In other news, I commend to your attention a NEW interpretation of the universe as a sort of noodle soup:

"An Important Matter

A 25-year-old experiment is turning everything we know about matter upside down, and may even have demonstrated an example of an entirely new state of matter. The US researchers have dubbed this new state "string-net liquid', and even speculate that the entire universe could be made of it. Others may even have found a candidate for such a material: a dark green crystal called "herbertsmithite", found in the mountains of Chile in 1972".

The details are here and I urge you to understand them. Not that I do. But I think this could be important, you see. An opportunity to be skeptical about electrons doesn't come around every day, after all..


And JUST for my ole cyberpal BWL, this spicy discovery:

"FOR a century, they have been on display in the Louvre museum in Paris, labelled as Canopic jars holding the embalmed innards of the great Egyptian pharaoh Rameses II. But the four pots, covered in hieroglyphs, are not what they seem.

An analysis by French chemists has revealed that the jars in fact contain ordinary cosmetics, produced at a much later date.

The blue jars arrived in the Louvre in 1905. They carry the name of Rameses II, and seemed to contain embalmed organs, including a trace of what appeared to be heart tissue. Yet Rameses's actual mummy still has its heart - the one organ ancient Egyptians left inside mummies so it could be weighed in the afterlife by the god Thoth. "The jars look like the pots of unguents found in King Tut's tomb, among others, not like other Canopic jars," says Jacques Connan of the University of Strasbourg, France.

With the Louvre's permission, Connan's team sampled traces of material in the pots, and analysed them using mass spectrometry and chromatography techniques used in the petroleum industry to identify complex organic mixes.They found no evidence of beeswax, bitumen or other materials Connan says were common in Egyptian embalming. Instead, the ratio of non-radioactive isotopes of carbon was typical of animal fats, while the fatty acids matched pig fat."

Hahaha!! The revered cremains of the Great Pharaoh turn out to be Maybelinne pig-fat!! Ha! Ha ha!!

But the pots are something ole BWL would know about.


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