We Went to the Amazon to Find Out What Makes These Weird Web-Tower Things - Wired Science. Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram. Artist's impression by Markus Gann/Shutterstock At a black hole, Albert Einstein's theory of gravity apparently clashes with quantum physics, but that conflict could be solved if the Universe were a holographic projection.
A team of physicists has provided some of the clearest evidence yet that our Universe could be just one big projection. In 1997, theoretical physicist Juan Maldacena proposed1 that an audacious model of the Universe in which gravity arises from infinitesimally thin, vibrating strings could be reinterpreted in terms of well-established physics. The mathematically intricate world of strings, which exist in nine dimensions of space plus one of time, would be merely a hologram: the real action would play out in a simpler, flatter cosmos where there is no gravity.
“It seems to be a correct computation,” says Maldacena, who is now at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey and who did not contribute to the team's work. Hungry fungi chomp on radiation. Satanists Seek Statue On Oklahoma Statehouse Steps. OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A satanic group unveiled designs Monday for a 7-foot-tall statue of Satan it wants to put at the Oklahoma state Capitol, where a Ten Commandments monument was placed in 2012.
The New York-based Satanic Temple formally submitted its application to a panel that oversees the Capitol grounds, including an artist's rendering that depicts Satan as Baphomet, a goat-headed figure with horns, wings and a long beard that's often used as a symbol of the occult. Habitable Worlds? New Kepler Planetary Systems in Images. Want to stay on top of all the space news?
Follow @universetoday on Twitter Relative sizes of Kepler habitable zone planets discovered as of 2013 April 18.Left to right: Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-62e, Kepler-62f, and Earth (except for Earth, these are artists’ renditions). Credit: NASA/Ames/JPL-Caltech. The Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the “habitable zone,” the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water. Time-lapse images of the Earth as seen from the ISS.
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Www.basicincome.org/bien/pdf/2004Bazlinton.pdf. Column: The poor are responsible too. Our surveys show cash transfers made people work more, improved their health, and education levels also rose The debate on cash benefits has been poisoned by ideological posturing, amid claims of ulterior motives.
The question should be whether direct monetary payments to individuals and families could overcome the failings of the existing system so as to induce structural changes that would revive economic growth while addressing the disgraceful fact that over 350 million people remain mired in poverty after two decades of high growth. In 2011, we launched two pilots to test the impact of what are best called basic income grants, funded and overseen by UNICEF, with SEWA as coordinator. In eight villages in Madhya Pradesh, every man, woman and child was provided with a monthly cash payment of initially R200 for each adult and R100 for each child paid to the mother or guardian; these were later raised to R300 and R150, respectively. 10 Mysterious Swords From Legend And History. History Swords of renown are the seeds of legend.
Fueled by tales of bloodshed and conquest, there have been swords throughout history that have grown to mythical proportions, blending fact and fiction until the two are all but inseparable. History Archives. Crime 10 Con Men And Their Masterful Forgeries Creepy 10 Tragic And Terrifying Child Abductions Pop Culture.
10 Amazing Female Pirates. History It may be hard to believe, but having a magnificent beard isn’t a requirement for being a pirate.
Some pirates broke the macho-male stereotype altogether. Whether they took on Rome or the Royal Navy, these female pirates were among the baddest of the bad. Jerry DeWitt: The Day I Lost My Faith. It's almost impossible for me to talk about having lost my faith without first dealing with the phrase "lost my faith.
" How Science Pages on Facebook Are Influencing Politics. There are many excellent pages on Facebook focusing on science and the most popular of these with over 5.5 million "likes" is I F#@%ing Love Science and its child-friendly mirror page Science is Awesome.
Pages such as these are educating people on the discoveries of science and inspiring more people to become interested in science. But these pages may be doing more than just educating people on science - they could be the foundation to improving the state of politics in countries such as the United States. In the past, if one didn't finish high school or didn't continue their education by going to college, they weren't likely to ever be scientifically literate; and even if they did go to college, they may not have been scientifically literate after graduating. Today, we no longer need to go college in order to be scientifically literate, and Facebook makes it easier for those who are passionate about science to share their passion with others.
Should art really be for its own sake alone? You often hear it said that "museums of art are our new churches": in other words, in a secularising world, art has replaced religion as a touchstone of our reverence and devotion.
It's an intriguing idea, part of the broader ambition that culture should replace scripture, but in practice art museums often abdicate much of their potential to function as new churches (places of consolation, meaning, sanctuary, redemption) through the way they handle the collections entrusted to them.