From SciVee: Pioneering New Modes of Scientific Dissemination:
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Beta starts December 3rd 2007.
From the source article, via Digg:
“One finds that time just disappears from the Wheeler-DeWitt equation,” says Carlo Rovelli, a physicist at the University of the Mediterranean in Marseille, France. “It is an issue that many theorists have puzzled about. It may be that the best way to think about quantum reality is to give up the notion of time—that the fundamental description of the universe must be timeless.”
Isn’t it amazing how things you have absolutely nothing to contribute to can titillate your interest to no end? The above article, and countless related references, are perfect examples of a subject I’m going to get lost into for the next few hours, just clicking away until it all sinks in. Simply fascinating.
Motivation for me and others.
Found on Health Bolt, via Digg.
From the source article, on the Beeb:
A draft UN treaty to determine what would have to be done if a giant asteroid was on a collision course with Earth is to be drawn up this year. [...] The association has asked a group of scientists, lawyers, diplomats and insurance experts to draw up the recommendations.
Sorry, it’s hard to type while I’m laughing so hard… Yeah, those are definitely the people to put on the job! All they’re missing are religious leaders, and we’re sure to have a speedy conclusion to that project. ;)
From the source article:
The woman behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting may be buried near a now derelict building in the heart of Florence, according to archival documents. The exact location of Mona Lisa’s burial site, the convent of Sant’Orsola, was just a about 900 feet away from the house of the artist’s father, according to the historian, Giuseppe Pallanti.
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