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POSSIBLE

NO WAY

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Rotating Space Elevator Propels its Own Load

As the scientists explain, RSE motion is nearly a geometrical superposition of two components: its geosynchronous rotation around Earth (which has a one-day period), and the internal rotation of the string system that goes on around the axis perpendic [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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WOW!

MEH

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Chemistry Creates Self-Stirring Liquids (click for video)

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De Wit and her colleagues wondered what would happen to fluid flows if the reacting liquids were left alone and not stirred. The researchers watched a very simple reaction — the neutralization that occurs between hydrochloric acid and sodium hydroxi [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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INTERESTING

BORING

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Newton's idea spotted in reflected neutrons

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Newton predicted in the 17th century that a beam of light reflected at a glass-vacuum surface should undergo a minuscule lateral shift. He was arguing that wavefronts, having reached the vacuum, should "slide" a short distance along the interface befo [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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INTERESTING

BORING

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Less Wrong: What Are Probabilities, Anyway?

This blog is more serious than you'd think, but it does provide an almost accessible look at the insane-seeming many worlds theories of insane-seeming modern physics. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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REAL

OMMMM

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A Prayer for Success at CERN

If atheists can pray, it may look something like this. Prayers for openness being the only kind God truly abides. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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COOL

BORING

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The Large Hadron Collider is Working!

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The Large Hadron Collider, the world’s biggest and most expensive science experiment, produced its first collisions on Monday, said scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, outside Geneva. [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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YES

NO

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Why Machines Will Never Think as Good as People Do

Machines, unless their designer is malicious, just don't do random. So, can they ever think? Or does thinking involve emotion, which allows random in. Which route leads to pair-a-dice? Feeling machines or thinking people? Will machines ever think? [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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FACT

FICTION

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Probability and Possibility and Another Theory about Fate

We know that subatomic particles can only be pinned down to the scope of a probability function. Is there an analogous "possibility function" to describe something from nothing? [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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SCIENCE

ART

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Fury Unleashed

Is this guy just nuts, or might he be on to something? It's also possible he's just pulling your leg, but what if he's not? Too bad there aren't more choices, but if you vote "art" against my "science" then you'll succeed in burying me. Go ahead and m [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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CRAZY

SERIOUS

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Did a Time-Traveling Bird Sabotage the Hadron Collider?

The Hadron Collider is still having trouble getting started, leaving openings for all sorts of crazy thoughts about how maybe these Higg's bosons just don't want to be found. It gets you thinking - read the Time Magazine article if you think I'm the o [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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FUNNY

LAME

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In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson

First, congratulations for proving the existence of the Higgs boson! This feat will shortly catapult you into the scientific stratosphere, where you will be lauded with prestigious awards and offers of tenure. Your life will change tomorrow, but today [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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BELIEVE

DOUBT

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There's no way that balloon could've lifted a 50 lb boy

(Do you believe his logic and math?) Ok, here's my math: The volume of an oblate spheroid that's approx 20'x3' = 17.79 cubic meters ( http://bit.ly/2cv4Ac ). According to How Stuff Works, one liter of helium can lift one gram. Which converts to 22,650 [more] [retweet] [Share] [widget] [share]
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