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1895: Cats meddle in geophysics

Posted on March 4, 2014 by skullsinthestars

Updated slightly to add even more cat goodness! The more I research, the more it becomes clear that cats caused all sorts of mischief in the scientific community in the late 1800s!  The source of this mischief is the feline … Continue reading →

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Faster than a speeding photon? Precursors test whether light can be faster than light

Posted on October 9, 2011 by skullsinthestars

Over the past two weeks, the biggest physics news has been the apparent observation of neutrinos (nearly undetectable subatomic particles) moving faster than the vacuum speed of light.  At first glance, this would seem to violate Einstein’s special theory of … Continue reading →

Posted in Optics, Physics, Relativity | 13 Comments

Right-wing refutations of relativity really, really wrong!

Posted on August 9, 2010 by skullsinthestars

Back when I first started my blog, I spent a lot more time dealing with crazy people who are convinced that Einstein’s theories of relativity are wrong (see here, here and here).  More recently, I haven’t spent a lot of … Continue reading →

Posted in ... the Hell?, Relativity | 53 Comments