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Laetus in Praesens: Anthony Judge. Union of Intelligible Associations. TechXtra: Engineering, Mathematics, and Computing. Reality Sandwich | Evolving consciousness, bite by bite. Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram. A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard quantum physics in fewer dimensions. 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. Credit: Artist's impression by Markus Gann/Shutterstock 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. References Maldacena, J. Download references About this article Cite this article Cowen, R. Obamacare is having one huge success nobody knows about. People are, rightly, upset about all that's going wrong with the president's health-care law.
But something unexpected is going very, very right. (Mark Wilson / GETTY IMAGES) The background here is that before the rollout of the Affordable Care Act there were a lot of people eligible for Medicaid who simply didn't know it. This "take-up rate" -- wonk-speak for the percentage of people eligible for the program who sign up for it -- varies widely from state to state, with some states as low as 36 percent and others as high as 81 percent. The publicity around the new health-care law has led a lot of those people to inquire about whether they're eligible for health insurance -- and they're finding out that they are. The effect is also present in the blue states. The result is that while the expansion of health-care coverage still isn't working nearly as well as it needs to be, it's actually making preexisting coverage expansions work better than they ever have. Barry Lando: China Profits From U.S.-Pakistan Shipwreck. China Profits From U.S. -Pakistan Shipwreck Posted on Dec 2, 2011 By Barry Lando The killing of 24 Pakistani troops by NATO forces last Saturday is just the latest disastrous chapter in U.S.- Pakistan relations.
As affairs go from bad to catastrophic, it’s not just the Taliban who will benefit but also China. For several years now the Pakistanis have found China a very willing and increasingly powerful counterweight to the Americans and their often strident political demands. Toeing Washington’s line, in other words, is no longer the only option. Every crisis in American-Pakistani relations is a golden opportunity for China. Take, for instance, the outrage in both the U.S. and Pakistan after American troops secretly entered Pakistan on May 2 to kill Osama bin Laden. As U.S. During that trip, China’s premier proved his friendship by announcing that China would, without charge, supply Pakistan with 50 JF-17 fighter jets equipped with sophisticated avionics. Such efforts are obviously paying off.