Tau Zero Foundation
The Tau Zero Foundation supports incremental advancements in science, technology, and education.
Right now, as you sit there reading this, you are moving at over a million kilometers per hour (365 km/s [Rabounski 2007] equal to about 820,000 mph) through our Universe, roughly toward the constellation Leo. You are on spaceship Earth, the only object in the universe known to harbor life. Earth is just a small planet around a rather mundane star when compared to the other known planets and stars. And our sun is but one amongst 400 billion stars in our own "Milky Way Galaxy," which itself is a giant galaxy amongst over a hundred-billion other galaxies in the universe.
Even with such fantastic-sounding speeds and considering that there are about 10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 other stars in our Universe, we are nowhere close to another habitable planet. Our nearest neighboring star, Alpha Centauri (which is viewable only from Earth's Southern Hemisphere) is over 4-light-years distant. The issues for achieving interstellar flight are discussed on the GETTING THERE pages. For now it is important to realize just how isolated we are, and how precarious our existence may be.
The Tau Zero about page:
http://www.tauzero.aero/html/about_us.html
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On the subject of creation. By Joseph Raglione.
I enjoy reading expert theories on how our Universe began. According to experts, there is always something that helped begin the Universe.
It always leads me to the same conclusion. How did that something...what ever it was... begin to exist in the first place in order to create a beginning for everything else?
Eternal energy is mind boggling to contemplate and so in my philosophical theory...(hey if everybody else can theorize why not me?) human imagination took over in an effort to explain what is proving to be unexplainable.
Try contemplating eternal energy and discover the joy of total ignorance.
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