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Apparently the Earth is 400 times the size of the moon but by sheer coincidence the distance from the sun to the Earth to the moon is the perfect ratio to counteract that. Or so Professor Brian Cox tells me
The Grimaldi Curse !
This is one curse that every unhappy spouse can relate to. The sad string of “unhappily-ever-afters” for the current members of Monaco’s ruling family can be attributed to two of their ancestors being total creeps. The first—Francesco Grimaldi—was said to begin the family’s eventual domination of the tiny city-state after he and his forces captured the fortress from rival claimants. He dressed himself up as a monk and successfully tricked the guards into opening the gates of the fortress.
Another ancestor—Prince Rainer I—upped the ante in the jerk department when he abducted and raped a beautiful maiden. As revenge, the maiden became a witch and proclaimed “Never will a Grimaldi find true happiness in marriage.”
The curse has rung true since Prince Rainier III’s wife—the American actress Grace Kelly—died in a car accident. Their three children soon became embroiled in their own scandals and misfortunes. The eldest daughter, Princess Caroline, divorced her first husband, was widowed by her second husband, and there are allegations that her third marriage is on the rocks as well. At the same time, her younger sister, Princess Stephanie, went through a potpourri of men that included her bodyguard, an elephant trainer, and a circus acrobat, leading to three children born out of wedlock.
Their brother, Prince Albert II, has so far dodged the proverbial bullet and is still married to former Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock—although their union has had its fair share of controversies, from the prince’s playboy past to Wittstock nearly calling off the wedding.
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This is one curse that every unhappy spouse can relate to. The sad string of “unhappily-ever-afters” for the current members of Monaco’s ruling family can be attributed to two of their ancestors being total creeps. The first—Francesco Grimaldi—was said to begin the family’s eventual domination of the tiny city-state after he and his forces captured the fortress from rival claimants. He dressed himself up as a monk and successfully tricked the guards into opening the gates of the fortress.
Another ancestor—Prince Rainer I—upped the ante in the jerk department when he abducted and raped a beautiful maiden. As revenge, the maiden became a witch and proclaimed “Never will a Grimaldi find true happiness in marriage.”
The curse has rung true since Prince Rainier III’s wife—the American actress Grace Kelly—died in a car accident. Their three children soon became embroiled in their own scandals and misfortunes. The eldest daughter, Princess Caroline, divorced her first husband, was widowed by her second husband, and there are allegations that her third marriage is on the rocks as well. At the same time, her younger sister, Princess Stephanie, went through a potpourri of men that included her bodyguard, an elephant trainer, and a circus acrobat, leading to three children born out of wedlock.
Their brother, Prince Albert II, has so far dodged the proverbial bullet and is still married to former Olympic swimmer Charlene Wittstock—although their union has had its fair share of controversies, from the prince’s playboy past to Wittstock nearly calling off the wedding.
I'd sack him off if I were you if that's what he told you.Apparently the Earth is 400 times the size of the moon but by sheer coincidence the distance from the sun to the Earth to the moon is the perfect ratio to counteract that. Or so Professor Brian Cox tells me
The moon is about a quarter of the size of the Earth.
Whatever the ratio, however, the fact that the sun and moon are the same apparent size in our sky seems an amazing coincidence.
Anyway, I've a match to watch....
Route 180 Bigfoot Sighting
In the Summer of 1990, a shortcut on a Grand Canyon road trip wound up taking a young couple straight into the realm of the supernatural. Making their way along Arizona's twisting Route 180, Ken H. and his companion found themselves on an isolated stretch of road. What they encountered there was a terrifying glimpse into the unknown. Ken takes up the story:
"The trip started out normal enough. Just a typical drive through the mountains. There were few cars on the highway that evening, as I remember it, and the road was kinda curvy, winding through the mountains. By this time the sun had set and it was getting dark.
This is when it happened.
Several eyewitnesses reported sightings of strange Bigfoot-like animals in the Arizona mountains during the Summer of 1990.
I remember coming around a curve in the highway and there was a long straightaway in front of us before the road turned again. As we began to proceed down the straight section, we both noticed a very large animal walking down the right side of the road. Since I had just come out of a curve, the car wasn't moving very fast, and when I saw the animal, I slowed the car even further.
I remember my ex exclaiming, 'Is that a bear?'
As we came closer to the animal, it became apparent quickly that what we were looking at was not a bear. There was a very large, hairy mass walking away from us on two legs. I can still remember the arms swaying as it strolled naturally down the side of the road away from us.
As we got closer, about 50 yards or more as I remember it, the car's headlights shone past the creature. It was at that time that our companion on the highway became aware of our presence. It stopped, and I stopped.
I remember this vividly—the animal went to turn around to get a look at us. Now this was odd because the animal had no neck, or not much of one, so it couldn't turn its head to look at us, it had to turn its whole upper body. That apparently wasn't good enough for the creature so it turned around completely to face us.
I remember my ex saying nervously, 'What the hell is that?' I don't think that I answered her. I just sat there in amazement at what I was looking at, somehow trying to wrap my my mind around it.
What was there before us was this giant...well... ape. It was about seven to eight feet tall (about the same height as a road sign, to my estimation), covered in brown fur, large, with very little definition. That is to say that it didn't have a typical human build. Kinda built like a 'brick wall,' like a football lineman, large from head to toe.
Facially the animal looked a lot like a character from 'Planet of the Apes.' There were areas on the face that looked 'hairless,' mostly around the eyes, nose and mouth. The eyes were like a cat's—they reflected green in the light from the car's headlights. Overall looking very much like a 'great ape.'
The animal was covered in very 'shaggy' fur, possibly an inch or more in length. On the arms the hair was twice as long or so than it was on the head and body. The color was mostly a chocolate brown color, but I remember there being lighter spots in some areas.
I had heard enough stories from my father, who was an avid hunter and owned a gun shop that catered to hunters, and had seen enough TV to know exactly what we were confronted with—a Bigfoot.
The Bigfoot was very curious about us and our car. I could read its facial expressions. I remember that I wasn't scared; the animal never acted in an aggressive manner. It just seemed to be as perplexed about my ex and me as we were about it.
I remember the Bigfoot paused and rubbed its tongue across its front teeth, again in curiosity, like it was calculating its next move.
It took one or two steps toward us and my ex went ballistic. Apparently she took the moves as a sign that it was going to attack us. I thought that it was just coming over to get a better look at us. Anyway, she pushed back into her seat and began screaming. The Bigfoot stopped its forward approach when she went off. Puzzled by the commotion, it stopped, then took two long strides into the timber, disappearing from sight.
My girlfriend stopped her panic attack and we sat there silently looking at the spot where the creature once stood. I think we sat there for some time before I snapped out of my trance and decided to get out of there in case the Bigfoot came back.
I remember driving over onto the left-hand-side of the road, just in case the creature came charging out of the woods at us or something.
We looked into the woods as we drove past the spot where it had been and saw nothing. Amazingly, after we had gotten back on I-40 in Flagstaff, we both acted as if nothing had happened.
In the days and months after our encounter, my girlfriend refused to talk about the incident. We, of course, broke up months later, and I haven't seen her since.
For years I kept the story about my run-in with Bigfoot to myself. I didn't want to be ridiculed or called a liar, so I kept quiet about it.
It wasn't until my wife April and I had been married for a few years that I shared the story with her. She was always perplexed at why I was so obsessive about TV shows and books about Bigfoot, so I told her my story. At first she had a hard time believing it, but she knows that I am an honest person and she has seen how emotional I have been about it. She believes me now.
Wanting to help serious efforts to study the animal, I submitted my story to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization in 2005. I was interviewed not too long after that by Cliff Barackman about the encounter. Barackman, who has done extensive research in both Arizona and California, told me that my sighting was just one of several that had been reported in that same area that same year.
Now I know some of you out there are not going to believe me. That's okay, I don't care if you do or don't. I know what I saw. You never ever believe in these sorts of things until they are right in front of you. Seeing is definitely believing!"
Ken's brush with Bigfoot has influenced his endeavors, as he's the editor of one of Odd Encounters' favorite websites, Monster Island News, a site dedicated to classic monster movies. Check it out!
In the Summer of 1990, a shortcut on a Grand Canyon road trip wound up taking a young couple straight into the realm of the supernatural. Making their way along Arizona's twisting Route 180, Ken H. and his companion found themselves on an isolated stretch of road. What they encountered there was a terrifying glimpse into the unknown. Ken takes up the story:
"The trip started out normal enough. Just a typical drive through the mountains. There were few cars on the highway that evening, as I remember it, and the road was kinda curvy, winding through the mountains. By this time the sun had set and it was getting dark.
This is when it happened.
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Several eyewitnesses reported sightings of strange Bigfoot-like animals in the Arizona mountains during the Summer of 1990.
I remember coming around a curve in the highway and there was a long straightaway in front of us before the road turned again. As we began to proceed down the straight section, we both noticed a very large animal walking down the right side of the road. Since I had just come out of a curve, the car wasn't moving very fast, and when I saw the animal, I slowed the car even further.
I remember my ex exclaiming, 'Is that a bear?'
As we came closer to the animal, it became apparent quickly that what we were looking at was not a bear. There was a very large, hairy mass walking away from us on two legs. I can still remember the arms swaying as it strolled naturally down the side of the road away from us.
As we got closer, about 50 yards or more as I remember it, the car's headlights shone past the creature. It was at that time that our companion on the highway became aware of our presence. It stopped, and I stopped.
I remember this vividly—the animal went to turn around to get a look at us. Now this was odd because the animal had no neck, or not much of one, so it couldn't turn its head to look at us, it had to turn its whole upper body. That apparently wasn't good enough for the creature so it turned around completely to face us.
I remember my ex saying nervously, 'What the hell is that?' I don't think that I answered her. I just sat there in amazement at what I was looking at, somehow trying to wrap my my mind around it.
What was there before us was this giant...well... ape. It was about seven to eight feet tall (about the same height as a road sign, to my estimation), covered in brown fur, large, with very little definition. That is to say that it didn't have a typical human build. Kinda built like a 'brick wall,' like a football lineman, large from head to toe.
Facially the animal looked a lot like a character from 'Planet of the Apes.' There were areas on the face that looked 'hairless,' mostly around the eyes, nose and mouth. The eyes were like a cat's—they reflected green in the light from the car's headlights. Overall looking very much like a 'great ape.'
The animal was covered in very 'shaggy' fur, possibly an inch or more in length. On the arms the hair was twice as long or so than it was on the head and body. The color was mostly a chocolate brown color, but I remember there being lighter spots in some areas.
I had heard enough stories from my father, who was an avid hunter and owned a gun shop that catered to hunters, and had seen enough TV to know exactly what we were confronted with—a Bigfoot.
The Bigfoot was very curious about us and our car. I could read its facial expressions. I remember that I wasn't scared; the animal never acted in an aggressive manner. It just seemed to be as perplexed about my ex and me as we were about it.
I remember the Bigfoot paused and rubbed its tongue across its front teeth, again in curiosity, like it was calculating its next move.
It took one or two steps toward us and my ex went ballistic. Apparently she took the moves as a sign that it was going to attack us. I thought that it was just coming over to get a better look at us. Anyway, she pushed back into her seat and began screaming. The Bigfoot stopped its forward approach when she went off. Puzzled by the commotion, it stopped, then took two long strides into the timber, disappearing from sight.
My girlfriend stopped her panic attack and we sat there silently looking at the spot where the creature once stood. I think we sat there for some time before I snapped out of my trance and decided to get out of there in case the Bigfoot came back.
I remember driving over onto the left-hand-side of the road, just in case the creature came charging out of the woods at us or something.
We looked into the woods as we drove past the spot where it had been and saw nothing. Amazingly, after we had gotten back on I-40 in Flagstaff, we both acted as if nothing had happened.
In the days and months after our encounter, my girlfriend refused to talk about the incident. We, of course, broke up months later, and I haven't seen her since.
For years I kept the story about my run-in with Bigfoot to myself. I didn't want to be ridiculed or called a liar, so I kept quiet about it.
It wasn't until my wife April and I had been married for a few years that I shared the story with her. She was always perplexed at why I was so obsessive about TV shows and books about Bigfoot, so I told her my story. At first she had a hard time believing it, but she knows that I am an honest person and she has seen how emotional I have been about it. She believes me now.
Wanting to help serious efforts to study the animal, I submitted my story to the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization in 2005. I was interviewed not too long after that by Cliff Barackman about the encounter. Barackman, who has done extensive research in both Arizona and California, told me that my sighting was just one of several that had been reported in that same area that same year.
Now I know some of you out there are not going to believe me. That's okay, I don't care if you do or don't. I know what I saw. You never ever believe in these sorts of things until they are right in front of you. Seeing is definitely believing!"
Ken's brush with Bigfoot has influenced his endeavors, as he's the editor of one of Odd Encounters' favorite websites, Monster Island News, a site dedicated to classic monster movies. Check it out!
Apparently the Earth is 400 times the size of the moon but by sheer coincidence the distance from the sun to the Earth to the moon is the perfect ratio to counteract that. Or so Professor Brian Cox tells me
everything in the universe is mere coincidence to these fools
Earth's position.. It's not a coincidence, the moon is where it is because of the position and interaction of the other two bodies.
everything in the universe is mere coincidence to these fools
Earth's position.. It's not a coincidence, the moon is where it is because of the position and interaction of the other two bodies.
No coincidence. David Icke planned it all out to be this way.
everything in the universe is mere coincidence to these fools
Yes of course everybody is a fool when compared to the magnificent sisu!
You think I didn't realise insulting national treasure Cox (who I actually respect) was going to twist some knickers?
Thought you were being clever, but you just ate some pretty rank bait
As for Icke, you ust be young, I refuse to belive someone with so little knowledge of the world as you can be advanced in years
You still believe moves are real ffs, [HASHTAG]#russiadidit[/HASHTAG] [HASHTAG]#arabsdidit[/HASHTAG]
Icke strangely was right about a lot it tuns out
he said the universe is a hologram and the latest astrophysics theories of top people in the field suggests just that. (Not that I agree but there it is)
Icke was right about the banking system and federal reserve cos he was saying that **** for a long time,
Icke was right in that the elites have total surveillance (actually since 1984)
Icke was right about the ****s
Yep shapeshifting lizards are left field but the rest...
@In MILK we trust garlic maybe it's you that is crazy.
he said the universe is a hologram and the latest astrophysics theories of top people in the field suggests just that. (Not that I agree but there it is)
Icke was right about the banking system and federal reserve cos he was saying that **** for a long time,
Icke was right in that the elites have total surveillance (actually since 1984)
Icke was right about the ****s
Yep shapeshifting lizards are left field but the rest...
@In MILK we trust garlic maybe it's you that is crazy.
Go back to torturing small creatures or whatever the **** it is you normally do you beanbag
You think I didn't realise insulting national treasure Cox (who I actually respect) was going to twist some knickers?
Thought you were being clever, but you just ate some pretty rank bait
As for Icke, you ust be young, I refuse to belive someone with so little knowledge of the world as you can be advanced in years
Those words are English but the sentences don't make any sense in context.
Predicted: The Cold War. Also, waterbeds.
Heinlein will not be the only science fiction author on this list; authors in that genre are of course known for looking into the future and extrapolating what it might hold. Heinlein certainly had his share of speculations about the future which turned out to be pretty accurate—but a couple of them were mind-bogglingly specific.
In his short story “Solution Unsatisfactory”, Heinlein depicted a United States that develops a nuclear weapon before the rest of the world, becoming the only superpower and spurring a race among the other nations of the world to develop the bomb. This is, of course, a perfect description of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War, which kicked off after the US deployed nuclear weapons against Japan in 1945. “Solution”, however, was written in 1940—before the United States had even joined World War II, and when the feasibility of nuclear weapons was still largely speculation.
Almost stranger than this is Heinlein’s near-invention of the waterbed. His 1961 novel Stranger In a Strange Land contained a detailed description of such a bed—so detailed that the eventual inventor of the waterbed had trouble getting it patented. The patent wasn’t issued until 1971, and Heinlein claimed to have had the idea as far back as the 1930s.
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Colin Kaepernick
Predicted: Team he would play pro football for as a nine-year-old.
Colin Kaepernick was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 2011, and spent his entire rookie season on the bench behind Alex Smith, who was having a breakout year; the Niners would eventually lose the NFC Championship to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants. Kaepernick threw for 257 yards, no touchdowns and five interceptions in relief of Smith that year; there’s no way he could have predicted he’d be the Niners’ starter the following season, and he didn’t. He predicted it when he was a grade schooler.
Nine-year-old Colin, describing himself as a “good athelet” stated in the school assignment seen above his intention to play for the 49ers, or possibly the Packers, “even if they aren’t good in seven years”. Okay, so his spelling and math might have been a little questionable, but his predictive powers were mighty impressive—even if he got one aspect slightly off; the cannon-armed quarterback’s breakout game in 2012 was a 45-31 destruction of the Green Bay Packers.
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Arthur C. Clarke
Predicted: The iPad and online newspapers in 1968.
Famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke employed an unprecedented collaborative process with Stanley Kubrick to complete the film and novel versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Author and director frequently compared notes; the novel and screenplay were written simultaneously, with Kubrick contributing heavily to Clarke’s work and vice-versa. One bizarrely accurate prediction makes a prominent appearance in both: in the film 2001, two astronauts can be seen reading a newspaper on something that looks suspiciously like an iPad.
As odd as that is, the description—and name—of the device given in Clarke’s novel is even more startling:
“When he had tired of official reports, memoranda and minutes, he would plug his . . . Newspad into the ship’s information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one, he would conjure up the world’s major electronic papers . . . Each had its own two-digit reference. When he punched that, a postage-sized rectangle would expand till it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he finished he could flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination . . . one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from the news satellites.”
This description, and the depiction in Kubrick’s film, were so dead-on that Samsung used them in defense of its Galaxy tablet when Apple sued for patent infringement—litigation that is still pending in US courts.
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The Onion
Predicted: The RIAA shaking down radio stations in 2002.
The satirical newspaper The Onion is a fantastic source of hilarity of both the intentional and non-intentional varieties. Not only is the publication reliably funny on purpose, but there have been numerous recent instances of non-US news organizations—ones that are presumably mystified by Western satire—picking up Onion stories and reporting on them as if they were fact. Unfortunately, it can be a lot less funny when an Onion piece actually DOES come true.
In 2002, the RIAA was fresh from its successful battle with Napster, and the debate over online piracy was beginning in earnest; lawsuits against individuals for file sharing were ramping up, and the Onion published a timely piece entitled, “RIAA Sues Radio Stations For Giving Away Free Music”. The premise is, of course, ridiculous—at least it was, until 2008.
At around the same time the RIAA announced it was ceasing action against individuals (if only because they were proving unprofitable), they began to make noise about radio broadcasting being:
” . . . a form of piracy, if you will, but not in the classic sense as we think of it,” said Martin Machowsky, a musicFirst spokesman. ” . . . their argument (is) that they provide promotional value. We think that’s a red herring. Nobody listens to the radio for the commercials.”
We don’t think that was actually the argument. We think the argument was that without radio exposure, the music industry as we know it wouldn’t exist. So far the RIAA has been unsuccessful in most of their wildly varied attempts at extortion, but not for lack of trying.
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Apple
Predicted: Touchscreen devices and Siri in 1987.
In 1987 (a great year for future-predicting, if you ask Roger Ebert), Apple made a promotional video entitled “Knowledge Navigator”, which looked into the future at some of the tech innovations that might be part of our lives in oh, say, 25 years or so. As you may be able to predict (sorry), the accuracy gets more and more unsettling throughout.
The video depicts a professor preparing for that afternoon’s lecture. His work is being done on a proto-iPad , a flat tablet PC (with an old-style Mac OS) with a touchscreen, and that’s the least weird aspect if this video.
Most of his interaction is done through the titular “Knowledge Navigator”, which is a voice-controlled assistant the likes of which you may associate with certain Apple products. During his work, the professor takes a video call from a colleague right in a separate window on his device, which of course is Skype in a nutshell.
Weirdest of all, at one point the professor calls up a five-year old article that is stated to be from 2006. A calendar is shown with September being the current date; this means that the video must take place sometime in late 2011, right about the time the iPhone 4S launched—and Apple’s voice-controlled assistant Siri debuted. If only she had a cool Steve Nye-looking avatar, like in the video.
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John Elfreth Watkins, Jr.
Predicted: Television and mobile phones in 1900.
Mr. Watkins was a civil engineer, a railroad man who became a curator at the Smithsonian Institute after suffering a disabling accident. In 1900, he contributed an article to Ladies’ Home Journal titled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”. Within this article, Mr. Watkins made lots of predictions, large and small, for the next century; some of these proved, despite their counter-intuitiveness, to be amazingly accurate. Among the more astonishing predictions—and keep in mind this was over a hundred years ago:
“Man will see around the world. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span.” —could apply to satellite television, the Internet, or both.
“There will probably be from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000 people in America.” —most were guessing much higher at the time, as the American population was exploding.
“Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishment similar to our bakeries of today.” —Freeze-dried and packaged foods, not to mention electric refrigerators, were still far on the horizon.
“Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later . . . . photographs will reproduce all of nature’s colors.” —digital photography and picture sharing. And perhaps most impressive of all:
“Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn.” —nobody on the planet not named Tesla was thinking along these lines, except apparently Mr. Watkins.
Unfortunately, Watkins died before seeing a single one of his predictions come to fruition, in 1903.
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Philco-Ford
Predicted: Online shopping and email in 1967.
Philco was an early pioneer in electronics, beginning in 1892 as a maker of carbon arc lamps, and eventually becoming the most popular early manufacturer of radios. The company was bought by the Ford Motor Company in 1961, and in recognition of their 75th anniversary, they produced a short film speculating on life in the far, far future. Its title: “Year 1999 A.D.”
While the aesthetic of the film is very much of its time, and many of the fine details are rooted firmly in the ’60s, the list of everyday technologies predicted in this brief two-minute clip are astounding.
Here we have 1960s conceptions of online shopping and bill paying, electronic funds transfers, compact home laser printers, and even “instant written communication between individuals anywhere in the world”—a perfect definition of email, long before the Internet was a twinkle in anyone’s eye. When this video started making the online rounds in the mid ’00s, it was scarily accurate enough to be thought a hoax, until confirmed by Snopes. Not QUITE accurate enough to disregard ’60s gender stereotypes, but we digress.
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Ray Kurzweil
Predicted: Practically all modern technological developments.
Raymond Kurzweil’s life and career are far too interesting to do complete justice to here. His inventions are numerous—text reading software, speech-recognition devices—and five of his novels have been bestsellers. He is the current Director of Engineering at Google, and as a “futurist”, he’s made dozens of predictions over the several decades—with an absolutely unbelievable rate of accuracy. Not only do Kurzweil’s predictions almost always come true, he usually can accurately predict WHEN they will come true.
Among the many, many examples: in his novel The Age Of Intelligent Machines, Kurzweil predicted the fall of the Soviet Union by 1991; a computer beating the best human players at chess by 2000; and wireless Internet becoming practical for mainstream use in the early 21st century. In The Age Of Spiritual Machines (1999), he predicted E-books, face recognition software, and nanotechnology, and these are just a handful of examples.
Kurzweil stated that by 2009, 89 out of 108 predictions he had made were entirely correct. Of the rest, 13 were “essentially correct”—likely to come true within a few years. A re-evaluation in 2012 determined that Kurzweil’s prognostications are correct a ridiculous 86 percent of the time-and the good news is, this is a man who has predicted that it won’t be too long before we humans conquer death altogether.
Floorwalker’s blog and Twitter were probably predicted by someone long ago, but they’re still pretty cool.
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Heinlein will not be the only science fiction author on this list; authors in that genre are of course known for looking into the future and extrapolating what it might hold. Heinlein certainly had his share of speculations about the future which turned out to be pretty accurate—but a couple of them were mind-bogglingly specific.
In his short story “Solution Unsatisfactory”, Heinlein depicted a United States that develops a nuclear weapon before the rest of the world, becoming the only superpower and spurring a race among the other nations of the world to develop the bomb. This is, of course, a perfect description of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War, which kicked off after the US deployed nuclear weapons against Japan in 1945. “Solution”, however, was written in 1940—before the United States had even joined World War II, and when the feasibility of nuclear weapons was still largely speculation.
Almost stranger than this is Heinlein’s near-invention of the waterbed. His 1961 novel Stranger In a Strange Land contained a detailed description of such a bed—so detailed that the eventual inventor of the waterbed had trouble getting it patented. The patent wasn’t issued until 1971, and Heinlein claimed to have had the idea as far back as the 1930s.
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Colin Kaepernick
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Predicted: Team he would play pro football for as a nine-year-old.
Colin Kaepernick was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in 2011, and spent his entire rookie season on the bench behind Alex Smith, who was having a breakout year; the Niners would eventually lose the NFC Championship to the eventual Super Bowl champion New York Giants. Kaepernick threw for 257 yards, no touchdowns and five interceptions in relief of Smith that year; there’s no way he could have predicted he’d be the Niners’ starter the following season, and he didn’t. He predicted it when he was a grade schooler.
Nine-year-old Colin, describing himself as a “good athelet” stated in the school assignment seen above his intention to play for the 49ers, or possibly the Packers, “even if they aren’t good in seven years”. Okay, so his spelling and math might have been a little questionable, but his predictive powers were mighty impressive—even if he got one aspect slightly off; the cannon-armed quarterback’s breakout game in 2012 was a 45-31 destruction of the Green Bay Packers.
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Arthur C. Clarke
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Predicted: The iPad and online newspapers in 1968.
Famed science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke employed an unprecedented collaborative process with Stanley Kubrick to complete the film and novel versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Author and director frequently compared notes; the novel and screenplay were written simultaneously, with Kubrick contributing heavily to Clarke’s work and vice-versa. One bizarrely accurate prediction makes a prominent appearance in both: in the film 2001, two astronauts can be seen reading a newspaper on something that looks suspiciously like an iPad.
As odd as that is, the description—and name—of the device given in Clarke’s novel is even more startling:
“When he had tired of official reports, memoranda and minutes, he would plug his . . . Newspad into the ship’s information circuit and scan the latest reports from Earth. One by one, he would conjure up the world’s major electronic papers . . . Each had its own two-digit reference. When he punched that, a postage-sized rectangle would expand till it neatly filled the screen and he could read it with comfort. When he finished he could flash back to the complete page and select a new subject for detailed examination . . . one could spend an entire lifetime doing nothing but absorbing the ever-changing flow of information from the news satellites.”
This description, and the depiction in Kubrick’s film, were so dead-on that Samsung used them in defense of its Galaxy tablet when Apple sued for patent infringement—litigation that is still pending in US courts.
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The Onion
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Predicted: The RIAA shaking down radio stations in 2002.
The satirical newspaper The Onion is a fantastic source of hilarity of both the intentional and non-intentional varieties. Not only is the publication reliably funny on purpose, but there have been numerous recent instances of non-US news organizations—ones that are presumably mystified by Western satire—picking up Onion stories and reporting on them as if they were fact. Unfortunately, it can be a lot less funny when an Onion piece actually DOES come true.
In 2002, the RIAA was fresh from its successful battle with Napster, and the debate over online piracy was beginning in earnest; lawsuits against individuals for file sharing were ramping up, and the Onion published a timely piece entitled, “RIAA Sues Radio Stations For Giving Away Free Music”. The premise is, of course, ridiculous—at least it was, until 2008.
At around the same time the RIAA announced it was ceasing action against individuals (if only because they were proving unprofitable), they began to make noise about radio broadcasting being:
” . . . a form of piracy, if you will, but not in the classic sense as we think of it,” said Martin Machowsky, a musicFirst spokesman. ” . . . their argument (is) that they provide promotional value. We think that’s a red herring. Nobody listens to the radio for the commercials.”
We don’t think that was actually the argument. We think the argument was that without radio exposure, the music industry as we know it wouldn’t exist. So far the RIAA has been unsuccessful in most of their wildly varied attempts at extortion, but not for lack of trying.
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Apple
Predicted: Touchscreen devices and Siri in 1987.
In 1987 (a great year for future-predicting, if you ask Roger Ebert), Apple made a promotional video entitled “Knowledge Navigator”, which looked into the future at some of the tech innovations that might be part of our lives in oh, say, 25 years or so. As you may be able to predict (sorry), the accuracy gets more and more unsettling throughout.
The video depicts a professor preparing for that afternoon’s lecture. His work is being done on a proto-iPad , a flat tablet PC (with an old-style Mac OS) with a touchscreen, and that’s the least weird aspect if this video.
Most of his interaction is done through the titular “Knowledge Navigator”, which is a voice-controlled assistant the likes of which you may associate with certain Apple products. During his work, the professor takes a video call from a colleague right in a separate window on his device, which of course is Skype in a nutshell.
Weirdest of all, at one point the professor calls up a five-year old article that is stated to be from 2006. A calendar is shown with September being the current date; this means that the video must take place sometime in late 2011, right about the time the iPhone 4S launched—and Apple’s voice-controlled assistant Siri debuted. If only she had a cool Steve Nye-looking avatar, like in the video.
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John Elfreth Watkins, Jr.
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Predicted: Television and mobile phones in 1900.
Mr. Watkins was a civil engineer, a railroad man who became a curator at the Smithsonian Institute after suffering a disabling accident. In 1900, he contributed an article to Ladies’ Home Journal titled “What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years”. Within this article, Mr. Watkins made lots of predictions, large and small, for the next century; some of these proved, despite their counter-intuitiveness, to be amazingly accurate. Among the more astonishing predictions—and keep in mind this was over a hundred years ago:
“Man will see around the world. Persons and things of all kinds will be brought within focus of cameras connected electrically with screens at opposite ends of circuits, thousands of miles at a span.” —could apply to satellite television, the Internet, or both.
“There will probably be from 350,000,000 to 500,000,000 people in America.” —most were guessing much higher at the time, as the American population was exploding.
“Ready-cooked meals will be bought from establishment similar to our bakeries of today.” —Freeze-dried and packaged foods, not to mention electric refrigerators, were still far on the horizon.
“Photographs will be telegraphed from any distance. If there be a battle in China a hundred years hence, snapshots of its most striking events will be published in the newspapers an hour later . . . . photographs will reproduce all of nature’s colors.” —digital photography and picture sharing. And perhaps most impressive of all:
“Wireless telephone and telegraph circuits will span the world. A husband in the middle of the Atlantic will be able to converse with his wife sitting in her boudoir in Chicago. We will be able to telephone to China quite as readily as we now talk from New York to Brooklyn.” —nobody on the planet not named Tesla was thinking along these lines, except apparently Mr. Watkins.
Unfortunately, Watkins died before seeing a single one of his predictions come to fruition, in 1903.
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Philco-Ford
Predicted: Online shopping and email in 1967.
Philco was an early pioneer in electronics, beginning in 1892 as a maker of carbon arc lamps, and eventually becoming the most popular early manufacturer of radios. The company was bought by the Ford Motor Company in 1961, and in recognition of their 75th anniversary, they produced a short film speculating on life in the far, far future. Its title: “Year 1999 A.D.”
While the aesthetic of the film is very much of its time, and many of the fine details are rooted firmly in the ’60s, the list of everyday technologies predicted in this brief two-minute clip are astounding.
Here we have 1960s conceptions of online shopping and bill paying, electronic funds transfers, compact home laser printers, and even “instant written communication between individuals anywhere in the world”—a perfect definition of email, long before the Internet was a twinkle in anyone’s eye. When this video started making the online rounds in the mid ’00s, it was scarily accurate enough to be thought a hoax, until confirmed by Snopes. Not QUITE accurate enough to disregard ’60s gender stereotypes, but we digress.
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Ray Kurzweil
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Predicted: Practically all modern technological developments.
Raymond Kurzweil’s life and career are far too interesting to do complete justice to here. His inventions are numerous—text reading software, speech-recognition devices—and five of his novels have been bestsellers. He is the current Director of Engineering at Google, and as a “futurist”, he’s made dozens of predictions over the several decades—with an absolutely unbelievable rate of accuracy. Not only do Kurzweil’s predictions almost always come true, he usually can accurately predict WHEN they will come true.
Among the many, many examples: in his novel The Age Of Intelligent Machines, Kurzweil predicted the fall of the Soviet Union by 1991; a computer beating the best human players at chess by 2000; and wireless Internet becoming practical for mainstream use in the early 21st century. In The Age Of Spiritual Machines (1999), he predicted E-books, face recognition software, and nanotechnology, and these are just a handful of examples.
Kurzweil stated that by 2009, 89 out of 108 predictions he had made were entirely correct. Of the rest, 13 were “essentially correct”—likely to come true within a few years. A re-evaluation in 2012 determined that Kurzweil’s prognostications are correct a ridiculous 86 percent of the time-and the good news is, this is a man who has predicted that it won’t be too long before we humans conquer death altogether.
Floorwalker’s blog and Twitter were probably predicted by someone long ago, but they’re still pretty cool.
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Orwell was right about 1984 you mean.
They didn't have total surveillance then though... Not like now.
So if you subscribe to Icke's the moon is a hollow space station beaming down holographic images tripe... What is your theory on how tides are formed if we don't have the gravity out there?
Icke also thinks the holocaust never happened. Is that something you believe too?
Seville being a *****phile sounds like it was a pretty open secret .
So the only thing he was right about was an open secret he could have heard from anyone.
You honestly think if he was on to anything these mega rich super villains that control the world couldn't arrange for him to have a heart attack?
They can fake moon landings and make thousands of eyewitnesses think they saw a plane crash into a skyscraper but they can't arrange for the one man whose onto them to have a heart attack.
You are the most gullible person I know.
A Russian jet has been shot down after allegedly violating Turkish airspace near the Syrian border.
The pilot was warned 10 times before being shot down by two Turkish F16 jets, according to the country's military.
An official said two planes approached the Turkish border and were warned before one of them was shot down, adding their information shows Turkish airspace was repeatedly violated.
However, Russia's defence ministry has said the Sukhoi Su-24 jet did not violate Turkish airspace and added it was downed by artillery fire.
The ministry also said that according to preliminary data the pilots managed to parachute out, but their fate is unclear.
TV footage broadcast in Turkey showed a plane going down in flames in a woodland area, with a long plume of smoke trailing behind it.
The warplane went down in an area known by Turks as "Turkmen Mountain" in northern Syria near the Turkish border, private broadcaster Haberturk said.
Separate footage from the country's Anadolu Agency showed two pilots ejecting from the jet before it crashed.
One of the pilots is in the hands of Turkmen forces in northern Syria, CCN Turk said, citing local sources.
Turkey's Dogan news agency said Russian military helicopters are now searching for the pilots.
A statement from Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's office said the leader has spoken with Turkey's military chief and foreign ministry about the incident.
The region the plane went down in has been the subject of a Syrian government offensive in recent days under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
Before the incident involving the Russian jet, Turkey had called for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss attacks on Turkmens in Syria.
Last week Ankara summoned the Russian ambassador to protest against the bombing of the villages by Moscow.
Turkey has traditionally expressed solidarity with Syrian Turkmens, who are Syrians of Turkish descent.
The pilot was warned 10 times before being shot down by two Turkish F16 jets, according to the country's military.
An official said two planes approached the Turkish border and were warned before one of them was shot down, adding their information shows Turkish airspace was repeatedly violated.
However, Russia's defence ministry has said the Sukhoi Su-24 jet did not violate Turkish airspace and added it was downed by artillery fire.
The ministry also said that according to preliminary data the pilots managed to parachute out, but their fate is unclear.
TV footage broadcast in Turkey showed a plane going down in flames in a woodland area, with a long plume of smoke trailing behind it.
The warplane went down in an area known by Turks as "Turkmen Mountain" in northern Syria near the Turkish border, private broadcaster Haberturk said.
Separate footage from the country's Anadolu Agency showed two pilots ejecting from the jet before it crashed.
One of the pilots is in the hands of Turkmen forces in northern Syria, CCN Turk said, citing local sources.
Turkey's Dogan news agency said Russian military helicopters are now searching for the pilots.
A statement from Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's office said the leader has spoken with Turkey's military chief and foreign ministry about the incident.
The region the plane went down in has been the subject of a Syrian government offensive in recent days under the cover of Russian airstrikes.
Before the incident involving the Russian jet, Turkey had called for a UN Security Council meeting to discuss attacks on Turkmens in Syria.
Last week Ankara summoned the Russian ambassador to protest against the bombing of the villages by Moscow.
Turkey has traditionally expressed solidarity with Syrian Turkmens, who are Syrians of Turkish descent.
oh ****!, not good this, seeing as its the discovery thread though we maybe need to discover the truth about this. Problem is, will we ever get that?
Icke uses a technique which is transparent enough to anyone who thinks about it, but it's surprising how many still fall for it.Orwell was right about 1984 you mean.
They didn't have total surveillance then though... Not like now.
So if you subscribe to Icke's the moon is a hollow space station beaming down holographic images tripe... What is your theory on how tides are formed if we don't have the gravity out there?
Icke also thinks the holocaust never happened. Is that something you believe too?
Seville being a *****phile sounds like it was a pretty open secret .
So the only thing he was right about was an open secret he could have heard from anyone.
You honestly think if he was on to anything these mega rich super villains that control the world couldn't arrange for him to have a heart attack?
They can fake moon landings and make thousands of eyewitnesses think they saw a plane crash into a skyscraper but they can't arrange for the one man whose onto them to have a heart attack.
You are the most gullible person I know.
Simply throw out a load of already accepted facts or plausible predictions to gain some sort of respect amongst the gullible. Then work up to your (in his case) ludicrous conclusions and when challenged, counter with "well I was right about so-and-so, wasn't I?"
Latest experiment at Large Hadron Collider reports first results
Scientists precisely count particles produced in a typical proton collision.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
October 14, 2015
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After a two-year hiatus, the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, began its second run of experiments in June, smashing together subatomic particles at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV) — the highest energy ever achieved in a laboratory. Physicists hope that such high-energy collisions may produce completely new particles, and potentially simulate the conditions that were seen in the early universe.
In a paper to appear in the journal Physics Letters B, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) reports on the run’s very first particle collisions, and describes what an average collision between two protons looks like at 13 TeV. One of the study leaders is MIT assistant professor of physics Yen-Jie Lee, who leads MIT’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Group, together with physics professors Gunther Roland and Bolek Wyslouch.
In the experimental run, researchers sent two proton beams hurtling in opposite directions around the collider at close to the speed of light. Each beam contained 476 bunches of 100 billion protons, with collisions between protons occurring every 50 nanoseconds. The team analyzed 20 million “snapshots” of the interacting proton beams, and identified 150,000 events containing proton-proton collisions.
For each collision that the researchers identified, they determined the number and angle of particles scattered from the colliding protons. The average proton collision produced about 22 charged particles known as hadrons, which were mainly scattered along the transverse plane, immediately around the main collision point.
Compared with the collider’s first run, at an energy intensity of 7 TeV, the recent experiment at 13 TeV produced 30 percent more particles per collision.
Lee says the results support the theory that higher-energy collisions may increase the chance of finding new particles. The results also provide a precise picture of a typical proton collision — a picture that may help scientists sift through average events looking for atypical particles.
“At this high intensity, we will observe hundreds of millions of collisions each second,” Lee says. “But the problem is, almost all of these collisions are typical background events. You really need to understand the background well, so you can separate it from the signals for new physics effects. Now we’ve prepared ourselves for the potential discovery of new particles.”
Shrinking the uncertainty of tiny collisions
Normally, 13 TeV is not a large amount of energy — about that expended by a flying mosquito. But when that energy is packed into a single proton, less than a trillionth the size of a mosquito, that particle’s energy density becomes enormous. When two such energy-packed protons smash into each other, they can knock off constituents from each proton — either quarks or gluons — that may, in turn, interact to produce entirely new particles.
Predicting the number of particles produced by a proton collision could help scientists determine the probability of detecting a new particle. However, existing models generate predictions with an uncertainty of 30 to 40 percent. That means that for high-energy collisions that produce a large number of particles, the uncertainty of detecting rare particles can be a considerable problem.
“For high-luminosity runs, you might have up to 100 collisions, and the uncertainty of the background level, based on existing models, would be very big,” Lee says.
To shrink this uncertainty and more precisely count the number of particles produced in an average proton collision, Lee and his team used the Large Hadron Collider’s CMS detector. The detector is built around a massive magnet that can generate a field that’s 100,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field.
Typically, a magnetic field acts to bend charged particles that are produced by proton collisions. This bending allows scientists to measure a particle’s momentum. However, an average collision typically produces lightweight particles with very low momentum — particles that, in a magnetic field, end up coiling their way toward the main collider’s beam pipe, instead of bending toward the CMS detector.
To count these charged, lightweight particles, the scientists analyzed the data with the detector’s magnet off. While they couldn’t measure the particles’ momentum, they could precisely count the number of charged particles, and measure the angles at which they arrived at the detector. The measurements, Lee says, give a more accurate picture of an average proton collision, compared with existing theoretical models.
“Our measurement actually shrinks the uncertainty dramatically, to just a few percent,” Lee says.
Simulating the early universe
Knowing what a typical proton collision looks like will help scientists set the collider to essentially see through the background of average events, to more efficiently detect rare particles.
Lee says the new results may also have a significant impact on the study of the hot and dense medium from the early universe. In addition to proton collisions, scientists also plan to study the highest-energy collisions of lead ions, each of which contain 208 protons and neutrons. When accelerated in a collider, lead ions flatten into disks due to a force called the Lorentz contraction. When smashed together, lead ions can generate hundreds of interactions between protons and produce an extremely dense medium that is thought to mimic the conditions of space just after the Big Bang. In this way, the Large Hadron Collider experiment could potentially simulate the condition of the very first moments of the early universe.
“One microsecond after the Big Bang, the universe was very dense and hot — about 1 trillion degrees,” Lee says. “With lead ion collisions, we can reproduce the early universe in a ‘small bang.’ If we can understand what one proton collision looks like, we may be able to get some more insights about what will happen when hundreds of them occur at the same time. Then we can see what we can learn about the early universe.”
Scientists precisely count particles produced in a typical proton collision.
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
October 14, 2015
Press Inquiries
After a two-year hiatus, the Large Hadron Collider, the largest and most powerful particle accelerator in the world, began its second run of experiments in June, smashing together subatomic particles at 13 teraelectronvolts (TeV) — the highest energy ever achieved in a laboratory. Physicists hope that such high-energy collisions may produce completely new particles, and potentially simulate the conditions that were seen in the early universe.
In a paper to appear in the journal Physics Letters B, the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) collaboration at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) reports on the run’s very first particle collisions, and describes what an average collision between two protons looks like at 13 TeV. One of the study leaders is MIT assistant professor of physics Yen-Jie Lee, who leads MIT’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Group, together with physics professors Gunther Roland and Bolek Wyslouch.
In the experimental run, researchers sent two proton beams hurtling in opposite directions around the collider at close to the speed of light. Each beam contained 476 bunches of 100 billion protons, with collisions between protons occurring every 50 nanoseconds. The team analyzed 20 million “snapshots” of the interacting proton beams, and identified 150,000 events containing proton-proton collisions.
For each collision that the researchers identified, they determined the number and angle of particles scattered from the colliding protons. The average proton collision produced about 22 charged particles known as hadrons, which were mainly scattered along the transverse plane, immediately around the main collision point.
Compared with the collider’s first run, at an energy intensity of 7 TeV, the recent experiment at 13 TeV produced 30 percent more particles per collision.
Lee says the results support the theory that higher-energy collisions may increase the chance of finding new particles. The results also provide a precise picture of a typical proton collision — a picture that may help scientists sift through average events looking for atypical particles.
“At this high intensity, we will observe hundreds of millions of collisions each second,” Lee says. “But the problem is, almost all of these collisions are typical background events. You really need to understand the background well, so you can separate it from the signals for new physics effects. Now we’ve prepared ourselves for the potential discovery of new particles.”
Shrinking the uncertainty of tiny collisions
Normally, 13 TeV is not a large amount of energy — about that expended by a flying mosquito. But when that energy is packed into a single proton, less than a trillionth the size of a mosquito, that particle’s energy density becomes enormous. When two such energy-packed protons smash into each other, they can knock off constituents from each proton — either quarks or gluons — that may, in turn, interact to produce entirely new particles.
Predicting the number of particles produced by a proton collision could help scientists determine the probability of detecting a new particle. However, existing models generate predictions with an uncertainty of 30 to 40 percent. That means that for high-energy collisions that produce a large number of particles, the uncertainty of detecting rare particles can be a considerable problem.
“For high-luminosity runs, you might have up to 100 collisions, and the uncertainty of the background level, based on existing models, would be very big,” Lee says.
To shrink this uncertainty and more precisely count the number of particles produced in an average proton collision, Lee and his team used the Large Hadron Collider’s CMS detector. The detector is built around a massive magnet that can generate a field that’s 100,000 times stronger than the Earth’s magnetic field.
Typically, a magnetic field acts to bend charged particles that are produced by proton collisions. This bending allows scientists to measure a particle’s momentum. However, an average collision typically produces lightweight particles with very low momentum — particles that, in a magnetic field, end up coiling their way toward the main collider’s beam pipe, instead of bending toward the CMS detector.
To count these charged, lightweight particles, the scientists analyzed the data with the detector’s magnet off. While they couldn’t measure the particles’ momentum, they could precisely count the number of charged particles, and measure the angles at which they arrived at the detector. The measurements, Lee says, give a more accurate picture of an average proton collision, compared with existing theoretical models.
“Our measurement actually shrinks the uncertainty dramatically, to just a few percent,” Lee says.
Simulating the early universe
Knowing what a typical proton collision looks like will help scientists set the collider to essentially see through the background of average events, to more efficiently detect rare particles.
Lee says the new results may also have a significant impact on the study of the hot and dense medium from the early universe. In addition to proton collisions, scientists also plan to study the highest-energy collisions of lead ions, each of which contain 208 protons and neutrons. When accelerated in a collider, lead ions flatten into disks due to a force called the Lorentz contraction. When smashed together, lead ions can generate hundreds of interactions between protons and produce an extremely dense medium that is thought to mimic the conditions of space just after the Big Bang. In this way, the Large Hadron Collider experiment could potentially simulate the condition of the very first moments of the early universe.
“One microsecond after the Big Bang, the universe was very dense and hot — about 1 trillion degrees,” Lee says. “With lead ion collisions, we can reproduce the early universe in a ‘small bang.’ If we can understand what one proton collision looks like, we may be able to get some more insights about what will happen when hundreds of them occur at the same time. Then we can see what we can learn about the early universe.”
As I said last time we thought there was potentially a downed Russian key.
Good.
They are constantly testing countries to see how they respond to their jets in their airspace. Maybe this will calm them down and prevent a worse response happening.
The people I feel most sorry for is the family of the pilots who may be dead. Sent to their death by Russian officers who wanted to show Turkey the size of their balls.
Red-lipped Batfish
Found on the Galapagos Islands, this fish is actually a pretty bad swimmer, and uses its pectoral fins to walk on the bottom of the ocean. (Image credits: imgur)
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