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Intergalactic Race Shows That Einstein Still Rules
Ponca City, We love you writes "The NY Times reports that after a journey of 7.3 billion light-years, a race between gamma rays ranging from 31 billion electron volts to 10,000 electron volts, a factor of more than a million, in a burst from an exploding star, have arrived within nine-tenths of a second of each other. A detector on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope confirmed Einstein’s proclamation in his 1905 theory of relativity that the speed of light is constant and independent of its color, energy, direction or how you yourself are moving. Some theorists had suggested that space on very small scales has a granular structure that would speed some light waves faster than others — in short, that relativity could break down on the smallest scales. Until now such quantum gravity theories have been untestable because ordinarily you would have to see details as small as the so-called Planck length, which is vastly smaller than an atom — to test these theories in order to discern the bumpiness of space."
Einstein is no. 9 on Forbes magazine's list of top-earning dead celebrities, nestled between Dr. Seuss and Michael Crichton.
No - Einstein never killed a bitch.
Joan was quizzical - studied pataphycial science in the home. Late nights all alone with a test tube, oh, oh oh, oh.
Maxwell Edison (majoring in medicine) calls her on the phone.
"Can I take you out to the pictures, Jo-o-o-oan?"
But as she's getting ready to go, a knock comes on the door.
Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer came down upon her head.
Bang bang Maxwell's silver hammer made sure that she was dead.
Decades ago I observed that the sky was blue. People to this day people still find evidence I was correct as a child. I imagine in 1,000 years people will still be recognizing the correctness of my observations. I am like a God among men!