The exposure of truth and the perception of what that may be

It's interesting to see how the supposed truth of something will vary depending on who you ask. Real-life world events are no different, for example the war on Iraq has had negative ramifications on both countries; the United States financially and in the Middle East socially, economically, and structurally. As long as there is a variance of opinions on axuoms two opposing or cooperative nations will in some form or fashion disagree. It is not necessary for every person on this planet to agree on everything but when it comes to technology or progressing social structure the human race will hold each other back and this is an evident truth with just looking at the Middle East. I have no quarrels with the Muslim religion I'm an advocate that one can believe and practice whatever they wish yet it is alarming to me that a national superpower is governed by a warring and sometimes radicalist agenda. I never understood entirely how 1500 years ago the Muslim religion could be built on a foundation of raising a nation out of oppression and uncertainty by unifying them under a common lifestyle, to such chaos shortly after the Prophet Mohammed died. In fear of going on a tangent I will sum this post up, it's not about the Muslim religion and it's not about the current state of the world, it's simply about the intricacies of how two varying mindsets can look at the same problem and see two different solutions. This is an evident truth of the human race and I fear that it may be the single most thing that will hold us back from progress.

Family Unity

Cookouts at Grandma's house are a long going tradition in the Shultz & Dana family. Only their will you hear "I Get a Kick Out of You" be followed by "The Cupid Shuffle." My family encompasses a wide range of personalities ranging from the drunk uncle who can't project his vernacular coherently to my Grandmother, queen of the house whom I adore. This forth of July started like all other gathering in the Dana family, we ate. Wings, Steak, Crab Legs, all we could eat and more. The crab legs were succulent and when dipped in butter the sweet tender meat was enjoyed over banters of political nonsense, I bite my tongue. I have found this year, that I can do a quite impressive dive which is new to me on account of my younger, two hundred and fifty pound self, could do so effortlessly. One of the things I enjoyed the most was spending time with my younger cousin Justin. Justin is ten years old, perhaps eleven, and he reminds me more of myself than ever before. He is definitely a Dana boy, dark complexion, broad shoulders, the resemblance as he gets older becomes ever more apparent. Perhaps a majority of the similarity between us is sports. Like him I played for Kempsville Middle and just the other day I noticed his school picture, one in his uniform, on my parents fridge. I had taken a picture of mine when I was his age and we had a good laugh, I told him he was a better player, one that with drive can go places and perhaps one who will play on cable television someday. We laughed, and enjoyed each others company as my father and a few others shot fireworks off in the derelict bank parking lot the next property over. Fourth of July at MiMi's house was nothing out of the ordinary I suppose, I think that is what made it so great.

Life's a beach haiku

Crash; tranquility

Wind blows as time flows, onward

Life stops, when you choose.

Nuclear Chemistry

Fission

- Anything heavier than Iron-55

- Critical mass of the substance and high-speed neutrons are required.

Why fusion would be the more efficient of the two nuclear forces

Fusion

- Anything lighter than Iron-55











Energy is created from splitting open the nucleus of an atom.

This process generates much heat which is the same thing as saying that this process creates energy.

The process currently in use is nuclear fission.

This process puts off radiation which can be quelled by flowing water, which in-turn creates steam to drive turbines creating energy.

This technology is a double edge sword, we are playing with powerful forces.

There have been several disasters since we started using this technology: Chernobyl, 3-mile, and most recently Fukashima

Humans have a way of using technologies before weighing in all the possibilities of the future

I fear for this tragedy that is human resourcefulness

"As physicist know "accidents" do not appear without a reason".-Michio

"Proof" is the most widely misunderstood concept in all of science. It has a technical definition ( a logical demonstration that certain conclusions follow from certain assumptions").


Michio Kaku-"Hyperspace" ISBN 0-385-47705-8
First Anchor Books Edition copyright 1994 Oxford UniveFursity Press
Photo Credit: http://prezi.com/cs-mo8sqddef/nuclear-chemistry/

The First of the Four Forces of Nature. Gravity.

Life follows set rules which may be molded and shaped in different environments. These rules stay fundamentally sound; one has never woke up lying face down on their ceiling. The natural order of this planet is unique, like many planets, yet the majority of the difference between Earth and say Jupiter can be accounted for by how dissimilar the temperature and elemental composition are, not because the laws of nature differ.

  Never has a person thrown an apple up in the air at a certain velocity, to have it continue up into space. As soon as an object is propelled upwards to the sky it's velocity starts degrading as its battle against the force of gravity has already started to occur. The initial direction, which was upward, is forced down immediately and will begin to plummet to the ground. As soon as the static force of gravity takes precedence over the constantly degrading speed of the object fighting it, it falls down. Gravity acts as it does because the gravitational relationship of the Sun and all the planets that orbit it is so great that it grounds everything much smaller and less massive than the planets down to it. The strength of gravity is determined by the mass of two objects in regards to how close they are to each other. Although an object will travel much further before starting to descend back down if it were thrown on the moon, the fact remains that it will indeed come down eventually. The forces of nature may be skewed in different environments, yet at their core they still carry the same function.

The Universe is an Interesting Place

Earth is one planet in a massively wide and diverse amalgamation of others. Such a ratio at a different perspective is that of a  stark white and bright beach in which every grain of sand is it's own planet. Earth is only the smallest fraction of what constitutes our universe, it itself contains so much. The molten core of metals in the center being folded and compacted creating magnetism and electricity. To its thin layer of gases that are trapped by Earth's gravitational pull subsequently forming a shield to solar radiation. The world is ever acting on itself, in a delicate balance in which if one piece of the puzzle was changed all of Earth may function very differently. One could infer that life itself functions in a very similar way.