اگر کسی با سرعت دو برابر نور حرکت کند چه اتفاقی می افتد؟ تا آنجایی که می دانیم، امکان ندارد که انسان با سرعت دو برابر نور حرکت کند. در واقع، برای هیچ جسمی با جرمی مانند شما یا من حرکت سریعتر از نور امکان پذیر نیست. با این حال، برای برخی از ذرات عجیب و…
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An artist’s rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope in Chile. Astronomers propose linking it with another giant telescope, the Thirty Meter Telescope, to create the Extremely Large Telescope project.Credit…Giant Magellan Telescope Organization A New 10-Year Plan for the Cosmos On astronomers’ wish list for the next decade: two giant telescopes and a space telescope to…
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Static Black Holes Exert Pressure on Their Environment, Scientists Say In 1974, Stephen Hawking made the seminal discovery that black holes emit thermal radiation. Previous to that, black holes were believed to be inert. In new research, a duo of researchers from the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Sussex shows that black…
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The Journey to Define Dimension he notion of dimension at first seems intuitive. Glancing out the window we might see a crow sitting atop a cramped flagpole experiencing zero dimensions, a robin on a telephone wire constrained to one, a pigeon on the ground free to move in two and an eagle in the air…
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Three Practical Tips to Overcome Perfectionism On a dreary Monday morning, I am listening to an inconsolable graduate student. Based on their state of anxiety, you would think they are on the verge of flunking out of their program or that a loved one has fallen seriously ill. The truth is far different. This person is an…
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Scientists Figured Out How And When Our Sun Will Die, And It’s Going to Be Epic What will our Sun look like after it dies? Scientists have made predictions about what the end will look like for our Solar System, and when that will happen. And humans won’t be around to see the final act. Previously,…
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Squirrels have human-like personality traits, says study Animal researchers in California have discovered human-like personality traits in squirrels that anybody watching one raiding nuts from a bird table could probably have guessed: they are bold, aggressive, athletic and sociable The study from University of California, Davis, and published this month in Animal Behavior, claims to be the…
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دین هیچ وقت جایگاه خود را از دست نمی دهد! مصاحبه با استاد محمود فرشچیان (هنرمند و نقاش شهیر ایران) نگارگری جلوه گاه بی مانند جمال الهی است، نگارگر با خلق تصویری برگرفته از ذهنیت خلاق خویش انسان را تا اوج عزت می برد و برای معنی بخشیدن به نقوش و رنگ و نور و سایه،…
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Why China is developing a game-changing thorium-fuelled nuclear reactor China is poised to test a thorium-powered nuclear reactor in September, the world’s first since 1969. The theory is that this new molten-salt technology will be “safer” and “greener” than regular uranium reactors, and so could help Beijing meet its climate goals. Yet is the country’s…
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Physicists Just Accidentally Made a New Discovery About Black Holes Given that our first direct detections confirming the existence of black holes only took place in this century, humanity can be forgiven for not knowing a few things about these mysterious cosmic objects We don’t even know everything we don’t know – a fact that’s been made evident…
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