time travel, parallel universes, and other useful illusions
Scientists working with data from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider have discovered a possible anomaly that may overturn our Standard Model of particle physics. The scientists, comprised of a team at the University of Maryland, studied data collected during the LHC’s initial run back in 2011-2012.
If time travel is possible…
So, 2013 is over, and now we have a whole new year of weird stories to look forward to. But before we get to those, here’s a quick look at some things that might actually happen in 2014.
There are a number of ways scientists believe the universe will ultimately end. The Big Rip, in which the universe stretches itself apart. The Big Crunch, kind of the opposite of the Big Bang, where the expansion of the universe reverses and all matter returns to a small chunk of space. And then there’s collapse.
I want you to travel back to 1997. It’s an exciting time; Disney’s Hercules is hitting theaters, Third Eye Blind’s Semi-Charmed Life is at the top of the charts. Mike Tyson is getting ready to bite Evander Holyfield’s ear off. Okay, well, maybe exciting isn’t the right word. But then a guy named Juan Maldacena …
Continue reading “The Universe Might Be A Hologram, But Not Really”
A new animation, brought to us by CERN’s James Gillies and TED-Ed animators, gives us a brief tour of those most mysterious of universal quandaries: dark matter and dark energy. “What appears to be the ordinary stuff of the universe is, in fact, quite rare. Leucippus’ atoms, and the things they’re made of, actually make …
Not much to say about the above video. It’s only the smallest stop-motion film ever made, created by moving (and filming) single atoms. It’s a minute and a half long; watch it and be amazed. And then watch how it was made. “…IBM researchers used a scanning tunneling microscope to move thousands of carbon monoxide …
