Black Holes and Qubits Appear to Have Quite A Lot in Common
	At first glance, black holes and qubits seem to be two completely different entities and indeed they are, although they seem to share a great deal of resemblances. For example, last year, Michael Duff from the Imperial College London first demonstrated a connection between the entropy of a black hole and the ways three qubits can be entangled. And apparently it doesn't stop here, as more and more connections between the two sprung up ... [read more >>]
	04 July 2008, 10:37GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Universe in a Test Tube
	What better way to understand the universe than to create your very own? Of course, black holes, supernova explosions and Big Bangs are off limits for laboratories on Earth, but helium-3 cooled to only 17,7 degrees Celsius above absolute zero will do just as good in replicating the processes that took place soon after the Big Bang event, leading to the rapid expansion of the universe in space-time and ultimately to the creation of galaxies ... [read more >>]
	09 May 2008, 04:18GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Tiny Black Holes May Open the Door to Extra Dimensions
	As they travel through space, black holes often bursts off radiation and cosmic flares, which, according to Virginia Tech Blacksburg researchers, could provide yet again with evidence that extra spatial dimensions exist. In the 1970s, British physicist Stephen Hawking revealed a solution to black holes, predicting that, given enough time, they would evaporate completely through a quantum process, called 'Hawking radiation� ... [read more >>]
	06 February 2008, 02:43GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Finding the Shapes of Alternative Spatial Dimensions
	We can normally see or experience only four of the dimensions of the universe, three spatial dimensions and a temporal one, but can we be certain that there aren't any others? Ever since it was first constructed, the string theory model of the universe seemed to suggest that the world we live in cannot possibly exist in a four dimensional universe, thus theorists working on it started adding more and more spacial dimensions. ... [read more >>]
	01 February 2008, 04:12GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

String Theory Can Be Tested After All!
	They say the string theory is not real science, but merely a science fiction description of the universe. This is mostly due to one thing: the string theory makes predictions than cannot be tested in real life, thus it cannot be proven and is falsifiable. For example, the string theory proposes that elementary particles are not spherical, as suggested in the Standard Model, but they are in fact more like little strings of energy ... [read more >>]
	29 January 2008, 04:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Universe Might Be Hanging on a String
	String theory predicts that the universe could be populated with entities of pure mass-energy called cosmic strings, which are basically defects in the space-time fabric that are create while spacetime suffers a rapid change in phase. Such changes in phase might have taken place in the early stages of the universe, during the Big Bang. String theory abandons the classical belief that elementary particles are point-like object ... [read more >>]
	19 January 2008, 05:34GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

String Theory Rocks!
	String Theory supporters argue that the universe we live in has eleven dimensions, out of which three spacial dimensions and a temporal one, which define the void and the space-time environment we experience daily. Some of you might say 'Well, the real world we live in has only four dimensions'. That may be true, but the concept of reality is rather strange, and states that the universe consists of anything that exists ... [read more >>]
	07 January 2008, 05:36GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

Protons Spin Around the World
	One of the most intriguing physical puzzles related to quantum physics and particle physics is a property of the protons, which all elementary particles share, called spin. The spin number, or quantum momentum, represents the particle's rotation around its own axis, but unlike the gyroscopic instruments and spinning top toys, the spin of an elementary particle determines certain properties of the world we experience every day. [ADM ... [read more >>]
	18 December 2007, 03:46GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

What Was Before Then?
	The universe we live in has a beginning, the Big Bang, no definite end since we cannot yet comprehend its whole structure, and nothing, not even time for that mater, exists outside of it. The concept of a cyclic universe has been mostly created to help physicists in their effort to understand its complexity. It is within our human nature to understand the long history of the universe, the same way as using an incomplete set of tools, not t ... [read more >>]
	04 December 2007, 03:03GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

The Many Worlds of Reality: Parallel Universes
	The first man ever to consider the possibility of multiple universes was Hugh Everett III, a brilliant American mathematician and quantum physics theorist. Later he became a successful defense contractor with access to the nation's most sensitive military secrets, after which his live turned tragic as he became a notorious chain smoking alcoholic and died prematurely. The theory developed by Hugh Everett III represents a ... [read more >>]
	19 November 2007, 09:57GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia

New String Theory Model Incorporates Inflation
	For years now, the Standard Model has been used by physicists as the main theory in studying the universe. After the electric and the magnetic mixed into the electromagnetic force, and after the release of Einstein's theory of relativity, scientists tried to unify the remaining forces – gravity, strong nuclear forces, and the weak nuclear forces into a theory that could explain everything. Right from the beginning, they noticed so ... [read more >>]
	26 October 2007, 06:05GMT | (c) 2008 Softpedia