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Einstein, The Universe, And Leadership

Management | October 6th 2008 by mooyong

Every since serving a hitch in the military, I have been nagged by the question that''s been hanging around leadership since time immemorial: How can some leaders persuade people to believe in them and follow them and other leaders can''t? But it was read more

Albert Einstein: The Foundation of the General Theory of Relativi…

My Frame of Reference | October 4th 2008 by Nabin

This evening I was wondering how our brain can comprehend this complex universe under the mathematical and philosophical way. These scientific methods involve people being able to speculate and hence learn on the basis of mistakes made by others. Tha read more

Einstein Refrigerator Making a Comeback?

CleanTechnica | September 22nd 2008 by Lucille Chi

Albert Einstein is probably most remembered by the public for his General Theory of Relativity, but how many remember his 1930 invention of a refrigerator that used no electricity?  I wasn’t there when it was introduced, but I knew several peo read more

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy

Download Area | September 16th 2008

Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)By Kip S. ThorneISBN: 0393312763Publisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublication Date: 1995-01Number Of Pages: 619Description:Ever since Albert Einstein's general th read more

A Unified Theory of Forces

vrokolos | September 15th 2008 by Vrokolos

Let me start by quickly proving Einstein wrong. Dark Matter. There you go Mr Einstein. Goodbye theory of special and general relativity. Now say with me aloud: DARK MATTER IS GRAVITY WITHOUT MATTER. Go on... Say it three times.. four!.. 10 If you rea read more

"Laser Comb" To Measure the Accelarating Universe

belajar_astronomy | September 14th 2008 by destiny_of_aries

Back in April, UT published an article about using a device called a 'laser comb' to search for Earth-like planets. But astronomers also hope to use the device to search for dark energy in an ambitious project that would measure the velocities of dis read more

Experiment to investigate Big Bang theory.

Jprasads info | September 13th 2008 by jyothi prasad k

The Big Bang is the cosmological model of the universe that is best supported by all lines of scientific evidence and observation. The essential idea is that the universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finit read more

Big Bang World's Biggest Scientific Experiment Videos

In and Around you | September 10th 2008 by bhagwat

World's biggest scientific experiment "Big Bang" The well-known Welshman physicist, Lyn Evans, dubbed Evans the Atom, will this week switch on a giant particle accelerator designed to unlock the secrets of the Big Bang.What is big bang?The Big Bang i read more

The many mistakes of Einstein.

Creative Something | September 3rd 2008 by Tanner Christensen

Sure, he is considered to be a genius, but Einstein made a lot of mistakes in his time. In–fact, the man who revolutionized the theory of general relativity and showed everyone why E=mc2 made quite a few mistakes that would have stopped anyone e read more

Sciences: String theory makes a 10-dimensional universe

ufo | August 22nd 2008 by anil

For ordinary mortals, there are only four dimensions, three spatial and temporal. Even perceive us happy time as did Newton, ie as a parameter absolute axis immutable.We know of course, since Einstein and general relativity, an area and time are real read more

19 August - Historical Events and Special Celebrations

Happy Special Day! | August 18th 2008 by Carine Vanhoutte

Gemstone of the MonthAgateFlower of the Month: Gladiolus Nomanda’s Happy Special Day blog is a celebration of events and anniversaries that have touched our lives. If today is your special day join us in looking at a few other events that have occu read more

Evidence for dark energy accumulates

Science and Reason | August 18th 2008 by Charles Daney

Dark energy (in its most plausible form as a "cosmological constant") has been a hypothetical possibility almost since Einstein's publication of his general theory of relativity in 1916. (Check here for our previous discussions of dark energy.)Howeve read more

Re:Generator Sunday Reader: Before the Big Bang - A Twin Universe…

Re:Generator Magazine | August 17th 2008 by Robert Starvation

Until very recently, asking what happened at or before the Big Bang was considered by physicists to be a religious question. General relativity theory just doesn’t go there – at T=0, it spews out zeros, infinities, and errors – and so the quest read more

An alternative to a singularity?

The Imagineers Chronicles | August 15th 2008 by Jeffrey O'Callaghan

Many physicists assume based on the General Theory of Relativity the mass of larger stars that have used up their nuclear fuel will implode to form a singularity or black hole.  (A singularity is defined as region of space in which the mass is c read more

Eclipse of the Sun 2008

Digital Technology for Inquiring Minds | August 3rd 2008 by Digital eLife

This is something I wanted to share with you that most of us in the U.S. everget to see and that is sun eclipse, when becomes dark at noon. The picture says it all. It seems that the eclipse of May 1919 was used to prove Einstein’s theory of ge read more

Beacon of Hope

The Quantum Tarot - A Tarot of the New Physics | July 31st 2008 by Kay

XVII The Star – String TheoryQuantum theory and general relativity – the two landmark discoveries of 20th century physics – have revolutionised the way we understand the world. There’s one problem; they don’t work together. Quantum theory read more

How To Create A Warp Drive 101

Whats Next In Tech | July 30th 2008 by Grant

For years physicists and scientists alike have been unable to fathom as to just how someone would go about constructing a Warp or Faster Then Light drive just like on your favorite starship Enterprise. The reason is that Einstein theorized that its i read more

Lightning Strike

The Quantum Tarot - A Tarot of the New Physics | July 24th 2008 by Kay

XVI The Tower – Quantum foamThe concept of quantum foam evolved out of an attempt to reconcile Einstein’s theory of general relativity with quantum mechanics. The idea was to treat gravity as a field, linking space and time – the arena of gene read more

Stringy Flavours in The Ice-Cream Parlour

Nothing That Matters | July 18th 2008 by Girish Bhatnagar

How many dimensions of space-time a string theory predicts varies in different flavours of the theory. It started with a "Bosonic" model which explained only Boson Particles (Particles that explain the behaviour of Forces), no Fermions (Other particl read more

Candy Theory of Relativity

Candy Addict | July 17th 2008

(Image Courtesy of The Exploratorium) Many people are probably aware of Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, but few are likely aware of its relation to candy. When this scientific tenet is applied to candy, the theory states that a candy&# read more

What Is Tennant up to?????

The Time Vortex | July 10th 2008 by Jennie

Einstein And EddingtonThe BBC's Autumn schedule has been released with further details of Einstein And Eddington:David Tennant and Andy Serkis star in this drama set amid the chaos and uncertainty of the First World War. Einstein And Eddington chroni read more

Einstein Right... Details At 11

GumbyTheCat | July 4th 2008 by gumbythecat

Score another victory for Einstein's General Theory of Relativity (GTR). Various aspects of this theory, published in 1916, have been verified time and time again. According to the theory, gravity is the result of the mass of an object warping space read more

Einstein’s Theory Passes Strict New Test

Social News 2 U | July 3rd 2008 by News2U

FiReaNGeL writes with an excerpt from a story at e! Science News: "Taking advantage of a unique cosmic configuration, astronomers have measured an effect predicted by Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity in the extremely strong gravity of a read more

Einstein and His Famous Equation

Miscellaneous Concepts | June 27th 2008 by LK

by MaAnna Stephenson When most people hear the name Einstein, the next thought is usually his famous equation, E=mc2. Believe it or not, Einstein's Nobel Prize was not awarded for this revolutionary discovery, but for his lesser known paper on the P read more

The “Miracle Year”

Ethnicitee | June 24th 2008 by ALLAN BERNSTEIN

Albert Einstein was a German-born theoretical physicist. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest physicists of all time. He played a leading role in formulating the special and general theories of relativity; moreover, he made significant contri read more

The Theory of Everything Finally Revealed: Secret Relationship be…

Miscellaneous Concepts | June 17th 2008 by LK

By Al GammateThe theory of everything (TOE) is a theory that fully explains and links together all known physical phenomena. Nevertheless, this theory hasn't been found yet.After Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity was published in 1915, t read more

SuperWave Theory 2012 Earth Changes

December 21 2012 | June 14th 2008 by redwinging

In this 3 part series Dr. LaViolette is credited with the discovery of the planetary-stellar mass-luminosity relation which demonstrates that the Sun, planets, stars, and supernova explosions are powered by spontaneous energy creation through photon read more

Did Researchers Cook Data from the First Test of General Relativi…

Wired And Amazing facts you never thought exists | June 1st 2008

On May 29, 1919, two British expeditions, positioned on opposite sides of the planet, aimed telescopes at the sun during a total eclipse. Their mission: to test a radical theory of gravity dreamed up by a former patent clerk, who predicted that passi read more

Not just for geeks, really

T.aller T.han A.verage T.ales | May 28th 2008

The World Science Festival begins today in New York City and runs through June 1. Their mission is:To cultivate and sustain a general public informed by the content of science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage wi read more

Only the Strong Survive?

The Quantum Tarot - A Tarot of the New Physics | May 27th 2008 by Kay

VIII Strength - General RelativityIn his theory of general relativity, Einstein observed that massive objects like planets or stars have an effect on the fabric of space-time. Special relativity had already linked space and time, and Einstein conclud read more

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