Wednesday, April 14, 2010

The Universe Just Keeps On Getting Stranger

I love stories like this one, in which a new variety of "mysterious radio waves" has been discovered in another galaxy. Thank goodness for Albert Einstein's work in the mid-20th century or we wouldn't have the background to understand how the Theory of Relativity can explain why an object actually moving less than the speed of light can instead appear to be exceeding it from our point-of-view! Great stuff!

I can't help but wonder just how fundamentally all of our lives would be changed if we ever discover irrefutable evidence of other life out there. The mind boggles.

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