News tagged with space dimensions

Metamaterials used to mimic the Big Crunch

Spacetime analogs is an emerging field of physics in which scientists investigate systems having mathematical links with general relativity, and test their theories about the early behavior of the universe. The latest in ...

Physics / General Physics

created Jul 29, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report

Primordial weirdness: Did the early universe have 1 dimension?

(PhysOrg.com) -- Did the early universe have just one spatial dimension? That's the mind-boggling concept at the heart of a theory that University at Buffalo physicist Dejan Stojkovic and colleagues proposed in 2010.

Physics / General Physics

created Apr 20, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (36) | comments 200 | with audio podcast

Equivalence principle in space test

Since Galileo Galilei and Newton, the assumption is valid that inert and heavy mass are equivalent. This is, however, questioned by new physical theories such as the String theory. Now, the equivalence principle ...

Physics / General Physics

created May 11, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (13) | comments 3

Who cares about the fourth dimension?

Austrian scientists are trying to understand the mysteries of the holographic principle: How many dimensions are there in our universe?

Physics / General Physics

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (18) | comments 29




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Italian professor launches challenge to Google

An Italian computer science professor whose research helped inspire Google launched a new search engine and social media network on Monday that he hopes will challenge the US technology giant.

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Feb 06, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

Physicists cool semiconductor by laser light

Researchers at the Niels Bohr Institute have combined two worlds – quantum physics and nano physics, and this has led to the discovery of a new method for laser cooling semiconductor membranes. Semiconductors ...

Physics / Quantum Physics

created Jan 22, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (11) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

World's longest superconductor cable

The "AmpaCity" project has been kicked off: The RWE Group and its partners are just about to replace a 1-kilometre-long high-voltage cable connecting two transformer stations in the Ruhr city of Essen with ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (8) | comments 9

Scientists make first-ever observations of comet's demise deep inside solar atmosphere

On July 6, 2011, a comet was caught doing something never seen before: die a scorching death as it flew too close to the sun. That the comet met its fate this way was no surprise – but the chance to watch ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (8) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

New sunflower-inspired pattern increases concentrated solar efficiency

Just outside Seville, in the desert region of Andalucia, Spain, sits an oasis-like sight: a 100-meter-high pillar surrounded by rows of giant mirrors rippling outward. More than 600 of these mirrors, each ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Calculating what's in the universe from the biggest color 3-D map

Since 2000, the three Sloan Digital Sky Surveys (SDSS I, II, III) have surveyed well over a quarter of the night sky and produced the biggest color map of the universe in three dimensions ever. Now scientists ...

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

Pentagon-backed 'time cloak' stops the clock (Update)

Pentagon-supported physicists on Wednesday said they had devised a "time cloak" that briefly makes an event undetectable.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 04, 2012 | popularity 3.1 / 5 (64) | comments 43 | with audio podcast

Review: 'W.E.L.D.E.R.' leads parade of iPad gems

So you just got an iPad for Christmas. You already have all the essentials loaded - Facebook, Twitter, iBooks, whatever news app you prefer.

Technology / Software

created Dec 29, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

A 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer

A group of three researchers from KEK, Shizuoka University and Osaka University has for the first time revealed the way our universe was born with 3 spatial dimensions from 10-dimensional superstring theory in which spacetime ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 23, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (83) | comments 72 | with audio podcast

Book on Richard Feynman nets honors for Arizona State professor

"Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science," ASU Foundation Professor and Director of the Origins Project Lawrence M. Krauss' recent book about a legendary and sometimes very public modern physicist, has been chosen ...

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1


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