http://blog.lib.umn.edu/priemen/itdean/ en Copyright 2009 Tue, 03 Oct 2006 15:31:10 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.25 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Every mass—be it an apple or the sun—distorts space and time, explains Physics and Astronomy professor Serge Rudaz. Gravity, he says, is the manifestation of that distortion.

It’s taken centuries for scientists to fit together the pieces of the gravity puzzle, Rudaz says. In the 17th Century Galileo Galilei put the first piece in place when he discovered that, if you take air resistance out of the equation, all objects fall at the same rate.

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]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/priemen/itdean/2006/09/what_are_the_chances_of_intell.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/priemen/itdean/2006/09/what_are_the_chances_of_intell.html Astronomy Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:23:00 -0600 This oft-posed question is somewhat nonsensical to Big Bang theorists, says Big Bang expert Keith Olive. That’s because, according to their scientific analysis, the Big Bang was the event that created both space and time. Therefore, there was no “around here� and no “before� until the Big Bang occurred.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/priemen/itdean/2006/09/what_was_going_on_around_here.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/priemen/itdean/2006/09/what_was_going_on_around_here.html Astronomy Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:12:01 -0600 Solid matter will never travel at the speed of light, according to University physics professor Keith Olive.

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