Word: electromagneticism
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Is the vatican hazardous to your health? That's what Italy's Environment Minister Willer Bordon is alleging, and the Roman Catholic Church is not pleased. The dispute, which broke out in early March, centers on allegedly excessive levels of electromagnetic radiation produced by Vatican Radio's powerful transmitters. The...
George Djorgovski is using the Keck as well, but where Marcy's quarries are no more than 200 light-years way, Djorgovski's are closer to 10 billion. A professor at Caltech, Djorgovski has lately been concentrating on gamma-ray bursts--mysterious flashes of high-energy radiation that have baffled...
WHAT IT MEANS FOR THE REST OF US: Scientists once spent a lot of time explaining why plastic did not conduct electricity. Heege, MacDiarmid and Shirakawa, however, won their Nobel for proving that plastics (or polymers) can be manipulated into a conductive state. The Nobel judges call the discovery critical...
In your article "will Someone Build a Perpetual-Motion Machine?" [VISIONS 21, April 10], you stated that the theories of inventor Joseph Newman are "considered nonsensical." Having assisted Newman in his work for 17 years and edited his book The Energy Machine of Joseph Newman, I find your assessment to...
In many ways, the physics of these budding cosmoses are like the baby universes Hawking and Guth hatch inside black holes. The difference is that unlike the details of what transpires in black holes, the evidence for or against inflation could be settled within just a few years. If the...