August 20, 2016 Saturday
I wonder what the evil is scheming with his fiendish mind.
With a calamity staring right at his face, he is not the kind to sit
hand on his hands.
One move of his recently backfired and flopped.
Bedtime Story
I know it is tempting to rush on to Arthur Eddington when it comes to cosmology.
But I think it is still premature ad enough groundwork has not been laid down.
We need to go back to that abundance table.
That one which charted the abundance elements in the universe against the atomic numbers.
This fascinating table was created by 2 men:
1. Hans Suess
2. Harold Urey
Hans Suess was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909.
He eventually did his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1935 at the age of 26.
He eventually migrated to the United States where eventually he along with Harold Urey was one of the 4 founding faculty members of the University of California, San Deigo famously known as UCSD.
Harold Urey on the other hand was born in 1893 in the state of Indiana of the United States where eventually he too obtained his PhD in physical chemistry.
He occupied the position of research associate at the Johns Hopkins University and later become associate professor at Columbia University (both are extremely well funded in terms of research grants).
Both Urey and Suess were pioneers of a novel field called cosmochemistry which is the study of chemical composition of matter in the universe.
Meteorites are the most important means of such studies.
In fact, the most primitive meteorites that we have dated contain a fraction of presolar grains that are even older than the Solar System itself (which is around 4.6 billion years old like our earth).
These grains are derived directly from the remnants of supernovae that supplied the dust and debris from which our Solar System formed.
This abundance is or can be measured in 3 ways:
1. By mass-fraction
2. By mole-fraction
3. By volume-fraction
In mixed gases such as planetary atmospheres, volume fraction works well.
You must have a look at this alluring and engrossing human achievement with your own eyes.
It is as if some insignificant scum of a microbe in a tiny puddle has sorted out the composition of all the oceans of this planet.
Doesn't this fascinate you?
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
I wonder what the evil is scheming with his fiendish mind.
With a calamity staring right at his face, he is not the kind to sit
hand on his hands.
One move of his recently backfired and flopped.
Bedtime Story
I know it is tempting to rush on to Arthur Eddington when it comes to cosmology.
But I think it is still premature ad enough groundwork has not been laid down.
We need to go back to that abundance table.
That one which charted the abundance elements in the universe against the atomic numbers.
This fascinating table was created by 2 men:
1. Hans Suess
2. Harold Urey
Hans Suess was born in Vienna, Austria in 1909.
He eventually did his PhD in Chemistry from the University of Vienna in 1935 at the age of 26.
He eventually migrated to the United States where eventually he along with Harold Urey was one of the 4 founding faculty members of the University of California, San Deigo famously known as UCSD.
Harold Urey on the other hand was born in 1893 in the state of Indiana of the United States where eventually he too obtained his PhD in physical chemistry.
He occupied the position of research associate at the Johns Hopkins University and later become associate professor at Columbia University (both are extremely well funded in terms of research grants).
Both Urey and Suess were pioneers of a novel field called cosmochemistry which is the study of chemical composition of matter in the universe.
Meteorites are the most important means of such studies.
In fact, the most primitive meteorites that we have dated contain a fraction of presolar grains that are even older than the Solar System itself (which is around 4.6 billion years old like our earth).
These grains are derived directly from the remnants of supernovae that supplied the dust and debris from which our Solar System formed.
This abundance is or can be measured in 3 ways:
1. By mass-fraction
2. By mole-fraction
3. By volume-fraction
In mixed gases such as planetary atmospheres, volume fraction works well.
You must have a look at this alluring and engrossing human achievement with your own eyes.
It is as if some insignificant scum of a microbe in a tiny puddle has sorted out the composition of all the oceans of this planet.
Doesn't this fascinate you?
Stay tuned to the voice of an average storytelling chimpanzee or login at http://panarrans.blogspot.in/
Good night mon ami and my fellow cousin ape.
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