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Hundreds of naked people pose in front of the Aletsch glacier during a massive
naked photo session with U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick, near Bettmeralp,
Switzerland, Saturday Aug. 18, 2007. The environmental group Greenpeace
commissioned Tunick to take pictures of nude volunteers on a Swiss glacier to
call attention to the issue of global warming and its impact on glaciers. (AP
Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
naked photo session with U.S. photographer Spencer Tunick, near Bettmeralp,
Switzerland, Saturday Aug. 18, 2007. The environmental group Greenpeace
commissioned Tunick to take pictures of nude volunteers on a Swiss glacier to
call attention to the issue of global warming and its impact on glaciers. (AP
Photo/Keystone, Laurent Gillieron)
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Manuel Uribe, tipping the scales at 560 kilograms (1,234 pounds) and seen here at his home in 2006, will be listed as the world's fattest man by the Guinness Book of Records, while a loss of 200 kilos (440 pounds) may make him the man who lost the most weight.[AFP]
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Naked volunteers pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick on the Swiss glacier of Aletsch
Nearly 600 men and women volunteers have stripped naked to pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick on the slope of a melting Swiss glacier.
The photo shoot on the Aletsch glacier was commissioned by environmental group Greenpeace as part of a campaign to raise awareness about global warming.
Despite the Alpine setting 2,300m (7545 feet) up, the temperature was well above freezing, at between 10 and 15C.
Tunick specialises in such scenes, which he calls "body landscapes".
His previous backdrops have ranged from Caracas to New York.
The Aletsch glacier is a protected Unesco World Heritage site.
Naked volunteers pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick on the Swiss glacier of Aletsch
Nearly 600 men and women volunteers have stripped naked to pose for US photographer Spencer Tunick on the slope of a melting Swiss glacier.
The photo shoot on the Aletsch glacier was commissioned by environmental group Greenpeace as part of a campaign to raise awareness about global warming.
Despite the Alpine setting 2,300m (7545 feet) up, the temperature was well above freezing, at between 10 and 15C.
Tunick specialises in such scenes, which he calls "body landscapes".
His previous backdrops have ranged from Caracas to New York.
The Aletsch glacier is a protected Unesco World Heritage site.
It was supposed to be the one speed limit you cannot break.
But scientists claim to have demonstrated there is the possibility of travel faster than the speed of light.
The feat contradicts one of the key tenets of Einstein's special theory of relativity - that nothing, under any circumstances, can move faster than 186,000 miles per second, or the speed of light.
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Speed of light beaten: One of the key tenets of Einstein's theory of relativity is proved wrong
Travelling faster than light also, in theory, turns back time. According to conventional physics, an astronaut moving beyond light speed would arrive at his destination before leaving.
But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the strange phenomenon of quantum tunnelling, in which particles summon up the energy to cross an apparently uncrossable barrier.
Their experiments focused on the travel of microwave photons - energetic packets of light - through two prisms.
When the prisms were moved apart, most photons reflected off the first prism they encountered and were picked up by a detector.
But a few appeared to "tunnel" through a gap separating them as if the prisms were still held together.
Although these photons had travelled a longer distance, they arrived at their detector at the same time as the reflected photons. This suggests that the transit between the two prisms was faster than the speed of light.
Dr Gunter Nimtz, of the University of Koblenz, told the magazine New Scientist: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."
source: dailymail.co.uk
But scientists claim to have demonstrated there is the possibility of travel faster than the speed of light.
The feat contradicts one of the key tenets of Einstein's special theory of relativity - that nothing, under any circumstances, can move faster than 186,000 miles per second, or the speed of light.
Scroll down for more...
Speed of light beaten: One of the key tenets of Einstein's theory of relativity is proved wrong
Travelling faster than light also, in theory, turns back time. According to conventional physics, an astronaut moving beyond light speed would arrive at his destination before leaving.
But two German physicists claim to have forced light to overcome its own speed limit using the strange phenomenon of quantum tunnelling, in which particles summon up the energy to cross an apparently uncrossable barrier.
Their experiments focused on the travel of microwave photons - energetic packets of light - through two prisms.
When the prisms were moved apart, most photons reflected off the first prism they encountered and were picked up by a detector.
But a few appeared to "tunnel" through a gap separating them as if the prisms were still held together.
Although these photons had travelled a longer distance, they arrived at their detector at the same time as the reflected photons. This suggests that the transit between the two prisms was faster than the speed of light.
Dr Gunter Nimtz, of the University of Koblenz, told the magazine New Scientist: "For the time being, this is the only violation of special relativity that I know of."
source: dailymail.co.uk
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