Halo Definition and 57 Threads

http://www.arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508624 This paper offers a fairly natural explanation for the universality of dark matter halo profiles. In this model the mass accretion history has two distict phases, first a fast phase dominated by frequent mergers of smaller condensations of CDM...

I recently read the novels based on the Xbox game "Halo" and was wondering about the technology. 1) There was frequent mention of a "MAC gun" (Magnetic Accelerator Cannon). For those of you that are unfamiliar with the Halo books, this weapon uses magnetic force to accelerate a metallic...

ok i asked the lamp halo question a while ago and i got a pretty insatisfactory response. i can't find the original post, but i have a theory as to why it happens. and just to clarify the original question was why is it that when you look at a street lamp from far away you see like a halo...

My math and science center which only has 70 people to the class is having a lock in at the YMCA. With some friends we decided to make it into a halo LAN as we have done in previous years. We are having at least 8 xboxes, 8 tvs, 32 people playing--- 2: 16 people lans continusly with over 200...

Whats the deal with halo 2 beta? I have heard random stories from just news about it being leaked to the actual beta version of halo 2 being leaked. If someone does know where one could find the beta version please email me or contact me somehow I am not sure if it would be appropriate...

Photon splitting. It's effective use in Quantum Computation? Optical Parametric Generation In the photon picture shown above, a high frequency photon (blue) enters a crystal and is split into two lower frequency photons (green and red). Conservation of energy means that the sum of...

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