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A Sassy look at the world of science.... Commentary by Sonya Buyting.

Friday, March 03, 2006

To Infinity and Beyooonnd!

A Thrill Ride to 'the Other Side of Infinity' - New York Times

Talk about a ride of a lifetime! An astrophysicist from the University of Colorado used video game technology to create a ride through a freaky place that has a pull on us all - black holes. Forget about the rides at Disney World or Busch Gardens. If you're looking for the most far out thrill ride, the place to go is the Denver Museum of Science and Technoloy. Picture the craziest CGI trip you've ever seen on the big screen. Now multiply that by about a million and you'll still barely be able to imagine the weirdness of travelling through a black hole. It's so far beyond the scope of what the laws of our physical universe can comprehend that many astrophysicists can only teeter at its edge when studying it. That just proves our imaginations' superiority. Black holes can take our imaginations for a ride, but they seriously blow most computers away. Now do you have an appreciation for what an amazing feat it is that this astrophysicist was able to use a bit of his imagination and a lot of science to create this ride for us? It's mind blowing enough to possibly catapult us into another universe from a lowly museum in Denver.

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