Thursday, February 26, 2009

Litigant rapper gets poetic justice in Wis. court

"It's like Einstein's theory of relativity. It's so short but so perfect there's nothing you can say about it."

Among several lines of lyrics in the six-page brief, Royal wrote: "A domestic relations exception, I was supposed to know. Appellee would know too, so why did he spend so much doe?"

The District 4 Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 13 that the judge did not have the authority to order Royal to pay fees, thereby allowing Royal to now seek costs from the lawyer who brought the lawsuit.

Royal said he has already asked for $800.

The court did not mention Royal's lyrics in its decision but he said he believed they helped him win.

He said he may repeat the technique in another lawsuit, which claims a Canadian rock band improperly interfered with a contract to air a television show that his employer helped produce on the Oxygen cable network.

Where Does the Entropy Go?

Despite having written a textbook on the general relativity theory by Einstein, I had never written a paper directly about black hole physics. Always good to learn new things, and I look forward to learning more. Albert Einstein has been a great source of inspiration for me.

John Hughes

Friday, February 20, 2009

Back to the Future: A Time Machine?

"Einstein's General Theory of Relativity" is the theory of gravity. It connects gravity with space and time," said Mallett. "That's where it starts."

To break down the complicated theories of how time and space can be distorted by lasers, Mallet uses a breakfast beverage.

"Imagine a cup of coffee in front of you. Think of that coffee in your cup as being like empty space. Think of your spoon as being a circulating light beam. If you stir, it starts swirling. That's what the light beam is doing to space - it's causing empty space when the coffee swirls around," said Mallett.

"If I drop in a sugar cube, the coffee will drag the sugar cube around. In the case of empty space, it's a neutron - part of every atom. If we put it in empty space, the space will drag the neutron around the same way the coffee drags the sugar cube around.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

'I have a dream' of pecan pie!

You don't have to know Einstein's theory of relativity to serve. You don't have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love. And you can be that servant." The above is from a sermon Reverend King delivered at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, two months before he was assassinated. He gave in his life so that we could live our lives... in a better and safer world! Peace, love and prosperity to all.

Friday, February 13, 2009

The Universe Expands Faster Every Minute

Scientists now possess the most accurate value of said parameter, which implies that equations of general relativity theory (Albert Einstein) on all distances � from planets radiuses to the observed part of the Universe. Russian scientists are now in promising collaboration with international colleagues, and their work is aimed at creating an orbital X-ray observatory 'Spectra-roentgen-gamma' and launching it to the orbit in 2012.

The observatory will study the sky and is expected to detect about 100 thousand new galactic clusters (e.g. all massive clusters in our Universe), about 3 million of nuclei of active galaxies (superheavy black holes) and 2 million of coronally active stars. The results will give exact data on how fast the Universe structure grows, and then help correctly determine dark energy state equation.

The big questions of science

Here one has to turn to relativity physics, quantum mechanics and field-theory, which overturned the secure world of Newtonian physics when they first emerged at the beginning of the 20th century in the work of Einstein, Niels Bohr and others.

Few scientists today would believe, as physicist William Thomson did in 1900, that only two little problems remained to be resolved in the discipline, namely those concerning the properties of light, and "black body-radiation" — both of which were resolved by relativity physics and quantum theory a few years later, but not without opening up new areas of investigation.

Schramm observes that the current situation in biology is comparable to that which existed in physics a hundred years ago: contrary to expectations after the 2003-decipherment of the human genome, knowledge of human beings in this field is, all of a sudden, not worth that much any longer.

Monday, February 9, 2009

Einstein's physics on violin

Physics department at the University of Oxford will deliver a lecture on Einstein's contribution to physics, including his famous Theory of Relativity.

Violinist Jack Liebeck will join Professor Foster on stage at various points to provide musical analogies to some of the points raised by the lecture.

The lecture will also look at how technological developments in Switzerland may have influenced Einstein's work, as well as the latest updates on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva.

The lecture will take place at Dillington House near Ilminster at 2.30pm on Sunday, February 8. Tickets cost £14, which includes tea and cake, contact the box office on 01460-52427 for details.

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Michael Duff: Einstein didn't explain everything. We need a...

Quantum theory deals with the very small: atoms, subatomic particles and the forces between them. General relativity deals with the very large: stars, galaxies and gravity, the driving force of the cosmos as a whole. The dilemma is that on the microscopic scale, Einstein's theory fails to comply with the quantum rules that govern the behaviour of the elementary particles. On the macroscopic scale, black holes are threatening the very foundations of quantum mechanics. Something big has to give. This augurs a new scientific revolution.

Some believe that this revolution is already under way because of "superstrings". As their name suggests, superstrings are one-dimensional string-like objects. Just like violin strings, they can vibrate, and each mode of vibration, each note if you like, corresponds to a different elementary particle.

Wiedmer: Sometimes game is painfully simple

And because he's collecting all that money, we like to think the formula for those victories could rival Einstein's theory of relativity, or at least the Colonel's secret recipe for Kentucky Fried Chicken.

But sometimes it's a pretty simple game. If you get more rebounds, you win. Especially when there are so many rebounds to collect because Tennessee is torturing 37 of its 55 field-goal attempts by slamming them into steel and glass against the Tigers' angry hands at the same time Memphis is mistreating 37 of its 56 attempts in similarly cruel fashion.

When one team (Memphis) is shooting 34 percent in the same game the other team is shooting 33, rebounding becomes everything.

“What I told the guys was it was going to be a war," Calipari said afterward.

Profiles in Greatness: Albert Einstein

In 1916, Einstein published his general theory of relativity, which asserts that gravity is a distortion of space-time by matter. In other words, matter tells space-time how to curve, and the curvature of space-time tells matter how to move. An astronomy experiment by another prominent scientist in 1919 proved Einstein's theory, and his discoveries excited a world recovering from World War I.

"It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service…. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."

Einstein traveled to the United States for the first time in 1921. He returned periodically for work and in late 1932 was serving temporarily at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J. When Adolf Hitler assumed power in Germany in 1933, Einstein chose to stay in the United States.

E=MC2: 103 years later, Einstein's proven right

In other words, energy and mass are equivalent, as Einstein proposed in his Special Theory of Relativity in 1905.

The e=mc2 formula shows that mass can be converted into energy, and energy can be converted into mass.

By showing how much energy would be released if a certain amount of mass were to be converted into energy, the equation has been used many times, most famously as the inspirational basis for building atomic weapons.

But resolving e-mc2 at the scale of sub-atomic particles -- in equations called quantum chromodynamics -- has been fiendishly difficult.

"Until now, this has been a hypothesis," France's National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) said proudly in a press release.

"It has now been corroborated for the first time."

For those keen to know more: the computations involve "envisioning space and time as part of a four-dimensional crystal lattice, with discrete points spaced along columns and rows." .