blanton et al. ...

... 8, ``Celestial Mechanics'', 2002 Analytical constraints on comet nucleus rotation A. I. Neishtadt 1 , D. Scheeres 2 , V. V. Sidorenko 3 , A. A. Vasiliev 1 1 Space Research Institute, Moscow, Russia 2 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA 3 Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics, Moscow, Russia Nucleus rotation essentially affects many processes studied in cometary phy­ sics. ... Peale S. J., Lissauer J. J. Rotation of Halley's comet. ... Wilhelm K. Rotation and precession of comet Halley. ...

M A R D U K - By Patrik HЖglund The story aint complicated. Get the blue skull key and escape. That ought to be easy, you think, but when that f***** key always seem to escape your grasp, things get more complicated. That's good, because you want a challenge, eh? ... That is the so called story, but who needs a story anyway? ... If you intend play this level, it is recommended that you turn of jumping. The level is designed for people who don't jump, so to speak. ... Patrik ...

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... The removal of the bright sky background from your IR images is one of the key steps in the data reduction process. Once bad pixels have been removed from all the astronomical frames, the object frames must have the matching sky background images subtracted from them. ... The simplest sky subtraction is where you have separate sky and object frames taken a short time apart. ... The resulting sky subtracted images should be examined to make sure that sky subtraction has been properly achieved. ...

... Classes . ... casa . casa::MCuvw . ... Private Types | ... Muvw conversion routines. ... MCuvw (const MCuvw &other) . ... getConvert ( MConvertBase &mc, const MRBase &inref, const MRBase &outref) . ... Routines to convert uvws from one reference frame to another. void . ... enum casa::MCuvw::Routes [private] . ... Conversion routine to cater for inheritance question. void casa::MCuvw::fromPole . ... Show the state of the conversion engine (mainly for debugging purposes). void casa::MCuvw::toPole . ...

... STScI-PRC00-04 AN EXPANDING BUBBLE IN SPACE Astronomers, using the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 on board NASA's Hubble Space Telescope in October and November 1997 and April 1999, imaged the Bubble Nebula (NGC 7635) with unprecedented clarity. ... The remarkably spherical "Bubble" marks the boundary between an intense wind of particles from the star and the more quiescent interior of the nebula. ... To the right of the central star is a ridge of much denser gas. ...