Ευχή

Κοσμικοί κήποι - The Carina Nebula: Star Birth in the Extreme / NASA, ESA, STScI

Θερμή ευχή σε φίλες και φίλους για 
"χρόνια πολλά με κήπους όμορφους στη σκέψη σας"!

Με τις ευχαριστίες μου στη Ναταλία για την όμορφη ευχή

AC/DC

70 years from his death

Nikola Tesla (Serbian: Никола Тесла; born 10 July 1856, died 7 January 1943) was an inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer. He was an important contributor to the birth of commercial electricity, and is best known for his many revolutionary developments in the field of electromagnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current (AC) electric power systems, including the polyphase system of electrical distribution and the AC motor. This work helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.
Born an ethnic Serb in the village of Smiljan (now part of Gospić), in the Croatian Military Frontier of the Austrian Empire (modern-day Croatia), Tesla was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. Because of his 1894 demonstration of wireless communication through radio and as the eventual victor in the "War of Currents", he was widely respected as one of the greatest electrical engineers who worked in America. He pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. In the United States during this time, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture. Tesla demonstrated wireless energy transfer to power electronic devices as early as 1893, and aspired to intercontinental wireless transmission of industrial power in his unfinished Wardenclyffe Tower project.

Interplanetary magnetic field and Dst index (intensity profile proxy of a geospace magnetic storm), 

both measured in nanoTeslas 

(from a paper by Daglis et al., Planetary and Space Science, 2007)

The SI unit measuring magnetic field B (also referred to as the magnetic flux density and magnetic induction), the tesla (T), was named in his honor (at the CGPM, Paris, 1960).

Nikola Tesla on the 100 Serbian dinar banknote, 2006 issue, front

Eye in the sky

Ring Nebula (M57) / The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)

Don't say words you're gonna regret 
Don't let the fire rush to your head 
I've heard the accusation before 
And I ain't gonna take any more 
Believe me 
The sun in your Eyes 
Made some of the lies worth believing 

I am the eye in the sky 
Looking at you 
I can read your mind 
I am the maker of rules 
Dealing with fools

Eric Woolfson and Alan Parsons [Eye in the sky, 1982]

Eye in the Sky - Alan Parsons

New Year - Better Year

Begging mother with child at the Dome of the Rock. Temple Mount, Jerusalem 2012 / © I.A. Daglis

Wishes for a Better Year, with less material and spiritual poverty

Winter streets

Orion Nebula / © Fanis Matsopoulos

The stars, escaping,
Evaporate in acrid mists.
The houses, rearing themselves higher,
Assemble among the clouds.
Night blows through me.
I am clear with its bitterness.
I tinkle along brick canyons
Like a crystal leaf.
Evelyn Scott [Winter Streets, 1920]
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