It is all relative

New Scientist have an article on the LHC and time travel - essentially that the Large Hadron Collider will potentially herald the beginning of time travel. This is on the basis that time travel cannot begin until a time machine has been created. Extending this hypothesis with a minor jump in reality and relativity (or by lighting up a rather large fattie), this then by default precludes time travel back beyond the existence of a time machine. Could be interesting for people who intend to subscribe but already know they have.

However, there appears be a somewhat oxymoronic issue with the issue (so to speak)... 'available free to magazine subscribers'


On the same site is an article about/by Professor Richard Wiseman (appropriate name) regarding how we perceive people by their appearances. You can check out his books on Amazon I am sure. That is not what I was posting about. On his web site he mentions the basketball video. It is on YouTube... here. Pay attention now!

At the same time of course there is this wonderful magical trick/illusion.


Prof. Wiseman has an interesting article at Forbes.com. My favourite part is:

"Lucky people had developed various interesting ways of introducing such variety. One noticed that whenever he went to a party, he tended to talk to the same type of people. To help disrupt this routine, he randomly chose a color before arriving at the party, and then only spoke to people wearing that color of clothing at the party. I have had firsthand experience of the power of this principle. Just last week I chose the color black, spent an evening busily chatting away to a large number of people I wouldn't normally speak to, and so ended up really enjoying the funeral."