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Exploding Water Balloons Crystallized in Time
Snapshots of water-filled balloons bursting are amazingly frozen moments in time. Granted, they also bring back memories of when you were a young scamp, mischievously dropping water bombs on hapless cyclists from overpasses, or soaking whole streets in drive-by drench-athons – but those days of innocence are gone now. So, it just leaves us to sit back and wonder at the beautiful physics of the things – plus the devilish uses to which they can be put.
Continue reading...Physicists Create Universe Smaller Than a Marble
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Image from Pingnews At Lancaster University, they’re unraveling the secrets of how to build a universe. In fact, they have already formed one, or something very much like it. This scientific breakthrough lies in the bottom of a chamber no larger than your pinky finger, filled with helium [...]
Continue reading...Atom-Smasher Looking for God, May Find Black Hole
Monday, April 14, 2008
A scientist has constructed an $8 Billion machine known as a “Large Hadron Collider” under the mountains at the Franco-Swiss border, a potential step towards ending the world. Image from Vegasmike433 While this sounds like the plot of a bad science fiction novel…
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009
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