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Quick Science Sift #14: Time dilation is a real phenomenon
While I do not doubt the effect of time dilation, I have serious doubts about our capabilities to test and measure it. When you take a clock up into a plane and fly it around, a lot of environmental factors change besides speed over time, several of which could be responsible for an error of such a small magnitude.
Paradox Sift: The Liar's Paradox
Wow... never thought I'd see one robot Captain Kirk another.
The Opening Scene of 'Suicide Club' 自殺サークル
Ad for The Suicide Club: Our only meeting will be this Thursday after school.
Lordi - Eurovision Song Contest 2007 opening
Lordi's videos and songs are pretty much hit or miss with me. But cripes, they sure don't mess around when it comes time to rock really freakin' hard. Reminds me of the ol' Beavis and Butthead gem: "At least their music is in focus."
Who's a pretty kitty??? (turn up the speakers)
Yet more proof that if we do not end the cat infestation soon, there will be no human left to tell of it.
imagining the 10th dimension
Wow.. what a load of crap. I've never really believed that time was the 4th dimension (always felt it was the 0th dimension), but I was able to follow along with this video and see where they were trying to go with it. Right up until they hit the sixth dimension anyway. At that point, it sounded like they were running out of ideas for higher dimensions and just kept explaining the same thing over and over again in different terms (all of them being alternate time lines).
Really now, how can any one time line be more "alternate" than another? Oh, physics are different in this time line? Yeah, still just another time line. This one just had the mechanics unfold slightly differently after the big bang. And the tenth dimension is just a point containing it all. Nowhere to go and nothing to see here! Uh huh. That's like saying Akron is in a different universe from Earth, just because one contains the other.
I can only hope that the leading string theory is nowhere near this one. This explanation was much closer to philosophy than science. I mean, my theory that the tenth dimension is just a filling station in eastern Hoboken has about as much credence. I don't know, maybe the theory presented here is sound and the people who put this together just really suck at presentations. Would not surprise me much. Science departments are not usually known for their outstanding PR.
Johnny Cash: God's Gonna Cut U Down
While I really like this Cash song, I think it odd to include some of the people in this video, as many of them would actually be the target of the message. You'd think that if a bunch of celebrities were going to do a Cash tribute video, they wouldn't pick a song about sinners incurring God's wrath. Just an odd choice.