meta-roj

inventor

banker

the snake

less crowded house

actor

tubes and eggs

beverly hillbilly

foghat

(by broken i mean asymmetric, which is my prerogative as a non-academic journal)

just when we thought we knew something, maybe not so much. from the press-release version…

Light may arise from relativity violations [indiana university]

The new results show that this description of light is a general feature of relativity violations and holds both in empty space and in the presence of gravity. “In this picture, light has a strange beauty, and its origin is tied into minuscule violations of Einstein’s relativity in a profound and general way,” Kostelecky said.

a preprint is available at arxiv.org.

expect lots of fun experiments to follow.

bbc news (radio) is reporting confirmation that the bad news from angola is, indeed, the marburg virus.