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POPS"Our World May Be A Giant Hologram" continues (full at source): For many months, the GEO600 team-members had been scratching their heads over inexplicable noise that is plaguing their giant detector. Then, out of the blue, a researcher approached them with an explanation. In fact, he had even predicted the noise before he knew they were detecting it. According to Craig Hogan, a physicist at the Fermilab particle physics lab in Batavia, Illinois, GEO600 has stumbled upon the fundamental limit of space-time - the point where space-time stops behaving like the smooth continuum Einstein described and instead dissolves into "grains", just as a newspaper photograph dissolves into dots as you zoom in. "It looks like GEO600 is being buffeted by the microscopic quantum convulsions of space-time," says Hogan.
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POPS10 ancient Greek writers you should know Archimedes was a mathematician, engineer, inventor, physicist and astronomer. He is known for the invention of The Archimedes’ Screw, a mechanism for moving water that is still in use today. He also calculated the value of pi very precisely. Archimedes discovered how to define the volume of irregular objects by submerging them in water. According to legend, this discovery made him run out on the street naked (he was so excited that he forgot to get dressed) and cry “Eureka!” – I have found it.
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POPS"The Man Who Invented The Twentieth Century" Much of his early work pioneered modern electrical engineering and many of his discoveries were of groundbreaking importance. During this period, in the United States, Tesla's fame rivaled that of any other inventor or scientist in history or popular culture, but due to his eccentric personality and unbelievable and sometimes bizarre claims about possible scientific and technological developments, Tesla was ultimately ostracized and regarded as a mad scientist. Never having put much focus on his finances, Tesla died impoverished at the age of 86.
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POPSCould we Create Quantum Creatures in the Lab? Water bears, similar to the one pictured here, can survive in a vacuum and might be made to behave like quantum objects Roger Penrose of the University of Oxford believes instead that there is a critical size, or mass, at which bodies cease to become quantum. According to Knight, experiments of the kind proposed by Romero-Isart's team could finally offer a way to distinguish between the mainstream view and Penrose's.
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POPSPhysicist unlocking the mysteries of neighboring galaxies "...Our observations also suggest that the Triangulum Galaxy is being ripped apart by Andromeda." Andromeda, and our own galaxy the Milky Way, are the two largest members of a small cluster of galaxies known as the Local Group. Triangulum, the third largest member of the Local Group, is about one-tenth the size of Andromeda. "Within a few billion years Triangulum will be completely destroyed by Andromeda and its stars will be dispersed throughout the Andromeda halo," says Dr. Widrow. "And a few billion years after that, Andromeda and the Milky Way will collide and merge together to form a giant elliptical galaxy."
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POPSEarth Experiment Could Buy Precious Time Initial results suggest that the biggest cooling would occur in the polar regions, which is consistent with theory, and is exactly the place where cooling is most needed. The big advantages of this scheme are that it uses sea water spray, a naturally occurring substance, and that it can be turned off immediately if there are any undesirable consequences.
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POPSHans Christian Ørsted : Who he was and why you owe him But no one had ever before scientifically documented the connection between electricity and magnetism, Cadden-Zimansky said. Ørsted's observation helped set the stage for the discovery of electromagnetic induction, whereby a changing magnetic field is used to produce an electric current and vice versa. Hans Christian Ørsted: 21st-Century Man Today Ørsted's fingerprints are on everything from medical scanners to your car's motor to theoretical invisibility devices. Cadden-Zimansky compared Ørsted's contribution to science to that made by another European scientist who lived more than a century before."Isaac Newton showed that the same phenomenon"—gravity—"causes a ball thrown into the air to fall down and the planets to orbit the sun," he said.Like electricity and magnetism, the different expressions of gravity "look like two different phenomena, but the same rules can describe them both. Ørsted's discovery was analogous."
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POPSProf. Stephen Hawking's life is "essentially worthless"' "you hear a lot of horror stories about such systems, most of them false. French health care is excellent. Canadians with chronic conditions are more satisfied with their system than their U.S. counterparts. And Medicare is highly popular, as evidenced by the tendency of town-hall protesters to demand that the government keep its hands off the program." If a taxpayer funded health care system is so terrible where are the howls of protest from Canadians, Australians, French, Swiss?
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POPSThe Great Silence Listen to the "music of life" here: All of the music samples here were produced from protein and DNA sequences:. How cool is that? Perhaps all that junk DNA, isn't junk after all. .:D
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POPSFlood of scientists continue to sign petition opposed to global warming alarmism "The purpose of the Petition Project is to demonstrate that the claim of “settled science” and an overwhelming “consensus” in favor of the hypothesis of human-caused global warming and consequent climatological damage is wrong. No such consensus or settled science exists. As indicated by the petition text and signatory list, a very large number of American scientists reject this hypothesis. You can view the petition at www.petitionproject.org "
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POPSStephen Hawking: "National Health Service Save My Life" "End-of-life counseling" is about living wills, advanced care directives, and power of attorney. It's about establishing what you want re: your care in advance so they're on record if you find yourself not in a position to express them yourself, e.g. a coma. It is NOT about euthanasia, or bureaucrats deciding who is worth keeping alive. That's an outright lie. AND the UK National Health Service is the reason Stephen Hawking is alive today.
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POPSRobinson awarded US honour "Throughout her career, in particular in her role as President of Ireland and as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and more recently through her work as founder of the Ethical Globalisation Initiative, Mary Robinson has been an outstanding advocate and champion for human rights and fairness for all. "Irish people everywhere are very proud of her being honoured by this award and her many achievements during a distinguished career of advocacy," he added.
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POPSScientists Make Radio Waves Travel Faster Than Light A Los Alamos National Laboratory gadget, called a polarization synchrotron, combines radio waves and a rapidly spinning magnetic field, which forces radio waves to travel faster than the speed of light. The resulting phenomenon could lead to new technologies in health and communications.
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POPSMarcelo Gleiser on How do We Know? Marcelo Gleiser, Appleton Professor of Natural Philosophy at Dartmouth College, is a theoretical physicist who has worked on a diverse set of topics: cosmology, particle physics, phase transitions, condensed matter physics and biophysics. an interesting take on the concept of reality and existence, notice the last statement: "In this case, and in a paradoxical way, the theories that we construct to amplify our view of physical reality will actually limit what we can know about nature."
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POPSIs Time Travel Possible? Of course it is! UFOs prove it! . :p We're only in 2009. What will we know in 100 years from now? Or a thousand? All things are possible. All things. Isn't that great? :D
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POPSPrinceton Physicist Congress Stopping Climate Change is Hilarious “The idea that Congress can stop climate change would be just hilarious if the actions they propose were not so damaging to the American people and even more to the poorer people of the world,” Happer said. “The so-called facts they are getting are just not true,” Happer explained. “ This is not a Democrat or Republican issue. As our Congressmen learn more about the facts, they will change their minds” and reject man-made climate fears. 'CO2 is not a pollutant' - Earth in 'CO2 famine' Happer noted that “CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is essential for life.” He added that the Earth will “be a better place with more CO2.” Happer testified before the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on February 25, 2009 . . .
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