Category Archives: Science

May
22
2013

Cold fusion

by The Illusive Man

For those that don’t know, cold fusion is a form of nuclear fusion which takes place at or near room temperature. Long thought to be impossible, purely because nuclear fusion relies on high temperatures and high pressures – which in turn create high temperatures – and because all working examples of nuclear fusion, namely stars, [...]

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Apr
21
2013

The physics of warp travel

by The Illusive Man

To quote Douglas Adams inHitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, space is big. The nearest celestial object to Earth is the moon, and that is 383,400 KM away from us. It takes light just over 1 second to travel from the lunar surface to the Earth’s surface. When you look up at the sky and see [...]

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Mar
02
2013

Funding X-COM

by The Illusive Man

For those that don’t know, X-COM is a series of games and associated media set in an alternate present-day Earth and deals with the workings of a multi-national agency with the specified aim of defending Earth and Humanity against alien aggressors. It might sound like an odd thing to be wondering, but should we – [...]

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Dec
01
2012

Voyager to the final frontier

by The Illusive Man

This is the tale of the two most intrepid explorers in our planet’s history. This is the Voyager story.

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Sep
25
2012

Power

by The Illusive Man

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Sep
18
2012

Warp speed!

by The Illusive Man

Taken from Space.com, a story which seems to indicate that faster than light travel by means of a warp drive isn’t as far-fetched as people might have originally thought… HOUSTON — A warp drive to achieve faster-than-light travel — a concept popularized in television’s Star Trek — may not be as unrealistic as once thought, [...]

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Jul
04
2012

Higgs boson found!

by The Illusive Man

Scientists at CERN have today announced the discovery of a new boson. With a mass of 125.3 GeV +/- 0.6 GeV and with a statistical significance of 4.9 sigma, it was found right where the maths said it would be, and is the heaviest subatomic particle found to date. Thought to be the particle responsible [...]

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Jul
01
2012

Higgs Boson found?

by The Illusive Man

It is expected that scientists working at CERN will announce on Wednesday that they have found the Higgs Boson. Scientists at Cern will announce that the elusive Higgs boson ‘God Particle’ has been found at a press conference next week, it is believed. All that money they spent building the LHC, and they find the [...]

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Jun
06
2012

Transit of Venus

by The Illusive Man

The last transit of the planet Venus across the solar disc occurred last night: an astronomical event that will not happen again for another 105 years. The transits happen in pairs, eight year apart, but with a 105 years between cycles. The last transit was in 2004, and was visible over Japan. I didn’t see [...]

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May
03
2012

Transit of Venus

by The Illusive Man

Via Cherie I see that Venus will align with Earth and the Sun in a little over a month’s time (5th and 6th of June 2012). The planet will be visible in the skies over North America, Asia, Australia and Europe. This is the last time the planets will align like this for another 105 [...]

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