Interesting to know that it is believed that biology, as in organisms, have in their genetics a system that uses fractal geometry. The fractal in the image is just one example, but for instance, trees are probably the most basic example of how organisms, including you, me, and most other complex organisms in the world, use fractals for our own body structures. A tree has a trunk that branches off to branches, which branch off to small branched and so on until you get to the leaves, and if you look at the leaves I am sure you’ve noticed that a leaf has a central line with other lines branching off to the ends of the leaf, fractal geometry. Now of course, organisms don’t continue to infinite “branches”, but we do you use the same geometrical concept within our own genetic code for body structures, and that includes the organs withing us.
“The particle was predicted almost 50 years ago and is named after the British physicist Peter Higgs. Since then, scientists all over the world have been searching for it. Its discovery would explain the origin of the masses of all other elementary particles. Just two years after its start, proton-proton collisions at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have now delivered the results which raise scientists’ expectations. “At this point in time, we can make two statements,” Büscher says. “First, if the Higgs boson actually has the characteristics it is assumed to have, then its mass must be between 115 and 131 gigaelectron volts — a much smaller window than just a year ago. Second, we have found a very intriguing excess of events, which could be the first direct evidence of a Higgs boson with a mass around 125 GeV.” The experiments at CERN will continue next year. If the evidence is confirmed, the Higgs boson would be about 125 times as heavy as a proton.” Very Big Development and if I’m not mistaken, the LHC also provided evidence for the super symmetry theory having to do with the Higgs, check for more details and if I’m mistaken, I will find it and it will be up soon, just let me know!
The Most Anticipated Space Missions of 2012
It’s not just GRAIL probes, secret spacecraft and a new Mars rover. We’ve got solar-sailships to look forward to, as well!
(via Boing Boing)
Solar- Sails! Haha fantastic, seeing boats in the sky ;) haha
Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the most famous theoretical physicists in the world, just celebrated his 70th birthday, despite suffering from Lou Gehrig’s disease that has rendered him wheel chair bound and dependent on computers to communicate.
In a radio interview marking his birthday, which covered a wide range of topics, Hawking repeated his oft stated assertion that humanity must colonize space in order to ensure its long term survival.
What sort of events could destroy the human race if it stays on one planet?
Hawking mentioned the possibility of nuclear war or climate change as being the cause of human extinction. A recent article in Discovery magazine also suggested that a global pandemic-possibly as the result of a bio-engineered disease-or an asteroid or comet strike could end the human race on Earth. The New Scientist chimed in with the possibility of a gamma ray burst caused by the explosion of a nearby star zapping the Earth with lethal radiation. Even events that do not wipe out the human species-say a total economic collapse-could end civilization and cause the deaths of billions as modern infrastructure breaks down.
So true, so very true
Can neutrinos travel faster than light? Last September, a CERN experiment claimed to have caught neutrinos breaking the fundamental speed limit of the universe. However, most physicists are sceptical about the result since it flies in the face of the well-tested theories of general and special relativity.
In this One-Minute physics episode, animator Henry Reich takes us on a field trip to show how the Italian researchers measured the groundbreaking neutrino speed.
For more about neutrinos, check out a previous video in this series that shows how to detect a neutrino. Or visit our archive of snappy physics animations to find out, for example, how to weigh money with your mind or why past and future are the same.
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Leigh Ann Hunt, for you
Shouldn’t we all
human skeleton typogram
