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March, 2007
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Magnetic Spacecraft Propulsion: No fuel needed, surf the magnetic fields
Mason Peck of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, US, has received a grant to study the idea, which is based on the fact that magnetic fields exert forces on electrically charged objects…. The charged satellite would then be gently pushed by Earth’s rotating magnetic field, enabling it to change orbit and even escape to interplanetary space.Early signs suggest the idea may work.
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1996-2007: Russia to Shut Down Space Center
According to Russian media Russia’s Svobodny space center, used in recent years to launch US and Israeli satellites, will be shut down, AFP reports Wednesday…. The administrative chief in the town of Uglegorsk, where the Svobodny center is based, meanwhile said that an Israeli satellite launch was scheduled there for 2008, but could not confirm that it would go ahead as planned.
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Travel Back in Time: Science hopes to change events that have already occurred
In this model, our sense that history is unfolding is an illusion: The past, present and future all exist seamlessly in an unchanging “block” universe.”If you have the block universe view, the future and the past are not any different, so there’s no reason why you can’t have causes from the future just as you have causes from the past,” says David Miller of the Centre for Time at the University of Sydney in Australia.With the advent of quantum mechanics in the 1920s, the relative timing of particles and events became even less relevant…. “If the conditions necessary for life are somehow written into the universe at the Big Bang, there must be some sort of two-way link.”– Patrick Barry Retrocausality: Can the present affect the past?Researchers have devised an experiment using laser light to demonstrate a property of quantum mechanics: That pairs of entangled photons show identical properties as either a wave or a particle.
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A.I. Thinking Software: “When you are born, you know nothing.”
By Evan RatliffPage: “This is the kind of statement you expect to hear from a philosophy professor, not a Silicon Valley executive with a new company to pitch and money to make…. But what Hawkins, 49, really wants to talk about — in fact, what he has really wanted to talk about for the past 30 years — isn’t gadgets or source codes or market niches.