Early morning. You are at Performance Kings
Honda waiting on an engine diagnosis, which will take about an hour. If all is
within the range of reasonable, you will have brake pads adjusted or replaced
and the timing belt replaced, as it is three years overdue. The car should then
be good to go. If, of course, the engine has a serious problem, you will have
other considerations to make. – Amorella
0744
hours. I would just as soon have all this taken care so I can get the interior
cleaned and then have the window protection added. We are both more sensitive
to the sun than we used to be, and with Carol being light skinned she has even
more health concerns than I do.
In searching for the June Scientific
American article, “Mystery of the Hidden Cosmos” you found this reference.
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Dark Matter and the Shadow Universe
A preview of the June
issue of Scientific American
By
Mariette DiChristina | Jun 16, 2015
Given
the inky blackness of space, I suppose it shouldn't have been surprising that
we can't detect the parts of the cosmos that do not glow like the stars or
radiate other types of energy. Cosmologists, observing galaxies rotating at
speeds too fast to be possible given those observable components, have hypothesized
unseen particles called dark matter.
What
is it doing, and what is its composition? In “Mystery of the Hidden Cosmos,”
Bogdan A. Dobrescu and Don Lincoln delve into the complexity of this unseen
universe. Dark matter could contain a world of particles. Dark atoms and
molecules could perhaps clump together into galactic disks that overlap with
the ordinary matter disks and spiral arms of galaxies such as Andromeda.
Experiments are under way with the aim of detecting such complex dark matter.
“The real message,” Dobrescu and Lincoln write, “is that we have a mystery
before us and that we do not know what the answer will be.”
Mariette
DiChristina is editor in chief of Scientific
American.
Selected
and edited from http://www.scientificamericanDOTcom/ article/dark-matter-and-the-shadow-universe/
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0810
hours. I find it fascinating that we are still in the realm of the ancient
Greek thinkers. The basic conditionals are this: Earth, Air, Fire, Water and
Hot, Cold, Wet, Dry. These eight measurable nouns represent what we have found
throughout the physical universe. Now, what have we found scientifically about
metaphysics? The assumption in the fictional Merlyn books is that human beings
have hearts, souls and minds that exist in non-physical form yet we use the old
standards – earth, air, fire, water, hot, cold, wet and dry – to create poetic
imagery in reference to heart, soul and mind. We have nothing else.
You would like something ‘new’? – Amorella
0840
hours. I don’t know. These eight standard word forms work. What could the Dead
know, that is, through reasoned imagination, what could they know that we seem
only able to express through involuntary tearing at the moment words leave us
otherwise expressionless. – Time to check the email before Carol arrives to
pick me up. The Accord should be ready by four-thirty. Tomorrow I will get the
car cleaned up. I am pumped to have the windows tinted. We will have a ‘refreshed’
automobile.
Home, and you have had a nap. You want to
clean the garage of remaining bags of wood chips for the yard today so have at
it, boy. Later, Amorella.
You
and Carol worked on cleaning closets instead. Lunch at Penn Station and with a
call from Honda you stopped by and picked up the car. On the way home you
stopped to see the cost for completely cleaning the inside of the car, P&G
Auto was not busy so you waited an hour until they completed the task. Once
home Carol took the Honda to do her walk while you ran a couple of errands with
the other. Once home again you became lethargic and have not done much of
anything for a couple of hours but read the morning paper. Carol is back upstairs
working on bedroom closets. – Amorella
1853
hours. Two people cannot arrange a closet so I let her have it her way. She
seems quite pleased about the Accord fix up, and tomorrow I will call about
having the windows tinted. The car runs better, the brakes are smoother and I
am more confident knowing the timing belt is replaced; plus, I am surprised on
how good the interior of the car looks, it really cleaned up well – it is, as
of today, a well preserved 2005 six cylinder Accord EXL.
Surprising
yourself you got up out of the chair at dusk and cleaned the eight and a half
bags of mulch out of the garage and distributed them to their port of call for
a morning dumping and raking out. – Amorella
2040
hours. It took me an hour or so to accomplish this. I also crawled around under bushes and fixed the cable box
top out front (it took a while to understand how it latched tight to the bottom of the box -- who knows who took it half way off and and couldn't reset it correctly) and a couple other things that needed done. I feel better though, the day wasn’t a complete waste as far as my personal use of energies are
concerned.
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