Word: looping
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...historical loop forms: steroids beget pro wrestlers--Hulk Hogan, for one, has admitted taking steroids--who inspire boys to be just like them. Steroids have changed even boys' toys. Feminists have long derided Barbie for her tiny waist and big bosom. The authors of The Adonis Complex see a similar problem for boys in the growth of G.I. Joe. The grunt of 1982 looks scrawny compared with G.I. Joe Extreme, introduced in the mid-'90s. The latter would have a 55-in. chest and 27-in. biceps if he were real, which simply can't be replicated in nature. Pope...
...think they're just fixing something inside," member Justin P. Finnegan '02 said. "It's a surprise to me, but I haven't been in the loop...
...found another possible mechanism for time travel using cosmic strings, thin strands of energy millions of light-years long, predicted by some theories of particle physics (but not yet observed in the universe). You could try to construct a cosmic-string time machine by finding a large loop of cosmic string and somehow manipulating it so it would contract rapidly under its own tension, like a rubber band. The extraordinary energy density of the string curves space-time sharply, and by flying a spaceship around the two sides of the loop as they pass each other at nearly the speed...
...back in time by one year, unfortunately, you'd need a loop containing about half the mass-energy of an entire galaxy. Worse yet, the contracting cosmic-string loop would probably trigger the formation of a rotating black hole, trapping any time-travel regions inside. You would almost certainly be torn apart by near infinite space curvature before you could travel anywhere...
...measure but would raise the danger of continuous judicial monitoring of the software industry. Possible "structural remedies" include such as breaking up the company into separate divisions or licensing the Windows software to a number of different providers; both would provide a one-time solution rather than an endless loop of litigation...