BLACK HOLES

Scientists at the University of St Andrews have used lasers to simulate a black hole in their laboratory.
Professor Ulf Leonhardt and Dr Friedrich König used intense light pulses to create an artificial `event horizon' - the defining feature of a black hole known as `the point of no return'. The development may allow researchers to test Professor Stephen Hawking's theory that black holes are not black at all but in fact radiate light.
It is the first time that scientists have successfully simulated an event horizon using light. There is no danger however of the scientists being sucked into deep space by an intense pull of gravity, since the tabletop device only acts on light in optical fibres and is perfectly harmless.



/////////////////Gold is one of the world’s most misunderstood assets. There are many reasons for this unfortunate situation, but one stands out. Gold exists in an environment in which there are many powerful forces fiercely hostile to it. Most notable among these are governments and the myriad of vested interests that feed from the public purse or rely upon some government-issued license or privilege. Governments have confiscated gold, taxed it, propagandized against it and even outlawed it.Gold does not have any powerful sponsor championing its cause. In fact, the opposite prevails. Apologists for central banks as well as government toadies clamoring for continued state control of money have worked hard to discredit gold where possible, for example, by blaming it for things it was not responsible – like the Great Depression – and by denigrating gold as a fondling of speculators or a superstition better suited for primitive economies.



/////////////////////Is there a hole in the universe? - NASA researchers discovered an immense area of space totally empty of stars, planets and matter -- a hole far larger than anything they had ever seen before.


//////////////Time is an equal opportunity employer. Each human being has exactly the same number of hours and minutes every day. Rich people can't buy more hours. Scientists can't invent new minutes. And you can't save time to spend it on another day. Even so, time is amazingly fair and forgiving. No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow. -- Denis Waitely




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//////////////////Wallowing in corruption like a rhinoceros in an African pool.E. L. Godkin (1831-1902) on James G. Elaine, American politician



//////////////////You see things as they are and you say, "Why?"But I dream things that never were, and I say, "Why not?"”
~ George Bernard Shaw




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