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Are physicists out to destroy the world? Richard A. Posner does not impute nefarious motives to researchers conducting high-energy particle collision experiments. But in his latest book, Catastrophe, Posner does suggest that one of these experiments could trigger a “strangelet scenario”?...
Richard A. Posner does not impute nefarious motives to researchers conducting high-energy particle collision experiments. But in his latest book, Catastrophe, Posner does suggest that one of these experiments could trigger a “strangelet scenario”—a chain reaction that will condense the...
Had enough of muddy paw prints on the couch or a mooching pooch prowling under the dining table? Here's a new, high-tech solution from Innotek, based in Garrett, Ind.: pet-proofing Zones, discs the size of smoke detectors that can keep pets out of rooms or away from...
2. Beware of ordering “a pizza” from Tommy’s—you might receive a piece of bread with cheese 8-inches in diameter.
The GMT is a segmented telescope, meaning that it contains several layers of mirrors. The seven primary mirrors, those responsible for collecting the light or photons—essentially the data—from outer space, will be 8.4 meters in diameter. This surpasses the diameter of existing Magellan telescopes...