• Entertainment & Gaming

    The Super Mario Multiverse

    By Posted on 3.22.2008 10 Comments

    digg_url = 'http://digg.com/general_sciences/Super_Mario_explains_parallel_universes_2'; You're unique. Aren't you? One of the more creative hypotheses surrounding quantum mechanics posits the exact opposite. Though we can readily see only one world, quantum mechanics says that when were not observing the particles that make up that world, those particles exist in multiple places at once. There are many theories that attempt to grasp what this means, but one of the most tantalizing is Hugh Everett's multiverse concept.

    7.12.2008 at 07:55am - Comment by Christopher001

    For a decent example of multiverse watch the old Jet Li movie "The One" It provides a decent explantion of a multiverse concept though it does get a little sci-fi for the state of the movie. The movie is quite old but all you limewire fans could probaly find it.

  • The Environment

    Pond Scum for a Cleaner Tomorrow

    By Posted on 7.11.2008 10 Comments

    Biologists at the Waksman Institute of Microbiology at Rutgers University have a strange fascination with pond scum. But the fascination may prove more useful than anyone could have imagined.

    7.12.2008 at 06:37am - Comment by Christopher001

    The scientest have been talking about this and other plants for fuel and cleaning the world for years. The question is why don't they stop talking and start doing.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Are Records Really Better?

    By Posted on 7.3.2008 18 Comments

    Sorry, vinyl aficionados, but CDs most accurately capture the clarity of musical performances. If you look at the grooves of a standard long-play record, or LP, through a microscope, you’ll see that each is filled with what look like rolling hills. These are, in fact, an extremely close replication of the shape of the sound waves from the musician’s instrument. But because the needle that carves the groove is shaped slightly different than the needle that reads it, the LP will never sound exactly like the original performance.

    7.5.2008 at 06:34am - Comment by Christopher001

    To be honest why are we really arguing about this subject anyway. Both techs are antiqued. Cd's are going out and very few records are still being produced. Insults aside digital is the way the world is becoming. Even tv is soon going to be mandatory digital. So whether you choose to use vinyl, cd, 8 track, tape or blue-ray the world keeps turning and its not going to change much either way.

  • Entertainment & Gaming

    Are Records Really Better?

    By Posted on 7.3.2008 18 Comments

    Sorry, vinyl aficionados, but CDs most accurately capture the clarity of musical performances. If you look at the grooves of a standard long-play record, or LP, through a microscope, you’ll see that each is filled with what look like rolling hills. These are, in fact, an extremely close replication of the shape of the sound waves from the musician’s instrument. But because the needle that carves the groove is shaped slightly different than the needle that reads it, the LP will never sound exactly like the original performance.

    7.5.2008 at 06:34am - Comment by Christopher001

    To be honest why are we really arguing about this subject anyway. Both techs are antiqued. Cd's are going out and very few records are still bein produced. Insults aside digital is the way the world is becoming. Even tv is soon going to be mandatory digital. So whether you choose to use vinyl, cd, 8 track, tape or blue-ray the world keeps turning and its not going to change much either way.

  • Cars

    Why Can't Our Cars Get Better Mileage?

    By Posted on 7.3.2008 27 Comments

    In April, the U.S. Secretary of Transportation proposed new CAFE (corporate average fuel economy) standards that would increase the average efficiency of passenger cars and light trucks by 4.5 percent per year from 2011 to 2015. A lot of people wondered why the federal government wasn't aiming higher.

    7.5.2008 at 06:20am - Comment by Christopher001

    One thing you may not know is that both the canadian and american govenments actually subsidize oil to the tune of Billions of dollars a year. That means that our tax dollars are subidizing high prices. If that grant money was transfered to say those spray on solar panels shown a few months ago wouldn't that be a good step in the right direction? Only one problem though the oil companies have bought and are trying to suppress that tech. Wonder where they got the money....



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