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-------------------------------------------------------- HOUSE PASSES REAL I.D. ACT By a vote of 261-161, the House of Representatives last week passed The REAL I.D. Act (H.R. 418) which will help prevent illegal aliens from obtaining driver's licenses, tighten asylum abuse, seal a porous section along the Mexican border near San Diego, and expand the grounds for deportation in terrorism-related cases. Despite a few concerns raised over one "waiver" provision (and whether or not this bill could lead to a national I.D. card), Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) and the vast majority of House Republicans voted in favor of its passage. Now the bill moves...

The Future According to Professor Paul Davies "Scientists have no doubt whatever that it is possible to build a time machine to visit the future". Since the publication of Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity in 1905, few, if any, scientists would dispute that time travel to the future is perfectly possible. According to this theory, time runs slower for a moving person than for someone who is stationary. This has been proven by experiments using very accurate atomic clocks. In theory, a traveller on a super high-speed rocket ship could fly far out into the Universe and then come back...

Quantum wormholes could carry people   18:10 23 May 02   Exclusive from New Scientist Print Edition   All around us are tiny doors that lead to the rest of the Universe. Predicted by Einstein's equations, these quantum wormholes offer a faster-than-light short cut to the rest of the cosmos - at least in principle. Now physicists believe they could open these doors wide enough to allow someone to travel through. Quantum wormholes are thought to be much smaller than even protons and electrons, and until now no one has modelled what happens when something passes through one. So Sean Hayward at...