Dark Matter Lab Dedicated 5,000 Feet Underground

From: io9.com

By Stephen Goldmeier, 2:08 PM on Tue Jun 23 2009

“This week, the Sanford Lab dedicated an underground science fortress to research dark matter. The lab is 5,000 feet underground in the mountains of South Dakota, shielded from cosmic radiation.

“The lab is on a site that used to do physics research, and was a gold mine before that. The current Sanford Lab, in collaboration with the Deep Underground Science and Engineering Laboratory (DUSEL), is the deepest underground lab in the world. It's divided into three levels: the shallow lab, the mid-level, and the deep campus. The deep campus is 6 and a half Empire State Buildings deep, or around 8,000 feet.”

The Moon might be a space station after all

Just scroll down the page a bit and look for the section titled, "A Moon With a View..." This man can weave a story. If you go quickly through the sections, you can see some really cool photos, many of which are official.

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We know time is the 4th dimension, how about the 10th?

This animation illustrates the concepts presented in chapter one of the book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension"by Rob Bryanton.

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Another crop circle has appeared in the English countryside — and this one's clearly been made by someone, or something, that understands math.

At first glance, the strange ratcheted pattern, radiating out clockwise, doesn't look like much — modern art, perhaps.

But an electrical engineer from North Carolina — described by the London newspapers as a "retired astrophysicist" — figured out that it was an abstract representation of pi, the number at the center of Euclidean geometry.

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