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...National Museum of American History has opened a permanent show on America's fascination with time. In bookstores, best-selling author James Gleick's Faster (Pantheon), which laments the accelerating pace of our lives, will be joined next month by The End of Time (Oxford University Press), British physicist Julian Barbour's treatise on the idea that time doesn't even exist. It's nothing more, he says, than an illusion, a sort of cosmic parlor trick...
...with deeper meaning. What could be more transparent (even to the mathematically challenged) than the fact that 4-4=0? Zero is the definite answer to countless other such equations. Zero, though, can also be a tease, something that is sought after but always just beyond reach. Take the physicist's concept of absolute zero, the absurdly chilly -459.67[degrees]F. This would be the temperature of an object so still that even its subatomic particles ceased to jiggle. But modern physics teaches that the subatomic jiggling never stops, and so absolute zero can never be attained...
...Bond films are, so to speak, "charmed" at least once by Bond, they are by no means undiscriminating. For instance, upon Bond's arrival at an Afghanistan construction site in World, a foreman, terse with unrequited affection, tells him that Christmas Jones (Denise Richards), a shapely airhead-cum-nuclear physicist, is a lesbian. Suffice to say, Bond proves the unlucky foreman wrong...
...side of the debate were creationism advocates Ken Ham, the founder and director of Answers in Genesis, a pro-creation organization; and Russ Humphreys, a physicist at Sandia Laboratories and an adjunct professor for the Institute of Creation Research...
...that the biggest debates on bioethics tend to be triggered by oddballs? In early 1998, eccentric physicist Richard Seed ignited a furor when he vowed to clone a human being. (He hasn't been heard from since.) Now comes Ron Harris--fashion photographer, soft-core-porn videographer and the entrepreneurial mind behind such Web ventures as Eros Entertainment Inc. Harris' latest idea: a sexy, come-hither website called Ron's Angels that intends to auction off the eggs of beautiful models...