you dreaming?

Poor fellow, Holmes, very good at deducing traces and connection of causes, but absolutely ignorant of so many things.

What about the renaissance kind of genius, knower of many different fields, able to sum up in his own mind all that and emanate a piece of intellectual gold? A lot of assholes is forgetting nowadays, also in the scientific community, that kwnoledge of everything makes you a better human. There can be little doubt of that.

Curiosity is the key, it will take you to the knowledge of lots of things, and the desire to discover the connection in everything and to elaborate theories about phenomena.

"your" country? When was it given to you?

I forgot to say that I'm a fucking communist piece of shit, as you might have guessed from my opinions. I'm so sorry for myself that I can't nearly stop crying for my little damned soul. I apologize, please go to war and teach those fanatic animals what to be christian (and a real human) is like. Show them your sollar cell, the sign that our god (sorry, God) has given us the technological superiority because we are the chosen people (I'm getting confused, weren't those almost annihilated in the holocaust (sorry, Holocaust)). Have you thought of bringing a dynamo with pedals? In fact in Spain there is a saying relating pedals and abnormals. It's an old firma, but maybe they're still fabricating them.

Please, mod me as troll. As you americans say, "make my day"(probably the saying is not well written, and I don't fucking care "no hablo tu idioma")

Yeah, we're giving advice to someone going to war. "War is funnier when you have an ipod", "Bring your eye-blinders to not see rapings", "bring a nice solar cell not to see blood". What the hell are you talking about?? For Darwin's sake, as if that were normal, invading another country for the reason X. Gladly, I check that I am the only one saying, don't go to war. But, yeah, sorry, I don't know of a technical solution for your war problems. I shouldn't be here in slashdot, where the brains of the country(ies) recommend a piece of animal to go to war with the highest tech in order to make it a lighter experience. God bless you bigots.

Finally somebody mentioned the arxiv.
By the way, it's quite funny to see all these guys telling somebody how to do his job better, mostly when they have absolutely no idea what they're talking about.
Some nice sentences from the article:
-"It's taken me some time to learn how to read them"... what!!??
-"Because you're trying to present what happened in the lab one day as some fundamental truth", hahaaha, that one is good.
-"So what we need to do is both think about the way that we write those papers, and the words and the tone and how that really keeps people out of science. It really reduces the number of scientists". Yea. From under which rock of another planet have they taken this guy?. Keeps people out of science...yes, they see equations they don't understand, and don't want to make the needed effort. I can imagine the solution is that we through science away and begin writing "easy papers" that any analphabet can understand. That would be progress!

Now seriously, change the patent system to reward theoreticians, not only experimentalists. And make the population less ignorant!!!

The news refers to the use of angular momentum of light (radio waves in this case), not to the spin (polarization). Apart from polarization, light can have an angular momentum, which consists in a torque-like space distribution of its phase. Since this refers to a continuous variable, this application extends the set AM+FM to AM+FM+LM or whatever they call this new modulation.

The angular momentum of light is years old, but the news is that it has been recently implemented in the radio wavelength, which apparently was difficult.

I'm really amazed that no one came up with this simple idea: what happens if there is some kind of primitive microscopic life in any of those worlds, we bring it to Earth, and have a major epidemic?
I can imagine in the news "the Titan victeria(strange alien cross between virus and bacteria) has produced 3000million deaths...govt producing tunnels underground for nonzombie survivors..."

For the sceptics on putting money into this: money into science always pays back, you shouldn't worry. It's only when you put money in the hands of bankers or such scum (brokers, politicians, owners of big firmas...) that you should be worrying. By the way anybody has seen yet any improvement, any difference by the injection of money in the banks? What I see is that OUR money has disappeared into the hands of those robbers. This would never happen with scientific missions (which discover things, create technology, blabla)

My experience is the opposite (I don't expect any of you to believe it, or not to throw a million of reasons why I'm insane): linux crashes much more often and is less responsive in general to any high load you put in the system. This is my observation of around 10 year comparison (XP versus all the development in linux distros)

maybe because back then it was software-level. Now it's hardware level (your fuzzy probability number is not stored in the hardware like 0.8000000000000, but 0.8)

There's a dilemma here: if you feel that your country needs you, to fight and protect it, go there and be a real soldier not a kitty, needing to call mamma. Otherwise, as that private in Street fighter said: "go home and be a family man"!

Besides, do you realise that you're fighting a fake war? Do you think Bin Laden blew the towers? Let me laugh at you, poor idiot. Do you think he's hiding in the mountains? hahaha, you poor manipulable idiot. If all intelligence activity in your country and in my beloved europe cannot stop the terrorists, then you'll never stop them. Invading a country doesn't have to do with terrorism at all, but with petrol(etc). If all of you, fucking americans, would study a little the history of other countries (yeah! they exist! you're not alone in the world!) you'd realise that terrorism is fought with guerrilla wars, with dirty tricks and a lot of intelligence, not by invading a country, and least of all manipulating the richness of that country and apropriating it. Irak: weapons of mass destruction (now your petrol is ours), Afghanistan (any oil conduct around here, mon amour?) , Iran is next (in the list of biggest oil world producers)(let's not invade it yet, we spent too much money in Irak, and -who knows?- we might yet advance a bit with renewable technologies).

As a summary,
I HOPE YOU DIE THERE, IDIOT
A spanish bastard

Could people please let the word "quantum" be? If I post a comment "scientists discover that god is quantum!", will it be posted and commented? Please, let's be serious on science and post/comment things based on their relevance. Another bullshit title, just for laugh: "scientists discover that black holes have hair!" http://arxiv.org/abs/0901.0359 (notice the title of the paper:"Black hole hair removal")

You can exemplify that in classroom in a more positive fashion: when explaining history, remark the fact that the religious theory of geocentrism had weaknesses and thereby was substituted by heliocentrism. At once you have explained the scientific method of improvements of theories, and another fact of life, that religious people want to believe in unproven myths, and will only hinder progress of everybody around them.

Has anybody thought about the fact that this is an intrinsically (north)american problem? I mean, the rest of civilized world seems not to have the same density of fanatic christians among the population so as to need changing official science at school. This, I think, is something to ponder upon (specially when your country thinks that it is the culmination of human civilization).