Det är den virtuella verklighetens gräns som får dem att bromsa in... ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bloggen om att grilla: www.alltomgrill.se ------------------------------------------------------------------- Bloggen om att skriva: www.carlingcreations.se ------------------------------------------------------------------- > From: ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx > To: skriva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; sverifandom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [SKRIVA] Mystisk kraft bromsar NASA-sond > Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 10:30:59 +0200 > > > Någon mystisk kraft får NASA:s djuprymdssonder att bromsa in, mycket litet > men ändå oförklarligt: > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/1384420/Mysterious-force-holds-back-Nasa-probe-in-deep-space.html > > Researchers say Pioneer 10, which took the first close-up pictures of Jupiter > before leaving our solar system in 1983, is being pulled back to the sun by > an unknown force. The effect shows no sign of getting weaker as the > spacecraft travels deeper into space, and scientists are considering the > possibility that the probe has revealed a new force of nature. > Dr Philip Laing, a member of the research team tracking the craft, said: "We > have examined every mechanism and theory we can think of and so far nothing > works. > "If the effect is real, it will have a big impact on cosmology and spacecraft > navigation," said Dr Laing, of the Aerospace Corporation of California. > Pioneer 10 was launched by Nasa on March 2 1972, and with Pioneer 11, its > twin, revolutionised astronomy with detailed images of Jupiter and Saturn. In > June 1983, Pioneer 10 passed Pluto, the most distant planet in our solar > system. > Both probes are now travelling at 27,000mph towards stars that they will > encounter several million years from now. Scientists are continuing to > monitor signals from Pioneer 10, which is more than seven billion miles from > Earth. > billion miles from Earth. > Research to be published shortly in The Physical Review, a leading physics > journal, will show that the speed of the two probes is being changed by about > 6 mph per century - a barely-perceptible effect about 10 billion times weaker > than gravity. > Scientists initially suspected that gas escaping from tiny rocket motors > aboard the probes, or heat leaking from their nuclear power plants might be > responsible. Both have now been ruled out. The team says no current theories > explain why the force stays constant: all the most plausible forces, from > gravity to the effect of solar radiation, decrease rapidly with distance. > The bizarre behaviour has also eliminated the possibility that the two probes > are being affected by the gravitational pull of unknown planets beyond the > solar system. > Assertions by some scientists that the force is due to a quirk in the Pioneer > probes have also been discounted by the discovery that the effect seems to be > affecting Galileo and Ulysses, two other space probes still in the solar > system. Data from these two probes suggests the force is of the same strength > as that found for the Pioneers. > Dr Duncan Steel, a space scientist at Salford University, says even such a > weak force could have huge effects on a cosmic scale. "It might alter the > number of comets that come towards us over millions of years, which would > have consequences for life on Earth. It also raises the question of whether > we know enough about the law of gravity." > > > -- > ahrvid@xxxxxxxxxxx / Gå med i SKRIVA - för författande, sf, fantasy, kultur > (skriva-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, subj: subscribe) YXSKAFTBUD, GE VÅR WCZONMÖ > IQ-HJÄLP! (DN NoN 00.02.07) > Om Ahrvids novellsamling Mord på månen: http://www.zenzat.se/zzfaktasi.html C > Fuglesang: "stor förnöjelse...jättebra historier i mycket sannolik > framtidsmiljö"! ----- > SKRIVA - sf, fantasy och skräck * Äldsta svenska skrivarlistan > grundad 1997 * Info http://www.skriva.bravewriting.com eller skriva- > request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx för listkommandon (ex subject: subscribe). > ----- SKRIVA - sf, fantasy och skräck * Äldsta svenska skrivarlistan grundad 1997 * Info http://www.skriva.bravewriting.com eller skriva- request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx för listkommandon (ex subject: subscribe).