facebook.com gplus.to This week’s SFN is a little early because I am leaving on travel until Monday and won’t be able to upload this Friday. SFN #45 will be back at its regularly schedule time. Cern Announcement: www.atlas.ch worldsciencefestival.com www.guardian.co.uk www.guardian.co.uk blogs.discovermagazine.com NASA Mission to Europa in 2020: www.dailygalaxy.com www.livescience.com opfm.jpl.nasa.gov www.nasa.gov VLT finds the Fastest rotating star www.eso.org
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Video courtesy of the Association of Science-Technology Centers (ASTC), representing the science center and museum field worldwide. To learn more, visit www.astc.org. Follow us on Twitter: @ScienceCenters. Tel-Aviv University demos quantum superconductors locked in a magnetic field (www.quantumlevitation.com). For an explanation of the physics behind this demonstration, visit www.quantumlevitation.com/levitation/The_physics.html. With the theme “Knowledge that Works: From Theory to Practice,” the 2011 ASTC Annual Conference featured more than 100 sessions, which highlighted how science centers and museums are putting new ideas to practical use to serve their communities. The conference was hosted by the Maryland Science Center in Baltimore, October 15-18.
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48 Responses to “Space Fan News #44: Higgs’ Promising Boson; NASA’s Mission to Europa; VLT’s Fastest Rotating Star”

  1. Ipowne3g より:

    @cuppedbootboi …….. please read up and laugh at your comment.

  2. ChaoticOrder73 より:

    tdarnell looks like Vince Gilligan.

  3. Zdawg2324 より:

    “Just like downtown…” wtf? hahahaha

  4. cuppedbootboi より:

    This star is spinning at 2 million km/sec.?  So you’re saying this star is spinning around at 6.6 times the speed of light? How is that possible? I thought nothing can travel at the speed of light let alone 6.6 times.

  5. SPECTRE1961 より:

    And about “Phase Space” in these fields and Quantum Vacuum implications ?

  6. ClanFutureTools より:

    @blazak I want to find out right now. But they keep cutting the mission back if they really don’t launch the probe to europa in febuary 2020 ill have no hope of it happening ever it feels like

  7. blazak より:

    @ClanFutureTools Let’s find out!

  8. ClanFutureTools より:

    @blazak People are scared for what lies in europa. They have evidence of a lake and pretty sure there is an ocean. Religion on earth would change majorly. Its about time people know that the universe created itself and we are under no ruler

  9. supergsx より:

    @rockrollies Pulsars are spinning neutron stars. Neutron stars are super dense cores made entirely of neutrons that are mashed together. White dwarfs are less dense dead star cores that simply glow with residual heat.

  10. pokecollector1232010 より:

    @rockrollies Pulsars and neutron starts are the same thing not a white dwarf starts are not d:

  11. coldpawofthefurs より:

    @blazak Ha. Let’s see who gets it.

  12. blazak より:

    ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.

  13. nmryda より:

    @rockrollies why don’t you just do a google search or something?

  14. rockrollies より:

    Can someone explain to me, Pulsars, Neutron Stars and white dwarf stars, are they all the same?

  15. ianwfirestone より:

    @tdarnell That may warrant an audio dubover and repost. You’re going to get a trillion … I mean a thousand replies just over the FTL rotation speed.

  16. bicnarok より:

    @Gik1618 It is possible, galaxies have been observed to be moving away faster than light. That´s why they say light speed is a “local effect”. Maybe the laws of physics are different outside heliosphere´s bubble of protection:) Imagine the time dilation we are under, rotating on our axis, around the sun, around the galaxy and the galaxy hurtling through space at who knows what speed. We are fast folk.

  17. Gik1618 より:

    @tdarnell I was thinking the same thing. lol! For a moment I thought you had found evidence that faster-than-light speed was possible!

  18. sleeperawaken36 より:

    (continued) Hence, where the observation was taken effected the results, because of probability, which is a different thing than observation turning the photons into apples or bananas, simply because that was an expected result (yes, I am trying to be a bit funny, but I hope the point it made)

  19. sleeperawaken36 より:

    Great video as always Tony! Yeah, the problem with posting intelligent videos is that you get intelligent fans, and notice the small mistakes….LOL. Hopefully most here will recognize those as mistakes though, and get a chuckle. I think your primary fans love the fact that while you are very intelligent, you are not perfect..HA!

  20. sleeperawaken36 より:

    @bicnarok : I know and understand the theory you are working under with that statement (I heard about it), but you ignore the flaws in that ideology. As just one example, you would never find something you or the majority don’t expect or imagine. I have an open mind to interesting ideas, and it is interesting, but I would suggest that if a form of that ideology exists, that we are not the controlling factor.

  21. bicnarok より:

    If the star is rotating that fast then the outer matter must be moving 200,000,000 km/s then the outer mass must be moving faster than the speed of light 299792.458 km/s.

  22. bicnarok より:

    The problem with the Higgs Boson is that the observer can influence quantum particles, so the actual act of looking for the Higgs Boson might actually cause it to exist. :)

  23. TheHunnyhillbees より:

    Very helpful indeed – thank you

  24. Mettagon より:

    So THATS what Tony Stark has been up to.

  25. TheTundraTerror より:

    Quantum Physics: Because “fuck you”

  26. awf07003 より:

    i like dogs

  27. fluxingcapacitor より:

    Do you think there would be anywhere where you can buy this stuff?

  28. maninact01 より:

    Back to the Future skateboard. finally.

  29. niconicolasnichonixo より:

    today, i had my first class of physics, the teacher showed us this video, i died

  30. ma2popeye より:

    Hover boards, I agree! Get busy guy!

  31. mustymoose94 より:

    Life hax >.<

  32. TaVeneno より:

    minecraft ??

  33. AZURA888 より:

    Is the Meissner Effect, sorcery doesn’t exist.

  34. HeftyMarine117 より:

    That is Robert downy jr. In the background you can hear him!!!

  35. xXKyleUsherXx より:

    Meanwhile, over in Africa…

  36. Southtacomamook より:

    This could revolutionize d.w.a. (driving while asian).

  37. odin6616 より:

    @Fleigo It doesn’t work like that

  38. TheAgentAssassin より:

    I just got mindfreaked 

  39. Fleigo より:

    This + snowbard = hooverboard! Now please!

  40. ZozoTheOuijaDemon より:

    That was badass

  41. MrGlennJohnsen より:

    @mitchell1441 only lasts while themagnet is superchilled with dry ice, and it’s just strong enough to hold it’s own weight. For trains electro magnets and liquid nitrogen is needed, which is expensive and not very efficient (yet)!!!

  42. mitchell1441 より:

    infinite energy??

  43. Rapidkid12 より:

    Iif I was born 100years later who know what technology I would have seen, thats probably what the caveman me thought when he first saw the wheel, mybe some dude invented a time mechine, went back in time and then people thought all his tech was magic who knows? the futur me? we shal see…

  44. taicleis より:

    @cyber0nemesis
    Guess you don’t understand gradual change.

    Spanish and Italian both descend from Latin.

    Do you think there was a day when suddenly nobody spoke Latin and they split into Spanish and Italian speakers?

    If you can fathom how Spanish and Italian came from one language, you can understand speciation.

  45. suthern より:

    @eesti777777 your girlfriend’s a nerd (embrace it, love it) and if she’s a successful nerd, you’ll soon be having high speed levitation sex quantum locked to one of the blades of your ceiling fan. 

  46. ju3496 より:

    I want an upside railroad roght now

  47. braaahhh より:

    “it’s not floating its LOCKED!” lol..

  48. 61n9ner より:

    isnt there a subway in asia with this technology?

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