GEO600 Experiment

GEO600 experiment on the outskirts of Hanover, Germany, not so attractive people. Visible from the outside just a box-shaped beds in one corner of the farm fields, which are connected by two metal plates covered ditch the tracer is placed beneath the 600 meters in length.
Over the last seven years, the German-made devices that track the gravitational waves from objects space is very strong, such as neutron stars and black holes.
GEO600 so far have not detected any gravity waves, but the technology was inadvertently produced significant discoveries in physics in the last half century.
For several months, said Marcus chown from New Scientist, GEO600 team distracted by the noise is not clear that they were recorded by the detector. Then, unexpectedly, a researcher get answers, and even has estimated that sound before scientists detect it.
According to Craig Hogan, a physicist from Fermilab physics laboratory in Batavia, Illinois, United States, GEO600 has reached the fundamental limits of space and time - the point at which space-time is no longer shaped like a continuum flow Albert Einstein described it dissolves into 'beads' as small point magnified by a microscope.
"Looks like GEO600 was hit by a wave of microscopic quantum space and time," said Hogan.
Hogan, the newly appointed Director for the Center for Particle Astrophysics at Fermilab, and even more powerful theorized, "If the sound is detected CEO600 as I explained, we all live in the middle of a giant cosmic hologram."
Thought Hogan looks absurd, but it is the best understanding of black holes and is the foundation of a reasonable theory. The idea was very helpful even scientists in explaining how the universe works at the most fundamental level.
This analogy, the hologram that you find on your credit card or ATM card attached to a plastic two-dimensional film. Once exposed to light, the hologram image will display three-dimensional (3D).
In 1990, Leonard Susskind and Nobel laureate scientists menengarai Hooft enforcement Gerard't same principle in the universe. Observations of everyday people can be a holographic image of the physical processes in the two-dimensional space.
Holographic principle is challenging our common sense. Imagine, you wake up, brush teeth, and reading this article because something happened in the limits of this universe. No one knows if we truly live in a hologram, even though the experts have a logical reason that many aspects of the holographic principle is reasonable.
Suskind ideas and Gerard't Hooft appear motivated by the work of Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and the Stephen Hawking of Cambridge University, about the Black Hole.
Mid-1970s, Hawking proved that black holes are not completely 'black or dark', instead of emitting radiation that causes it to disappear.
Hawking remains a puzzle because it did not disclose what they contain black holes.
When black holes disappear, all the information about the phenomenon that comes from dying stars that were lost, contrary to previous theories that believe that the information can not be destroyed. This is the paradox known as the Black Hole.
Bekenstein's work paved the way for this to explain that paradox. He discovered, the entropy of black holes (a quantitative measure of the heat transfer system that does not irregular), was equal to the information it contains and is proportional to surface area horisonnya.
This is the veil that covers the theoretical black holes, while indicating nothing can be explained by material or light black holes sucked.
Since then, the scientists showed that microscopic quantum waves in the horizon (layer around black holes in which all objects are sucked into the cross) can represent the information in black holes so no information is destroyed when a mysterious black holes disappear.
This means that 3D information about the star can die completely encoded in the Black Hole horizon arising from the star, not entirely like 3D image of an object is encoded in two-dimensional hologram.
Susskind and Hofft expand our view of the universe as a whole at the level that this universe has a horizon line, the boundary line where the light can not reach the earth in 13.7 billion years old.
Moreover, research scientists, especially Juan Maldacena of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, has ensured that the theory is true. Maldacena showed that the physics in the universe is hypothetical as the five dimensions are the same as the physics of four-dimensional boundary.
According to Hogan, holographic principles to radically change our picture of space and time. The theorists of physics has long believed that quantum effects would cause the space and time fluctuate wildly.
At that magnification, the structure of space and time into small particles that hundreds of billion-billion times smaller than a proton.
The amount of development that the structure is known as Planck's Constant, 10-35 meters long and far beyond the reach of any experiment that no one dared to dream that the grains of space and time may be lost.
Hogan finally realizing a holographic principle that has changed many things. If space and time holograms rough analogy, then you can imagine the universe as a space outside layer bonded to Planck layers, each storing information.
Holographic principle says, the amount of information that should be taped out in accordance with the amount of information contained in the volume of the universe. Then, how can the volume of the universe could be far greater than the outer layer?
Hogan realized, contents and limits the volume of the universe have the same amount of information, then space should be built outside of the grains are larger than the Planck scale, "Or, another way, a holographic universe was vague," he said.
This is good news for those who attempt to examine the smallest unit of space and time. "Contrary to the previous estimates, placing a holographic universe quantum structures have mikroskopiknya experiments range," explained Hogan.
So, while the Planck's constant is too small to be studied, holographic projections that the grains can be larger, about 10-16 meters. "If you live in a hologram, you can explain it to measure levels kekaburannya."
When Hogan was aware of this for the first time, he was not sure if there are tests that can calculate the levels of fuzziness of the time. That's when GEO600 appeared.
Trackers such as GEO600 gravitational wave is a remarkable tool sensitive. Through the GEO600 gravitational wave will in turn stretches the space in one direction, and wrung them elsewhere.
To calculate, GEO600 team fired a laser beam through a half-silver mirror called pembelah rays. This mirror divides light into two beams, which pass along the arms straight 600 meters to the instrument beam pembelah and bounce back.
Ray reflections were merged in pembelah and create patterns of light unification antarcahaya and dark areas where light waves reinforce each other, and vice versa. Every shift of position in the territories it clear that the relative lengths of the arms has changed.
"The key is to test it is very sensitive to changes in the instrument arm's length much shorter than the diameter of a proton," added Hogan. (AntaraNews)
Source The New Scientist Adapter: Liberty Jemadu Editor: Jafar Sidik

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Relationship the Internet with Depression

People who spend a lot of time to surf the Internet are more likely to show signs of depression.
It is not clear whether the Internet causes depression or whether depressed people who are interested to use it.
The psychologist from Leeds University found what they say as proof of "striking" that some people are enamored of using the Internet to develop the habit of encouragement to be in a network (online).
Through these activities, they can replace the real world social interaction with chat room "online" and social networking pages.
"This study strengthens the public opinion that the involvement in the network that serves to replace the normal social function may be associated with psychiatric disorders like depression and addiction," wrote the study's lead author, Catriona Morrison, in the journal Psychopathology.
"This kind of surfing addiction can have a serious impact on mental health," he said, Reuters reported.
In the first large-scale study of young people to study the West's case, the researchers analyzed the use of the Internet and levels of depression in the 1319 British people aged between 16 and 51 years.
They concluded, among those studied, 1.2 percent of "Internet addiction".
People who "Internet addiction" was finished, prominently, more time to surf on the network that satisfy them sexually, pages games "online" and the "online", said Morrison.
They are also more experienced events moderate to severe depression compared with the normal user.
"Excessive Internet use associated with depression, but what we do not know which is which occurs first - whether the depressed people interested in using the Internet or whether the Internet causes depression?" Morrison said.
"What is clear is that for a small group of people, excessive Internet use can be a warning sign for the tendency of depression," he said.
Morrison said although the amount of 1.2 percent for those who are categorized as "addiction" was small, it was still more than the gambling event in the UK, which amounted to as much as 0.6 percent.

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China vs. U.S. "Freedom of the Internet"

China said that the United States calls on the freedom of the Internet "harm" relations between the two countries after the Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton criticized China's censorship of the international network.

"We strongly opposed the words contrary to the fact that harm China-US relations," ministry spokesman said Foreign Affairs of China, Ma said in a statement Zhaoxu served on the ministry Internet site.

"We urge the United States would respect the fact and stop what is said, the freedom to criticize China's Internet is not logical," he said, AFP reported.

Ma said China hoped the two countries' mutual interests and respect their concerns, in a way to overcome differences and sensitive issues in order to maintain China-US relationship which continues to grow in a healthy ".

His comments raised after Hillary Clinton's Foreign Minister on Thursday, urged to carefully investigate the attacks in cyberspace in Google and other U.S. companies, and said that China's censorship of the Internet increases.

Hillary Secretary issued a call in a speech by U.S. restate support for "single internet all men have equal access to the world of ideas and knowledge".

China and the U.S. are involved in a dispute over Google's threat to leave China in terms of censorship and attacks on the virtual world recently, the Internet giant said it seemed that intended by China to eliminate the various statements made by electronic mail by rights activists -China human rights. (AntaraNews)

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Scientists promote Doomsday Clock minute

A number of scientists advancing again one minute symbol of Resurrection hour due to the effects of nuclear weapons and climate change.

Hours symbolic shows how close humans to extinction itself is moving at six minutes before midnight than five minutes on Thursday (14 / 1).

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, those who manage and put illustration on the front page at that, meant to appeal to world leaders to reduce their nuclear production and stabilization of cooperation in climate change.

Scientists of the 19th Nobel laureate said, the solution of a new era of cooperation is a change in pemeritahan merika States (U.S.) oriented towards various international issues, and is part of the U.S. President, Barack Obama. "

Nuclear physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy at the press conference held at the New York Academy of Sciences said in penelusurannya from the World Trade Center (www.wtc.com) no change in world opinion, which means that nuclear weapons "are no longer useful to the war and not effective as a protector.

Members of the South Pole Survey Institute (British Antarctic Survey / BAS) argued, "Global warming is more of a threat than nuclear war."

When the clock was made in 1947, and in the set at seven minutes to midnight, and only changed 18 times before the change on Thursday last week.

In 2007 BAS promote two-minute test in conjunction with the North Korean nuclear weapons, Iran's nuclear ambitions and the U.S. change emphasizes the use of nuclear weapons for military activities. (AntaraNews)

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Created Immediately Artificial Pancreas

 Artificial pancreas will be created by the scientists of diabetes with insulin pump manufacturer, Animas.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) on Wednesday (13 / 1) suggests local time, they choose the unit from Johnson & Johnson is to develop and try new technologies, namely the pump and control system for type-1 diabetes.

"This will be a research and development of the first stage towards the creation of artificial pancreas," he said. Henry Anhalt, director of medical affairs of Animas, as quoted by Maggie Fox of Reuters.

Animas will work with the foundation that creates a combination of recording devices of glucose, insulin pumps, and some software to wireless technology. The new system will facilitate the people with diabetes to check blood and inject insulin.

The goal is a tool that can check the blood at any time and inject insulin as needed, without the help of others. This means that this technology into the future to just one package, either insulin pump or glucose entry system only.

"Herein lies the magical power, when the tool is able to communicate with each other. Now the tool is already available but still separate, "said Alan Lewis, chief executive officer and president of the JDRF.

The trust has spent years working with centers of knowledge to build a perfect system and could be marketed.

"Animas is a body that provides the equipment. JDRF will be a partner that uses our knowledge and expertise, "said Lewis again.

Foundation was poured eight million dollars for the next three years for the project. The goal is to have the first generation technology of these sophisticated devices that can be evaluated during the next four years.

Type-1 diabetes is a disease "autoimune", ie actually the body's immune system destroying the pancreas cells that produce insulin. Body no longer able to dissolve and use the sugar. If not treated, it will damage the blood vessels and nerves, organs, and eventually died.

In fact, if untreated, the blood vessels and damaged organs remain, blindness, kidney failure, and even loss of limbs. In the United States (U.S.) estimated three million people, average children and adolescents, diabetes type-1.

"This could be a first aid for not only improve glucose control but also lift the entire burden," said Aaron Kowalsky from JDRF.

Is rudimentary software that regulates insulin pumps and blood sugar that is not too high or low. Animas and JDRF will work together to find the best formula for it and try it.

"No single algorithm was consistent with the symptoms of the patient," said Anhallt, a specialist child pancreas organs.

According to Lewis, DexCom Inc.. which creates glucose control equipment that will provide their products become part of the package.

"We believe that Animas is a field leader that will allow us to market a product," said Lewis. The target is to create technology that is trusted by physicians, patients, and parents.

"All parents who have to wake up every night to check her blood sugar levels will be more relieved that their children are no longer going up because his blood sugar levels are very low," review Kowalski, who also suffered from type-1 diabetes.

He added, "Here the quality of life are not exaggerated." (AntaraNews)

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See and Treat Method to Prevent Cervical Cancer

See and treat method can be simple and inexpensive way of preventing cervical cancer (cervical) because only two dollars worth of United States (U.S.) or equivalent to Rp20.000.

Scientists in the UK told Reuters as suggested, the method can help doctors prevent 100,000 cervical cancer deaths in women in poor countries.

Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths in women in developing countries, the greatest obstacle due to a lack of health service infrastructure and high cost of check and vaccines.

Researchers in England say, menggunakkan visual tinjuan acetic acid (VIA) can cut costs compared to human inspection papilomavirus (HPV) or cervical cells worth nine dollars (equivalent Rp90.000) common practice in many developing countries.

Approximately 300,000 women worldwide die from cervical cancer each year and more than 85 percent of deaths occur in poor countries.

"VIA is an effective media and affordable to detect the early spread of cervical cancer in women in developing countries," said David McGregor, head of research at the University College London.

He also argued, "The couple are tested through a simple treatment, can potentially reduce the number of cancer deaths are up three times, which means saving 100,000 women each year."

VIA is a simple test by giving very small doses of acetic acid and applied in order to detect early cervical cancer cells, and positive trends can be identified.

This tersebutmerujuk to see and treat method according to the experts claim that the method can be performed in small clinics without adequate equipment and laboratories.

Drug company Merck & Co and GlaxoSmithKline make Gardasil and Cervarix vaccine is useful to prevent the spread of HPV, which is a common illness spread through sexual contact and also the main cause of cervical cancer in the world.

They have a data that unlike in poor countries, the examination and vaccination programs developed to fight serviksnya HPV, there is ease of inspection and delivery of vaccines in many countries, such as Africa and Asia.

Research journal of obstetrics and gynecology in rural communities isolated revealed that VIA is effective, acceptable to women, and can reduce mortality.

However, the researchers also called, the importance of caring for an early inspection to increase the participation of the population also becomes a challenge. (AntaraNews)

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Radiation trigger Stroke and Heart Disease

A study of atomic bomb survivors in Japan committed during 53 years show evidence that they have a higher risk of stroke and heart disease due to radiation.

British Medical Journal which publishes told Reuters that the study involved 86,611 survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, which forced Japan's surrender to the Allies and the war marked the end of the world (PD) II.

The researchers note, every atom bomb victims exposed to radiation doses between 0 and 4 Gy (Gray) at the time of the disaster occurs.

Gray is a unit for calculating the absorbed radiation using special equipment called a dosimeter, and the amounts vary in each person, depending on the location and protection at the time of the bombing occurred.

"This study provides the strongest evidence that radiation can increase stroke and heart disease dose sufficient (particularly 0.5-2 Gy), although the results below 0.5 Gy was not statistically significant," say researchers in Japan.

He also argued, "Further research should provide precise estimates of risk at low doses."

According to researchers, it is a public health problem is important, because the increasing use of various types of scanners Computed Tomography (CT) scan and high dose treatment procedures.

Treatment that uses radiation is usually measured in milligray (mgy). The average radiation dose of x-ray abdomen was 1.4 mgy (0.0014 Gy), whereas the abdominal CT scan was 8.0 mgy (0008 Gy), and pelvic CT scans of the 25 mgy (0025 Gy).

Research led by Yukiko Shimizu Research of Radiation Effects Research Foundation in Japan, researchers monitored the victim survived from 1950 to 2003 and found that 9600 people died from stroke and 8400 people die from heart disease.

Researchers found a high risk of stroke and heart disease at a dose of about 0.5 Gy, and the condition will appear at higher doses.

According to the researchers, the result of a low dose is not clear and they hope research will come to find it. (AntaraNews)

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Internet Enrich Science Society of Papua

Jayapura  - Manager Sales Data and Value Added Service (VAS) PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia Tbk Papua, Amran Ali, said that Internet technology can be an effective medium to enrich the knowledge society in Papua.

"Papua is a region relatively far from areas of western Indonesia, which tend to be more rapid development and close to a rapid progress. With the internet, people in Papua are not going to miss the information and knowledge that can be updated online and continuously," said Amran in Jayapura, Sunday.

He said public awareness of the importance of Papua internet technology has not as tall as people in other areas has become one of the necessities of life.

Communities in Papua who need information and communication technologies, especially the Internet, although the number continues to rise from time to time, is still limited to certain circles.

"Most who use the internet are a student and the student, usually for work assignments or theses, the lecturers and several government agencies and the private sector," said Amran.

Whereas ditandaskannya, internet technology is not limited to a particular community because it can be used for various needs and interests such as communicating with people around the world through social networking, disseminate or seek information on a variety of things and so forth.

"Everyone can take advantage of the Internet, not only in offices but also at home or somewhere else when needed. In fact, even housewives could use the internet in order not to miss the information and world development," said Amran.

Internet services provided by PT Telkom, Speedy in all areas of Papua and West Papua in December 2009 reached until 5800.

Of this amount, the area of Jayapura is the most local customers, including as many as 2336 Jayapura, Abepura 1197, Waena Sentani 369 and 552 customers.

To increase the number of customers while increasing awareness of the importance of Internet technology, socialization of these technologies, needs to be done so that people are increasingly interested in Papua Speedy subscription so they can be a way to enrich their knowledge.

At the end of 2010, Telkom Speedy Papua target customers in Papua will reach 12,000.(AntaraNews)

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Burj Dubai Tower

Burj Dubai Tower was officially opened yesterday, six years since the start of construction of development worth U.S. $ 4.1 billion (Rp38, 5 billion) and it plays almost sekilometer.

Designed as a memorial symbol of the economic ambitions of the countries in the Arab city, the Burj Dubai is a modern version of the Tower of Babel (as written in the Bible).

Dubai has just diganyang so that the debt crisis of the world's tallest building was almost empty without occupants, and do not want international tenants to whom the building was built and dedicated.

Basic argument of the monument-building was never fully monumem economic motive.

In the early 20th century in New York, the conglomerates competing to build world's tallest building, to create a region of Manhattan skyscrapers are iconic.

Both General Motors and Chrysler at that time was able to build memaklumatkan testament to their economic power to build high towers.

Then, the gods of hubris sailing to the Far East, when the Petronas Towers in Malaysia and then recently in Taiwan Taipei 101 race to be the highest in the world. Now the half-dozen skyscrapers in Asia make the Sears Tower in Chicago (now Tower Willis) is not nothing.

Like the city itself, Dubai, Burj Dubai is only a new trinkets from poaching efforts for lack borders, including the largest man-made island in the world, shopping centers and the largest indoor ski resort in the world.

Dubai even established himself as the owner of the biggest gold ring in the world, which weighed approximately 60 kg.

Economic theory behind this is, a super land gives a comparative advantage to one true place is not so lovely, and shortages of human resources, although we are asked who proposed to impose a heavy gold ring was.

If centuries ago and taught us about something, then there will be another building built higher out there, and Dubai can not hope to maintain his reputation.

Different from that, in cities like Houston and Hong Kong, buildings, skyscrapers are not the cause of economic prosperity that the cities, but instead became a manifestation of the manifest of that prosperity.

Prosperity is built for years on the old foundations; economic freedom, rule of law, hard work and proper management.

Without any basis for it, the nations and cities were built without a foundation of nothing, except the sand alone. (AntaraNews)

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Google Launches Mobile 'Killer' iPhone

Giant in the online business, Google, has launched its first mobile phone product is called the Nexus One and because of sophistication by many called the "iPhone killer" (killer iPhone), Apple smartphone comes first on the market.

Nexus One was released on Tuesday. The phone is designed and manufactured by HTC of Taiwan companies are Google's partners, reportedly will be marketed through a new online store owned by Google, so the page is written in today's Technology Review.

Not only marketing Nexus One, through the online store also sold a variety of future devices based on Android, the software operating system Google's mobile hers.

Consumers can buy the Nexus One online and take advantage of a service plan T-mobile network.

The name for the phone is superphone (mobile super). Mario Queiroz, a Vice President of product management at Google said the company wanted to make a phone to demonstrate whether it is possible to run a mobile phone platform Android.

One emphasized that Nexus is the first in a series of product series. Vice President of Google's mobile platforms confirmed that the phone was sold memalui Google's online store will always demonstrate the best experience with Google.

Nexus One includes a gigahertz processor, a faster than a smartphone that already berprosesor fastest on the market today, Verizon Droid berprosesor example of 550 megahertz, and the iPhone is expected to have a processor speed of about 600 megahertz.

"With this hardware, we thought we were getting half the story," said senior product manager of Google, Eric Tseng.

According to Tseng, Nexus One processor allows this phone to work in a multi-application occurs simultaneously with no slowdown, and supports a framework thanks to the 3-D Android version 2.1.

Tseng demonstrated several applications displaying graphical display 3-D Nexus One, including the features of the full version of Google Earth. The phone will guide you with mapping software (maps) in the popular three-dimensional view, exploring the area and zoom in appearance.

"We really want to push 3-D capabilities that you can with the chips to the limit of high-quality end," he said.

Tseng also show some advanced voice capabilities, built on the software sound (voice) which is Google provided previously. In the Android 2.1, each text field will accept voice input, will allow users to send e-mails, text messages, and update (update) Twitter and Facebook without touching the phone.

The job will be handled by Google servers. Tseng added that the software remains accurate sound for each user (the user).(AntaraNews)

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Residents Not Internet Literacy

Ministry of Communications and Informatics (Depkominfo) estimates that there are currently more than 200 million people in Indonesia who are illiterate internet.

"Therefore, we aim to be up to the year 2015 the number of internet users have been half the population or about 117 million people," said Director of the Directorate General of Empowerment Telematics Telematics Applications Badri Depkominfo Azkar in Palangkaraya, Thursday.

Azkar Badri said that current conditions of the entire population of Indonesia, amounting to around 230 million people, only 20 million of them who have got internet access.

While approximately 200 million to 210 million other people still can enjoy internet access as well as regional constraints of limited knowledge.

So to complete the target of the next five years, every year at least required the expansion of internet access to be able to reach over 20 million inhabitants.

"It's a long trip, and now the government has tried to awaken the Palapa Ring could include Papua to Aceh. In addition, there are also programs to ring the village, the village has good internet, and other programs," he explained.

Depkominfo also asked for commitment and the "political will" of local governments to support the expansion of Internet access that local governments know better considering the condition of residents in their respective regions.

In addition, support from private sector developers and operators are required to succeed in a target range of Internet access up to 50 percent of the population in Indonesia.

Azkar also expected, 50 per cent target Internet access is not achieved with unequal conditions between regions, such as prioritizing only densely populated area.

"For example, in Central Kalimantan, the interior must also be able to reach the target 50 percent of its citizens," he added. (AntaraNews)

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New Planet Abundant Water

The discovery of "world tirta" new (the same planet Earth is abundant water) which mengorbiti one star within 40 light years became the first known planets like Earth and make people become close enough to sniff the atmosphere, astronomers said as quoted by the journal Nature.

Named GJ 1214b, the size of this planet is only about 2.7 times the size of planet Earth with a mass about 6.5 times heavier than Earth.

Based on the weight of its kind, scientists thought GJ 1214b contains 3 / 4 water liquid with a solid core of iron and nickel as well as hydrogen and helium atmosphere, which is similar to the Earth.

But in many other ways, this planet is a "cruel animal very different" from the Earth we live, the scientists said.

"Basically this is a vast ocean," said principal investigator David Charbonneau of the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"(On this planet) not a single continent that floats on top or up from the water."

More than that, GJ 1214b hotter than the Earth and the atmosphere ten times thicker than our planet, the researchers said.

This may make it difficult to live any way we know so far. For starters, the atmospheric pressure against the surface of the planet is a huge and very little light through the mist difficult to achieve the planet's oceans.

New planet like Earth is still very strange.

Super-Earth planet was discovered only by using MEarth project, a small telescope device unit based on Earth that is used to detect changes from minute to minute from the power light red stars dim nan called M dwarfs (dwarf stars).

Periodic Kelipan can starlight caused by planets transiting or separately around the stars. Since M dwarfs dwarf stars is more opaque than stars like the Sun, it becomes easier to trace the light power reduction caused by the planets the size of Earth's smaller mass.

1214b GJ Although not directly visible, the change must be in the starlight due to trace his journey, allowing astronomers to measure the size and mass of the planet, which will offer clues to the planet's composition.

And because the world tirta so close to Earth, according to Charbonneau, optical telescope based in space like the Hubble or the day Kepler can be used to sniff out the chemical content of the atmosphere must be similar to Earth's planet.

"A number of the light from the star through the atmosphere that dwarf planets similar to Earth are (such as sunlight through the Earth), and attached to the features of atoms and molecules there anything," said Charbonneau.

Overall, this discovery is "a milestone achievement" that could close the gap in the scientific planetologi, said Greg Laughin, astrophysics scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study.

"I always imagined as if the form of a planetary mass of the Earth six times that. Now we know. Planet is really very different from our solar system," said Laughlin. (*)

Source: National Geographic pages and journal Nature.

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Free Trade Area/ FTA

Year 2010, the domestic market will be increasingly inundated with technology goods from the outside, as the enforcement of free trade areas (free trade area / FTA) between Asean manufactured products to China.

A number of business associations such as the Indonesian Employers Association (Apindo) to actors in the SME sector enterprise (Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises) requested FTA agreement with China was postponed.

"Not a single Indonesian products in the manufacturing sector that could hit the market in China. In fact, precisely the opposite is true, we are going to increasingly become a market," said the chairman of Apindo Sofjan Wanandi.

Indonesia's ability to export into China market is in the field of raw materials or raw materials such as natural resources of gas, coal, or oil palm, while for products to be considered helpless.

Powerlessness against China it's been a long time. And FTA only confirmed the raid Indonesia helplessness manufactured goods, not only from China, but also from developed countries including the neighboring countries of ASEAN.

One Who?

Is there something wrong with the scientists and researchers in the country due to calm the nation deal with the powerlessness of this constant?

Secretary of State Ministry of Research and Technology Lakitan Benjamin admitted that not much research in the country, adopted by the industry and that people prefer to buy goods and technology from abroad.

"A lot of research in the country who do not salable, it could be because many technology products whose development is not oriented to the real needs of society," he admitted.

He asserted that it was not 100 percent wrong if more people chose technology from abroad, because the technology of vacuum in the country.

According to him, there are often differences in definitions of `anything-that-useful` between the researchers and industry, plus researchers are often preoccupied itself and not sensitive enough to the real problems and needs.

Meanwhile, Deputy Assistant Diffusion and Dissemination of State Ministry of Research Science and Technology, Santoso Yudo Warsono, remain optimistic in 2010 and welcomed the importance of innovation to increase the added value of export commodities.

"The need to innovate can not be separated from the conditions of our export commodities are still dominated by products of raw materials or intermediate goods. In fact, if the product will be processed first increase added value," he said.

According to him, actually had hundreds of innovations that have been developed by universities, R & D institutions such as BPPT, LIPI, Batan, industry, and even the general public, who are ready to be applied in the production sector.

"Whether in an effort to increase efficiency in poduksi processes, improve product quality, even to provide added value from natural raw materials with new product development," he said.

Examples of innovations that potentially penetrate the world market is what has been produced by Linawati Hardjito from IPB that has been developed to extract, process, use and formulation of mangrove seeds as a sunscreen active ingredients.

"The potential of our natural resources that one is often forgotten, but our society is traditionally much use of mangrove seeds to protect from the sun," he said.

Although it still needs some improvements like aroma that is preferred by consumers, but the results of this innovation has been targeted by foreign companies from Germany, he said.

In addition, any current BPPT has produced many innovations that not only can replace imported products in the country but also a market abroad, one of which is the Floating Pipe of Natural Rubber.(Dewanti Lestari)

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