• By Sean Carroll Response 2012 Annual Question Edge

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:07:50
    To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge , seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds , put them in a room together , and have them ask each other the questions they are asking . themselves Get Edge.org by Email Sunday , Jan 15, 2012 HOME CONVERSATIONS ANNUAL QUESTION EVENTS NEWS LIBRARY ABOUT 2012 WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP , ELEGANT , OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION 2011 WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT Buy the Book 2010 HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK Buy the Book 2009 WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING Buy the Book 2008 WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT WHY Buy the Book 2007 WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT Buy the Book 2006 WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA Buy the Book 2005 WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT Buy the

  • By Steve Giddings Response 2012 Annual Question Edge

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:07:49
    To arrive at the edge of the world's knowledge , seek out the most complex and sophisticated minds , put them in a room together , and have them ask each other the questions they are asking . themselves Get Edge.org by Email Sunday , Jan 15, 2012 HOME CONVERSATIONS ANNUAL QUESTION EVENTS NEWS LIBRARY ABOUT 2012 WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE DEEP , ELEGANT , OR BEAUTIFUL EXPLANATION 2011 WHAT SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT WOULD IMPROVE EVERYBODY'S COGNITIVE TOOLKIT Buy the Book 2010 HOW IS THE INTERNET CHANGING THE WAY YOU THINK Buy the Book 2009 WHAT WILL CHANGE EVERYTHING Buy the Book 2008 WHAT HAVE YOU CHANGED YOUR MIND ABOUT WHY Buy the Book 2007 WHAT ARE YOU OPTIMISTIC ABOUT Buy the Book 2006 WHAT IS YOUR DANGEROUS IDEA Buy the Book 2005 WHAT DO YOU BELIEVE IS TRUE EVEN THOUGH YOU CANNOT PROVE IT Buy the

  • The Dress Code at the Nobel Festivities

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:07:41
    Home A-Z Index FAQ Press Contact Us Nobel Prizes Alfred Nobel Educational Video Player Nobel Organizations Search Home Nobel Prizes Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies Nobel Banquet Dress Code About the Nobel Prizes Facts and Lists Nobel Prize in Physics Nobel Prize in Chemistry Nobel Prize in Medicine Nobel Prize in Literature Nobel Peace Prize Prize in Economic Sciences Nobel Laureates Have Their Say Nobel Prize Award Ceremonies History Photos Speeches Videos Eyewitness Reports Magic Week Nobel Banquet Menus Nobel Banquet Dress Code The Queen's Gowns Spherical Panoramas Virtual Tours Nomination and Selection of Nobel Laureates The Dress Code at the Nobel Banquet What to Wear So there you are , finally holding a coveted invitation to the Nobel Prize Award Ceremony and the Nobel Banquet : what to

  • Dress code for the Nobel events Nobels fredspris

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:07:41
    Contact us Press centre På norsk Home The Nobel Peace Prize Prize Laureates Alfred Nobel Nomination Nobel Institute You are here : Home The Nobel Peace Prize Dress code Dress code for the Nobel events At the Nobel Peace Prize Award Ceremony in Oslo , gentlemen are expected to arrive in a dark suit and tie , ladies in a dress . The Nobel Peace Prize Banquet is a formal affair where gentlemen are required to appear in black tie , while ladies should wear an evening gown . Wearing your national costume is a perfectly acceptable alternative to black tie evening gown . As for attire at the Nobel Peace Prize concert , please see description for award ceremony . Photo : Ken Opprann The Norwegian Nobel Institute From the Nobel Peace Prize Award . Ceremony Photo : Ken Opprann The Norwegian Nobel

  • File:Stephen Hawking.StarChild.jpg Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:07:20
    , File:Stephen Hawking.StarChild.jpg From Wikipedia , the free encyclopedia Jump to : navigation search File File history File usage Global file usage No higher resolution . available Stephen_Hawking.StarChild.jpg 250 359 pixels , file size : 77 KB , MIME type : image jpeg This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons Information from its description page there is shown . below Commons is a freely licensed media file repository . You can help Description Stephen Hawking.StarChild.jpg : English NASA StarChild image of Stephen Hawking Date unknown photograph 1999-01-03 file's timestamp at starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov Source Original Source StarChild Learning Center Directory listing Author NASA Permission Reusing this file This file is in the public domain because it was created by NASA NASA

  • Me the BBC and Stephen Hawking Andrew Jaffe Leaves on the Line

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:07:19
    , , : Andrew Jaffe : Leaves on the Line Me , the BBC , and Stephen Hawking By Andrew on January 8, 2012 7:37 PM No Comments No TrackBacks I made it back onto the BBC today , this time to discuss Stephen Hawking on his 70th birthday most of the people more qualified than me are actually at a meeting in his honour in Cambridge Actually , my very first appearance on the BBC , which generated one of my very first blog posts was to talk about Hawking’s bet with Preskill and Thorne about the fate of information supposedly lost into a black hole Hawking had originally claimed that a black hole destroys any information that fell into it , which would be a violation of the tenets of quantum mechanics , but has since , somewhat controversially , conceded . I have been lucky enough to meet Stephen ,

  • DAMTP

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:07:16
    Skip to content Search DAMTP All Maths Websites Email phone list A Z Contact us DAMTP carries out research of world-class excellence , spanning broad areas of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Quick Links About DAMTP Research at DAMTP Study at DAMTP People Vacancies PhD Opportunities Seminars Internal Home Page Events and Conferences Stephen Hawking 70th Birthday Celebrations , 5-8 January 2012 News from DAMTP Alan Burgess 1933-2011 Steffen Gielen awarded Votruba thesis prize Simon Tavaré elected Fellow of Royal Society DAMTP CMS Seminars Tomorrow 01:00 CMS electricity usage : 7492.0 kWh on 14 01 12 Previous day : 8576.5 kWh CMS Electricity Usage 10-10 Tomorrow 16:00 The regularity and existence of branched minimal submanifolds Brian Krummel DPMMS Geometric Analysis and Partial

  • NASA's Chandra Finds Largest Galaxy Cluster in Early Universe

    Updated: 2012-01-10 05:00:00
    A galaxy cluster located about 7.2 billion light years from Earth.

  • Stephen Hawking at 70: still the brightest star in the scientific universe

    Updated: 2012-01-02 17:14:27
    As the author of A Brief History of Time approaches 70, eminent former students celebrate an awe-inspiring intellect still pushing at the frontiers of physics

  • Uncommon science projects are common at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville

    Updated: 2012-01-02 17:11:59
    Living in Rocket City, USA, it’s not uncommon to hear someone say, “In that building, they’re working on something that’s never been done before.” That about sums up Huntsville doesn’t it?

  • New Insight into the Bar in the Center of the Milky Way

    Updated: 2012-01-02 17:00:33
    It sounds like the start of a bad joke: do you know about the bar in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy? Astronomers first recognized almost 80 years ago that the Milky Way Galaxy, around which the sun and its planets orbit, is a huge spiral galaxy.

  • The mechanism that explains why our universe was born with 3 dimensions: a 40-year-old puzzle of superstring theory solved by supercomputer

    Updated: 2012-01-02 16:58:55
    A group of three researchers from KEK, Shizuoka University and Osaka University has for the first time revealed the way our universe was born with 3 spatial dimensions from 10-dimensional superstring theory*1 in which spacetime has 9 spatial directions and 1 temporal direction. This result was obtained by numerical simulation on a supercomputer.

  • Pseudo-moons Orbit Earth

    Updated: 2012-01-02 16:48:25
    Earth may be going steady with the Moon, but it has a bit of a wanderer’s relationship with some other nearby objects. A study by an international trio of scientists suggests that, at any given time, there is at least one meter-sized mini asteroid temporarily orbiting our planet.

  • 30 Doradus and The Growing Tarantula Within

    Updated: 2011-11-10 05:00:00
    Found in the nearby Large Magellanic Cloud, 30 Doradus is one of the largest star-forming regions located close to the Milky Way.

  • Close Encounters of the Galactic Kind

    Updated: 2011-10-25 06:00:00
    Two pairs of galaxies in a large survey that covers a large patch -- two square degrees -- on the sky

  • Nobel Prize for the Accelerating Universe Cosmic Variance Discover Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-05 07:10:21
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS The last proton Dark Energy FAQ Nobel Prize for the Accelerating Universe by Sean Carroll Sometimes it’s not that hard to predict the future everyone paying attention including me knew that one of the most Nobel-worthy discoveries out there was the 1998 announcement that our universe is accelerating . Now the achievement has been officially honored , with this year’s Physics Prize going to Saul Perlmutter , Adam Riess , and Brian Schmidt Great quotes and coverage at the Guardian Congrats to three extremely deserving scientists Like regular people with major historical events ,

  • Dark Energy FAQ Cosmic Variance Discover Magazine

    Updated: 2011-10-05 07:10:15
    Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Nobel Prize for the Accelerating Universe Fire Up Your Virtual Realities Dark Energy FAQ by Sean Carroll In honor of the Nobel Prize here are some questions that are frequently asked about dark energy , or should . be What is dark energy It’s what makes the universe accelerate , if indeed there is a thing” that does that . See below . So I guess I should be asking what does it mean to say the universe is accelerating” First , the universe is expanding as shown by Hubble distant galaxies are moving away from us with velocities that are roughly proportional to their distance .

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