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Srinagar: Opposition National Conference on Thursday criticised ruling PDP-BJP government for their "surrender" on the demand seeking the return of power projects to the State and asked Chief Minister to clear the air in unambiguous terms.
"This is yet another instance where the Central Government has, without any pretence, absolved itself of any promises that were made in the 'Agenda of the Alliance' between the PDP and BJP. What makes this even more tragic is the silence of PDP and especially the Chief Minister," NC State spokesperson said in the statement.
"It was none other than PDP Vice President Muzaffar Baigh who questioned the very existence of the 'Agenda of the Alliance' and such brazen abandonment of the document and the promises it enshrined by no less a figure of authoring than a Union Minister clearly exposed PDP and proves beyond any doubt that the party had no ideological or public-interest-driven agenda to cobble up an alliance with the BJP – something that was done for the singular purpose of first making Mufti Sahab and then Mehbooba Mufti the Chief Minister," he said.
The spokesman said the party demands an immediate and clear answer from the Chief Minister where she should either accept that she has befooled the people of the State or a rebuttal to the Union Minister for his remarks. "Mehbooba Ji should understand that she can't have the cake and eat it too. She can't sell out the interests of the State to remain glued to power while donning the persona of a rebel. These are glaring contradictions – contradictions which have wreaked havoc with the State and fuelled an unprecedented level of alienation and disenchantment. You made these promises to the youth of the State, even fought elections on these planks and now when your alliance partner-led Government in New Delhi has categorically abandoned all these promises, PDP has left the youth disillusioned not only with itself but also the system of governance as a whole", he said.


"I chose a secret triangle for which the lengths of its sides are all integers.
To you my dear son Charlie, I am giving the triangle's perimeter. And to you, my beloved daughter Ariella, I am giving its area.
Since you are both such talented mathematicians, I'm sure that together you can find the lengths of the triangle's sides."
Instead of working together, Charlie and Ariella had the following conversation after their father gave each of them the information he promised.
Charlie: "Alas, I cannot deduce the lengths of the sides from my knowledge of the perimeter."
Ariella: "I do not know the perimeter, but I cannot deduce the lengths of the sides from just knowing the area. Maybe our father is right and we should cooperate after all."
Charlie: "Oh no, no need. Now I know the lengths of the sides."
Ariella: "Well, now I know them as well."
For this month's challenge, find the lengths of the triangle's sides and explain the dialogue above.


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Het hofje werd in 1901 (de huizen aan de voorzijde langs de Haarlemmerstraat) en 1909 (de huizen aan de achterzijde) opnieuw volledig afgebroken en weer herbouwd. Dit gebeurde onder leiding van Jan Filippo Hzn. De laatste renovatie vond plaats in 1983/84 en het hofje bestaat nu uit 15 huurwoningen.

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https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2020/08/nists-samurai-measures-5g-communications-channels-precisely
NIST's SAMURAI Measures 5G Communications Channels Precisely
Engineers Rodney Leonhardt, Alec Weiss and Jeanne Quimby with NIST's SAMURAI, a portable measurement system to support design and repeatable laboratory testing of 5G wireless communications devices with unprecedented accuracy.
Credit: M. Hammer/NIST
Engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a flexible, portable measurement system to support design and repeatable laboratory testing of fifth-generation (5G) wireless communications devices with unprecedented accuracy across a wide range of signal frequencies and scenarios.
The system is called SAMURAI, short for Synthetic Aperture Measurements of Uncertainty in Angle of Incidence. The system is the first to offer 5G wireless measurements with accuracy that can be traced to fundamental physical standards — a key feature because even tiny errors can produce misleading results. SAMURAI is also small enough to be transported to field tests.
Mobile devices such as cellphones, consumer Wi-Fi devices and public-safety radios now mostly operate at electromagnetic frequencies below 3 gigahertz (GHz) with antennas that radiate equally in all directions. Experts predict 5G technologies could boost data rates a thousandfold by using higher, "millimeter-wave" frequencies above 24 GHz and highly directional, actively changing antenna patterns. Such active antenna arrays help to overcome losses of these higher-frequency signals during transmission. 5G systems also send signals over multiple paths simultaneously — so-called spatial channels — to increase speed and overcome interference.
Many instruments can measure some aspects of directional 5G device and channel performance. But most focus on collecting quick snapshots over a limited frequency range to provide a general overview of a channel, whereas SAMURAI provides a detailed portrait. In addition, many instruments are so physically large that they can distort millimeter-wave signal transmissions and reception.
Described at a conference on August 7, SAMURAI is expected to help resolve many unanswered questions surrounding 5G's use of active antennas, such as what happens when high data rates are transmitted across multiple channels at once. The system will help improve theory, hardware and analysis techniques to provide accurate channel models and efficient networks.
"SAMURAI provides a cost-effective way to study many millimeter-wave measurement issues, so the technique will be accessible to academic labs as well as instrumentation metrology labs," NIST electronics engineer Kate Remley said. "Because of its traceability to standards, users can have confidence in the measurements. The technique will allow better antenna design and performance verification, and support network design."
SAMURAI measures signals across a wide frequency range, currently up to 50 GHz, extending to 75 GHz in the coming year. The system got its name because it measures received signals at many points over a grid or virtual "synthetic aperture." This allows reconstruction of incoming energy in three dimensions — including the angles of the arriving signals — which is affected by many factors, such as how the signal's electric field reflects off of objects in the transmission path.
SAMURAI can be applied to a variety of tasks from verifying the performance of wireless devices with active antennas to measuring reflective channels in environments where metallic objects scatter signals. NIST researchers are currently using SAMURAI to develop methods for testing industrial Internet of Things devices at millimeter-wave frequencies.
The basic components are two antennas to transmit and receive signals, instrumentation with precise timing synchronization to generate radio transmissions and analyze reception, and a six-axis robotic arm that positions the receive antenna to the grid points that form the synthetic aperture. The robot ensures accurate and repeatable antenna positions and traces out a variety of reception patterns in 3D space, such as cylindrical and hemispherical shapes. A variety of small metallic objects such as flat plates and cylinders can be placed in the test setup to represent buildings and other real-world impediments to signal transmission. To improve positional accuracy, a system of 10 cameras is also used to track the antennas and measure the locations of objects in the channel that scatter signals.
The system is typically attached to an optical table measuring 5 feet by 14 feet (1.5 meters by 4.3 meters). But the equipment is portable enough to be used in mobile field tests and moved to other laboratory settings. Wireless communications research requires a mix of lab tests — which are well controlled to help isolate specific effects and verify system performance — and field tests, which capture the range of realistic conditions.
Measurements can require hours to complete, so all aspects of the (stationary) channel are recorded for later analysis. These values include environmental factors such as temperature and humidity, location of scattering objects, and drift in accuracy of the measurement system.
The NIST team developed SAMURAI with collaborators from the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado. Researchers have verified the basic operation and are now incorporating uncertainty due to unwanted reflections from the robotic arm, position error and antenna patterns into the measurements.
Paper: A. Weiss, J. Quimby , R. Leonhardt , B. Jamroz , D. Williams , K. Remley , P. Vouras, and A. Elsherbeni. Setup and Control of a Millimeter-Wave Synthetic Aperture Measurement System with Uncertainties. Paper presented Aug. 7, 2020, at the 95th ARFTG Microwave Measurement Conference.
Advanced communications, Wireless (RF), Electronics, Information technology, Internet of Things (IoT), Metrology and Standards
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Released August 10, 2020, Updated December 27, 2022

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Another iconic piece of the Arflex sofa collection is Ben Ben designed in 2009 by Cini Boeri. This Arflex sofa recalls the structure of the Bengodi model from 1974 but modernises its look. Ben Ben is a modular sofa, characterised by big cushions that soften the seating and back support areas. Ben Ben Curvo was also designed in the same year. The distinctive feature of this product is the curved back, that creates a relaxing little haven. Whether one opts for the normal or curved variant of this sofa, both offer utmost comfort, a fact confirmed by the architect herself who said: "I can assure you that if you sit down and place the cushion behind your back, you will fall asleep immediately".
The Arflex chairs have been designed by some of the greatest international designers. They feature both classic designs, such as Bliss (that comes with or without armrests) and more playful modern designs such as the Virgola chair.
An iconic piece is the Arflex chair Fiorenza, designed by Franco Albini in 1952 and is still today an incredible emblem of modernity and comfort. The Fiorenza chair suits every environment, from the bedroom, to the studio and living room. The classic and timeless features of this chair can be combined with every style. Albini himself stated that the chair was inspired by the traditional French bergère armchair. Fiorenza exemplifies the greatness of Albini's designs by demonstrating his ability to take a conventional armchair model and transform it into an entirely new product, contemporary but still incredibly familiar.
Another original Arflex chair is the Algon High Backrest, designed in 2016 by Luca Nichetto. This chair, covered with a soft quilted upholstery, was designed to provide comfort and privacy. The Algon chair is available with high or low sides and is ideal for reading or meditation.


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The Macalope Weekly: Executive business
[Editors' Note: Each week the Macalope skewers the worst of the week's coverage of Apple and other technology companies. In addition to being a mythical beast, the Macalope is not an employee of Macworld. As a result, the Macalope is always free to criticize any media organization. Even ours.]
Sad news this week as Apple announces that Steve Jobs will be taking an extended medical leave of absence. The Macalope wishes him the best and wants him to know that if he needs anyone to provide cutting replies to his e-mail while he's out, the horny one is more than willing to step in. While Jobs's leave had a negative effect on Apple's stock, shares of "idle, wild speculation" were up, up, up. Then, just like with Android and the iPhone, Google did its best to copy Apple. Seems kind of silly to the Macalope, but nothing's sillier than Gawker's "reporting."
A failure of imagination
Farhad Manjoo at Slate thinks daddy's gone out for cigarettes and isn't coming back. Why? Having delivered the iPhone and iPad…
What more is there left for Jobs to do?
Truth be told, the Macalope has wondered the very same thing. The three Holy Grails of Apple myth were the set-top box, the phone, and the tablet. Jobs Apple has delivered all three. What's left?
That's it! Shut it down! It was a nice ride! Everyone remember to tip your server!
Right. Look, the Macalope has no insight into Jobs's state of mind. He doesn't know if Jobs is easing his way out the door permanently any more than Manjoo does.
But the mythical and fuzzy one would advise that it's a mistake to underestimate Jobs's drive and vision. Will he be back? Jobs himself may not know the answer to that right now. Speculation at this point is nothing more than wankery in the third degree.
Anything you can do I can do better
If the Jobs announcement struck fear into the hearts of the frightened kittens of the investment community, they were reassured somewhat by Apple's quarterly numbers.
The timing was a good, if obvious, ploy by Apple. Anyone knows that when someone asks if you want the good news or the bad news first, you always take the bad news. The "Jobs takes medical leave" headline was quickly replaced by headlines like "Apple retakes mobile OS lead, ships 366k iOS devices a day", "Apple now largest mobile phone provider by revenue" and "Anne Hathaway to play Catwoman in next Batman movie."
Whoops, wrong tab.
Not to be outdone, Google decided to play musical plush-executive chairs this week, too. Days after Apple announced Jobs's extended leave, Google announced that Eric Schmidt was being demoted up and co-founder Larry Page would be taking over as CEO.
Guys, guys, guys! This isn't a competition!
Well, it is, but you know what the Macalope means.
As John Gruber noted, however, it's a weird competition.
It's a weird rivalry because Google people like Macs, iPhones, iPads; Apple people like Google search, Gmail, Maps, YouTube.
This is true. You know who gets hurt the most when mommy and daddy fight, right?
Next up: who's gay?!
People who out people…
Are the crap-piest people…
In the worlllllllllld…
So, congratulations to Gawker and Ryan Tate for maintaining a consistent low in technology journalism by (apparently) outing an Apple executive as gay. The Macalope's not providing a link (you can find it yourself if you absolutely must know) and he's not going to mention the executive's name.
Which is a terrible disservice to Macworld readers because if there's one thing that people need to know, it's the sexual orientation of all the executives of the company that makes their phone or their computer.
Gawker includes some pertinent stats on the executive such as age (baby boomer), wealth (really, really wealthy), background (working class) and sexual orientation (GAY, GAY, GAY, OMG HE'S GAY).
[the executive], a famously quiet and collected person, will find his backstory, both personal and professional, the topic of increasing interest and discussion in the tech community.
Particularly by bottom-feeding gossip hounds like Gawker.
A former college classmate described him as "not a real social person…He just never seemed that interested in other people. I'm a hugger and a kisser, but I'd never feel comfortable giving [the executive] a hug or a kiss."
That's it! The Macalope's switching to a company with more demonstrative executives!
If [the executive] is in a long term partnership, he's kept it well hidden.
Nothing in his garbage gave us a clue as to who he might be dating.
Given his brutal work schedule, though, it's hard to imagine how he'd find time.
Golly, somehow the straight executives seem to do it. Maybe not very well, but they do it.
Seriously, try to imagine any of this being written about a straight executive. What year is it? Where is the news value in this story? OK, sure, it's kind of a dumb question to ask about a Gawker piece, but this is beyond trolling for hits. It's discriminatory and it's a childish invasion of someone's privacy. "Next up on Gawker: Andy Rubin's kids! We'll corner one at the playground and see if we can make him cry!"
Frankly, the Macalope has no idea if Google's Rubin has kids because, like the sexual orientation of Apple executives, he just doesn't care.
The most gag-inducing part—where Gawker tries to play executive matchmaker—is not fit to be quoted. If you're the kind of person who likes to imagine these highly competent professionals as all going to the same high school (which you go to, too!), then, by all means, go read the piece. The article is even set up like a yearbook entry—"Romantic interests", "Darkest moment", "The future" (seriously)—which kind of makes sense, considering Gawker has all the gravitas of a yearbook committee.
If the tech world really is one big high school, Gawker is that creepy kid who just stares at you a lot without saying anything and then one day, when you're having trouble getting into your locker, blurts out "It's 17-32-28."


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Carroll Maida Neal, a devoted and caring mother, wife, sister, grandmother, great grandmother, and member of the Lutheran church, passed away on Thursday, November 26th at the age of 87.
Carroll was born on December 14, 1932 in Lanesville, IN. She received her bachelor's degree from Wittenberg University where she met the love of her life. She married Richard E. Neal August 25, 1956. They raised four children together, Bruce, Laura, John, and Mary, in the St. Thomas Lutheran parsonage in Charles Town, WV.
She was known for her dedication and service to the Lutheran church. She was a long-time member and organist at St. Thomas Lutheran in Charles Town, WV where her husband was the pastor for 46 years. After their formal retirement from St. Thomas, Carroll became a member at St. John's Lutheran in Martinsburg, WV where she continued to volunteer and serve her community. She worked and retired from the Old Opera House in Charles Town, WV where she was a member of the Theater Guild.
Carroll was an avid reader, master knitter, and known for creating smorgasbord-style meals for her large family. She lived a life in service of others and always made everyone feel loved. Her calm and reassuring presence made others feel safe and welcomed.
Carroll is preceded in death by her husband, Richard E. Neal. She is survived by her children Bruce Neal (Charlestown, IN), Laura Neal (Shepherdstown, WV), John Neal and his wife, Valerie (Knoxville, TN), and Mary Duvall (Stephens City, VA). She is also survived by her grandchildren, Brad, Jason, and Stephen Neal; Caroline, Benjamin, Madalyn, and Natalie Neal; Sarah and Jack Duvall; and survived by her three great grandchildren. She is survived by her two sisters, Venita Bruns and her husband, Bob (Allison, IA), and Noreta Bergstrom (LaGrange, IN).
A celebration of Carroll's life will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to St. John's Lutheran Church at 101 West Martin Street, Martinsburg, WV 25401, St. Thomas Lutheran Church at 119 South Seminary Street, Charles Town, WV 25414 or The Old Opera House, 204 North George Street, Charles Town, WV 25414.
Arrangements are by the Melvin T. Strider Colonial Funeral Home, Charles Town.
Please sign the online guestbook and view her obituary at www.mtstrider.com.


Our Question-Answer Series is now 10 years old. We wish to thank all our readers for their continued support and encouragement. Our first issue can be accessed here and an Overview of all our issues can be found here.
I wish to thank you for your wonderful teachings in the "Art of Shaolin Kungfu". After nine years of study I realized that the purpose of purifying the mind is to attain Enlightenment. I now understand that the essence of mind or Suchness is the real Buddha. Thanks to Hui Neng the Chineese Buddha and Fifth Patriarch. Once Suchness is known, one is free from delusion and one's mind is in a state of Thusness. Thanks to the Diamond Sutra of the Fifth Patriarch.
I am glad of your realization that the purpose of purifying the mind is to attain Enlightenment. This is the supreme attainment. But even far before this supreme attainment, we can have many benefits from purifying the mind, like having right understanding, having mental clarity and freshness, and being peaceful and happy.
The first three patriarchs stayed at the Shaolin Temple in Henan Province. The 4th Patriarch, Dao Yin, moved south to the Dongshan Temple in Hubei Province. Hui Neng moved further south to Guangdong Province and taught in nemerous famous temples, but his main base was the Baolin Temple.
From Bodhidharma to Hui Neng, the master designated his successor. Hence, there were designated patriarchs. But Hui Neng did not designate a particular successor. He had thousands of students, 47 of whom were masters. Hui Neng asked them to spread Zen. Hence there were no designated patriarchs after him.
The first three Zen patriarchs used the Lankavatara Sutra as the main text in their teachings. But the 4th Patriarch used the Diamond Sutra because it was already popular in the distrcit where he taught. Both the Lankavatara Sutra and the Diamond Sutra were the direct oral teaching of the Buddha, and later written down in words by great masters. The Platform Sutra was the direct oral teaching of Hui Neng, and writtern down in words by his disciples.
I have a three year old spine/back injury. As a result my lower and mid spine are pulled off center, affecting my sciatic nerve and overtime became a problem for spine alignment. Is there a form of marital arts or qigong that can correct such a spine/back injury?
Yes, many of my students have overcome problems like yours. I shall describe just two case-histories, which were more serious than yours, one case many years ago when I first started teaching chi kung publicly, and the other more recently when I taught chi kung overseas.
Mr Chua from Malaysia, about 70 years old, had a spine injury that made him look pathetic. He was doubly bent. If you looked at him from one side, he was constantly bent forward at an angle of about 30 degrees at his upper back. He could never stand upright. If you look at him from the front, his body was constantly shifted to the right at the chest level.
At that time I taught chi kung in regular classes, i.e. once a week for a course of six months. My teaching then was vastly different from what and how I am teaching now. I taught many patterns, the Eighteen Lohan Hands, mainly at the physcial level, and students had to repeat each pattern many times. After repeating a few patterns many times for about four or five months, students were able to generate a chi flow.
To get the best benefit from my teaching, Mr Chua attended both my classes at Georgetown and Bukit Mertajam, though I taught the same material at these two towns. After completing one course, he would repeat the same course. He also practiced twice a day at home, as advised by me. His diligent practice paid off well. About a year later, his deformities disappeared. He became pain free and was able to happily stand upright.
This happened about 20 years ago, but I can remember his case very well. He is an inspiration. Not only he overcame his problems but he demonstrated great faith in the ability of chi kung to overcome what modern medicine considers an impossible task.
The second case was more recent, when my teaching methodology had improved tremendously. Over the years I mproved from teaching 18 patterns in 6 months to teaching just 3 patterns in 8 hours, and students could generate a chi flow within the 8 hours instead of after 4 or 5 months as before! The speed-up was in the teaching. Students still needed to practice daily for a few months before their illness was overcome.
Many students overcame back and spine problems. One such student was Vincente from Servilla, Spain. His vertebrae were fused, and he could not turn nor bend his body. He moved like a robot.
Vintente attended my one-day chi kung course and went into vigorous chi flow movements that could have shocked his specialist doctor. While in chi flow he would bend forward and backward with sounds as if bones were crashing. Nevertheless he felt fine during the chi flows. After about 9 months his vertebra problem disappeared. He could move about like a normal person!
His doctor was surprised. She said that this could not happen, but it did. so she herself took a course from me to find out, and was much impressed. Needless to say, many of Vincente's friends who had similar problems took my courses too.
In your Shaolin Kung Fu book when you explain the art of thirty punches, you mention it is important not to move your body, especially your shoulder. A bit earlier in the One Finger Shooting Zen section, you say it is important not to raise your shoulder.
So I suppose I'm just looking for some clarification. If I punch full force and try to keep all of the muscles relaxed that aren't necessary for the punching motion, I find that the momentum of my arm will carry my shoulder forward a bit. Also, I would push my shoulder forward a bit to try to extend the reach of the punch and perhaps add some power. Is this wrong?
It is not a matter of right or wrong here, but a matter of choosing the best method for the purpose. If you are practicing a physical exercise, the way you punch is not wrong. Indeed, many martial artists, especially those who practice external arts, favor to punch the way you described because it gives them more reach and body weight.
But for internal force training, the method you described is not suitable because it obstructs smooth energy flow. The method we use in Shaolin Wahnam is like what I described in my books on "Thrity Punches" and "One-Finger Shooting Zen" where we do not move our body and do not raise our shoulder. This method enables internal force to flow smoothly from our "dan tian" to our punch or finger where we wish to explode force.
I find that not to let my shoulder move forward at all I have to lock my shoulder down and back by clenching my upper back muscles. Is this what I should be doing?
No, what you do here is not only incorrect but also harmful. Locking your shoulder and clenching your upper back muscles, or any muscles, cause energy blockage.
An internal force practitioner relaxes his muscles, yet he is very powerful. Indeed, the more relaxed he is, the more powerful he becomes. It is difficult for those not exposed to internal force training to appreciate this.
Internal force training needs to be learnt personally from a master, not from a book or video. Training internal force wrongly can bring a lot of harmful side-effects, and it is easy for you to train wrongly if you do not learn personally from a master.
Is this just for the exercise or is this the way all punches should be performed in an actual combat situation?
We in Shaolin Wahnam perform in actual combat exactly the way we train. This is only logical.
It is ridiculous if you train in one way but use another way in combat. Yet a lot of kungfu practitioners, including some masters, are doing exactly this, i.e. they use kungfu techniques in training but use Kick-Boxing techniques in combat.
I have been taught before that to attain maximum power you should rotate your entire upper body. Do you not train that rotation?
If you are referring to internal force, you have been taught wrongly. Indeed, many practitioners, including some masters, have this mis-conception. They probably misunderstood two important principles in internal froce training, namely rotating the waist and exploding energy from the "dan tian".
"Rotating the waist" means rotating the waist; it does not mean rotating the entire upper body. The waist rotation helps to explode internal force from the "dan tian". Later, when an internal martial art practitioner is skillful, he needs not rotate his waist to explode internal force.
As they did not learn the technique personally from a qualified teacher, some people attempt to rotate their waist by turning their shoulders. This adds mechanical strength to their punches but not internal force. But the power from mechanical strength is nothing close to the power from internal force.
One-Finger Shooting Zen is a treasure of Shaolin Wahnam. During his US tour in December 2006 at the scenic Arches National Park in Moab Utah, Grandmaster Wong was inspired by the beautiful scene to perform One-Finger Shoot Zen in the snow.
In the case of the On-Finger Shooting Zen, is it okay to let your shoulder slide forward as long as it does not raise upward?
For a practitioner who has internal force, it does not matter whether or not his shoulder slides forward or raises upward. In either case he still has internal force in his One-Finger Shooting Zen, although his result is better if his shoulder is still. Nevertheless, while he practiced One-Finger Shoot Zen to develop internal force, he had to keep his shoulder still, i.e. neither sliding forward nor raising upward.
For you, it also does not matter whether your shoulder slides forward or raises upward. In either case you still have no internal force in your One-Finger Shooting Zen. As a rough analogy, if you have money in your bank, it does not matter whether your shoulder slides forward or raises upward when you write a cheque. You will still get your money, although you will probably feel more comfortable when your shoulder is relaxed. But if you have no money in your bank, it also does not matter whether your shoulder slides forward or raises upward. In either case, you will not get any money from the bank.
I have clearly warned that internal force has to be learnt from a qualified teacher, and that practicing on your own without proper supervision is likely to bring harmful side-effects. Not only you do not heel my warning, you even change the training method I have mentioned in my books. You know that it is important not to move your body, yet you purposely move your shoulder forward. I would strongly advice you to stop training internal force on your own because the attitude you have is very likely to cause you a lot of trouble.
As a general rule, how should your carry your shoulders?
I suppose this is a confusing question because the shoulders can refer to more than one thing. I was told that you should sort of cave in the chest, and bring the shoulders to the forward side of the body like you are pushing a heavy object, but it is still possible to lock the actual shoulder joint back and down to prevent movement.
Yours is not a confusing question. In fact, it is very clear that you are heading for a lot of trouble if you cave in your chest and carry your shoulders forward like pushing a heavy object.


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The Orthodox Church is the original Church without any changes. It holds the same faith that the Apostles lived. That same faith is the one that the Apostles received from Christ Himself. After Christ's resurrection, He spent forty days with His disciples "speaking of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God" (Acts 1:3). These things were not recorded in the Bible, but were handed down to us through the Tradition. God tells us to "Hold fast what you have" (Revelation 3:11)
St. Paul charges his disciple St. Timothy saying "And the things that you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit these to faithful men who will be able to teach others also" (2 Timothy 2:2). And again he says "Hold fast the pattern of sound words which you have heard from me, in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. That good thing which was committed to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us." (2 Timothy 1:13-14). This is why the Orthodox Church is a Traditional one, because it holds dear the Tradition that was handed down from Christ.
The Orthodox Church never changed its faith, but has changed the expression of faith in order to refute certain heresies. For example, the Nicene Creed wasn't available to the first Christians. This doesn't mean that they didn't believe it. They lived it, but they just didn't have it written down in that form. It wasn't until later on when heresies came up that the need to articulate the Christian Creed arose.
It is worthy to note as well that the term "Orthodox" is derived from two words: "Ortho" = straight or correct, and "Dox" = to glorify. Thus the term "Orthodox" means "The straight/correct way for glorifying God."
The Orthodox Church holds the original faith as handed down from Christ. It is an Apostolic and Traditional Church.
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JERUSALEM (JTA) — Residents of Migron say they have reached an agreement with the Israeli government on relocating the illegal West Bank outpost.
The residents reportedly have agreed to have the community relocated to government land on a nearby hill.
In return, they have requested that the current homes not be razed until their new homes are built and that the land remain under Israeli civilian control. They also have called for a court ruling on the status of the land, which is claimed by Palestinian landowners.
Migron is slated under an Israeli Supreme Court order to be razed by the end of March. The residents and the state reportedly have agreed to an 18-month timeline to evacuate the outpost.
About 50 families live in the outpost, which is located some 14 miles north of Jerusalem.


Having an opening that you know inside-out as a response to White's first move gives you a very good chance of success – but it does make you easy to prepare for.
That's why every competitive player needs a range of openings they can choose from depending on factors like their opponent's style or preferred openings. For instance, if your opponent likes playing against the Slav and wants to play for a draw, hit them with the Dutch Stonewall!
This Queens Pawn bundle gives you a comprehensive repertoire against 1.d4, covering the Slav, the Nimzo-Indian, Bogo-Indian and the Stonewall Defenses. Don't let the name "Defenses" fool you – each of these openings has very powerful attacking opportunities so you can play for the win!
With expert analysis and explanations from 4 GMs, you will gain a complete understanding of the strategic aims and attacking formations for both colors in each opening so you always know what to play.
As useful for White as it is for Black, "Empire Chess Queen Pawn Openings" gives you a world class 1.d4 repertoire for life.
"Dominate with the Slav Defense" covers the strong variation with 4….a6, also known as the Chebanenko Variation or Chameleon Variation. The first four clips cover sidelines which are not dangerous to Black but are played frequently at tournament level – knowing how to respond will give you a great early advantage! In the second part of the DVD we get into the main lines with 5. c5 and 5. e3. These variations lead to complex play where either side can make a mistake so knowing the precise move orders is critical for success.You will reap the rewards from studying this DVD a few times to understand all of the main ideas and subtle concepts.
GM Lemos shares his experience of playing the Nimzo-Indian (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4) at GM tournaments in this DVD, giving you a complete understanding of this aggressive opening. FM Will Stewart clarifies the key points and breaks down critical concepts for beginner and intermediate audiences. With over 2 hours of explanations and analysis, ¨Crushing White – The Nimzo-Indian Defense¨ will arm you with a great weapon to win with as Black.
The Bogo-Indian Defense (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Bb4 ) forms a powerful repertoire when combined with the Nimzo-Indian and, in this 75 minute DVD, GM Lemos gives his insight into how Black should play to wrestle the initiative from White and play the game on his own terms. With the emphasis on understanding the strategic concepts instead of memorizing long lines, you will quickly be equipped with a fearsome response to 1.d4.
The Dutch Stonewall (1.d4 f5 2.c4 Nf6 3.g3 e6 4.Bg2 Be7 5.Nf3 0-0) has been successfully employed at the highest level by World Champions Magnus Carlsen, Anand, Kramnik, Botvinnik and Smyslov to name just a few! It's fair to say this opening is one of the best choices for players who like to win as Black, not settle for a draw. GM Perelshteyn reveals the formations and tactical themes that Black should aim for to crush White quickly and by covering the major plans for White too, Perelshteyn ensures you avoid any dangers yourself.
GM Timur Gareev examines the classical (or Capablanca) 4.Qc2 Nimzo Indian in great detail to provide intermediate to advanced players with a deep understanding of this trendy variation. With both Garry Kasparov and Magnus Carlsen having revived the popularity of this line with excellent results, it is one that you need to know regardless of which color you play. The extensive analysis and GM insight will accelerate improvement in all players' positional understanding and allow them to play the Nimzo-Indian to a very high standard.


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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist screenwriter Lorene Scafaria makes her writing and directorial debut with another film that (oddly enough) has a very romantic dramedy feel to it: the apocalyptic tale Seeking a Friend for the End of the World. It stars Steve Carrell and Keira Knightley as a pair of neighbors who set on a road trip to reunite Carrell's character with his long-lost high school sweetheart - and Knightley's character with her family - before an asteroid collides with the Earth and wipes out the planet's inhabitants, that is.
The trailer for Seeking a Friend... delivers a nice mix of amusingly awkward comedy and touchingly somber drama, while also offering an early look at the film's noteworthy supporting players - including, Patton Oswalt (Young Adult), Connie Britton (American Horror Story), Gillian Jacobs (Community), and Rob Corddry (Hot Tub Time Machine), among others.
Check all that out in the official trailer (followed by the poster) for Seeking a Friend for the End of the World:
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"Indie" can sometimes be synonymous with "excessively quirky" or "annoyingly twee," but Seeking a Friend for the End of the World so far looks to both have an indie feel and strike a nice balance between its comedic and serious elements.
Usually, a world-ending events is (for obvious reasons) the sort of plot device that drives a dramatic story about people seeking reconciliation and redemption before the end of times (a la Last Night, Melancholia, etc.), so Scafaria's more light-hearted approach feels all the more refreshing and innovative by comparison. For similar reasons, it's nice to see that Carrell and Knightley's relationship in the film will be more platonic and almost father-daughter like, rather than forcibly romantic.
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World will arrive in theaters around the U.S. on June 22nd, 2012.
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I wish I could tell you that this was just like that episode of Friends. Sadly, I was not stuck in an ATM vestibule (are there any of those around?) with the supermodel (hiiii David Gandy). No, my tale is a little more regular and boring than Chandler's night with Jill Goodacre.
I woke up at 2am to discover the house in absolute darkness and the kind of silence that only comes from the lack of white noise electricity tends to make. I had a moment of panic where I thought I'd run out but then remembered I checked the meter when I came back home and knew it could not have been that. A look out the window showed complete darkness. Suddenly every sound I heard from outside was someone wanting to attack us. Why is there no logic in the dead of night? I managed to fall asleep again only to wake at 4:30 when the white noise returned after the blackout was over. I discovered today it was planned maintenance by the City of Cape Town.
Anyway onto the g(f)ood stuff. I realise I missed telling you about my iftar and suhoor on Friday so here are a couple of pics of that. Suhoor was scrambled eggs and spinach as well as green juice. Iftar was a burger I'd been craving all day.
Scrambled eggs and spinach for suhoor on Friday.
Beef burger with guacamole, jalapenos, rosa tomatotoes on the base. On top of that white Gouda topped with a lovely beef patty and caramelised onion. Finally some lettuce and the top half of the seeded bun.
Yesterday we were invited over to my aunt and uncle's for iftar. I am not a big eater at iftar but there's something about eating when in large groups that makes you not realise just how you're stuffing your face. It's only when you have to get up from the table that you realise you've overindulged.
So grateful for all the good things we were lucky enough to consume yesterday at iftar. A big thank you to my aunt Samgah and uncle Majidie for their gracious hospitality as always. We had a really good time.
Please enjoy the pics of last night's feast.
I made these mini tacos to take along as well. Look out for the recipe later this week.
Tonight we're keeping it simple Insha-Allah. We'll be just be having veg soup and some savouries.
What's been on your menu this weekend? Tell me in the comments section below.


STANFORD, Calif. -- The No. 10/11 Stanford softball team (30-12, 4-8 Pac-10) hosts San Jose State (30-18, 6-9 WAC), Tuesday, Apr. 27. First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m. from Smith Family Stadium.
The Cardinal is looking to turn things around after being swept by Pac-10 foe UCLA last weekend at Smith Family Stadium. Tuesday's game marks the first of Stanford's final eight home games of the season. The Cardinal will also travel to Seattle to take on the nation's top-ranked team, Washington, for a three-game series, May 9-11.
Senior Alissa Haber is currently second in the Pac-10, hitting .450 with 58 hits on the season. The Newark, Calif., native also ranks in the top-10 in slugging percentage (.690, 10th), on-base percentage (.541, 5th), runs scored (41, 9th) and doubles (12, t4th).
Sophomore Ashley Hansen is leading the league with 15 doubles, while sophomore Sarah Hassman's 18 stolen bases ranks fifth in the Pac-10.
The Cardinal will continue Pac-10 play at home this weekend as it welcomes the Arizona State Sun Devils (37-10, 6-6 Pac-10). The first game of the three-game series is schedule for 7 p.m. on Friday, Apr. 30. Game two is Saturday at 1 p.m. on May 1, while the finale is slated for Noon on Sunday, May 2.
Men's Hoops Takes On San Jose State Tuesday At 7:30 p.m.


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Very Dark Energy
Why is the universe expanding faster and faster? The answer may be a form of energy we almost can't imagine
By Karen WrightMarch 1, 2001 6:00 AM
In January of 1917, Albert Einstein was putting the finishing touches on his general theory of relativity when he decided to cheat just a little. The man who said that imagination is more important than knowledge was trying to use his new theory to solve an old puzzle of the cosmos, and he wasn't getting anywhere. Under Newton's laws, stars and other heavenly bodies pull on one another through the force of gravity. A countervailing propulsion, like a big explosion, could overcome that attraction, but once it fizzled out, gravity would start pulling things together again. Either way, matter in the universe should be moving— either hustling out into space or clumping into a kind of cosmic hairball.
But the universe that Newton and Einstein knew was a tame, stable place. The Milky Way was the only galaxy in town, and its stars seemed fixed in the firmament. The seeming stasis of the night sky had stumped Newton, and even a theory as powerful as relativity failed to explain it. So Einstein added an arbitrary term to his equations. Mathematically, it acted like a repulsive force spread smoothly throughout the universe. Where gravity pulled, he said, this force pushed back in equal measure. He called this fudge factor lambda, and eventually it came to be known as the cosmological constant.
Einstein never felt good about lambda, because he couldn't point to any theoretical or experimental evidence for its existence. Later in life he called it his greatest blunder. "Admittedly," he wrote, "[lambda] was not justified by our actual knowledge of gravitation." But Einstein's imagination was always more powerful than the knowledge of his day, and now, nearly a century later, his blunder is beginning to look like yet another stroke of uncanny genius.
In the last 75 years, astronomers have radically revised their conception of the cosmos. Edwin Hubble showed in 1929 that the universe was not static but expanding— it was getting bigger all the time, as if some primal explosion were driving its contents apart. That primal explosion came to be known as the Big Bang, and the expanding universe was its love child. For 50 years, Big Bang cosmology reigned.
Then, three years ago, light from distant, dying stars revealed that the edges of space are rushing away from one another at an ever-increasing rate. The cosmos, it seems, is not just growing but growing faster and faster. The bigger the universe gets, the faster it grows. Some ubiquitous, repulsive force is driving at the margins of space, stomping on the accelerator. And there are no red lights in sight. That mysterious propulsion looks a lot like lambda.
Today's cosmologists are calling this force dark energy: "dark" because it may be impossible to detect, and "energy" because it's not matter, which is the only other option. Despite the sinister connotations, dark energy is a beacon that may lead physicists to an elusive "final theory": the unification of all known forces, from those that hold the components of atoms together to the gravity that shapes space. Meanwhile the notion of dark energy has helped reconcile a puzzling suite of recent observations about the shape and composition of the cosmos.
In fact, the future of physics and the fate of the universe may ultimately depend on a kind of antigravity that has heretofore been a subject of mere conjecture. The experts think they know what role dark energy plays in the cosmos. Now all they have to do is figure out what dark energy is.
Hubble and his fellow astronomers discovered the expansion of the universe by observing that galaxies in all directions are moving farther away from one another all the time. He was able to track this movement through a phenomenon called redshift, in which visible starlight gets stretched out into longer wavelengths (toward the red end of the visible light spectrum) as it moves through expanding space. The amount of redshift depends on the rate of cosmic expansion and the distance of the observer from the galaxy.
The Boomerang data confirmed that the shape of the universe is flat. That means the cosmos has just enough matter in it to keep photons traveling in straight lines through space. If the universe had much more or far less matter, distinct patches in the microwave background (shown in blue and yellow) would appear either larger or smaller than in a flat universe.Graphic by Matt Zang, adapted from the data of the Boomerang Collaboration
Einstein, Newton, and most other physicists had assumed that gravity would put the brakes on expansion. But decades after Hubble's breakthrough, astronomers were still trying to measure the assumed deceleration. The answer finally came in the late 1990s, from giant telescopes studying the light of stars dying in spectacular explosions called supernovas. Supernovas are among the brightest events in the cosmos, so they can be seen from very far away. Because light from the most distant supernovas must travel for billions of years to reach our telescopes, astronomers can look to its redshift for a historical record of expansion reaching back billions of years.
At a meeting in Washington, D.C., three years ago, a team of researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory showed that the light from very distant supernovas is stretched out less than was predicted given the current rate of expansion. Apparently, the universe expanded more slowly in the past than it does now. Expansion isn't slowing down as expected; it's speeding up. The finding was counterintuitive, and it was based on brand-new methodology. But at the same time, a second group of space-telescope studies led by Brian Schmidt and Robert Kirshner of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics came to the same conclusion.
"It seemed like we must have done something wrong," says Kirshner. "The cosmological constant had such a bad stink, you know? I mean, 'Einstein screwed up. What makes you think you're gonna do any better?' "
"I was floored," echoes University of Chicago cosmologist Michael Turner, recalling his first encounter with the evidence at the Washington meeting. "Yet everything fell into place. This was the answer we'd been looking for."
In particular, turner was looking for a way to resolve conflicting results that were turning up in other experiments describing the state of the cosmos. One set of studies sought to determine the shape of the universe by considering the density of matter in it. Einstein had shown that matter curves space in predictable ways, so that universes with different densities of matter will have different shapes. His theories allowed for three shapes: negative curvature, in which the universe looks like a saddle; positive curvature, in which the universe is spherical; and flat, the most unlikely case, in which the overall density of matter doesn't warp space, and photons travel in straight lines. Flat space isn't two-dimensional; it just isn't curved.
Each shape corresponds to a density of matter denoted by the symbol omega. To create a flat universe, matter must reach so-called critical density, which means omega equals one. In a saddle-shaped universe, omega is less than one; in a spherical universe, it's more than one. Astronomers have sought to determine the value of omega and distinguish among these geometries by measuring the way space bends beams of light. The light they like to measure isn't visible; it's microwave radiation left over from the Big Bang that glows at the farthest reaches of the universe. Distortions in that microwave signal can reveal the shape of the intervening space. In a saddle-shaped universe, distinct patches of the microwave background would look smaller than they're predicted to be. A sphere-shaped universe would magnify the patches of background radiation. In a flat universe, patches of background radiation would be closest to their predicted size.
Recent studies of microwave background radiation had hinted that the universe is flat. But last spring, data from balloon-borne instruments lofted over Texas and Antarctica supplied convincing evidence. Minute fluctuations in the radiation were the expected size. The most precise measurements available revealed that the shape of the universe is flat; it has the critical density and omega equals one.
Unfortunately, these findings don't match results from inventories of matter in the universe. The density of matter can be inferred from its regional gravitational effects on light and on the evolution of galaxies. When astronomers use these methods to tally up the contents of the cosmos, all the people, planets, galaxies, and gases put together account for less than a tenth of the density predicted by the microwave background data. Even the most exhaustive surveys, which include exotic forms of matter only recently discerned, find just a third of the critical density. There's not nearly enough stuff to account for the flatness astronomers observe. Unlikely as it seems, says Turner, the universe seems to be made up mostly of empty space— a vacuum.
"And that finding," says University of Texas physicist Steven Weinberg, "could be regarded as the most fundamental discovery of astronomy."
Weinberg is a Nobel-prizewinning particle physicist who has spent most of his life describing theoretical forms of energy that haven't been discovered yet. The discrepancy between the microwave background and the matter surveys intrigued him, because he knew that energy can shape space just as matter does. A flat universe, or indeed a universe of any shape, could well be molded by both matter and energy. Einstein had recognized this possibility when he perceived that energy and matter are essentially equivalent— as in E = mc2. Thus, he knew that energy could constitute the missing two thirds of the critical density.
And unlike Einstein, Weinberg and his fellow theorists had never quite given up on the old idea of the cosmological constant— some widespread energy loitering in empty space. As quantum mechanics matured through the middle of the last century, it began to make sense, in a wonky way, that the apparent vacuum might have some energy in it. Theorists had even named the hypothetical vacuum energy lambda, in honor of Einstein's goof. And they'd realized long ago that if energy in the vacuum exists, it has a repulsive effect— one that could cause a universe to accelerate.
But if some exotic form of repulsive energy does make up two thirds of all the stuff in the universe, it must be very weak. Otherwise its effects would have been obvious long ago. Whatever the mysterious lambda is, it must do its work only across great distances, on a cosmic scale.
That was the nature of Turner's epiphany in Washington three years ago. The light from remote supernovas showed that some unknown repulsive force was speeding up the expansion of the universe. And the microwave data and the matter surveys only made sense if such a force existed. All the evidence pointed to the presence of a kind of energy that so far had existed only on paper. As he was standing in front of a poster from the Lawrence Berkeley lab, Turner put all of the puzzling pieces together.
"The discovery of an accelerating universe was simultaneously the biggest surprise and the most anticipated discovery in astronomy," he says. It put dark energy on the map.
So the universe circa 2001 is flat, accelerating, and very nearly empty. And astronomers are happy, because a single entity with Einstein's imprimatur can explain all these attributes. But if the existence of dark energy has simplified researchers' understanding of the contemporary cosmos, it has also introduced plenty of complications. One has to do with the fate of the universe.
In the days before dark energy, astronomers believed that the end of the expanding universe would be dictated by the density of matter in it. Just as matter determined the curvature of space, it would also predict the way that space would expand and whether it would ever contract. Back when cosmic expansion was caused solely by the cataclysmic propulsion of the Big Bang, the gravity of matter was expected to eventually slow it down, maybe even stop it, maybe even reverse it. In short, density equaled destiny.
Based on that reasoning, astronomers proposed three models for the fate of the universe, each corresponding to a different geometry and density of matter. In each scenario, the gravitational attraction of all the matter in the universe tugs at the heels of the Big Bang's momentum like a tireless dog that's latched onto the leg of a running mailman.
If omega is less than one, the universe keeps on expanding forever, but at an ever-diminishing pace. That universe has the saddle shape and is called "open." If omega is more than one, the universal expansion slows and eventually reverses, collapsing in a cosmic crunch. That universe is spherical and "closed." In a flat universe, where the density of matter is exactly one, the expansion eventually slows very nearly to a stop but never actually reverses.
But if the universe is made up mostly of repulsive, ubiquitous energy rather than matter, then its ultimate fate isn't inscribed in its shape after all.
"We used to say that fate and geometry were connected," says Turner. "But that's only true if the stuff of the universe is matter alone. Once dark energy comes in, then destiny and geometry decouple. So you can have a closed universe that expands forever and an open universe or a flat universe that collapses."
The only way to figure out the fate of the flat, empty, accelerating universe, says Turner, is to learn more about the dark energy that's impelling expansion. But even as they begin chasing down Einstein's notion of vacuum energy, physicists are having to grapple with problems that range from the numerical to the philosophical. For one thing, when they attempt to calculate the value of lambda, the theorists come up with a figure that is 120 orders of magnitude too big. Not 120 times too big— 10^120 times too big. Fitting the known universe with a vacuum energy of that potency would be like filling up a water balloon with a fire hose.
"It cannot possibly be correct," says Turner. "If it were correct, you wouldn't be able to see beyond the end of your nose, the universe would be expanding so fast." The size of the error has emphasized how poorly physicists understand certain aspects of gravity. "That is the biggest embarrassment in theoretical physics," adds Turner.
It gets even more embarrassing, because theorists can't explain why the densities of matter and energy are currently so close in value. Theoretically, either of those densities could be anything from zero to infinity, and their ratio could vary accordingly. The odds of their being within an order of magnitude of each other are very low. The precarious balance between matter and energy that exists today in our universe— one-third matter to two-thirds energy— seems as improbable as the static universe that Einstein struggled to describe. And some find that improbability especially suspicious, because a universe more dominated by dark energy would be inhospitable to life. The excess energy would prevent matter from clumping into galaxies, stars, and planets. Yet here we are.
The coincidence has driven even notorious skeptics like Weinberg to invoke, in exasperation, the anthropic principle. That much-maligned tautology states that human consciousness can question the terms required for its existence only in a world in which those terms have been met. If conditions were any different, no one would be here to ponder them.
"I don't like this kind of argument," Weinberg admits. "But I don't know of any other explanation that comes close."
The anthropic principle is anathema to most physicists. Some would rather propose a brand-new force in the cosmos than fall back on rhetorical sleight-of-hand. Paul Steinhardt of Princeton University, for example, has already ditched the cosmological constant in favor of a new category of dark energy that he calls quintessence. The fact that energy and matter have achieved a delicate balance is suspicious, he says, only if you assume there's no communication between the two. Steinhardt has proposed that repulsive energy senses the presence of matter and changes its strength or distribution to maintain a balance of densities. This energy could alter its properties over space and across time; unlike lambda, it wouldn't be distributed evenly, and it wouldn't remain constant.
"There was always logically the possibility of having such fields," Steinhardt maintains. "But there was no reason to invoke them, because they weren't required by any theory."
Now that there is, Steinhardt is hoping experimental physicists will turn up evidence of quintessence in minute fluctuations of temperatures in the cosmic microwave background. The MAP satellite scheduled for launch in June could be instrumental in detecting such signals. More detailed surveys of distant supernovas are also planned.
"Different dark-energy models will make different predictions about the evolution of the acceleration of the universe over time," says Saul Perlmutter, leader of the Lawrence Berkeley team. Perlmutter is championing a plan to study acceleration with a space-based telescope called the SuperNova/Acceleration Probe, or SNAP. "We want to go back in history and find out when the universe went through its growth spurts."
Reckoning with dark energy will also spur attempts to define a quantum theory of gravity. Gravity is the only one of the four known forces that has eluded description in terms of energy bundles called quanta. Physicists have already managed to bring the other three— the strong force, the electromagnetic force, and the weak force— into the quantum fold. But unlike those three forces, gravity typically operates on vastly different scales than quantum mechanics. "Gravitation governs the motions of planets and stars," Weinberg wrote in a recent review, "but it is too weak to matter much in atoms, while quantum mechanics, though essential in understanding the behavior of electrons in atoms, has negligible effects on the motions of stars or planets."
With the discovery of dark energy, the two worlds collide. In the acceleration of the universe may lie some clues to the behavior of tiny quanta of gravitational energy. Einstein's own theories of gravity allow it to have some sort of repulsive effect, so elucidating the nature of dark energy could hasten theorists on their way to a final theory unifying all the forces. That's why physicists scanning the furthest reaches of space with powerful telescopes suddenly seem very interesting to the physicists scribbling on the blackboards.
"It's very flattering for astronomers," says Harvard's Kirshner. "We have the attention of the high priests of our field."
But there's no guarantee that dark energy will serve up the eternal verities the high priests are hoping for. The unlikely balance of energy and matter and the strength of the vacuum energy may permit human existence through caprice, not necessity. Einstein himself knew well the hazards of counting on capricious nature. "Marriage," he once opined, "is the unsuccessful attempt to make something lasting out of an accident." Scientists who would seek permanent truths in the accelerating universe could be making the same mistake.
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