Tag: Physics

  • Holograms, Black Holes, and the Nature of the Universe

    Holograms, Black Holes, and the Nature of the Universe

    You think you know what holograms are? Think again. Once restricted to credit cards, postcards, and the occasional magazine cover, holograms are taking a great cosmic leap thanks to a new hypothesis called the holographic principle. The holographic principle, simply put, is the idea that our three-dimensional reality is a projection of information stored on…

  • UNSOLVED: TOP 10 PROBLEMS IN PHYSICS

    Are all the (measurable) dimensionless parameters that characterize the physical universe calculable in principle or are some merely determined by historical or quantum mechanical accident and uncalculable? Einstein put it more crisply: did God have a choice in creating the universe? Imagine the Old One sitting at his control console, preparing to set off the…

  • John Mullen

    John Mullen

    John Mullen, age 67, died June 29, 2004. John Mullen was a Nuclear physicist poisoned with a huge dose of arsenic. He was a nuclear research scientist with McDonnell Douglas. Police investigating will not say how Mullen was exposed to the arsenic or where it came from. At the time of his death he was doing…