By Glen Mackie, Swinburne University of Technology
As 2012 comes to a close and you toast the New Year, be sure to also raise a glass to one Vesto Melvin Slipher.
My intent is to describe what Slipher did 100 years ago in Flagstaff, Arizona and why this…
Hyper-drives might be the stuff of science fiction, but they could be science fact too.
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Fans of science fiction must be disheartened when introduced to Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity. Dreams of galactic empires, criss-crossed by roguish princesses and beautiful smugglers, go out…
We know they’re out there, and now we’re closer than ever to finding gravity waves.
NASA
Detecting gravity waves is a major goal for astrophysicists.
We know they should be there, but we haven’t found them yet. But today we are one step closer.
By literally squeezing light on a quantum level…
The universe teems with energy and matter we don’t understand.
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In questioning the fundamental nature of the universe, cosmology regularly grabs the public’s attention.
But in an era in which we are observing deeper and more widely than ever before, our knowledge…
Time travel has long been a staple of science fiction but the LHC might make it a reality.
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Switzerland’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) can be called a time machine in one sense: it enables us to examine conditions as they were during the universe’s early stages.
But is the 27km-long particle…
