Word: holing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Federation for American Immigration Reform supported the idea of the ditch. "Locking uninvited gate-crashers out," it said, "is just good common sense. Everyone has the right to lock his own back door." Associate Attorney General Francis Keating has come up with a nickname for the big hole: "Our buried Berlin Wall...
...apologetic. "It's absolutely fascinating. I can see you might get upset if this was for an underground car park, but they are discovering something important here." Mary Rau, an American visitor to Florence who lives in London, curtailed time at the Uffizi Gallery to stare at the hole in the ground. "See the archways they are uncovering? And they're bringing up shards of pottery. They're onto something...
Although supernovae are said to "explode," in reality they start with a collapse, Kirshner points out. The inside of the star collapses to make what is also called a "neutron star" or "black hole" and this heats and eventually blows off the star's outer shells, thus spreading newly created substances throughout the universe...
...strange ideas in physics, perhaps the strangest is the wormhole. It comes perilously close to science fiction: a wormhole is a hole in the fabric of space and time, a tunnel to a distant part of the universe. While no one has proved that wormholes exist, that does not for a moment keep the more adventurous of thinkers from trying to figure how they might behave. Last fall, for example, three researchers from Caltech floated the notion that in theory at least, wormholes could be time machines...
...related news yet. Guth and two collaborators have determined, he says, that "it would apparently be possible in principle for some advanced society literally to create an entirely new universe." The wormhole connection: such + a universe would automatically create its own wormhole, squeeze through it, and then draw the hole closed after...