Today is February 29th, which only comes about every four years because of Leap Year. And if you wanna know why exactly we have that, The Christian Science Monitor's website has a rather informative article about the Gregorian Calendar and how it came about.(I learned some new stuff reading that. Like: because of a deal brokered by Saint Patrick, today is the one day during four whole years that the lady gets to propose to her man! And if the...
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Friday, July 15, 2011
Scientists punch hole in time to cloak stuff in
Wasn't this the kind of thing that the DHARMA Initiative was playing with on that mysterious Island? We all know how great that turned out, huh?Some thinkin' dudes at Cornell University have torn a hole in time itself. The result is a "time cloak" that hides events from being observed by the rest of the universe.From the article at Gizmodo...The process relies on similar...
Friday, January 21, 2011
Physicists propose idea for "Time Teleportation"
For the past several weeks I've been telling my filmmaking partner "Weird" Ed about Primer: the indie sci-fi film from a few years ago and positivalutely the most genius movie about time travel that I've ever had the pleasure of watching.Well, it turns out that filmmaker Shane Carruth might be on to something...Two physicists at the University of Queensland in Australia have...
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Is the LHC's own future sabotaging itself?
See if you can wrap your noggin around this one: the Large Hadron Collider - that super-powered high-energy thingamabob at CERN in Switzerland that previously had been predicted would destroy the world - is now theorized to be the first observed occurrence of the "grandfather paradox" of time travel!According to two physicists, the LHC's mission to produce the hypothesized...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Everything in its own time
Okay, this lil' presentation... puts me away, every time I watch it.Ecclesiastes 3.Make sure you've got the latest version of Flash Player installed.Very special thanks to the ever-resplendent Reida Drum for finding this, and to Brittany Gibson for passing it alo...
