Some Interesting Facts

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The Blue Glow of Galaxies

Miles deep in the permanent glaciers of the Antarctic, the ice is bathed in a continuous blue glow. This glow is not caused by any phenomenon made by any kind of life on earth, or even by the earth itself.

To explain this, I'll start by talking about the Antarctic Ice. Thousands upon thousands of meters of massive layers of ice squeeze the ice beneath them, and this unbelievable weight has over the millenia squeezed out the air bubbles from the ice beneath a certain depth. So at that depth, the ice is as clear as glass. It's ULTRA-clear. A single photon could travel seven hundred feet before being absorbed by anything down there. So why does the ice glow blue? Not from human beings, not from animals, not from anything on the earth, but from remote galaxies.

Some of the more energy intensive cosmic phenomena, supernova, quasars, black holes, whatever's at the center of the galaxies, they emit particles called neutrinos. You've probably heard these particles mentioned on Star Wars, or some other piece of science fiction. The truth is that they're not science fiction; they're particles with little or no mass that zip through the universe (and through us) largely unaffected by incidental forces like gravity and magnetism which might bother heavier masses, like light particles.

One time in a billion, though, a neutrino will strike a proton. When this happens, the collission ejects an electron called a "muon", and this particle leaves a trail of blue light as it sheds excess energy. Miles below in the ultra-clear Antarctic Ice, the world would be pitch black if wasn't for these particles from faraway galaxies, bringing a soft blue glow to a world which noone will ever see.

:: Zaid Sayeed 11:07 AM [+] - Monday, September 02, 2002 ::

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The name 'Zaid'

Did you know that my name, Zaid, is linked with concepts of impeccable justice, of monotheism and the rejection of evil? That could be because of a descendant of the prophet Muhammed who was named Zaid. He died in the cause of a faction of Islam fighting against the seat of mainstream Islam in Damascus. It could also be because of the qualities of the adopted son of the prophet, also named Zaid, or from other historic/inherent qualities of the name Zaid.

The closest English translation of the name "Zaid" from Arabic is "Super-Abundance".

:: Zaid Sayeed 11:06 AM [+] -

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