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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 ...

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created Apr 04, 2006 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (1437) | comments 66 feature

Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation

New antigravity solution will enable space travel near speed of light by the end of this century, he predicts. On Tuesday, Feb. 14, noted physicist Dr. Franklin Felber will present his new exact solution of Einstein's 90- ...

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created Feb 11, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (988) | comments 1

Space propulsion breakthrough: new spacecraft ion engine tested

The European Space Agency and the Australian National University have successfully tested a new design of spacecraft ion engine that dramatically improves performance over present thrusters and marks a major ...

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created Jan 11, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (711) | comments 3

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 ...

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created Sep 28, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (686) | comments 0 feature

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 ...

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created Apr 17, 2007 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (554) | comments 1 feature

Japanese Device Uses Laser Plasma to Display 3D Images in the Air

A collaboration of the Japanese National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Keio University and Burton Inc. has produced a device to display "real 3D images" consisting of dot arrays ...

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created Feb 27, 2006 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (468) | comments 2 feature

Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush

Thirteen of the nation’s most prominent physicists have written a letter to President Bush, calling U.S. plans to reportedly use nuclear weapons against Iran “gravely irresponsible” and warning that such action would have ...

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created Apr 17, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (365) | comments 0

Quantum computer solves problem, without running

By combining quantum computation and quantum interrogation, scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have found an exotic way of determining an answer to an algorithm – without ever running ...

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created Feb 22, 2006 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (394) | comments 0

Towards a new test of general relativity?

Scientists funded by the European Space Agency have measured the gravitational equivalent of a magnetic field for the first time in a laboratory. Under certain special conditions the effect is much larger than ...

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created Mar 23, 2006 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (363) | comments 1

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.

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created Feb 14, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (395) | comments 0

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 ...

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created Apr 12, 2007 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (344) | comments 0

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 ...

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created May 15, 2007 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (350) | comments 6

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 ...

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created May 11, 2006 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (347) | comments 1

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 ...

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created Jun 07, 2007 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (336) | comments 0

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 ...

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created May 25, 2006 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (313) | comments 2