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1 dzień temu · Enrico Fermi (Los Alamos 1945) The Fermi paradox is the discrepancy between the lack of conclusive evidence of advanced extraterrestrial life and the apparently high likelihood of its existence. As a 2015 article put it, "If life is so easy, someone from somewhere must have come calling by now." Italian-American physicist Enrico Fermi's name is associated with the paradox because of a casual ...
1 dzień temu · Introduction. When a body is free to rotate around an axis, torque must be applied to change its angular momentum.The amount of torque needed to cause any given angular acceleration (the rate of change in angular velocity) is proportional to the moment of inertia of the body.Moments of inertia may be expressed in units of kilogram metre squared (kg·m 2) in SI units and pound-foot-second ...
1 godzinę temu · The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.It is a massive, nearly perfect sphere of hot plasma, heated to incandescence by nuclear fusion reactions in its core, radiating the energy from its surface mainly as visible light and infrared radiation with 10% at ultraviolet energies. It is by far the most important source of energy for life on Earth. ...
1 dzień temu · The term Cattle was borrowed from Anglo-Norman catel, itself from medieval Latin capitale 'principal sum of money, capital', itself derived in turn from Latin caput 'head'. Cattle originally meant movable personal property, especially livestock of any kind, as opposed to real property (the land, which also included wild or small free-roaming animals such as chickens—they were sold as part of ...
1 dzień temu · The Vedas are ancient Sanskrit texts of Hinduism. Above: A page from the Atharvaveda.. The Vedas (/ ˈ v eɪ d ə z / or / ˈ v iː d ə z /, Sanskrit: वेदः, romanized: Vēdaḥ, lit. 'knowledge') are a large body of religious texts originating in ancient India.Composed in Vedic Sanskrit, the texts constitute the oldest layer of Sanskrit literature and the oldest scriptures of Hinduism.
1 dzień temu · The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire (/ ə ˈ b æ s ɪ d, ˈ æ b ə s ɪ d /; Arabic: الْخِلَافَة الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, romanized: al-Khilāfa al-ʿAbbāsiyya) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad.It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (566–653 CE), from whom the dynasty takes its name.
1 godzinę temu · Lansing (/ ˈ l æ n s ɪ ŋ /) is the capital of the U.S. state of Michigan and the most populous city in Ingham County.It is mostly in the county, although portions of the city extend west into Eaton County and north into Clinton County.The 2020 census placed the city's population at 112,644, making it the sixth most populous city in Michigan.The population of its metropolitan statistical ...
