Saturday, December 12, 2009

Worst Science Journalism Paragraph of the Year

Particle colliders get their magic from Einstein’s equation of mass and energy. The more energy that these machines can pack into their little fireballs, in effect the farther back in time they can go, and the smaller and smaller things they can see.
 New York Times, 12/9/09

Got that? It's magic! Mass equals energy equals, um, time equals... size...

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