Despite what it means for a nuclear non-proliferation treaty with Russia and China, the US refuses to ban arms in space. For what would such a ban entail for Dubya’s beloved SDI?
Category: Space
Schroedinger’s Universe.
Discover interviews physicist John Wheeler about the quantum nature of reality. “Wheeler conjectures we are part of a universe that is a work in progress; we are tiny patches of the universe looking at itself – and building itself. It’s not only the future that is still undetermined but the past as well. And by peering back into time, even all the way back to the Big Bang, our present observations select one out of many possible quantum histories for the universe.” (Via Anil Dash.)
From Cosmo to Cosmos.
Cindy Crawford ponders edging out Lance Bass as Space Tourist #3.
Genius or Hubris?
Scientists line up for and against former boy genius Stephen Wolfram’s paradigm-busting paean to algorithms.
Beam me up, Scotty…
one measly laser beam at a time. But, hey, it’s a start.
Religion in the void.
An Israeli astronaut attempts to figure out how best to observe Shabbat in space. (Via Looka.) Just think how complicated it’ll get when we start orbiting other stars.
Paradigm shift.
Atomic clocks in space might prep the way for post-Einstein revisions to the laws of physics.
3,2,1 Contact.
NASA gears up for an increased emphasis on astrobiology.
Backstreet’s back…in space?
Speaking of which, Backstreet Boy Lance Bass has medical clearance to be the third tourist in space, at a price of $14-20 million. Y’know, if I was in a boy band, I’d spend my money exactly the same way. Update: N’SYNC…Bass is in N’Sync. My bad, y’all.
Blue skies on Mars?
More on the possibility of Martian ice caverns and what it means for a wo/manned mission to the red planet.