Don’t Know How People Deal With Rough Days When They Can’t Be Surrounded By All Their Favourite Things.

Tide app had a great quote today.

17 days remaining until deadline. Let’s go!

Things to bring back in books:

Chapter titles

Actually having a synopsis on the back instead of reviews no one will read

Pen ink on a leaf 🍃 zooming through a puddle

The ink-mixed water behind the leaf has a lower surface tension than the water in front of it. While this gradient tries to equalize (Marangoni effect), the different adhesive forces around the leaf pull it along. (Source)

10/02/2017

I haven’t been at university this week for personal reasons but nevertheless I’ve done so much work and I’m really proud of myself. In particular, I’m so happy with my progress in programming. I managed to write 5 functions in MATLAB 2 weeks before the deadline which I wouldn’t have been able to do at all last semester! Happy days ☺️

Moving blog! @chaoticaldynamics

Hi everyone! I’m moving my blog to @chaoticaldynamics

Long story, but tumblr is a chaotic website. Follow me there if you are interested!

RESONANCES! They affect everything!

Our Sun's Mysterious 11-Year Cycle Appears to Be Driven by Alignment of The Planets

"This could help us better predict our Sun's giant, violent outbursts: a good thing, considering they have the potential to affect our life here on Earth."

Every 11 years, the Sun cycles through from riotous flare and sunspot activity to a quieter period, before ramping up again. It’s almost as regular as clockwork, and for years astronomers have been wondering what causes it. Now, they’ve proposed a new solution.

Even though the Solar System’s planets are much smaller than the Sun, the gravity of some of them is able to influence our star’s magnetic field. This, the researchers assert, is what controls the solar cycle.

Venus, Earth, and Jupiter assert a small gravitational tug on the Sun as they orbit it. The result is comparable to the way the Moon’s gravity influences Earth’s tides, producing a regularly timed ebb and flow.

The team has traced back 1,000 years of solar cycles, between the years 1000 and 2009 CE, comparing that data against the movements of the planets in that time. They found an impressively strong link between the two.

“There is an astonishingly high level of concordance: what we see is complete parallelism with the planets over the course of 90 cycles,” said physicist Frank Stefani of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany.

“Everything points to a clocked process.”

What the team found is that the tidal forces are strongest when Earth, Venus, and Jupiter align, and that this alignment occurs every 11.07 years - falling at the same time as the solar minimum.

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