There is a problem with the current physics . We have quantum theory for very small particles, relativity for the big stuff, and the Standard Model, which includes all the weird particles discovered by physicists all over the world. All seem true individually, but relativity and quantum theory contradict one another and the Standard Model …
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Would you return a lost wallet lying in the street? Of course! Researchers left 17,000 wallets in 355 cities around the world (wow! big spenders!), some containing money, small or large amounts. They found that, when cash was found the finders tended to return it to the owners. If the wallets contained small amounts, say …
The US federal government will rack up $12.2 trillion in deficits through 2029, according to a new projection from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), an $809 billion increase from its last projection in May. CBO, Congress’s official budgeting scorekeeper, said that the deficits would average 4.7 percent of GDP through the next decade, a …
The following is based partly on an article in the Financial Times: On July 20th Martin Wolf, wrote in the Financial Times: “No one knows what kind of Britain will emerge from the “Brexit earthquake”, but my increasingly clear conviction is that the outcome will be ugly and the damage long-term. “The UK that “the …
The London “Evening Standard” is hardly a left-wing publication. On most issues it backs the Tory views. However, back on July 17th they publicised a plea to the government to “let us bring in the workers we need to succeed”. It was issued by a consortium of business groups representing thousands of companies. They are …
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