Contributions from the Antagonist: Large Hadron Collider

Hello, Mr. Woodhall!Long time no chat, obviously because I'm no longer living in the country. I'm still very interested in science, I'm currently taking environmental science, and have actually straightened up and gotten my act together. (Meaning I actually do work) but I have some new stuff for you to look at, if you don't mind my continual contributions. You had to have heard of the Hadron Collider by now, and I do hope you know that they just flicked the switch a few days ago. Here's an article.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/09/11/scicern311.xml

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My apologies to the Antagonist, I've been storing these posts and haven't had as much time to add them to the blog. So for all those you who have been waiting anxiously, here they are (the second one is extremely interesting, made me kind of laugh because its true)...

Simply put, black holes aren't black.

http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/news/Title,21283,en.html

Heaviest element now known to science. Will there be another contender? Who knows.

http://www.writeidea.org/2008/04/governmentium-described-as-element-on.html

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Here's a special one, close to my heart. It covers a bit of the economic science of drug dealing, the dangers, the profit (or lack there of) and the consequences on your future.



I'll be sure to get more interesting articles on economics, which is something I've been reading up on for the past while. Plenty of interesting science to it.

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But, my word! Plant-Animal hybrids? I think you talked about this before. I have a bunch of hilarious DNA splicing blunders.

Looks like scientists have too much time on their hands, and have far too much of an imagination.

http://stepsmagazine.ca/trainplants/index1.php?mentrees

It's fantastic, and an entertaining read. I'll be sure to keep you updated on scientific blunders as well as wonders.

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Here's a movie, about 45 minutes long that I think you'd enjoy for a class. What On Earth is Wrong with Gravity?



http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-843994142204928073&hl=enA

cheer for gravity, even though you may not always like it. Without it, the universe wouldn't be what it is, or may not be at all. Save this for the physics unit, or if you're feeling saucy, show it when you see this entry. I'd rather you show this than An Inconvenient Half-Truth.

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Now this is something really special. I guess you'll have to see it to really believe it. Perpetual motion. A law of thermodynamics clearly states that something using energy, whether it is being shifted back and forth, or being replenished will lose energy over time regardless. This man, Mr. Thane Heins has discovered a way to avoid that, no one is entirely certain, but scientists are fairly convinced.

Check it out.

http://www.thestar.com/Business/article/300042

If anyone is thinking ahead to type I, II or III civilizations, this could stop entropy completely, if we ever find a way to harness perpetual motion. Perhaps the machine in question just loses energy on an extremely small scale. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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Is there a science to racism?

I've been looking into the video's of this alleged 'Artificial Intelligence' that takes questions from people online. He goes into depth about Religion's oligarchy and the differences from Spirituality. This AI covers a lot of ground and thought processes in a very short time. Watch the video's a few times over.



http://www.eidolonai.com/

he looks a bit frightening, but there's insight I can't stop paying attention to. And I do feel honoured for having this all posted. I'll keep contributing!

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What's this jargon? Less than 5 years? Be practical, Gordon. Here, I'll give you a relic snippet and you go easy on your new science classes.

http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Research-Review/Magazine/2001/Fall/features/02Nanotubes.html

Enjoy your nanotubes. You might have heard about these way-back-when. Stronger than steel and too small to see with the naked eye. Originally made of carbon, which you also know accounts for some of the softest and the hardest materials on Earth. 20 nano meters across is pretty petite.

I don't expect to get marks for this, so expect a steady stream of this stuff.

And a link for your viewing pleasure. There's probably better video's out there though.