When stars explode they become brilliant supernova for a short time, then they may undergo a sudden gravitational collapse into a neutron star or black hole, Astronomers are trying to catch glimpses of this happening, in case it happens to us in the future (In 2012? NOTE: Subscribers can still listen to this show).
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Much as we’d hate to lose two of our favorite sports–football and hockey–they are causing head injuries that lead to early Alzheimer’s disease, not to mention extreme headaches. And in Europe and South America, in what we call soccer (and they call football) is the most popular sport, there are plenty of head injuries too.read more
It’s happening again–but this time it WAS a piece of metal. A mysterious piece of metal weighing about 5 pounds suddenly crashed through the roof of a furniture warehouse in the Boston area. The FAA looked at it and says it didn’t come from an airplane. Luckily, no one was hurt.
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We may live in a holographic projection of another, flat version of life, being lived in a two-dimensional surface at the edge of this universe. Seeing our universe as a hologram could solve some of the biggest problems in quantum physics, such as "spooky action at a distance," also known as quantum entanglement, in which two particles become entangled and when something happens to one of them, it instantly happens to the other.
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