/sci/ - Thread for scientific news stories

Name: Anonymous 2011-03-27 15:15

http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-scientists-drill-earth-mantle.html

Post any interesting scientific story particularly breakthroughs in technology.

Name: h3 2011-03-29 22:56

on the 20 of march 2011 there was a UFO hovering above the town of Lafayette co. my theory is that it is def. extra terrestrial but i don't think it is a space craft. i think it might be like a white hole that has been synthesized and stabilized. but its just a theory. watch the you tube videos and make up your own mind...

Name: Anonymous 2011-03-30 5:38

>>2
lol

Name: h3 2011-03-30 10:02

lol to what?

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 1:33

>>2
"white hole"? WTF

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 3:47

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12911806

3D Gravity Map

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 6:43

>>5
A black hole is a region of space from which nothing can escape (save for Hawkins radiation but that's an exception since it only represents the half of a pair outside of the event horizon). A white hole is a region of space into which nothing can enter (but from which things may leave).

Actually, if white holes were more common, it would explain why some phenomena seems rare from our perspective - lots of perception blind spots.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 21:08

>>7
Isn't the new thing that black holes just crush shit and shoot atoms in 2 direction and there's no wormhole bullshit about it anymore?

Or are theoretical physicists still being faggots that believe everything is super overcomplicated magic?
"No, man, quarks exist and don't at the same time, man, they're over here and there AT THE SAME TIME, man!"
"You just fucking blew my mind, bro."

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 22:26

>>8
Not as such. Black holes have gotten thoroughly mundane as the years have gone by.

If you want to wring some science fiction out of them nowadays, you look into the singularity (because no one knows how to draw tension out of the event horizon in a realistic way ...); if you want to wring out some fantasy BS, you describe them as the "spiteful ghost of a star" and build on that.

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-05 7:38

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12956636

Chemical found which 'makes bone marrow repair skin'

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-08 4:06

New particle about to be discovered http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13000253

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-11 15:14

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2007/03/12/1300-black-holes/

Why we can see black holes

Name: Anonymous 2011-04-16 7:02

http://mitnse.com/?r=s truth behind Japans nuclear disaster

Thread for scientific news stories

1 Name: Anonymous 2011-03-27 15:15

2 Name: h3 2011-03-29 22:56

3 Name: Anonymous 2011-03-30 5:38

4 Name: h3 2011-03-30 10:02

5 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 1:33

6 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 3:47

7 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 6:43

8 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 21:08

9 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-01 22:26

10 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-05 7:38

11 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-08 4:06

12 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-11 15:14

13 Name: Anonymous 2011-04-16 7:02