I wouldn't have known this was going on unless some of you hadn't written me and informed me about it. For those of you who don't know the story, "strange noises" are being heard all over the world, from Windsor, Ontario, to Kiev, the Ukraine. You can, for example, go on YouTube, and search for "strange noises" and you will find many recordings of these sounds. I found one, however, which is instructive for our purposes here: Strange Noises: Are they UFOs, thunder, HAARP or a hoax? The title here is, to my mind, almost as interesting as the video and audio, if not more so, for it is a … [Read more...]
LASERS TO RIP APART THE VACUUM
Yesterday I blogged about the effort of NASA to study the technological avenues to the creation of a practical "tractor" beam, and noted the phenomenon long known to optical scientists of particles traveling backward along a beam in the opposite direction to its propagation. Well, scientists are also exploring the possibility of an ultra-powerful laser to rip apart the vacuum itself, in order to test one of the planks of quantum mechanics: World\'s most powerful laser to tear apart the vacuum of space Note those opening paragraphs: this laser would be (1) 200 times more powerful than any … [Read more...]