2010 Winter Olympics

The Olympics are just around the corner and you would have to be blind to not see it. SO many people are looking forward the this years games. Rather too see Hockey, Snow Boarding, Sking, The Weird Broom Thing, and many more. I have always considered the Winter Olympics a bit more team oriented than the Summer. That’s Just my opinion though.

At the end of this blog are a couple of polls. MAKE SURE YOU FILL THEM OUT!!!!!! (nevermind)Now, their are many amassing contenders for the gold this year From America. Including Shaun White, Lindsey Vonn, Julie Chu, and That Speed Skating Dude That Beat Stephen Colbert. Watch them, see them, note their awesomeness, then watch Stephen Colbert make fun of their hard work.

Great Whites, shy or psychotic

It’s a warm sunny day and you and your friends are chilling out in the San Francisco Bay. No more aware of the Great White Sharks swimming under your friends are. You catch a glimpse of a dark shape under the surface of the water. You shrug it of as nothing, yet when you turn back around you see shape of black cast against the glittering green sea of what it really is. Shark, Shark, SHARK! You scream. You and your friends start to swim back to shore, the dark shape caring about you no more than you cared about that random black shape just a few minutes ago.

The batch of tagged sharks from the past 8 years set off a tracker in the San Francisco Bay that was being used to track salmon.This finally proved two things. The first is that sharks care no were near as much about humans as we thought. The other thing is that we finally proved that sharks have an extremely complex migration system instead of the usual idea that they travel seemingly at random. More people die from hitting deer with their car than shark attacks. don’t make such a big deal about sharks, they don’t care, why should you.

Riemann Hypothesis

It is the 150th anniversary of this problem. It, after not been solved in 150 years, has still not been deemed unsolvable. The easiest way to explain the theory would be PI(x). This theory is about prime numbers.  PI(x) means that there are a certain number of prime number that are under x which would be a positive number.For example, PI(10) would be 4 because the prime numbers 2,3,5, and 7 are under 10. This is the simplest way to explain it. It also has to do with complex numbers. The idea of complex numbers is that is -3,-2,-1,0,1,2,3  is the horizontal axis then the complex numbers -2i,-1i,0i,1i,2i would be the vertical axis. the whole plane is called a complex plane. This is a two-dimensional plane of numbers. All complex numbers can be represented in the form of a+bi, for real numbers we take b=0. “A function is a little black box that is u put a number into it spits a different number out.” If x is put into the box then what it spits out would look like f(x). To explain a function is rather simple. f(x)=x^2 is a rather simple function, it means that what ever you put in x, you get x^2 out. So f(3)=9, or f(6)=36. An example of a complex function would be  f(i)=-1 because the square root of -1 is i. The zeta function in the equation is one such complex function.(ζ is the zeta function) I really don’t understand the actual zeta function so im not going to explain it.

     “Now, a zero of a function is  a point a+bi where f(a+bi)=0. If f(x)=x2 then the only zero is obviously at 0, where f(0)=0. For the Riemann Zeta Function this is really confusing. It basically has two types of zeros: the trivial zeroes that occur at all negative even integers that is, -2, -4, -6, -8… and the nontrivial zeroes, which are all the OTHER ones. As far as we know, all the nontrivial zeroes occur at 1/2 + bi for some b. No others have been found in a lot of looking… but are they ALL like that? The Riemann Hypothesis suggests that they are. But as I said earlier nobody has been able to prove it.”

 In 2000 it was announced that clay institute would give $1 million to whoever solved it. Riemann Hypothesis is in fact one of the seven millenia problems. It would revolutionize the world because of the fact that most encryption’s are based on the fact that there is no simple way to find/count prime numbers. He discovered was a way of using the properties of a relatively simple function to count the primes.

Karl Friedrich Gauss discovered that prime numbers are sparser the father you go out. They follow a simple logarithmic law and he didn’t know why. Riemann was a student of Gauss and took up the prime number distribution in his only number theory paper. Einstein based his theory of graviton on this. I just think that all of the world would greatly change if this was proven.

many thanks to the website http://qntm.org/?riemann for providing the formulas previously mentioned.

Lapetus’s Bane

     For many years now, scientists have wondered why Saturn’s moon Lapetus has both a light and dark side. It was recently discovered that Saturn has an eighth major ring around it. apparently the moon has been running into the ring on one side causing that side to be covered in a layer of dust. The ring is theorised to have been created by Saturn’s other moon Phoebe. It was long theorised that the white and black side of Lapetus had something to do with Phoebe, only now is it proven.

     The dust and debris from Phoebe crashing into comets and asteroids have created the ring. The only way we where able to see it was with a thermal telescope that was recently launched. it is currently in orbit around the sun. The scientific breakthrough that is this ring may be beyond imagination. But the great’s thing about science is that there is always something new.

Marvel Buyout

     As you may know Marvel has been sold to Disney for 4 billion dollars. THis could turn to be a blessing or a curse. They may keep it the same and even help overall. Yet, we could be looking at a future of M.O.D.U.C.K., spider mouse, and many, many more. They could taint the darkness that surrounds marvel with a childish cheer, or dabble further into the dark.

     Some say that a Marvel, Pixar collaboration on the new iron man movie coming out in may will reap in rewards and I agree. But at what price? This might be huge or it might fail, and i mean fail miserably. All we can do is wait and find out. The buyout could go ether way, so all we can do is hope.

Cyberthieves

Recently, people have been using Facebook and twitter to gain a profit. What they do is on Facebook they befriend you. Once tour friend they trick u into giving away information to false web sites. The way they do this is perhaps a simple message or video. Who knows maybe your friend needs help. That’s all it takes just one click.

What cyber thieves  do on twitter is a bit easier to catch. They create false twitter web sites in order to trick viewers into ,again, giving away information.While this has always been going on, it is starting to become a lot more frequent. Not to mention that about 70% of all information attempts work. So remember to make sure you know what you’re doing on social networking sites, be it face book, MySpace, twitter, or anything else.

Raptorex Kriegstieni

A new fossil has been found in China. Nick-named The Mini T-Rex, the Raptorex Kriegstieni looks exactly like the T. Rex. Except it’s only nine feet tall!It weighed about 150 pounds and most likely hunted pig-like creatures. It may very well discredit many theory’s about the T. Rex’s evolution.

The reason I find this so amazing is that I belive that the Mini T. Rex is what the T. Rex evolved from. Meaning that most, if not all, theory’s of the evolution of the T. Rex are disproven. It’s back to square one in a way. For all we know the mini T. Rex could of slowly encreased in size for 35 million years until it was 40 feet high and weighed 10,000 pounds. Anything could have happened and thats whats amazing.

Amelia ( Air Heart)

First off about the title, I  know that’s not her real name.  It’s a joke. Amelia was a self described “vagabond of air”. By this she ment that she wanted to wander the air and never settle in one place. She truly did love to fly and wanted to show everyone just what she could do.

First women to fly passenger across the Atlantic. First women to pilot across the Atlantic. First person to fly from Hawaii to California. First person to fly across the Atlantic twice. All these titles belonged to her. A truly courageous  women. I mean courages, not foolish. The diffrence is that she knew she might not come back on her around the world flight. truly a great women.

Economic rivals

Modern China, just 60 years in the making and already closing in on the U.S. for economic superiority. The cause of this explosive economic growth is  the free market reforms that Deng Xiaoping introduced. Such economic prominence is unusual in a communist country. Yet China makes it work. I belive the other reason for this is the trade deficit we share with China.

     I also believe that the chineese are much more focused on academics than we are. For example, in the article we read a family had placed all hopes for a better life in their son Jiao Yuqiao. Now, I understand this, but I really think thats a lot of preasure for Yuqiao. What if he fails to get into the best highschool?Ifthey put ALL their hopes in him then they might lose ALL that hope souly form preasure of not failing.

courts new member

Now I’m sure that judge Sonia is a good judge and will make a great addition to  the supreme court. The only reason that I don’t like her is that the primary reason she was chosen was because she is Hispanic. Now I’m not racist, and if she was the most qualified judge out of all who could be nominated then I would have no problem with her, but she isn’t. There are judges that could have been a better choice but weren’t because they either weren’t minorities or women. That to me is racist and sexiest still pointing them out from the crowd as different, even if it’s in a good light.

Sure it may not be the way you our your friends our the whole world looks at it but it’s what I believe. Now, I admit that while she may have not (in my opinion) be the best choise. She is most certainly a good one. While I may wish someone else was chosen. I still think she will do great things in here time at the supreme court. And that is the truth.