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		<title>By: chris</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-217874</link>
		<dc:creator>chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 08:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>well, #3 will only be approximate

happy new year!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>well, #3 will only be approximate</p>
<p>happy new year!</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Winter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-217344</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Winter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#6: Electric charges in motion will give rise to magnetic fields.

Yes, and changing magnetic fields will induce electric currents.

As well, protons will not be found to decay; but neutrons will continue to do so when isolated.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#6: Electric charges in motion will give rise to magnetic fields.</p>
<p>Yes, and changing magnetic fields will induce electric currents.</p>
<p>As well, protons will not be found to decay; but neutrons will continue to do so when isolated.</p>
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		<title>By: Chris Winter</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-217341</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris Winter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:11:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alan wrote (#30): &lt;i&gt;&quot;I predict that many people, including Chris the Canadian, will continue to use greengrocers’ apostrophes.&quot;&lt;/i&gt;

I second that. However, I predict that none of them will tell us that the panda eats, shoots, and leaves.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alan wrote (#30): <i>&#8220;I predict that many people, including Chris the Canadian, will continue to use greengrocers’ apostrophes.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>I second that. However, I predict that none of them will tell us that the panda eats, shoots, and leaves.</p>
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		<title>By: MKS</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-216916</link>
		<dc:creator>MKS</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah yes!

How aboot ontological inertia will continue?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah yes!</p>
<p>How aboot ontological inertia will continue?</p>
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		<title>By: jimvj</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-216894</link>
		<dc:creator>jimvj</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:56:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The chancellor of UC Davis will not resign.

The cops who sprayed the students will be similarly employed.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The chancellor of UC Davis will not resign.</p>
<p>The cops who sprayed the students will be similarly employed.</p>
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		<title>By: John R Ramsden</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-216771</link>
		<dc:creator>John R Ramsden</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ooh great, a chance to nitpick.

Re #3, I take it &quot;planet&quot; doesn&#039;t include exoplanets. ;-P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ooh great, a chance to nitpick.</p>
<p>Re #3, I take it &#8220;planet&#8221; doesn&#8217;t include exoplanets. ;-P</p>
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		<title>By: Claire C Smith</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-216555</link>
		<dc:creator>Claire C Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 06:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>and all the waste in your garbage can will be blown down the street because an extra aeroplane was needed to take a bloke to work.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>and all the waste in your garbage can will be blown down the street because an extra aeroplane was needed to take a bloke to work.</p>
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		<title>By: Gizelle Janine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-216345</link>
		<dc:creator>Gizelle Janine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&quot;What if we already seperate space and time physically just by the way we percieve both as independent from each other in any way? Maybe whatever makes us “percieve” time as numbers and “space” *and something that automatically suggests it’s big and empty, seriously has something to do with the laws of conservation?&quot;

*Spelling error, I definitely meant &quot;...as something.&quot;I hate ipod keyboards sometimes. Laugh it up, clowns...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;What if we already seperate space and time physically just by the way we percieve both as independent from each other in any way? Maybe whatever makes us “percieve” time as numbers and “space” *and something that automatically suggests it’s big and empty, seriously has something to do with the laws of conservation?&#8221;</p>
<p>*Spelling error, I definitely meant &#8220;&#8230;as something.&#8221;I hate ipod keyboards sometimes. Laugh it up, clowns&#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Gizelle Janine</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-216305</link>
		<dc:creator>Gizelle Janine</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have a question, sort of off topic, and I refuse to wait for the next post to ask it:

Could the laws of conservation have something to do with separating space and time? Is it possible that in order to separate space and time, you might need to think about relativity in terms of quantum mechanics and something like electromagnetism? 

These are all very abstract connections that may support the idea that F=ma might be a huge part of why you cant seem to separate space and time in relativity, and in the end solving problems associated with it. Things like geometry really become important, I presume, especally considering if you think about vectors as a form of energy that does some kind of physical &quot;work, simply put. These all have solid connections somehow, I&#039;m just curious to how this might work.

What if we already seperate space and time physically just by the way we percieve both as independent from each other in any way? Maybe whatever makes us &quot;percieve&quot; time as numbers and &quot;space&quot; and something that automatically suggests it&#039;s big and empty, seriously has something to do with the laws of conservation? 

(It&#039;s more obvious to me using common sense that space and time are entangled with each other, and some force of resistance would be needed to seperate them in any way, locally or non-locally.)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have a question, sort of off topic, and I refuse to wait for the next post to ask it:</p>
<p>Could the laws of conservation have something to do with separating space and time? Is it possible that in order to separate space and time, you might need to think about relativity in terms of quantum mechanics and something like electromagnetism? </p>
<p>These are all very abstract connections that may support the idea that F=ma might be a huge part of why you cant seem to separate space and time in relativity, and in the end solving problems associated with it. Things like geometry really become important, I presume, especally considering if you think about vectors as a form of energy that does some kind of physical &#8220;work, simply put. These all have solid connections somehow, I&#8217;m just curious to how this might work.</p>
<p>What if we already seperate space and time physically just by the way we percieve both as independent from each other in any way? Maybe whatever makes us &#8220;percieve&#8221; time as numbers and &#8220;space&#8221; and something that automatically suggests it&#8217;s big and empty, seriously has something to do with the laws of conservation? </p>
<p>(It&#8217;s more obvious to me using common sense that space and time are entangled with each other, and some force of resistance would be needed to seperate them in any way, locally or non-locally.)</p>
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		<title>By: Justin Loe</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-215748</link>
		<dc:creator>Justin Loe</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wonder if #9 and #10 jointly apply to people with certain political beliefs.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wonder if #9 and #10 jointly apply to people with certain political beliefs.</p>
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		<title>By: Alan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-215731</link>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d be interested to know whether Craig Hogan&#039;s holometer, this year, shows (a) whether space has a limit to it at the smallest scales and (b) does this actually mean that 3D reality is really projected from some surrounding surface? How are the two related? Saw Leonard Susskind comment on this a short while back.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d be interested to know whether Craig Hogan&#8217;s holometer, this year, shows (a) whether space has a limit to it at the smallest scales and (b) does this actually mean that 3D reality is really projected from some surrounding surface? How are the two related? Saw Leonard Susskind comment on this a short while back.</p>
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		<title>By: Andrew Wood</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-215634</link>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Wood</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 13:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An experimentally testable general theory of a nonlocally acting cause and its effects will show how we could live in a purposeful universe.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An experimentally testable general theory of a nonlocally acting cause and its effects will show how we could live in a purposeful universe.</p>
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		<title>By: tim Rowledge</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-215398</link>
		<dc:creator>tim Rowledge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 05:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&#039;unsecured people&#039; are to be secured properly in order to avoid refuting prediction #1 and thus demonstrating &#039;Intelligent Falling&#039;, therefore god(s).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8216;unsecured people&#8217; are to be secured properly in order to avoid refuting prediction #1 and thus demonstrating &#8216;Intelligent Falling&#8217;, therefore god(s).</p>
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		<title>By: Low Math, Meekly Interacting</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-214967</link>
		<dc:creator>Low Math, Meekly Interacting</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>sigh...

Perhaps #5 just needs &quot;to good approximation for gases not circa phase transition under conditions assayed&quot;, as I&#039;ve observed myself on numerous occasions.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>sigh&#8230;</p>
<p>Perhaps #5 just needs &#8220;to good approximation for gases not circa phase transition under conditions assayed&#8221;, as I&#8217;ve observed myself on numerous occasions.</p>
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		<title>By: Alan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-214489</link>
		<dc:creator>Alan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 03:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I predict that many people, including Chris the Canadian, will continue to use greengrocers&#039; apostrophes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I predict that many people, including Chris the Canadian, will continue to use greengrocers&#8217; apostrophes.</p>
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		<title>By: BigBangBoom</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-214447</link>
		<dc:creator>BigBangBoom</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:34:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey Chris, 
What&#039;s your opinion on Faster than Light Neutrinos? How about making some real predictions. Will the Higgs be confirmed? etc. etc.  Lots to really speculate about this year, don&#039;t sit on the fence. We follow you for your science opinions not Physics 101. 
Wish you had more opinions about science (your field right?) and less about Theology and Politics where your opinions carry no more weight than anyone else.
My prediction is we&#039;ll have a great year and I hope you have a Happy New Year</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey Chris,<br />
What&#8217;s your opinion on Faster than Light Neutrinos? How about making some real predictions. Will the Higgs be confirmed? etc. etc.  Lots to really speculate about this year, don&#8217;t sit on the fence. We follow you for your science opinions not Physics 101.<br />
Wish you had more opinions about science (your field right?) and less about Theology and Politics where your opinions carry no more weight than anyone else.<br />
My prediction is we&#8217;ll have a great year and I hope you have a Happy New Year</p>
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		<title>By: Tintin</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-214395</link>
		<dc:creator>Tintin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:34:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ 27

WOW, Chris, we are all impressed with your knowledge of Physics 101 (2nd Semester)!</description>
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<p>WOW, Chris, we are all impressed with your knowledge of Physics 101 (2nd Semester)!</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-214351</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>#5 &lt;I&gt;The pressure of a gas squeezed in a piston will rise inversely with the change in volume.&lt;/I&gt;

This is completely wrong.  This is only true for an ideal gas which assumes there is no volume to the gas molecules and zero intermolecular attraction.  The van der Waals equation is the most common correction to the ideal gas law, however it has its problems at high pressures and low temperatures.  The virial equation does the best, although it is a not that convenient to use.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>#5 <i>The pressure of a gas squeezed in a piston will rise inversely with the change in volume.</i></p>
<p>This is completely wrong.  This is only true for an ideal gas which assumes there is no volume to the gas molecules and zero intermolecular attraction.  The van der Waals equation is the most common correction to the ideal gas law, however it has its problems at high pressures and low temperatures.  The virial equation does the best, although it is a not that convenient to use.</p>
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		<title>By: Tintin</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-214345</link>
		<dc:creator>Tintin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>@ 13. Dick 
  
&quot; “unsecured people”

Tintin, I’m sure your meant “insecure people”, no?&quot;

I&#039;m sure correcting my typing skills must have also made you feel superior.  Anything to help the &quot;unsecure.&quot;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@ 13. Dick </p>
<p>&#8221; “unsecured people”</p>
<p>Tintin, I’m sure your meant “insecure people”, no?&#8221;</p>
<p>I&#8217;m sure correcting my typing skills must have also made you feel superior.  Anything to help the &#8220;unsecure.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: Chris the Canadian</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2012/01/01/predictions-for-2012/comment-page-1/#comment-214230</link>
		<dc:creator>Chris the Canadian</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 19:56:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I predict:

1. The sun will continue to burn Hydrogen

2. People will still be driving cars that burn fossil fuels.

3. HIV/AIDS and Cancer will still not have cures, but we will be closer to solving their riddles.

4. Monkey&#039;s, apes, Orangutans, and Chimpanzee&#039;s will not escape secret laboratories and take over the world.

5. CERN will be unable to verify the Higgs principle, thus leaving physicists scrambling to try and bullsh!t their way around the lack of evidence.

6. Dark energy will remain in the dark, with us having little evidence of it&#039;s existence.

7. Despite the lack of evidence, scientists will continue to say that Dark Energy exists instead of trying to maybe think and say, &#039;well maybe our base principles are a bit off&#039; and find the reality around us.


8. New fossil evidence will show that the origins and evolution of man is more convoluted and less linear than expected.

9. The Republican Right will continue to set science back decades as they literally preach to Americans about God, Christianity, and the evils of knowledge and Science.

10.  On December 22, 2012 most of us will wake up to a normal world and our normal lives and all those dimwits who are hiding underground or in caves expecting the end of days or rapture or armaggedon will look absolutely stupid and the people they believed will have a whole lotta &#039;splaining to do!!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I predict:</p>
<p>1. The sun will continue to burn Hydrogen</p>
<p>2. People will still be driving cars that burn fossil fuels.</p>
<p>3. HIV/AIDS and Cancer will still not have cures, but we will be closer to solving their riddles.</p>
<p>4. Monkey&#8217;s, apes, Orangutans, and Chimpanzee&#8217;s will not escape secret laboratories and take over the world.</p>
<p>5. CERN will be unable to verify the Higgs principle, thus leaving physicists scrambling to try and bullsh!t their way around the lack of evidence.</p>
<p>6. Dark energy will remain in the dark, with us having little evidence of it&#8217;s existence.</p>
<p>7. Despite the lack of evidence, scientists will continue to say that Dark Energy exists instead of trying to maybe think and say, &#8216;well maybe our base principles are a bit off&#8217; and find the reality around us.</p>
<p>8. New fossil evidence will show that the origins and evolution of man is more convoluted and less linear than expected.</p>
<p>9. The Republican Right will continue to set science back decades as they literally preach to Americans about God, Christianity, and the evils of knowledge and Science.</p>
<p>10.  On December 22, 2012 most of us will wake up to a normal world and our normal lives and all those dimwits who are hiding underground or in caves expecting the end of days or rapture or armaggedon will look absolutely stupid and the people they believed will have a whole lotta &#8216;splaining to do!!!</p>
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