Rough draft excerpt from The Sons of Salem The Dreamer (the book i’m working on now)

Darkness loomed over the gloomy graveyard, as Devon stood before his
grandfathers grave stone. He didn’t know it but Taranis’ wheel loomed
over his head as lightning struck all around our hero. This is the
grand father that Devon and his father had seen in their livingroom so
long ago. He didn’t know why but there was a link he felt with him
even though he died before Devon was even born. His grand mother even
told him that the way he looked out of his eyes reminded her of her
long dead husband.

He had but one thought on his mind. What would have been different if
his grandfather had never died so long ago? Would it be that
different? How would his father be different if he had grown into a
man with someone to guide him into manhood? These questions our Devon
didn’t have an answer to, but he did know that there would be no way
to find out, so he stared at the stone that spelled the gloom of the
one he so longed to know all throughout his life.

He was doing everything in his soul to keep the thought of his lost
sister out of his mind, but the look of her just kept creeping back.
Why hadn’t he have known that this was going to happen to her. Why
couldn’t he, if he really does have all of this so-called power? Why
couldn’t he have saved her from her demise? Why would this happen to
her, why? His heart ached as deep sheering pain tore through his
heart, through his soul. He had faced loss in his life, but none had
cut him so deep. Was it his maturity? All of the other losses had come
when he was still young, but he loved them just as much as he had
loved his sister. Why is she so different? When his niece died…

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For me this is a long and drawn-out process, but when it comes
together there is little like it. I am far from done, but thought I
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Something I've been working on

World's Most Efficient Insulation Made From Synthetic Crystal Could Keep Satellites Pinging From Deepest Space

World's Most Efficient Insulation Made From Synthetic Crystal Could Keep Satellites Pinging From Deepest Space: "

But it only works at sub-freezing temperatures for now

Deep-space probes and scientific devices in Antarctica could soon get a new form of insulation based on synthetic crystals that stop and reflect heat. Such material could eventually lead to the best insulation ever created, even at room temperatures.

The crystals work by manipulating phonons, or vibrational waves that can carry either sound or heat depending on the frequency. Each crystal structure consists of alternating layers of silicon dioxide and a polymer material, so that the spacing between similar layers matches the wavelength of phonons. That allows the material to block and reflect back the phonons in the form of heat.

Most prior research used larger crystals to deal with sound-related phonons, but nanotechnology has given researchers the ability to create the tiny structures necessary to control heat-related phonons.

Phonons reflected by the new material represent low-frequency heat, and so the material only does its insulating trick in sub-freezing temperatures. That means the most immediate applications could involve protecting scientific instruments in an Antarctic environment, or insulating devices on spacecraft operating far from the sun.

But researchers hope to come up with room-temperature variants by thinning the layers that make up the crystal structure -- a necessary step toward reaching the range of a supposedly 'perfect insulator' that blocks heat at certain frequency ranges.

The work done by MIT researchers and their colleagues in Germany and Greece has greater possibilities beyond the 'perfect insulator.' The ability to control phonons could lead to more efficient ways of scavenging phonon-related heat in computers, cell phones and cars to create electricity.

And that's just the beginning, according to Edwin Thomas, a materials scientist and engineer at MIT. He compared the early scientific understanding of phonons with that of understanding electrons and photons behind electricity and light.

Mastering electrons and photons has led to technological innovations that built the modern world and gave us lasers, transistors, photovoltaic cells and microchips. Thomas believes that we may be sitting on the brink of a phonon-driven technological revolution as well.

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A cave is a natural opening in the ground extending beyond the zone of light and large enough to permit the entry of man. Occurring in a wide variety of rock types and caused by widely differing geological processes, caves range in size from single small rooms to interconnecting passages many miles long. The scientific study of caves is called speleology (from the Greek words spelaion for cave and logos for study). It is a composite science based on geology, hydrology, biology, and archaeology, and thus holds special interest for earth scientists of the U.S. Geological Survey.

Caves have been natural attractions since prehistoric times. Prolific evidence of early man’s interest has been discovered in caves scattered throughout the world. Fragments of skeletons of some of the earliest manlike creatures (Australopithecines) have been discovered in cave deposits in South Africa, and the first evidence of primitive Neanderthal Man was found in a cave in the Neander Valley of Germany. Cro-Magnon Man created his remarkable murals on the walls of caves in southern France and northern Spain where he took refuge more than 1O,000 years ago during the chill of the ice age.

There are many types of caves including fissure, talus, solutional, granite, slate, erosional, man-made, rare emerged sea caves, sea caves, and sandstone caves.

Amongst the most famous caves in the world are the caves in Mulu National Park, Sarawak, which was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 2001. Some of the caves there are world record holders, such as Gua Nasib Bagus which houses the world’s largest chamber – Sarawak Chamber. Clearwater Cave is the 10th longest in the world, at 110km. Deer Cave is one of the world’s largest passages. The Niah Caves, also in Sarawak, is a famous archaeological site. A 40,000 year old human skull has been found there, and the rock paintings have been dated at 1200 years. Near Kuching the caves of Bau can be visited.

Ice caves are very different from normal caves.
The term ice cave refers to any type of natural cave (most commonly lava tubes or limestone caves) that contains significant amounts of perennial (year-round) ice. At least a portion of the cave must have a temperature below 0 °C (32 °F) all year round, and water must have traveled into the cave’s cold zone.
The term ice cave is often used to describe a cavity formed within ice, which is properly called a glacier cave.

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