04-14-2009, 09:04 AM
[COLOR="Purple"]*for the filthy minded you will have to go to Treasure Island.
Got a script to this mag a while ago and finally picked up an issue.
Will post a few things I found fascinating in the mag. If anyone wants to comment would be great.
Boxing with Shadows SEEDMAGAZINE.COM[/COLOR]
Got a script to this mag a while ago and finally picked up an issue.
Will post a few things I found fascinating in the mag. If anyone wants to comment would be great.
Boxing with Shadows SEEDMAGAZINE.COM[/COLOR]
Quote:Plato was all about the invisible. He believed that reality in its most exquisite state was unknowable, that the most perfect things were too perfect to see. The world of ordinary sensation? That was a crude lie, a dishonest distraction. What Plato wanted to do was lead us out of this dimly lit cave so we could know more than the shadows dancing on the wall.
Quote:The biggest empirical void belongs to the Higgs, which, unfortunately for physicists, often sounds like a paradox perfectly designed to confuse them: It gives mass to matter, yet it remains practically weightless. It is indivisible and pointlike, yet so ephemeral that to say it exists requires one to redefine existence. Can such a thing ever be found? Or is this the one particle that will stay invisible to the end?
Quote:The question, of course, is how to see something that lasts less than 10-24 seconds, this is where the detective work begins. Although the collider contains a vast array of sensory equipment, these sensors are blind to the Higgs. So physicists must search for the particle by looking for the signature of its decay, the collection of subatomic species that are left behind after the Higgs disappears.
Quote:We gather specks of nearnothingness and then smash them together to re-create the very origins of the universe. We look at those shadows on the wall and can infer the forms that cast them.