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Physicists Discover "Violation of a Fundamental Symmetry of the Universe"
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| November 3, 2010
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Posted on 11/04/2010 12:31:54 PM PDT by lbryce
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To: ontap
That banana splits take precedence over posting articles of the sort you take such pride in having avoided, reveling in having made the right decision is conventional wisdom and not at all revealing or post-worthy to some of us.
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posted on
11/04/2010 2:06:00 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
To: lbryce
Hmm, rather sounds like Kepler playing with spheres.
82
posted on
11/04/2010 2:10:14 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
(Pester not the geek, for the electrons are his friends.)
To: GOYAKLA
People can every great once in a while make 2x2=5. For dogs, trees, and rocks 2x2 always equals 4. That is why humans are ultimately superior to rocks.
83
posted on
11/04/2010 2:14:04 PM PDT
by
AceMineral
(Clam down!)
To: agere_contra
If there's a fourth flavor of neutrino that doesn't interact through the weak force, then ALL RELIGIONS ARE WRONG. Are neutrino flavors covered in the New Testament or the Old Testament? Or was that the Upanishads?
84
posted on
11/04/2010 2:14:48 PM PDT
by
paulycy
(Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
To: The Comedian
Shades of 2010!.. Except it was on Jupiter's moon, Europa, hypothesized to harbor life in supposed oceans below its frozen surface. Clever comment, nevertheless...
I only wish it were true...
85
posted on
11/04/2010 2:16:15 PM PDT
by
lbryce
(Obama Notwithstanding, America's Best Days Are Yet To Be .)
To: agere_contra
If there's a fourth flavor of neutrino that doesn't interact through the weak force, then ALL RELIGIONS ARE WRONG. Even political religions, like Communism?
To: lbryce
Can I be the first to propose that there may be, in fact, 31 flavors of neutrinos?
To: lbryce
The article was very scientific because it had a lot of “maybes” and “perhaps” and “could bes” and “mights” in it.
88
posted on
11/04/2010 3:01:21 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: lbryce
Weird stuff that I don’t understand, but still like to read about it - reminder to read later.
Thanks.
89
posted on
11/04/2010 3:14:36 PM PDT
by
ColoCdn
(Neco eos omnes, Deus suos agnoset)
To: ontap
I finally opted to go get a banana split instead.
When you get a banana split, do you also get a spooky effect associated with the split?
90
posted on
11/04/2010 3:15:06 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: Doc Savage
Ive discovered a dark matter black hole,
"Dark" and "black hole"...
You sound doubly racist. ;)
91
posted on
11/04/2010 3:18:21 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: bunkerhill7
sterile neutrinos cannot reproduce. Ergo they will eventually become extinct.
Not true!
They'll either adopt or hire non-sterile neutrinos to have their babies.
92
posted on
11/04/2010 3:21:34 PM PDT
by
adorno
To: lbryce
io9.com seems to be going through a “boo-hoo” Republicans won phase which I hope they get through because I usually like them.
93
posted on
11/04/2010 3:32:37 PM PDT
by
techcor
(I hope Obama succeeds... in becoming a one term president.)
To: lbryce
"That's right - we've either discovered a new particle, a new force, or the universe is fundamentally flawed. And we may be a few steps closer to understanding all the matter we haven't yet discovered, and have therefore labeled 'dark.'" By their own words shall they be known.
By the statement quoted above, the scientist who spoke those words demonstrated that the supreme intellectual element of so many scientists today is ARROGANCE.
One of the greatest truths about human science, and most particularly about physics, is that each major advance that was achieved in trying to solve a major question, while answering that question as best as we were able to answer it, opened a window on the whole subject to reveal we had gained many more questions than we knew to ask before we found our solution.
We will never with our puny brains and human imperfections completely understand "all the matter we haven't yet discovered" because at every step of the way we will always find there are elements of "matter" deeper, more complex, more unimaginable than we either knew to look or even guessed at. The "cosmic egg" will be forever unfolding to us, never "solved" in any final sense.
94
posted on
11/04/2010 3:57:52 PM PDT
by
Wuli
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
***And we may be a few steps closer to understanding all the matter we haven’t yet discovered, and have therefore labeled “dark.” ****
Does it matter? Jessie and Al got upset over the Black Holes in space! Won’t they see something evil in the word “Dark Matter”?
95
posted on
11/04/2010 4:29:59 PM PDT
by
Ruy Dias de Bivar
(I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
To: agere_contra
Especially if it’s tutti frutti.
96
posted on
11/04/2010 4:33:13 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
To: Gadsden1st
Travel at the speed of light thing?
Good question. The way it works is by that "relativity" phenomenon. You know about how a train coming toward you has a higher pitched horn than the same train going away from you. (Doppler effect) That's what happens to light traveling from a star that has motion relative to the earth. All radiant energy from infrared to gamma travels at the speed of light. If a star is coming toward you at, say, half the speed of light, the light it emits would arrive at 1.5 times the speed of light, right? No, it cannot go any faster. What happens is the frequency shifts upwards. Yellow light becomes blue, for instance. The red shift used to measure distance assumes that the spectrum of a certain type (size) of star is the same no matter where it is. By knowing what size the star is, one could calculate how far away it is and how it is moving relative to earth. Cosmological red shift assumes that the big bang has accelerated everthing outwards and that the farther away it is, the faster it is receding away from us. It happened about 8.5 billion years ago and shows no sign of ever ending. WIKI has a fair explanation. It is theoretically impossible for any object having any mass whatsoever to be moving at the speed of light.
97
posted on
11/04/2010 4:33:37 PM PDT
by
Huebolt
(It's not over until there is not ONE DEMOCRAT HOLDING OFFICE ANYWHERE. Not even a dog catcher!)
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posted on
11/04/2010 4:36:36 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: AdmSmith; bvw; callisto; ckilmer; dandelion; ganeshpuri89; gobucks; KevinDavis; Las Vegas Dave; ...
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posted on
11/04/2010 4:40:03 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
Actually, it's called "dark" matter because it does not interact with electromagnetic fields (like light). ....................................... "Dark" matter was never any more mysterious than positing particles that behaved in some ways like neutrinos, but weren't like neutrinos, at least like the ones we know about. (Dark matter was "discovered" in an attempt to account for gravitational effects not explainable by the observed mass in the universe, i.e., discovered in the negative.)" IMHO, nothing is the matter. It's all in their collective empty heads.
100
posted on
11/04/2010 7:35:01 PM PDT
by
SuperLuminal
(Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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