Friday, August 17, 2007

Warp Speed, maybe, one day?

IT was supposed to be the one speed limit you could not break.

But scientists claim to have demonstrated there is the possibility of travel faster than the speed of light.

The feat contradicts one of the key tenets of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity - that nothing, under any circumstances, can move faster than 300,000km a second, or the speed of light.

Travelling faster than light also, in theory, turns back time.

According to conventional physics, a person moving beyond light speed would arrive at his destination before leaving.

But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the phenomenon of quantum tunnelling.

Their experiments focused on the travel of microwave photons - energetic packets of light - through two prisms.

When the prisms were moved apart, most photons reflected off the first prism they encountered and were picked up by a detector.

But a few appeared to "tunnel" through a gap separating them as if the prisms were still held together.

Although these photons had traveled a longer distance, they arrived at their detector at the same time as the reflected photons.

This suggests the transit between the two prisms was faster than the speed of light.

Dr Gunter Nimtz, of the University of Koblenz, told the magazine New Scientist: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

Warp Speed, maybe, one day?

IT was supposed to be the one speed limit you could not break.

But scientists claim to have demonstrated there is the possibility of travel faster than the speed of light.

The feat contradicts one of the key tenets of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity - that nothing, under any circumstances, can move faster than 300,000km a second, or the speed of light.

Travelling faster than light also, in theory, turns back time.

According to conventional physics, a person moving beyond light speed would arrive at his destination before leaving.

But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the phenomenon of quantum tunnelling.

Their experiments focused on the travel of microwave photons - energetic packets of light - through two prisms.

When the prisms were moved apart, most photons reflected off the first prism they encountered and were picked up by a detector.

But a few appeared to "tunnel" through a gap separating them as if the prisms were still held together.

Although these photons had traveled a longer distance, they arrived at their detector at the same time as the reflected photons.

This suggests the transit between the two prisms was faster than the speed of light.

Dr Gunter Nimtz, of the University of Koblenz, told the magazine New Scientist: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

Thursday, August 16, 2007

Chandelier made from tampons!

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Artists sure make use of the oddest of material in their art creations. Pictured here is a chandelier hanging in the Arsenale during the 2005 Venice Beinalle (An art exhibition). .

Ever heard of a game Last Chaos

There is a online game (mmo) called Last Chaos and there is a stupid Game Master called SusanRev she bans dedicated players for saying there opinion I would recommend no wasting anytime playing this game as you get so far and then the silly cow will ban you for no reason - I've spent countless hours trying to lvl my character and now its all gone - I would recommend giving this game a miss I just thought that I should warn all of you first.

World's Second 7 STAR hotel

Thats the world second 7 star hotel in Pakistan, Islamabad

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i think my 3 months job will get 1 night in there

The Centaurus consists of 6.59 acres of architectural brilliance in the heart of Islamabad - Pakistan. It is under construction on the most expensive plot in the history of Pakistan and designed by ATKINS, which has a solid reputation in the creation of stunning buildings like the awe inspiring Burj-ul-Arab, Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Twisting Tower, 21st Century Tower etc. The Centaurus is a living day wonder.

The Centaurus consists of 7 Star Hotel, Corporate Complex, Two Residencial Towers and International Standard Shopping Mall. It can bear up to 9.5 Magnitude Earth Quake and will be completed by 2010.


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Looks Awesome! Wonder if i will be able to afford it LOL!

Fonejacker - Anyone Watch This?

The show follows a fictional man simply called the Fonejacker, played by actor Kayvan Novak, who is a masked prank caller who calls unsuspecting members of the public as various characters, accompanied by on-screen animations, consisting of pictures of people with their mouths moving, in a similar style to Monty Python animations. Others are accompanied by undercover filming in which the Fonejacker is in a street calling a company nearby. He is always seen wearing a red and white balaclava (black in the Pilot) and sunglasses.

Whilst Kayvan Novak's appearance is not seen as the Fonejacker, he appears during Mr. Doovdé's calls as a model advertising various items including DVD players and for dfs.

Does anyone watch Fonejacker? its on E4 every Thursday i think (I download from here, dont watch on TV)

Its so funny lol, theres one man, and he does around 20 different voices and different sounds, and phones people up, people from the public, pretending to be different people, for example, from the bank, from an ISP (See In Sig LOL) Phone Providers, etc, and prank calls them...

Its quite hard to explain, but its hilarious lol, i reccomend watching it, theres eipsodes in tv series section here, only 3 aired so far, their all there.

Fonejacker MySpace:


http://www.myspace.com/thefonejacker


Fonecker Wiki:

http://www.myspace.com/thefonejacker


Anyone Watch This LOL?

(Previews On Youtube + Fonejacker MySpace If Anyone Wants To See)

Goat eats 10,000 Euros

Goat eats 10,000 Euros

A German farmer lost 10,000 Euros when it was eaten by his goat.
But he got it back after having a vet carry out emergency surgery to recover the cash.
Martin Radlberger, 34, from Rosenheim in Germany left the 100 Euro notes that he planned to use to buy a tractor on the kitchen table when he went to answer the phone.
But when he returned he saw his nanny goat Steffi just finishing off the last crisp new note.
He said: "I know I shouldn't have left the cash on the table, but I was only gone for five minutes to answer a phone call. When I returned I saw how my goat had the last note in her mouth."
Radlberger immediately called a vet who performed an emergency operation on the animal.
"Now I have almost all my money back, and Steffi has had a hard lesson" the farmer says, adding that the vet had kept three of the soggy 100 Euro notes to pay for the surgery.