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CERN claims faster-than-light particle measured
by botchtowersociety inhuh?.
cern claims faster-than-light particle measuredgeneva (ap) -- a fundamental pillar of physics - that nothing can go faster than the speed of light - appears to be smashed by an oddball subatomic particle that has apparently made a giant end run around albert einstein's theories.. scientists at the world's largest physics lab said thursday they have clocked neutrinos traveling faster than light.
that's something that according to einstein's 1905 special theory of relativity - the famous e (equals) mc2 equation - just doesn't happen.. "the feeling that most people have is this can't be right, this can't be real," said james gillies, a spokesman for the european organization for nuclear research, or cern, outside the swiss city of geneva.. gillies told the associated press that the readings have so astounded researchers that they are asking others to independently verify the measurements before claiming an actual discovery.. "they are inviting the broader physics community to look at what they've done and really scrutinize it in great detail, and ideally for someone elsewhere in the world to repeat the measurements," he said thursday.. scientists at the competing fermilab in chicago have promised to start such work immediately.. "it's a shock," said fermilab head theoretician stephen parke, who was not part of the research in geneva.
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Evolution 2.0
by botchtowersociety inwill we all be tweaking our own genetic code?you have to wonder what's going on in the dna of harvard genetics professor george church.. what extra bit of code does he have that the rest of us don't?
if genes tell the story of a person's life, then some altered sequence of 'a's, 'c's, 'g's and 't's must be at play, because his brain works like almost no one else's.. about 30 years ago, prof church was one of a handful of people who dreamed up the idea of sequencing the entire human genome - every letter in the code that separates us from fruit flies as well as our parents.
his lab was the first to come up with a machine to break that code, and he's been working to improve it ever since.. once the first genome was sequenced, he pushed the idea that it wasn't enough to have one sequence, we needed everyone's.
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Solving the origins of life
by botchtowersociety inso what came first, metabolism or replication?
looks like both....at the same time.. evolving proteins..... first life: the search for the first replicatorlife must have begun with a simple molecule that could reproduce itself and now we think we know how to make one.
4 billion years before present: the surface of a newly formed planet around a medium-sized star is beginning to cool down.
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A Message for All Those Still in the WT Organization
by botchtowersociety inthis tidbit of good advice was found on another jw forum.. a message for all those still in the wt organization.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w_szj6m-km.
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Dissecting The Demagoguery About 'Tax Cuts For The Rich'
by botchtowersociety intestimony before the senate finance committee from one of my favorite thinkers:.
dissecting the demagoguery about 'tax cuts for the rich'by thomas sowell posted 07/18/2011 06:20 pm et.
democrats' insistence that the "rich" pay more in taxes is rivaled only by republicans' apparent inability or unwillingness to engage them on this specific issue.
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"In science, empirical evidence always trumps theory"
by botchtowersociety inthis article is buy someone that has, in the past, been a big proponent of runaway agw.
that he has changed his mind is, i think, significant.
he says that co2's contribution to global warming is too small to really matter, and that the the climate models have been wrong.. climate models go cold.
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Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking
by botchtowersociety inhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsgixgeljbc.
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ARE YOU READY FOR ARMAGEDDON 5/21/2011?
by botchtowersociety injudgment day.
the end of the world is almost here!.
holy god will bring judgment day on.
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What was your "aha" moment....
by botchtowersociety in....that made you decide to leave the botchtower society?
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