Stranger than Fiction is a Holly Hapless Brand by Stephen Walker
Pyromania can be a destructive fascination with fire but, it can also be a sensual, erotic experience. Joe Wambaugh has researched the subject for his books
Even serial arsonists are not, necessarily, pyromaniacs as many of them set fires for other reasons. Candidates like Bruce Lee and Paul Keller set many fires for revenge or out of spite.
Panspermia is the hypothesis that seeds of life exist in the Universe, Red Rain falling in India re-ignited the theory for two leading scientists.
Putting all the evidence together, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe believes this is how life began on Earth in the first place.
Known as the greatest conspiracy theory of all time, the notion that the Apollo 11 moon landing was a hoax is put to the test and suitably debunked.
Cascadia, a geological fault in the Pacific north-west thought to be fairly passive may be a slumbering giant ready to produce the next megaquake.
The next megaquake may not happen for centuries, or it could be imminent. No one knows. We don’t know whether the entire Cascadia fault will rupture like it did in 1700.
Megalightning is an entirely new form of lightning discovered, up to 1,000 times bigger than any previous lightning bolt seen.
Following the loss of Columbia NASA’s accident findings were never made public, but photographic experts concluded that the photograph suggesting a lightning strike as a possible cause was most probably a camera error.
In mathematics there are situations where lightspeed is not the absolute barrier to speed that Einstein calculated.
Tacyons are theoretical particles with zero mass and therefore would not be limited by Einstein’s predictions.
Given that the OPERA results conflict with all we know of Einsteins theories, it is no surprise that there are many doubters about the results.
So, until we’ve got evidence that there really is an error in the OPERA results, it only seems fair to explore other options and this is where it becomes particularly interesting, especially if you are a mathematician.
Professor Marcus du Sautoy considers the implications of superlight speed. And shows you how to, by living in a time warp, win the lottery
The future should be a place we make, not a destination we are fated to arrive at. Live in the present, it is so-called because it is a gift.
The strangest and least understood particle is the Neutrino. The fact that the Opera scientists think it breaks the accepted rules of physics is interesting.
It took the development of the nuclear bomb before scientists found a way to detect neutrinos.
A particle physics experiment called Opera that claims to have discovered a particle that travels faster than the speed of light contradicts science history
