tomten
19th December 2006 - 07:10 AM
http://www.physorg.com/news85678885.html Big loop from top left to bottom right, looks like a big 8.
oracle1
19th December 2006 - 09:08 AM
yes the loop is visible but do this. Take the picture on the right and make it a negative. Then follow the curves. What you will find is that what looks like a loop is actually intersecting and overlapping spirals.
Guest_Tor
19th December 2006 - 05:04 PM
While they do not waste my tax money they have my total support. The “star counting” research has to be founded by people who consciously choose to pay many for that not from tax money.
Nuclear Fusion development is a practically sensible and urgent matter where taxes have to be spent.
HeavyDuty
19th December 2006 - 09:24 PM
The reason such research is funded is because one never knows what can be known till the right question is asked, and answered.
The reason taxpayers get to fund this research is because there is a need to ask many questions to get to a good one, and that can be too pricey for privately (or publicly) held institutions.
The reason a great many of the scientific advances of the last 100 years have come from the US is because we do fund many researchers asking many wide and varied questions.
Snidley
19th December 2006 - 10:05 PM
Hey Guest_Tor, shallow thinking.