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A Great Quote

Science, especially physics is exceptionally good at tackling the difficult. It is remarkably poor at tackling the complex. In principle all biology reduces to chemistry and all chemistry to physics. Except that ain’t how it is in practice. There is still a place for the bug-collectors and the smell-merchants and that is for a good [...]

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Holy Crap! Is This Time Travel?

LANL scientist makes radio waves
travel faster than light – SantaFeNewMexican.com.
Ok if I’m reading this right, This device could potentially transmit a signal now, in fifteen minutes time, and fifteen minutes ago and they could all be recieved half an hour ago. I’m no physicist but thats time travel in my book.
It also seems that the [...]

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Primer

I have just seen a film called Primer. Prepare to have to think, and think hard.
Touted as ‘Donnie Darko for grownups’ this film really hits the mark and is in the same kind of family as Pi and Cube. Two techie geeks who work for big firms through the day spend their time tinkering [...]

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