Well, at the risk of sounding sensationalist, why not an occasional
mind expander?
After the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) particle accelerator will start working this spring, it will allow researchers to look for the presence of mini black-holes. According to a new physics paper, if those black holes are detected, this will help know more about how gravity works.
According to a paper by physicists Mir Faizal, Mohammed M. Khalil and Ahmed Farag Ali, published in the journal Physics Letters B, the presence of the mini black holes would support string theory, according to which, different dimensions could be present and it is possible that there are parallel universes.
- The image of Jupiter eating planets is from this really fun article by Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy.
- Yes, Ted Cruz really did compare himself to Galileo ...
- New Horizons mission to Pluto, profiled here, will be blazing past the little, icy world so fast in a few months that the team has asked for your help naming features that will pop up. Go here, suggest names and themes, vote on other suggestions; and think cold, ice, snow, and mystery!
- But science denial isn't just a Ted Cruz problem:
But what does the Texas senator really believe on climate change? And I don’t mean in the “is his ridiculous persona just a cynical act or some kind of performance art” sense, though that’s reasonable to wonder. What is his public stance on carbon dioxide’s effects on the planet and the necessity of acting to prevent major climatic changes? It’s pretty much the same as that of lots of other Republicans.