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# science
Paradoxically, we’re both closer and farther from zooming across the galaxy than you might think…
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A new mission to Mercury will test a quirk of general relativity. It won’t be decisive and will involve a lot of precision measurement and tedious number-crunching. And it’s exactly the kind of science we should be encouraging.
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For the EmDrive and similar schemes to work would require radically different laws of physics. But something as trivial as physical impossibility isn't deterring its advocates...
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A new paper argues that nothing ever really falls into a black hole thanks to extreme time dilation and frame dragging.
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Just like supermassive black holes, planets can bend light with their gravity. But do they bend it enough for us to detect them that way?
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Something is wrong in the data we get when we measure distances to far away quasars to see how fast the universe is expanding.
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Despite what you have been told, general relativity has not yet been overturned, modified, or revolutionized.
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Wormholes exist, but they may be impractical for travel according to what we know about the physics behind them.
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It's difficult for three dimensional being to image a universe with ten dimensions. We might have to anyway.