Tag Archives: time

Did a foreign power hack the TIME Person of the Year reader poll?

November 26, 2017PoliticsForeign Hacking, Person of year, time, UncategorizedGreg Laden

Did you know that there is a reader poll that you can visit to give the thumbs up or down for each prospect on a fairly long mid-list of possible persons of they year? Click here to participate (will open in a new tab or window). I have no idea how much influence, if any, this poll has on the final decision. But this year, the poll was clearly hacked and I assume that will be taken into consideration.

Have a look at the results so far, as of this writing: Continue reading Did a foreign power hack the TIME Person of the Year reader poll? →

Time might actually be Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey…Stuff

November 22, 2012UncategorizedB meson, charge-parity-time, Cosmos, timeGreg Laden

BaBar data recently analyzed might confirm that time is wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff.

If you are a B meson, time may not run the same in both directions for you. This is based on a report in Physical Review Letters called “Observation of Time-Reversal Violation in the B0 Meson System” which has this abstract:

Screen Shot 2012-11-20 at 11.42.54 AM — I had to use a screen shot because I can't type in all that wiggly wobbly formula stuff.

Nature Blogs’s Eugenie Samuel Reich explains this HERE. If that is not clear, just watch this video: