Professor Predicts Human Time Travel This Century
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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 ...
Physicist to Present New Exact Solution of Einstein's Gravitational Field Equation
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Feb 11, 2006 |
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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- ...
Space propulsion breakthrough: new spacecraft ion engine tested
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Jan 11, 2006 |
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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 ...
Water forms floating 'bridge' when exposed to high voltage
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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 ...
Mathematician suggests extra dimensions are time-like
Apr 17, 2007 |
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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 ...
Japanese Device Uses Laser Plasma to Display 3D Images in the Air
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Feb 27, 2006 |
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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 ...
Prominent U.S. Physicists Send Letter to President Bush
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Apr 17, 2006 |
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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 ...
Quantum computer solves problem, without running
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Feb 22, 2006 |
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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 ...
Towards a new test of general relativity?
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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 ...
LSU professor resolves Einstein's twin paradox
Feb 14, 2007 |
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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.
Quantum secrets of photosynthesis revealed
Apr 12, 2007 |
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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 ...
Light's Most Exotic Trick Yet: So Fast it Goes ... Backwards?
May 11, 2006 |
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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 ...
A Two-Time Universe? Physicist Explores How Second Dimension of Time Could Unify Physics Laws
May 15, 2007 |
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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 ...
Goodbye wires... MIT experimentally demonstrates wireless power transfer
Jun 07, 2007 |
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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 ...
Scientists Predict How to Detect a Fourth Dimension of Space
May 25, 2006 |
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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 ...
