Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Science Stuff

The Telegraph wrote The 10 weirdest physics facts, from relativity to quantum physics. "Physics is weird. There is no denying that. Particles that don’t exist except as probabilities; time that changes according to how fast you’re moving; cats that are both alive and dead until you open a box. We’ve put together a collection of 10 of the strangest facts we can find, with the kind help of cosmologist and writer Marcus Chown, author of We Need To Talk About Kelvin, and an assortment of Twitter users."

Symmetry Breaking of Fermilab wrote Hogan’s holometer: Testing the hypothesis of a holographic universe "In 2008, Fermilab particle astrophysicist Craig Hogan made waves with a mind-boggling proposition: The 3D universe in which we appear to live is no more than a hologram. Now he is building the most precise clock of all time to directly measure whether our reality is an illusion."

Meanwhile, we've found the oldest thing we've ever seen, "Using the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have looked back to find the most distant galaxy so far. “We are observing a galaxy that existed essentially when the Universe was only about 600 million years old, and we are looking at this galaxy – and the Universe – 13.1 billion years ago”" Ars has more.

And just to put all this in context, here's Jesus and Mo...


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