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Last login: 17 hours agoJ4m3sb0nd: Kyle is a 17 year old single guy from The Moon, NSW, Australia.; Likes 6,074 pages, 231 videos, 388 photos • 199 fans • Received 6 reviews; Member since Oct 30, 2006

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Brown Dwarfs -New Link between Stars &Planets Discovered | The Daily Galaxy: New…: Apr 13, 5:22am 2 reviews science
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/04/brown-dwarfs--n.html; Quite interesting, I always wondered if gas planets could either be failed stars, or the result of a cooled star. This seems to validate that thought.

Microwaving CDs: Nov 29, 2007 2:53am 2 reviews science
http://raptor.physics.wisc.edu/wacky/cd/; Thanking free CD distributors was an amusing point, haha. A nice, brief report on the fractals created by irradiating CDs in a microwave.

QuizMeme.com - Quizzes, Surveys &Fun!: Nov 28, 2007 8:56pm 39 reviews
http://www.quizmeme.com/; Terrible. Like 99.9999% of quiz websites.

APOD: 2004 January 11 - NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf: Nov 22, 2007 9:05pm 1 review astronomy, science
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap040111.html; NGC 2440: Cocoon of a New White Dwarf

Credit:
H. Bond (STScI),
R. Ciardullo (PSU),
WFPC2,
HST,
NASA

Explanation:
Like a butterfly, a white dwarf star begins its life
by casting off a cocoon that enclosed its former self.

In this analogy, however, the Sun would be a caterpillar and the ejected shell of gas
would become the prettiest of all!

The above cocoon, the planetary nebula designated NGC 2440,

contains one of the hottest
white dwarf stars known.

The white dwarf can be seen as the bright dot near the
photo's center.

Our Sun will eventually become a "white dwarf butterfly",
but not for another 5 billion years.

The above false color image was post-processed by Forrest Hamilton.

[0711.0770] An Exceptionally Simple Theory of Everything: Nov 16, 2007 2:16am 12 reviews physics
http://arxiv.org/abs/0711.0770; From the page: "All fields of the standard model and gravity are unified as an E8 principal bundle connection. A non-compact real form of the E8 Lie algebra has G2 and F4 subalgebras which break down to strong su(3), electroweak su(2) x u(1), gravitational so(3,1), the frame-Higgs, and three generations of fermions related by triality. The interactions and dynamics of these 1-form and Grassmann valued parts of an E8 superconnection are described by the curvature and action over a four dimensional base manifold."

False vacuum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Nov 14, 2007 4:15am 1 review physics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum; "The possibility that we are living in a false vacuum has never been a cheering one to contemplate. Vacuum decay is the ultimate ecological catastrophe; in the new vacuum there are new constants of nature; after vacuum decay, not only is life as we know it impossible, so is chemistry as we know it. However, one could always draw stoic comfort from the possibility that perhaps in the course of time the new vacuum would sustain, if not life as we know it, at least some structures capable of knowing joy. This possibility has now been eliminated.[2]"