General Physics news
Professor predicts human time travel this century
With a brilliant idea and equations based on Einstein’s relativity theories, Ronald Mallett from the University of Connecticut has devised an experiment to observe a time traveling neutron in a circulating ...
Apr 04, 2006 |
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Water forms floating 'bridge' when exposed to high voltage
While it's one of the most important and abundant chemical compounds on Earth, water is still a puzzle to scientists. Much research has been done to uncover the structure of water beyond the H2O scale, whi ...
Sep 28, 2007 |
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Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like
In a recent study, mathematician George Sparling of the University of Pittsburgh examines a fundamental question pondered since the time of Pythagoras, and still vexing scientists today: what is the nature ...
Apr 17, 2007 |
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LSU professor resolves Einstein's twin paradox
Subhash Kak, Delaune Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at LSU, recently resolved the twin paradox, known as one of the most enduring puzzles of modern-day physics.
Feb 14, 2007 |
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Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed
Through photosynthesis, green plants and cyanobacteria are able to transfer sunlight energy to molecular reaction centers for conversion into chemical energy with nearly 100-percent efficiency. Speed is the ...
Apr 12, 2007 |
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A Two-Time Universe? Physicist Explores How Second Dimension of Time Could Unify Physics Laws
For a long time, Itzhak Bars has been studying time. More than a decade ago, the USC College physicist began pondering the role time plays in the basic laws of physics — the equations describing matter, gravity ...
May 15, 2007 |
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Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?
In the past few years, scientists have found ways to make light go both faster and slower than its usual speed limit, but now researchers at the University of Rochester have published a paper today in Science ...
May 11, 2006 |
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Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer
Imagine a future in which wireless power transfer is feasible: cell phones, household robots, mp3 players, laptop computers and other portable electronics capable of charging themselves without ever being ...
Jun 07, 2007 |
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Scientists Predict How to Detect a Fourth Dimension of Space
Scientists at Duke and Rutgers universities have developed a mathematical framework they say will enable astronomers to test a new five-dimensional theory of gravity that competes with Einstein's General Theory ...
May 25, 2006 |
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Physicist Claims First Real Demonstration of Cold Fusion
To many people, cold fusion sounds too good to be true. The idea is that, by creating nuclear fusion at room temperature, researchers can generate a nearly unlimited source of power that uses water as fuel ...
May 27, 2008 |
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Numbers follow a surprising law of digits, and scientists can't explain why
Does your house address start with a 1? According to a strange mathematical law, about 1/3 of house numbers have 1 as their first digit. The same holds true for many other areas that have almost nothing in ...
May 10, 2007 |
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Before the Big Bang: A Twin Universe?
Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn’t go there – at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, ...
Apr 09, 2008 |
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Inventor Doesn't Dare Say 'Perpetual Motion Machine'
Thane Heins knows the track record of inventors that claim to make breakthroughs in power generation methods, especially when they claim to defy the second law of thermodynamics. Every so often, a (usually ...
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Dark Energy and Dark Matter – The Results of Flawed Physics?
There are few scientific concepts as intriguing and mysterious as dark energy and dark matter, said to make up as much as 95 percent of all the energy and matter in the universe. And even though scientists ...
Sep 11, 2006 |
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What Happened Before the Big Bang?
New discoveries about another universe whose collapse appears to have given birth to the one we live in today will be announced in the early on-line edition of the journal Nature Physics on 1 July 2007 and wi ...
Jul 01, 2007 |
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