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To travel through time, you can open a wormhole in space-time and step through it. All you need is some “exotic matter,” which is repelled, rather than attracted, by gravity. The problem is, no one knows how to make exotic matter. But New Zealand researcher Matt Visser thinks we’ll learn how to make it soon?then we’ll be ready to travel in time. Wormholes are hypothetical tunnels that connect distant parts of space-time. Einstein’s theory of general relativity says they exist, but in order to stay open, they need exotic matter. Quantum theory says that subatomic particles and their antiparticles pop in and out of existence all the time in the vacuum of space. Exotic matter might be created by suppressing this action.
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As the European spacecraft the Beagle (named after Darwin’s ship) heads for Mars, scientists are looking at the results of an earlier search for life on Mars, by the NASA Viking landings in 1976. Former mission scientist Gil Levin says he has evidence proving that we really did find signs of life on Mars during that mission.

Biology experiments during the Viking mission detected strange signs of activity in the Martian soil, that could have been made by microbes giving off gas. NASA found this hard to believe, so they carried out a search for the organic matter that could be producing the gas, but never found it, so they announced there’s no life on Mars.
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Al-Qaeda has announced it’s going to try to poison the U.S. water supply. Spokesman Abu Mohammed al-Ablaj told al-Majallah magazine in London that “al-Qaeda (does not rule out) using Sarin gas and poisoning drinking water in U.S. and Western cities.?

A U.S. intelligence official says, “It is very difficult to covertly poison a reservoir. It would take many truckloads of poison, which would make it difficult to do secretly. That is not really a viable threat.”
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In case you’ve forgotten any details about the last century, you can take a quick trip through the major events with Xeth Feinberg’s “Bulbo” cartoon on the wired.com website. Don’t miss this!

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