![]() ![]() ![]() The paper was published on September 16 in Physical Review Letters. “It is of utmost importance to verify it with the best possible accuracy.” But the mathematics describing the time-dilation effect are “fundamental to all physical theories”, says Thomas Udem, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany, who was not involved in the research. One of the consequences of this effect is that a person travelling in a high-speed rocket would age more slowly than people back on Earth.įew scientists doubt that Einstein was right. ![]() The work is the most stringent test yet of this ‘time-dilation’ effect, which Einstein predicted. Experiments at a particle accelerator in Germany confirm that time moves slower for a moving clock than for a stationary one. Physicists have verified a key prediction of Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity with unprecedented accuracy. ![]()
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![]() Still, this book is obviously not meant to be a true-to-life account of a band's rise to fame. Like they're just getting up on stage and playing without plugging in their guitars. That's impossible considering how clueless they are. ![]() What's even more unbelievable is how they have no amp problems. Even if they all comrpise just three chords. Well, I started reading it last night and, yes, it's an easy-read and quite entertaining, but if you have ever been in a band you know it's also a lot of rubbish.įor a start, it's just not convincing how three teenage girls learn to play guitar and drums and, just like that, start writing and performing songs about Hello Kitty. Cool! Anything to remind me of my youth!) (Flipping through I'd seen references to NME and Glastonbury rock festival. ![]() It's about a rock band callled The Hormones, fronted by 16-year-old Molly Montgomery. For a little light reading I thought I'd try Sara Manning's Guitar Girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() Children will love sleuthing out the hidden "S'" in Henry Cole's sumptuous illustrations. This listing is for one vintage Paperback Some Smug Slug by Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole, Some Smug Slug Book, Slug Books, Funny Slug Book. Should the show-off listen? Why is everyone screaming at the slug?įrom the creators of the hilarious Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke comes another tongue-twisting alliterative adventure. But the slug calmly continues slithering its way up a highly suspect slope. School Library JournalA sparrow, spider, stink bug and several others are all screaming warnings at an unsuspecting slug. The cover alone is enough to get readers to select this book." (Starred review) ![]() "This slug is so appealing and full of personality that it will certainly garner sympathy. ![]() In this companion to the popular Four Famished Foxes and Fosdyke, Pamela Duncan Edwards and Henry Cole have created another alliterative adventure that will leave kids laughing out loud. Scoffing at shouts of "Stop!" from spectators, the smug slug finally reaches the summit. A self-assured slug slinks up a suspicious sloping surface. ![]() ![]() During his journey of discovery, he meets two remarkable women, Detective Beth Penrose and Mayflower descendant Emma Whitestone, both of whom change his life irrevocably. His investigations lead him into the lore, legends, and ancient secrets of northern Long Island - more deadly and more dangerous than he could ever have imagined. John Corey doesn’t like mysteries, which is why he likes to solve them. The local police chief, Sylvester Maxwell, wants Corey’s big-city expertise, but Maxwell gets more than he bargained for. ![]() ![]() Tom and Judy Gordon, a young, attractive couple Corey knows, have been found on their patio, each with a bullet in the head. Wounded in the line of duty, NYPD homicide detective John Corey convalesces in the Long Island township of Southold, home to farmers, fishermen - and at least one killer. CELEBRATING THE 20th ANNIVERSARY WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY THE AUTHOR ![]() |