Science News - April 24, 2010

Black Holes Reveal Time Travel

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1. Time Travel, Tunneling, Tennis, and Tea

2. Heaven and Earth, Place and Motion

3. The Clockwork Universe

4. Let There Be Light!

5. Speed c Relative to What?

6. Earth and the Ether— A Crisis in Physics

7. Einstein to the Rescue

8. Uncommon Sense— Stretching Time

9. Muons and Time-Traveling Twins

10. Escaping Contradiction— Simultaneity Is Relative

11. Faster than Light? Past, Future, and Elsewhere

12. What about E=mc2,

and Is Everything Relative? 13. A Problem of Gravity

14. Curved Spacetime

15. Black Holes

16. Into the Heart of Matter

17. Enter the Quantum

18. Wave or Particle?

19. Quantum Uncertainty— Farewell to Determinism

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