You can shelf your designs for a warp drive engine (for now) and put the DeLorean back in the garage; it turns out neutrinos may not have broken any cosmic speed limits after all. (...)Read the rest of Faster Than Light? More Like Faulty Wiring. (352 words) © Jason Major for Universe Today, 2012. |
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... citation impact in physics and related fields. According to the IOP website.. Although the UK is ranked
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Here's a fascinating physics model by computer artist Mark J. Stock, showing the 3-dimensional movements of 1 million bodies, each given their own gravity: One can easily imagine witnessing the birth of galaxies after the Big Bang, millions — even billions — of years passing before your eyes in seconds! It's amazing how quickly a
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In 2010, we reported on Felix Baumgartner and his upcoming attempt to break the sound barrier with his body, in a freefall from the edge of space. Part science experiment, part publicity stunt, part life-long ambition, the Red Bull Stratos mission will have Baumgartner traveling inside a capsule with a stratospheric balloon to 36,500 meters
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An astronaut once told me that fellow space flier Don Pettit could fix anything with a paper clip. Indeed, Pettit has nicknames like Mr. Wizard and Mr. Fixit, and he is well-known for his Saturday Morning Science videos during his first stay on the International Space Station and his “Zero G Coffee Cup” from a
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According to Wikipedia, a journal club is a group of individuals who meet regularly to critically evaluate recent articles in the scientific literature. And of course, the first rule of Journal Club is… don't talk about Journal Club. So, without further ado – today's journal article is about the latest findings in neutrino astronomy. Today's
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It's a millisecond pulsar… a rapidly rotating neutron star and it's about to reach the end of its mass gathering phase. For ages the vampire of this binary system has been sucking matter from a donor star. It has been busy, spinning at incredibly high rotational speeds of about 1 to 10 milliseconds and shooting
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Where does space begin? Let's look up into our planet's atmosphere, that shell of nitrogen (about 78%), oxygen (about 20%), various other gases (2%) that makes life on Earth possible,...
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Professor Baker will be giving the first Lecture on Astronomy this Thursday night from 8-9 PM in the Physics Lecture Hall. The title of his talk The Jersey Roots and Global Reach of Radio Astronomy . This entry was posted in ..
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