Now it is possible to see a movie of an electron. The movie shows how an electron rides on a light wave after just having been pulled away from an atom. This is the first time an electron has ever been filmed, and the results are presented in the latest issue of Physical Review Letters.
Previously it has been impossible to photograph electrons since their extremely high velocities have produced blurry pictures. In order to capture these rapid events, extremely short flashes of light are necessary, but such flashes were not previously available. With the use of a newly developed technology for generating short pulses from intense laser light, so-called attosecond pulses, scientists at the Lund University Faculty of Engineering in Sweden have managed to capture the electron motion for the first time.
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A material that is able to self-repair even when it is sliced in two has been invented by French researchers.
Our planet faces a fiery doom inside the sun unless future generations work out how to change its orbit.
The remnants of at least ten pyramids have been discovered on the coast of Peru, marking what could be a vast ceremonial site of an ancient, little-known culture, archaeologists say.
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| We were tossing around ideas about the size of the Galaxy, and thought we had better check the standard numbers that everyone uses," Professor Gaensler said. Image credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team |
It took just a couple of hours using data available on the internet for University of Sydney scientists to discover that the Milky Way is twice as wide as previously thought.
A U.S. graduate student won second place in a "Greener Gadgets Conference" competition inventing a floor lamp powered by gravity.
When last we saw the lost Ark of the Covenant in action, it had been dug up by Indiana Jones in Egypt and ark-napped by Nazis, whom the Ark proceeded to incinerate amidst a tempest of terrifying apparitions. But according to Tudor Parfitt, a real life scholar-adventurer, Raiders of the Lost Ark had it wrong, and the Ark is actually nowhere near Egypt. In fact, Parfitt claims he has traced it (or a replacement container for the original Ark), to a dusty bottom shelf in a museum in Harare, Zimbabwe.
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| The Ark of the Covenant protrayed on a bas-relief at Auch Cathedral |
It can stop you from voting, destroy your dental appointments, make it difficult to rent a car or book a flight, even interfere with your college exams.
More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers in the U.S. are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It is a problem familiar to O'Connors, D'Angelos, N'Dours and D'Artagnans across America.
More than 50 years into the Information Age, computers in the U.S. are still getting confused by the apostrophe. It is a problem familiar to O'Connors, D'Angelos, N'Dours and D'Artagnans across America.
There has been a deliberate suppression of important scientific papers by the community of physicists and astronomers concerning the black hole, beginning with the original paper by Karl Schwarzschild of 1916, evidently for vainglory, money and self-aggrandisement. I bring you free access to those papers, and others of relevance, in the hope that this fraud can be exposed and physics restored to a rational search for knowledge. The black hole has no foundation in theory whatsoever. Neither Newton's theory nor Einstein's theory predict it. In fact, both theories preclude it, contrary to what the orthodox relativists claim.
Comment: We do not support the content of this article. Not because the subject is controversial, but because of the links with AIAS:
"The international forum of scientists has also posted this document to the website of the Alpha Institute for Advanced Study"
There is one unfortunate fact, namely that "Alpha Institute for Advanced Study", in short AIAS - is a fraudulent institution, as has been documented all over the net, starting with Bearden's "not so real" PhD and ending with Evans, who pretends to be the new Einstein, but who writes mathematical nonsense. See HERE
Comment: We do not support the content of this article. Not because the subject is controversial, but because of the links with AIAS:
"The international forum of scientists has also posted this document to the website of the Alpha Institute for Advanced Study"
There is one unfortunate fact, namely that "Alpha Institute for Advanced Study", in short AIAS - is a fraudulent institution, as has been documented all over the net, starting with Bearden's "not so real" PhD and ending with Evans, who pretends to be the new Einstein, but who writes mathematical nonsense. See HERE
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| This artist rendering depicts how a magnetar might appear if we could travel to one and view it up close, something that would not be advisable. |
Observations from NASA's Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) have revealed that the youngest known pulsing neutron star has thrown a temper tantrum. The collapsed star occasionally unleashes powerful bursts of X-rays, which are forcing astronomers to rethink the life cycle of neutron stars.
