Friday, February 10, 2006

Science News 10/2/06

Living in a Black Hole.
Falling into a Black Hole can be a life changing episode, as the change in gravitational forces stretch you out as if you were on a rack. However Scientists have now suggested that you could survive in a 5 Dimensional Black Hole. Apparently the tidal forces inside a 5D Black Hole are very small and would allow you to move around instead of getting pulled apart.

The normal 4 Dimensional Black Hole consists of three dimensions in space (x,y,z) and one dimension of time. What the 5th Dimension is, I leave you to find out.

Tailored shoes.
Ever had a problem with ill-fitting shoes? Well the answer to your problems is on it's way. A new 3D selective laser printer has been developed for various uses and one of these will be the manufactor of tailored shoes. The laser will fuse together particles of a nylon-based material.

Biology more important than Physics.
Apparently last century was the century of Physics, this century is the century of Biology. The measurement for this strange idea is economic, it seems Biology has greater economical consequences than Physics. Although what Chemistry has to say about any of this is left to the reader.

More on these articles and more articles can be found in this weeks issue of New Scientist, available in the school library.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

tell me the 5th dimention.