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Modern scientists adopted the ancient concept of the ether to explain the fundamental nature of the universe. Einstein allegedly dethroned the ether concept with his space time continuum. In spite of this, we might have to revisit the ether concept. The concept of the invisible ether or 'aether' is an old concept dating to the time of the ancient Greeks.
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Immunology began with a cow called "Blossom". She put blisters onto the fingers of her milkmaid, Sarah Nelmes. The milkmaid in turn saw her doctor, Edward Jenner. Jenner had heard that when you get such blisters - due to vaccinia, the cowpox - you do not get variola, the smallpox. Jenner speculated that the blisters might contain some mysterious substance, to which he gave the name "virus", which carries the disease.
Hair Style 2006: Short and Curly
2005 was all about long hair - post "Sex and The City," and very "Desperate Housewives." Yes, once again, 2005 hairstyle trends were driven by what was happening in celebrity world and hairstyles were dominated by long, highly-coiffeured locks and - with the Jennifer Aniston look still reigning supreme and the Sedu hair straightener selling in big numbers - straight hair was definitely the style of choice.
Planets with low eccentricities have more circular orbits, while planets with a high eccentricities have more elliptical orbits. Planets were assembled out of small "building bodies" called planetesimals, which themselves aggregated from the dust in the solar nebula. Planets and satellites are "built-in", and the program comes with some 7500 asteroids and comets. Planets also have varying degrees of axial tilt; they lie at an angle to the plane of the their stars' equators.
Mars
Mars has been known since prehistoric times. Mars has some of the most highly varied and interesting terrain of any of the terrestrial planets, some of it quite spectacular: Olympus Mons: the largest mountain in the Solar System rising 24 km (78,000 ft. Mars has a very thin atmosphere composed mostly of the tiny amount of remaining carbon dioxide (95. Mars is a difficult but rewarding target for an amateur telescope though only for the three or four months each martian year when it is closest to Earth. Mars' thin atmosphere produces a greenhouse effect but it is only enough to raise the surface temperature by 5 degrees (K); much less than what we see on Venus and Earth. Mars' relatively low density compared to the other terrestrial planets indicates that its core probably contains a relatively large fraction of sulfur in addition to iron (iron and iron sulfide). Mars' Satellites Mars has two tiny satellites which orbit very close to the martian surface. Mars remains at the top of the list of possible life-bearing planets.
Pluto
Pluto is no longer officially a planet but we'll keep it here for history's sake. Pluto is so far away that the Sun is just a dim point of light that looks a lot like any other star. Pluto was discovered in 1930, four years before Holst's death, and it was hailed by astronomers as a new planet. Pluto Pluto is one of the "dwarf planets" in our solar system. Pluto is part ofa vast population and is rightly classified with that population where it belongs. Pluto, the outermost and smallest planet (although some scientists argue that it shouldn't be considered in this privileged class), is an oddball that doesn't fit easily into either category. Pluto is the largest of the Plutinos, and it and the others only exist where they do because of the dominance of Neptune. Pluto is a "dwarf planet" by the above definition and is recognized as the prototype of a new category of trans-Neptunian objects. Plutons are distinguished from classical planets in that they reside in orbits around the Sun that take longer than 200 years to complete.
Planets with the perfect blend of molecular constituents orbiting at just the right distance from the sun enjoy what astronomers call a "Goldilocks" orbit. Planets, as we noted, move relative to the stars, and they do so, generally, moving from west to east in the sky. Planets are much smaller with core temperatures and pressures too low for nuclear fusion to occur.
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