Using lasers, these gargantuan tunnels may someday be reduced to table-top size. A new golf club with a special shaft makes use of some fundamental laws of physics to improve your swing. When a heart goes into fibrillation, its perfectly timed beats go haywire. Two scientists have been trying to map the bits of order in this chaos to learn how to control it. To monitor such conditions, one grad student has developed a technique to test for even the barest hints of an altered voice.
Antimatter sounds like science fiction nonsense, but it's real stuff, that physicists can produce.
Now they're trying to see if it could be the rocket fuel of the future. The Carribean's steel drums may be the most important new acoustic instrument this century. One scientist has studied just why the drum's vibrations produce such unique sounds. You skate over a slippery film of water sitting on top of the ice. With the millions of laws that govern nature and society it seems impossible to precisely predict the really complex things like the stock market or the weather or political races.