God Awful Things

Did you know that time is real? [discovermagazine.com] My favorite from the list of 10 Things Everyone Should Know About Time.. 2. The past and future are equally real. This isn’t completely accepted, but it should be. Intuitively we think that the “now” is real, while the past is fixed and in the books, and the future [...]

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I should just copy and paste the whole article [TechnologyReview.com], but I know that’s a no no. … they say, is exactly what you’d expect if the universe were eternally cyclical. By that, they mean that each cycle ends with a big bang that starts the next cycle. In this model, the universe is a [...]

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Hey, you remember back when we were just a hologram on the universes credit card? I know what you’re saying.. “That’s some insane shit! Like japanese insane!” and I would say.. “Well, they do have a hologram pop singer..” that’s right, not even real! Not mind blowing enough? Well lets get back to how we [...]

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So Stephen Hawkings new book came out, it’s called The Grand Design Here’s what Ol’ Steve (that’s what I call him) Hawkings has to say.. In The Grand Design we explain why, according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence, or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe [...]

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Yall remember the Drake Equation? But what about in the MULTIVERSE?! There’s an equation for that! Over at the Technology Review they’ve got an article on just this. He begins by considering the total set of universes in the multiverse and defines the subset in which the parameters and fundamental constants are compatible with the [...]

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Our world may be a giant hologram! Yep.. want  some light reading? check out this article at the new scientist. 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 [...]

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Slow news week thanks to.. thanks to… something.. anyway, over at copybot they have (well, their list) of the 50 most interesting articles on wikipedia. 1. Marree Man 2. War Plan Red 3. Vela Incident 4. Tybee Bomb 5. United States Numbered Highways 6. Wow! Signal 7. Tube Bar Prank Calls 8. Kola Superdeep Borehole 9. Back to the Future Timeline 10. Year Without a [...]

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As we discussed a couple weeks ago, those pesky Higgs particles being so abhorrent to nature, they are actually traveling back through time to prevent their discovery.  Well, further evidence to prove it’s really happening! From Popsci: The bird dropped some bread on a section of outdoor machinery, eventually leading to significant over heating in [...]

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Weren’t we just talking about quantum tunneling a couple days ago in a manner completely unrelated to the subject?  Is it possible that I qauntumly tunneled that post? Posting it before I posted it? Buh. “We have broken the speed of light” proclaim a couple of German physicist.. Pretty short on details, and this is [...]

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This was going around the internets last week and I wanted to write something about it then, but I was busy at work (hence posting pictures), but now I am just trying to look busy as opposed to actually being busy, so there is time to write this up. Over at the New York Times [...]

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