A decade ago, journalist Frances Cairncross coined the phrase "the death of distance" to describe how airline travel and telecommunications have made distance matter a lot less to us than it did to our grandparents. This social trend has anticipated a scientific one: the growing realization among physicists and cosmologists that distance in the physical world is not quite what it appears to be. This talk will explore issues discussed in the March 2009 cover story of Scientific American, in Brian Green\'s book The Fabric of the Cosmos, and in chapter 18 of my book, The Complete Idiot\'s Guide to String Theory.
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25. Could They Have Memorized the Answers? ⅓ × 100 + ⅔ × 50 = 66.7 Same question Different questions Chance of giving the same answer
31. Nonlocality in Black Holes http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/20011015blackhole.html Jump
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34. Nonlocality in Big Bang Cosmology http://hubblesite.org/hubble_discoveries/10th/photos/graphics/slide40high.jpg ( left), http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/images/hs-1998-41-e-large_web.jpg ( right ) Hubble Deep Field North Hubble Deep Field South
62. Energy and Size in General Relativity Threshold for Black Hole Formation 6 Kilometers 1 Solar Mass 1 Centimeter 1 Earth Mass 0.1 Millimeter 1 Moon Mass
