![]() ![]() DIAMONDS AND RUST FULLWork-wise, it was an interesting start, full of workshops with the customer, but life-wise was a bit boring, since everything had closed down for Ramadan. It was nice to visit a new place, a new island in this archipelago. We were supposed to leave for Makassar (or newly known as Ujung Pandang, situated in the Sulawesi island) on the evening of September 10th, so I transferred my baggage and all into SC's room, and just took one week's stuff with me. IT'S THE SAME BAND THAT PLAYS AT OSCAR (jl. I’ll probably study more, and ponder more upon these in the days to come.ĬANDLES & CAKE AT JAYA PUB, AND GANJIL, ROCKIN' THEIR WAY THRU THE NIGHT. ![]() What are the fourth or higher dimensions? How do they ‘look’?.Is this Universe real? Is it really the way as seen and perceived by us? Or is it just built on uncertainty, as happens when we go to the sub-atomic levels?.What’s Astrology, which is based upon the idea that planetary and stellar positions (all of which are hundreds, thousands or millions of light years apart) play a crucial role in determining the life of a human being living in a planet called Earth?.I believe in the Supreme, but what exactly is it? How does it handle such a huge cosmos? How does it look after the billions times billions living beings (if not the ones living across all the planets in this Universe), and the factors, interconnections and inter-relationships that affect their lives?.The most common one: on existence of life and intelligence elsewhere.The above facts give rise to varying thoughts – It’s hard, really hard, to think of such a vastness. The Universe consists of around a hundred billion (100,000,000,000) galaxies and a hundred billion stars within each of them. We are talking about just two stars here, and that too, within the same Milky Way galaxy. However, rather more importantly, these figures give a fair idea of what a vast void exists between our Solar System and the one closest to it. (A number of faster travel mechanisms have been proposed here, although none of them could be tried out yet. Technically, it is impossible for any machinery or being to last for this period of over 60,000 years, and that’s the greatest difficulty faced by interstellar travel. Unfortunately, its machinery would continue to work only till 2020, i.e. Voyager-I, which was launched in September 1977, has pushed into deep space, and with its current travel speed, would take 72,000 years to reach Proxima Centauri. Till now, the fastest spacecraft ever having escaped from Earth’s surface is the Pluto-bound New Horizons (launched in January 2006), with a speed of around 75,000 km/hr. This is an overwhelming number, quite difficult to perceive, given normal scales of distance in human imagination. Now, the distance between Sun and Proxima Centauri is 4.22 light years, which is therefore –Ĥ.22 x 300,000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 kms = 39,924,576,000,000 kms the distance traveled by light in one year) amounts to 300,000 x 60 x 60 x 24 x 365 kms. Hence, given a normal non-leap year, a light year (i.e. ![]() Hence in one minute it travels 300,000 x 60 kms. The distance between the two can be calculated in the following manner: Proxima Centauri, belonging to a small cluster of three stars, is the nearest star to the Sun. ![]()
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