The truth about Harry Potter

Hypercube: 4 dimensional cube

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract

This hurts my brain

'We have broken speed of light'

By Nic Fleming, Science Correspondent

A pair of German physicists claim to have broken the speed of light - an achievement that would undermine our entire understanding of space and time.

	Albert Einstein won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, it would require an infinite amount of energy to propel an object at more than 186,000 miles per second.

However, Dr Gunter Nimtz and Dr Alfons Stahlhofen, of the University of Koblenz, say they may have breached a key tenet of that theory.

The pair say they have conducted an experiment in which microwave photons - energetic packets of light - travelled "instantaneously" between a pair of prisms that had been moved up to 3ft apart.

Being able to travel faster than the speed of light would lead to a wide variety of bizarre consequences.

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For instance, an astronaut moving faster than it would theoretically arrive at a destination before leaving.

The scientists were investigating a phenomenon called quantum tunnelling, which allows sub-atomic particles to break apparently unbreakable laws.

Dr Nimtz told New Scientist magazine: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."

Remember:

Youtube:

John Williams talking about scoring Catch Me If You Can.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Htg9PFg1MTk

Awesome Vintage Computer Ad

Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXZZknJWtGg

Very cool video of kids and trains.

New RSA site launched

The new Renaissance School of the arts website has been launched.

http://www.renaissancemusicacademy.com/

The problem is that my personal website now points to the school's page. I am in the process of developing a new website, but it's not ready yet. Ugh.

Brilliant Hidden Camera Video

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&VideoID=20297462

I need this

Mmm...cheese....

http://www.365cheeses.com/cheese/produced_in/italy_1/

Avery Singing

Today we recorded Avery singing Popular from Wicked. Very cute:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_sfOsMMLgI

Van Halen - tech error!!

Jump! The backing track with the synths was played back at 48k instead of 44.1... it's a little painful: http://createdigitalmusic.com/2007/10/18/onstage-tech-disasters-van-halen-goes-microtonal/

Very cool memory clearing trick

I found this today:

If you run a windows computer you’ll know like many others than after a while your system will in doubt start running slow. Most people will restart their computer to remove and idle processes. But if there’s a simpler way, why restart every time windows decides it doesn’t like you today?

1. Right click on an empty spot on your desktop and select New - Shortcut.

2. Type %windir%\system32\rundll32.exe advapi32.dll,ProcessIdleTasks in the box.

3. Click Next.

4. Give your shortcut a nice name like “Clear Memory”.

5. Click Finish and you’re done.

Now whenever your computer starts running slow click this shortcut to clear out your memory and get your computer running at a normal pace again.

First post

Here's the first post in my personal blog. I think it's time I started a personal blog - I was never one to keep a journal, but because this is on the computer I am much more likely to actually use it. I doubt anyone will ever read this, but it might be good for me to have somewhere to jot my thoughts down. Who knows, it might make for good reading down the road.