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Big Bang simulated in metamaterial shows time travel is impossible

(PhysOrg.com) -- By observing the way that light moves inside a metamaterial, researchers have reconstructed how spacetime has expanded since the Big Bang. The results provide a better understanding of why ...

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 13, 2011 | popularity 2.9 / 5 (27) | comments 73 | with audio podcast report

Time travel experiment demonstrates how to avoid the grandfather paradox (Update)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Among the many intriguing concepts in Einstein’s relativity theories is the idea of closed timelike curves (CTCs), which are paths in spacetime that return to their starting points. As ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (38) | comments 91 | with audio podcast feature

Scientists find evidence for 'chronesthesia,' or mental time travel

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to remember the past and imagine the future can significantly affect a person's decisions in life. Scientists refer to the brain’s ability to think about the past, present, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Dec 22, 2010 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (71) | comments 31 | with audio podcast feature

Scientist proves Braess paradox 'disappears' under high traffic demands

(PhysOrg.com) -- In an urban area with a lot of traffic, adding a new road to distribute the traffic may seem like a sensible idea. But according to the Braess paradox, just the opposite occurs: a new route ...

Physics / General Physics

created Sep 14, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (24) | comments 14 | with audio podcast feature

Time travel theory avoids grandfather paradox

(PhysOrg.com) -- The possibility of going back in time only to kill your ancestors and prevent your own birth has posed a serious problem for potential time travelers, not even considering the technical details ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jul 21, 2010 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (55) | comments 96 | with audio podcast report

The annihilating effects of space travel

Long distance space travel could create the ultimate 'killer entrance', devastating your destination and anything around the arriving spacecraft, according to calculations by Professor Geraint Lewis and two ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 12, 2012 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (24) | comments 34 | with audio podcast

Virgin aims for first space launch within a year

British business magnate Richard Branson hopes to launch a vessel into space within the next 12 months, kicking off an era of commercial space travel.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 15, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (14) | comments 27

Etch-a-sketch with superconductors

Reporting in Nature Materials this week, researchers from the London Centre for Nanotechnology and the Physics Department of Sapienza University of Rome have discovered a technique to 'draw' superconducting shapes ...

Physics / Superconductivity

created Aug 22, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Large Hadron Collider could be world's first time machine

(PhysOrg.com) -- If the latest theory of Tom Weiler and Chui Man Ho is right, the Large Hadron Collider – the world's largest atom smasher that started regular operation last year – could be the ...

Physics / General Physics

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (38) | comments 72 | with audio podcast

Have we reached peak travel?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Since the 1970s, passenger travel by vehicles and airplanes has grown rapidly in industrialized countries, and the International Energy Agency has predicted steady, though slower, travel growth ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Jan 03, 2011 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (8) | comments 8 | with audio podcast report

Complex mathematical problem solved by bees

(PhysOrg.com) -- Bumblebees can find the solution to a complex mathematical problem which keeps computers busy for days.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (40) | comments 23 | with audio podcast

IKAROS unfurls first ever solar sail in space

(PhysOrg.com) -- Japan's IKAROS has rolled out its solar sail, the first ever deployed in space. JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, achieved the feat by rotating the craft rapidly and spinning the ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jun 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (39) | comments 18 | with audio podcast report

Russia hopes nuclear ship will fly humans to Mars

(AP) -- Russia should build a new nuclear-powered spaceship for prospective manned missions to Mars and other planets, the nation's space chief said Thursday.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (34) | comments 36

Gravitational Space Corridors Could Slash Space Travel Costs (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists studying space travel possibilities have proposed that gravitational space corridors could be used by spacecraft, in much the same way as ships use ocean currents. Taking advantage ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Sep 16, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (29) | comments 6 weblog

Analysis of Flickr photos could lead to online travel books

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cornell scientists have downloaded and analyzed nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by more than 300,000 photographers from around the globe, using a supercomputer at the Cornell Center ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Apr 28, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 2