Comment Re:Fairewell (Score 1) 1521
Nothing could compare to the /. effect - thinking of it just makes me smile. Thanks for everything and good luck.
Supermassive Black Holes Can Abort Star Formation 67
cremeglace writes "Astrophysicists have found that when a supermassive black hole quickly devours gas and dust, it can generate enough radiation to abort all the embryonic stars in the surrounding galaxy. It's not clear what this means for life's ability to take hold in such a bleak environment, but the research shows that the process might have determined the fates of many of the large galaxies in the universe."
Comment Re:Isn't mathematics unpatentable? (Score 1) 720
Beacuse applying it to another domain involves an inventive step - The basic question is if it was so obvious and trivial why didn't somebody else apply the concept to the other domain sooner. The answer that it is so obvious that nobody would be stupid enough to try to patent this concept is does not seem to render these concepts unpatentable.
