Jagex's new game!

Jagex, the creator of Runescape, has released its second teaser for Transformers Universe while not much is known at this time it seems to be a game that deserves a chance

Well cancel those commentary plans

My graphics card decided to start to run at 1 FPS and not allow me to play anything.  I will find a way to fix it,hopefully.

This truly sucks...

So last night around 5:30 PM EST a man walked up to my door and asked me if I had a black cat I said yes  and looked past his head and saw my cat laying on her side motionless in the road.  She was around two years old and was nursing kittens that we have no idea as to where they are.  I will update this if we ever find her kittens.

Youtube Channel!!!

I finally got around to making a Youtube channel for Gamepitamy and I will begin my Civilization V deity playthrough tomorrow night forgive me because I am not the best at the game but we will see how it rolls out.

Youtube

Twitter

Why I now hate EA

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Mike

May 15

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I was on this account removed for security under the username. removed for security
I purchased the funds with paypal on May 9th.
I purchased 15,000 Funds 
I payed $21.59 for this purchase
As I said before I have tried to contact you twice before with no response.

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They say the money was sent and received I just really could use these funds right now so I don't care what we do as long as I get the funds.















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It has been seven business days and nothing has happened...

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I now cannot even log into lord of ultima is this some scheme? Do I need to get a lawyer involved?I have apparently been banned this is an absolute outrage I want a reason as to why I was banned







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Firstly, I understand the frustration you are enduring at the moment for not getting a feasible solution to your purchase related problem.
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I would also wish to know why my EA account was banned 







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I have reviewed the previous correspondence and your account was Banned for a Charge Back with in Lord of Ultima game. I will be able to unban your account as a One Time Courtesy. I will need for you to respond back to this email and acknowledge that you understand and agree to the following:

Please keep in mind that if you have any future issues with In Game Purchases please contact us first so that we may resolve the issue for you and prevent your account from being Permanently Banned.

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I acknowledge this please unban me.









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I apologize for the delay in my response, and I understand how frustrating this issue can be. I'll do everything I can to resolve this for you!

Thank you for your understanding on this issue. I have activated your account which should be ready for use again.

Please be aware that any further charge backs after this time will result in a final account termination

Thanks again for writing us. We look forward to helping you answer some of your questions and hope you enjoy playing EA games!

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Receipt I sent to them: 



























So what have we learned from this? Don't dispute them taking your money and giving nothing in return or they WILL ban you.

New thoughts on the universe

At the center of spiral galaxy M81 is a supermassive black hole about 70 million times more massive than our sun.

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NASA/CXC/Wisconsin/D.Pooley & CfA/A.Zezas;NASA/ESA/CfA/A.Zezas; NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA/J.Huchra et al.; NASA/JPL-Caltech/CfA

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A physicist presents a solution to present-day cosmic mysteries.

Originally published:

May 17 2012 - 1:15pm

By:

Nikodem Poplawski, Inside Science Minds Guest Columnist

Inside Science Minds presents an ongoing series of guest columnists and personal perspectives presented by scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and others in the science community showcasing some of the most interesting ideas in science today.

(ISM) -- Our universe may exist inside a black hole. This may sound strange, but it could actually be the best explanation of how the universe began, and what we observe today. It's a theory that has been explored over the past few decades by a small group of physicists including myself.

Successful as it is, there are notable unsolved questions with the standard big bang theory, which suggests that the universe began as a seemingly impossible "singularity," an infinitely small point containing an infinitely high concentration of matter, expanding in size to what we observe today. The theory of inflation, a super-fast expansion of space proposed in recent decades, fills in many important details, such as why slight lumps in the concentration of matter in the early universe coalesced into large celestial bodies such as galaxies and clusters of galaxies.
But these theories leave major questions unresolved. For example: What started the big bang? What caused inflation to end? What is the source of the mysterious dark energy that is apparently causing the universe to speed up its expansion?
The idea that our universe is entirely contained within a black hole provides answers to these problems and many more. It eliminates the notion of physically impossible singularities in our universe. And it draws upon two central theories in physics.

The first is general relativity, the modern theory of gravity. It describes the universe at the largest scales. Any event in the universe occurs as a point in space and time, or spacetime. A massive object such as the Sun distorts or "curves" spacetime, like a bowling ball sitting on a canvas. The Sun's gravitational dent alters the motion of Earth and the other planets orbiting it. The sun's pull of the planets appears to us as the force of gravity.

The second is quantum mechanics, which describes the universe at the smallest scales, such as the level of the atom. However, quantum mechanics and general relativity are currently separate theories; physicists have been striving to combine the two successfully into a single theory of "quantum gravity" to adequately describe important phenomena, including the behavior of subatomic particles in black holes.

A 1960s adaptation of general relativity, called the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory of gravity, takes into account effects from quantum mechanics. It not only provides a step towards quantum gravity but also leads to an alternative picture of the universe. This variation of general relativity incorporates an important quantum property known as spin. Particles such as atoms and electrons possess spin, or the internal angular momentum that is analogous to a skater spinning on ice.

In this picture, spins in particles interact with spacetime and endow it with a property called "torsion." To understand torsion, imagine spacetime not as a two-dimensional canvas, but as a flexible, one-dimensional rod. Bending the rod corresponds to curving spacetime, and twisting the rod corresponds to spacetime torsion. If a rod is thin, you can bend it, but it's hard to see if it's twisted or not.

Spacetime torsion would only be significant, let alone noticeable, in the early universe or in black holes. In these extreme environments, spacetime torsion would manifest itself as a repulsive force that counters the attractive gravitational force coming from spacetime curvature. As in the standard version of general relativity, very massive stars end up collapsing into black holes: regions of space from which nothing, not even light, can escape.

Here is how torsion would play out in the beginning moments of our universe. Initially, the gravitational attraction from curved space would overcome torsion's repulsive forces, serving to collapse matter into smaller regions of space. But eventually torsion would become very strong and prevent matter from compressing into a point of infinite density; matter would reach a state of extremely large but finite density. As energy can be converted into mass, the immensely high gravitational energy in this extremely dense state would cause an intense production of particles, greatly increasing the mass inside the black hole.

The increasing numbers of particles with spin would result in higher levels of spacetime torsion. Therepulsive torsion would stop the collapse and would create a "big bounce" like a compressed beach ball that snaps outward. The rapid recoil after such a big bounce could be what has led to our expanding universe. The result of this recoil matches observations of the universe's shape, geometry, and distribution of mass.

In turn, the torsion mechanism suggests an astonishing scenario: every black hole would produce a new, baby universe inside. If that is true, then the first matter in our universe came from somewhere else. So our own universe could be the interior of a black hole existing in another universe. Just as we cannot see what is going on inside black holes in the cosmos, any observers in the parent universe could not see what is going on in ours.

The motion of matter through the black hole's boundary, called an "event horizon," would only happen in one direction, providing a direction of time that we perceive as moving forward. The arrow of time in our universe would therefore be inherited, through torsion, from the parent universe.

Torsion could also explain the observed imbalance between matter and antimatter in the universe. Because of torsion, matter would decay into familiar electrons and quarks, and antimatter would decay into "dark matter," a mysterious invisible form of matter that appears to account for a majority of matter in the universe.

Finally, torsion could be the source of "dark energy," a mysterious form of energy that permeates all of space and increases the rate of expansion of the universe. Geometry with torsion naturally produces a "cosmological constant," a sort of added-on outward force which is the simplest way to explain dark energy. Thus, the observed accelerating expansion of the universe may end up being the strongest evidence for torsion.

Torsion therefore provides a theoretical foundation for a scenario in which the interior of every black hole becomes a new universe. It also appears as a remedy to several major problems of current theory of gravity and cosmology. Physicists still need to combine the Einstein-Cartan-Sciama-Kibble theory fully with quantum mechanics into a quantum theory of gravity. While resolving some major questions, it raises new ones of its own. For example, what do we know about the parent universe and the black hole inside which our own universe resides? How many layers of parent universes would we have? How can we test that our universe lives in a black hole?

The last question can potentially be investigated: since all stars and thus black holes rotate, our universe would have inherited the parent black hole’s axis of rotation as a "preferred direction." There is some recently reported evidence from surveys of over 15,000 galaxies that in one hemisphere of the universe more spiral galaxies are "left-handed", or rotating clockwise, while in the other hemisphere more are "right-handed", or rotating counterclockwise. In any case, I believe that including torsion in geometry of spacetime is a right step towards a successful theory of cosmology.

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Microsoft Unveils Xbox Smart Glass, Moves Beyond the Console

After rumors and leaks speculated at the release of the "Xbox Smart Glass", Microsoft has now officially announced it.

The app will be available on Windows Phone obviously, but also Android, and iOS. The "breakthrough" will allow the devices you own to work together, and make it able to watch part of a program on a phone, and then continue it on 360 or vice versa. Also, while you watch television, your phone will be able to tell you facts about the show as it happens.

Games will also get the Smart Glass treatment, and will be augmented with facts and different angles. Both Halo 4 and Madden were shown with Smart Glass running on a tablet, with extra content shown on the second screen.

You will also be able to "unlock the web" with the intelligence of Smart Glass as Internet Explorer will be hitting the 360 later this year.

|Credit to :http://www.gamerevolution.com/|