Two hundred years ago today, on May 21, 1822, a stork was shot (with a gun) by Christian Ludwig Reichsgraf von Bothmer at his estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The dead bird was and still is remarkable — the stork had been flying despite the handicap of an eight-foot-long African arrow that pierced its neck lengthwise […]
There’s been further evidence found that, maybe, time does not run backwards. The evidence is presented in this study: “Observation of Time Reversal Violation in the B0 Meson System,” The BABAR Collaboration [J.P. Lees, et al.], arXiv:1207.5832, July 24, 2012. The Economist summed it up in their September 1 edition, under the headline (and subheadline) […]