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Frosty Piss writes:
More than a year after an explosion shut down the Large Hadron Collider, it's poised to start up again. Then it will be time to test one of the most bizarre and revolutionary theories in science. Holger Bech Nielsen, of the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, and Masao Ninomiya of the Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics in Kyoto, Japan, have put forth the idea that the troubled collider is being sabotaged by its own future, that the Higgs boson might be so abhorrent to nature that its creation would ripple backward through time and stop the collider before it could make one."It must be our prediction that all Higgs producing machines shall have bad luck," Dr. Nielsen said. Dr. Nielsen, known in physics as one of the founders of string theory, and Dr. Ninomiya started laying out their case for doom in the spring of 2008.
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Frosty Piss writes:
Google is facing new complaints over its digital library project from Chinese authors who say their copyrights are being violated (Oh, the irony!) According to the Associated Press, the objections are being raised by a government-affiliated group called the China Written Works Copyright Society. Zhang Hongbo, deputy director of the Chinese group, which represents writers' groups but is under the supervision of the national copyrights bureau, says his group found nearly 18,000 works by 570 Chinese authors. "Google's digital library scanned those copyright-protected works without permission. This violates American copyright laws and international treaties," Zhang said. "This also violates the basic principle that they should ask permission from the authors first, pay to use them and then use them."
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Frosty Piss writes:
Decades after the notorious "Milgram experiment", researchers at Santa Clara University have found test subjects are still willing to inflict pain on others, if told to by an authority figure. Researchers repeated the famous experiment, with volunteers told to deliver electrical shocks to another volunteer, played by an actor. Even after faked screams of pain, 70% were prepared to increase the voltage, the study found. In the original study, published in 1963, Yale University professor Stanley Milgram recruited volunteers to help carry out a medical experiment, with none aware that they were actually the subject of the test.
