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When Light Just Isn’t Fast Enough

18 Feb , 2015 by Bob King

Take a speed of light trip across the solar system starting at the Sun We’ve heard it over and over. There’s nothing faster than the speed of light. Einstein set the speed limit at 186,000 miles per second (299,792 km/sec). No material object can theoretically travel faster. For all practical purposes, only light is lithe enough […]

Don’t Look At Black Holes Too Closely, They Might Disappear

6 Feb , 2015 by Vanessa Janek

We’ve come a long way in 13.8 billion years; but despite our impressively extensive understanding of the Universe, there are still a few strings left untied. For one, there is the oft-cited disconnect between general relativity, the physics of the very large, and quantum mechanics, the physics of the very small. Then there is problematic fate of a particle’s intrinsic information […]

Does Free Will Exist? Ancient Quasars May Hold the Clue.

25 Feb , 2014 by Jason Major

Do you believe in free will? Are people able to decide their own destinies, whether it’s on what continent they’ll live, who or if they’ll marry, or just where they’ll get lunch today? Or are we just the unwitting pawns of some greater cosmic mechanism at work, ticking away the seconds and steering everyone and […]

Don’t Tell Bones: Are We One Step Closer to “Beaming Up?”

23 Jan , 2013 by Jason Major

It’s a crazy way to travel, spreading a man’s molecules all over the Universe… While we’re still a very long way off from instantly transporting from ship to planet à la Star Trek, scientists are still relentlessly working on the type of quantum technologies that could one day make this sci-fi staple a possibility. Just […]

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When Light Just Isn’t Fast Enough

Don’t Look At Black Holes Too Closely, They Might Disappear

Does Free Will Exist? Ancient Quasars May Hold the Clue.

Don’t Tell Bones: Are We One Step Closer to “Beaming Up?”

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