EINSTEIN@HOME - Team FreeBSD
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neutron stars relationship with black holes and gravitational waves
16 November, 2008 12:06
[relativistic particles blasting out of Circinus X-1]
"Black holes are not the only objects in the universe that spew powerful jets from their poles. Dead, smoldering stars can emit them, too, and the jets they create rival and might even surpass those fired by black holes, scientists find.
The discovery, to be detailed in an upcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal Letters, shows that the unusual properties of black holes-like the presence of an event horizon and the lack of an actual surface-are not required for jets to form.
"Gravity appears to be the key to creating these jets, not some trick of the event horizon," said study leader Sebastian Heinz of the University of Wisconsin at Madison." - http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19461296/
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At the Center of the Milky Way
07 November, 2008 04:03
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Milestones that deserve mentioning as of October 18th, 2008
18 October, 2008 17:12
- resident: 1,000 credits!
- Martin Tournoij: 10,000 credits!
- silas428: 60,000 credits!
- InfoXbase: 1,500,000 credits! Wassabi!
- Kevin: 7,500 credits!
- codebeast: 10,000 credits!
- Robert Felber: 900,000 credits! Wowsers!
- Goldm00n: 5,000 credits!
- heilkitty: 2,500 credits!
- Andy Wright (me): 700,000 credits! (I don't need heat during the winter, does anyone else with credits on this team?)
The servers this site is using for resources are out of development, as you may have noticed. I can now get back to a little fun while I sit on a few developments related to this.. I hope to post a little more often in the next couple months and get the bugs worked out of some of my websites...
Congratulations to everyone with milestones! If I have missed you, give me a good kick in the behind and send me an e-mail! Till lata everyone!
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New Member - heilkitty & escaping matter...
06 October, 2008 16:48
Welcome to our team heilkitty! Make yourself comfortable here, you are among friends.
Getting a hold of David Hamer (or his voicemail) is quite like escaping black hole matter - it's not going to happen anytime soon. However, would anyone be interested in starting a thread for: questions to ask department representatives and employees at the EINSTEIN@HOME project?
If we can come up with 4 or 5 tantalizing questions that are hanging on the minds of our team, I will make certain they are addressed. So, go ahead, post a comment, and I will compile and submit them to the appropriate employees and contributors.
Happy crunching!
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For those of you wondering what the EINSTEIN@HOME Project is:
EINSTEIN@HOME is a program that uses your computer's idle time to search for spinning neutron stars (also called pulsars) using data from the LIGO and GEO gravitational wave detectors. EINSTEIN@HOME is a World Year of Physics 2005 project supported by the American Physical Society (APS) and by a number of international organizations.My name is Andy Wright - the founder, but really the creator of Team FreeBSD. If you want me to add any links, or have any questions or inclinations for such things related to our group (or to just say hi) - send me an e-mail: einstein@extracted.org or Skype name: extracted
''It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure'' -- Albert Einstein
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