New theoretical work on the holographic principle is interesting, but the universe is still not a hologram.
This Sucker’s Nuclear?
Radioisotope thermoelectric generators, or RTGs are used to power spacecraft when solar panels aren’t up to the job.
That’s About the Size of It
If photons are point particles, how does the mesh on your microwave oven prevent microwaves from reaching you?
Over the Rainbow
The large hadron collider will not disprove the big bang, even if it does happen to discover rainbow gravity.
The Pendulum of Truth
The Allais effect is an anomalous result seen in pendulums during a total eclipse. Whether it’s real or due to careless experiments is still debated.
You’ve Doomed Us All!
As the LHC begins running at its highest energy yet, do we need to worry that it will unleash something dangerous like black holes? Not in the slightest.
Nothing But Net
The Casimir effect has been used to justify everything from free energy to warp drive. In fact, it’s actually just a cool demonstration of quantum physics.
We’ll Eat Like Kings
A new paper proposes an experiment to detect gravitons using the Casimir effect. It’s an interesting idea, but don’t count on its success.
Two For One
While we haven’t observed a quantum object as both particle and wave at the same time, new research being hyped as such is very real and very useful.