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Listen in on Armitage Gone! Dance

Submitted by Markus on Friday, June 13, 2008
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Armitage Gone! DanceThe New York Academy of Science has just put up a podcast featuring the May 30, 2008 World Science Festival event Armitage Gone! Dance: The Elegant Universe, an artistic interpretation of black holes and string theory through the medium of dance. You can also access a slide show on the NYAS podcast homepage (look for the Jun 13, 2008 podcast).

Image: Julietta Cervantes; Dancers: Frances Chiaverini and Megumi Eda of Armitage Gone! Danceread more

Science Fun Fact #4

Submitted by Markus on Wednesday, May 28, 2008
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Relax. There may be a parallel universe in which you caught that bus

Relax. There may be a parallel universe...

While parallel universes sound like science fiction, they are in fact a — speculative — part of physics, and that in more than one place: quantum mechanics, our current (and incredibly precise) description of atoms and elementary particles, gives tantalizing hints of an infinity of parallel worlds. And string theory, one of the candidate theories for a unified description of physics, suggests an other kind of “landscape” of parallel universes, some that are similar to ours, and others that are mind-bogglingly different.read more