By Jennifer OuelletteFeatures correspondent
Einstein said it is impossible, but as Jennifer Ouellette explains some scientists are still trying to break the cosmic speed limit – even if it means bending the laws of physics.
"It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off."
Woody Allen, Side Effects
Last summer, a small neutrino experiment in Europe called OPERA (Oscillation Project with Emulsion tRacking Apparatus) stunned the world with a preliminary announcement that it had clocked neutrinos travelling just a few fractions of a second faster than the speed of light. Read More...
#Quote1[on the nature of Pixar's ideas and how the commercial world views those ideas] If you explain the basics of any one of these ideas, they probably will sound as nutty as a cooking French rat or a silent film starring robots in a post-apocalyptic world," Bird said. "Each one of those films, when we were in preparation on them, the financial community said each one of them stunk and none of them had the ability to be a financial success. Read More...
Brooklyn’s open-air prostitution market was up and running over the weekend — with the only deterrence some thunderstorms the blew through Saturday into early Sunday as law enforcement continued to largely sit back and observe the brazen enterprise.
The industrial, four-block stretch where scantily-clad women — many of them likely trafficking victims under the thumb of nearby pimps — haveopenly enticed motorists for months fell quiet during the downpour.
But as soon as the rain subsided early Sunday, the women slowly emerged, stopping cars and riding off with strangers in a cycle The Post witnessed throughout the night. Read More...
