![]() As they are tightly rooted in our heads (luckily), the best thing they can do is to stand up, away from all the other hairs. Therefore, the hairs try to move away from each other. Things with the same charge repel each other. When you do that, the hat rubs against your hair, and some electrons move from your hair to the wool and in this way each of the hairs become positively charged. This explains why your hair stands on end when you take off a sweater or a wool hat. If two things have opposite charges, they attract each other if they have like charges, they repel each other. Static electricity is the imbalance of positive and negative charges. When charges are separated like this, it is called static electricity. Atoms that gain new electrons acquire a negative charge, whereas those that lose them become positively charged. But if we rub two objects against each other, some electrons can move from one atom to the other. Protons have a positive charge, electrons have a negative charge, and neutrons have no electrical charge, they are neutral.Ītoms usually have the same number of protons and electrons, so positive charges and negative charges offset each other, so the overall charge of the atom is neutral. One way they are different is the electrical charge. The particles that make up atoms are called protons, neutrons, and electrons, and they are very different from each other. We did not know this when the atom was named. Although the word atom means “indivisible,” atoms are made up of even smaller particles. Studying this imbalance could help scientists paint a clearer picture of why our universe is matter-filled.All the objects we see are made up of tiny particles called atoms. Physicists may find hints as to what this process might be by studying the subtle differences in the behaviour of matter and antimatter particles created in high-energy proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider. In the same way, some unknown mechanism could have interfered with the oscillating particles to cause a slight majority of them to decay as matter. However, if a special kind of marble rolled across a table of spinning coins and caused every coin it hit to land on its head, it would disrupt the whole system. ![]() In the same way, half of the oscillating particles in the early universe should have decayed as matter and the other half as antimatter. A coin has a 50-50 chance of landing on its head or its tail, so if enough coins are spun in exactly the same way, half should land on heads and the other half on tails. It can land on its heads or its tails, but it cannot be defined as "heads" or "tails" until it stops spinning and falls to one side. Some unknown entity intervening in this process in the early universe could have caused these "oscillating" particles to decay as matter more often than they decayed as antimatter.Ĭonsider a coin spinning on a table. Researchers have observed spontaneous transformations between particles and their antiparticles, occurring millions of times per second before they decay. Physicists are keen to discover the reasons why. In the past few decades, particle-physics experiments have shown that the laws of nature do not apply equally to matter and antimatter. Nevertheless, a tiny portion of matter – about one particle per billion – managed to survive. If matter and antimatter are created and destroyed together, it seems the universe should contain nothing but leftover energy. During the first fractions of a second of the Big Bang, the hot and dense universe was buzzing with particle-antiparticle pairs popping in and out of existence. Matter and antimatter particles are always produced as a pair and, if they come in contact, annihilate one another, leaving behind pure energy. The positively charged positron, for example, is the antiparticle to the negatively charged electron. One of the greatest challenges in physics is to figure out what happened to the antimatter, or why we see an asymmetry between matter and antimatter.Īntimatter particles share the same mass as their matter counterparts, but qualities such as electric charge are opposite. Something must have happened to tip the balance. Comparatively, there is not much antimatter to be found. ![]() But today, everything we see from the smallest life forms on Earth to the largest stellar objects is made almost entirely of matter. The Big Bang should have created equal amounts of matter and antimatter in the early universe.
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Additionally, you'll need to install software, namely Plex media server for the Pi. You'll need little more than a Raspberry Pi board, microSD card, case, peripherals such as a keyboard and mouse, as well as an active internet connection. However, I'd suggest at least a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ or, better yet, a Raspberry Pi 4 Plex server.īuilding a Raspberry Pi Plex server is pretty easy. Any Raspberry Pi 2 or newer board should be able to handle Plex server use. This is a project mostly suited to in-home streaming to direct-play compatible Plex clients. Plus, the Pi sips energy whereas even a low-power server that's always-on will still drive up your energy bill at least a bit.Īlthough you technically can transcode on a Raspberry Pi Plex media server, you can't transcode well. Still, the price-to-performance ratio is fantastic. While you can create a Raspberry Pi-based Plex server, performance won't match that of a dedicated server, or even an older laptop or desktop. Cord-cutting features such as ad-supported streaming movies and TV shows, Tidal integration, web shows, and podcastsĬonsidering its modest specs, you might wonder if a Raspberry Pi can even run a Plex server.Stream your movie, TV show, and music collection to compatible client devices.While it began with a media server focus, Plex added features such as podcasts, web shows, streaming news, Tidal integration, DVR functionality, and now free ad-supported movies and TV shows thereby positing it as a true cord-cutting haven. Furthermore, Plex evolved into the ultimate app for cord-cutters. If I'm on vacation and want to watch a movie, I can merely pull it up on a Plex client such as my phone, tablet, or laptop. Plus, there's the convenience of being able to access my media library from anywhere. But you can easily back your digital media collection to onsite drives or cloud storage providers. Sure, hard drives are far from infallible. Discs can get scratched and suffer from disc rot, so a back up digital copy means extra redundancy. ![]() ![]() While I'm still a dedicated collector of physical media, from VHS tapes and LaserDiscs to DVDs, Blu-Rays, and vinyl, having my entire movie, TV show, and music collection backed up on my Plex server is a huge bonus. Initially, I ran a Plex server off of an aging AMD A10 APU-powered HP laptop before graduating to a Xeon-powered Lenovo ThinkServer TS140. My Plex journey began in 2016 when I began ripping my DVDs and Blu-Rays. Why You Should Use Plex for a Raspberry Pi Media Server Aside from a Raspberry Pi, Plex can run on Docker, Linux, macOS, Windows, and FreeBSD. Aside from videos and audio, Plex can host photos as well. Then, Plex scrapes your libraries and adds box art and metadata for a lush user interface. Whereas streaming subscription services like Hulu and Netflix host content, with Plex you provide content such as movies, TV shows, and music. 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The Centurion’s engine runs oversquare, the Bonanza’s does notįor the first time in X-Plane’s history you’re going to pay attention to your RPM/MAP settings. It was made to last! Its landing gear can make it land on a carrier. When the first Bonanza came out it was the late 40s, there was a small number of paved runways and many pilots operated the Bo out of 1000′ grass runways. You can’t use it as aribrake, you can’t lower or raise it while turning (to not bend the gear doors). Many owners have had issues with the Centurion’s landing gear, especially if they still have the gear doors. The Centurion landing gear is made out of crystal, the Bonanza’s is the toughest in the market If you don’t accurately load the F33 before flight you may get a CG out of limits during flight. Also, the CG will move aft while burning fuel. You can pack four people and baggages only by sacrifying fuel. Also, its CG falls right in the middle of the fuel tanks, so burning fuel doesn’t move it. You can fit everything in it, pack six people on-board with baggages, full fuel and still be under the MTOW. The C210 is well known to be a super hauler. The Centurion hauls your John Deere tractor, the Bonanza doesn’t And the C210 and the Bo are not an exception despite having the same engine and almost the same maximum weight. This shows that no airplane is like another. The Bonanza, despite being in the same category, is a low wing that feels very light on controls, both on pitch and on roll axis. We managed to simulate this heaviness so you, the pilot, can feel the weight of the airplane while flying in X-Plane. ![]() The Centurion is a heavy high wing and it feels heavy. The Centurion flies like a truck, the Bonanza is a Cadillac ![]() So you’ll have the opportunity to use both the turbo and the non-turbo version of the same engine (that now we know very well). The only remarcable difference is the turbo. The Bonanza has a Continental IO-520-BB, that is fuel Injected, Opposite cylinders with 520 cubic inches of displacement. The T210 we made is powered by a Continental TSIO-520-R wich means Turbo Supercharged, fuel Injected, Opposite cylinders with 520 cubic inches of displacement. The Centurion and the Bonanza have (almost) the same engine You’ll find out that using them both in X-Plane will teach you many things about real world flying. Why the Bonanza instead of the Baron, the C337, the brand new T182T or any other airplane? We are going to expand the REP saga to the Carenado’s F33A Bonanza. ![]() Here are some features of the Shark DuoClean: Duoclean Technology On the other hand, a HEPA filter takes away even the smallest of debris. It offers a DuoClean Bristle Brush, carpet deep cleaning, easy to remove dust cup, and a noise reduction feature. It’s a more advanced cleaning tool with an inbuilt Duoclean technology. 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Here are 10 ways to pack like a minimalist: Travel now feels less like work and more like leisure thanks to minimalist packing. Traveling with less stuff has freed us to enjoy the destination-and each other’s company-more. Now, each member of our family of six travels with only his/her own backpack. Then, we began traveling with only carry-ons. Much lighter.įirst, we stopped overstuffing our large suitcases. I’d spent some of my twenties “country hopping” with just a small suitcase-from Egypt to southern Spain to Northern Ireland.Īs our family gravitated toward minimalism, we began to realize we could pack lighter. Before minimalism, the mere mention of travel invoked one response: stress.Ī road trip involved our family of four stuffing every “just in case” possession into oversized, difficult-to-maneuver suitcases that barely fit in our limited trunk space and then exploded upon opening at our destination.Īn overstuffed suitcase became a pending cascade of stuffed animals, diapers, library books, accessories, umbrellas, umpteen pairs of shoes… all ready to overtake the confines of our small hotel room the minute we arrived.īut being that travel is one of my first loves, this never sat well. ![]() Notes of 'Markup - HTML' are not affected by edits in the Rich Text editor as this conversion does not take place.Īll reference links ( ) are converted to inline links ( ()) when Joplin saves changes from the Rich Text editor. 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TLDR: Avoid using Markdown plugins if you primarily intend to use the Rich Text editor, and be aware of the editor's limitations.Īt its core, Joplin stores notes in Markdown format. ![]() ![]() Though perhaps not thorough enough for one who may focus his or her studies on one of these cities or on architecture, the case studies nevertheless give a fascinating glimpse into the way that these places’ citizens view their own spot in history and how they deal with their collective and individual memories of the past. This second part of the book is particularly useful for a reader interested in art and architecture and could provide an interesting perspective and background knowledge for visiting any of the mentioned sites. The fourth city, Prague, city of Kafka, is a central figure in “Europa’s Eros,” a city in which every clock strikes at the same time and yet each suggests a different idea of time. Petersburg views cultural memory and nostalgia, to the open embodiment of the East-West dialectic in Berlin. According to Boym, “Places are contexts for remembrances and debates about the future, not symbols of memory or nostalgia,” and in her personal accounts of visiting each place, she discusses their unique ways of dealing with the traces of a Soviet past, from the megalomaniacal attempts by Moscow to eliminate all Soviet traces and rediscover a mythic past, to the humorous irony with which St. Petersburg, Berlin, and Prague–and explores various physical spaces within each. Part two takes the reader on a journey through four cities in their post-Soviet conditions–Moscow, St. Reflective nostalgia is about individual and cultural memory, and in cultivating shattered fragments of the past and in producing art and literature based on the algia, temporalizes space. Restorative nostalgia is about national past and future, and includes projects such as the Sistine Chapel restoration, which spatialize time. Modern nostalgia, however, is much more related to the mourning for an impossible mythical return, for the “loss of an enchanted world with clear borders and values.” Boym then goes on to distinguish between the two main types of nostalgia: reflective, which dwells in the algia, in the dreams of a different place and time and restorative, which, emphasizing the nostos and not recognizing itself as being nostalgic, attempts complete reconstructions of monuments of the past in the search for, or supposed recreation of, truth. This pseudo-Greek combination of nostos-the return home-and algia-longing-, was first coined by Swiss doctor Johannes Hofer in 1688 as a disease of wartime suffered by unhappy soldiers who longed to return home. At the very least, she has indicated useful places to look for anyone especially curious about, for example, the Royal Palace in Berlin, or about any of the case studies.īoym begins the study by tracing the history of the word nostalgia. Nonetheless, the sectioning of the study pertains to Boym’s interdisciplinary approach, providing the reader a glimpse into the subject through the mediums of art, architecture, literature, and even pop culture. While it allows one to focus on an individual section or chapter of interest without necessarily needing to refer to others, it also at times makes it a bit difficult to maintain the comparative thread and sort out the diverse types of nostalgia presented, unless perhaps through actually mapping these out. Splitting her work into three parts, each of which is then further subdivided into independent yet interrelated case studies, one could realistically review each part as a book within a book, and this structure is both a strength and a point of difficulty. Moreover, she has done so in an accessible way, building both a serious study and an engaging historical story that could attract more than just the standard academic reader. ![]() If the Russian exiles and immigrants who live or lived in the United States were reluctant to speak on their own behalf, then Boym has decided to present their case for them. In the study, Boym alternates between critical reflection and storytelling in the attempt to solve the riddles in which nostalgia speaks, and as a native of Russia, she is adamant about giving a voice to the Eastern European, who has suffered an unfair history of turbulence and who carries a tangible burden of nostalgia, but whose personal voice is too often overlooked. |
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