overheard in providence

I was all set to write about this Science Times article (don’t worry, I’ll get around to that later), when this monstrosity was brought to my attention. This article is fairly incoherent, but the gist of it, as far as I can tell, is that astronomers don’t yet have a theory that explains why the [...]

Last night some friends mentioned the recent news coverage of two German scientists claiming to have measured photons traveling faster than light. Ars Technica provides some informed debunking of these claims, but true or not, my friends wanted to know why super light speed travel was such a big deal. In particular, they had heard [...]