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• It's time Jim, but not as we know it

  If there is one thing everyone (well maybe not quite everyone) knows about Einstein is that according to the Theory of Relativity, it is impossible for anything to travel faster than light, which is constant everywhere in the universe. After Einstein... Posted May 10 2009, 11:08 AM by Boffin with | with no comments Filed under: Big Bang, relativity, Einstein, planck, Big Crunch

• The God Particle revisited

  Physicists the world over are getting very emotional as The Day approaches, but all is not well in the particle physics world. The world's most powerful particle smasher is due to begin hurling protons at each other at its base outside Geneva this... Posted May 06 2008, 01:21 PM by Boffin with | with no comments Filed under: Higgs boson, CERN, God particle, quarks, particle accelerator, black hole, Big Bang

• Mercury here we come

  The next 10 days are very exciting ones for cosmologists and physicists, as NASA's Messenger probe - launched in August 2004 - will begin the first of three fly-bys of the enigmatic planet Mercury, a series designed to culminate in an orbit around... Posted Jan 06 2008, 09:36 AM by Boffin with | with no comments Filed under: Creation, Messenger, Big Bang, Mercury