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Here’s a phenomenon I was surprised to find: you’ll go to talks, and...
– Ravi Vakil
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The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.
– Gloria Steinem
Speedy neutrino mystery likely solved, relativity... →
Those weird faster-than-light neutrinos that CERN thought they saw last month may have just gotten slowed down to a speed that’ll keep them from completely destroying physics as we know it. In an ironic twist, the very theory that these neutrinos would have disproved may explain exactly what happened.
Back in September, physicists ran an experiment where they sent bunches of neutrinos from...
i thank You God for most this amazing
day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees
and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything
which is natural which is infinite which is yes
(i who have died am alive again today,
and this is the sun’s birthday; this is the birth
day of life and of love and wings: and of the gay
great happening illimitably earth)
how should tasting touching...