Just checked out the latest news from the LHC. They're about finished with the full installation of the new Quench Protection System (nQPS), and are in the testing stages now. They should be ready to start powering up the LHC, to its full 3.5TeV level, in mid-February. The ring is still cold (well, mostly, it looks like there's a few magnets that ( Read more... )

While I was down the coast over the weekend, I happened to be a witness to what I have come to consider to be a fairly typical misinformation spiel by a naturopath.

Naturopaths are strong believers that naturally occurring "stuff" is intrinsically better for you than "stuff" that is "artificial". It's a fundamentally* flawed philosophy, but there' ( Read more... )

There's a film coming out soon called Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed. It claims, rather laughingly, to be a documentary.

A bunch of quite clever people who know what they're talking about have decided to expose the truth about Expelled in a website called Expelled ExposedThis post is not simply a contribution to a Googlebomb; this is important ( Read more... )

It'll be interesting to see where this possible "artificial gravity" leads.

Wow, if they can really show that General Relativity needs some more work, there's hope for all sorts of possible breakthroughs.

What an exciting time to live!

I'm not entirely certain, but I think that evolution goes a long way to disproving most psychic powers.

( Here's my thinking... )

According to this article, Quantum physics may make paradoxes such as the "grandfather paradox" impossible, even though time travel itself may be possible.

WTF?

I haven't been paying attention, obviously. The laws of physics seem to permit time travel? Cool!

( Earth-like planet may be coming soon, scientists say )

This is a fascinating article. Thanks to azahru for the link.

( Mirror Neurons - text here, in case it gets archived. )