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  • Reaching for the Stars

    Mars in 6 weeks? And back in a total of four months? That’s the prediction of a design team working on antimatter rocket concepts at Pennsylvania State University. But first, you have to get the stuff – and store it. (PSU) The popular belief is that an antimatter particle coming in contact with its matter…

  • Ring World

    Impact armor, a flexible form of clothing that hardens instantly into a rigid form stronger than steel when rapidly deformed (for example, by the impact of a projectile such as a bullet) – a technology which is quickly approaching reality; in fact being tested during the 2006 Winter Olympics as a product called d3o Lest…

  • Testing Einstein’s Universe

    See larger picture of below hereComputer art showing the warping of space-time and the GP-B satellite. Artist: James Overduin and Pancho Eekels. Our aim is to make “spacetime” a relevant concept in your understanding of the universe, to make “gyroscopes” a recognizable tool in the technology of your world, and to illustrate how even the…

  • Breakthrough Propulsion Physics?

    Shuttle Main Engine Test Firing-1981-A remote camera captures a close-up view of a Space Shuttle Main Engine during a test firing at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Hancock County, Mississippi. Spacecraft propulsion is used to change the velocity of spacecraft and artificial satellites, or in short, to provide delta-v. There are many different…

  • Gravity and Electromagnetism?

    “Yet I exist in the hope that these memoirs, in some manner, I know not how, may find their way to the minds of humanity in Some Dimensionality, and may stir up a race of rebels who shall refuse to be confined to limited Dimensionality.” from Flatland, by E. A. Abbott Oskar Klein and Theodor…

  • The Radius of the Little Circle

    Where a dictionary proceeds in a circular manner, defining a word by reference to another, the basic concepts of mathematics are infinitely closer to an indecomposable element”, a kind of elementary particle” of thought with a minimal amount of ambiguity in their definition. Alain Connes With such a statement, the “purity of thought,” is speaking…

  • The History of "Star Shine to Now"

    In “The String Saga of Star Shine” I gave a distant measure of how we might seen any event from that time to now. But before I begin I wanted to link Lubos’s mention of article from David G to him, to point out the method and determinacy with which I gave the “String Saga…

  • The Continuing Saga?

    It was Socrates’ turn to look puzzled. Oh, wake up. You know what chaos is. Simple deterministic dynamics leading to irregular, random-looking behavior. Butterfly effect. That stuff. Of course, I know that, Socrates said in irritation. No, it was the idea of dynamic logic that was puzzling me. How can logic be dynamic So in…

  • Monster of the Milky Way

    Lubos Motl, it does not have to be “ten billion souls” that we find of just one the same. How many scientists do you know that refer to Plato? If enough is captured as “part of the original,” then why not a view of what was the attempt to descibe “the very complex” of what…

  • "Lead by Physics," Faces the "Trouble With Physics"

    The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) at Brookhaven National Laboratory is a world-class scientific research facility that began operation in 2000, following 10 years of development and construction. Hundreds of physicists from around the world use RHIC to study what the universe may have looked like in the first few moments after its creation. RHIC…

  • What is Natural?

    Fig. 2. Image showing how an 8 TeV black hole might look in the ATLAS detector (with the caveat that there are still uncertainties in the theoretical calculations). The question I would pose to those who do not have the dynamical nature of the universe in mind, are you happy with what you are seeing?…