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Microsoft has released the WWT.
Free download available here: Experience World Wide Telescope
You’ll need all of the relevant .Net 2.0 cruft to browse the stars.
So far I’m impressed. Essentially operates like Google Earth but with the stars.
Download times are a bit long for the imagery, but that could be the connection here.
A few weeks ago I noticed an article that appeared on physorg.com, which is a great resource of everything science related, titled, “Black Holes Made of Light.” A few weeks ago I glossed over this article as it seems there are always papers published where a physicist has stopped light or in fact reversed it. However, this article was brought to my attention again: Scientists at the University of St Andrews have used lasers to simulate a black hole in their laboratory.
It would seem logical that since I am living at St. Andrews I should have been consumed weeks ago by the intense gravitational pull of the black hole which resides in the vary building which one of the researchers, Dr. Friedrich König, lectures me every week about spatial and temporal coherence of light waves. Luckily, the “black hole” and white hole are merely simulated as an event horizon. So, I’m still alive and you don’t have to worry about the rest of the earth being swallowed. Check out the article–it presents a number of basic concepts about event horizons, so it’s a good read for beginners. I’ll have to ask my lecturer about his work tomorrow.
Coffee drinking machine/student interested in programming, physics, and mathematics.
Didn’t win in the Darwin Race of Languages… that wasn’t a big shock! Ah well congratulations to the individuals that did, some of the submissions were really well done and significantly easier to install than…
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Also, check out my other posts to the left concerning the development process using NetBeans.
Update:
The zip archive was quite large and took awhile to extract thanks to all of the doc…
Well it is 2:40 AM my time on July 22nd and I am not where I would like to be in the project.
However, I do have something to show and will try to package some…
After pulling a little hair out due to problems with environment variables, my application is capable of drawing a line:
Again, many libraries are helping me out here. They’re all well documented and…
I was fed up with RubyStack, so I decided to go from scratch and build up the development environment. Potentially this will allow me to deploy the apps in a single (large) zip file that…
