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DARPA Is Funding Time Crystal Research
You probably scratched your head last year if you read about time crystals, likely 2017’s most esoteric, widely covered popular science story. Even if you understood how they worked, you might not have known what use they could have... By Ryan F. Mandelbaum.
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There's a Type of Black Hole That Erases Your Past And Messes With Your Future
Hello darkness my old friend. By Mike McRae.
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How to Design Beacons for Humanity’s Afterlife
A time capsule meant to teach aliens about humans could consist of math, DNA, a bot, or a brain—or something else entirely. By Stephen Wolfram.
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Actually, There Is a Time Like the Present
Think there’s no time like the present? Modern physics begs to differ. By Mark Shumelda.
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Neuroscientist discusses precognition—or ‘mental time travel’
There are rules of the physical world that don’t apply to the mental world... By Tara MacIsaac.
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‘Arrow of time’ reversed in quantum experiment
In quantum systems, heat can flow “backward,” from cold to hot. By Emily Conover.
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In defence of the indefensible
Friday was the 23rd of October and the Internet sceptics had a field day mocking one of their favourite punching bags James Ussher (1581 – 1656) Archbishop of Armagh. By Thony Christie.
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Where Did Time Come From, and Why Does It Seem to Flow?
We say a river flows because it moves through space with respect to time. But time can’t move with respect to time—time is time. By John Steele.
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The Art and Science of Comedic Timing
It doesn’t work the way you think. (Except when it … does.) By Thomas MacMillan.
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A Defense of the Reality of Time
Time isn’t just another dimension, argues Tim Maudlin. To make his case, he’s had to reinvent geometry. By George Musser.
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Bouncing electrons off a time mirror
A quantum time mirror puts wave packets back together. By Chris Lee.
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This explorer discovered human time warp by living in a cave
On July 16, 1962, French geologist Michel Siffre entered a darkened cave where he planned to remain for two months. Tracking the days according to his sleep patterns (one night’s sleep equals one day), he believed his underground stay was ending on Aug. 20. Instead, when he emerged it was Sept. 14 — 25 days later.
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All of Human Knowledge Buried in a Salt Mine
Fearful of digital decay, a ceramicist wants to return data storage to a more lasting medium: clay. By Richard Kemeny.
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You're not imagining it: 2016 actually IS longer. Here's why
With the New Year just around the corner, it might feel to some like 2016 is dragging a bit -- and in fact, we'd like to remind you that 2016 will, in fact, be just a tick longer than usual. And by 'tick', we mean that literally. A single 'leap second' will be added to the world's clocks at 23:59:59 p.m. UTC on December 31 (or about 6:59:59 p.m. EST), according to the U.S. Naval Observatory, which announced the change earlier this year.
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When the Standardization of Time Arrived in America
It used to be that each town kept its own time, and chaos reigned. [Podcast]
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Quantum Gravity’s Time Problem
The effort to unify quantum mechanics and general relativity means reconciling totally different notions of time. By Natalie Wolchover. (Dec. 12, 2016)
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How to Build a Time Machine
The concept is a lot newer than most people realize. By Maria Konnikova.
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The Secret Life of Time
It may seem slippery and maddeningly abstract, but it’s also deeply intimate, infusing our every word and gesture. By Alan Burdick.
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How Your Brain Controls the Speed of Time
Why does reality seem to slow down in moments of extreme peril? Can the mind really bend time? Here’s the neuroscience behind the phenomenon. By Jeff Wise.
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Mechanical Movements of the Cold War
How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches. By Hunter Oatman-Stanford.
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