Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Science news below the fold

All the anti Catholic conspiracy theories of Dan Brown are well known, but I always wondered why he had to use "anti matter" to blow up the Vatican when nine KG of plutonium would do the same thing.

The Film blog of the UKTelegraph looked into it and found some problems...like they don't have that much anti matter and you'd need a magnetic bottle the size of a house to store it in...

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Discover magazine has an article on Murry Gell-Mann, who discovered and named quarks...and he found the name from a poem in Finnegan's Wake.

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