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Is Dark Matter a Glimpse of a Deeper Level of Reality?
(……) String theorists and other would-be unifiers of physics face a basic problem. The theories they seek to unify, quantum field theory and Einstein’s general theory of relativity, are well-grounded and well-tested, yet mutually incompatible. Reconciling them will demand that some deeply held intuition must give way. One such intuition is that the world exists […]
Atmosphere, Airglow and Aurora
June 11, 2012
A truly powerful image generates questions. The incredible night photos and time-lapse movies NASA has been sharing with us provoke questions about our planet. That thin-yellow atmospheric line separating earth from space, for example, that we see in all of the night shots provokes two questions: (1) how thick is this line? and (2) why […]
Theorem unifies superfluids and other weird materials
June 11, 2012
Matter exhibits weird properties at very cold temperatures. Take superfluids, for example: discovered in 1937, they can flow without resistance forever, spookily climbing the walls of a container and dripping onto the floor. In the past 100 years, 11 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to nearly two dozen people for the discovery or theoretical explanation […]
How NASA’s NuSTAR Spacecraft Will Hunt Black Holes
June 11, 2012
Source: SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration
June 11, 2012
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