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LHC Watch: Physicist Otto Rossler Thinks the Large Hadron Collider Could Destroy the Earth
Prometheus Unbound —
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In an interview with Alan Gillis here, Otto Rossler, a Max Plank Institute physicist with 300 scientific papers to his credit, thinks the Large Hadron Collider could destroy the Earth. Here he describes his visit to CERN this summer: Alan Gillis: You mentioned Dr Rolf Landua earlier. You had an interview with him ...1 day ago -
Beware the black hole
Cuppacafe —
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So, Did you hear the story about the team of scientists that created a super particle accelerator that in turn created a micro-black hole? Yeah, you know the story, its the one where they wind up creating this black hole that grows exponentially into an Earth-eating behemoth, ultimately destroying all life as we know ...1 day ago -
Skeptic Magazine on the Large Hadron Collider and Black Holes
Prometheus Unbound —
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Skeptic magazine recently had a rather thorough (and I thought disturbing) article on the Large Hadron Collider and scientific opinion concerning its safety. Here’s a quote from the article: [I]n a recent version of the safety of the LHC posted on the CERN website, formation of a mBH is held to be impossible. ...3 days ago -
Go with Throttle Up? Skeptic Magazine on the Large Hadron Collider
Prometheus Unbound —
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In reading my most recent dead tree edition of Skeptic magazine, I noticed that there were two articles on the Large Hadron Collider and the potential catastrophic effects that could come from bringing it up to full power (black holes eating the Earth etc.). I’ve raised my own nervy questions about this here , ...3 days ago -
Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-ray Source
Impact Lab —
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Swift X-ray observations of galaxy NGC 5408 indicate its ultraluminous X-ray source undergoes periodic changes every 115.5 days.While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at ...4 days ago -
Finding the Mama Bear of Black Holes
Universe Today —
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While astronomers have studied both big and little black holes for decades, evidence for those middle-sized black holes has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers at NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a ...5 days ago -
Hub of beauty
Bad Astronomy —
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When Galileo first turned his telescope to the sky, almost exactly 400 years ago, he could not possibly have known what he was starting. Today, four centuries later, we’ve come a long, long way. To celebrate the anniversary of Galileo’s telescopic revolution, NASA’s Great Observatories — Hubble , Spitzer ...5 days ago -
Power........
THE SONIC ASSAULT!!!.....STEADY BOMBARDMENT!!!! —
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I exercise power ....I let it get away before..now I conserve it. The last hour approachs...whats the score? the champs win ..so who you gonna swerve with? A veteran now coaching.. doing better than Isiah ..observing it...as navies exchange fire ..adjustments are made. A hater will encroach on it...your ...5 days ago -
Understand?
THE SONIC ASSAULT!!!.....STEADY BOMBARDMENT!!!! —
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.....................said they didnt understand...... They need to understand what it do...or theyll get victimized. They couldnt front ...haters had them open when they kicked those lies. Its like surprise! surprise! surprise! word from Gomer Pyle,USMC. Its like sunrise,sunset...360 degrees..check homies style ...5 days ago -
Carbon Atmosphere Discovered On Neutron Star
Impact Lab —
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New evidence from Chandra suggests that the neutron star at the center of the Cas A supernova remnant has an ultra-thin carbon atmosphere.Evidence for a thin veil of carbon has been found on the neutron star in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant. This discovery, made with NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, resolves a ...1 week ago -
WiFi in the Sky
Discovery Space: Twisted Physics —
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Quick question: what do black holes and your laptops WiFi connection have in common? A recently honored astronomer and engineer named John OSullivan has the answer. There are lots of astronomy related prizes out there, but the 2009 Australian Prime Ministers Prize for Science, awarded to OSullivan , is noteworthy ...1 week ago -
NASA’s Fermi Telescope Detects Gamma Rays From ‘Star Factories’ In Other Galaxies
Impact Lab —
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Fermi’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) shows that an intense star-forming region in the Large Magellanic Cloud named 30 Doradus is also a source of diffuse gamma rays.Nearby galaxies undergoing a furious pace of star formation also emit lots of gamma rays, say astronomers using NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. ...1 week ago -
Gamma rays from “star factories” in galaxies other than Milky Way detected
Thaindian News —
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Washington, November 3 (ANI): NASA’s Fermi telescope has detected gamma rays from “star factories” in other galaxies.Two so-called “starburst” galaxies, plus a satellite of our own Milky Way galaxy, represent a new category of gamma-ray-emitting objects detected both by Fermi and ground-based ...1 week ago -
Gamma-Ray Mystery Traced to Star-Birth Frenzy
Wired Science —
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Astronomers have for the first time traced gamma rays, the most energetic form of light, to galaxies undergoing a frenzy of star birth. The finding, which has revealed a new class of galactic gamma-ray sources, is not unexpected. But it provides new hints about the origin of many cosmic rays , ...1 week ago -
What gives a blackhole its strong gravitational pull?
http://diddy.name —
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Every gravitational pull has a "heart" in a sense. For instance, the heart of the gravitational pull of the sun is the sun. The sun generates its own gravitational pull. Well, it would take something UNBELIEVEABLY massive to generate a gravitational pull so massive that not even light could escape - exactly what a ...1 week ago -
The Most Distant Object?
A Babe in the Universe —
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The Swift Gamma Ray Observatory was designed to catch GRBs "on the fly." Power source of these immense explosions has been considered a mystery. Light from GRB 090423 reached Earth on April 23. This Gamma Ray burst is estimated to have exploded 13 billion years ago, making it a candidate for the oldest object ever ...2 weeks ago -
Researchers Spot an Ancient Starburst from the Universe’s Dark Ages
80beats —
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Talk about a long trip. An exploding star ’s burst of light traveled 13 billion years, from the early days of the universe to the present day, before being detected by astronomers here on Earth. Researchers say this exploding star is the most distant blast ever seen. The light from the distant explosion, called a ...2 weeks ago -
Free NASA iPhone App | Universe Today
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NASA announced last week they had developed the first iPhone application geared specifically for keeping track of all things NASA. I don’t have an iPhone ,2 weeks ago -
Felicia Day, Cosmic Buzzkill
Discovery Space: Twisted Physics —
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Via io9 and uber -fanboy Phil Plait , heres a genuine treat: actress and all-around Web goddess Felicia Day ( Dr. Horribles Sing-Along-Blog, The Guild ) shows off her science chops in a new PSA from the Spitzer Science Cente r on behalf of the Spitzer Space Telescope . Apparently there was a bit of public ...2 weeks ago
