Number 61 » cosmos http://number61.net by Matthew Gipp Mon, 07 May 2012 14:04:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 All you need is a wormhole, the Large Hadron Collider or a rocket that goes really, really fast http://number61.net/2010/05/how-to-build-a-time-machine http://number61.net/2010/05/how-to-build-a-time-machine#comments Mon, 03 May 2010 03:14:24 +0000 Matthew Gipp http://number61.net/?p=5583 Stephen Hawking, writing for the Daily Mail1, describes how to build a time machine.

  1. A piece that seems excerpted from his new TV series
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]]> http://number61.net/2009/12/the-known-universe/feed 0 The Burden of Omniscence http://number61.net/2009/12/the-burden-of-omniscence http://number61.net/2009/12/the-burden-of-omniscence#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 13:12:28 +0000 Matthew Gipp http://number61.net/?p=4085 If the temperature fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background (read: the universe) could be represented by a finite amount of water—and it can; as far as we know, the universe is finite—would drinking all of it at once be a danger to science?

Via New Scientist, the downside of knowing everything all at once.

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