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Del Monte Gives His Perspective of M-Theory and Its Importance to Science Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB) May 09, 2013 Author, physicist and CEO, Louis A. Del Monte helps make important science theories easy to understand in his video series on YouTube. While many compelling science concepts covered in best-selling books and cable channels are intriguing, topics can be difficult to grasp. This week Del Monte explains salient popular science ideas about M-Theory in layman’s terms in his...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., April 5, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Love word games? Tired of waiting on your friends? String Theory: a Word Game challenges players to spell as many words as they can before time runs out. String Theory: a Word Game, created by Gecko LLC, is available for preview for all iOS devices now, and will be available worldwide in the App Store on April 30, 2013. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130405/AQ89450) Players spell words on the game board using...

John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Black holes are incredibly difficult objects to understand, partially because their very existence seemingly challenges the physical laws of the Universe. Because of their extreme nature, various peculiarities arise that give scientists pause. One such case was proposed by Stephen Hawking, the famed cosmologist, back in the 1970s. He noted that because of the extreme gravity that exists within the event horizon of a black...

John P. Millis, Ph.D. for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Two of the greatest scientific achievements of the last century were the establishment of the theories of Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, both of which have withstood continual experimental scrutiny. However, a problem remains. The two theories seem to be at odds with each other. Researchers, for decades, have sought a theory that would combine the two realms – the large-scale gravity fields, and the tiny...

April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Many mysteries surround black holes, but new research led by the Niels Bohr Institute has come up with groundbreaking new theories that might explain several of their more mysterious properties. The new study reveals that black holes have properties that resemble the dynamics of both solids and liquids. Black holes are extremely compact, so compact in fact that they generate an incredibly strong gravitational pull. Everything that...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Now that the ‘God Particle’ has been discovered, is it time to pack up CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and move on to other projects? Not so fast, say physicists who are looking to upgrade the 4-year-old particle accelerator. CERN’s governing body has just approved plans that would shut down the LHC for two years while it gets a $1.9 billion upgrade. The improvements would theoretically increase the power of the LHC’s...

LIPTOVSKY MIKULAS, Slovakia, Nov. 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Theologian Miroslav Halza is making a name for himself by clarifying the mysteries of the Holy Bible in simple, logical terms that make sense to layman and scientist alike. In his previous book, The Chronology of Revelation, he explained the concept of "time" for both the visible and invisible worlds, based on elementary particles defined by quantum physics. In his latest book, he presents these same particles as carriers for other...

  Researchers from Princeton University and New York University have developed a method for detecting the collision of stars with a black hole that could help scientists uncover dark matter. Postdoctoral researchers Shravan Hanasoge of Princeton's Department of Geosciences and Michael Kesden of NYU's Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics simulated the result of primordial black hole passing through a star.  Scientists believe that primordial black holes posses the properties of...

Black holes are some of the heaviest objects in the universe. Electrons are some of the lightest. Now physicists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have shown how charged black holes can be used to model the behavior of interacting electrons in unconventional superconductors."The context of this problem is high-temperature superconductivity," said Phillips. "One of the great unsolved problems in physics is the origin of superconductivity (a conducting state with...

Physicists are divided on whether string theory is a viable theory of everything, but many agree that it offers a new way to look at physical phenomena that have otherwise proven difficult to describe. In the past decade, physicists have used string theory to build a connection between quantum and gravitational mechanics, known as gauge/gravity duality.MIT physicists, led by Hong Liu and John McGreevy, have now used that connection to describe a specific physical phenomenon "” the behavior...