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The physics of ‘Angels and Demons’: anything is possible in movies

The physics of ‘Angels and Demons’: anything is possible in movies

The plot is action-suspense formula: some stolen antimatter from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and a threat to use that antimatter to blow up the Vatican during Conclave, by the Illuminati or some scientists driven underground during the 17th century and who are now going to make the Vatican pay by killing thousands of innocent people. ‘Angels [...]
Some Things Scientists Wrack Their Brains Over (and still can’t come up with conclusive explanation)

Some Things Scientists Wrack Their Brains Over (and still can’t come up with conclusive explanation)

Medical practitioners have been aware of the placebo effect for decades now. Some administer it. Still some attempt to explain it as a biochemical effect. However, no one knows exactly what it is and how it comes about. Cosmologists wrack their brains over an explanation to the horizon problem. Some come up with this explanation of inflation: “You [...]