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Fifth Giant Planet May Have Dwelled in Our Solar System
Space :: TechMediaNetwork :: November 18, 2011 :: :: Email :: Print The work raises questions about whether super-Earth-size objects existed in the early history of the outer solar system By Charles Q.Hunt for Higgs Particle Enters Endgame
By Geoff Brumfiel of Nature magazine Bill Murray is a man with secrets. Along with a handful of other scientists based at CERN, Europe's particle-physics facility near Geneva, Switzerland, Murray is one of the few researchers with access to the latest data on the Higgs boson -- the most sought-after particle in physics. Looking at his laptop, he traces a thin black line that wiggles across a shaded area at the centre of a graph.
Neutrino Experiment Replicates Faster-Than-Light Finding
Space :: Nature :: November 18, 2011 :: :: Email :: Print Latest data show the subatomic particles continue to break the speed limit. By Eugenie Samuel Reich of Nature magazine
Is Time An Illusion? From The Buddha To Brian Greene : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture
Can time be stopped, captured or even known? Does it exist, or is it all just an illusion? Karim Sahib / AFP/Getty Images Is time real, or is change just a kind of optical illusion resting on a deeper unchanging reality?Math, Physics, and Engineering Applets
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Essay Contest 2013: It From Bit, or Bit From It? By BRENDAN FOSTER • Mar. 25, 2013 @ 19:29 GMT Without further ado, I am happy to announce the start of FQXi's 2013 Essay Contest!
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Essay Contest 2013: It From Bit, or Bit From It? By BRENDAN FOSTER Without further ado, I am happy to announce the start of FQXi's 2013 Essay Contest! Our new topic: It From Bit or Bit From It? The past century in fundamental physics has shown a steady progression away from thinking about...
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PHYS771 Quantum Computing Since Democritus University of Waterloo, Fall 2006 Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:30pm BFG Building, 2nd floor seminar room (BFG2125) Instructor: Scott Aaronson 3141 Davis Centre Email: scott at scottaaronson dot com Office hours: After class or by appointment Description: This course tries to connect quantum computing to the wider intellectual world. We'll start out with various scientific, mathematical, or philosophical problems that predate quantum computing: for example, the measurement problem, P versus NP, the existence of secure cryptography, the Humean problem of induction, or the possibility of closed timelike curves.
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Failed Star Found In The Neighborhood: Scientific American Podcast
Space :: 60-Second Space :: August 29, 2011 :: :: Email :: Print NASA's WISE satellite has found a Y dwarf star, cool enough to touch, that is the hub of the seventh closest star system to us. John Matson reports It looks like we have a new neighbor. It's actually been there all along, but astronomers have only now spotted what could be the seventh closest star system to the sun.