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Friday, October 26, 2007

Coffee Preparation

The processing of coffee normally designates the agricultural and industrial processes desirable to deliver whole roasted coffee beans to the consumer. Grinding the roasted coffee beans is done at a roastery, in a grocery store, or at home. It is most frequently ground at the roastery and sold to the consumer ground and packaged, though "whole-bean" coffee that is ground at home is becoming more popular, in spite of the extra effort required. A grind is referred to by its brewing method. "Turkish" grind, the finest, is meant for mixing straight with water, while the coarsest grinds, such as coffee percolator or French press, are at the other extreme. Midway between the extremes are the most common: "drip" and "paper filter" grinds, which are used in the most common home coffee brewing machines.

The "drip" machines function with near-boiling water passed in a slow stream through the ground coffee in a filter. The espresso method uses more advanced technology to force very hot water, through the ground coffee, ensuing in a stronger flavor and chemical changes with more coffee bean matter in the drink. Once brewed, it may be presented in a variety of ways: on its own, with sugar, with milk or cream, hot or cold, and so on. Roasted arabica beans are also eaten plain and covered with chocolate. See the article on coffee preparation for a complete list.

Monday, October 15, 2007

Electron

In relativistic quantum mechanics, the electron is described by the direct Equation which defines the electron as a point. In quantum field theory, the activities of the electron are described by quantum electrodynamics, a gauge theory. In Dirac's model, an electron is defined to be a mathematical point, a point-like, exciting bare particle surrounded by a sea of interacting pairs of virtual particles and antiparticles. The extraordinarily precise agreement of this forecast with the experimentally resolute value is viewed as one of the great achievements of modern physics.
In the Standard Model of particle physics, the electron is the first-generation stimulating lepton. It forms a weak isospin doublet with the electron neutrino, these two particles cooperate with each other through both the charged and neutral current weak interaction. The electron is very similar to the two more massive particles of higher generations, the muon and the tau lepton, which are identical in charge, spin, and interface but differ in mass.

Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Music

Music is an art form that involve what are sometimes organised sounds and silence, although in some forms of 20th century aleatoric, and certainly improvisational music, as well as most Eastern traditions such as Gamelou, this is not the case. It is uttered in terms of pitch, rhythm, and the quality of sound.Music may also involve generative forms in time through the building of patterns and combinations of natural stimulus, principally sound. Music may be used for artistic or aesthetic, expansive, entertainment, ceremonial or religious purposes and by many composers purely as an academic system for study.
Performance is the effecting of music. While music cannot technically exist without performance, we generally think of presentation as being the exhibition of a musical work before an audience. A musical work is performed once its structure and instrumentation are reasonable to its creators; however, as it gets performed more and more over time, it can evolve and adjust in any number of ways.