Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jan 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002iaf..confe.644r&link_type=abstract
IAF abstracts, 34th COSPAR Scientific Assembly, The Second World Space Congress, held 10-19 October, 2002 in Houston, TX, USA.,
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
I and the other members of the team Celestial Generation dedicate this interactive CD-ROM to our Physics, Astronomy, Biology and English teachers. The members of the team that created the project are Rosen Ralev, Nadezhda Radeva, Iliyan Darganov and Yana Radeva from Technical University of Sofia, the English High schools - Varna, Technical University of Varna and Connecticut College. The leader of the project is Mrs. Veselka Radeva - an astronomer from the Astronomical Observatory in Varna. The main idea of the project " The Living Universe" is that water is a cradle of life in the Universe. As water so abundant in the Universe, life. The project has 4 main themes, combining knowledge from the fields of Biology and Astronomy, one Gallery with our photographs and one amusing theme with interesting and curious facts about life on the Earth and in the Universe. The statistics of our project is: 152 pages and 425 pictures. Over 2/3 from the pictures are ours and we used the rest of them with the kind permission of their authors.The theme Living Water starts with a lyric poem by Petya Dubarova. In the first under-theme- "Water-the cradle of life" introduce you graphics of the structure of the water molecule and its important biological properties. The thesis continues following out the origin and development of life in the oceans on our planet. The next to the last under-theme - sensitive life in water is devoted to dolphins. The third under-theme is " Water in the Universe". Here two of the themes show results from the observations with the space telescope Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite, that found water steams in the interstellar space and around a star in the constellation Leo ( it is supposed that this is a huge comet cloud). This third theme is the most extensive one in this section- it examines the possibility of water being available on each planet in the Solar system: Mercury-most likely there is ice on the polar areas that are the coolest .On Venus it is assumed that there could be living bubble-like creatures in the clouds that are situated 55 km above the surface .A million years ago there was water on Mars. It shows the most recent pictures on which there can be seen the bottom of an ancient ocean. The theme about Mars is enormous and very interesting .The theme continues with the ice cover of Europa . In the places where that ice is broken there could be found life .What follows is the article about the icy satellite of Jupiter-Calisto that has salt oceans under the ice cover .The theme - comets-the space icebergs of the Solar system, leads to the end of the major theme about the water in the Universe. All pictures in this part were made by the group. The next main theme is "The miracle of life". This is the interesting and extensive biological part that includes many themes: it start with the origin of the Universe till the appearance of life on the Earth, the main differences between the living and the non-living; we examine the different definitions of life, the stages of origin of living organisms on our planet. The next main theme is "Habitable worlds". In the first under-theme "The unique planet" there are shown all the conditions in the Solar system that make it unique. Its uniqueness could be the reason why life had developed only in our Solar system. In the next under-theme about the Moon presents the views of the future of the Moon-where there could be situated Moon bases. The next under-theme "Europe-life in the ice breakings". It is most likely that living organisms could exist not only in the oceans under the ice, but also in huge ice breakings. The next information is about Ganymede and Calisto. What is interesting about Titan is that the spot that was seen by scientists most likely has organic composition. Life having been brought by comets is an interesting and disputed theme, but I think that comets spread life in the planet systems. The last theme is bacterial colonizing-it is known that space bacteria can exist in the interstellar. And a script about interstellar bacterial colonizing finishes that theme . Another main theme is SETI. The most interesting things here are the 7 projects for searching for extraterrestrial civilizations. For each project the group found information in 4 areas: by whom it is carried out; what are the goals of the project; what are the technical meanings and how it works. The next under-themes are "Alien forms of life" and "Are we alone?". "The wonderful Universe" is a theme, in which there are included 40 interesting and curious facts about life on the Earth, planets and stars. Here there are 6 images by NASA and the rest 34 were made by me, following the nice text. "The Gallery is my favorite part of the CD-ROM. Here you can find astrophotos made with telescopes in National Astronomical Observatory -Rozhen, space pictures and photo-collages.
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