09-22-2011, 06:05 PM | #103 (permalink) |
Senior Member
Join Date: Feb 2002
Posts: 6,113
Internets: 284753
|
Obviously I'm no physicist, but I do have an interest in physics-related things, especially astrophysics having watched every episode of the History channel's "The Universe". While I'm aware this lies in the realm of quantum mechanics, I am very excited to hear more about this, hopefully, in the coming months. Would this not be one of the greatest discoveries in our lifetimes? Anyways, I'm not really up to speed on the anatomy of a neutrino, but if I'm not mistaken, it's a sub-atomic particle with a mass close to zero, right? The article made it sound like this was legit, but it really blows my fucking mind. Aren't neutrino's the particles that have been observed to literally "jump" instantaneously from one neutron to another? Perhaps this "teleportation" has played a role in the timing differences between the neutrinos and light.
|
09-23-2011, 12:23 AM | #104 (permalink) |
Spice Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 17,969
Internets: 278288
|
Yes to basically everything you said. If it's true, and wasn't because of an error in measurement or faulty equipment, it has the potential to turn the field of physics on it's head. Pretty much it could do to physics what the theory of relativity did to physics (which might actually turn out to be wrong, or at least big parts of it, which is strange given how accurate using relativity can be). Should be really interesting to see where it goes.
|
09-23-2011, 02:52 AM | #106 (permalink) |
Don't call me Shirley
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: London
Posts: 3,271
Internets: 220249
|
Very cool stuff, can anyone find a better article about it though?
About the same: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/sc...=1&ref=science |
Last edited by thekremlin; 09-23-2011 at 03:01 AM. |
|
10-27-2011, 05:44 PM | #107 (permalink) |
Junior Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: bermuda
Posts: 17
Internets: 2474
|
de jouer au tennis
kremlin, congrats on winning the cup:
Janko Tipsarevic, Dominika Cibulkova capture Kremlin Cup titles - ESPN |
11-26-2011, 01:07 PM | #111 (permalink) |
Spice Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 17,969
Internets: 278288
|
I've been watching the broadcast all this morning of the Curiosity Mars Rover launch/spacecraft separation/broadcasts. Really intersting: Curiosity Cam, Ustream.TV: UPCOMING BROADCASTS Sat., Nov. 26, 2011 NASA's Mars Curiosity Post-Launch Briefing at approx. 9 a.m. PT (12 p.m. ET) Coverage...
The primary purpose of this mission is not to look for life on Mars but to look for past habitability. Basically if they find any clues of previous life on Mars it could be pretty huge...life on other planets! |
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.
― Terence McKenna |
|
11-26-2011, 01:13 PM | #112 (permalink) |
Spice Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 17,969
Internets: 278288
|
|
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.
― Terence McKenna |
|
11-26-2011, 06:23 PM | #113 (permalink) |
Spice Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 17,969
Internets: 278288
|
|
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.
― Terence McKenna |
|
12-06-2011, 12:29 AM | #115 (permalink) |
Spice Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 17,969
Internets: 278288
|
Earthlike Planet Found Orbiting at Right Distance for Life
This isn't very good "news" at all (because Kepler program has discovered fuckloads of planets already) and has been sensationalized as shit. Everybody who has an inkling of interest in space with basically no knowledge of the huge fucking hurdles in our way to traveling to a fucking star system 600 LIGHT YEARS AWAY is getting a fucking hardon about this for no goddamn reason. "OMG IT'S ANOTHER EARTH OCCUPY KEPLER 22-B" fucking retarded fucking humans fucking won't even fucking fund NASA, fuck. |
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.
― Terence McKenna |
|
12-06-2011, 09:03 AM | #116 (permalink) | |
Ahoy Fuckbag
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: In a pineapple under the sea
Posts: 3,540
Internets: 187030
|
Quote:
| |
Quote:
|
||
12-06-2011, 02:10 PM | #118 (permalink) |
Spice Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 17,969
Internets: 278288
|
Did you guys see what Repug did? He insinuated I was an expert when I merely pointed out that getting excited about this planet and calling it "another Earth" is ridiculous not only because of how unlikely it is we will ever actually visit it, but also because we have no idea what the atmosphere nor gravity of the planet is actually like. But by inferring I was an expert, which I am clearly not, he is making himself sound superior to both myself and the common people whom I spoke out against, thus satisfying his ego for yet another day.
|
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.
― Terence McKenna |
|
12-06-2011, 04:01 PM | #120 (permalink) |
Spice Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 17,969
Internets: 278288
|
Somebody is compensating for his lack of Space knowledge. I bet you thought this "new planet" was cool until you read my post, didn't you? Is that where all this acting out is coming from? I bet I ruined a short story.
|
Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing.
― Terence McKenna |
|
01-11-2012, 04:25 PM | #125 (permalink) |
Spice Master
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 17,969
Internets: 278288
|
Study Shows Our Galaxy Has at Least 100 Billion Planets - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Took me a second to realize we were talking about planets, not stars. Next logical progression is finding more Earth like ones. Real findings, not "it's in the goldilocks zone" shit. |
Bookmarks |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|
Similar Threads | ||||
Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
Our world could be a giant hologram. | SittinOnDubsWGW | News | 4 | 01-30-2009 02:40 PM |
Across the Universe | Fruitacious B | Reviews | 0 | 02-09-2008 01:00 PM |
The Best Movie In the Universe | George Sherman | Reviews | 5 | 12-28-2004 01:06 AM |