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“I see religion and science as being two completely different things”

Categories: Physics , Religion , Space What if the Big Bang wasn't the beginning of the universe, but only one stage in an endlessly repeated cycle of universal expansion and contraction? So suggests ... via Wired News

“It's ridiculous is what it is”

Seems like an innocent enough question, right? Absolute zero is 0 on the Kelvin scale, or about minus 460 F. You can't get colder than that; it would be like trying to go south from the South Pole. via ZPEnergy.com

“In effect, we have made a universe in a test tube”

Posted on 12/26/2007 9:45:58 PM PST by camerakid400 A "universe in a test tube" that could be used to assess theories of everything has been created by physicists. via Free Republic

They say that time and tide wait for no man, but the former might have to slow down to a complete stop with this new ultrafast microscrope. via Ubergizmo

Theoretical physics and mathematics are much cheaper to fund than experimental particle physics. via Not Even Wrong

An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave reviews from scientists. via NowPublic

“Every X-ray beam I use puts most of the dose where I don't want it.”

There is a new nuclear arms race under way - in hospitals . Medical centers are rushing to turn nuclear particle accelerators, formerly used only for exotic physics research, into the latest weapons against ... via New York Times

Submitted by News Account on 25 December 2007 - 9:00am. Technology A unique electron microscope that can help create four-dimensional "movies" of molecules may hold the answers to research questions in a number ... via Scientific Blogging

“To an audience of physicists raised in the belief that scientific laws ought to encapsulate absolute certainties and unerring rules”

Abstract Born in Austria and something of a bumpkin by nature, the 19th-century physicist Ludwig Boltzmann did not fit in easily in the highly cultured German universities at which he taught for many years. via CiteULike

Filed under: Climate Science - raypierre @ 9:44 AM - This article continues the critique of writings on climate change by Allegre and Courtillot, started in Part I . If you would like to read either post in ... via RealClimate

“It opens up exciting new venues of discovery through the analysis videos, which are often stunning in their beauty.”

The National Science Foundation has awarded Joan Edwards, the Washington Gladden 1859 Professor of Biology, and Dwight Whitaker, assistant professor of physics at Pomona College, a grant in the amount of ... via MediLexicon

“Obviously it is not a good idea to bring snakes into the building”

Ed Shamy Free Press Staff Writer Slice right down to it, and the fundament of governing is the same as a basic rule of physics. via Burlington Free Press

“To tell you the truth, it's not very glamorous”

This is the first in a five-part series about the subprime mortgage crisis. Representatives of five of Wall Street's dominant investment banks gathered around a blond-wood conference table on a February night ... via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Sunday, December 23rd. One of the most important inventions of modern times was announced 60 years ago today -- when three Bell Laboratory scientists unveiled with what would become the junction transistor, the ... via Earth Times

The Problem with Physics by Peter Woit Physics has become obsessed with strings, branes and multiple dimensions, yet the big questions remain fundamentally unanswered. via Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog

School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, State Key Laboratory of Metal Matrix Composites, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, People's Republic of China, State Key ... via Today's Chemist At Work

“Besides public acceptance, we need to prepare many things, such as infrastructure, regulations, manpower, safety and environmental measures before we can go ahead with nuclear energy”

Dr Kopr Kritaya-kirana, a senior adviser at the National Science and Technology Development Agency, is busy these days helping to prepare Thailand for the age of nuclear energy. via The National

“This will not end the debate, but it's another step”

A research group at the University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory led by physics professor Pengcheng Dai, along with collaborators at Boston College, has taken a step toward understanding a ... via Huliq.com

“In this field, the big joke is that nothing ever happens during regular hours. You usually get results at midnight on a Friday, or working all the way through the weekend”

Technology has a habit of sneaking up on you and making great leaps and strides when you're not paying attention. via Charleston City Paper

“Warming is particularly pronounced since 1995, and especially since 2000”

Submitted by News Account on 21 December 2007 - 7:22pm. Atmospheric Record-breaking amounts of ice-free water have deprived the Arctic of more of its natural "sunscreen" than ever in recent summers. via Scientific Blogging