gamma rays.noun
very high frequency electromagnetic-radiation,
emitted from stars, as a result of
radioactive
decay. They are like X-rays,
but shorter in length. Only lead or collision with an atom can stop them.
Gamma rays come from deep space and emanate
from
explosions that blast their energy out in all directions. What causes
this is a mystery. "We don't know how this is happening" says Tsvi Piri
of Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Gamma rays carry positive energy produced by annihilation
when an electron and its
antiparticle
a positron collide. Like neutrinos,
they go through us all the time.
"GRBs (Gamma ray bursts) are brief intense discharges
of radiation believed to be the most energetic
phenomenon
in the Universe...a spinning black hole forms, which both destroys the
star (leading to a supernova)
and produces jets of particles
traveling near the speed of light, which give rise to a gamma ray burst
(GRB)." ... Astronomy, January, 2000, pages 32.
Gamma rays have no set pattern of rise and fall,
and disappear quickly from view, most of them occurring for only seconds,
not allowing enough time for telescopes to track what is happening. However,
some last more than a minute, releasing vast amounts of energy, estimated
to be about 1038ergs in
their few seconds sometimes about a minute) of life. The Sun, for comparison,
emits about the same amount of energy, but over 7 hours. Such massive explosions
(beyond the ability to see with visible light – without special detection
equipment, we would not even know that they are there) regularly occurring
"out there" has shocked many scientific disciplines.
We know that they are not generated by the Sun
or any planets. No one is sure exactly where they arise, but it's somewhere
beyond a thousand light years away, where matter seems to act so differently.
genome.noun,
genomic.adjective
the total genetic-(heredity-factors)
compliment (things which agree with each other) of a cell or organism
Genomic DNA is the total of an individual's DNA
present in one cell, or to put it another way – every cell of every living
thing inherently
contains a formula for the particular variety of life that it is. That
is how the rose 'knows' it's a rose and the daisy, a daisy.
This formula is the genome, being a complete haploid
(single set of chromosomes)
with its associated genes, or, the complete genetic makeup, and written
(encoded) in
DNA's language.
The total human genome is about 3 billion base
pairs (6 billion in double stranded DNA). This is being
categorized
along with reams of other related
information to stab at understanding how it was all put together, so we
can, in utter ignorance, manipulate
natural life processes, in a futile
race to increase knowledge of how to better patch up the body.
All this necessitated due to widespread (and increasing)
ignorance of optimizing the body
through providing proper nutrition.
An escalating amount of money towards 'effect'
research (example, the cancer 'virus',
the AIDS 'virus', etc.) responds
to the monstrous need created by this inferior (it often leads to a dead
end, expensive and complicated misknowledge of health.
This in turn results in foodstuffs most people
today in ignorance ingest,
continuing detrimental contributions
toward their health declination,
fueled by their desire for taste over nutrition.
The further we become distanced from
natural methods
of health maintenance and away from the causes of various illnesses,
the greater the presssure to solve compounding problems caused by the inferior
alternate.
gobbledygook.noun
wordy and generally unintelligible jargon
imitative of the gobbling of a turkey
gradualism
refers to the theory
that macro evolution proceeds through the slow and basically constant accumulation
of many small changes in order to effect larger changes
This theory predicts that the fossil record would
provide abundant evidence of intermediary life forms as one species
is progressively transformed into another.
GeV
'giga (109)
electron-volt'.
An unexcited electron is said to be at rest at 0.5
MeV.
One GeV is the energy a proton would
acquire while being accelerated through a voltage drop of one billion volts.
Particle accelerators reach energies of 103 GeV.
gall.noun
something bitter or distasteful; bitter feeling;
rancor;
impudence;
audacity;
effrontery;
a sore on the skin caused by rubbing or chafing; irritation, annoyance,
vexation
synonym.temerity
transitive
verb use.to irritate, annoy, vex;
a spot worn bare; to make the skin sore by rubbing or chafing; to become
sore from rubbing or chafing
Gypsy.noun,.plural.Gypsies.
a member of a nomadic
people that arrived in Europe in migrations from northern India around
the 14th century, now also living in North America and Australia; many
Gypsy groups have preserved elements of their traditional culture, including
an itinerant existence, tribal
organization, and the Romany language; one inclined to a nomadic, unconventional
way of life
grotesque.adjective
characterized by distortions
or striking incongruities in
appearance, shape, manner, etc.; bizzare
grotesquerie or grotesquery.nouns
the quality or state of being grotesque
group theory.noun
the mathematical study of symmetry,
where group is a set of mathematical objects (something you may be analyzing
mathematically, like perhaps the fractal
patterns shown in a group of fronds
in a thicket of ferns) linked by math rules (algorithms)
Horace Greeley. 1811-1872.
American journalist and politician who founded and edited the New York
Tribune (1841-1872) and in 1872 he ran unsuccessfully for President
garner, garnered,
garnering,
garners.transitive
verbs
to gather fresh grains for storing in a granary;
to amass; acquire;
reap
garner.noun
a granary
gruff, gruffer,
gruffest.adjectives
brusk or
stern
in manner or appearance (a gruff reply); hoarse;
harsh:
a gruff voice. [Dutch grof, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German.] --gruff“ly
adv. --gruff“ness n.
guttural.adjective
of or relating to the throat; having a harsh,
grating quality, as certain sounds produced in the back of the mouth
gutturalism.or.gutturality.or.gutturalness.noun
gutturally.adverb
growl.noun
the low, guttural, menacing
sound made by an animal (the growl of a dog); a gruff,
surly.utterance
growl, growled,
growling,
growls.verbs
intransitive
verb use.to emit
a low, guttural sound or utterance; to speak in an angry or surly manner
transitive verb use.to
utter by growling (growled the orders)
growly.adjective