Einstein says we could never approach any percentage of light speed.
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Originally Posted by Caged Great
We could not exceed. Even now you can approach a percentage of light speed, just a very small one.
Walking down the road is a small percentage of light speed
I believe the quote from Einstein was he couldn't see even 1% of light speed(about 7 million MPH) being attainable. even if we could go that fast it would take about 450 years to reach our nearest star system.
do not know much about writing rap lyrics, but I’m guessing that most rappers do not meet with physicists and cosmologists from MIT and Cornell before sitting down to write. But that’s exactly what Wu-Tang Clan founding member GZA did during the creation of his new album, Dark Matter — a project the rapper hopes will turn his audience on to science.
GZA’s partner in this endeavor: Neil deGrasse Tyson, who is the fusion of astronomy and awesome in the shape of a man. Oh yes. Pretty sure this is going to be amaaaaaazing.
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GZA isn’t just relying on his lyrics and music to convey his love of science; the album may also come with an illustrated book featuring a glossary of terms. Nor is he stopping with space. The next album in the series is going to be about oceans.
Awesome.
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I'm not sure if it's the accent, or my recent obsession with British TV, but I find BBC and Channel 4 programs to be much more engaging and with higher production values.
I found a really interesting one about dogs yesterday, all about domestication and how they have evolved for life along side of us. I found particularly interesting a couple of experiments attempting to domesticate wolves and foxes.
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Thousands of physics aficionados have descended upon Geneva for news of a historic discovery. Students have camped out overnight, hoping for a seat in the auditorium. And an 83-year-old scientist shuffled through the halls, mobbed by his protégés, on the eve of an announcement expected to prove his 48-year-old theory.
On Wednesday, scientists are expected to announce the existence of the Higgs boson, the so-called God particle, after years of research at the $10-billion Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN.
They've found the Higgs. Sigma 5 discovery. That's about 99.999% sure.
Okay, to be fair, they've found a new fundamental particle that appears very, very similar to what the Higgs should look like. But I think we can call it the Higgs here on CP.
This is enormous. Not just for particle physics, but quantum mechanics, and cosmology. The inflaton field -- the field that is theorized to have stretched the universe and given rise to the first particles ever to exist is a Higgs field.
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I’m always amazed these sportscasters and announcers can call the game with McDavid’s **** in their mouths all the time.
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I was actually watching Brian Greene's Fabric of the Cosmos last night and they were talking about CERN and the Higgs boson and I was yelling at the TV that they have been "operational for a year or year and a half and they haven't found squat, Brian".
So good on them. At least it seems like we're heading in the correct direction!
When astronomers observed a decade ago that supernovae are apparently spreading apart faster as the universe ages, they assumed that something must be causing the expansion of the universe to speed up. But so far, nobody has been able to explain where the "dark energy" causing this acceleration comes from.
Now José Senovilla at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, and his colleagues have a radical answer - we are fooled into thinking that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, because time itself is slowing down.
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For many of us, the most shocking revelation to come out of CERN's Higgs boson announcement today was quite unrelated to the science itself. Rather, we were blown away by the fact that a team made up of some of the most undoubtedly brilliant people in the world believe that Comic Sans is an appropriate font for such a historic occasion.
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