Steven Cloud

New Theory Nixes “Dark Energy”: Says Time is Disappearing from the Universe

The team’s proposal, which will be published in the journal Physical Review D, dismisses dark energy as fiction. Instead, Prof Senovilla says, the appearance of acceleration is caused by time itself gradually slowing down, like a clock with a run-down battery. Read More.

Timewarp: How your brain creates the fourth dimension

Take the peculiar case of an individual known as BW. As BW drove his car one day, the trees and buildings by the road began to speed by, as if he were driving at 300 kilometres per hour. BW eased up on the accelerator, but the cityscape continued to whizz by. Unable to cope with the speed of the world around him, BW stopped his car by the roadside.

While BW perceived the world as having accelerated, in reality what had happened was that BW had slowed down. He walked and talked in slow motion: when his doctor asked him to count 60 seconds in his head, he took 280 seconds to do it. It turned out that he had a tumour in his brain’s frontal cortex.

Via New Scientist

Time Travel

Justin Farren:  i accept all time travel theories. im afraid not to, for fear future me rejects giving me a time travel apparatus
Steven Cloud:  yeah, when i was a kid, i played by myself a lot (surprise!), and used to try to convince future me to reveal himself
Justin Farren:  shit i still do that. i look for me in public places specifically since i know i'd try to blend in
Steven Cloud:  haha
Justin Farren:  but future me has to be smarter than current me, so he probably knows all my tricks, that son of a bitch. unless he continued on the drinking path.
Steven Cloud:  haha

Beard-Second

Steven Cloud:  http://tinyurl.com/5ty2hw
Steven Cloud:  The beard-second is a unit of length inspired by the light year, but used for extremely short distances such as those in nuclear physics. The beard-second is defined as the length an average beard grows in a second, or about 5 nanometers[
Pijohos:  you need to get a watch that measures time in beard seconds
Steven Cloud:  i do have one. it's called a beard.
Pijohos:  wow. true.
Steven Cloud:  good night.
Pijohos:  don't forget to set your beard!!
Steven Cloud:  hahahaha