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Don't get too excited: it's a 400 m lump of mainly ice. It's high speed and angle exclude the possibility that it originate in our solar system, I believe. It came from the direction of Lyra at over 25 km/s. https://www.space.com/38580-interstellar-object-spotted-comet-asteroid-mystery.html

proton in the LHC is stable. How is that ? Consider the proton, 3 quarks at the corners of an equilateral triangle with the base leg, 2 plus quarks (A & B) at right angles to the motion and the negative quark (C) leading in the direction of motion. These 3 particles are moving at nearly the speed of light. How can a gluon moving from A to B ever find the B quark ? It will take forever for that gluon to catch up to the B quark. What direction should it start in and what happens as the quark turns in the LHC or either the A or B quark sending a gluon or charon to the negative quark. If the proton is at 99% the speed of light it will take about 100 times longer for the gluon and negative quark to interact. There is no way this system is stable as we think of it now. Again, the proton in the LHC is stable at these velocities. The space particle is built from 3 L preons, both the boson and fermion have at least one H preon. This is a timing difference of R. The timing between spocks is normally random, so what was happening before the proton got into the LHC ? The distance between quarks is R*L. The quarks are only at that distance. The only way the two different systems are at the same stableness is for the gluon in both cases, not moving relative to the space particle or moving at the speed of light apart, is to get there in the same amount of time, or in one L tick. Since the spock has only L preons. The gluon will do this if we think of its speed as R*C, not C. Thus, the timing is the same with any motion. Let’s start with a boson, a gluon in a space particle, a spock. The gluon will move at C or one space particle every time change T or one L per tick. This gluon will only move thru ONE space particle and will then interact with itself as the gluon has the property of color. All bosons, except the real photon, (000) have the property of charge, all have a (2) and therefore interact with themselves mostly in the following way. For massless gluons, the force can not interact with itself, the gluon. The force interaction must be a pair of opposite forces, one being the gluon and the other from a pair obtained from Zu, these two are opposite, thus the two interacting forces balance and cancel each other and nothing happens. The remaining force is a new force carried by a new gluon in the same direction as the original force but moving in the opposite direction. The color of the new gluon is also the same, the color of the new gluon is given to it by assuming the color from the particle creating it. The only difference is that the new gluon is moving at C in the reverse direction. The new gluon will jump to the next spock it just left and then to a new spock in the same direction. The gluon has now moved thru two space particles. Next, everything repeats itself and the gluon returns to its original direction having now moved thru 3 spocks all in the time T. The reason it is all in ONE T(L) tick is that each space particle is now in sync in timing and all ticks occurred in less than ONE T(L)time and all different by exactly H timing. This is the energy chain. It will grow to R space particles in 10**45/10**20 sec. That is because each space particle timing is offset by one H tick or a total distance of R*L, the exact length of all legs in a proton or neutron or in fact any leg of any isotope. The result of this action is that all gluons in any leg of all isotopes move from one quark to any next quark in the structure in ONE L tick, or what we consider a velocity of R*C. However, in nature this is still moving a distance of L in T timing or a velocity of C. The chain is producing a synchronization of H over this interval. The momentum is still only what is considered to be a velocity C. No momentum ever increased or decreased. Now the second most amazing story in the universe, the most being how an electron stays in orbit and uses this same principle in the umbrella effect. Remember a quark in a spock and in an energy chain does/can have 10 different gluons from other quarks all interacting in ONE L time cycle. The quark is moving at about the speed of light. That means the quark and all its mass as particles must move from one spock to the next in the direction of motion in one L tick. That is at right angles to the gluon going from A to B. As the gluon goes from the spock it is in to the next spock at an H time interval, the initial spock knows the quark must move to the next spock in the direction of the LHC tunnel. This process is carried out by a spon moving one spock in the direction of motion as the spock changes time. So the energy is carried one spock in the direction of motion of the quark. The current spock and previous spocks from this action are still is the chain. But these links are soon broken as the current spons are moving the chain, not the spocks down the tunnel or towards the C quark. So, the proton may be considered to be; the 3 quarks, the 3 gluons moving at R*C, the 3 energy chains for the 3 legs and a lot of charons, megons and gravitons we have not even considered. These chains stay with the proton no matter what speed it is moving thru space. We have said the gluon interacts with itself every L time cycle. What is happening ? The gluon may be thought of as changing times each L tick. The time changes starts in one preon, moves at right angles to the next preon and then to the third to end up at its start for a minimum energy system. If the particle has a property of charge or color the end point of the preon is not the common point, but one in the middle giving the property of charge or color. This preon then starts the time change in the middle and thus the time change moves in two directions. One being the same as if the end point. The other change must move initially at right angles and that is right into Zu. This is what creates any particle not in our universe. This is how any new gluon is created. Thus the gluon has interacted with itself. There are 10 tables of particles, (LLL thru EEE). The particles in any table have common properties. However, the (000) configuration cause differences between itself and all the particles in each table. These particles all have the one point in common, the end of each preon and are the spock, neutrino, real photon and unit mass for the first 4 tables. These differences can cause us to not understand the The other properties in the rest of the table. The real photon does not interact with itself, all others do, thus it can not form an energy chain. The real photon also ages much faster than any other particle, maybe R times faster. The red shift we see for all photon from the outer edges of the universe is from aging at a constant rate. Aging is the loss of energy due to time changing in each preon ticking. We thing of the red shift as if the galaxy at the edge of the universe is moving very fast away from us. All these galaxies are not moving at all, only the photon is losing energy, and fast because the photon is always at the wrong frequency. The spock is the only particle that can build an energy chain, all the rest have charge and huge mass. The neutrino has mass, the three different states are 1,2 and 3 units of mass. But the neutrino can form an energy chain because of these mass numbers. The difference is the chain does not go right, left and right again, but is always in the same direction. The mass cause this. This allows the last neutrinos from a long plush to catch up to the first neutrinos but never pass the first. We saw this in the opera1 experiment and from 2 detectors where the neutrinos from a super nova ALL arrived in the first 13 seconds and none later. That pulse could have been 2day, 2 years or 20 years. And again cause differences in our understanding of the interaction in the super nova

When I saw this it reminded me of the 1978 version of the Invasion of the Body Snatchers. https://www.space.com/china-far-side-moon-rover-strange-substance.html

I came across this and thought I would share it. https://futurism.com/the-byte/alien-life-rarer-search

If you were going on the one way mission to Mars and could only take eight records to listen to for eternity what would they be?

Citizen science has led to a dramatic revision of the classification, with implications for galaxy formation. https://phys.org/news/2019-06-citizen-scientists-re-tune-hubble-galaxy.html

SOLAR ECLIPSE PHOTOGRAPHED FROM THE MOON: While millions of people enjoyed a spectacular view of Tuesday's total eclipse in Chile and Argentina, only one lonely satellite watched it from the Moon. China's Longjiang-2 microsat was flying over the farside of the Moon when the eclipse began. Earth popped over the horizon just in time for these remarkable shots. The circular dark spot is the Moon's shadow, plunging the ground below into the kind of cool, otherworldly darkness that only happens during a solar eclipse. People on the outskirts of the shadow witnessed a partial eclipse. People in the inky-black core experienced totality. Built at the Harbin Institute of Technology in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, the 47-kg microsatellite was sent into space on May 21, 2018, together with the Chang'e-4 lunar probe's relay satellite "Queqiao." Longjiang-2's main camera, a tiny CMOS device weighing only 20 grams, has been photographing the farside of the Moon ever since. These rare photos of the eclipse are bringing an end to its mission, however. Chinese controllers plan to de-orbit Longjiang-2 at the end of the month, crashing it into the Moon.

https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2019-july-2

960 What is 960 Chess Chess960, also called Fischer Random Chess (originally Fischerandom), is a variant of chess invented and advocated by former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, announced publicly on June 19, 1996, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It employs the same board and pieces as standard chess, but the starting position of the pieces on the players' home ranks is randomized. The random setup renders the prospect of obtaining an advantage through the memorization of opening lines impracticable, compelling players to rely instead on their talent and creativity. Randomizing the main pieces had long been known as Shuffle Chess; however, Chess960 introduces restrictions on the randomization, "preserving the dynamic nature of the game by retaining bishops of opposite colours for each player and the right to castle for both sides". The result is 960 unique possible starting positions. In 2008, FIDE added Chess960 to an appendix of the Laws of Chess. Starting position requirementsWhite's pieces (not pawns) are placed randomly on the first rank, with two restrictions: The bishops must be placed on opposite-color squares.The king must be placed on a square between the rooks.Black's pieces are placed equal-and-opposite to White's pieces. (For example, if the white king is randomly determined to start on f1, then the black king is placed on f8.) Pawns are placed on the players' second ranks as in standard chess. Why 960? Each bishop can take one of four squares; for each setup of two bishops, the queen has six possible squares; finally, the two knights can assume five and four possible squares, respectively. This leaves three vacant squares which the king and rooks must occupy, per setup rules, without choice. Therefore there are 4×4×6×5×4 = 1920 possible starting positions if the two knights were different in some way; however, the two knights are indistinguishable during play (if swapped, there would be no difference), so the number of distinguishable possible positions is 1920÷2 = 960. (Half of the 960 positions are left–right mirror images of the other half; however, the Chess960 castling rules preserve left–right asymmetry during play.) Castling As in standard chess, each player may castle once per game, moving both the king and a rook in a single move; however, the castling rules were reinterpreted in Chess960 to support the different possible initial positions of king and rook. After castling, the final positions of king and rook are exactly the same as in standard chess Castling prerequisites are the same as in standard chess, namely: The king and the castling rook must not have previously moved, including having castled.No square from the king's initial square to its final square may be under attack by an enemy piece.All the squares between the king's initial and final squares (including the final square), and all the squares between the rook's initial and final squares (including the final square), must be vacant except for the king and rook.A recommended way to castle that is always unambiguous is to first move the king outside the playing area next to its final square, then move the rook to its final square, then move the king to its final square. 960 Opening Principles The study of openings in Chess960 is in its infancy, but fundamental opening principles still apply, including: protect the king, control the central squares (directly or indirectly), and develop rapidly, starting with the less valuable pieces. Unprotected pawns may also need to be dealt with quickly. The majority of starting positions have unprotected pawns, and some starting positions have up to two that can be attacked on the first move (see diagram). The Stockfish program rates the Chess960 opening positions between 0.1 and 0.5 pawns advantage for White, while the mean value for the same in standard chess is 0.2.[citation needed] It has been argued that two games should be played from each starting position, with players alternating colors, since the advantage offered to White by some initial positions may be greater than in standard chess. For example, in some Chess960 starting positions White can attack an unprotected black pawn after the first move, whereas in standard chess it takes two moves for White to attack, and there are no unprotected pawns.

Here is a place to post your questions about astronomy and related subjects from something you don't understand to unsolved problems, so that another member who has useful knowledge can share it. The group chat room can be used to continue discussions of individual topics that turn out to need it, and we will have a scheduled session if that proves necessary.

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/event-horizon-telescope-black-hole-picture

Just speculation: 1) The collapse of black hole does not stop at some point short of 'point ' dimensions? What slows up the collapse so that it appears to have dimensions? Is it just the time required to add material from the accretion disc? 2) Black hole status is achieved when light is unable to escape. What is mass requirement for that stage? 3) Most importantly what is role of gravity in black hole? Is a point reached where gravity cannot escape the black hole? Are the 'gravitons' at some point inhibited from leaving the black hole? Or are 'gravitons' themselves anti-gravity particles not themselves subject to gravity or any other force? If the gravitons cannot be kept within the black hole then we can speak of gravity decay since some mass/ energy must leave to keep up gravity 'field' ( Note ..we do NOT want to have mysticism introduced by reference to 'field' in the sense that no energy is required to maintain the 'field'.) But then does 'gravity decay' occur whereever gravity exists? Sigh .. wish we knew just what gravity is. Nice to speak of 'waves' 'fields' and 'gravitons'. Unsatisfactory current state of knowledge. 4) What happens after (if it does ) black hole singularity occurs and at the same time gravity is unable to function ? (We can look upon it as a state in which 'gravitons' cannot escape.) Do we have near infinite mass and point size? As such it cannot interact with ordinary mass since it would be so small though dense that it could pass through an atom without interacting...and no longer has field. Something akin to 'dark matter'? To be sure point dimension black holes seem to share characteristics of the pre big bang near point source. The consideration that we can detect multiple black holes and it is hard to see how they can coalesce if gravity cannot escape suggests an approach to multiple 'big bangs' or indeed continuous 'big bangs'. Just speculation.

How far are the human race from colonizing the universe? It's been a dream of humans for millenia to move into space. Will I see a moon base with in the next 20 years? Why not ? Will we see mining of astroids soon ? There is a concept , the space elevator on the table, only a few billion dollars. Is there a more benifitial project , for the human race, anyware?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2019_lunar_eclipse

Together we will attempt to dominate our chess.com universe and prove we are the best chess club for Star Gazers in our universe here. Let us see how many victories we can collect by defeating these clubs -: BORG COLLECTIVE - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/astronomy/948566 VENUS - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/astronomy/951270 UNITED UNIVERSE - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/astronomy/956604 BLACK KNIGHTS - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/astronomy/959860 PASSENGER - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/astronomy/962720 DEVON - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/astronomy/966876 UTOPIA - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/astronomy/968870 FLYING SPAGHETTI MONSTERS - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/astronomy/971806 MAY THE FORCE BE WITH YOU - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/astronomy/974228 DOCTOR WHO - https://www.chess.com/club/matches/979576

A planet with habitable temperatures has been discovered at a distance of 11 light years, but within a mere 80,000 years its star will be the nearest to Earth.

How to get the Milky Way Galaxy? I used a 16mm lens on an APS-C (Cropped Sensor) with ISO 3200, f/4.0 and 20sec.

How can you get Jupiter's bands with a small telescope.

Ok, we've all heard of the big bang theory. But there are some big holes in it. We know that the universe (that we can see) is uniformaly green. This really should not be. Another issue is that--how can an explosion possibly create life? You're expecting me to believe that the universe was born from a huge explosion that happened billions of billions of years ago?! The issue is that there are so many steps that it just takes 1 error for it to go wrong (like matter v Anti-matter)