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p1234 writes:
Though no direct evidence for wormholes has been observed, this could be because they are disguised as black holes. Now Alexander Shatskiy of the Lebedev Physical Institute in Moscow, Russia, is suggesting a possible way to tell the two kinds of object apart. His idea assumes the existence of a bizarre substance called "phantom matter", which has been proposed to explain how wormholes might stay open. Phantom matter has negative energy and negative mass, so it creates a repulsive effect that prevents the wormhole closing
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p1234 writes:
India and the US plan to cooperate in the exploration and use of outer space.
India's first, mission to the moon, Chandrayaan-1, which will be launched later this year.
Apart from India's moon mission, Nair said a probe of Mars by India was very much on the agenda.
"Our scientific community would like to see what new things we can find. It is not just for the sake of sending a probe to Mars. Yes, we have an agenda by 2012, by then we should have a Mars mission
