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So I've heard... But what does that even mean? It all goes back to German physicist Albert Einstein, who formulated the theories of Special and General Relativity in the early 1900s, in order to construct a better model that would explain the unique characteristics of space and time. Thus, relativity means that ... |
9 February 2008
05:10 GMT |
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Some may say that such actions are close to impossible, but researchers at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, RHIC for short, have already achieved the performance of correcting the trajectory of particles traveling at 99,995 percent of the speed of light, by measuring fluctuations of particle beams as they speed t... |
7 February 2008
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Quantum tunneling represents a quantum mechanics phenomenon, which allows a given particle to violate certain classical mechanics principles. For example, in order to extract an electron from the atom, one must contribute with an input of energy equal to or higher than that of the respective electron. However, quantu... |
26 January 2008
06:35 GMT |
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It is a well known fact that black holes can spin with extreme speeds, yet new observations conducted with NASA's Chandra X-ray Space Telescope reveal that supermassive black holes could even reach rotation speeds close to the upper limits allowed in the space-time fabric. Not only that, but physicists also pro... |
11 January 2008
06:50 GMT |
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The Earth is constantly being bombarded with a huge amount of cosmic rays every day, however, most of these are quickly absorbed by the atmosphere. The vast majority subatomic particles usually come from our own Sun and pack a relatively low energy, but from time to time, Earth has received a dose of highly energetic... |
3 January 2008
09:53 GMT |
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