Knife Missiles

"Designated the Hellfire R9X, the missile has no explosive warhead—instead, its payload is more than 100 pounds of metal, including long blades that deploy from the body of the missile just before impact. 'To the targeted person, it is as if a speeding anvil fell from the sky,' according to the WSJ. Some officials referred … Continue reading Knife Missiles

Found: A Quadrillion Ways for String Theory to Make Our Universe

"According to string theory, all particles and fundamental forces arise from the vibrational states of tiny strings. For mathematical consistency, these strings vibrate in 10-dimensional spacetime. And for consistency with our familiar everyday experience of the universe, with three spatial dimensions and the dimension of time, the additional six dimensions are 'compacted' so as to … Continue reading Found: A Quadrillion Ways for String Theory to Make Our Universe