OneBadAsp's definitions

Vala

1. A term in Asatru. "Seeress". Whether a practitioner of Galdr or Seid, this term designates a female diviner.

2. A character in Stargate SG-1. Vala Mal Doran is a theif, con-artist and recently a memeber of SG-1. She is played by Claudia Black.

1. Raven is a vala, she practices seid.

2. Vala gave birth to Adria who is an Ori in the flesh and is hellbent on converting everyone over to Origin (or killing them).

by OneBadAsp October 20, 2006

Quark

1. A basic building block of matter, thought to be impossible to break down into anything else. Quarks come in several varieties; protons and neutrons are each made up of three quarks in specific combinations.

2. The character on Star Trek Deep Space Nine who ran the bar.

1. It is now thought that neutrons themselves are composed of particles known as quarks, and this raises the possibility that in the centre of a neutron star these quarks may roam freely in a fluid form known as a 'quark soup'.

2. Quark was always getting into trouble with Odo, the cheif of security on Deep Space Nine.

by OneBadAsp October 21, 2006

White Hole

The counterpart to a black hole. In a black hole matter collapses inward to a singularity; in a white hole, matter pours out from a singularity. There are many similarities between the Big Bang and a white hole.

As well as black holes and white holes, relativists sometimes talk about grey holes.

by OneBadAsp October 21, 2006

Grey Hole

A grey hole is an object from which matter and radiation escape, rise to a certain distance above the event horizon, and then fall back in. Compare to a black hole and a white hole

In the case of White Holes, Black Holes, and of Grey Holes, they all have two singularities, one in the past and one in the future.

by OneBadAsp October 21, 2006

Ergosphere

The region of space close to a rotating black hole from which it is possible, in principle to, extract energy.

The outer boundary of the ergosphere is called the static limit.

by OneBadAsp October 21, 2006

Cosmic String

Thin loops of ultra dense engery, far narrower than the nucleus of an atom but stretching across vast distances, left over from the Big Bang and acting as gravitational 'seeds' on which the galaxies grew.

A piece of cosmic string just a mile long would weigh as much as the Earth. A cosmic string that stretched right across the universe could be scrunched up into a ball smaller than a single atom, but would weigh as much as a supercluster of galaxies.

by OneBadAsp October 21, 2006

Galaxy

A swarm of stars held together by gravity, like our own Milky Way. A typical galaxy may contain a hundred billion stars like our Sun.

In the clear night sky, if you're lucky not to have much light pollution, you can still see the Milky Way, our galaxy.

by OneBadAsp October 21, 2006