In the Detroit area this week? The Michigan Science Center is preparing you for winter with this cool presentation.
Investigate how temperature relates to the movement of atoms and molecules in this exciting presentation from the Michigan Science Center. Utilizing liquid nitrogen (LN2) we’ll see some ‘cool’ effects on solids, liquids and gases! Fun for the whole family.
OpenCulture unearthed this letter George Orwell received from his former teacher, Aldous Huxley. Both 1984 and Brave New World speculate on dystopian futures we may have in store. In the letter Huxley argues that his, Brave New World, is more likely an outcome, although he does leave room for a 1984 stepping stone.
Are we close enough to tell? 1984 is set 41 years ago and we have over 500 years till Brave New World. I’m still hoping for alternatives.
“Within the next generation I believe that the world’s rulers will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging and kicking them into obedience.”
In Huxley’s seemingly dystopian World State, the elite amuse the masses into submission with a mind-numbing drug called Soma and an endless buffet of casual sex. Orwell’s Oceania, on the other hand, keeps the masses in check with fear thanks to an endless war and a hyper-competent surveillance state. At first blush, they might seem like they are diametrically opposed but, in fact, an Orwellian world and a Huxleyan one are simply two different modes of oppression.
Published in the International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics, Arya Dutta, a Ph.D. student in Mathematics at the Katz School has developed a mathematical model of a wormhole.
A wormhole, he said, can be formed by joining two black holes together—but with their singular, infinitely dense cores removed—so that matter and light could pass smoothly from one end to the other. The tricky part is keeping the tunnel open. “To build a wormhole, you need a very unusual kind of matter that has negative energy-density,” said Dutta. “It’s not like normal matter; it’s more like dark energy or dark matter.”
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