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13-Billion-Year-Old Alien Worlds Discovered
astroengine writes "Two exoplanets have been discovered by scientists at the Max-Planck Institute for Astronomy orbiting the star HIP 11952. But according to conventional thinking, these worlds shouldn't exist. You see, HIP 11952 is a 'metal-poor star and planetary formation is hindered around stars with low metallicity (PDF). This isn't the only thing; as metal-poor stars were the first stars to form when the Universe was very young, these two worlds also formed around the same time. They are therefore the most ancient exoplanets discovered to date."
"Planets form around sun" certainly was news 13 billion years ago, it just took this long to reach Slashdot's front page.
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time is not an illusion at all, it is the increase in entropy of the structures of the visible universe, it is a non-conserved state function
So, does time run backward in your freezer, and faster than normal around it?
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They're only 375 light years away.
Maybe the light took the scenic route.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.
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another idiom busted
I always tell them "life without you is like a broken pencil!". If she's a Blackadder Fan she will understand :)
no, the refrigerator does work moving heat to the outside in time with some of that energy thereafter unavailable to do work, increasing the overall entropy of the universe even though causing a local decrease of entropy inside
And that folks, is the definition of a refrigerator here on Slashdot! Still wonder why you don't have any gfs? Seriously though, this is why I love /.
No. Pointless.