sábado, 8 de maio de 2010

kaler

In dense portions of the Milky Way, stellar images appear to overlap, giving the e ̈ect of a near-continuous sheet of light . . . The e ̈ect is a grand illusion. In reality . . . the nightime sky is remarkably empty. Of the volume of space only 1 part in 1021 [one part in a quin- tillion] is ®lled with stars. (Kaler 1997)

I like these words

acoustic quantum, sonal atom, grain, glisson, grainlet, trainlet, Gaussian elementary signal, Gaussian pulse, short-time segment, sliding window, microarc, voicel, Coi ̄et, symmlet, Gabor atom, Gabor wavelet, gaborette, wavelet, chirplet, LieÂnard atom, FOF, FOG, wave packet, Vosim pulse, time-frequency atom, pulsar, waveset, impulse, toneburst, tone pip, acoustic pixel

kaler

The cosmos, like the sky on a turbulent summer day, is ®lled with clouds of di ̈erent sizes, shapes, structures, and distances. Some are swelling cumulus, others light, wispy cirrusÐall of them constantly changing colliding, forming, and evaporating. (Kaler 1997)