Saturday, September 24, 2011

CERN records subatomic particles travelling at a speed higher than the speed of light

According to Einstein's special theory of relativity, no mass in this universe can travel over the speed of light. If any mass travel close to the speed of light, it experiences mass and length contraction. But, no mass can ever travel at speed higher than that of light, as any mass that hits the speed of light transforms into energy.
However, the recent discovery at CERN Large Hadron Collider has the potential to baffle the minds of physicists. In one recent experiment at the CERN, some of the accelerated neutrino particles were observed to be travelling at a speed higher than the universally constant speed of light.

NASA UARS sattelite falls in pacific

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15034073

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Logical Fallacies


One of the scenes from the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The video shows a logical fallacy(humorous) in determining whether a woman is a witch.


Another logical fallacy in which the rhetor demonstrates a logical fallacy by stating he believes that all beliefs are a cover up for insecurity


Logical fallacy by comparing arms and legs of a human body with country's economy


One more video on logical fallacy from "Not the Nine O'Clock News". It's a sketch that's mocking about the ways through which politicians try to persuade people with illogical arguments.