Filed under: 10-Misc
I was watching a recent Hubble telescope show on TV and some of the statements by scientists were quite startling.
There is five times more Dark Matter [DM] (we don’t know what this is) then there is Physical Matter[PM].(atoms, chemicals etc.)
Otherwise galaxies would fly apart – something is holding them together – Dark Matter.
Even if you add the Dark Matter and the Physical Matter, the universe is still missing 2/3 of the matter.
Let’s say that we have knowledge of 1/1000 of the physical world.( I’m being generous, but we have to start somewhere.)
If PW = X
What we know = 1/1000X
DM = 5X
X + 5 X = 1/3 Total (T)
6X = 1/3 T
18X = T
What we know of everything = 1/18000 = .0000555
Filed under: 07-Health
An article from the April 2009 Consumer Reports on Health showed how easy it is to build your strength with minimal training. Instead of the two to three sets of ten of each exercise, they said that one set of strength type exercises builds about 66% as much strength as two sets. (They didn’t mention what percentage that is of three sets.) They also recommended that you lift slowly (two seconds) and then lower even more slowly (4 seconds).
While I’ve found is that I can get stronger by lifting weights just twice a week, I’m going to give the one set method a try and see how it works.
For people over 60 they also recommended lifting just twice a week to let muscles recover.
