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New Theory of the Higgs Boson Could Explain Why Gravity Is So Weak
http://sci-techuniverse.blogspot.com/2016/08/new-theory-of-higgs-boson-could-explain.html

Something is seriously wrong with gravity, and nobody's quite sure why. The problem is that gravity is too weak.

A group of physicists who have developed an alternative theory to explain gravity. Their theory involves decaying particles and the Higgs boson. The Higgs
boson, discovered in 2012, is thought to be directly correlated to the strength of gravity. The more mass in the Higgs boson, the stronger gravity would
be for all matter in the universe. So essentially, the question "Why is gravity so weak?" is the same as, "Why doesn't the Higgs boson have more mass?"

The new theory attempts to answer that question by arguing that after the Big Bang, a bunch of different Higgs bosons were created, each with a different
mass. The Higgs bosons with large masses were unstable, so they decayed and broke apart into smaller Higgs bosons.

Karl Battams odpoledne nahodil dnešní snímek SOHO/LASCO s Jupiterem (vlevo) a Merkurem
(nejjasnější bod vpravo dole cca na 4 hodinách). Ale před chvilkou to někdo doplnil o
dráhové schéma. Moc zajímavé! (asynchronní skládanka)

http://www.newswise.com/articles/solar-system-could-have-evolved-from-poorly-mixed-elemental-soup
Chondrite meteorites contain a puzzling mismatch in isotopic composition with Earth's crust.
The mismatch puzzles scientists because they long believed that Earth formed from planetary
objects similar to meteorites. A new paper explains how this mismatch could have come about.

https://www.newscientist.com/...e/2106108-saturns-rings-may-be-from-the-whirl-of-a-passing-icy-rock/

Saturn’s rings might have formed when it ate a rotating icy rock that passed too close. This scenario could explain why Saturn’s rings
are made of different stuff from those of other gas giants.

Existing theories assume that rings form when objects such as asteroids or comets are pulverised by the gravity of a planet like Saturn.
But they fail to explain why Saturn’s rings are mostly water ice, while other gas giants’ are rocky, says Ryuki Hyodo at Kobe University in Japan.

Zooming in on the unusual active galaxy Markarian 1018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTlYzHQkGNk

Origin of minor planets’ rings revealed | Kobe University
http://www.kobe-u.ac.jp/en/NEWS/research/2016_09_16_01.html

A team of researchers has clarified the origin of the rings recently discovered around two minor planets known as centaurs, and their results
suggest the existence of rings around other centaurs. These findings were published on August 29 in Astrophysical Journal Letters, and
introduced in AAS Nova, a website for research highlights from the journals of the American Astronomical Society.

The lead author of the paper is HYODO Ryuki (Kobe University Department of Planetology, Graduate School of Science), and co-authors are Professor
Sébastien Charnoz (Institute de Physique du Globe/Université Paris Diderot), Project Associate Professor GENDA Hidenori (Earth-Life Science Institute,
Tokyo Institute of Technology), and Professor OHTSUKI Keiji (Kobe University Department of Planetology, Graduate School of Science).

Are Stellar Storms Bad News for M-Dwarf Planets?
http://aasnova.org/2016/09/14/are-stellar-storms-bad-news-for-m-dwarf-planets/

Coronal mass ejections (CMEs), enormous releases of energy from the Sun, can have significant space-weather implications for Earth. Do similar
storms from smaller stars — M dwarfs like V374 Peg, or the nearby Proxima Centauri — mean bad news for the planets that these stars host?

Was Earth Born With Life On It?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/startswithabang/2016/09/16/was-earth-born-with-life-on-it/#3a5a43d3de49

Most of Earth’s twins aren’t identical, or even close! – Starts With A Bang
http://scienceblogs.com/...swithabang/2013/06/05/most-of-earths-twins-arent-identical-or-even-close/

In fact, there are at minimum some 17 billion Earth-sized planets just in the disk of the Milky Way. But it takes a lot more than that to make a genuine twin of the Earth! Yes,
we’ve taken some amazing steps forward in the past few years, but let’s not lose sight of the ultimate goal here: to find another planet that harbors some type of advanced life.

After the first week in space, OSIRIS-REx has traveled 17 058 149 km and is 3 201 147 km from Earth.

Dante Lauretta

YaleNews | Ch-ch-ch-changes in a distant quasar
http://news.yale.edu/2016/09/15/ch-ch-ch-changes-distant-quasar

Yale astronomers Grant Tremblay and Meredith Powell are part of the first research team to document a “changing look”
quasar through a full cycle from dim to bright to dim again.

Quasars are the extremely bright cores found in some galaxies, powered by supermassive black holes.
Their brightness is believed to come from the hot material that falls into the black hole, a process called accretion.

“Thirty years ago this supermassive black hole very dramatically brightened, becoming a Type 1 quasar,” Tremblay said.
“We discovered this year that it has now dimmed again, making it the first such object to go ‘there and back again.’”

Two research studies of the object — galaxy Markarian 1018 — will appear in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
A portion of the data used in the studies comes from the Close AGN Reference Survey (CARS), a sampling of 40 nearby
Active Galactic Nuclei. Yale is a founding member institution of the survey.

Beginning of the end | Rosetta - ESA's comet chaser
http://blogs.esa.int/rosetta/2016/09/16/beginning-of-the-end/

Rosetta: the end is in sight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UobzGZH2VnE


2 WEEKS TO GO! Until Rosetta crash-lands on Comet 67P... & joins Philae...

Black Holes Are Nothing But Holograms, New Study Finds
http://sci-techuniverse.blogspot.com/2016/09/black-holes-are-nothing-but-holograms.html

A group of physicists led by Daniele Pranzetti from the Max Planck Institute for Theoretical Physics in Germany has now presented
a new approximation for the amount of entropy existing in a black hole, and their calculations support this situation.

The physicists were concentrating on the entropy - a physical property that encrypts how ordered, or disordered, something really is.
According to Stephen Hawking, the entropy of a black hole must be relative to its area, but not its volume, and this notion is what
encouraged the first thoughts about the probability of holographic black holes.

Joanne Kennel explains for The Science Explorer, said "Although there is some consensus in the scientific community that black holes
must have entropy or their existence would violate the second law of thermodynamics, no agreement has been reached about the origin
of this entropy, or how to calculate its value,"