Category Archives: science

Proton-Based Network Offers Free Cellular and Internet Services

Posted on April 1, 2007 by Dave

Free voice and data services will be available through an international consortium’s program that deploys a proton-based global network. The telecommunications network’s potential was confirmed last week following research using the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, European Organization for Nuclear Research, and the world’s largest particle physics laboratory.

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Myths, Lies, and Downright Stupidity: Get Out the Shovel–Why Everything You Know is Wrong

Posted on June 11, 2006 by Dave

John Stossel kept me in rapt attention, this afternoon.

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Chesapeake Invader

Posted on June 4, 2006 by Dave

C. Wylie Poag, a scientiest with the United States Geological Survey, describes a meteorite that crashed into the Chesapeake Bay 35 million years ago.

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It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes

Posted on June 4, 2006 by Dave

Jerry Dennis has written an excellent science book that is approriate for family reading.

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Krakatoa

Posted on June 3, 2006 by Dave

Simon Winchester has again authored a thoroughly enjoyable book.

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Teleportation Takes Quantum Leap Forward

Posted on April 1, 2006 by Dave

The United States Department of Defense and the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence today issued a joint news release announcing a electronic urban battlefield personnel and weapons transportation system, codenamed EUBPAWT (pronounced EUW-paw). The EUBPAWT system utilizes a high-energy quantum mechanical electrical field to quantify the quantum molecular structure of living tissue, which is then spatially transported and interstitially reconstituted.

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Two Great and Different Thinkers Born on this Day in 1809

Posted on February 12, 2006 by Dave

Two great and, in at least one way, antithetic men were born on this day in 1809. One advocated man’s natural evolvement; the other, God’s greater involvement.

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Reset Your Digital Watch, Saturday Night

Posted on December 27, 2005 by Dave

The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERRSS) will move time backward one second on December 31, 2005. An extra second will be added at the end of the year to to account for the slowing of the Earth’s rotation. The IERRSS recognizes that our planet’s pace of rotation is unpredictable, and will institute the first leap second in seven years. Normally the leap second is a nearly annual event.

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First Marketable Quantum Computer Chip

Posted on December 17, 2005 by Dave

University of Michigan researchers have developed the first scalable quantum computer chip using principally the same semiconductor manufacturing process as integrated semiconductor chips. The researchers have been able to trap and control a single atom within a processor chip.

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Ruminant Methane Can Be Reduced 70 Percent

Posted on December 4, 2005 by Dave

French scientists reported it, and British scientists are working to develop an alternative. This is one of the continuing multinational efforts to reduce harmful greenhouse gases that are a major contributor to global warming. What are the two nations’ scientists working to reduce? Read on…

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Length of Quantum Memory Extended 100,000 Times

Posted on August 21, 2005 by Dave

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) physicists have demonstrated a version of quantum computer memory that lasts longer than 10 seconds, more than 100,000 times longer than previous experiments with charged atoms (ions). These experiments pave the way for reliable quantum computers that will not be harnessed to the limitations of transistors and silicon-based hardware.

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Light Speed: Turn It Down, Turn It Up

Posted on August 21, 2005 by Dave

Light always travels at 186,000 miles per second (300 Million meters per second) in a vacuum. Well, almost always. A team of scientists at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has been able to control the speed of light, both decreasing and increasing it using off-the-shelf instruments under normal working conditions.

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Eureka! Hidden Text Revealed by Particle Accelerator

Posted on May 21, 2005 by Dave

Eureka! Hidden Text Revealed by Particle Accelerator
The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center has used a particle accelerator to create a highly-focused X-ray generator that is able to display hidden text that was authored by Archimedes, the Greek mathematician-scientist who was born in Syracuse in 287 BC.